Various National News Briefs Chronicle Deaths and Disasters
A wide array of late nineteenth century items reporting deaths from accidents and illness, fires, and collapses. mining accidents in Leadville and other locales. urban fires in Newport Arkansas. drownings and structural failures on railways. weather and health issues. political returns in California, New York, Connecticut and Kansas. canal season closings. and legislative updates, including railroad land grants and Indian affairs.
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California
Hancock
Tersonaire
Henry Edgerton
T. C. Massume
Supreme Court
Waine Vite Bpollord
Connecticut
Ives
New York
Weyer
Dow
Salving
Alabama
James L. Pugh
United States
Houston
Kansas
Garfield
Wolver
Minnesota Counties Report Official Returns For Garfield Victory
Official returns from all Minnesota counties show Garfield with a 60 073 majority. Rhode Island results list Gerald 138105 Hanegels 10778 Wenvar 283 Dow 0.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garfield
Rhods Island
Gerlild
Hanegels
Wenvar
Dow
International and domestic news wrap from distant posts
Reported arms sales by Triadmen in Switzerland and Brour rHovusanp rifics shipments to Ireland. Colliery disaster in Stellar ton leaves fifty dead, thirty three widows and one hundred ten orphans. seven hundred workers unemployed. Various international updates include executions in St Petersburg, Columbus monument appeal, papal appointments, a schooner sinking off Liberia, and unrest across Ireland, India, and Scotland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
United States
Switzerland
Stellarton
Canada
Bealdes
St. Petersburg
San Domingo
Cardinal Jacobin
Abraham Lincoln
Liberia
Duan
County Cork
Ourmah
Cashmere
India
Lonpoy
Parnell
Halifax
Scotland
Sugar crop and census notes from the period
A late telegram from New Orleans estimates the Louisiana sugar crop at 237 000 hogsheads, with a molasses yield up by 810 000 gallons from 1872 levels. Garfield leads in Oregon with a 763 vote margin. nationwide results show Wisconsin and Massachusetts totals. A Chin ese immigration treaty text was not released yet, and unions in Tennessee and Ohio mark political and legal events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Lowndry
New Orleans
Oregon
Garfield
Wane
Thdfanepolis
Williams
Brown
Chicago Grain and Provision Exchange
Chatanooga
Tenn
Hart
Wisconsin
Hangock
Weaver
Phelps
Dow
Garedd
Tha Loths
Department of State
Washington
United States ‘Commissioners
Government of
China
Evatts
State Department
Massachusetts
Hancock
Garvixio
Thomas Garfield
Warrensville
Ohio
J. Urarr Sarr
Congresadlec
Justin D. Fulton
Theodore Cuyler
Brooklyn
N. Y
President Wayes
Whittaker
Dead letters reveal odd misdirections and strange superscriptions
The article recounts cases from the Dead Letter Office where letters lacked destinations or were signed with only names such as George or Chauncey. It notes search efforts, recoveries of funds, and humorous or peculiar superscriptions asking postmasters to deliver to specific people, sometimes with vague descriptions.
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Ray Bora
Suan Bothist
Deponttéa
George
Totel
Astor House
New York
Chauncey
Europe
Mary
Bob
Crop Report Shows Mixed U S Crops And Drought Effects
The Department of Agriculture releases a statement on corn tobacco and potato crops. Corn up overall with regional gains in Atlantic and Ohio Valley but declines in Indiana Iowa and Maryland Virginia show drought and excess rain impacts. Texas leads in tobacco and potato yields, while overall yields per acre are down from 1879 and insect injuries are not widespread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Atlantic States
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Gulf States
Texas
Ohio River
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Linnola
Miasseatop River
Lown
Maryland
Wisconsin
Arkansas
Crufurnia
Memory prodigy and terrier feisty encounter at river
A 27 year old man at the Mediaosurgical Academy of St Petersburg demonstrated superb memory and rapid mental arithmetic after a decline in other faculties. He recited poetry and solved five and six digit calculations in seconds. In a separate item a terrier at Water Works attacked an escaped alligator, pulling it by the tail and forcing it toward the dog’s keeper until guards intervened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mediao-surgical Academy
St. Petersburg
Merjovaky
Hamiton
Siadligater
Oldest Negro in Virginia Dies Near Guilford in Loudoun County
The elderly Clem Lee, once a trusted enslaved servant of the Lee family, died at his relatives’ home near Guilford, Virginia, aged nearly 121. He was manumitted but could not live freely in Virginia, and later served the Lee heirs in Pennsylvania before Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Additional notes mention a $10 000 bequest to Harvard Divinity School for ministerial students and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln receiving a federal pension of 3000 annually.
