Ex Vice President Wheeler Health Update and Campaign Notes
Ex vice president Wheeler remains in poor health while Mrs Betva Lockwoop continues campaigning by lecturing. King Humber reportedly shed twenty pounds via efforts aiding cholera victims. Vienna baths praised as world’s finest with capacity 1500 open May to October. Robert C Winthrop’s Washington Monument oration remains only in mind and fragmentary notes.
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Wheeler
Betva Lockwoop
Vienna
Robert C. Winthrop
Washington Monument
Prince Bismanten's Salary Showlacks Diplomats Pay
The piece notes Prince Bismanten earns £15,500 annually while the ambassadors he sends to London and St. Petersburg receive $37,500 each. It hints at hidden tensions and dangers beyond continental Europe.
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Prince Bismanten
London
St. Petersburg
Berlin
McKeever Linked to Campbell and Brown in Sheep farming
The late Dr. Matthew McKeever of Harrisville Ohio was a brother in law of Alexander Campbell and formerly a partner of John Brown of Osawatomie in sheep farming.
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Matthew McKeever
Harrisville
Ohio
Alexander Campbell
John Brown
Osawatomie
Miss Van Zandt Refuses Paris Engagements
Miss Marie Van Zandt, American prima donna, will not take another Paris engagement under any circumstances. She cites the blackguardism of a set of critics as her reason, saying Paris has disgusted her with its so called civilization and courtesy.
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Marie van Zanpot
Paris
Moopy Holds Five Day Christian Convention in Cincinnati
The Enquirer notes Mr Moopy’s first visit to Cincinnati for a five days Christian convention drawn by the October election riots. The article records his preaching and the city’s reception to the speaker amid the political climate.
Senator Logan Receives Largest Mail From Soldiers
CaRolive reports that Logan receives the heaviest mail among congressmen, with a large proportion from soldiers nationwide. It notes that Logan replies to every letter as a rule.
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CaRolive
Congress
Senator Logan
Union
Spiritualist Slade Again in Chicago With Cabinet Question
The Chicago report notes the so called medium Slade performing slate writing and provoking spirits to answer questions. When asked who would compose Cleveland's cabinet the medium declined to commit saying they were not sure.
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Slade
Chicago
Cleveland
Clergy Claims Dakota Sunday Schools In Holes
A Philadelphia clergyman told Sunday school children of large square holes in Dakota used for services. A girl writes to the Times asserting no such custom exists and that the reverend is in a hole himself.
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Philadelphia
Dakota
Times
Gladstone to Hinge Bell on Penmaenmawr Tower
The St Serveol’s Church project nears completion as Mr Gladstone orders a bell weighing two thousand one hundredweight tuned to E for the tower. Separate notes mention a salt drying method for lumber and land purchases in Beverly, plus farm realities in Dakota.
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Mr. Gladstone
St. Serveol’s Church
Penmaenmawr
Death of Archdeacon Abraham Welles of Brantford Canada
Archdeacon Abraham Welles of Brantford Canada West dies after a fifty year ministry among the Six Nations on the Grand River Reserve. He served as an officer of the New England Company and officiated at St. Pauls Mohawk Church, home to a 1786 bell and near the burial site of Joseph Brant. A Montana town church fair raffle led to a dispute over a fawn, prompting a suspension for crude remarks.
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Abraham Welles
Brantford
Canada
Weel
Grand River Reserve
New England Company
Charles IT
St. Paul's
Canada West
Joseph Brant
Montana
Ross Martin
Jamestown
Andover
Citizen’s Bank
Evansville
Ind
Sanders
Kelly
Schuylkill
Reading Company
Girardsville
Crofut & Knapp’s
South Norwalk
Conn
Nevada
Senator Dawes
Massachusetts
Sarah Winnemucca
San Francisco
Col
A. K. McClure
The
Philadelphia Times
New Orleans
North
United
Good Springs Station
Abraham Ernst
Schuylkill and Susquehanna
Philadelphia & Reading Railway
Alfred Ernst
Yenry Galler
Jacob Geheres
Caller
Geheres
Pine Valley
Iowa News Items From Late January Reports
A summary of Iowa events notes Lamme's flouring mill in Ottumwa burned January 21 with losses near $10,000 and $4,000 insured. Fires destroyed Santry House at Algona January 18 with $8,009 loss, insurance $3,000. Bankruptcies, births of savings banks, court-house plans in Page county, and incorporation filings. Drowning near Richland, Shuler death by chloroform error, telegraph company moves to Davenport, and Cedar Rapids anti prohibition enforcement. Electric light in Newton proves popular. notable deaths and trials noted.
