National Black Congress denounces O Donnell hanging
Washington Dec 20 A large O Donnell meeting at Ford's Opera House condemns the hanging and calls for actions on civil rights cases and educational support. Committees are formed to lobby Congress on Freemans Bank education aids and other racial justice measures.
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Otter
Wasnxeton
O' Donnell
Ford
Richalien Rebingon
New York
Finerty
Belford
America
Louisville
W. A. Pledger
Atlanta
Supreme Court
Congress
Freucman's Bank
Fred Douglass
Justles Harlan
Jie
Society of United States Mlitary Telegraph Corps Io
Tagain
Chandler
Matthew Arnold
Carlisle
Arnold
Edward Everett
Dr. Loring
Loring
William Walter Phelps
Fred Courtain
Hazen
Greely
Ile
Lawud
Crevly
Department
E. W. Roberton
Louisiana
J. H. Meriden
Alabama
Mississippi
Kansas
Virginia
Wopkins
Pennsylvania
United States
Earl of Dunraye
Colorado
Earl of Dinamore
4& Scotch Company
Dundes
Minnesota
Phil Marshal & Co
Lotion
Eng
Yuzon Delta
Texas
Penjamii Nungas
Liverpool
Arkansas
Hopkins
Wasuksetos
Dudley C. Haskell
Haskell
Easthampton
Mass
Yale College
House of Representatives
Temperance
Credit System Downs Large Northwest Grocer
The wholesale house of P. V. A. Raymond, a major Northwest firm, is closed on a $50,000 chattel mortgage to the Bank of Fargo. Total liabilities run about $130,000 while assets are believed larger. The business had about $250,000 annual volume, with failure blamed on carrying Red River accounts from small storekeepers. Principal creditors are in Chicago, New York, Cincinnati, St Louis, and Cleveland.
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Fanco
D. T
Des
P. V. A. Raymond
Northwest
Bank of Fargo
Red River
Chicago
New York
Cincinnati
St Louis
Cleveland
Ex-State Treasurer Arrested for Lunacy Commission
James Bryan former state treasurer of 1870 and 1872 was arrested and jailed awaiting lunacy commission. He became bankrupt in 1874, suffered mental decline, and assaulted his wife after returning from Washington. As governor Hendricks's chief financial adviser, his conduct shocks observers.
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Pianarolls
James Bryan
Washington
Hendricks
Three Ladies Killed in Stage Collision Near Cataraqui
Napanee, Ont, Dec 1. The Napanee stage crossing the Grand Trunk track near Cataraqui was struck by an express train. Mrs Armitage, Mrs H Wartman and Mrs Gorrie were killed. The stage driver was slightly hurt.
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Kiwastox
Ont
Napanee
Grand Trunk
Cataraquie
Armitage
H. Wartman
Blacksmith Injures Eye With Flying Rail Fragment
Cosneaut O Dec 17 Andy McAllister a blacksmith in the Nickel Plate railway shops had his eye damaged when a flying piece of steel spur struck him in the morning. The fragment flew from a work operation and lodged in his hand before the man could react. He received medical attention and the shop crew inspected the scene for further hazards.
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Cosneaut
Andy McAllister
Nickel Plate Railiny
Desperadoes raid farm near Frankfort in midwinter attack
Monday midnight George Graves and Edward Wells forced entry at Charles Golty’s farm three miles north of Frankfort. Graves felled the farmer with a corn knife, wife injured, a shot gun menaced the family, Wells cut the hand of one intruder. Wells captured next morning. Graves disappeared. Robbed Mr Bobzine, a grain dealer, of a horse and money. Goldy family badly cut but recovering.
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Jor
George Graves
Hdward Wells
Charles Golty
Frankfort
Gody
Graves
Wella
Walla
Bobzine
Kentucky
Goldy
Smothered in the Night Terrible Death in Cleveland
In Cleveland Ohio on December 20 a carpenter Henry Hagedorn found his wife and young daughter dead in a gas poisoning incident. The baby lay beside them while the father and son survived after doctors pried open the father’s jaws and revived the trio with stimulants. Gas leaked from a base-burner with a damaged pipe.
