Tragic Oil Company Explosion Kills Three in Cleveland
In Cleveland the Standard Oil Company works suffered a devastating blast at a wooden stillhouse. August Fisher William Stahlman and August Gunther, three laborers, perished as burning oil engulfed the inclosure. The explosion destroyed the stills and caused about 50 000 dollars in losses.
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Standard Ol Company
Cleveland
Forest Street
Tandard of Works
Merrimean & Morgan’s Oil and Wax Works
Syork
Stillers
August Fisher
William Stahlman
August Gunthar
Fisher
Merriam
Stahlman
Gunther
Express Robbers McFadden and Tiller In Double Confession
Missouri report says Tiller confessed and implicated McFadden in the express robbery. McFadden attempted suicide by swallowing glass after learning of the confession and remains in serious condition. Police recover $3000 in silver in Kansas City. $12,000 still missing believed controlled by Tiller. Tiller says McFadden went to Chicago with robbery proceeds two days after the crime.
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McFadden
Tiller
Sr. Laws
Kansas City
United States Express
T Wes
Chisago
Excluded by Her Sex and Condition
President Judge Ludlow dismissed the motion for Mrs Carrie B Kilgore to practice as an attorney. He held no law allows admission to a married woman and that granting it would be judicial legislation. Kilgore petitioned every Common Pleas court without success.
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Pariladelphia
Ludlow
Carrie B. Kilgore
Death of Bishop B H Kavanaugh in Mississippi
Bishop B H Kavanaugh senior Methodist Church South dies in Cotuvas Miss aged 82. Born January 4 1802 in Clark County Kentucky he became a printer before entering the ministry. He joined the Kentucky conference in 1828 and was elected Bishop at the Columbus Georgia conference in 1854.
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Cotvamus
Miss
B. H. Kavanaugh
Methodist Church South
Louisville
Hubbard Hinde Kavanaugh
Clark County
Kentucky
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Kavanaugh
Columbus
Tragic double suicide of German couple in Chicago
In Carcado March 18 a man and his wife Frederick and Mrs. Jagow lie dead in a Chicago morgue from self inflicted hanging. Neighbors report a planned scene with meticulous preparation and no English spoken. Both are described as unemployed and despondent, dressed for church with belongings in disarray.
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Chicago
Carcado
County
Frederick Jagow
Mra Broderick
Startling Figures. 4 Summary of Pecuniary Damages
Cincinnati March 1.7 The Bradstreet mercantile agency lists losses to business from Pomeroy Ohio to Madison Indiana caused by the Ohio floods. The Cincinnati estimate is $200 000. Other points tally as follows.
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Ohio Valley
Crincinnati
Ohio River
Bradatreet
Pomeroy
Madison
Ind
Cincinnati
Anti Monopolists plan national convention in Chicago
Chicago March 18. The Anti Monopolists announce a third National Convention to meet in Chicago at noon May 14 to nominate a presidential ticket. Delegates: four from each Congress district and territory plus four from the District of Columbia.
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Chicago
District of Columbia
Cuban Refugees Detained After Cuba Probes
The brig Screamer arrived at HAVEN Mass from Cuba with twenty five women and children claiming refugee status. The Samuel Dexter intercepted the vessel at dawn and anchored under surveillance of the Dektor while Captain Gabrielson seeks Washington instructions. Captain Robinson protests that passengers are innocent refugees.
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Vinzywarp Haven
Mass
Screamer
Cuba
Portland
Samuel Dexter
Gabrielson
Dektor
Washington
Robinson
Net-Beae
Brave Woman Defends Home From Robbers in Sangamon County
A tramp sought food at Mr. King’s house near Dawson Illinois. Mrs. King armed with an ax struck first man at threshold and felled the pair as they tried to rob the home. The robbers fled. Mrs. King fainted upon telling her husband the tale.