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Lamme
Ottumwa
Ashton
Delhi
Board of Supervisors
Page County
Court House
Santry
Algona
Strong
Richland
Keokuk County
John Shuler
Dubuque
Iowa and Minnesota Telephone Company
Davenport
Clinton
Standard Farm Machinery Company
Burlington
Capital Stock
Hawkeye Furnitur Company
Pythian Hall Association
Des Moines
Rock Island
Moline
Muscatine
Davenport Lumbermen’s Board of Trade
Frank Brady
Fort Dodge
Cedar Rapids
William Ostrander
Newton
Moses Shinn
General Assembly
Wapello County
Pleasant Anderson
Weekly Review of Senate Returns and Disasters
The column lists multiple Senate reelections including West of Missouri and Cameron of Pennsylvania, Voorhees of Indiana, Chase of Rhode Island, Evarts of New York, and Vance of North Carolina with others. It notes fires at Sheldon’s rolling mills Auburn and Reynolds & Reynolds in Dayton, a fatal stabbing in Baltimore, and various railroad and industrial accidents across the country.
Congress Deliberates on Oklahoma Lands and Senator Anthony Death
Senate votes and debates address the Osage lands in the Indian Territory with Vest and Plumb resolutions, while the House honors Senator Anthony of Rhode Island and considers foreign and domestic finance measures. Bipartisan discussions on inter state commerce, tariffs, and public notices follow.
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Senate
Coke
Aldrich
Henry B. Athony
Se’nator
Rhode Island
Anthony
Edmunds
Gar- Jane
Tagalls
Bayard
Perelleton
Morrill
Ifear
Hawley
Butler
Sheffield
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
New Orleans
Townsend
Oklahoma
Ward
Conference of the National Health Officers
Mills
Blount
Hill
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Grant
House
Washington
Plumb
Indian Territory
Beck
Reagan
Mexico
Central and South America
Spanish West Indies
Haiti
San Domingo
Wastmerer
Secretary of the Interior
Court of Appeals
David Davis
Hoar
Morgan
John Hamilton Evans
Congress
South Carolina
Hampton
Frye
Chase
Spooner
Kelley
Pollard
Morse
Keifer
Lanham
Santa Fe
Cutcheon
Throckmorton
United States District Court
Western District
Arkansas
Five Civilized Tribes
Ryan
Oklahoma Lands
West
Interior Department
Vest
Conger
Rob Roy
Committee On Indian Affairs
Fire kills inmates at Illinois asylum in 1890 blaze
Seventeen patients missing after the eastern Illinois Hospital for the Insane burns at 4 30 am. Fire started in the furnace room and spread through pine woodwork. Thirteen bodies recovered. attendants and superintendent Dewey describe efforts to save patients and note fire-safety funding failures and faulty design. Telegrams pour in as families seek relatives among about 1500 inmates.
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Kansakee
Iinois Hospital
Henry Brown
Rock Island
H. W. Belden
Galesburg
George Bengnett
Morris
Joseph Colbert
Chicago
Orlando Ellis
Pontiac
J. W. Galloway
Macoupin
Thomas Hickey
Matthew Hague
Chebanse
T. Hachner
Stevenson County
Thomas Hereley
John Johnson
Vermillion
Michael Jordan
Chicao
J. Nathan
A. Ramyard
Winne- Tane County
J. W. Tyler
F. Weymouth
Pelham County
C. Stotz
W. A. Reid
Reid
Rose
Wife
Brown
R.S. Dewey
Dewey
Parties Ag
Agriculture notes from 1883 United States and world crops
The column covers wool and wheat production, land use, Utah stock ranch investments, and the Mexican agricultural college budget. It discusses field practices for potatoes, lime use, dairy stock, fodder, and beef cattle gains, plus fruit tree health and grape care, with notes on the Chicago stockyards and egg trade centers.
