Ephemeral World Events From The Week In 19th Century News
A compact digest notes a wide range of occurrences on the 21st through 24th, including labor actions, court decisions, and natural disasters. Highlights include Chicago convicts awaiting labor-use reforms, a Knights of Labor boycott in San Francisco, arson arrests in Pickens County, a ship lost off Gloucester, a St Louis baseball win over Chicago, and weather and flood impacts across the South and Gulf Coast.
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Hugv Evans
William
Chicago
National Council of the
Ealical Lutheran Church
Chicage
Pickens County
Ale
Haven
Conn
Knights of Labor
San Ancisco
Armour & Co
Ching
J. F. Brainey
An Car Company
Glenceater
Mass
George L. Smith
Fires, deaths and loans dominate late 19th century news
The notice compiles disasters and crimes from across the country: a Boston to Augusta sailing misadventure with a ten man crew, an eighty five year old Granville Ohio woman burned, Farmington Missouri fire losses, a Leavenworth Kansas man arson death, New York exchange totals, a Sioux attack on Crow people in Montana, Philadelphia death fear case, a meteor over Atlanta, bookkeeper shortages in Indianapolis and Chicago, St. Louis Browns win baseball title, Great Barrington forest fires, Syracuse double murder, Washington gasoline explosion, a bear incident in Cleveland, Versailles fire, Alaska liquor rule, mints silver dollar output, Reading timber fires, Altoona train crash, Montreal diamonds shipment, a hanging in Mississippi, Eddy Stone workers strike, Bayside fires, Portland mackerel season poor, treasury balances, and a wide range of political and social notes.
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Gt St Louis
St Louis
Chicago
Ashevile N. C
Troy
N. Y
Knights of Jabor
Thaumaxi Employes Were Idle. —Tax Supreme Court of
Maine
Togus
Tax National Convention of Universal
Vna
Akron
Jas Tax Governayor Arizona
Gulf Coast
Plaquemine Ish
Louisiansa
Ourpateurs
New Iberia
White Cross Society
Eastern
Middle States
Pacific
Oxafarm
Shueyville
Martin Soukup
Blue Mountains
Berks
Schuylkill Counties
Treasury Department
Washington
Benton County
Ind
Fort Apache
Geronimo
Mangus
Greylock Mountain
North Adena
Mass
Pittsburgh
National Federation of Miners
United States and Territories
Knights of Labor
Charleston
Summerville
Columbia
Savannah
Wilmington
New Augusta
Atlanta
Chattanooga
Saucy McGrath
Price McGrath
Lexington
Want Davis
Watkins
Greece
Mobile
Ala
Cate
John W. Monson
NzoRo
Lafferty
Leavenworth
Kan
United States
Montana
Thomas Parentinz
Philadelphia
Bicklin Landers
Landers, Givin & Co
Indianapolis
William Holmgran
Shouds
Syracuse
P. W. Curran
Versailles
Alaskan
Reading
Altoona
Joan Bowes
Montreal
Rochester
James Haynes
Mary Jackson
Brownsville
Miss
Eddystone Paint-Works
Chester
Bayside
Portland
New England
Court clerk on duty intoxication triggers registration row
A court report notes clerk of election John T. Mullen cited for intoxication on registration day. Overseas appointments listed include consuls in Zanzibar Santos Tientsin and Tampico. Deaths feature veterans and officials, with party leaders and a major reef of obits, while international and domestic events span temperance resolutions and disasters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. Mullen
United States
Bath Pratt
Massachusetts
Zanzibar
C. R. Merrill
Alabama
Santos
William R. Greathouse
Louisiana
Tampico
Enoch 3. Smithers
Delaware
Tientsin
John T. Campbell
California
Tamatave
Leopold Moore
New York
Bull
Joan Has
Barrington
N.E
Bartholdi
M. Bartholdi
ML. da Lesseps
Geronimo
Fort Pickens
James W. Thomas
Tennessee
West Nashville
Walter Daniells
Buffalo
N. W
Court of Appeals
Robert West
Advance
Chicago
Connetta M. Stewart
Stewart
Lewis Buarster
Ely
Mason W Tappan
New Hampshire
Bradford
Tax
Minneapolis
Prohibition Party
Frances E. Willard
James Bell
J. J. Hunt
J. B. Angelb
Arkansas
D. D. Leach
Crime and disasters sweep across the nation in late news
Express car robbery on the San Francisco road nets 50000 after a forged officer signature lures the messenger who is later found bound and gagged. Cholera kills eleven in Austro-Hungary with thirteen new cases. Henry Peters may have been killed to hide names of murderers in a Sioux City case. Uganda massacre of native Christians reported with thirty two burnt alive. Train fracas in Indiana wounds several. two deaths and multiple injuries. Women’s suffrage and temperance meetings held in Winfield and Minneapolis. Cattle disease in Montgomery County Illinois reported. Congressional nominations listed for Republicans Democrats and Labor from New York districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Pacific
Austro-Hungary
Henry Peters
Haddock
Ethiopia
New York
St. John's
Anchoria
Uganda
Africa
Mwanga
Tipton
Ind
Cuantes E. Exner
Maldon
Mass
Cynthia Doering
Erie
Madison
Wis
Tue
Woman's Equal Suffrage Society
Winfield, Kaw
Susan B. Anthony
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Minneapolis
A. P Wagner
E. L. Fancher
T. A. Merriam
W. T. Rogers
Harvey Wick
Cunning thief robs Adams Express car on train No 8
