Fires and accidents dominate busy week across states
Reports from Joliet to Detroit recount a deadly train collision near Joliet with several killed and injured, a fatal fire in Charleston cotton, a port Costa blaze that ruined eight carloads of wheat, and a fatal well incident in Allegheny City. Amid sturm and disorder, public notices include ban on Jesse James troupe in Jacksonville and new railway ventures from Denver to San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan Central
Joliet Crossing
Chicago
Peter Colic
Wm. Morris
Logansport
John Kellogg
Michigan City
John Dengan
Dyer
Indiana
John Gorman
Jacksonville
Ill
Jesse James
Charleston
S. C
New York
United States Central Railway
Denver
Central Pacific
San Francisco
Santa Cruz
Crystal Springs
Nevada
Milford
Utah Central
Dublin
Londonderry
Orangemen
Germany
Prince Bismarck
Bureau of Statistics
Violent Crime Wave Hits Multiple States
Reports describe a string of robberies and murders across Indiana Illinois and Nevada including a family home invasion near Indianapolis a vault theft in Virginia and a prisoner's death after a police confrontation. Also noted are counterfeit ring arrests in Pike County Indiana and a fatal shooting involving a New York city officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Fox
Indianapolis
Fox
Dublin
Ind
Cambridge City
Pike County
Penn
Annie C. Cheever
Chicago
Frank L. Loring
John Flemming
Flemming & Merriam
Chicago Board of Trade
Mutual Co-Operative Fund
Loring
William W. Miller
Chas. B. Bennett
Wm. H. Holtzman
New Edinburg
Ark
Chalman Decillenburg
Virginia
Nev
United States
R. S. Foster
Indiana
Steinville
Evansville
Columbus
Jesse
Joseph Hanchens
Henry Grossman
Henry Kinder
Westley Woods
Phil Taylor
Bertie Luthers
Andy Hart
Jon Hanchens
Jesse Hanchens
Hart
Knoby
New Albany
Government notices and financial reports summarized
Washington reports reconsideration of a resignation in the Treasury Office. The president supports Gresham in the New Orleans national bank case after merchant petitions. Interior confirms Indian courts are not courts of record for treaty execution. Universal Postal Union rankings show the U.S. leading in post offices and letters carried. Germany second in newspapers. Paymaster general reports 15.49 million receipts and 13.38 million disbursements. several officers retired or dismissed. Revenue commissioner notes savings from consolidated districts, total receipts near 120 million, and a revenue enforcement review for Indian Territory. Proposes amnesty for illicit distillers and a shorter limitation period. vinegar property rule to be withdrawn.
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Vinita
Indian Territory
Deming Say ‘“Juh
Jose Lepas
Geronite
Charley McComas
San Carlos
Cincinnati
Katie P. Konitz
Davis Landing
New Orleans
John Barness
Middletown
Mary Welch
West Boylston
Mass
King
Texas
Texas Central
Eric
Bay
Peninsular
John W
Eyster
Giles Russell
Bvyster
Secretary of the Interior
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Department
Universal Postal Union
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Secretary of War
Treasury
Commissioner of Revenue
Congress
Folger
Global unrest and injuries stain 1880s European affairs
A sweeping dispatch reports riots in Siberian penal colonies with mass exiles and escapes. It covers Germany warning emigration buyers, Greece protesting Turkish landings, Nubian massacre, and Franco-Chinese exchanges about Tonquin. It notes French Tonquin funding, Spain's diplomatic note, and British fisheries progress plus a Dublin lord mayor incident.
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Nebraska
India Front
Wood ‘River
John Seymour
Wood River
Kearney
Strawberry Blonde
Sidney
Adams County
Ainsworth
Pony Boys
Calvin Yahney
Denton
Granville Moore
R. S. van Tassel
Cheyenne
Millard
Omaha
Bellwood Monitor
Turing
Justice Montgomery
David City
O'Neill
Wilber
Aaron Brightman
Liberty Journal
Effie Redfield
Union Pacific
Lyons Mirror
Geo. Luce
Joel Yeaton
Anson
Maine
Mr. Luce
Oakland
Luce
North Bend
Bay State Cattle Company
Senator McShane
Creighton
Nidbrara Country
Forei
News OF the
Sheridan
Washington
Culver, Eee Co
Louisiana
Kenny
Sthe National
Peoria
Schofield
Missouri
Minneapolis
East Saginaw
Homestead
Christ. Dockson
Alleghany
Kelsey
Mary Churchill
St. Louis
Hassoly
de Wry E
Fletcher
MD Boogay
Thomas J. Gallagher
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Father
Herbiter
Port Costa
Cala
National “‘Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Detroit
Frances E. Willard
Geo. Ristine
Trans-Continental Association
CRIME
Charlotte Epps
Huntington
Epps
Housekeeper
William Conroy
Peter Keenan
Keenan
Conroy
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway
Danville Junction
Bloomington & Western Road
Danville
Wabash
John C. New
Siberia
Saghalien
Berlin
Greece
Chesenne
Nubia
Marquis Tseng
Lacour
China
France
Tonquin
Tricou
Li Hung Chang
Annam
Chamber
Chamber of Deputies
Granet
Spain
Alphonso
Paris
Frankfort-on-the-Main
England
Prince of Wales
Ireland
Templemore
County Tipperary
Limerick Junction
Prince
Albert
Prussia
Frankenstein
Silesia
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