Wheat prospects and coastal disaster in July 1880 notices
The Star notes July August wheat price questions as reports from Dakota predict a large 1880 harvest. It cites crop prospects for world bread supply and references the Seawanhaka fire near Glen Cove with many fatalities. Weather shifts show excess rain in the Ohio Valley and drought in Orange New Jersey and Western Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dakota
Northwest
Ohio Valley
Orange
N. J
Kansas
Colorado
Hancock and Reform Rally Song and Tragic Drowning
A community rally praises Captain J Smiley known as the Sweet Singer of Indiana and campaigns for Reform. The piece includes marching verses about Hancock English and Reform and denounces Arthur. The article ends with news that George Compton's three children aged 10 12 and 15 were drowned near Shelbyville Illinois and his wife died saving them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Brown
Capt. J. Smiley
Indiana
Hancock
Garfield
Arthur
Glory
Mallelisans
George Compton
Shelbyville
Compton
Democratic delegate convention at Greencastle June 30 1880
A Democratic delegate convention for the Joint Representative District of Clay Putnam and Hendricks met at Greencastle Court House. H B Martin presided, Geo W Bence chaired, and Geo Biddle was secretary. Central Committee picks included M T Lewman Putnam, Pliney F Sharp Clay, H B Lingefelter Hendricks, and B F Ivey of Hendricks as Joint Representative nominee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clay, Putnam
Hendricks
Court House
Greencastle
H. B. Martin
Geo. W. Bence
Putnam
Geo. Biddle
Clay
Isaac Compton
Col. Matson
Putnam County
M. T. Lewman
Clay County
Pliney F. Sharpe
Hendrick
H. B. Lingenfelter
B. F. Ivey
Clay Counties
Democratic Convention nominates Matson for Prosecuting Attorney
Delegates from Putnam and Clay counties met in Greencastle on June 30 1880 to nominate a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney in the 1th Judicial Circuit. Hon Charles E Matson was declared the Democratic nominee after unopposed nomination and acclamation. E C Kimler and I B Martin were named Central Committeemen for two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Putnam and
Clay
Greencastle
H. B. Martin
Central Committee
Jas.j. Smiley
Putnam
Li. C. Kimler
George Byrd
Infant lives found on morgue slab sparks case inquiry
A newborn girl was found on a stoop then died en route to Randall's Island. At the morgue Deputy Coroner Waterman and two doctors examined the infant and noted a faint gasp, prompting a life-led discovery amid postmortem work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
East Nineteenth Street
Webb
the Commissioners of Charities and Correction
Randall’s Island
Department
East Twenty-sixth Street
Waterman
Finlayson
Indiana
Nolan
Georgia
Dr. Waterman
Remarkable rescue and a curious fashion piece in New York
The report describes a dramatic revival of a baby by physicians using artificial respiration and warm showers, followed by nourishment within an hour. It then shifts to fashionable wet bathing dress debates, detailing a resulting corset design, and odd animal training feats in Elton Tennessee and London Zoo, including a chimpanzee and baboon performing tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Waterman
New York
Cincinnati Enquirer
Bizarre Ancestral Tales and Oddities From Nation’s Headlines
A distended roundup of curiosities includes a partridge nest with 200 leggs in Georgia, a coffin kept at a Locust Grove house, and a Newberryport man carting bedstead home piece by piece. Reports of floods of dead fish, a punctual Ravenswood wife warning of another marriage, and a diving tale of a Richmond man waking after a fall share space with a tale of Paul Kimbell’s near‑gallows escape and a murder confession on the York scaffold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Locust Grove
Newberryport
Mass
Boston
Georgia
Galesburg
Omaha
Florence
Willow Lakes
Eliza Warbrook
Ravenswood
Australia
Henry Brittain
Richmond
Ind
John Long
Drumore
Jonathan Oatley
Unadilla Forks
N. Y
Troy
Providence
RK. 1
Alden
Iowa
Owen Buck
Oceanica, Md
Paul Kimbel
York
Baltimore
Winter
Kimbell
Chambersburg
Kimbel
Also Mentioned on This Page
Buf
A. R. Brattin
Watchmaker & Jeweler
Greencastle, Ind
Frank A. Anxonp
Indianapolis
Democratic State Central Committee
English
Long Island
Glen Cove
Bay View
New
California
Java
COP Rhess
Darnall Bros. & Co’s
Call and Ee Us
Clay and
New York Morgue
Elton
Tenn
Chicago
Cincinnati
Bisset
Perth
London Zoological Gardens
Queer Happenings
Richard Tennant
Terre Haute
Patent Medicin
Allen’s Drug Store
DR. Crook
Geneva
Persia
J. Kramer
N. Smith & CO
Milline
Bayne
T. B. Scott's
East Washington Street
BRUSH
T. G. Bowman
Joan
T. G. Bowman & Co
Cheap Cas
Staple & Fane
Groceherse
T. G. Bowman & Southard
Langdon’s
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