Wastern Union wires cut in $2,000,000 suit verdict
Western Union cut and redirected cables connected to Bankers' & Merchants' Telegraph Company, damaging it. Receiver Farnsworth sues for 2 million dollars. Trial spanned twenty three days with famed lawyers and notable names like Roscoe Conkling and Col. Ingersoll. Jury awards 240,000 with large costs anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Union Telegraph Company
American Rapid Company
New York
Bankers’ & Macrohants’ Telegraph Company
Western Union
Farnaworth
Regal
American Rapid
Bankers’ & Marchacts
Heosiver Farnaworth
Roscoe Conkling
Col
Robert G. Ingersoll
Edward Lauterbach
Henry J. Schenck
Weaturn Union
Joseph H. Choate
John Fpillon
Aaron J. Vanderpost
Melville Eagleston
Tragic multiple fires and crimes ripple across states
A string of disasters and crimes unfolds from Indiana to New Hampshire. A Weisman kills in Hartford City after mistaking the target. a Kentucky camp meeting stabbing follows. fires destroy mills, creameries, and shops in Wellsburg and Fort Collins with hefty losses and partial insurance. A New Hampshire forest fire rages, while drownings occur near Lowell and more deaths from accidents and arsons are reported across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Deater
Hartford City
Ind
Charles
Weisman
Deater
Aman Nan Hughes
Suortato
Dester
Piyes
Fiatwoo
Butler County
Kentucky
Havwlip
Mary Lacofieil
Marynville
Flock & Champman
L. C. Conrad
Cold Spring
Wellsburg
Erie County
Lindatl Mills
Fort Collins
Col
Colorado Milling and Elevator Company
Rogloa Deiaser
Ub Wakebeld
St. Myra
Dwisser
Lowell
Twin Mountain House
Fabyan
New York
Robetine
L. H. Burdick
Cincinnati
Reuben R. Springer
Benjamin Page
Harlem
N. Z
Australia
Jack Lambert
Charatan
N.C
Bout Batt
Sra
Ouly
Scoville
Tonawanda
N. Y
Vedder
Roisse
Weidek
Mra
Zimmerman
Psa
Mass
Victor
Eugene L. Fontain
Pabyan Demarrur
Pennsylvania Tack Works Com Res
Norristown
United States
Minneapolis
Yan
Carthage
John Small
Zetland Valley Railroad
New Hampshire
J. B. Henry
Princeton
Theresa Turpin
Diane
Fragmented 19th Century News Snippets From Across Regions
A collage of brief reports from Plymouth Pennsylvania to Chicago Illinois recount explosions, disappearances, drownings, fights, fires, lynching, cattle disease, accidental shootings, and a hotel fire. Notable items include six boilers exploding at a Delaware coal colliery fatally scalding a worker, a solicitor Edward L Harris missing in London Ontario with a fortune at stake, and a deadly brawl at a New England area picnic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Bth
Plymouth
Delaware Udeon Opal Company
Edward Scott
Michael Gilligan
London
Edward L. Harria
Key Weat
Fla
Suh
Havana
Beapull
Theorth
Cuba
New York
New England
Torany
Highland Lake Grove
Boston
Parbape
Charles Anderson
John Robertson
Edgaield County
Robertson
Anderson
Rocky Mountain News
Tim
Bwgs
Rechtlig
Rechtling
Ar Foods
Streobe
Homiltort
Drought Batters Nebraska Crops Across Many Counties
A report from The Omaha Bee on the drought bleakly details crop damage across thirty Nebraska counties and Western Town. Wheat suffers from chinch bugs while corn wilts for lack of rain. some counties face near total crop losses without imminent rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Croya
Nebraske
Western Town
Omaha Rea
Nebraska
Willmore
Howar
Adam
Buffalo County
Platte and Richardson
Douglass
Washington
Iowa
Congressional Proceedings From Hanae Torapar and July Sessions
A dense, dated report summarizes congressional actions and petitions across July, including road and land grant debates, river and harbor appropriations, pensions, and executive actions. It notes Senate and House proceedings, veto messages on railroad construction, and various committee reports and amendments. It records petitions by labor groups, military affairs discussions, and the exclusion of the public from upper corridors during executive sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanibors
Knights of Labor
Cockrell
Committee On Military Affairs
Army
Navy
Senate
Ingalls
Tndiau Stairs
Phimh
Ian A. Kirkpatrick
Edmunds
Sturgeon Bay
Lake Michiven Stip
Harbor of Refuge
Indian Territory
Committee On Indian Affairs
Taonsray
Kentucky River
Portage Lake
Lake Superior
Mast
Missouri River
Clark's Fork
Columbia River
Puway
Lowell
Margaret D. Marchand
Commodore Marchand
Tépenta
Asaaion
Minde P
Ingalla
Wastura Union
Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Companies
Sunnco
