Fire damages Insane Asylum and multiple factories in three states
At the Northern Hospital for the Insane near Dankosy Wisconsin a boiler room blaze confined to engine room and laundry by midnight with 500 inmates evacuated unharmed. Loss about 15000. Separately in Winsuxetox Delaware a glass works destroyed with 320000 loss, fully insured. A third blaze at the Sumac factories in Perenspunea Virginia destroyed by morning fire. contents lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Insane Asylum
Dishkosh
Wis
Glass Works
Samac
Dankosy
Northern Hospital For the Insane
Cty
Fie
Winsuxetox
Del
James Bradford
Perenspunea
Sumac
J. M. Williams
The Wrecked Steamer and Other Nov 17 News
Wreck of the Daniel Steinmann shows signs of breaking up with divers recovering cargo and bodies in the steerage. Other items report a cannon explosion injuring a woman, a Boise postmaster suspended for cash shortage, Anconia Print Works resuming with 400 workers idle in Gloucester City, Ohio election returns with Blaine winning, a minister's mysterious disappearance near Chattanooga, and a Savannah riot after a local election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Steiinmann
Haurax
Daniel Steinmann
D. H. Pills
Wrecix
Tractory
Guouersrzen
N. J
Anconia Print Works
Gloucester City
Tenious crime convictings and obituaries reported
In Mesrins Tennessee John Thompson and his son Joseph were convicted for a 15 year old poisoning death that killed a neighbor and two children. In Louvisquity Kentucky an old fruit dealer suicide note blamed his daughter for heartbreak. In St Louis Missouri a man died by self harm after a gunshot wound and a near house fire. Small-pox aboard a vessel prompted quarantine and fumigation. In Cayuga County New York barn arsons disturb farmers amid a local feud. Obituaries note Turman Handy and Morgan Johnson and William Perry's deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesrins
Tenn
John Thompson
Summerville
Fayetta County
Tennessee
Bailey
Gailey
Hailey
Joe Thompson
John D
Joseph
Somerville
Louvisquity
Jos
Rosa
St. Lous
William Blittich
Keokuk Street
Oregon Avenue
Cayuga County
N. Y
Syracuse
Cato
Florence Brown
Messrs
Campbell
Campbells
Brown
Miss Brown
Counterfeiter Arrested in Cannon New Jersey
Counterfeiter William L. Thompson captured after two weeks of circulating counterfeit ten dollar notes attributed to an organized Cincinnati ring. Thompson, held by U S Commissioner Morgan in $2,000 bail, implicated a broader gang as police anticipate further arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cannon
N. J
National Bank of
Cincinnati
Ohio
William L. Thompson
United States
Morgan
Thomas
Canvass Finishes for Presidential Electors in New York
New York on November 17 reports the Board of County Canvassers finishing the Presidential electors count after a day of careful review. The canvass shows Blaine 57 734 and Cleveland 59 810 in the city and Brooklyn, with a statewide Cleveland plurality of 1 075. A partial district required correction, but no material change altered the outcome. Governor Cleveland attended church and dined quietly. Blaine’s camp claimed evidential ballots wrongfully counted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Board of County
Waite
Ile
O'Neil
Kirk
Die
Twentyfourth
Blaine
Oswald Ottendorfer
Charles W. Dayton
Cleveland
Cler
John N. Outwater
Beattie
Board of Canvassers
City of
Brooklyn
Armsy
N. Y
Avacosta
Blaina Stil
Sugar Refineries Suspend Operations In New Orleans
Sugar refineries E. C. Knight & Co. with 300 workers and McKeen, Borie & Co. with 200 workers suspend operations. The move follows a troubled year for sugar markets and shortages abroad. Readers urged to subscribe to the Quebec Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sugar Remerica _ Prineapetraia
E. C. Knight & Co
McKeen, Borie &Co
Dominion Special Grain Exhibit Sent to Europe
The Dominion dispatches a grand grain exhibit to England to promote immigration. Sixty five bags of grain and roots accompany samples from Canadian Pacific Railway farms. Some bushels reach the city for sale and exhibit tours in Europe. In Toronto the Ontario bureau reports harvest conditions. barley is poor but wheat is excellent with 22.3 bushels per acre.
