Horrors Accumulate At Vast City Fire and Explosion
A massive Brooklyn State street machine shop fire plus a Galveston Tremont House boiler explosion claim multiple deaths and injuries. In New York, 700 workers and 30-40 women in the tin works faced collapse, with many missing or dead as walls toppled and flames spread through Atlantic and State street blocks.
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New York
South Ferry
Brooklyn
State Street
Atlantic Avenue
Hicks
Columbia Streets
Gateway
Tagh
Atlantic Street
Lindenberg
Az. Abbott
Nathan Cushing
Boston
Cushing
New York Tin Company
Columbia Street
Charles Schwetter
Daniel Lowery
Albert Kretzschmar
Bellevue Hospial
Kretzschmar
First Avenue
Ara
The
Nesim
Jose Humphrey
Inspector of Buildings
Joseph Humphrey
Humphrey
Galveston
Tex
Tremont House
Twenty-fourth Street
Bank Failures Hit St Louis Firms Hard
On May 5 in St Louis the F Ruhmer & Co banking firm of Highland US collapsed with liabilities rising toward 900000 and assets near 400000. Adolph Bandolier’s personal property was seized. Assignors BB Suppeyer J C Auman and John Merman posted 400000 bonds. In Boston James K Ostood & Co and Hellotype Printing Co also fell, with creditors to meet on May 12. Robert Morse Jr. appointed trustee for both. Ostood liabilities about 150000 with similar assets. Hellotype’s condition unclear.
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St. Louis
F. Ruhmer & Co
Highland US
Adolph Bandolier
BB. Suppeyer
J. C. Auman
John Imermann
Boston
James K Ostood & Co
Hellotype Printing Company
Robert M. Morse, Jr
Ostoull & Co
Richard Short Acquitted In Dynamiter Trial Verdict
New York May 7 Richard Short the dynamiter was found not guilty of an attempt to murder Captin Phelan after evidence showed Phelan drank and provoked the quarrel at Roasa office. The verdict came in two hours and sparked cheers from Irish agitation supporters. Judge Van Brunt voiced astonishment at the jury’s decision and discharged them.
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van Brunt
New York
Richard Short
Captin Phelan
Short
Phelan
Roasa
Amiling
Ary
Public sale of enslaved people shocks Kentucky crowd
A large crowd gathered at the Powell County courthouse to witness an auction of African Americans under vagrant laws. Bids included a man for twelve months at 38 dollars and a woman for twelve months at twenty-five cents. The chaotic scene followed state vagrant statutes in use at the Treasury Count.
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Hirumono
Gladstone and Russia ease Afghan frontier dispute
London and Paris dispatches report a new England Russia agreement to renew negotiations on the Afghan frontier. A Boundary Commission will meet. Penjdeh incident to be fully investigated with friendly powers. Gladstone says impediments to friendly correspondence are removed and Russia might withdraw if the ruling favors it. Public debate in Parliament follows, with calls for dignified handling of the dispute and potential arbitration.
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Lon
Loudon
Earl Granville
House of Lords
England
Russia
London
Mussia
Penjdeh
Vendeh
East Granville
Boundary Commission
House of Commons
Gladstone
Rusia
Glasstone
Peter Lumsden
Komaroff
Randolph Church
Cowanily
India
Loybox
House of Comemons
Peter Lumsien
Afelan
Colonel Stewart
Jelleen
Kuglans
Lonm
Afeban
Peter Luyimdes
Stewart
Loypox
William Wille
Europe
Randolph Churchill
Morning Post
Lord Churchill
Kugsin
Enelayd
Komarolf
Slr
Pater Luusden
M. de Giers
Peter Jiunaden
Reunion of the Army of the Potomac at Twitmere
The Society of the Army of the Potomac met in the city for a business session at Ford’s Opera House. General Grant was nominated for re election as President amid enthusiastic support, while a plan to invite ex Confederates from the I E Lee Camp sparked dispute. A reception at night featured a Grant telegram thanking the group. The event included a Pratt address and a Sprague poem with speeches by several notable figures. A future meeting is set for San Francisco.