Joho Goode
Chicago
Commercial Club
Wits
McMillin
Oo Commerce
Chicaga, Burlington & Northern Railway
Mississippi River
Dubuque
Horn
Riddivbarger
Acheron
Wea
Riddleberger
Ippeal
Toxspay
Old Colony
Billy
Taymsway
Flihu
Fumay
Harmer
Pannsylvania
Pennsylvania
Olinber
Morriaan
Divide
Randall
Breckenridge
Kantuck
Rains
Bulmont
New York
Committee On Foreign Affairs
House
Ecuador
Jiding Santos
Stone
Missouri
Civil Services Reform
Eivil Service
Colombia
Anarchist leader Fricke arrested on mail sedition charge
Joseph Fricke, leader of socialist and anarchist groups around Pittsburgh, was arrested by postal authorities on a charge of sending outlawed material through the mail. Investigators seized packages tied to Fricke and found incendiary leaflets urging workers to arm themselves and seek revenge for six Chicago riot deaths at McCormick's works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Wricke
Joseph Fricke
Pittsburg
Thesth
Fricke
Herr Most
der Freiheit
McCormick's
Chicago
Gladstone's Party Loses Northern Counties in British Vote
A London dispatch reports liberal hopes fading as English counties including Somerset Warwick Hereford Derby Denbigh and Shropshire vote Unionist. Scotland remains Gladstonian. Many counties await results but reversal seems unlikely with Unionists claiming strong numbers and Conservatives predicting a Salisbury led ministry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Somerset
Warwick
Hereford
Derby
Denbigh
Shropshire
Scotland
Lord Salisbury
Young Man Fires At Two Girls In Providence
In Providence Rhode Island a youth named Joseph E Nolan aged 18 fired a single barreled shotgun at two seventeen year old girls Agnea Lynp and Kate Kier man while they sat in a vacant lot. Both suffered facial injuries with Lynn likely to lose both eyes. Nolan claimed the shooting was accidental but authorities suspect jealousy fueled the attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
Agnea Lynp
Kate Kierman
R. I
Joseph E. Nolan
Mies Lynn
Infested hare audaciously prowls Texan farms endangering infant
A hare that has infested Pilot Grove Texas has attacked and killed a one year old child on the urns tract near White Wright. The animal reportedly devoured the child leaving only bones. The incident marks a string of hare sightings across North Texas this winter. Only two or three Confederate regiments have begun to mark their Gettysburg positions with stones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ums
Pilot Grove
Tex
Institute
White Wright
Texas
Gettynburg
Conspiracy Claims Touched Off by Corkhill Testimony
A New York Herald report says Col Corkhill held that Guiteau’s case implicated a conspiratorial band in Garfield’s assassination. He planned to publish those facts, prompting a manhunt for papers. Kempster of Wisconsin backs the view, citing Guiteau’s alleged threat to exact payments and subsequent fund disbursement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
Sun
Corkkhill
Quitean
Corkhill
Gareld
Kempster
Wisconsin
Guitean
Fie
Dey
Gettysburg Field Describes Grant Victory Visit
A Gettysburg dispatch reports Union veterans of the Third Corps preparing for a Grand Army of the Republic gathering. About 1,200 members from Camp Hancock Philadelphia lead a diverse delegation from multiple parts of the state. The event included a 6 o'clock departure, a large attendance, and an open-air concert by the Frankfort Band beside the One Hundred Twenty-Fns Pennsy monument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adtilers
Beade
Gettysburg
Third Corps
Grand Army of the Republic
Hancock
Philadelphia
Frankfort
Veterans join reunion for battlefield monument site
Volunteers near Reynolds smonmmank dedicate to-day a granite shaft and a monument. Walter Biddle Whitney is to be orator. New York Battery, New Jersey and Ohio leaders plan to mark NY positions and purchase land for monuments. Old officers re elected. Gen Sickles expected to review the Grand Army encampment tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venia
Reynolds
Quincy
Walter Biddle Wan
Cowan
New York
Battlefield Memorial Association
New Jerry
Ohio
New Jersey
Inez
Sickles
Grand Army
Fire destroys Romeo village lumber and mill items
A big blaze hit Romeo eleven miles northwest of Maralefield destroying mill yard assets along the Central Railway. Eleven dwellings a boarding house two barns two warehouses saw mill and playing mill plus large quantities of flour pork lumber and shingles were burned. The loss totals about 130000 with 50000 insured. Sixty men lose work and twenty seven families become destitute. The origin is unknown but believed to be from a freight engine fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aahes
