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Newspaper

Evening Observer

Location

Dunkirk, New York, United States of America

Date

May 27, 1884

Page

3

Why Singer Machines Dominate in Market and Relief Efforts

The piece questions why imitation sewing machine makers focus on Singer while gold and brass counterfeiting persist, noting Singer’s repeated first prizes. It recalls the Chicago fire relief giving 2945 machines to women, 2427 choosing Singer and 517 others choosing different brands, and cites 487 Singer machines sold from Dunkirk in 1883. It ends with contact details for The Singer Mfg Co and Patton, herein.

Singer Chicago Relief Committee Dunkirk Centr St. Duneire T. H. Patton Mer

Late News Items From A Hectic Era

The Rev Henry T Edwards Episcopal Dean of Bangor Wiles commits suicide Sunday. Indians abandon sun dance return to their re . A Chicago shooting injures Mrs Whills uncertain recovery. Baptist mission work to Congo. Music sale in London yields high prices for Weber Lake and Donletty. President Gonzales may resign next month in Mexico. Twenty thousand destitute between Natches and Vicksburg hope for crops next year. Exports of specie from New York week ending Saturday 156697. fiscal year total 41995752 versus 861,1230 last year. French troops to Red Sea may trigger Anglo French friction. Augustus Sala recalls San Ward death as painful. Bishop Potter proposes clerical income tax aid to poorer clergy. An Indian in Canadian northwest arrested for horse theft. Rev Daniel Riordan linked to Chicago church matters. U.S. Treasury surplus near 3155 million. 220 million needed bond calls. Treasury receipts exceed expenditures by about 1 million daily. Pleuro-Pneumonia bill passes both houses in amended form. awaits presidential signature. Creates Bureau of Animal Industry under Agriculture Committee.

Henry T. Edwards Bangor Wiles Pinpot Chicago Ofievra LeRillap Charles Whills Congo London Weber Donletty Gonzales Natches Vicksburg New York Tonquin Red Sea Soudon Genge Augustus Sala San Ward Henry Potter Canadian Northwest Raft Daniel Dg. Riordan Rt Leyv MacMullen Diocee Davenport Iowa Juardlan San Francisco United States Treasury Treasury Department Senate Bureau of Animal Industry Committee On Agriculture

Pardons and justice mix in early New York pardon case

In Symvccsa New York May 26 Abraham Ayers was sentenced to twenty years for burglary in Rochester Auburn prison. His daughters Mrs Evans and Mrs Casper pressed for pardon, with governors pardoning him after renewed appeals. The sisters presented the pardon to the convict and his kin in prison, planning his life at home. Also noted are the death of Miss Maud Crowley at nineteen, a derailment near Catno, and petitions from island chiefs in Tama seeking protection and annexation. A Warrington party heads to Annapolis with high officials. A Norwalk bank scare follows a misleading paper claim about a run on deposits.

Symvccsa N. Y Abraham Ayers Rochester Auburn Prion Evans Casper East Twenty-third Street New York Robinson Cornell Tefuzet Cleveland Efort Myers Ives Lockport Maud Crowhky Richard Crowley Pacific Coast Washington Amit Arthur San Francisco Marquis of Normandy Victoria Tama New Hebrides France Warrington Annapolis Senate House Committee On Naval Affairs and Appropriations Vorter Sheridan England Russia Germany Maryland Congress

Spence is sentenced to be hanged for first degree murder

Nashville May 27 Colonel William Spence former U S Marshal for the Middle District of Tennessee was convicted of murder in the first degree for shooting his son in law Colonel Edward Wheat in Nashville on March 11 A motion for a new trial on grounds of insanity was overruled and Judge Allen sentenced Spence to be hanged in the rail yard between one and four o clock The case drew a crowded courtroom and strong emotions Spence’s appeal to the Supreme Court is expected for December term Wheat a Michigan native served in the Army of the Cumberland and as a deputy marshal under Spence leaving a wife and three other children two of whom live in Texas and Nashville

Nashville Tenn William Spence Middle District Tennessee Edward Wheat Allen Spence Supreme Court Chareh Jim Cal. Wheat Michigan Hoe Michigan Battery Jade Emmons Grant Texas Tio Anashvshe Tnder Spence

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