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Army of the Potomac
Twitmere
Grant
Society of the Army of the Potomac
Ford
John C. Robinson
Vrutches
I. E Lee
Alajor DeWitt C. Sprague
Lloyd
Maryland
Slocum
Martranft
Holace Porter
C. A. Kohanay
San Francisco
Otter Column Battles Poundmaker Indians in the North West
Battleford reports a three hundred strong column led by Colonel Utter Numberig and allied units clashed with Poundmaker's six hundred in the Poundmaker reserve. Indian casualties exceed one hundred. Utter's force suffered seven killed and twelve wounded. The fight lasted from dawn to noon as troops drove 32 miles. Further details say Indians were badly beaten with heavy losses. Otter searched for Factor McLean. some whites captured earlier were said at risk of murder. Telegraph lines restored. settlers flee amid Indian depredations and possible Crowfoot alliance forming with Poundmaker. The incident arouses broad tribal unrest in the territory.
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Otter
Battleford
Nanitoba
Factor McLean
Qu'Appelle
Poundwaaker
Poundmaker
Lamont clash leaves multiple dead and wounded
A violent confrontation at Lemont between state troops and striking quarry workers ends with one man killed on the scene, two dying of wounds, eleven injured, and several struck by bayonets. Militia advanced after legal steps failed, facing a hostile crowd as clashes spread through Joliet and Streator.
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Lamont
Oglen
Fourth Infantry
N.G
Joliet
Lemont
Bennett
Sherif
Sulien
Streator
Multiple Small News Items From 19th Century Papers
A miscellany of short tidbits covers theft at a Corning residence, a Cincinnati businessman's suicide, a horse disease outbreak in Shelby County Illinois, threats of explosions tied to temperance actions in Redkey Indiana, a shooting on a Minnesota farm, a large Denver Rio Grande strike, and France shipping criminals to Guiana. Other notes include Berlin reporting a traveler’s death, a Boston factory fire, marshal service disruption in Chicago, anti-Chinese measures urged in Victoria, rail regulation in a U.S. reservation, European labor in coal mines, Milwaukee flour records, Sullivan’s U.S. tour plans, and 1834 rail and grain news with financials and a Dolphin trial pending.
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Hubert Barnard
Corning
N. C
Eau Claire
Wis
Charles E. Fuller
Cincinnati
Linwood
Shelby County
Ilinoia
Redkey
Ind
Milwaukee Insurance Company
Binnner In
Fred Bolt
Gotfield
Houseman
Denver & Rio Grande Road
Denver
Sedalia
Maila
Guiana
South America
France
Berlin
Guardyua Nechtigal
Atlantic Wharf
Boston
M. A. Salomons & Co
United States
Chicago
Jotha
Milwaukee
Victoria
British Columbia
Ottawa
Kaneas
Rock Island Road
Federal Supreme Court
China
Europe
Minnedpoker Mills
Arthur Sullivan
California
London
New York
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
West Nixtye Second Street
William H. Cooke
Pittsburgh
Whitney
John Roach
Long Island Sound
W. C. Whitney
Stephenson Burke
Fis
Governor Marmaduke Proclaims Cattle Health Inspectors
The Missouri governor supports Orlesby by recommending veterinarians as inspectors to verify cattle health before shipments under a proclamation. A long official process is outlined to meet certification standards. At Detroi, a man is killed by lightning while at breakfast. A new Chicago postmaster is appointed after Palmer suspension.
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Marmaduks
Marmaduke
Missouri
Orlesby
Oglesby
Staley
Oglesby Fas
Hint
Death of General Irvin McDowell in San Francisco
General Irvin McDowell died at midnight Monday night in San Francisco due to pyloric disease of the stomach. Born October 15, 1818 in Ohio, he graduated from West Point in 1838, served in the Mexican War, led Union forces at the first Bull Run, and rose to major general of volunteers in 1862.
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McDowell
San Francisco
Cal
Irvin McDowell
Gangral McDowell
Ohio
West Point
Bull Run
Volunteers
Jamaicans Clash In Panama Carted Away After Fracas
In Panama on Sunday night a fracas erupted involving Jamaicans near the coast, with police detaining several after incidents spilled over from a gathering to Galveston bound travelers. Authorities say injuries were minor and the situation was brought under control.
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Panama
Vla
Galveston
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