Infanticide Surge Alarmed in City Slaughter of Innocents
A grim report details repeated inquests by Coroner Woltman and others into stillborn and murdered infants found in ash barrels, gutters, lots, and rivers. The piece notes numerous cases, cites yearly totals and suggests far higher uncounted numbers, with parents never identified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Mercury
The
Union
Woltman
Nelson
Mounted Squad
Hugh D. Smith
East Sixteenth Street
Harlem River
Thirty-fourth Street
Cushman
Walsh
Nineteenth Street
First Avenue
Fifty-Fifth Street
Flanagan
Miller
Croker
Richards
Twenty-Second Precinct
Fifty-first Street
MacWhinnie
John McGowan
Mott Street
John
Ninth Street
Broadway
Brennan
Fourteenth Street
Cashman
Ellinger
Forty-fourth Street
Tenth Avenue
Farrell
Abbott
East River
Forty-ninth Street
Penderrast
Twenty Seventh
Greenwich Street
McWhinnie
Rose Street
Adams
Eighth Avenue
Goldschmid
Gaughan
Fifteenth Precinct
West Fourth Street
The Advocate Folds After Vast Circulation
The greenback paper The Advocate in New York City ceases weekly publication after claiming unsustainable costs. Eliza Tisdale, 12, of Hazleton, was severely burned assisting in church cleanup when her clothes ignited by a stove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Advocate
Greenback Organ
New York City
Shupe
Fiat Money
Eliza Tisdale
G. Tindaly
Hazleton
Joe
Tragic downfall of Blanche Bennett in St Louis asylum
A long profile traces Blanche Bennett later known as Blanche Frazer from Cincinnati aristocracy to a life of dissipation in St Louis. After marriages, abuse, and social exile, her mind fails under drink and vice. She is declared insane, rejected by private asylums, and confined in the city asylum awaiting an uncertain fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Retis Angiain
St. Louis
City Insane Asylum
Asylum
Blanche Frazer
Blanche Bennett
Cincinnati
Clifton Heights
Queen City
4Etna Life Insurance Company
Blanche
Bennett Mansion
Frazer
Chicago
Waitzon de Joie
South Eleventh Street
Chestnut Street
Sisters’ Hospital
Eleventh Street
St. Vincent’s Asylum
Proprietess
Dixon
Central Police Station
Robinson
Potter's Field
American Sight-Seeing Abroad in a Travel Sketch
The narrator recounts American travelers in Dresden Rome and Florence, noting a mother and daughter racing through sights. The piece contrasts rapid, superficial touring with prudent study, illustrating a broader pattern of Americans abroad who rush galleries churches and shops, missing deeper experiences.
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Dresden
Prague
Rome
St. Peter's
Vatican
Villa Borghese
Florence
Pilgrim Fathers and Indian relations in American expansion
A compact historical vignette tracks shifting U S frontier policy from 1626 to 1870. It portrays repeated pressures on Indigenous peoples as settlers push westward, citing phrases from various eras and illustrating broken promises and forced displacement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
History of the American
New York Graphic
Pilgrim Fathers
T. F
P. F
Catskill Mountains
Daniel Boone
Injun
Clar
Kentucky
American Eagle
Utica
Ohio
A. E
Mississippi
Rocky Mountains
Fort Wayne Lottery Draws Near Closure
The Fort Wayne lottery begins draws and is expected to close out on Saturday this week. Lafayette ticket holders await news and are told they will not receive prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette Journal
Fort Wayne
Lafayette
Meteoritic Death: Man Killed by Falling Stone in Indiana
Covington Indiana January reports detail Leonidas Grover a Fountain county widower killed by a twenty pound meteoric stone that fell through his bed and roof as he slept at home near Newtown. The rock stained with blood weighed about twenty pounds and was recovered five feet underground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
Covington
Leonidas Grover
Newtown
Fountain County
J. Lawrence Smith
Bates County
Missouri
Tazewell
East Tennessee
Smithsonian Institution
Coahuila
Mexico
Tucson
Arizona
Chihuahua
Port Oxford
Oregon
John Evans
Weghing
Yale College Museum
United States
C. A. Shepherd
Amherst College
Harrison County
Rochester
State Geologist Debunks Metropolitan Meteorite Hoax
A Indianapolis News report recounts Prof. Cox doubting a so-called Leonidas Glover meteorite hoax. Maj. Palmer delivered a fourteen pound fake stone, while the geologist recalls genuine meteorite science and cites examples from Mexico, Oregon, and Yale.
