Earnings of Union Pacific for March 1885 top profits
Union Pacific records March 1885 earnings of $1 975 517 with expenses $1 254 563 and surplus of $720 949 up $31 142 from the previous year. Also reports in Brooklyn fires kill dozens, and Kansas winter wheat acreage falls sharply.
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Memorial to Poe unveiled at New York museum
A memorial to Edgar Allan Poe was unveiled on the fourth at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Edwin Booth delivering the presentation speech. Various political and military figures are noted in brief accompanying items.
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Society of the Army of the Potomac
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Colonial violence and suspected murder cases reach abroad
Preston the mulatto said to have burned Colon seized three steamers at Porto on the 6th and threatened more. A quarrel between Colombian soldiers and Panama canal laborers left 25 laborers dead in their barracks and 20 wounded. Maxwell, accused murderer of Praller in St Louis, reportedly arrested in Auckland New Zealand.
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Global Maritime Collision and Military Skirmishes Report
The chronicle notes the Lin Yun collision near Shanghai with seventy five drowned aboard the Lin Yun and the Orestes. British casualties numbered five. It also reports Graham’s rebel defeat at Tackhol with sixty rebels killed and cattle captured, while other lines speak of Indian uprisings, Afghan frontier talks, and evacuations in Sudan amid broader imperial tensions.
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New York
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India
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Mehdi
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Sennaar
Abu Haraz
Tur exchanges at leading clearing-houses week end report
The week ending shows nationwide exchange activity totaling 751 081 757 dollars, down from 704 237 432 the previous week and off 20.7 percent from the same period last year.
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Devastating Chicago lumber district fire destroys vast piles
A massive blaze in Chicago's lumber district along the south branch of the river swept yards of the Chicago Lumber Co Bigelow Brothers Adams Hastings Co and others. Winds fanned the flames as crews fought to contain it amid drifting embers and threats to nearby domains.
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Chicago Lumber Co
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Thirty-eighth Street
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Isaurel Street
Cabbage Garden
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Thirty-fifth Street
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Anton Stoke
Thirty-sixth Street
James McLaughlin
Thirty Seventh Street
Veterans of Potomac Rally Elect Grant Commander
Memnaloa of the Army of the Potomac meets in Baltimore to elect General Grant as commander by acclamation amid scenes of protest over inviting ex Confederates to the floor. A late reception honors his re election as officers are chosen and speeches and poems are read.
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Vandervoort
Grand Army of the Republic
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California
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Washington
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Richmond
Indians Routed in Battle with Otter's Column Near Poundmaker
Winnipeg dispatch reports Colonel Otter's forces routing Poundmaker's braves with over a hundred Indians killed. Otter followed toward Fort Pitt seeking Big Bear and prisoners, then fought from bush cover as Indians fired from reserve. News notes rising tensions, pillaging, and Middleton's march north awaiting battle.
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Medicine Hat
Mrs Gertrude Wouse Sacrifices Self Saving Boy
In Chicago on Center avenue a Polish widow Mrs Gertrude Wouse 53 died after jumping to shield a child from an approaching train. She was struck by the locomotive near the Chicago and Northwestern tracks and died at her home 266 North Center avenue from injuries.
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Treasury Count Nears Finish in Washington
Treasury Treasurer Jore dan reports the count nearly complete with all found satisfactory. Three silver dollars escaped from a broken silver vault package have been recovered, leaving only a two cent discrepancy from a five dollar pennies package in the cash room.
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