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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1885
Page
1
Wail customers urged to inspect Big Bargains at the Erie Store Fancy Goods Millinery and Toy Place Center Street Dunkirk highlighting a new line of parasols and umbrellas recently unveiled by the retailer.
Washington June 17 findings of the Court of Inquiry into Paymaster General J A Smith are made public with notice of an immediate court martial. The report accuses negligence and inefficiency, favoritism toward Austin P Brown, violation of duties, unfaithfulness to trusts, and ignorance of responsibilities. The piece notes pending civil service rule amendments to prioritize appointments from states with underfilled quotas.
A special train bearing the Old Liberty Bell and its guard arrived in Washington yesterday morning. The bell car was sidetreked in the Pennsylvania Railroad yard at Sixth Street for public viewing before the train departed for Baltimore, where a twenty hour exhibit stop was planned.
General Grant and family left New York for Mount McGregor near Saratoga. He speaks only in a whisper and is greatly weakened by illness. A swift, controlled train journey carried them to Albany and then the mountain, where a guarded cottage awaits and doctors monitor his throat and comfort. The scene drew large crowds and the party was met by officials and Drexel family representatives.
Dispatches report General Strange's sentries fired on Indians believed to be Big Bear scouts near Battle River as 200 natives leave their reserve. Isle La Crosse post allegedly plundered. Crown counsel prepare for Riel trial with citizenship debate. Poundmaker finds Riel letter detailing orders to attack. a key document from Fish Creek is uncovered.
Cincinnati iron manufacturers arrived in Pittsburgh for a protracted caucus with local iron makers. Rumors say they urged reps on the conference committee to reject the workmen’s scale and oppose Amalgamated, while sheet rollers vowed to sustain their committee. A conference at 2 pm weighed a possible compromise, with some expecting a settlement and others fearing continued trouble.
The Downing faction convention at Fort Rock Rock Rock Arkansas June 18 adopts a platform opposing any United States Territorial Government over the Cherokee and opposing sale of Cherokee lands to whites. It states debts owed to the government should be paid in money, not land, and argues intermarriage and white employment show no hostility to whites. The platform warns land sales could doom the Cherokee Nation. a similar Unionist platform was recently adopted.
Laure Eddins was arrested Monday for poisoning her husband Martin Eddins. She confessed arsenic was given at the instigation of William Rowe, with whom she had been intimate for some time. The case unfolds with alleged motives and connections under police scrutiny.
London reports a breakthrough in Salisbury's ministry formation with Sir Stafford Northcote to a minor post to upgrade him to a peer, Hicks-Beach to Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Salisbury to chair Foreign Affairs and Premiership. Churchill rumored to head India, Gladstone declines Earldom. Berlin and Dublin reactions noted while a Catalytic Afghan partition discussion via Granville continues. Earthquake toll in Cashmere rises with Muzaffarabad destruction and 2,509 dead. Amsterdam shipyard fire devastates Dutch American line.
The Rev. Arthur Ritchie of St Ignatius Church defies figures by holding benediction services with extreme ritualism. Assistant Bishop Potter refused confirmation at the church until Ritchie recanted. Ritchie apologized in a letter, promising to discontinue benediction and seek paternal recognition as a dutiful priest.
A cyclone and night storms battered Cerro Gordo County with torrential rain hail and lightning. A Mt Vernon cyclone demolished a schoolhouse while Bath cabin and farm structures collapsed. Matthew C F Reddy’s house was obliterated. his brother and family suffered fatal and severe injuries. a stallion and cattle were harmed as the wreckage spread across fields and dairies.
In Coxcorp New Hampshire on June 17 votes in both houses separated for United States Senator. Democrat Harry Bingham received seven votes and Republican Harry Bai received fifteen in the Senate. in the House William Chandler led with 117, Harry Bingham 177 and Harm W Blair unknown. Joint session to elect senator at noon. Also notes on Texas Pacific Railroad land grant forfeiture vote with amendment excepting the two Senators. Ward's Island smallpox report no new cases and Polynesia passengers to be detained a week. An attempted drowning case in Jersey City links to insanity.
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