Iowa News Items Affects Many Lives in 19th Century Counties
A range of Iowa incidents from deaths at family gatherings to a boy killed in a horse fall, a $8 099 legacy for Denison library, cholera deaths in Greene county, and a soldier’s monument bond vote in Kossuth. Also reports on suicides, crematorium plans, a drowning found woman in Dubuque, legal notices, and local court citations.
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A. F. Harrington
George Paize
Extra
Denison
Theo. Todd
Waterloo
Charles Pettit
Wa Hington Township
Buena Vista County
Kossuth County
Court House Square
Weekly Review Lantern of Fires and Falls in 19th Century America
A dense chronicle reports painter J. P. Myers killed after a 100-foot Chicago scaffold fall. Indirect fires destroy Bush & Co. touring wills and two houses in Seymour. Large damages cited. Multiple deaths and incidents include a New York laundry blast injuring four girls, Rear Adm. Kraft's death in Washington, and George D. McDonald’s obituary. Oklahoma frontier tension grows as Miles reports armed settlers. A Shellbeach fire devastates shops and locomotives, and the steamer Geo. S. Dana burns at Cincinnati. Public notices cover land-claiming, lawsuits, and political appointments.
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J. P. Myers
Chicago
Seymour
Ind
Bush & Co
George D. McDonald
Order of Ellis
Amusville
L. L
Miles
Oklahoma Territory
Couch
New Orleans
Shellbeach
Resent
International turmoil and royal health in brief
King Alfonso is ordered to rest for a month and relinquish state duties as European conflicts unfold. Ex-Empress Eu renounces on papal guidance amid French politics. A mine explosion in Peschitza Hungary kills thirteen, injures twelve. Burman King Thebense prepares for war as frontier fortifications rise.
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Alfonso
Comlete
EU ‘En’a
Peschitza
Hungary
Trial of Ward intensifies as Fish testimony fills court
The crowded Oyer and Terminer hearing on Ferdinand Ward features Paying Teller Benjamin Fish and ex-president James Fish detailing deposits and balances amid Ward’s bank involvement. Evidence on two bank accounts and special deposits is admitted while authorship of letters and potential financial distress are explored. A 30 minute recess follows as testimony continues.
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B. Fish
James D. Fish
New York
Oyer and Terminer
Ferdinand Ward
Benj. Fish
Ward
Tracy
Jaying
Fish
Grant
Samuel D. Cornell
First National Bank
Gen. Tracy
Lssz
Fis
United States
Grant & Ward
Murray Hill Hotel
Death by own action of student Otto Funk in Cambridge
A Chicago born student alias Otto Funk died by suicide in a Cambridge Massachusetts police cell while under arrest for book thefts. He previously faced charges for stealing many library volumes from Harvard and Chicago, and for alleged attempts to bomb institutions. Police found forged admission letters and stolen items tied to his multiple aliases.
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Burlinston
E. A. Fitkin
Waterloo
Keokuk
Frank Caskanet
Dubuque
Commissioners of Insanity
Council Bluffs
Grand
Otto Funk
Cambridge
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Funk
Chicago
Elgin
Iuin
Boston
J. N. Talbot
Old Canbridge
Divinity School
Harvard
Talbot
University At Chicago
Sergant Harrison
Norton’s Woods
Agassiz Museum
Samsex Press
Harvard Suare
Mr. Peabody
Berth
West Blackhawk Street
Cuicazo
Ills
J. H. Helbut
Otto Boehmes
Grant Monument letters reveal Grant burial choice
The Grant Monument Association chief and Mrs. Julia Grant exchange letters in 1885 over funding and site for General Grant’s memorial. Julia Grant insists Riverside Park in New York as burial place near her future home and near his resting place, opposing a national memorial in Riverside.
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Grant Monument Association
Grant
New York
Congress
General Grant
Washington
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National Memorial
Wm. R. Grace
T Grant Monument Association
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Riverside
Bulgarian Premier Kar aoloff Denies England Austria Pact
In an interview published by Novoe Vremya from Philippopolis M Kar aoloff Bulgaria’s Premier denies any agreement with England or Austria over the Roumelian union. He says Russia sparked the union, and Bulgaria acted on its own. He warns Turkey’s potential war would allow Bulgaria to raid Macedonia in three days.
