Destructive flood hits Burning Springs and Morris town
A late report lists the steamer C. C. Martin sunk at Burning Springs and the Little Tygart ruined. Homes of Hestherington, Capt. Spencer, C. P. Cooper, and J. W. Smith demolished. Morris town near Tucker Creek wiped out by a midnight cloud burst with many killed, including Jake Kiger and family. A body found on Richardson farm is believed to be a Morristown victim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Martin
Burning Springs
Morristown
Jake Kiger
Joseph
Thomas
Bailey
Orville West
Richardson
Dam breaks flood Hocking Valley canal area
A historic storm broke Sharp's dam at Sager Grove on the Hocking Canal. A 26 mile stretch suffered severe washout with uprooted trees fences crops and livestock. No lives lost due to bluffside homes. canal ruined thousands of railroad feet carried away trains delayed for days. local losses run into hundreds of thousands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hocking Valley
Sharp
Sager Grove
Hocking Canal
Eviction of Sixty Families Clears Upper Flat Property
The Oppenheim syndicate based in St. Paul and New York completed wholesale eviction of squatters from the Upper Flat in St. Paul Minnesota. About 300 people displaced, living on levees with no shelter as engineers and police removed shanties within street lines. Women wept, men watched. property to be graded and put up for sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oppenheim Syndicate
St. Paul
New York
Minn
Engineers’ Department
Cook
Edgerton double murder suicide shocks town scene
In Edgerton Hiram Hoadley Jr killed his wife and her father Newman then shot himself after attempting to kill the mother-in-law. The dead include the wife and Newman in a barn incident as neighbors witnessed the tragedy. A separate explosion at a Glening mill killed several workers, with Deller and Beifiel among the injured and the unknown cause under investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgerton
Hiram Hoadley Jr
Newman
Hoadley
Entios Newman
Wae
Deller
Wok
Beifiel
Tragic drownings near Youngstown claim wife and two daughters
The drowned body of a woman in Yankee Run with two dead girls was found six miles north of Youngstown. The victim is identified as Mrs. William Gilchrist and her children, ages four, presumed to have been murdered and drowned after a family money disappearance. Gilchrist seeks answers in Sharon and Hubbard, suspecting loss of $550 due to bank transfer, and believes the mother’s distress led to the deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yankee Run
Youngstown
William Gilchrist
Hansel
Sharon
Flood deaths list grows as districts remote from aid
Specials from the flood district near Parkersburg report a growing death toll with names including Robert Black and several others. Morristown in Wirt county is said to have been swept away. Wood county officials plan an aid appeal as several communities face homelessness and crop losses amid the lime stone Mountain flood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkersburg
Robert Black
Black
Thomas Hughes
Chilren
Ed. Bose
Isaac Roberts
Mrrville West
John Bailey
Roy Kiger
Issiah Tucker
Morristown
Wirt County
Wood County
Limestone Mountain
Secret service trap fails as Dayton counterfeit scheme collapses
Secret Service disguises converged on Nelson Briggs and wife at the United States Hotel two miles from Dayton Colorado for a $21,000 counterfeit deal. Jim Guyon, sought by the government for nine years, fled after firing as officers closed in. Officer John Beil and eight detectives surrounded the hotel while Guyon hid in the woods. Donnelly was shot in the head but survived. Nelson Driggs and wife Mary Brown were arrested. $25,000 in bogus money was recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secret Service
Nelson Briggs
United States
Dayton, CO
Jim Guyon
Dayton
John 8. Beil
Guyon
Officer Donnelly
Virginia
Nelson Driggs
Mary Brown
Bell
Wisconsin Bride Murder Shocks Bad River Area
