Wrecks and Loss After Terrific Storm Besets Lakes Shore
A fierce storm off Port Sanilac leaves the schooner Australia and barge R N Rice wrecked. Five sailors drown attempting a landing. two survivors saved by the Sand Beach life saving crew. Names of the lost include Captain C H Jones Bay City Henry Anderson Australia George McFarlane Cleveland Lorus Fertan Bay City and Julia Creawreath Sebewaing Mich. Survivors are Maurice McKenna Bay City and John Rose Detroit. Bodies of the drowned not yet recovered.
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Detroit
Mich
Port Sanilac
Sand Beach
St. Claire
C. H. Jones
Bay City
Henry Anderson
Australia
George McFarlane
Cleveland
Lorus Fertan
Julia Creawreath
Sebewain
Maurice McKenna
John Rose
Benton Lost in Storm Near Thunder Bay Island
Alpena reports the steam barge Benton foundered after a storm. Life-saving crews have returned with men and tugs to assist battered barges Manitoc Gardiner Clarke Jones and Dan Rogers, waterlogged and in tow boats Garden City and Fayette Brown seeking shelter as northwest gales rage.
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Detroit
Mich
Alpena
Thunder Bay Island
Manitoc
Gardiner
Clarke
Jones
Dan Rogers
Garden City
Benton
Fayette Brown
Wrecks and Adrift Barges Off Rock Falls Harbor
A violent gale near Sand Beach Michigan sent the steam barge Lowell and six barges adrift as lines parted. The coal laden St Clair broke up ashore near Rock Falls. Lilly May Oliver Cromwell William Young stayed at anchors. Sea Gull Magnet from Lowell’s tow went missing. Racine schooner on a reef below the harbor.
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Detroit
Sand Beach
Mich
Lowell
St. Clair
Rock Falls
Lilly May
Oliver Cromwell
William Young
Magnet
Racine
Australia Wrecks After Heavy Storm At Holland Michigan
The schooner Australia went ashore Monday, broke in two in the night, and was a total loss without insurance. It carried cedar posts for Chicago and was waterlogged by heavy seas. The tow barge R N Rice, found by life savers, was abandoned by the steamer Huron City and lies ashore north of the harbor with 600000 feet of lumber aboard. Several schooners seek shelter nearby while winds abate. In Wisconsin a cottage of Peter Callahan and his wife burned. Callahan died from burns, his wife escaped.
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Detroit
Mich
Holland
Australia
Chicago
R. N. Rice
Michigan City
Huron City
Monument to Gen Wadsworth Located in Washington
The Gettysburg reunion committee chose Washington as the site for the memorial to Gen James S. Wadsworth of New York. Maj J H Stine was named treasurer and authorized to start subscription books.
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Washington
First Corps
Gettysburg
Fairchild
Dudley
Osborne
Stine
Halstead
James S. Wadsworth
New York
J. H. Stine
Manitoba Road Shows Strong Finances Despite New Line
New York October 3 The Wall Street News praises the Manitoba road for a healthy year. Despite ongoing construction in new territory with limited local traffic the total nearly reached last year’s level and dividends were declared. The renewal fund rose to 750000 from 600000 with a surplus after fixed charges and dividends.
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Manitoba
New York
Wall Street News
Market Bullish or Not December Wheat Stirs Traders
December wheat opened at 1049 and rose to 1.08 as brokers from foreign houses bought offerings. Traders sense a near-term break and many big operators seek to exit December deals while Hutchinson notes no special insight beyond general market conditions. Old Hutch remains present as usual, reporting merchants settling up in good shape.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Hutch
I. Hutchinson
Mary Y A. Livermore
Nurac
Qwonian
Uag
ADV Worthington & CO
Hartford
Conn
The Chinese Exclusion Bill’s Fate Depends on Courts
News from San Francisco reports President Cleveland’s approval of the Chinese exclusion bill sparked crowds and excitement. Observers say the law’s usefulness hinges on court interpretation, particularly habeas corpus rulings, mirroring the earlier Chinese Restriction Act.
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San Francisco
Cleveland
Scared Chicagoans Amid Illness From Fever Claims
Reinhart Wolf, claiming New Orleans roots, fell ill on Clark Street prompting a bystander physician to fear yellow fever. He was taken to the county hospital where doctors diagnosed malaria. Wolf traveled from New Orleans two weeks earlier, suffered chills in Cincinnati, was later in Lafayette, Ind., and now shows symptoms not linked to yellow fever.
