News of the Week From The Portland Oregon Area
A rapid roundup of incidents and notes including Hankins the truckman who killed his wife in Portland then killed himself, epidemics and heat deaths in New York City, mine closures in West Elizabeth, and a Liberty Bell procession to Independence Hall. Also reports of fires, hangings, accidents, and public events across the nation with dates around mid month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hankins
Portland
New York City
West Elizabeth
Lima
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Smith
Independence Hall
Pueblo
Col
Washington
Charlestown
W. Va
Price Weatherly
Yazoo
Miss
Princeton College
Princeton
N. J
Jouett Y
Navy Department
Columbis
Barranquilla
Bartholdi
Relief Committee
Joy Bansour
Horace Terrill
Charlottesville
Vac
Randall Jackson
Mary Foster
McErepitan Workman
West Virginia
Ruppenslex
New York
Cleveland
Henry Sauerbier
Mcfarland
Logan
Sauerbier
Chicago
Iron Mills
Pittsburgh
Salt Lake
Utah
New Broadway Road
Deawer
Austin D. Knight
Vigo
Spain
Vigo Bay
Chicoteague Island
Tasley
William Freeman
Timothy Hills
CoLonzi
Santa Fe
War Department
New Mexico
Arizona
Henry Howard
Coshocton
Plymouth
Sugar Notch
Warrior Run
Hall
Court of Inquiry cites delinquencies by Paymaster General Smith
The Court of Inquiry finds Paymaster-General J A Smith guilty of numerous official delinquencies and recommends a court martial. Jangs J Brooks, Treasury Secret Service chief, resigns by Secretary Manning’s request to take effect July 1. Blair reelected U S Senator from New Hampshire. Grant travels from New York to Bar Harbor on Vanderbilt’s private car, greeted at the station, then to Mount McGregor. Michigan Legislature adjourns sine die. Des Moines Greenback Convention set for July 7. John B Stalin appointed minister to Italy. Bayless Hanna given the Argentine mission. Ernest Redburg, oldest Grand Army of the Republic member, dies at 91 in Vancouver, Utah. President Watts of Cornell resigns. Conductor Depew elected president of New York Central. Ex-Senator Nesmrrna dies in Portland. Israel Lawton appointed U S Mint Superintendent in San Francisco. Grant’s health declines with throat ulcers and coughing fits. William E. Wooprourr dies at 89.
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Tukeport
J. A. Smith
Bureau of Provisions and Clothing
Navy Department
Jangs J. Brooks
Secret Service Division
Treasury Department
Manning
Henry W. Blair
United States
New Hampshire
General Grant
New York
Mr. Vanderbilt
Baratoga
Mount McGregor
Michigan
Tux
Iowa
Vancouver
Wy. T
Andrew Watts
Cornell University
Ithaca
N. Y
Cunondy M. Depew
New York Central Road
James W. Nesmrrna
Oregon
Portland
Israel Lawton
San Francisco
Noven
William E. Wooprourr
Arkansas
Iceland's harsh winter cited by arriving vessels at Gloucester
Foreign reports from vessels docking in Gloucester Massachusetts describe Iceland's winter as the worst on record with near total cattle loss and ongoing heavy snowstorms into May. In West Africa on the Brass River native tribes killed and ate recently captured prisoners of war after ransom failed to materialize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fisnine
Gloucester
Mass
Iceland
Brass River
West Africa
Fire Destroys Bazaar in London and Global Disasters
Reports tallied on multiple disasters and health crises. A London bazaar burned, 760000 dollars lost. Cholera deaths rise in Spain with hundreds more cases. A Canadian land patent scam surfaced. Fires destroy towns in Hungary. 14 dead. Naval losses: French ship Renard sunk in a cyclone. Margarethe reaches Quebec after 85 days. An explosion at Chifton colliery kills many. Gladstone surrenders seals. assorted earthquakes, plane wrecks, and political shifts noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freuß-Marshal Baxon von Maw
Ray
Fel
Alsacer Lorraine
William Whitely
London
Spain
Lake Manitoba
Newfoundland
Robert Laing
Canadian Interior Department
