Iowa News Items From Cedar Falls To Burlington
The Waterloo wire company moves machinery to Cedar Falls after leasing water power. Montezuma builds two brick buildings for Masons and G A R. U S Internal Revenue Collector Thompson faces a bench warrant test case over a beer brewing suit. A Pomeroy teamster’s runaway buggy injures nine people after a shotgun discharge. Fort Dodge Mrs Prusia dies from a ruptured blood vessel. Council Bluffs yardmaster Johnson crushed by a switch engine. Burlington printer Hall dies after a fall. Pulaski boys drown in a pond. Cedar Rapids blacksmith dies in shop fire with alcohol. Algona builds forty houses as river bridge work nears. Sac City child killed by wagon. Burlington Grand Lodge I O G T meets at Burlington. Clinton barber Byer dies after shaving. Dexer house robbed of watch and cash. Water train derailment near Norris injures one tramp. Sac City marshal shoots roaming dogs. Booneville burglaries note loss of mortgages.
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Beat 'Em Aj] Barb Wire Company
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Montezuma
Masons
United States Internal Revenue
Thompson
Davenport
Hedges
Eighth Judicial District
Fletcher
Johnson County
Dostal & Graf
Iowa City
W. J. Smith
Pomeroy
E. E. Prusia
Ft. Dodge
J. W. Johnson
Northwestern Railway
Council Bluffs
Frank Chase
Chase
Johnson
Jelnson
Frank Hall
Burlington
Gazette
James Burns
William King
Pulaski
King
Burns
Peterson
Cedar Rapids
Algona
Mississippi River
Dubuque
Sac City
Grand Lodge I. 0
G. T
Perry Perkins
George Dobson
D. M. Fox
W. H. Fleming
Chamberlain
M. E. Drake
P. G. C. T. Wm. Fleming
Dr. E. R. Hutchins
Des Moines
G. Coun
Mary J. Hoyt
Perry
Laura A. Berry
O. L. Barrett
G. Chap
G. M. Coleman
Hampton
K. Alleela O'Flying
Goshen
G. M
Geo Gilroy
Miss Sadie Rice
Osceola
Messenger
A. C. McMillen
Aplington
Clinton
al. Byer
Will Read of Tilden Probate Sparks Family Provisions
Secret expedition poles from New York to Montreal then to Greenland aboard the Victoria. Fire in San Francisco machine shop destroys multiple blocks. losses estimated at two million. Baltimore doctor L L Bitting shoots himself at age twenty five. Chicago Bohemian Deman kills wife then dies by self inflicted gunshot amid liquor dispute. Wagon accident near Hillsboro Bridge injures four girls. Jessie Colby killed. Lake Minnetonka boat capsized. three men drown. Irish National League selects seven for national council. Milledgeville man kills wife and suicides. Michigan storm damages crops. few casualties.
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Brannon Street
San Francisco
L. L. Bitting
Baltimore
Frank Deman
Chicago
Deman
Hillsboro Bridge
N. H
Jessie Colby
Blanche Colby
Nettie Flanders
Nora Colby
Gladstone Publishes Two Part Home Rule Pamphlet
Scribner & Sons announce arrangements with Mr Gladstone for simultaneous England and America publication of his pamphlet on home rule. The work will be in two parts titled The History of an Idea and The Lessons of the Election.
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Messrs. Scribner & Sons
New York
Gladstone
England
America
Eviction Ends in Gweedore as Poverty Grows
Eleven days of eviction in Gweedore Donegal concluded with police and bailiffs guarding rounds. Costs reached £190 daily. rents attempted totalled under £50 yearly, amid widespread suffering and poverty.
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Gweedore
Donegal
Porte
Sofia
Bulgaria
Prince Alexander
M. Clement
M. Steanoff
M. Zankoff
Interior
M. Harmoff
M. Nekiforoff
M. Radoslavoff
M. Velichoff
Clement
Alexander
National Assembly
Death of Ann S Stephens Novelist Died at Newport
New York reports the death of Ann Sophia Stephens at Newport in her seventy fourth year. Born in Derby Connecticut in 1813 she married Edward Stephens in 1832 and began editing the Portland Sketch Book two years later. She lived in New York from 1837 and produced about twenty novels gaining wide popularity. Her novel Fashion and Famine appeared in 1854 earning three French translations.