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Canada
Virginia
Guilford
Loudoun County
Clemy
Lee
Loudqua County
Clem
Freedom Ss
Pennsylvania
Matthew P. Lee
Leo
Lincoln
Harvard Divinity School
RB. P. Johnston
Busan Connelly
Johnston
Vandalia
Tor
Sherman Urges Army Reforms and Expanded Personnel
General Sherman submits a broad plan to the Secretary of War urging Congress to add 25,000 enlisted men and special detachments for various corps to support a leaner post system. He calls for abandoning small posts near rail hubs, fortifying major ports, and reallocating funds for defense and modernization while defending West Point’s racial integration and constitutional equality.
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Ate Recesal
Seer
Apnuali
Sherman
Secretary of War
Ion
Sheridan
Congress
West Point
Ectc
Signal Corps
Smith
Treasury
Northern Pacific
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Oficers
Portland
Boston
Newport
New York
Philadelphia
Hampton Roads
Port Royal
Key West
Pensacula
New Orleans
San Diego
Schofield
Getty
Fortress Monroe
Genera Sherman
United States
Washington
Whittaker
Corps of Cadets
House of Representatives
Ninth
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Navy
Interstate Agricultural Convention to Meet in Springfield
An Illinois interstate agricultural convention set for three days in November 90 will discuss standardizing crop fruit and meat supply reports across major producing counties. The event aims to adopt a uniform reporting system for state producers with Ohio like scope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Bates
Rock Island Stough
T. B. Wrooxon
Lincoln
Charlie Schultz
Fire at St Peter Asylum Kills and Wounds Inmates
A Minnesota report from St Peter details a massive blaze at the asylum injuring and possibly killing dozens of demented patients. Officials estimate up to twenty to fifty dead with $300,000 in losses as inmates flee or perish in freezing conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asvina
St. Peter, Mine
Br Padl
Minn
Rochester
St. Peter
James
Jaddera
Bartlett
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Rennn Feepublican
Burt
Keres
Fork City
New York City
Josera McCouxer
Leadville
Alex. McHardy
Ark
Schurz
Northern Pacific Railway
Wilmington
Del
Eri Canal
the &d
American Humane Society
St. Joseph Medical College
Carrain Young
Narragansett
Norwich
Conn
Stonington
Treasury Department
Little Rock
Lead City
Cal
Union
Pateraburg
Racine
Wis
Chicago
Cleveland
Pacific Roads
Inter Cats
Aub
General Grant
San Francisco
Minnesota
Golkartioy Pillahuty
Offore
Life Private
Ohio Shire Board
Tim Allendanes
Jom Brurepor
North Adams
Mass
Waa
Adama
Shyteldi
St Louis
Nowe Canoutsa
NEWA
Crop Report
Federe
Eve
Illinois State News
Cumberland
Jefferson
Wayne
Cullom
Prombull
Birecter
Red Bluff
Elizabeth Green
Manchester
Bolton
Enland
Adams
Alexander
Toone
Ssee
Econ
Serereony
Calhoun
Carroll
Christian Chan Prin
Clark
Wees
Clinton Bea
Coles
Cooks
Crawford
de Kalb
de Witt
Douglas
du Page
Edgar
Edwards
Fayette
Fulton
Gallatin
Grundy
Hillmilton
Hardin
Henderson
Jackson
Je Orson
Jo Daviess
Johnson
Kinkakeee
Kendall
Knox
Lake
la Salle Weeny
Lawrence
Livingston Ata
Macon
Marcoupin
Madison
Marion
Marshall
Mason
Munsne
M McDonough Ous
McHenry McLean
Menard
Marcer
Monroe
Montgomery
Morygun
Moultrie
Peoria
Scott
Schuylee
Stephenson
OL Taewell
Uoten
Eh Verein Tisdeen
Wabash R
Warren
Wayne Ve
Williamson
Winniebigo
GaMretta
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