Northwest Territories
Ayrnau
Leutschan
Hungary
Dunne
Murcia
Castellon de la Plana
Valencia
Margarethe
Quebec
Granton
Scotland
Chifton
Manchester
Eng
Paris
Indian Ocean
York
Gladstone
Hanlan
Toronto Bay
Chamber of Deputies
Scotts
Otter
Big Bear
Turtle Lake
Herchmer
Riel
Lagos
West Africa
Pendlebury
Eny
French Chamber of Deputies
Various 19th Century World Events Reported in Later News
Reports cover General Grant's improving condition, deadly clashes with Bannock thieves, tribal conflicts in the Dalores Valley, and ten miners killed in a Spedale explosion. Other items note a cyclone at Sherbrook, a Toronto builders strike, severe Newfoundland storm, Leavenworth tornado, lynching in Elk Hart, and cholera deaths in Spain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deveras
Dalores
Michigan
Sherbrook
Steele County
Dakota
Spedale
Eng
Toronto
Newfoundland
Leavenworth
Kan
Elkhart
Tex
New York Hosts Historic Isere Procession for Liberty Statue
A vast New York Bay spectacle welcomed the French warship Isere carrying Bartholdi's statue. Thousands lined Broadway and the Battery as the fleet, led by the Atlantic, paraded for the unveiling. Main figures included Secretary Kitney, Admiral Lacombe, Mayor Grace, and Senator Evarts. The statue, cast in pure copper, will darken to a reddish brown in time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty
New York
New York Bay
Isere
Bartholdi
Bedloe’s Island
Minnesota
Gravesend Bay
Omaha
Dispatch
Powhatan
Nellie Grant
Governors Island
Atlantic
Chamber of Commerce
Long Island
Governor's Island
Handcock
Staten Island
Marseillaise
Yi UN
Isore
Marsellinisea
William M. Evarts
American Committee
Grace
Fort Hamilton
DeLaune
Lacom
Fiore A
Kitney
Brunneart
Chicago
Broadway
Lincoln
Metropolitan and
Park Police
Battery
Bowling Green
la Combe
Shaler
Sanger
Lespinaise de Laune
American Statue Committee
Delcombe
Laftore
Grenadiers
Rochambeau
Garde Lafayette
Chalfant
Tthat
Amet
Amland
Arajo
de St. Parre
le Caner
Sen 1S
Carrole
Guerin
Laffore
Edmund Bruwaert
M. Dansseing
Charles P. Stone
Board of Aldermen
Murray
Council
Balloon ascension tragedy at Cumberland Fair
William Patterson, 22, of Wellesville Ohio, died after a hot air balloon inflating stove exploded during Richard's Circus in Custextron West Virginia. The balloon rose several hundred feet before collapsing and Patterson was crushed on impact with fatal internal injuries.
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Long Island
New Jersey
Isero
South Carolina
Abbeville
Peray
William Melton
Farmersville
John W.cherry
Charles Campbell
Pointe Alae Hache
Theodore Taplevich
Georgechneider
Hamilton, C
William Morrow
Clarksville Tenn
Dick Overton
Spero
Bradstreet’s
United States
Sryezn
Booth Framingham
Mass
Washington
Whitesburg
Link Banks
Gardner
Chicago
Kieman
Michael Freres
Dubuque
Frank Burkman
Fredericksburg
Charleston
W. Va
William Patterson
Canada
Middle States
New England States
Western
Southern
Pacific States and Territories
Vesrginia
Cusxuxston
Wellesville
Patterson
It Was the Cat Prrrsnurcu Tragic Fratricide Shock
In Prrrsnurcu Pennsylvania on June 20 Thomas ODay fifty eight? was shot by his son John twenty one. After a drunken quarrel John fired a shotgun wounding his father fatally. John was arrested and jailed. His brother stopped him from attempting suicide.
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Prrrsnurcu
Thomas O'Day
John
The Tables Turned. Robbers Surprised Near Cross Plains
Three men who robbed a tailor shop in Bute Earth Wisconsin of 600 dollars worth of goods surrendered to a posse near Cross Plains on Friday. While the captors were disarming the prisoners, two of the robbers' friends attacked the posse, forced them to surrender, and looted the citizens before escaping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bute Earth
Wis
Cross Plaines
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Geo. Burt, Jr
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