Romeo
Maralefield
Yan Hoowear
Winchester
Dorchester
van Haosear
Elis Lossea
Celebration disaster hits Fenody and Peabody Fourth events
A Fourth of July celebration in Fenody and Peabody ended badly when an elevated stand collapsed during a water works display by the Rageway fire company. About 20 spectators, including children, were injured and feared fatally. The list of severely injured includes Mr and Mrs Frank Dutcher and child, Mr and Mrs William Jolif and two children, Frank Weaver, and several others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fenody
Kas
Peabody
Rageway
Frank Dutcher
William Jolif
Frank Weaver
Albert Hoch
Minton
Mize
Lucy Burnett
Oaken
Jeasie
J. G. Lee
Miller
Maxwell Case Ruling Overrules New Trial Request
Judge Van Wagoner in criminal court overruled Maxwell’s motion for a new trial against Louis on the 7th. As soon as sentencing occurs an appeal will be filed to the supreme court. If successful, the case may go to the United States court arguing state law allows the prosecution more juror challenges than the defense is unconstitutional.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Wagoner
Louid
Maxwell
Supreme Court
United States Court
Forest Fire Rages Along DM&M Line Thru Michigan
Terrible forest fires sweep the Detroit Mackinac and Marquette Railroad corridor from St Ignace to Marquette. About 30,000 cords of Vulcan Furnace Co wood burned, likely forcing furnace closure. Fires move swiftly, reins delayed, crops scorched as rain remains absent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mackinac
Marquette Railroad
St. Ignace
Marquette
Mich
Newberry
Vulcan Furnace Company
Central Illinois Cyclone Damages Crops and Livestock
A cyclone swept the central portion of Illinois causing extensive crop damage, especially to oats and corn, with hail at multiple points. Clinton reports roots blown out and other ruinous effects, the storm lasting one to two hours. Bloomington area losses include killed poultry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Clinton
Bloomington
Loss of eight Preisch torpedo boats reported in storm
Paris dispatch confirms the loss of eight Presch torpedo boats in a storm on the Atlantic. Fifty persons were drowned. Earlier dispatches cited the minister of marine regarding the two boats, referencing other torpedo boats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Sth
Atlantic
Minister of Marine
Labor unrest and factory changes ripple across mills and railways
Labor notes from Natick Mille near Providence report 1175 weavers striking and 1000 looms idle due to changes from Fruit of the Loom to twill goods. Knights of Labor executive board in Philadelphia appoints Thomas O'Reilly as general organizer. Rock Tal and shops in Lake begin ten hour day with expected wage adjustments while Pittsburgh blast furnace workers seek 20 percent raises. Gould strike costs cited at 1,100,000 for Knights of Labor and 3,500,000 for the railway, as Baltimore and Ohio dispute nears end and Osceola Minn workers return to duty. Rash Sprague mills in Leavenworth close a month for remodeling to raise capacity to 1000 barrels per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natick Mille
Providence
Knights of Labor
Philadelphia
Sth
Maurer
Powderly
Thomas O'Reilly
New York
Telegraphere
Rock Taland
Lake
Pittéburg
J.S. Daly
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Osceola Minn
Scott's
Rash & Sprague
Leavenworth
Kan
Wisconsin News: Mad dog terror and river deaths shock Milwaukee
In Third Ward Milwaukee an alleged mad dog bit many before being shot in a saloon. A coal trimmer Cos Chasty died after an altercation. A German from Milwaukee was killed by a train in Marquette. Eva Christiansen of Cambridge died at North Western Depot in Madison. Governor Rusk appointed Thomas Lawbie sheriff of Forest County. The Glidden Pioneer editor’s child’s body found under logs in the Chippewa River. Indian skeletons found at Montello. A Milwaukee stone dealer Steinke died after a wagon accident. A Norwegian man Oxsen died by suicide in Milwaukee. Public swimming school plan abandoned. Pastor L Kern died in Eau Claire. Drowned youths and other local accidents reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Cos Chasty
Ashland
Polack
