The Diver's Story of Simon Weaver and Sumter Escort
The account recalls diver Simon Weaver detailing his perilous underwater mission during Civil War times off Charleston. He describes guiding a rescue under fire to free a tangled propeller on the Sumter monitor, the armor protected ascent, a near-death explosion, and a miraculous escape aided by loyal crew while the ship moved toward the fleet.
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Simon Weaver
Stephen L
Weaver
Charleston
Sumter
Fort Sumter
Monitor
Heroic Chase Ends Freight Car Disaster Near Cassville
A Richfield correspondent recounts a near catastrophe as four loaded freight cars uncoupled on a 5ft per mile grade and rolled toward Utica. Engineer Ferrel and his crew pursued the runaway, using a dray-bar and coupling-pin to reattach the draw-bar, rescuing a passenger train a few hundred feet ahead. The crew’s quick actions saved lives and are hailed as heroic.
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Richfield
New York
Cassville
Utica
Ferrel
Chloroform test unmasks feigned paralysis at hospital
Dr Goldsmith recalls a case in Jefferson Hospital where a man with a rigid bent arm fooled physicians. After nurses failed to straighten it and alcohol failed to help, chloroform released the limp and exposed the ruse, prompting the doctor to send him back to his regiment. A separate Chicago note reports widespread suffering among women after a fire, including five hundred births in four days and a North Side tragedy where a mother perished with her newborn.
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Goldsmith
Rutland
Vermont
Jefferson Hospital
Chicago
Lincoln Park
Polling in ruins as Chicago voting continues locally
In Chicago, polling places remained in pre fire locations with temporary restrictions. Despite uninhabited outer districts, former residents returned to vote amid the ruins. A Fenian oath found on a prisoner vows to strive for Ireland's national independence and allegiance to leaders of Irish groups.
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Chicago
Ireland
ILR
Life Beneath the Surface of Coal Mines
An eyewitness describes the coal mine as a maze of passages and chambers with mules hauling cars, miners at work by dim lamps, and dangerous air currents. It contrasts cheerful, well paid underground life with perilous, cramped sections where explosions, foul air, and flooding threaten workers’ lives.
The Labor Question Unions Move Toward a Global Strike
European workers advance plans for a winter Berlin congress to organize a general strike and wage increase as a mass labor movement grows. Wendell Phillips denounces capital on labor’s side in Boston lectures. Thomas Brassey proposes three eight hour shifts per day as the English employment system.
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Trades’ Union
United States
Europe
England
Belgium
France
Holland
Germany
Berlin
Wendell Phillips
Boston
Phillips
Thoms Brassey
Fisz In Jarsy Mr Brooks Reports Japan Fish Diet
Mr Brooks writes from Japan that national food is fish and that no ocean or river creature is spared. Japs eat sharks and the uglier the fish the more appetizing it seems. Many fish are alive when bought and sold in water tubs and bamboo tanks on junks. Fishing crowds the market with wriggling, squirming catches. A festival tradition marks families with a painted fish to celebrate newborns.
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Fisz
Jarsy
Mr. Brooks
Japan
Bey
Anne
A Tragedian’s Little Joke on a Tollgate Prank
Charles Young, famed tragedian, plays a public prank at a toll gate on the way to Cashiobury. He asks the toll taker if a ticket issued at the gate lets him pass without paying. The toll keeper confirms, prompting a torrent of oaths as Young rides away in a tilbury amid astonished Mathews and onlookers.
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Charles Young
Charles Matthews
Srs
Cashiobury
Earl of Essex
Lommy
Tommy
Young
Tilbury
Mathews
Younes
Immunity The Skin May Acquire From Repeated Poisons
At a Boston Medical Society meeting reported in the Medical and Surgical Journal, debate centered on skin protection against animal poisons after repeated exposure. A speaker cited mosquito bites as more severe in children and new foreigners, noting a English family with a blistering eruption. He compared possible immunity to variola vaccine, but others argued snakes are not immune to their own venom while insects may lack such immunity. A second participant cited black fly regions where long residence yields reduced effects, though not seen in a single season.
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Boston Society of Medical Sciences
Medical and Surgical Journal
England
Tae Cainese Massacre and Harboring of Lynching Suspects
From further advices on the Los Angeles Chinese massacre, most lynched were innocent, and many guilty escaped during the riot. Yo Hing, shooter of Officer Bilderrain, is jailed, with two Americans held for trunk robbery and diamond theft from a Chinese doctor. Others are under police shadow. Om Wutts notes oil well stoppage from paraffin buildup, new burning method proposed. The Surrenres report Hartford relief acknowledges Chicago losses dwarfed by northern fires, many families still dependent on public aid until harvest.
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Tae Cainese
Los Angeles
Yo Hing
Bilderrain
China House
E. B. French
Relief Committee
Hartford
Wis
Chicago
The Green Mountain Grocer and the Butter Heist
In Vermont a winter hoax ends with a thief named Seth trapped by a humorous grocer. The storekeeper lures Seth into a warm seat, serves hot toddy, and gradually drenches him in melted butter as a playful punishment for stealing a pound of butter. Seth finally exits amid quips about payment for the butter.
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Green Mountain
Ian
Tsay
Seth
Santa Cruz
Agriculture Report Notes Drought Slows Ripening and Yields
The Department of Agriculture October report cites drought and low September temperatures delaying ripening of fruits and maturation of corn and other crops. No widespread Corn damage. much of the crop was advanced by August heat before frost. Wheat output about seven percent below last year, oats similar to last year, barley quality medium with near average quantity, buckwheat poor across most sections.
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Department of Agriculture
Kentucky
Iowa
Nebraska
New York baggage tax hits record on last year
Forty thousand dollars was collected on passengers baggage in New York, a record for a single year. Officials say smuggling would run rampant without inspectors, with nine of ten owners likely to cheat the government. Ruth is arrested in Lawrence Kansas for complicity in poisoning her husband. Dr Medlicot and Seymour Voulaire, a St. Louis lawyer, are connected in the matter.
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esTrEp
Ruth
Lawrence
Kan
Medlicot
Seymour Voulaire
St. Louis
Roth
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