Ex-Governors, Divorces, and July 4th Events Noted
A sweep of items from 1884 mentions marriages and awkward family ties involving Albert Secord of New Rochelle, reports of ex-Governor Gstors of Colorado obtaining a divorce, and a remark that he was an uncle to her former husband. The Missouri Legislature closed after the Southeast Railroad bill, Leonard A. Geigerich named tax collector in New York Third district, and Lixe P. Bouano dies in Waterville Vermont. Also noted are Independence Day receptions in London, and the ex-Governor Anson P. Morrary dying in Augusta Maine. Rome excommunication orders against Dr Mc Glynn were issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Secord
New Rochelle
N. Y
Iia
Gstors
Colorado
Julia Pratt
Dickerson
St. Louis
Lord Aberdeen
Kansas City
Irish Land League
Morrill
Maine
Leonard A. Geigerich
New York City
New York
Morris Freeman
Lixe
London
James Russell Lowell
J. G. Blaine
Miss Blaine
H C. Childers
James Brown Potter
Minnie Hauk
Sir Lyon Playfair
General Palfrey
Boston
W. F. Cody
Anson P. Morrray
Augusta
Rome
McGlynn
T. B. Green
George M. Ritter
Bavaria
Saline County
United States
Tuttle
R. W. McAffee
New England Society For the Suppression of Vice
Topeka
Russell County
Blue Stem
Lucas
Red Clover
Johnson County
Lockwood
Indian Territory
Chauncy
D. Fisk
Peabody
W. R. Fower
D. Ogden
J. D. Carter
Lancaster
Ogden
Carter
Labor
Switzerland
Schweis Arbeitersekretariat
Secretariat Ouvrier Suisse
H.B. Franks
George D. McLean
Rathmal
Paola
Kansas
National Education Association
Chicago
Joan Surtu
Dell Smith
2. Z. Baxter
Emporia
Baxter
Secretary of the Interior
State of
Congress
Treasury
Bucyrus
Miami County
Nicholas Shaffer
Coats
Pratt County
John A. Gardner
Falun
Andrew Mickelson
Selkirk
Wichita County
Anna Osborn
James Heath
Einsley
Martin
Haskell County
Santa Fe
D. W. Wiper
J. Lee Knight
Leavenworth, Northern & Southern
Wilder
Kansas River
Atchison
Leavenworth
J. W. Hearn
Salvation Army
Railway Age tracks 1887 US mainline growth and rail trends
The Railway Age notes 3734 miles of new mainline track laid in the United States from January to June. It forecasts 1887 may surpass all prior years. Other items: June coinage totals 4,537,502 dollars. Louisville Knights of Honor picnic. debt statements show monthly and fiscal-year decreases. several fire, labor, and legal notices. multiple fatalities and business troubles including a Louisville murder, a Cohoes shutdown, and Reading ironworks defense against wage cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railway Age
United States
Carter & Savace
Spring Lake
Mich
Fhre
Knights of Honor
Louisville
August Belcher
Pittsburgh
MippLsTon. & Co
chewing = tobacco
Livi Bacoy
Interior Department
Harmony Woolen Mills
Cohoes
N.Y
F. W. Biprer
Chicago
Jennie Bowman
Patterson
Virchow
Berlin
Reading
Barron
México
Marshal Bazaine
Y Roden
Ohio
Ction
Stadard Oil Company
New York Produce Exchange weighs shortages and markets
Shortages driven by weather prompt notes on long wheat surpluses and high prices. Reports cover sunstroke deaths in Pittsburgh, steady Berlin Bourse, restrained Paris and London trade, Calabria outbreaks, Valencia tax protests, and a Pittsburgh drowning. Clearing week shows gains, amid global events and local disasters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Exchange
Shorts
Pittsburgh
Evkorgan
Berlin
Paris
London
Cuovesa
Calabria
Italy
Valencia
Spain
Octroi
Richard Lang
Philadelphia
Pickett
Gettysburg
California
Liberty
Benedict Kreses
Washington
P. J. Keary & Bro
Broadway
Bavispe
Sonora
Mex
J. Q. Preble & Co
New_York
Harry Varnell
Chicago
Dakota
Harrod’s Creek
Louisville
St. Louis
Moffatt
Fenelon Falls
Ont
St. Thomas
Gus Sundstrom
J. F. Robinson
America
England
Sundstrom
Hinton Minner
Perry County
Ind
Tas Weber Brewing Company
Cincinnati
Tae Queen
Imperial Institute
Tae French Chamber of Deputies
Klein
Schnaebles
Leipsic
Grebert
Erhardt
Explosion and Disasters Stun Markets and Ports
A miscellaneous dispatch lists disasters and incidents including a naphtha explosion in Ant werp injuring several, Hungarian sapper drill deaths, Niagara current drowning of Ricuard Croxsax from Boston, a vessel feared lost at sea, yellow fever cases in Key West, and notable fires and arrests across Kansas and nearby regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Slade & Co