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United States
Missouri
Kansas
Montana
Republic of Mexico
Illinois
Bridge
Pennsylvania
Union Pacific Railway
England
Wales
Chicago
Stover
New York
New Jersey
Cardington
Coveland
Barry
Chicago and Northwestern Ticket and Grain Rate Cut
The Chicago and Northwestern reduced passenger rates by 1.25 from Missouri Valley to Chicago and cut grain rates to three cents per hundred pounds.
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Chicago & Northwestern Fs
Mo. Valley
Chicago
England to assume administration of Lower Egypt all
The St James Gazette reports England will take over the administration of Lower and Middle Egypt for a period to resolve the Egyptian trouble. The move signals direct governance from London to restore order and pursue policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James
England
Egypt
Barrel of rice weighs six hundred pounds
A historical note states a barrel of rice weighs 600 pounds and mentions the invention of telescopes in 1590, indicating a juxtaposition of practical weights with early scientific advances.
The Congo River Exploration Route and Prospects
Stanley outlines a Congo River exploration plan totaling 2100 miles with steamage up to 110 miles from the mouth, followed by 52 miles overland and 88 miles by boat, then 95 miles by land. Thirteen stations and rich forests, villages, gardens, minerals, and lakes including Tanganyika are described as potential assets.
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Stanley
Congo River
Mississippi
Nile
Tanganika
Fosten Journal
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Humber
Henry P. Kipper
Kidder & Peabody
Boston
Pride’s Crossing
Beverly
Kidder
Samp
Debato
Iowa
Blayney & Miller
Alden
Jones County
Bloomfield
Mapleton
Ordway
A. A. Hamilton
Gaage
Cascade
Bellevue
O’brien
Belle Plaine
Chicago & Northwestern
Iowa Millers’ Association
Snouffer
J. J. Snouffer
D. B. Knight
Lord
E. H. Brooks
C. M. Voss
Robert Nicholson
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Hudson
Weekly Review
Don Cameron
Orville H. Pratt
Connecticut
Daniel W. Voorhees
Indiana
Jonathan Chase
Wm. M. Evarts
Sheldon’s
Auburn
N. Y
Chase Cotman
Baltimore
Thomas Baily
Z. B. Vance
North Carolina
Wilkinson Call
Florida
Dayton
Damagd
Reynolds & Reynolds
North Side Rolling Mills
White Eagle
St. Louis
St. Paul Packet Company
North Baltimore
Sanford & Sons
Amsterdam
A. Diaz Miranda
Malara
Granada
Spain
Pat Wood
Mike Beaver
McComb City
Miss
Judge Bunn
United States Circuit Court
Metcalf
Watertown
Wis
Caldwell
Col. Hatch
Stillwater
Ft. Reno
Ohio & Mississippi Railway
Fairfield
Robes
Eagle Point
Eigteen
Sterling
Baltimore & Ohio
Bristol
O'Donnell
Straitsville
Shawnee
Newark
Ex Fess Company
O'Donovan Rossa
Kansas City
John Mehan
Rossa
Mehan
Australia
Moorhead & Co's
Pittsburg
John J. Cisco
J. Davis
Ill
J. M. Clare
Little Rock
Mike Nelson
Burns
Daniel Willas
Ridge
Otto Funk
New City Hall
Funk
J. C Talbert
Chicago Medical College
Gether
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War Office
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Merawi
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Chaumont
France
Haute Hann
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Sparone
Dorea Roltea
Irrea
Rome
Piedmontese Alps
Bronasco
Chiabran
Turin
Cuner
Piedemont
Jassino
Cuneo
Valgrava
Grada
Cureo
Devers
Pabasso
Valle Delle Marie
Scotland
Virginia Street
Glasgow
Wolseley
el Mahdi
Metemneh
Barnaby
Khiva
Kenti
Stewart
Mahdi
Abukba Wells
Malaga
Loja
Vetez
Almunecar
Senator Anthony
Tlouse
John H. Evins
Hurd
Treasury
Judiciary Committee
Willis
Warner
Asylum Horror
Kankakee Hospital
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