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Accrington
Lord Randolph Churchill
Brmingham
India
Servia
Bulgaria
Roumelia
Alexander
Milan of
Austrian Red Cross Society
St. Peterburg
Spain
England
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Downing Street
St. Petersburg
Novoe Vremya
Whch
Philippopolis
M. Karaoloff
Karaoloff
Austria
Russia
Philippolis
Turkey
Maccedonia
Greece
Bens
Murder conspiracy linked to Boston and Baltimore family
A sprawling murder plot is alleged to involve Mrs Coolidge and the Melin family of Baltimore with James Donahue alias John Bull as an accused facilitator. Rose Cobb supposedly tipped police, and John Bull exposed the scheme to avoid danger. A tense meeting with inspectors followed, while counsel Heaven claims Mrs Coolidge is insane.
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Boston
Baltimore
Sorrowstrioken
John Bull
Cobb
Carters
Aon
Coolidge
Population Compare Sparks World Idea in Brief
A string of disparate notes reports on population thought experiments, Mexican forces in Sonora burning yellow fever, Black Jack's harshness, a city address at Victoria BC upon a governor general's arrival, a choir of thousand children singing, and commentary on Mark Pattison's catalogues noted by Laboulere for omitting his wife’s book.
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Sonora
Black Jack
Victoria
British Columbia
Mark Pattison
Laboulere
Child actor in London studies under C W Tayleure
Frank S. Cuanrrav, the one year old son of a deceased actor, is pursuing stage study in London under C W Tayleure and is said to show strong dramatic ability. Flood mansion in San Francisco orders sixty carloads of wood work and interior decorations, featuring English oak and Circassian walnut. Spanish sailors fear omens of wet decks at voyage start, preferring to depart during storms for good weather later.
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Frank S. Cuanrrav
London
C. W. Tayleure
Flood
San Francisco
Circassia
San Domingo
Prince of Wales Fires Two Elks in Sweden
The prince of Wales shot two elk in Sweden with one elk brought down just as it left the lake. Swedish elk-hunters praised the shot as among the most masterly they had witnessed.
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Prince of Wales
Sweden
Crest and Carriage Fees Bring Revenue in England
In England about 39,073 people pay a guinea for crest use on plate and note paper while 17,347 pay two guineas for carriage paintwork. Together these duties yield nearly 3.4 million in revenue from a quirky practice.
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England
Development of Java Sugar Industry Reported in Holland
Advices from Holland to Java reveal rapid sugar industry growth in the East Indian island. The harvested crop totals 374,398 tons and about one hundred sugar mills operate in Java.
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Holland
Java
East Indian
Ha waiian treasury owes Queen's Hospital funds
The national treasury of the Hawaiian islands is indebted to Queen's Hospital for 3000. Despite requests for payment, finances cannot meet the debt. Only private charity can keep the hospital from closing.
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National Treasury
Hawaiian Islands
Queen's Hospital
Stamp wording aims to dispel belief in guaranteed medicines
English authorities insist on new label text stating the stamp bears no government guarantee to counteract public misbelief in medicine efficacy. Separately Spain plans a commemorative voyage starting August 5 1592 from Palos to San Salvador following Columbus's route.
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England
Spain
Palos
San Salvador
Chinese Laundry Strike Near Winnemucca
In Winnemucca Nevada during the peanut harvest period the Chinese laundry workers struck for three dollars per day and board while Lie squaws usually employed there worked for fifty cents daily.
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Winnemucca
Nevada
Lie
Mountain Parrot Ravages Sheep and Cattle in New Zealand
A San Francisco correspondent reports a mountain parrot, smaller than a china thrush, preying on sheep and cattle across New Zealand. Farmers pay high prices for destruction. Sir James Hudson, once genial in private life, fancied playing the guitar and wore it on a blue ribbon at his legation before resigning and dying in Florence.
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San Francisco
New Zealand
James Hudson
Florence
Electrical bleaching gains traction in St Peters burg textile industry
Cotton manufacturers report electric bleaching of cotton and flax fibers speeds up processing. Oxygen generated from water electrolysis acts on the fibers, reducing time compared with traditional methods. Dockyard authorities order construction of a new steel torpedo vessel for naval service. The craft measures two hulls in length and forty feet in breadth with a 44 ton displacement.
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St. Petersburg
Doorness
Adyiralty
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