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Ann S. Stephens
New York
Ann Sophia Stephens
Newport
Winterbotham
Derby
Conn
Edward Stephens
Plymouth
Mass
Portland
Deposed Prince Alexander of Bulgaria is Captured in Palace Coup
Authentic dispatches from Sofia report that during the night a Russianized cavalry regiment surrounded the Bulgarian palace, where Prince Alexander was awakened and then reportedly abdicated or was imprisoned. The prince was moved from Sofia under escort before daybreak, amid unrest among troops over the government change.
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Loxpon
Sofia
Alexander
Bulgaria
Widden
Lom
Roumania
M. Stojanoff
London
Europe
England
Alexandria
Regulations issued for oleomargarine law in 1909
Collector Stone of Chicago and Bates of the Internal Revenue Bureau completed the regulations to carry out the oleomargarine act. Commissioner Miller favored them. publication will follow in days. Stamp models delayed due to engraving printing staff absence. designs feature a bull trampling a serpent with oleomargarine and Internal Revenue around the margin. Three stamp varieties will cover retailers wholesalers and manufacturers with multiple denominations and attachable coupons.
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Washington
Stone
Chicago
Bates
Internal Revenue Bureau
Miller
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Tragic Volga Steamer Fire at Saratov Claims Many
A Volga river steamer named Vera of the Lamolet Company burned at Saratov turning deadly. The fire started from a lamp in the saloon and chaos followed as passengers, many still in bed, rushed to the deck and leaped overboard. Rescue efforts were hampered as engines ran and debris impeded swimmers.
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London
St. Petersburg
Volga
Saratov
Russia
Vera
Lamolet Company
Astrachan
Death of Prof Calvin Ellis Stowe in Hartford
Prof Calvin Ellis Stowe, husband of Harriet Beecher Stowe, died in Hartford Conn on August 22 after months of illness. He was 84 and previously taught sacred literature and languages at Andover Dartmouth Lane and Bowdoin colleges. He married Harriet Beecher Stowe 54 years ago.
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Calvin Ellis Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hartford
Conn
Andover
Dartmouth
Lane
Bowdoin Colleges
Harriet Beecher
Deposition of Prince Alexander in Bulgaria News Flash
European markets react to the Bulgarian coup as Prince Alexander is dethroned amid claims of Czarist influence. News from Vienna Bucharest and Sofia describe the palace move, public reaction, and suspected Russia aims while markets shift on fears of broader turmoil.
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London
Alexander
Bulgaria
Tientsin
Lazareff
Russia
Times Vienna
M. Nazaveloff
Bucharest
Romania
Charles
Sophia
Daily News
Berlin Post
Berlin
de Giers
Franzensbad
Bismarck
Kalnaky
Germany
Austria
Alexandre
England
Vienna
London Times
Widdin
Severin
Wallachia-Roumania
Roumania
Karaveloff
Sofia
Turkey
Republican State Convention of Iowa Adopts Officers Platform
The Iowa Republican State Convention met in Des Moines on August 5 with Dr Beardsley as chair. Senator Allison spoke briefly and a permanent leadership slate was elected led by Col W P Hepburn with vice presidents Stevens Egbert Huff McCarty Willett Simons Sherman Whitmore Sapp Welch and George Perkins. Officers named include E R Hutchins and C M Waterman as secretaries. Nominations for state offices followed and the platform criticized the Democratic Party for unkept promises while backing settlers access to public lands pension reform labor protection and Irish sympathy and urging Dakota statehood and pension modifications.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Beardsley
State Central Committee
Wm. B. Allison
Committee On
Col
W. P. Hepburn
Charles Stevens
Ed. Egbert
H. T. Huff
Col. McCarty
J. W. Willett
Robert Simons
Hoyt Sherman
C. P. Whitmore
W. F. Sapp
Dr. Welch
George Perkins
E. R. Hutchins
Polk
C. M. Waterman
Supreme Court
E. C. Ebersole
Democratic Party
Cleveland
National
House of Representatives
Northwest
Congress
Dakota
Ireland
Death by self inflicted rifle shot shocks Evora NY
Rev L B Beecher brother of Henry Ward Beecher and Thomas K Beecher killed himself with a rifle in Evora New York after years of mental trouble. He was about 57, Dartmouth and Andover educated, former chaplain in China and Brooklyn, later a pastor in Oswego Poughkeepsie and head of the Bethel mission. He had lived on a Ulster county farm.
