News of the Week Telegraph and Mail Highlights
A digest of domestic items reports William Winter and wife of Point Pleasant W Va losing two young children to a house fire after returning home. Also noted are a damaging Lake Michigan gale, a lynching aftermath in Johnston SC, circus tents leveled in Titusville Pa causing injuries, a photographer scandal in Wezel County WV, and various western incidents including prairie fires and severe winter weather impacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Winter
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Lake Michigan
Pointe
Johnston
Jett
Titusville
John Guapin
Pennsylvania
Wezel
Effie Moore
Tew
Hearne
Tex
John Mehan
Peter Folk
Joseph Heamper
John Forsythe
Franklin
Houtegdalg
North Dakota
Catskill
N. Y
East Aurora
Erie County
Louris
Georgia
Kentucky
Frankfort
New England
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Eldorado
Kaw
GoLpaxira Marn
Fashion Stud Farm
Trenton
MN. J
Dakotas
Thomas Garrity
Pawtucket
R. I
Mansfeld
Huff
Chicago
B. Flinn & Co
Gardner Company
Witesburgh
Political clashes and memorials in 19th century news
The text notes calls by Milper coinagenist for tariff revision and opposition to labor contracts and Sunday laws, plus distaste for sumptuary bills. It reports 12 000 Allegheny City schoolchildren memorializing General Grant on the 28th, and the death of Meses Marrex Ellan in a Poughkeepsie poorhouse at age 108, a German immigrant arriving seventy years earlier. It also mentions Republicans in the Nineteenth Pennsylvania District nominating John Balun for Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milper
Allegheny City
Grant
Meses MaRrex ElLan
Poughkeepsis
Germany
Pennsylvania
John Balun
Wrecks and Disasters In Global News Briefs
Wreck of the American bark Cashmere reported in Japanese waters with some crew saved. A wrecking crew from St Johns drowned off the Dominion coast during a gale. Major concert disaster in Stockholm where seventeen died following Christine Nilsson’s performance. Turkish Roumelian skirmish on Mantza River. Macedonia unrest and 24,000 Christians affected in Anam outbreaks. Balloon tests in Paris succeed. Felton Switzerland suffered a disastrous fire destroying sixty houses. A large red meteoric ball appeared over Conception Bay. Heavy rains in Mexico disrupt rail travel and mail. Montreal records 33 smallpox deaths. Indiana rebels to be hanged at Battleford. Prince Alexander of Bulgaria offers abdication pending Czar choice. Russian tensions rise. Sultan appoints new ministry. Cholera cases surge in Spain with 742 new cases and 440 deaths. Calcutta cyclone causes shipwrecks and many drownings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apvices
St. Johns
Dominion
Christine Nilsson
Stockholm
Mme. Nilsson
Grand Hotel
Mantza
Macedonia
Anam
Paris
Benard
Crebs
Felton
Switzerland
Conception Bay
Newfoundland
Mexico
United States
Montreal
Battleford
Manitoba
Indiana
Riel
Alexander
Bulgaria
Roumelia
Russia
Ekfanul Pashas
Spain
Calcutta
Various 1889 notes from Europe and America
Military guard at General Grant's tomb extended to January 1, 1880. guard at Garfield's tomb removed. Cork votes to curb Irish boycotts. Four drown in Snake River while removing rock near Portland. A four year old killed by a bulldog in Xenia Ohio. Earthquake felt in Chartiers Valley near Pittsburgh. Prairie fire near Traverse, C T destroys homes and crops. 602 new cholera cases and 217 deaths in Spain. Palermo reports 106 cases and 74 deaths. New York Democrats decline nomination for Lieutenant-Governor. New York Court dismisses attempt to remove Civil Service Commissioners. Clearing-house weekly exchanges total $631.8 million, up 1.6 percent vs 1881. Beattle, W T citizens urge strict Chinese restrictions. Papal arbitration possible if US-China talks fail. Apaches ambush trio. one killed, boy wounded, woman captured. In Cananea Mountains clash seven Apaches killed. 35 captured including women and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Grant
Riverside
Garfield
Cleveland
County Cork
Ireland
Snake River
Portland
Ore
Mnrar Xenia, O
Chartiers
Pittsburgh
Traverse
C. T
Spain
Palermo
Rosweru P. Fuower
Democrats
New York
Jupar Wallace
United States Circuit Court
James A. Hinckley
Civil Service
United States
Clrizens
Beattle
W. T
Carolinas
Sonora
Cananea Mountains
Bankers' convention debates silver coinage in Chicago
The American Bankers Association assembled in Haverly's Minstrel Theater Chicago with President Lyman J Gage presiding. He urged credit as vital to progress while warning against silver coinage and the Bland Act, calling for immediate repeal and a push for international agreement on gold and silver. Leaders aired resolutions endorsing suspension of silver coinage and broader extradition treaty refinements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curexco
American Bankers’ Association
Haverly
Lyman
J. Gage
First National Bank
Arthur F. Swazy
Gage
United States
W. Trenholm
Charleston
Congress
Hague
Montreal
Canada
London
Agana
Bankers’‘Convention
Flannigan
Executive Council
C. D. Bevington
Wintersett Ja
Pha
Bevington
Rhawn
Pennsylvania
Joseph Patterson
Philadelphia
L. Murray
New York
L. J. Gage
Chicago
Edward 8. Butts
Vicksburg
Miss
George F. Baker
George Marsland
Johnson
Alabama
Patterson
H. H. Camp
McMichaels
W. B. Willams
Newark
N. J
Great Britain
Germany
Austria
C. Bonney
Charlotte
Edward & Lacy
Colmto
Death of Goldsmith Maid marks end of era on brace track
Goldsmith Maid died at Fashion Stud Farm near Trenton at age twenty eight years four months after a sudden illness. Foaled 1867 she began racing publicly in 1865 and only later driven harness. Bred in fashionable lines she roamed in New York before Jersey Bill sold her to Alden Goldsmith. Her career included a 2 6 record and a peak 2 14 39. She earned about 240000 from 132 races with 92 wins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
Fashion Stud
Trenton
Goldsmith Maid
Pela
Alexander
Abdallah
Orange County
N. Y
Jersey Bill
Alden Goldsmith
Washingtonville
Barness
Goedon
Henry N. Smith
Toledo
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Henry Republican
SRAPH
Italide
Kerk Excelsior
Marseilles
Warm Springs
N. C
Perons
Wen
Yale University
Maniker Gm
Bridgeton
Bradstreet
York Haven
Middle States
Wester
Southern
Pacific States
New York State
Saratoga Springs
Ira Avenport
Steuben County
Joseph B. Carr
Anson B., Wood
James W. Wadsworth
Charles ¥. Ulrich
Edward B. Thomas
William P. van Rensselear
Mills
Lyman J. Gage
Boston
Warren Higley
American Forester Congress
Lyxon J. Gage
George Raines
David B. Hill
Tax Republicans
Maryland
Baltimore
Francis Miller
William M. Marine
Court of Appeals
Colorado
Denver
Samuel H. Elbert
Supreme Court
Georcx Winxes
Illes
Spirit of the Times
David B. ‘Hill
Roswall “P.'Flowers
Alfred’ C. Chapin
J. Fitzgerald
Frederick Cook
Denis O’brien
Elnathan Bweet
Trotter
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