20 Mar 1885
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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1885
Page
1
A fragmented 1885 Harper's Young People promotional piece notes its dramatic stories appeal to juvenile readers and offers travel and natural history content by reputed writers. It advertises an illustrated weekly with athletic topics and inexpensive yearly postage, urging subscriptions via Harper & Brothers.
The Senate considered a resolution asking the President to transmit information on the Oklahoma invasion. New Senator George Gray was seated after credentials were presented. A proposed Alaska recess investigation and coast defense studies were discussed, with several resolutions referred to committees and executive sessions held before adjourning. Reports of New York and Pennsylvania banks and miner strikes followed, along with a fatal asylum incident in Newark and petroleum well news in Pennsylvania and New York. Mayoral and regional financial notes included.
Reports from Arkansas City detail Oklahoma land turmoil as boomers refuse to disband. Congress actions loom. settlers press for exclusive possession while Cherokees near Fort Reno spark unrest. Royal Arcanum officers elected in Ohio and weather and civic notes fill the day’s dispatches.
The Oriental Hotel at Scatte, W T, burned yesterday morning. Finrich Johnson died in the blaze and Mike Tobin perished leaping from a third story window. Ed Downey severely burned and likely to die, Olef Olteson and J B Moe badly burned but may recover. Many guests rescued amid heavy damage estimated at 76000 dollars.
Commissioner Carroll D Wright submits to the Interior Secretary a plan for a labor problem investigation. The outline covers depressions in industry, wages, machinery impact, taxes, transport, and foreign labor effects with a goal to report by January 1616. It calls for 3–5 months of European study and 8–10 U S agents, pending approval.
On the Pennsylvania Railroad near Taent and Arioomws two wrecks occurred. Latry Lutz and Efe died. Jacob Shultz, William Keach, and others were badly injured or burned as freight cars jumped a switch and a forward section collided with a front train. Fire destroyed several cars and a locomotive.
A series of brief reports from Youngstown to St. Louis covers suicides, a public official appointment, a wedding rumor, a court admission for a colored lawyer, a treaty ratification note, and a strike sentence. Notable items include Thomas Simpson’s morphine death, Frederick Noadal’s cell injury, Henry Unduck’s suicide, Peabody Wetmore and Zeiba Slo enm’s gubernatorial tickets, and Charles Wilson’s admission to Maryland bar.
reports from Stron. strongly fortifed lines discuss reconnasance near Suakim and discovery of Osman Digna's headquarters. Ireland’s James Stephens aid fund formed in Dublin. Limerick to host royal visit. London property market moves amid Duke of Richmond rental cut. Berlin and Paris dispatches note royal visit and cattle duties talks amid rumors of Bishop Taige resignation.
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