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Europe
Monment
Canadian Pacific Railway
England
Dominion
Canadian Pacific
London
A. J. Chaffee
Southeastern Railroad
Canadian Pacific Company
Grand Trunk
Mr. Stephens
Si Henry Tyler
Toroxto
Bureau of Industries of Ontario
Alexander Campbell
Mowat
Ontario
Streets
Pinde Moagara Falls
Loni Dufferin
Sugar Company's Collapse Sentinel 188? Hawaii investors lose huge sum
The Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company collapses after a failed venture in the Sandwich Islands. Claus Spreckels owns a $1,000,000 mortgage, stockholders face $1.5 million loss, and the company’s assets are largely leased land and imported equipment. Public knowledge exposes $290,000 annual loss and $1.49 million debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company
San Francisco
Cal
Tlawatian Commercial and Sugar Company
Sandwich Islands
C. Spreckels
Spreckels
Germany
Claus Spreckels
Nevada Bank
Shocking Belle Plaine lynching after marshal murder
News from Belle Plaine Sumter County shows Town Marshal John Walden fatally shot by mob as a crowd forces entry to the jail and hangs him from a rafter after a volley in a billiard room. Separate DesPlaines area killings report a Danton family slain by two intruders as locals fear lynching. An unrelated line notes an aged Johnson near Clinton.
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Wierra
Kas
Belle Plaine
Sumter County
Here
John Walden
Walden
Crouch
Trampa
Curcraa
Desplaines Station
Dee Plaines
Maine
John Danton
Danton
Postal Service shows rail routes costs and reform push
The second assistant Postmaster General reports on operations through June 30 1884 listing 11 729 star routes 226 775 miles at 5 090 948 dollars 1 578 railroad routes 117 1 miles at 15 012 603 dollars and 117 steamboat routes 15 591 miles at 596 573 dollars. He argues current pay methods fail present needs and urges Congress to adopt committee recommendations for railroad route compensation with totals for 1886 1885 and foreign and internal revenue notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matl Service
Wasnixaton
Lyon
Lyman
Department
Congress
Gyman
Crawford
Foreign Mail Service
Post Office Department
Evans
Internal Revenue Bureau
United States Circuit Court
Kansas
Reducing Wages Hit Several Manchester Mills
In Manchester New York on November 17 a 4 to 10 percent wage cut takes effect December 1 for the Ameskeag Stark Amory Langdon and Manchester corporations affecting about 10000 operatives. Mills report months of losses while Amoskeag paid a twelve percent cut last year. The writ large cut alongside locomotive works reduces monthly wages by about thirty thousand dollars in total.
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Pittseuurgh
Knoxville
Borrough
Cleveland
Adam Allen
Boise
Crry
Idaho
J. MacFean
T. G. Binnerman
Mckean
Wm. Beasely
Henry Smith
John A. Post
Manchester
N. Y
Ameskeag
Stark, Amory, Langdon
Amoskeag
Fatal stabbing affray near Rashville in McDonough County
News from Quincy reports a fatal stabbing after a brush-wood burning dispute between Solomon and Otto Roper sons of farmer David Roper. Otto drew a knife, stabbed Solomon in the breast, blood spurted, and he died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Rashville
McDonough
Solomon
Otto Roper
David Roper
Otto
Blaine
Savannah
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Evening Observer
Dunkirk
F. M
Farmer and Observer Publishing Co
East Second St
Chautauqua Farmer and Evening Observer
ANI— Commercial Book and
Ava
Oihes
Geo. E. Blacknam
Buffalo Street
Fifth and
Sith Sts
N.Y
P. i
Stanley
Resiance
Frort
James Irving
Journal
Center Street
Harry le F W. Krafet
Studia
Deer St
Cor
Sith
L.A Care
Dus Office
Shore Bank
SN Ae Ee
OPERA
Frank Gilbert
Night
Nelson's Jewelry Store
Walter Finkel
M.C. Tinker
Jamestown
Erie
Monroe Block
Saene Wee
Telegraph
CoLumpus
St John
Chattanooga
Roane County
William Davis
Hat
Dublin
Beauregard Lesgen
Hor Srutxes
Ark
G. Beauregardt
Ouscirita
Quipec
Scotland
Goose Island
Aga
Montreal
la Victoire
Quebec
Turman B. Handy
Chicago
Clifton
Dersett
Mich
Morgan Johnson
Detroit Board of Trade
West
Jackson
BurFao
Wwiilliam F. Perry
Canada Southern Railroad
Bright
The
Dianne Dutelle
Sugar Company
Jayuson
Misa
Wegton&ied
Johnson
Clinton
Postal Service
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