Victorian gossip and humorous notes from The Gazette
A collage of UK and US figures and anecdotes. Queen Victoria is praised for elevating editors to baronial rank while a shoemaker recalls humble origins. Oddities include Arssene Sade’s white hat from Broadway triumphs, Dr Tanner’s election fights, Oscar Winner’s America tour, and a veteran horse Ethan Allen. 1892 milestones are noted, Marion Terhune at Sunny Branch, and Beatrix-style whimsy on poets, animals, and aged politicians with Vermont imagery.
Jury Rejects Austrian Naturalization Claim in Court Notice
A New York superior court judge dismissed a naturalization application after questioning the applicant about what he would fight for in a war between Austria and the United States, ordering the man to go back. The report also covers scientific claims about life’s duration, the Columbiana exhibit at a world’s fair, and demographic notes on London’s population growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juporn Greenten
Superior Court of
New York
Austria
United States
Baron Roger de Seilliere and the burden of crime
New York reports a singular life ended by scarlet fever that left Baron Roger de Seilliere deaf and mute. Born to a wealthy Parisian father, he traveled endlessly with 10 000 francs yearly, a refined beauty and intellect undimmed by illness. The article notes heredity of criminal propensities in families, citing Walter Daly, eight, sent to a juvenile institution after his mother’s complaints of theft amid a family with multiple inmates and thieves in the kinship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Baron Roger de Seilliere
New York
Walter Daly
Alarming cholera fears drive Harrison to seek immigration limits
Alarming cholera reports trigger President Harrison to abandon a New York state tour and rush to Washington to discuss calling an extra session of Congress to enact a COVID style quarantine and bar immigrants from cholera districts. Treasury data show August debt and cash shifts, while canal tolls, trade, and disaster notes fill a chaotic Federal snapshot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison
New York State
Washington
Congress
Treasury
United States
Treasury Department
Ist
Tur
United Empire
Sault Ste. Marie
Foster
Various 1889 News Items From Warmer Times
Secretary Lovejoy declares 108 informations sworn out against Homestead locked out men for murder riot and conspiracy. Railway deaths in Whitehall New Jersey and Burlington Vermont. Brooklyn refinery loss 125000. Prohibitionists in Hartford nominate Edwin P. Rogers for governor. George William Curtis dies at 68 in Staten Island. Cholera deaths aboard Moravia and wreck in New Hamburg. East Pepperel fatal wife and husband deaths. Mrs McGuffey dies at 100 in Sharon. Bangor Maine railroad speed record and Jersey City election fraud sentencing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lovejoy
Carnegie Steel Company
Homestead
Hugh O'Donnell
Whitehall
N.J
Lewis Richard
Andrew Rule
Shinn
Vine
John A. Casey
Brooklyn
N. Y
Grouse Brown
James Crossett
Montpelier
Burlington
Nelson
Bangor
Hartford
Edwin P. Rogers
George William Curtis
Harper's Weekly
Livingston
Staten Island
New York
Hamburg
Trudson River
New Hamburg
East Pepperel
Mass
William Lively
Granpe Vernon
Bordentown
N. J
Jersey City
Switecutmen Strike After Demanded Additions
East St Louis workers quit over a demand for an extra man per crew. Replacements were non union. Wisconsin convention in Lincoln nominated J Sterling Morton for governor with a platform opposing prohibition and backing direct senatorial election and district based electors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Line
East St. Louis
Tur
Nebraska
Lincoln
J. Sterling Morton
United States
Joan Howarp
Chicago
Seattle
Wash
Wisconsin
Peck
Milwaukee
Lake Superior
Bayfield
Wis
Fred Conlee
Fred Masher
Ira Richardson
Charles Thorn
John 8
Frazier
Chautauqua County
Kan
Farmers’ Alliance
Harvard
William H. Wethington
Jackson
Mich
Deadwood
Ss. D
James Vaughn
John Campbell
Nancy Hansa
Independence
Not Guilty In Duel Case Of Marquis de Mores
Paris jury frees Marquis de Mores who killed Capt Mayer in a sword duel. Seconds cleared. News also notes Loevenhahn fire death toll and cholera rise in the Russian empire. Hamburg and London report cases and deaths. Miner explosion in Mons kills twenty five. Nett Woodward sinks near Southampton with three drowned. Rivera dies in Monterey at age 152. German authorities bar Russian emigrants from passing through Germany.