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Coul Gan
Cliveland
Henry Hagedorn
Celly
Hagedorn
Bied to Death by a Tobacco Tay
James Mendamn, a city mechanic, died after choking on meat following potato dinner. An inquest found an oval esophageal ulcer, allegedly linked to tobacco use, with ongoing internal bleeding and hemorrhage filling lungs and stomach.
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Pri
James Mendamn
Cox Acquitted In Self Defense Verdict
San Francisco December 18 The coroner's inquest into the killing of Charles McLauchlin by Jerome B Cox concluded Monday forenoon with no witnesses. After brief deliberation nine of ten jurors found Cox acted in self defense, a result seen as surprising but aligning with expectations for a regular jury outcome.
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San Francisco
Charles McLauchlin
Jerome B. Cox
Cox
Boycott Ties Tribune Ad Business Action Planned
The Trades Union Council moves to boycott Tribune advertising in theaters and seeks nationwide support from trades unions to pressure Tribune advertisers. Many major papers maintain offices in the Tribune building, and the plan aims to force a shift of operations away from the home offices via local union influence.
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New York
Trades Union Council
Tribune
Co-operative
Wid
America
Sara Bernhardt in Paris Duel Over Satirical Biography
Sara Bernhardt demanded authorities seize Sarea Bargin, calling the work defamatory. Police referred her to civil redress. She then went with her son to Marie Colombier's home, struck Colombier with a riding-whip, and caused a fracas as friends clashed elsewhere in the house. The dispute may escalate further.
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Paris
Sarea Bargin
Sara Bernhardt
Marie Colombier
Sara
Barnum
Colombier
Toa
Swiss German capitalists to convert bridge works into chemical factory
The Cleveland Common Council approved an ordinance inviting a wealthy Swiss and German capital partnership to transform the old McNairy & Chafin bridge and car works into a chemical plant. It will convert petroleum derivatives into anthracite dye stuffs and coloring compounds, piping tar to the city outskirts for processing. It is the only plant of its kind in America, costing about a quarter of a million dollars and promising many jobs. Similar operations exist in Basel and Strasbourg.
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Cleveland
Common Council
McNairy & Chafin
Dying for his cause O'Donnell hanged in Newgate
Patrick O'Donnell singer of James Carey the informer was hanged in Newgate at 3 a m in a cold stormy night. A large crowd gathered outside the prison and the brother showed visible distress. He faced the scaffold calmly refusing aid and declaring I killed James Carey the informer I am not sorry for the deed. Victor Hugo urged pardon in a letter to Queen Victoria as Washington protested delays in staying proceedings.
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Odonnells
Loxton
Patrick O'Donnell
James Carey
Newgate Prison
O'Donnell
Antliro
Aidax
Lia
Tle
Ile
Binns
Donnell
Lea
Fremlag
Sousa Uns
Maugman Blas
Bryns
Musca
Kite Tini
London
Brelsnd
Jeane
Victor Hugo
Senate
Failure of a Big Scheme by Standard Coal & Tron Co
New York report outlines the Standard Coal and Iron Company’s failed plan to dominate Hocking Valley resources. Bradsstreet notes the firm formed eight een months ago with 25.6 million capital, bought 30 thousand acres, invested 2 million, and aimed to absorb regional coal and iron firms. Directors include Samuel Thomas and Oliver Ames. Governor Charles Foster and Gen James A Hall among large stockholders. Creditors plan to reorganize under a new name, Ohio & Western Coal and Iron Company, with 5 million capital and 8.5 million boats, wiping out old stock.
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Standard Coat and Tron Company
New York
Standard Coal & Tron Company
Bradstreat
Hocking Valley
Samuel Thomas
Coliushus
W. J. Lee
Newark
Oliver Ames
Boston
Fleury Brooks
George Chapman
Hondamens
Bhuve
Maine
Eugene Male
James A. Hall
Charles Foster
Ohio
Elkins
George Chiayman
J. Vilas
Columbus
Walter T. Warren
Troy
Ohio & Western Coal and Iron Company
Hurricanes Hit Black Sea Coast Killing Dozens
Monday's hurricane wreaked havoc along the Black Sea coast. Fierce storms demolished hundreds of houses in northern village areas and caused many fatalities. In Abadza the property damage is estimated at 200000 rubles. Six large ships with over 100 people aboard plus about 150 sailors on the coast were wrecked against rocks.
