Various 1885 world notes mix crime, war and weather
Reports from Pueblo on a windstorm since 1879 and many crime cases include Mrs. Jesse James jailed for a shooting, a ballot box theft in Telluride, and Dr J Milton Bowers suspected of poisoning. Also noted are war talk in Servia Bulgaria and updates on pensions, floods, and rail and postal finances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse James
Pueblo
Mike Morrissey
Commissioner of Customs
Treasury
Berlin
Markwald
Nebraska
George Shields
Telluride
J. Milton Bowers
San Francisco
Young
Chattanooga
Tenn
Toledo, Cincinnati
Oregon
New York
Manchester
England
Denver Junction
Buchanan Brothers
Sterling
Lord Dufferin
India
General Prendegast
Burmah
Mandalay
Sidney Dillon
Grant Memorial Fund
Sharon
California
Servia
Bulgaria
Thayettingo
Remarkable Chicago widow linked to early Hawaiian royalty
The obituary details Parmelia Crane Adams, aged 92, born in Truro Massachusetts. Her life tale includes marriage to Captain Charles Adams, the Ploughboy voyage disaster, marriage to Joseph Crane, a move to Illinois, Civil War service by her second husband, and long residence in Chicago with her daughter. It also notes kinship to Queen Fanny Young Kekelaokalani and a famed Hawaii link through John Young and Queen Emma, highlighting relics kept at her Fulton street home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Baltimore
Boston
Cardinal McCloskey
Joseph Crane
Quincey
Mass
Illinois
Plato
Kane County
Eighth Heavy Artillery
Kentucky
Bowling Green
Edward Smith
Fulton Street
Fanny Young Kekelaokalani
Sandwich Islands
Fanny
Emma
John Young
Young
Dobey
Queen Emma
Also Mentioned on This Page
Minhla
Loanghoo
Hicks
Guiteau
Evening Star Company
Fourteenth Ward
Brooklyn
J. H. Nanamaker
Salida
Mechanicsburg
Algoma
Knights of Labor
Seattle
Calcutta
King Theban
Joseph A. Bartlett
New York City
Bartlett
Union Army
Stead
Pall Mall Gazette
Bath Fields
Marshall Clements
Saguache
Colorado
Meagher
Elk Mountains
Ottawa
Carbon
Wyo
Union Pacific
Denver
Glick
Kansas
Topeka
Kas
Carl Schurtz
Boston Post
Advertiser
Supreme Temple of the
Patriarchal Circle of Odd Fellows
Grand Lodge
Hollister
Dr. Powers
Milan
Alexander
Senator Stanford
Leland Stanford University
Palo Alto
Little
United States
Louisville
John W. O’brien
New York Custom House
George B. Bacon
Gavelston
Hugh M. Brooks
Walter Lennox H. Maxwell
St. Louis Criminal Court
C. Arthur Preller
Southern Hotel
Stanford
Zion Wesleyan College of
North Carolina
Price
Pacific Coast
Caffey
Supreme Court
Joseph Mackin
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Horace B. Claflin
Ford C. Collenberg
Mr Speer
Bull-Domingo
Silver Cliff
Porte
Asia Minor
Turkey
Ruslan Pasha
Lebanon
London
Vincent
New Mexico
Louis Riel
Regina
Dragoman
Justice Miller
United States Supreme Court
Brighton Ranch
Custer County
Riel
Montreal
Quebec
Collenberg
J. W. Graham
Austin
Texas
National and Evangelical
The
New York Observer
Great Britain
Germany
France
Italy
China
Japan
Africa
Micronesia
Greeley Cash Store
Newmarkets
Mitchell & Patton Merchandise CO
Postoffice
Greeley, Colo
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