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Paris
Marquis de Mores
Mayer
Loevenhahn
Raab
Hungary
Russian Empire
Hamburg
Germany
London
Mons
Belgium
Nett Woodward
Southampton
Ont
Marcarer Rivera
Monterey
Mexico
Cholera ships from Hamburg quarantined in New York
Reports chronicle nine cases and five deaths on the Normannia and nine cases and four deaths on the Bugia, with six more deaths as quarantine is imposed. Other items note a fire destroying Misd-Ziola in Russia housing 14,000 homeless, births and deaths of notable individuals, strikes and violence, political nominations, and widespread European cholera tolls and league baseball percentages.
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New York
Hamburg
Normannia
Bugia
Misd-Ziola
Russia
Tey Dineen
Yankton
S. D
Con. E. P. C. Lewis
Portugal
Hoboken
N. J
Marirna Harpenshte
Frostburg
Homestead
Maple
Wink
Berwick, Sherwood & Co
Detroit
George Willis
Center Lisle
N. Y
Wallace Oliver
Tur
Minnesota
A. R. Keifer
Michigan
FE. S
Greece
Europe
C. H. Dodd
Portland
Ore
Via Taverna
Naples
Honduras
Nuilla
Iriona
Wales
Cleveland
Boston
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Chicago
Louisville
St. Lous
Baltimore
Washington
Quarantine Rules Ordered as Cholera Threat Grows
President Harrison orders twenty day quarantine for all immigrant ships as officials push strict measures to shield the United States from cholera. The plan aims to detain vessels at safe points, with experts noting the virility period and the need for rapid action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison
Vasihington
United States
Treasury Department
United States Marine Hospital Service
Washington
Marine Hospitervice
Russia
Germany
Pranvend
Great Britain
Tndt
Walter Wyman
Charles Poster
Treasury
Benjamin Harmisson
Loon Lake
Ophir Farm
Whitelaw Reid
New York
White House
Miller
Foster
Spalding
Wyman
Marine Hospital Service
Congress
Ground broken for Chicago drainage canal project near Chicago
The ceremony marks the formal start of the waterway linking the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. President Frank Wenter led the shovel turnout as blasts and earth thrown skyward signaled the initial excavation. The Desplaines valley plan, rooted in 19th century studies and Roche commission work, envisions a 160 foot wide, 18 foot deep main channel from the Chicago river to Lockport with expandable earth portions to serve growing populations.
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Big Ditch
Chicago
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
Will
Cook Counties
Chicago Divide
Frank Wenter
Board of Trustees
The
Sanitary District of
Cook County
Ilinois Valley
Wenter
Albert Gallatin
Treasury
United States
DeWitt Clineton
Illinois
Thirty-fifth General Assembly
Ilinois
Roche
John A. Roche
B. A. Eckhart
Thomas H. Riley
Joliet
A. J. Bell
Peoria
John A. Wilson
L. E. Cooley
Citizens’ Association
Union League Club
Board of Trade
Chicago Club
Commercial Club
Real Estate Board
Iroquois Club
Desplaines
Chicago River
Lockport
Prendergast
Tuthill
McConnell
Willow Springs
Willow Springsworth
Italy's Gift Columbus Statue Arrives for New York
The Italian transport Garigliano arrives at quarantine with the Columbus statue gift to New York. The 76 foot monument includes a 14 foot statue on a 27 foot red granite column atop a pedestal and will be erected in Central Park. Chevalier Ruggero commands the Garigliano aboard Maulio Garibaldi, youngest son of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Great Italian resident preparations mark the reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Garigliano
Columbus
Chevalier
Ruggero
Oen
Maulio Garibaldi
Royal Italian Marine
Guiseppe Garibaldi
Central Park
Iron Hall Accounts Padlocked in Bank Hearings
Sensational developments emerged at the hear ing on ousting A Stockwell as assignee of Mutual Banking Surety Trust and Safe Deposit and the receiver appointment. Witnesses testified that Tron Hall accounts were padded by false entries in 1891 1902 involving sums well above 100 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
