News Notes Roundup of Global Events and Local Incidents
Mrs. Sartoris sails home. Romero & Co. fail with 200000 in liabilities. Idaho carries Governor and Alaska judge. Prohibition bids 50000 in New York. Reilly’s sister dies in Richmond. Apaches move south of border. Treasury pays 1.677m standard and 1.496m silver in August. train robbery suspects in Blue Springs. Russians expel Prussians from Warsaw. Parnell on Irish home rule. Barrow shipyard fire costs 3,000 jobs. Armstrong gun works strike. cholera in Italy. China, Spain, and US cases, rail and mining news, and more.
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General Creek
Treasury Department
Missouri
Chicago & Alton
Blue Springs
Blue Cut
Warsaw
Parnell
Barrow Ship Building Company
Barrow-in- Furness
Armstrong
Elswick
Albany
New York
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Cincinnati
Princess Kung
France
Preston
Panama
Colon
Stead
Pall Mall Gazette
London
Wissman Arrives at Congo Kwa Junction on Kassan Survey
Lieut Wissman, the Belgian king’s explorer, reaches the Congo Kwa junction while completing a geographical and geological reconnaissance of the Kassan region. The German explorer is noted as young and well known.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Alabama
Wissman
Kassan
Africa
Maberrra
Congo
Kwa
British Railways Earnings Lag as Mileage Expands in 1884
The British Board of Trade reports 1884 railway mileage rose to 18,864 miles, with capital near 4.471 billion dollars, nine tenths paid up. Earnings per paid up capital fell, cost ratios held steady, and the return on capital lagged behind banks and other railways. Curiously, 39 million pounds of sunk capital produced no returns while ordinary stock yielded under 9 percent.
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British Board of Trade
United Kingdom
Herapath
Canadian Railways
Australian Railways
Indian Railways
British Railways
Wells Health Renew er offers cure claims and corns remedy
An advertisement touts Wells Health Renewer as a cure for heart pains palpitations dropsy dizziness indigestion headache sleeplessness and general debility. It also markets a corn remedy and Buchu-Paiba for kidney bladder and urinary issues with quick complete cures for scalding irritation and stone. The ad promises health and vigor for $1.
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C. A. Deane
Denver
W.8
Jackson
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
George P. Jones
Dean
Wind River Canon
Wyoming
Snell
Italy
Spain
Green River City
Evanston
Almy
Rock Springs
Fort Russell
Genesta
Wallace W. Willey
Bountiful
Utah
Guay
Edward Thornton
St. Petersburg
Daviess County
Indiana
Canada
Stephen H. Tyng
Irvington
Martin
Kansas
Manning
Lander
Washington Township
Steele Township
Barr
Civil Service Commissioner
Civil Service Act
United States Supreme Court
Archbishop Walsh
Ireland
Bank of England
Bank of Ireland
Knoxville
Tenn
Sellers
Maines
Treasury
Jordan
London Mark Lane Express
Michoacan
Mexico
Geronimo
Lander County
Thomas Hughes
Albuquerque
New Mexico
H. E. Clark
Dutch Flat
New York City
John L. Egan
Pueblo
Farmers’ Review
Studebaker
Peter Hufefsmith
the Railways of
Great Britan
Main
Walnut
Pine
Alfred T. Bacon
Hunter
Mitchell's Bazar
Gen. Grant
Barnes Pub. Co
Marshalltown
Iowa
Reep & Co
Mansfield’s
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