A 14 year old bride of Joseph Fuchs was murdered near Bad River Station Wisconsin. Fuchs about 40 years old killed her with a deadly weapon after leaving Glidden two weeks after their marriage. They were seen walking arm in arm before Fuchs threw her down an embankment and fled into the woods. The body bore seven throat stabs and multiple gashes from a violent struggle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bad River Station
Wisconsin
Joseph Fuchs
Glidden
Morse
Fuchs
Escape from County Jail Sparks Fatal Shootout in Cleveland
Two young criminals escaped from the County Jail at Cleveland. W. BR. Smith and Rich ard N. Mansfield led pursuers in a late night pursuit. A buggy exchange of gunfire left Deputy Sheriff Goldson fatally wounded, and a body found later in the buggy was initially thought to be Smith but was later identified as not Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
W. BR. Smith
Richard N. Mansfield
Goldson
Smith
General Jottings: Varied World News and Local Incidents
Bands of Cretan insurgents seize Vamco and Cidonia. Mt Union College students protest ban on dancing and six minute speeches. A German farmer in Neenan is held for poisoning two wives. London police seek genuine Jack the Ripper as new murders surface. A Pittsburgh shooting near a fishing camp shocks East End. Mississippi politics tied to prize fight prosecutions. Prohibition and anti-suffrage notes surface in a South Dakota constitutional draft. Numerous accidents, crimes, and maritime losses fill the roundup with deaths and legal actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vamco
Cidonia
Mt. Union College
Ohio
Neenan
Wis
Ferdinand Enaack
London
Jack the Ripper
Charles H. Scott
Stanton Avenue
East End
Pittsburgh
James Lehr
Confluence
Baltimore and Ohio
Pittsburg
Mississippi
Rich
Fire devastates Lu Chow amid massive losses and homelessness
Steamer Belgic arriving from Hong Kong and Yokohama reports Lu Chow fire destroying 87 000 houses. Over 1 200 burned to death and 400 others killed. About 170 000 left homeless and camping without shelter dying at about 100 daily. Authorities work to aid victims while Li Ching Fong and Chen Shu Yie are named among Belgic passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
Yokohama
San Francisco
Lu Chow
Li Ching Fong
Li Hung Chang
Chen Shu Yie
Cuba
Steamer Lorenzo D Baker Burned At Sea Rescue At New Bedford
The whaling schooner Franklin arrived at New Bedford bearing twenty seven aboard the Lorenzo D Baker after it burned off Port Antonio Jamaica on July 15. Twenty five were rescued by the Franklin on July 16. two firemen perished. Passengers included Mrs Elizabeth Sim of Dundee and Lorenzo Baker Jr of Wellfleet among others. Mrs Sim, traveling from Jamaica to Scotland, narrowly survived after a capsized lifeboat incident and later was saved by the Franklin crew with assistance from the mate’s efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
New Bedford
Mass
Lorenzo D. Baker
WylidPof
Baker
Port Antonio
Jamaica
Boston
Rose
Ralph Robinson
Hugh Wylie
Liverpool
England
Elizabeth Sim
Dundee
Scotland
Josiah Dillon
Iowa
Lorenzo E. Baker, Jr
Wellfleet
Jeremiah O'Callighan
Jeremiah
O'Callighan
Ernest B. Thyng
Lynn
Lawrence Jensen
Peter Saxfield
Sim
River men disrupt rail bridge channel clash at Steubenville
The Panhandle Railway fights to close the channel for bridge work. River coal boatmen pull piles, clearing the river briefly. Engineering crews erect an apron pier to block navigation until construction finishes, delaying but not stopping the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M-N
Panhandle
Steubenville
Secretary of War
Pension re rating probe ordered by Secretary Noble
Secretary Noble forms a committee led by Dr. George E. Wing H. L. Bruce and Judge Frank N. Campbell to investigate all pension re ratings by the pension bureau in the past year focusing on government service pensioners to determine any possible legal violations. Officials declined to state the committee's purposes when asked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noble
Pension Office
Tanner
George E. Wing
H. L. Bruce
Board of Pension Appeals
Frank N. Campbell
Attorney General's Office
Interior Department
Pension Bureau
Hhe Department
Lancaster Jim gang busted as arrests quiet oil country robberies