An armed robbery on the Adams Express car attached to passenger train No 8 from St. Louis to Pacific Mo yields over $50,000 in cash. Messenger Fotheringham, 24, was bound and gagged by a man posing as a company official, who fled near Meremac after rifling the safe. Police describe the suspect as Cushmings, 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, dark hair, aged about 24, wearing a dark gray overcoat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams Express
Hilm
Louis
St. Louis
San Francisco
Pacific
Cushmings
Fotheringham
Cummings
Meremac
Moremac
Express
St. Genevieve
Adams Express Company
Damsel
The
Express Company
Postal Statistics Annual Report of Foreign Mails Service
The annual report by Hon. Nicholas M. Bell shows 87,002,893 letters sent abroad and 80,405,847 received in the last fiscal year. Newspapers sent were 47,040,004 with 26,700,050 received. sea transport cost $357,443, up from $331,003. Next year estimates total $505,000. The report compares global post offices, railway mileage, routes, and revenues, noting the United States leads in railway length and post-road statistics but runs a deficit in revenue versus expenses. Global mass matter exchanges total about 110,000,000 daily, with about 401,000,000 packages and articles of value moving worldwide, and money orders totaling $11,504,046.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foreign Mail Service
Washinotoy
Nicholas M. Bell
Foreign Mails
Sea Transportation Service
Postal Union
Switzerland
United States
Canada
Germany
Massacre of Uganda Christians Amid Ugandan Uprising Reported
Details from Lespos October 27 describe a brutal massacre of native Christians in Uganda ordered by King Mwanga. Dozens burned alive, torture and mutilation reported, with missionary appeals failing. UK interest noted as Bishop Hannington diary due for publication. In Pondoland ten thousand Pandas raid Xesibeland prompting volunteer forces. Britain faces Kafir-war risk as colonial borders shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wishop
Uganda
Pondoland
England
Lespos
Christiana
Africa
Mwanga
Hannington
London
Caretows
Xesibeland
Kraals
South Africa
Natal
Fingoland
Cape Colony
Carthcart
Gladstone One Object In Political Letter
Gladstone replies to a request to define Liberal policy by saying he will leave most political matters to others to focus on the Irish question. In New York a man named McKigney dies after a bar room attack by McGrath for declaring support for Henry George. In St Louis Maxwell and Chinese highbinders cases are continued to January 1, 1887 due to extensive testimony.
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Gladstone
Lowpox
Liberal Party
Henry George
New York
John McKigney
John McGrath
McGrath
McKigney
Maxwell
St. Louis
Epilepsy Cure Emerges From Brain Surgery at Brighton
London Times reports at a British Medical Association meeting in Brighton that Victor Horsley and team treated three epileptic patients by removing brain tissue. In one case a tumor was found at a specific site linked to left thumb movements, with all three shows of recovery though permanence is not yet guaranteed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Medical Association
Brighton
Victor Horsley
National Hospital For
Horsely
Mr. Horsley
Hitzig
Kerrier
National Hospital
Sell Butter and Cheese Promptly to Market
The National Live Stock Journal advises that butter and all farm produce lose value as soon as produced and should be sold as soon as market ready. Holding perishables risks depreciation and waste and is a poor strategy for dairymen. A separate brief notes a landlady in a Pennsylvania town seized a baby as security for rent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Live Stock Journal
Pennsylvania
Mino Frien
Moses
What She Bought A Thoughtful Shopper Explains Purchases
A humorous exchange portrays Mrs Flyaround detailing her afternoon shopping at Handmedown Co Imita tion Bro Temcentoff and Miss Quite in the fashion. Her husband quizzes her about her finds with a playful clash over prices and taste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flyaround
Handmedown & Co
Bro
George
Chicago News
Cheap wool coat sales spark baffling bargain talk
A crowd disputes a four dollar all wool claim as a vendor asks patience and cites wool value drop. Separately a Field and Farm note describes a milk toast dish for children and invalids, and a business note advertises thirty thousand envelopes in stock for wholesale or retail sale with or without printing.
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F. Ee
Gery Hepublicay
Equalday
Ee Geo. Bunt, Jr., Eprron. Re
Boston
Augusta
Charles Doty
Oliver Tromas
Granville
Apvices
Farmington
Moe
Richmond
W. H. Walters
A. P Fitch
John D. Long
Rhode Island
Heary J Spooner
Nathan N Dixon
A. J. Cummings
Thomas F Grady
Theodore Bacon
G. E. McLaughlin
Charles J. Randall
Iowa
E. ©. Palmer
New Jersey
Greenbackers
Newark
Erastus Potter
Josefh B. Cranke
Manchester
N. H
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Minn
E. F. O'Connor
Edward Einstein
Julia Ward Howe
Supremes Court of
George H. Tilden
Samuel J. Tilden
Canter H. Harrison
Edward Scull
Bayaud
Cox
Turkey
Newburgh
Jupor Prenpzaast
Wicklow
Ireland
2St
Truxillo
Central America
Canada Paper Company
Windsor
Kapno
Bohemia
Tune
Argentine Republic
Athens
Volo
Xerochid
Austro- Hungary
Thr
Porigeuz
France
Rotrancnitos & Co
Toronto
Ont
Postal Statistics
Ateree
Pat Eworkiur
East Liberty
Philadelphias
Baltimore
Henry Market
Tan
Timothy
Ore
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