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ChicaGo
Reinhart Wolf
New Orleans
Clark Street
Wolf
Cincinnati
Lafayette
Ind
The Falling Off in Yellow Fever Not Seen in Jacksonville
Jacksonville weather cooled to near frost line but did not cut yellow fever cases. Officials report 99 cases with 25 white, and funds show $236,867 received, $74,478 dispersed, $162,359 on hand. contributions may soon stop.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Fatal fever grips Buffalo as smallpox toll rises
Buffalo New York reports ten weeks after first case sixty nine smallpox infections and seventeen deaths including six fatal black variety. Hospitalized cases reach twenty two amid ongoing outbreak and public health response. Separately New York City tax receipts total about eight million dollars on first settlement day with major payments from Trinity Church, Astor estate and Vanderbilt-linked Guelet estate and New York Central.
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Buffalo, N. Y
New York
Trinity Church
Astor
Guelet
New York Central
Vanderbilt
Have a Monopoly on Irish Horrors
Glasgow reports Mr. Balfour addressing a large turbulent meeting accusing Gladstonian leaders of stirring Irish fears with O'Brien handling the production and Gladstone overseeing publicity. In Washington a health official finds no yellow fever indication in James Osborne, a Baltimore arrival now ill at the asylum.
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Balfour
Gladstonian’s
William O’brien
Gladstone
Washington
Townshend
James Osborne
Baltimore
Washington Asylum
Over 25 000 Boston Women Voters Assessed
The study counts 25 149 women evaluated to determine eligibility for the Boston school committee vote, with not more than half reported as Catholics. The enrollment is now closed.
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Boston
Oct.s
Red Tape Slows Panama Canal Supply Vouchers
The Chicago Herald notes bureaucratic delays at the Panama Canal. It reports sixteen days to obtain vouchers for lubricating oil beside a dredge, costing $3,000 daily while idle, and seven days to obtain gasline from a basement to protect precision instruments from rust.
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Panama Canal
Chicago Herald
Trad ers Bank Receivership in Chicago Amid Liabilities To One Million
Hiram McChesney appointed receiver of the Traders Bank at Madison and La Salle by Judge Shepard after a petition by cashier Tollman. Liabilities said to be $1,000,000 with assets unknown. Failure attributed to the president Joseph O Rutter's illness and mismanagement shifted to Tollman, with rapid asset depletion and rising liabilities.
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Cnurenco
Hiram McChesney
Madison and
la Salle Streets
Dudge Shepard
Thomas P. Tollman
McChesney
Joseph O. Rutter
Tollman
Nelsons bill would open Chippewa lands in Minnesota
Senator Sabin reported Nelsons bill favorably to negotiate with Chippewa Indians for cession of lands in Minnesota except Blue Earth and Red Lake reservations and for public auction of pine lands. Agricultural lands to be sold to homesteaders at 1.25 per acre in five payments. sections 16 and 36 reserved for state schools were rejected. Reports also note Indiana Democrats plotting corrupt election schemes and the Bloomington Irish American Harrison Morton club forming in Illinois.
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Washington
Senator Sabin
Committee On Indian Affairs
Nelson
Minnesota
Blue Earth
Red Lake
Sabin
Crookston
Dawes
Blaine Visits St Thomas Canadian Welcoming Address
James G. Blaine passed through St Thomas at noon on the Michigan Central express. A brass band and Canadian admirers met him at the depot as he spoke of the hope for Canada and the United States to be united as one nation. He refused to discuss the presidential question on foreign soil.
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Detroit
Mich
St. Thomas
Ont
James G. Blaine
Michigan Central Express
Canada
United States
Thurman reception planned as he faces telephone cases
Washington Democrats prepare for Allen G Thurman arrival next week to argue the telephone cases before the Supreme Court. A small banquet is planned by leading congressional and local Democrats to mark the event while New York politics see no basis for calls of presidential endorsement by Col Lamont.
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New York
The
Herald
Washington
Col. Lamont
Indiana
Oct. J
Allen G. Thurman
United States Supreme Court
Egg attack on Senator Blair shocks Albemarle crowd
Senator Blair of New Hampshire spoke to Albemarle County Republicans in Charlottesville when four decayed eggs were hurled at him. The incident caused a rush of excitement and the assailant was arrested.