The wounding of James McCuen known as Lancaster Jim and the arrests of John Winters and Edward Hays in Titusville break up a long-running oil country gang of thieves. The group, drawn from Pittsburgh, terrorized the region with robbery and highway crimes. An officer wounded a gang member in Crab Grass and another officer in Meadville is recovering after shooting a gang member. Three suspects remain at large as the gang’s days appear numbered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James McCuen
Tlius
Lancaster Jim
Radle
Townville
John Winters
Edward Hays
Titusville
Hassan
Crab Gras
Babcock
Meadville
Drexel Morgan Co Buys 100000 Chesapeake and Ohio Shares
Drexel Morgan Co completed a deal to acquire 100000 shares of Chesapeake and Ohio Railway common stock from OC P Huntington, receiving a 2250000 dollar check. The firm had been quietly accumulating C and O shares, with about 490000 remaining, suggesting control of a large stake in a sweeping transmission of ownership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drexel, Morgan & Co
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
OC. P. Huntington
Drexel, Morgan’ S Co
Chewswake &Ohio
Race War Erupts in Bastrop Texas Killing Justice Wickes
In Bastrop County Texas a racial clash erupts after election gains for Black candidates. Constable Wilson confronts a White fisherman, leading to arrests and a 20 mile drive to Bastrop. A white citizen Litten is killed when Justice Wickes shoots. a riot ensues with multiple deaths including Peter Bell and two white men. Over 100 shots fired as whites and blacks clash. Wickes is killed and chaos spreads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bastrop
Texas
Cedar Creek
Orange Wickes
Isaac Wilson
Wilson
Colorado River
Aif
Litten
Justice Wickes
J. B. Fowler
Peter Bell
Alexander Nolan
George Schaeff
Constable Wilson
Houston Moore
Lynching at Sweetwater claims postmaster and wife
A telegram reports the lynching of Jim Averill, Sweetwater postmaster, and a woman partner who lived with him. Both were linked to cattle rustling rumors. Masked men seized them at their cabin, bound them, and shot both, marking the fifth hanging in the region since last spring. Also report Oklahoma land office friction over pre noon April 22 entrants and looming claims upheaval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweetwater
Jim Averill
Averill
Cartwell
OklaHoma
Land Office
Lana
Guthrie
Indian Territory
Labor coalition planned amid noisy paper money push
Siam advances in paper money by law as a broad labor coalition forms through secret circulars. Knights of Labor Federation of Labor and Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen are linked. Sullivan Kilrain fight tickets netted 22 000 dollars in New Orleans and more sales nationwide. Dr McDow, who killed Captain Dawson, was expelled from South Carolina. Virginia Prohibition Convention meets in Lynchburg nominating a full state ticket led by Thomas E Taylor of Loudon. Flood near Uvalde, Texas, destroys property and claims several lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siam
Knights of Labor
Federation of Labor
Brotherhood of Locomotive Tiremen
New Orleans
Queen and Crescent
Thomas E. Taylor
Loudon County
Uvalde
Texas
Mack
Batch of Appointments by President Names Roles
Fragmented notice lists appointments by the president to various positions. It references Wyoming and public memione. Names appear garbled and unreadable, with no clear dates or offices discernible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisea
Trade Review Notes Mixed Signals Amid Dull Season
B G Dun & Co reports a large business volume for the dull season with July clearing house gains around 3 percent in New York and 16 percent across major cities. Gold exports and trust concerns cloud the outlook. Windom says bond purchases are not cheap and monetary supply is ample. Rail and copper markets weaken. wheat and corn advance on damaged Dakota reports, while overall price levels edge down. Public failures rise to 203 this week from 209 last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Review of Trade
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Windom
Pittsburgh
Dakota