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Evora
N. Y
L. B. Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Thomas K. Beecher
Middletown
Mr. Beecher
Lyman Beecher
Dartmouth College
Andover Seminary
Seamen's Bothel
China
Brooklyn Regiment
Oswego
Poughkeepsie
Bethel Mission of
Brooklyn
Ulster County
A Gypsy Beauty by Charles G. Leland
In this Century piece Charles G. Leland profiles Charlotte Cooper, famed Romany beauty. He recalls Romany life fifty to sixty years ago in England, noting stronger tribal honesty and rough rider vitality, with praise for loyalty and affection within their culture.
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Charles G. Leland
Charlotte Cooper
England
Hell
Dingle
Jem Mace
Walter Scott
Hayraddin Mangrabin
Quentin Durward
United States
Jack Cooper
Charlotte Lee
Leslie
New York
Emma Leslie
Charlotte
Philadelphia
Train No 7 wreck near Olean. engineer saves passengers
Burrato Aug 21. Train No 7 of the Buffalo and Cleveland railroad jumped the track near Olean at 5 pm, the engine rolling down the embankment. Engineer Cook remained at his post reversing the engine and escaped serious harm after saving the crowded passenger coaches.
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Burrato
Buffalo and Cleaveland
Olean
Cook
Centerville Church Mouse Creates Comical Panic
Last Sunday a mouse hid behind the organ in Centerville church and ran across the floor when the organist played. Two thirds of the sisters rose in alarm not for prayers, and the sexton restrained the stampede until the mouse was said to have vanished through a back window and crossed to a neighboring barn.
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Centerville
Conkling Refuses Photo Then Poses for Sketch by Artist
During the 1877 electoral commission period Senator Conkling declined a London News request to photograph him for a sketch. He allowed the artist to sketch him in his writing room and, pleased with the quick portrait, kept the drawing and agreed to pose as he had in a recent speech.
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Electoral Commission
Conkling
Senate
London News
Senator Conkling
London
Washington
Hhim
Cleveland Leader
McClellan recalled to command and Victory at Gettysburg
The item recounts General McClellan being recalled to lead the Union forces near Alexandria and defend Maryland and Pennsylvania. It notes rapid army organization, Harper's Ferry surrender, and the decisive defeat of Confederate forces, with the Battle of Gettysburg framed as a peak of triumph. The piece cites the Boston Budget as its source.
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Gen. McClellan
Gettysburg
Alexandria
Capitol
Keystone
Maryland
Washington
Pennsylvania
South Mountains
McClellan
Potomac
Harper’s Ferry
Virginia
Union
The Man Who Captured Him in Alabama
Senator Cockrell of Missouri recalls the exchange with Gen. Vifquain of Nebraska after the Blakeley clash near Mobile. Vifquain accepted Cockrell’s surrender at Cockrell’s tent, and Cockrell later voted to confirm Vifquain as consul to Baranquilla as he began his duties there.
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Washington
Senator Cockrell
Missouri
Gen. Vilquain
Nebraska
Capitol
Blakeley
Ala
Mobile
Cockrell
Vifquain
Baranquilla
Stranger plots purchase of watch for funeral costs
A man offers a silver watch at Woodward Avenue street foot to fund medicines for his sick wife who allegedly has bilious fever. The seller recalls a similar scam a year prior, questioning the tale. The conversación ends with no sale as the watch remains unsold.