AEROLITES And Their Origin From Fountain County Inquiry
State Geologist Cox sends Maj. Palmer to Fountain county to secure a meteoric stone said to have fallen near Newton killing Leonidas Glover. The 20 pound pyramidal rock supposedly pierced house, bedding, and earth to five feet depth. Varied expert opinions on meteors and orbital paths accompany notes on shower periods and orbital distances.
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Indianapolis
Cox
Maj
J. J. Palmer
Fountain County
State Museum
Newton
Leonidas Glover
Indiana
J. Lawrence Smith
Louisville
Europe
G. C. Broadhead
Missouri
Perseus
Adams
Uranus
Broadhead
H. A. Newton
Horrific Swiss murder case shocks Europe trial ends
A Swiss murder trial concluded with a woman named Ruchat found guilty of killing her eleven year old daughter to avoid maintenance costs. The motive described was financial and the verdict imposed life imprisonment. The report notes broad calls for capital punishment in Switzerland and includes unrelated local church news about Archbishop Purcell and Bishop Chatard.
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Switzerland
Fribourg
Ruchat
Ieee
Berne
Indianapolis
Purcell
Cincinnati
Havi
Chatard
Georgia Street
Rome
Bisho
Vincennes
Bardstown
Louisville
Detroit
Cleveland
Fort Wayne
Columbus
Indiana
Marion
Vermillion
Parke
Putnam, Hendricks
Hancock, Rush
Wayne
Cardinal McCloakey
United States
Backwoods Courting Second Glance at a Cotton Patch Romance
In a rural scene from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat a young couple shares a slow paced courthouse rocking chair moment. He and she drift through imagined plans under a crape myrtle and turnip patch while conversations of dogs, chickens, and cabbage drift by. The mood turns tentative as flirtation grows and he asks to wed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Cooney
Kase
Caleb Cushing and the Gloves of Love
The tale follows Caleb Cushing losing his devotion to Miss Virginia Timberlake after a social glove dispute. She dismisses him with a sharp remark about her spending, revealing his practical bachelor viewpoint against her extravagant fashion sense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caleb Cushing
Virginia Timberlake
Mrs. Eaton
Mr. Cushing
Shoe Fly Moment Sparks Laughs in Shadow Dance
Maggie Mitchell recounts the accidental shoe fly during a Chicago performance in Fanchon. She learned afterward Bryant’s popular song Shoe Fly and the phrase’s meaning, astonished by the roar of laughter at her sponteneous quip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maggie Mitchell
Chicago
Bryant
Patents Issued to Indiana Citizens January 14 1879
List of patents issued to Indiana residents dated January 14 1879 furnished by C Bradford patent attorney Indianapolis. Includes J B Sulgrove take up and tension springs for wax thread sewing machines J Thatcher and G L Thatcher hog improvement J Wright churn improvement J W Brackenridge pneumatic stencil pens and G W Carpenter abdominal galvanic supporters. A brief anecdote follows about a clergyman mistaking a toll for payment for his horse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
C. Bradford
Hubbard Block
Indianapolis
Ind
J. B. Sulgrove
J. Thatcher
Alton
G. L. Thatcher
Elmwood
J. Wright
Fairmount
J. W. Brackenridge
Lafayette
G. W. Carpenter
South Bend
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Kiernan
Nineteenth
Fifty-fourth Street
Mallen
Thirty-eighth
Thirty-ninth
North River
Crosby
Thirty-Second Precinct
Thirty-third Street
Seventh Avenue
Devely
East Fifty-seventh Street
East One Hundred and Second Street
Roseland
Twobey
Perry Street
Ivory
American Register
Indianapolis News
Bureau of the
State Geologist
Leonida Glover
Henry
South Carolina
Columbia
Archbishoperic OF
Cincinnat
Dr. Chatard
Indiana Dicesse
Tigerville
Welacadey
Caleb’s Courts
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