Crops show mixed prospects amid rains and heat
Farmers report rain disrupted wheat and oats, while dry hot weather is needed to advance corn. Potatoes look fair in Minnesota and Dakota, others above average. Corn prospects steady in Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota improving. Illinois and Indiana fair, Ohio and Kentucky weaker. Overall outlook mixed, with risk of disaster if cooling wet weather arrives. Manitoba lines projected to ship at least 32 million bushels of wheat according to A L Mohler and Chicago experts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Dakota
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Iowa
Wisconsin
Ohio
Kentucky
Illinois
Indiana
Ilinois
Michigan
Kangad
A. L. Mohler
Geeral
Manita
Manitoba
Chicago
Elf
Explosion at Park mill burns workers in Ridgeway Pa
A dust ignition caused a large fire at Eagle Valley Tannery Park mill Ridgeway Pennsylvania. The bark-mill engine-room and adjacent buildings burned 500 cords of oak bark. John Striker a 20 year old single man was killed. Andrew Striker, John Bargeson suspected fatally burned. George Smith and others reported injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park
Eagle Valley Tannery
W. H. Sustenhaut & Co
Ridgeway
John Striker
Andrew Striker
John Bargeson
John Westerline
Joan Fisher
George Smith
Off year for many states with scattered elections this year
In 1890 most states hold limited offices. Kentucky and Pennsylvania elect state treasurer and treasurers in Kentucky August 5 while November 5 sees elections for governor attorney general and other state officers in several states. New York Ohio Maryland New Jersey Virginia Sask a will elect judges and Regents, while South Dakota offers two representatives. The federal layer also shifts as legislatures select eight new U S senators with New York State’s chosen senator voting in 1891 to replace William Everti.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heyti
Beaver
Hippolyte
Legitime
Port Au Prince
Stevens
Harrisburg
Roberta
Pennsylvania Road
Reading Railroad
Mississippi
John M. Stone
Sullivan-Kilrain
Stone
John Westerline
John Fisher
Andrey Streicher
Ridgeway
John Burgesson
Europe
Financial Chronicle
United States
South Dakota
Milwaukee
Edward Roe
Cumberland Sound
Fla
Tommy
Agnes Williams
Columbus
Ohio
Joseph Farman
Lake Michigan
South Haven
Michigan
Fellows
New York
New Hampshire Senate
Sullivan
Kilra
Topeka
Kens
New Jersey
Navy Department
Angola
West Africa
Cronin
Clan-na-Gael
White River
Anderton
Indiana
Scott Todd
Charlie Hosier
Stephen Bilby
Ropf Bilby
Kentucky
Plo
Maryland
Pan Reginacts
Par
eSaska
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Congress
Cada Pole
Toe Seasie
New York State
William
Everti
Fragmented dialogue from a misread historical page
A garbled exchange shows characters like Mie Travis and Mim Whack discussing visits, stamps, and a mock sentence scene. The text includes scattered lines about a husband, a father, and a pretend prison term, suggesting a damaged excerpt from a broader narrative.
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Hermes
Kanewha Valley
W. Va
Kanawha
Little Kanawha Lumber Company
West Mill
Barringer
W.P. Padden
Tygart Bridge
Chesterville
Clay
Beazevoie
Paul
Gockel
Nancy Vieerns
Mientgelier
Ind
Vince
Torsad
Sesthesel
Bereelz
OX Charity
Monmouth County
N. J
Jos Frichamm
Carbon
Chyenna
W.T
Wm. Milton
Friedman
Cance
Miller
Franklin, Ky
George Harris
Sam Bryant
Harris
Bryant
Bryan
Fairbush
Somerset
William Baugh
Green Flynn
Flynn
Baugh
Dre. Warren
Perkins
Colorado
Mazon Machan
Sorel
China
Pension Bureau Inquiry
Aimemands
Wun A Nee
Wyoming
Nebalvars
Memione
Rabel
Tmz Nicamsous Camaz
Gua Canal
Panama
Nicaragua
Costa Rice
Ricasaguene
Coste Ricens
Nemadioin
I Jack the Ripper
Tae Lompo
Fensey Max
Greta
Genie
Jack the Exp
Whitechapel
Gabe
Brary
St Wenkington
Ishington
Concord
Commercial
Noha
Salsky
New Y
Owen
Jaeeanen Hay
Gatela
Fate
Swed
Samuel Pook
Atlanta
Smith—Jones
Gissen
Jones
Pamby
Pambsy
Lord Danraven
Danraven
Prisemer
Mie
Travis
Darling
Hia
Bart
Sita
Gotham
Gores
Lom
Miss Lom
Cincinnati
Papa
Howe
Declan
Grignhy
Guilealy Canyon
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