Tran
Houghton
Marquette
Mich
Itas
Madison
Eva. Christiansen
Cambridge
North-Western
Christiansen
Bia
Tip
Gov. Rusk
Thomas Lawbie
Forest County
I. H. Beulen
Steinke
Schweikert & Manegold
Ilwaukee
Clybourn
Fowler Street
Peter Denistassoy
Mail-Cartier
Seventh Day Adventiste
Richland City
Pine Laver
Massifter Oxsex
Hanover Street
Aroma
L. Kern
Episcopal Church
Mécomonis
Done County
J. C. Culver
Eau Claire
Grenrge Gree
R. Gibbe
Glidden
Dryden Creek
Oasis
Wanahara
Paul
Milwaukes
Parrith Drees
Pat Sullivan
Milwaukee House of Correction
Deel
Loos Entasox
Menomonee River
Cedar Falls
Wrintas Bats
Kinnicktinnic
Henry Pure
Clear Creak
Tasonore
Evesma Wisconsin
506
Opadzinski
Orenge
Tsinter
Actoon Sturgeon Bay
Mystery Hundred Dollar Note Found in Bag of Peanuts
Mr. Tibbitts recalled pulling his purse at Jackson Gate and being waited on by Chichizola’s daughters. A paper said to show ownership was claimed but no trace was found. A tobacco bribe offer was rejected and the bag remained. Cheri Chichizola said floor scraps were swept and a bag was found with a one hundred dollar note on the ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Lucie
Jacknon
Cal
Jacky
Rich
Bob
Allen Tibbitts
Sutter Creek
Jackson
Ahé
Cherri Chichizola
Acroga
Concan
Congress
Blank
Rescued at Sea as Germanic Fans Officers Save Forty Six
Off Newfoundland on June 20 the steamer Germanic picked up two Gloucester fishermen William Olsen and Peter Brown who drifted for three days after leaving their schooner Lillian Baxter. They had only a bottle of water and survived on raw halibut, seeing the Germanic but fearing it would pass by. Captain Kanonedy and the crew rescued forty six people in the operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fab
Rwen
Germanic
New York
New Foundland
William Olsen
Peter “Brown
Lillian Baxter
Gloucester
Mass
Kanonedy
Washington
Limestone
Arizona
Wheeler County
Tex
Philadelphia
North Carolina
Drouth
Mississippi
Surge Mon County
Wear Chester
Procui & Pitcher
Mothesen
Ater
Ita
Charleston
The
Nawn and Courier
State College
Daniel E. Bickles
Albany Journal
Broadway
Gen. Sickles
Lahali
Montreal Journal of Commerce
Bt. Peter
St. Paul Streat
Naid- T
Slong
Rioting in Cardiff Wolds Police Wound 100, Mayor Bans Meeting
Police clashed with crowds in Cardiff Wales injuring over 100 with twenty serious. The mayor prohibited a night meeting tied to Sir EB Reed's Parliament return. Police actions may face prosecution for alleged violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardiff
Walos
Sth
Cardif
Wales
Cardi
EB. J. Reed
Gladstonian
Mystery of the Golden Gunny Sack and Cabin Tragedy
A Wyoming mountains narrative describes a party trapped in a cabin during a snow slide. Skeletons lie among ruined bunks and mining gear as a carved stone record hints at gold buried ten miles south. The tale follows a search party into the caves with a probable link to the famed gunny sack of gold and two companions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Loala Globe-Democrat
Provisiona
New York
Bia
St. Maro
Sweetwater
Fragmented 19th century miscellany and anecdotes
A patchwork of antique notes and curiosities recounts oddities from lore and travel. Included are peculiar epigraphs, a turtle shell inscription, a Louisville rope incident, dental milestones, and a Parisian barber turned cellar plan. The column mixes anecdotes, local color, and old news items with whimsical digressions.
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Marshfield Times
Marshfield, Wis
Thomas & Norton
Minor News
Footen
Harry Wildman
Tuacola
Wildman
George Parker
Hancock County
Miss
Lonake
Prairie Counties
Ark
Madison Landing
Patrick Degnan
Joan Rohan
Job
Burcky && Milan
Benton Hotel
Greworks
Congressional Proceedings
Wahbed
Texna
Guiteauy Chibr
Gettysburgs Field
Dwenty
Rurest Fiber
Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette
SSS
Adams Daven
Norton
William Stirling- Maxwell
SEAL
San Francisco
Pacife
Riz
Pildo
Pardner
Attre Enough
Onola George
Hearst
Poliganam
Uncle George
George
Bouton
Higginton
Brusie Hall
Lloyd
Glaxrow
Toole
Lionel Brough
Pradelle
Marshall
Tomedign
Saly
Brough
William
Canana
Maine
Louisville
Acms
Allendale
Georga
Pekin
J. W
Andrew Rosemer
Black Hula
Torrapors
Meridan
Claude Caughell
Fresno
Caly
Owblsky
Peshawar
India
Weil
Florida
Losnow
Phillips’ Exeter Acadeny
Horne
Ee Duavines Castill
Wiltshire
England
Roger
Balisbury
Henry I
Springfield
Lake Ontario
Niagara Falls
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