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ConstaNuxopie
Black Sea
Abadza
Claiming a Dead Printer's Money
Joan Russell of Jersey City a ship joiner for Starla at Communipawn has begun proceedings to recover the estate of John Russell a printer who died in March leaving forty thousand dollars and no known relatives He says the deceased was one of four brothers living in Whittlesey England and was his uncle He asserts his father and another brother are living and that proofs by the shape of fetters are a factor in the case
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Donethan
Supreme Court of the United States
District Court of Dakota
Crow Og
Spotted Tail
Crow Dog
Dockery
Congressman Denster
Wisconsin
Morey
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Ilinois
Kasson
New York
Joan Russell
Jersey City
Starla
Communipawn
John Russell
Russell
Whittlesey
England
Fire devastates Fortville business district in Hancock County
In Fortville, Indiana, a village of about eight hundred residents, a Monday night blaze laid waste to two blocks of the business area. The fire gutted multiple structures, with authorities assessing damage and possible causes as crews battled the flames through the night. Fortville sits roughly twenty one miles northeast of Indianapolis according to local reporting.
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Ixpiasaronis
Fortville
Hancock County
Great Greek Scholar Evan Apostolides Sophocles Dies
Evan gelinas Apostolides Sophocles, famed Greek professor at Margared College, died Monday morning in Cambridge after a long decline. Born in 1807 near Mount Pelion in Thessaly, he spent years at Mt Sinai Convent Cairo before moving to America. He entered Amherst in 1820, taught at various schools, became editor of Greek at Harvard in 1842, and was named professor in 1860.
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Losrox
Mass
Evangelinas Apostolides Sophocles
Margared Collegt
Canbridge
Ile
Teangarada
Mt Pollau
Lhessaly
Mt. Sinai
Cairo
America
Mme
Amherst
Unrvard
Sudden Death of a Prominent Mason in Revort Wisconsin
C F G Collins general manager of Merrill and Houston iron works died this morning after a hemorrhage following a fire Monday night. He was the state’s most prominent Mason, former Past Grand Master of the Wisconsin Grand Lodge, and a noted Northwest Mason. In Cleveland, Harold Bates son of Rev J Lockinton Bates of Tan ton Binghand died at Clarity Hospital from scarlet fever. his father is a railroad official with wealth. Tarold Bates, twenty five, traveled from Cleveland to learn inside workings of the American railroad system.
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Senate
BD. C. Haskell
Kansas
Ingalls
House
Hackell
Anderson
Iloth
Harrdeen
Alaska
Hoar
Anson G. McConk
Chariea W. Jobopan
James Ft. Young
ED. Huntley
W. P. Canndlay
van Wyck
Supreme Court
Skinner
South Carolina
Calkins
Secretary of State
Fatrick O' Donnell
Revort
Wis
Merrill and Houston Iron Works
C. F. G. Collins
Secon
Wisconsin
Grand Dudgeon
Northwest
Cleveland
Harold Bites
J. Lockinton Bates
Tanton
Binghand
Clarity Hospital
New York, Vennsylvania &Hin Railroad
Sca Arcer
Railromd
Tarold
Projecting a New Telegraph Company
Rapid Transl Telegraph Company files articles of incorporation in St Paul with $500,000 capital. Headquarters in St Paul. Line runs from St Paul to Milwaukee and Chicago via Minneapolis and Stillwater. George W. Cross serves as President. KW. Cavanaugh as Vice President and Treasurer, W. If. Lishtner as Secretary.
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St. Paul
St Paul
St Yaw
Minneapolis
Stillwater
Milwaukee
Chicago
George W. Cross
KW. Cavanaugh
W. If. Lishtner
Conspirator Fred J. Kelly Captured in Cincinnati
Cincinnati on December 19 reports Fred J. Kelly, a 20 year arson convict from Cuyahoga County, who escaped from Columbus penitentiary in 1874 and lived under the alias J. Marston Ras Mend, earning a living by photography and watercolor painting. Also noted is a December 15 robbery in Nurisnerus Oregon where seven armed men stole 35000 in cash and drafts from J. Tyler the merchant and 12000 from a railroad paymaster, with losses ranging 200 to 500.