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Blair
Staunton
New Hampshire
Albemarle County
Charlottesville
Mystery of the Missing County Treasurer in Minnesota
Charles McWenna, nine years county treasurer, vanished after visiting a relative near Varibault with his wife. A 6200 shortage in county funds and his prior heart trouble fuel theories he disappeared to cover losses or fate. He had previously sold his interest in a dry goods store and may resolve without losses to bondsmen.
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Waaseca
Minn
Charles McWenna
Gilmore
Varibault
Messenna
Liell
Murder plot and burglary spree hit Illinois town
Oct. 6 in Breese near Carlyle a jewelry store was robbed of over 400 dollars value after dawn. Thieves blew open a safe at Adams Express but found it empty and secured few valuables while other nearby sites were entered.
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Carlyle
Breese
Here
Herber
Adams Express Company
Multiple incidents from early October across the Midwest and New York
Reports from WaARBASHA Minnesota state Sheriff Cradle arrested Charles Colbare for stealing a team and carriage in Watertown on Sept 12. Aberdeen Dakota notes George Howard shot in the leg and robbed of 40. Ashland Wisconsin reports Willie Wadden missing near Ironwood with hundreds searching. Paris registry office blast causes minor damage. New York notes Robert Garrett’s attendants troubled by violence but he remains mobile.
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Waarbasha, Minn
Cradle
Charles Colbare
Watertown
Aberdeen
Dak
George Howard
Howard
Ashland
Wis
Ironwood
Mich
Willie Wadden
New York
Robert Garrett
Miner Killed in Caledonia Mine Blast at Deadwood
James Martin, a Caledonia mine miner, was killed when a drill hole exploded using giant powder, his arm blown off as he charged the hole. The accident occurred Saturday in Deadwood Dakota.
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Deadwood
Dak
James Martin
Caledonia
Davenport Club Disbands Over Lack of Support
The Davenport Bell Club directors in Davenport Iowa announced disbanding after paying players through Sept. 15 and withholding full salaries for the last two weeks. Sioux City also ends its season as Chicago club cancelled games and Davenport succeeded. Lawrence Farrell and Wd Smith fought in Denver for 500 under Queensberry rules with Smith winning in the second round.
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Davenport
Iowa
Ihne
Davenport Bell Club
West
Sioux City
Chicago
Denver
Col
Lawrence Parrell
Wd Smith
Montana
Parker
Smith
Farrell
Blaine Departs New York for Detroit by New York Central
Hon James G Blaine left New York City at six oclock for Detroit Michigan on the New York Central railroad. Few witnessed the departure as the hour was not widely announced but he was recognized at the depot and a cheer rose as the train moved. Sir Arthur Sullivan presented his new opera The Yeoman of the Guard or the Merry Man and His Maid at Loxbox.
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New York
James G. Blaine
Detroit
Mich
New York Central Railroad
New Opera
Loxbox
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Merry Man and His Maid
Absconding Lawyer Rumor Shocks City Trustees
Rumor circulates that J. H. Goodman a lawyer of 241 Broadway absconded and that his accounts as trustee of several estates show a shortage near $10,000.
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J. H. Goodman
Broadway
A Case of Necessity
A visitor asks what the convict is in for and learns he is an ex policeman jailed for stealing. He pleads for a pint of peanuts, saying life on the force makes him crave them, and the visitor contemplates helping. The Epoch records the exchange as a humorous moment in prison banter.
Growth of florists trade noted at New York convention
The 1840 scene shows Isaac McKenna among New York florists working long hours on Wall Street with a basket of flowers. He earned about $2 a day as blooms and thousands of New York stores emphasize the expanding floristry commerce.
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New York
Isaac McKenna
Wall Street
Chicago Herald
Mitchell Fair Trip Recaps Aid to Legislature Support
Aberdeen Republican reports editor and wife rode early train to Mitchell fair. Treasurer Lawler and wife en route from St Paul to Mitchell for the winter, Lawler to aid upcoming legislators. Mayor Mentzer and Editor Wheelock hosted in Mitchell. Jesters visiting neighbors. trip marked by wind and dust but fostered local ties.
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The
Republican
Mitchell
Lawler
Enroute
St. Pauk
Trey
Distearek
Leawler
Gismarek
Mentzer
Wheelock
W. ©. Jester
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