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Woodward Avenue
Detroit Free Press
A Slight Difference in Courtroom Edge
A courtroom exchange ends with a witness admitting a threat before correction. The attorney presses the admission while the judge allows the witness to continue. The Philadelphia Call notes the tense moment in a legal proceeding.
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Philadelphia
Cail
A Terrible Revenge by Dauber Against Bondclipper
Dauber the artist harbors a private grudge against Bondclipper the banker. In a conversation with a friend he says he wants to trick him. The plan is to paint Bondclipper’s portrait to make him a perpetual object of ridicule.
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Dauber
Bondclipper
Texas Siftings
Man Kept Wife in River Waist-Deep for Slab Hauling
In Jefferson New Hampshire a man forced his wife to stand waist-deep in a river while he hauled slabs and handed them to him on the bank until a justice of the peace intervened and ordered him to remove his wife from the water and keep her out.
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Jefferson, N. H
A New Dress Theory Provokes Wool Wearing Trend
A Cincinnati Sun report quotes Prof Jaeger proposing a wool only dress theory, claiming wool fiber vents excretions and promotes health while linen and cotton retain toxins. The idea spreads to England and Austria, with garments from head to toe made of wool and even gloves like toe socks and wool lining for boots hats and handkerchiefs.
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Jaexer
Germany
England
Austria
Jaeger
Cincinnati Sun
A Modern Girl in Perfectly Pathetic Verse
A humorous poem describing a perfectly modern girl who finds perfection in everything. The speaker playfully mocks her extreme use of perfectly and other intensified adjectives as she travels through weather, school, town, church, and social life, ending with a self aware note about patience.
Salmon weights loom large in river lore
The piece surveys legendary salmon weights from Canada to England. It cites catches of thirty to forty pounds as common, recalls a fifty four pound example on the Restigouche, a forty pound salmon caught by Princess Louise, and reports legends of seventy and seventy three pound fish with later claims of eighty three pounds in London market.
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Restigouche
Louise
England
Marquis of Lorne
Canada
Causapseal
Quebec
Royal Famly
John Hawkins
Awe
London
Ripley Hitcheocs
St Nicholas
Clarifying Remark on Interview by David Davis
The Philadelphia Times notes a correspondent presented Davis with his manuscript before sending it to the judge. Davis said if the interview had been written in Choctaw on raising hems no one could understand it, adding that in other respects the report is correct.
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David Davis
Dphiladelphia Times
Diverse Anecdotes and Local Bits From 19th Century Newspapers
A compendium of brief items including census figures for Rhode Island in 1885, a Port Jarvis road tax seizure, deaths in Summers County and Virginia, Nevada jackrabbit crop damage, a Kingwood fire loss, quips about language and manners, a Will probate in Philadelphia, and humorous vignettes about religious life and streetcar chatter. The piece blends trivia, humor, and small urban snapshots.
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George Blohm
Dexter
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railroad
Beaver Creek
Norris
Jacob Gutshall
Booneville
Dallas County
Dispatches
Tilden
Wm. H. Gilder
Lieut. Griffiths
North Pole
Montreal
Victoria
Greenland
Lake Minnetonka
Robert T. Hulbert
W. B. Jackson, Jr
Monitor Plow Works
Lexague
National Council of Seven
Patrick Evan
Judge Donnelly
Wisconsin
Edward Malone
Thomas O'Reilly
John F. Armstrong
Georgia
W. J. Gleason
Ohio
J. J. Donovan
Massachusetts
Milledgeville
Frank Wood
McPherson
Wood
Michigan
Adstone
Foreign Intelligence
Revolucionists
Czar
Capt. Lyons
Auditor of State
A Beecher
Mr. Conkling
Perfly Mag
Louisy
le Courier-Journal
Rhode Island
Port Jarvis
Elizabeth Means
Summers County
Nevada
Wilmington
N. C
Chaucer
D. W. Potter
C. J. Barr
Kingwood
W. Va
la Diggs
de Wiggs
John
Ossipee Mountain
Lake Winnipiscogee
Weirs
New Hampshire
Elia Wheeler Wilcox
Boston
New England
Franklin
Brown
Providence
Thomas Potter
Somerest
Fall River
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