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Cincinnati
Fred J. Kelly
Columbus
Cuyahoga County
J. Marston Rasmend
J. Tyler
Corn Crop of 1883 In Illinois Report
The Agricultural Department returns show the corn crop of 1883 in Illinois at 186,583,558 bushels with 7,304,991 acres planted and an average yield of 25.37 bushels per acre. Grain quality compared with the average stands at 69 percent. A detective returns from the West with George F. Robinson, charged with obtaining $1,000 by false pretenses after a chase through Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado ending in Arizona.
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SputserteLy
Agricultural Department
Ilinois
Creyeann
West
George F. Robinson
Robinson
Mexico
Texas
New Mexico
Coloxido
Tingly Roe
Earth
Arizona
Unprofitabis' Packing and fence-cutting in Texas
Ixprasaputis reports Keigan & Co packers discharged a hundred men as high log prices made packing unprofitable. In Texas, San Antonio authorities estimate two hundred miles of fencing destroyed by wire-cutters near the city in the past week.
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Ixprasaputis
Keigan & Co, Packers
Texas
San Antonio
Tex
Minor News Items From Various Cities
A compilation of brief notices reports the Providence Rhode Island author Edward M Stone death in Providence and a ship captain near Oregon detailing a shooting incident. Philadelphia embezzlement acquittal. Army desertion rumor. London police raids on gambling houses. Corsicana fire losses. Alexandria collapse and Vombartiverit fire risk. Baltimore clergyman Rev George Morris dies. New York Mrs Weil dies. Indianapolis doctor on Miss Johnson murder theory. fire destroys J Walker refinery near Franklin Pennsylvania. Rio heat yellow fever. Indianapolis governor Hendricks traveling, health robust. Newton Illinois corn seed debate. Joliet hidden gold stash theft. Rockford Michigan post office fire losses. War of 1812 veteran Witchmond Clapp dies. Monte Baldrino estate gift to U S government proposed. Indiana railway incorporation. New York lecture on Masonry statue Willian Morgan reference. St Louis meeting for Democratic National Convention. Denver efforts noted. Various arrests bailings. Manitoba fire loss. Union Baseball Association meeting Philadelphia. Mrs Hang Rofford bribery attempt. Geneva Ohio enterprise company failure. Medford fire. Brainerd cold snap. Independence Missouri wedding. Grant Rapids burglary. Brant Rhode Island Sioux Reservation memorial. Anteco auction refusal. Pennsylvania dairy and cattle valuations. Clinton Louisiana double murder. Michigan Merino resolution on tariff.
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Edward M. Stone
Providence
Tostlanad
Stephen 5
Price
Philadelphia
Richardson
O. ©. Treward
London
Corslenua
Tex
Alexandria
Vombartiiverit
Satwrdiz
George Morris
Baltimore
Doseph Weil
New York
St Louis
Griffith
Ainnapolis
Mia
ET. Johnson
Hanks
Charles J. Walker
Franklin
Tord
Stous City
Dixon County
Nel
Winidui
Rio Janeiro
Dutiel
Indianapolis
Subor
Hendriks Hag
Europe
Newton
Joliet
Sullivan
Main Street
Rockford
Mich
Witchmond Clapp
Painesville
New Hampshire
Albert Jay Jones
United States
Academy of Fine Arts
Monte Baldrino
New Albany, Leavenworth & Cam Nelion Railway
Inediana
Perry County
Stoddard
Newline
Willian Morgan
Niagara Tilver
Denver
Br. C. Symonds
Clay County
Springfield
Arkansas
Rat Turtage
Manitoba
Chicago
Cincinnaati
Washington
Union Baseball Association
Covington
Dayton
Kingston
AL Loess
W. W. White
Hang Rofford
Dr Hose
Lewsvills
Col
Hint
H Jer
L-Lin
Lim
Enterprise Machine Company
Geneva
Medford
Mion
Brainerd
Minn
Mercury
Zaru
Aliss Nenuit McCoy
Charles L. Minor
Sulependence
Grant Raplds
Miet
EK. J. Hoppin
Internal Revenue
Brant
D. I
Congress
Robbert Bonner
J.C. Slaphan
San Francisco
Pennsylvania
Jim George
Colured
Clinton
Ed Ell
Crie
Michigan Merino Sheep Breeders* Association
Lansing
A.D. Taylor
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