Illinois Crop Value Drops in 1883 Reports
The State Board of Agriculture puts the 1883 value of Illinois crop and livestock products at 250,578,602, down 67,403,678 from 1882. Corn, winter wheat, oats and hay drove most losses, while fat cattle and hog values fell sharply. Crop bulk rose slightly for corn oats and hay, but value declined by 25,000,000.
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State Board of Agriculture
Illinoia
Whimsical advertisements haunt daily columns
The piece surveys curious 19th century ads and whimsical wants. It notes a widow seeking a social home overseer, a radical preference, a middle aged traveler's request, a bon vivant selling wit, and odd job offers from planks to cultured milking gentlemen. It mocks the spoof listings and illustrated ads in Chambers' Journal style.
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Kilmarnock Burghs
Melbourne
Corporation
Long cloaks and passementerie bands shape 19th century wear
Describes evolving long cloaks with reduced front darts, tied by passementerie bands or ribbons, full backs via gathers, and various textures from rough brocade to tricote. Notes styles like Longchamps with double box plaits, velvet bindings, and velvet trimmed sleeves, plus short capes and braided linings in two colors.
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Rt Roortt
Notable Figures and Notable Oddities From a Century Ago
A collage of brief notices about prominent figures and eccentric claims. William Lawrence’s mortality belief in Lansineburg, Edward Everett Hale’s Franklin sketches in Paris, Oscar Wilde’s risky political remarks, and Vanderbilts’ barber fears are juxtaposed with other curious notes. Also mentions a history of the underground railroad by Edward L. Stevens and a tribute by Lydia Smith to Thaddeus Stevens’ grave. Includes long-lived Anna Gordon in Bluffton and singer Josephine Jones Yorke disputing biographers.
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William ‘ Lawrence
Lansineburg
N. Y
Edward Everett Hale
Benjamin Franklin
Paris
Oscar Wilde
New York World
M. de Lesseps
Chicago Tribune
Edward L. Stevens
Washington
Josh Giddings
Detroit Post
William H. Vanderbilt
Jacob Aber
Fernando Wood
N. Y. Times
Lydia Smith
Thaddeus Stevens
Stevens
Lancaster
David Winters
Dayton
Cleveland
Anna Gordon
Bluffton
S. C
Sho
W. G. Picayune
Josephine Jones-Yorke
Colonel Mapleson
Cincinnati
Cincinnal? Times
Fragments of Humorous 19th Century Marginalia
A collage of quips from various papers noting absurdities and light satire. Jests about promissory pledge on a watch pawned, silk hats and tiles, a Broo klyn insane woman with eight husbands, umbrella recovery, a rheumatism remedy anecdote, a Corsicana school report with errors, an Irish waiter to a carver, a sewing machine complaint, and a Boston jury mishearing verdicts with humorous scientific gloss.
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Brooklyn
Boston
Somerville Journal
N.Y. Sus
Corsicana (Tex
Corsicana
Pat
Chicago News
Fittsburgh Dispatch
Indiana
Boston Journal
Chicago
Rockland
Rockiend Commercial Gazette
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Aberdeen
Richmond
Buena Vista
Middleport
Ironton Lavanna
Aeee Omercy
Longbottom
Portamouth
Hugginsport
Hacine
Minersville
Scott’s Landing
Moscow
Neville
Aurora
Gattosbuy
Florence
Maysville
Bo Lawrenceburg
Newport
Markland
Augusta
League
Illinois State-News
Tillmois
Harry Long
Rock Island
Thirty-first Street
National Industrial Congress
Patrick O’brien
Bloomington
Citizen’s Gas Company
Saline County
Shelbyville
Shelby County
Dick Skaggs
John H. Brewster
Skaggs
Brewster
Maggie Garrity
Paris Green
Clebourne County
Texas
Smith
Springfield
J. Appleton Willson
Willsons
Winnetka
Cook County
Norman Curtis
Rockford
Winnebago County
Mr. Curtis
Northernlinois
William E. Wilson
Burlington & Ohio River Road
Carlinville
Macoupin County
H. 8. Hopkins
St. Louis
Chambers’ Journal
Jsosian Ullietin
Lowell Cour- Te
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