Dry Goods
New York
A. B. Drumny & Co
Jewelers
Montreal
Antwerp
Jasz-Bereny
Zazyga
Hungary
Ricuard
Croxsax
Niagara River
Boston
Sorabia
Java
Hanjoeuanjie
Queenstown
Lear
Mare Island
Key West
Fla
MacMunn
Blinky” Morgan
North Lansing
Mich
Fred Dovdas
Europe
Washington
Susquehanna
Clarendon
Naupigag
G A R Council in Topeka declines Kansas State reunion
The G A R Council of Administration met at Topeka on the 28th to discuss attending the St Louis encampment. They decided against a state reunion this year and adopted resolutions urging Kansas soldiers to attend in force, uphold loyalty, and honor Union veterans and flags as sacred trophies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Council of Administration
Topeka
Martin
Rev. B. Kelley
A. B. Campbell
Allan Buckner
J. W. Feighan
O. H. Coulter
Kansas
Grand Army of the Republic
the Union
Union
Variety of 19th Century News Notes
Queen lays foundation stone as Morrill obituary and Evans mystery headline a compact roundup. mentions Sundstrom and Robinson swimming world trials in New York, Ameer of Cabul hostage threat near Herat, Perry County defaulter Hinton Miller and a prior official, Schnabeles trial orders, Belgian meat duties set, and a large Independence Day reception at the American Legation in London with Lowell Blaine and Cody among the guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imperial Institute
London
Rome
McGlynn
Anson P. Morrill
Augusta
Glacus Evans Olds
New York
Oakview
Cabul
Ameer
Herat
Hinton Miller
Perry County
Ind
Klien
Schnaebeles
Leipsic
Klein
Schnabeles
Grebert
Erhardt
James Russell Lowell
J. G. Blaine
Miss Blaine
H. C. Childers
James Brown Potter
Minnie Hauk
Sir Lyon Playfair
General Palfrey
Boston
W. F. Cody
Itemized Industry And Emerging Technologies In 19th Century Trade
A survey of global production notes silk imports valued at about forty million dollars and a New Jersey silk colony plan offering two hundred fifty dollars per settler. It reports on a lime sand coke brick for walls, a French locomotive aiming seventy eight mph, a solder waste recovery device boosting daily savings, and Kansas cotton growth prospects. It also notes a large Tate brick plant in New Jersey using petroleum heat with one million bricks daily, plus a glue recipe and waste-to-resource ideas in galleries. May mention England’s female labor and estimates of silk quality rivaling Lyons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Kansas
England
Odenton
Woman's Silk Culture Association of the
United States
Lyons
New Jersey
Waste Silver and Coal Tar Turn to Valuable Goods
A local practice collects waste silver from paper sources and exchanges it for nitrate silver, with even small gallery contributions adding up across many galleries. The article notes that the residue from burning paper yields enough to cover living costs, and compares past coal tar nuisances from gas plants to the modern use of tar in producing top dyes.
Foreign gossip on salaries and exotic products
A digest of international curiosities notes Queen Victoria’s household pay, Paris auction prices for Rouen ware, a Red Sea fisheries payroll, and pensions for Bombay’s Duke of Connaught. It mentions frescoes bought by an American for an art school, Princess Wallemaar’s tattooed arm, giant wild asparagus in Akhal Tekiz, and England’s old manorial toll privileges shaping trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Rouen
Red Sea
Bombay
Duke of Connaught
House of Lords
United States
Wallemaar
Damark
India
Akhal-Tekiz
Russia
Europe
England
Large Lot of City Property for Sale at Low Rates
Levi A. Doane offers loans on City Property, Improved Farms, and Chattel Mortgage Security with low rates. Read descriptions of bargains including an old improved farm of 160 acres near Lawrence with timber, orchard, and a large barn priced at 4600 and easy terms. Also a three room house with a large lot, fruit trees, near street car line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pelgabor
Lawrence
New England
Levi A. Doane
Tonganoxie Moat
Also Mentioned on This Page
Market Reports
Western
Steam
City Steam
Kansas State News
Mass. St
Lawrence, Kas
O’brien & Son
Levi A. Doang
Hansee
Peron
Levi A. Deans
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