A. Stockwell
Mutual Banking, Surety, Trust and Safe Deposit Company
Tron Hall
Snake Attack Claims Two in Maryland Swamp
In Frostburg Maryland a mother Martha Hardcastle and her 18 year old daughter died after a copperhead bite in a swamp while gathering berries. The two were bitten when the snake struck the mother and then the daughter while trying to help. The tragedy is reported from Baltimore Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Baltimore
Frostburg
Martha Hardcastle
Hardcastle
Great Fire Leaves 14000 Homeless in Misd Ziola City
A massive blaze in Misd Ziola Wilna wipes out the wooden city center. Fourteen thousand residents are left homeless and without means of support. Authorities fear disease and severe hardship as people face desperate living conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misd-Ziola
Perensnure
Wilna
Cholera at the Helm on quarantined steamers
New York reports nine cholera cases and six deaths aboard the Normannia Rugia and Moravia after arrival from Hamburg. Passengers faced confinement, cremation of bodies at Swinburne island, and growing panic. Doctors Byron and Abbot relocate to Swinburne to study the outbreak as quarantine expands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Oecar
Normannia
Rugia
Hamburg
Dr. Jenkins
Moravia
Lower Bay
Allen
Swinburne Island
Byron
Jenkins
Senator McPherson
New Jersey
Louis John M. Byron
Frank Abbott
Hendricks
Secretary of the Treasury
Humorous Exchanges and Rustic Vignettes Young and Old
Snappy quips from contemporary papers feature playful banter about teeth and dentists. A man recalls a cherished watch, while a wife teases her husband’s beard. A sharp rebuke turns to hope as a woman comments on faith in love. Miss EastAke tends chickens in a quiet English village.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jess
George
Ethel
Bess
N. Y
Indianapolis Journal
Miss Eastake
Tan man and the gate speaks on others prosperity
A fragmentary wart of old papers notes a tan man with a hinges gate who talks at length about why someone else fails to prosper. The Philadelphia Record cites a fat man in the Neck age forty who is tight with money and reluctant to share.
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Turee
Philadelphia
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the Gazette
Illinots
Queen Victoria
Joan Gherxear Wuirrixrn
Arssene Sade
Broadway
Tanner
County
Galway
America
Mr. Wilde
Ethan Allen
Denie
Mont Blanc
Marion Hananp
Terhune
Sunny Branch
Zoological Garden of London
Eowanp Everett Hart
Levatron Monrema
Green Mountains
Vermont
W. J. Mcore
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Earth
Goopwin Satria
England
Toledo
Pierport
T. J. Strait
D. Bh. Mc Lauren
BF. W. Morse
Indiana
Charles L. Henry
G. A. Baker
Charles Herzog
A. W. Spotts
Bremen
Ind
John W. Hopkins
South Dakota Democrats
Chamberlain
Peter Coachman
F.amees
Des Moines
Henry B. Ora
Dolly Reed
Denver
Col
Joan Skinner
Steubenville
George Veetner
Rocky Bar
Idaho
Orr Sable Banks
Deer Park
Western
J. M. Finn
Ohio
G. L. Griffith
Edmonton
John Wilcoxson
James Coffee
Wise Court House
Talton Hall
Enos L. Nyston
Hall
Onartes Leaming
Springfield
Leaming
A. A. McKeighan
Kentucky
M. C. Lisle
Mississippi
H. D. Money
Alabama
D. H. Craig
Texas
G. C. Pendleton
Foreign Intelligence
St. Pawn
Jd. J. Hill
Great Northern Railway
First National Bank
Stevbenviler
John Skinner
George Feetner
Feetner
Skinner
Grand Army of the Republic
Italy
Mutual Banking and Safe Deposit
California
San Francisco
Cal
August Flower
Lorenzo F. Sleeper
Appleton
Maine
S Rmm
Krisner & Co
Bincnamion
Campasse
Co. W. Simmons & CO
Oak Hall
Soston
U.S
Nery
Ala
Express
Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlanta
Ely
Bam
Rand
Lash
S. Beadeforw
Price
Bradford
Kent
Bamb
Avery
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