Epitome of the Week Domestic Recaps Tragic Deaths
A rapid Fire of reports from the week includes William Hracenxorr of the Milwaukee Sentinel dying after an artery burst in Louisville. W. W. Wells dies in Somerset Kentucky. Jacob Herrung, a brewer from New Albany Indiana, dies by his own hand after financial embarrassment. Fires calamities devastate towns in South Dakota and Kentucky. Lynching and mob violence occur in Tennessee and Virginia. A list of accidents, fires, strikes and societal reversals follows with multiple fatalities and notable losses across states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Hracenxorr
Milwaukee Sentinel
Somerset
W. W. Wells
Cincinnnati Southern
Queen and Crescent System
Jacob Herrung
New Alband
Decatur
Ala
Louisville & Nashville
Brooklyn
N. Y
South Dakota
Buck Newton
Lebanon
Tenn
Perry Combs
Martin Romano
Coutts
Abingdon
CoLtonin Ricward Lane
Chicago
Allegheny City
Harry Lteroy
Decorah
Quincy
Pittsburgh
Edward Dietz
Dwicar L. Moopy
Chicago Avenue Church
Frsu
White River
Columbus
Ind
Downs & Finch
New York
United States
Des Moines
Fort Dodge
Indiana Board of Agriculture
Bear Paw Mountains
Fort Benton
M. T
Isaac Rice & Co
Boston
Harrison
Sth
Attica
Frankfort
William Pray
Frank Sorzer
Wilkesbarre
Sorber
Trenton
N. J
Maggie Mitchell
Henry T. Paddock
Joan Wourixparcer
Greenlee
Rutledge
Winamac
Nrak Crescent Bay
Ore
Thompson
Wabash
Iowa
Snell and
Litchfield
Bettie Gorman
Lima, D
Fordyce
Ark
Titus County
Tex
Frank Shhulze
J. W. King
Hubbard & Co
Lewes
Del
Avere
P. F. Pratt
First National Bank of
Anoka
Notable Figures in Politics and Arts Span Ups and Downs
Reports from Rochester to Washington list EowWin Boots facing possible career end after paralysis, W C Brury denying a Korean mission, Mrs Margaret Sargent dies in Boston, Rev Dr Edward Beucounr loses part of a foot, James A Vost reappointed as Post Office clerk, Idaho calls a constitutional convention, Robert Lincoln accepts England posting, Rhode Island election results show Davis leading with a plurality, Bricep Doopy and Daniel Bauch reach milestone ages, Joel R Erhardt named NY collector and Cornelius Van Cott postmaster, Abram Gale dies aged 93, Representative Ryan resigns to become Minister to Mexico, Pito Heminuwron of Remington & Sons dies at 72.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EowWin Boots
Rochester
N. Y
W. C. Brapury
Kentucky
Corean
Margaret Sargent
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Boston
Edward Beucounr
Henry Ward Beecher
Brooklyn
James A. Vost
Maine
Post Office
Washington
Stevenson
Idaho
Boise City
Dubois
Robert T. Lincoln
England
Blaine
Rhode Island
Davis
Ladd
Chace i
Richardson
Bripcet Doopy
Mineral Point
Wis
Knockmahon
Ireland
Daniel Bauch
Seymour
Ind
Ith
President Harrison
Joel R. Erhardt
New York
Cornelius van Cott
Abram Gale
Chicago
Ryan
Kansas
Mexico
Puito Heminuw Ron
K. Remington & Sons
Ilion
Silver Springs
Fla
Mixed world news briefs from Ottawa to Paris and London
Reports from February to March detail unopened mail at Montreal post office, Mexico city lard import decision, Peruvian bondholder payments, French treason charges against General Joulanger, a Boston pastor’s suicide in London, Stanley and Emin Pasha in Africa, a Dublin whisky syndicate, severe storms in Hungary and India, French League trial outcomes, Chinese embassy deportation talk, the Duchess of Cambridge’s death, drowning in Victoria BC, famine in northern China, Panama Canal line hunger, Belgian order of Bouanacer, Surat fire and cholera, and a Paris Eiffel Tower observation of forty mile visibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Tur Board of Health
City of
Mexico
Chamber of Deputies
General Joulanger
Nev
Cuarues Sipyry Harp
Palmerston Unitarian Church
Boston
Euston Hotel
London
Explorer Stanley
Wilds
Emin Pasha
Zanzibar
Dublin
Ireland
Apviers
Hungary
India
Hurat
League of Patriots
Paris
Apviets
China
Wong Kwang Pei
Washington
America
Duchess of Cambridge
Queen Victoria
Victoria
B. C
Panama Canal
Bouuanacer
Belgium
Brighton
Eny
Surat
Liffel Tower
Storm wrecks shipping as sailors perish in Chesapeake
Advicts report a severe storm sweeping the lower Chesapeake Bay causing heavy shipping losses near Baltimore. More than a dozen seamen died and thirty to forty vessels were wrecked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Chesapeake Bay
Cheyenne
Francis HK. Warren
Wyoming
Adame C. Tanner
Canton
Interior Department
Washington
Fine
Arkwright
Savannah
George W. Sheckels
Shelbyville
Ind
P. H. Sheridan
New York
Albany
Louisville
Louisville Bridge & Iron Company
Macaig May
Cannellton
Coucu
Winfield
Kan
India
Rhode Island
General Assembly
Port Huron
Mich
R. F. Scion
First National Bank
Evansville
Teasurer Grance F. Krewort
Hoyt & Thomas
Boston
Peten
Catholic
Mansfield
Trnn-Bucs
Columbus
Monongahela River
Pittsburgh
Daniel Kehr
Shamokin
Virginia Coast Hurled by Furious Saturday Hurricane
A deadly Virginia coastal storm wrecked numerous vessels and caused widespread damage. Sailors were lost or rescued across Ocean View, Cape Henry, Willoughby Point, and Nansemond River while bridges and civic buildings suffered extensive harm. The total damage in Norfolk area estimated at $2,000,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Nonrook
Virginia Beach
Berryman Ff. Poole
Providence
Baltimore
Zatack Station
Emma Ff. Hart
Nassau
Boston
Cape Henry
Zatack
William Lawrence
Andrew Johnson
Lie
York River
Old Point
Chatham
Willoughby Point
Northampton
Cherry Stone Creek
W. P. Davis
Crang Island
Charles H. Sinnickson
Ocean View
Hester A. Waters
Nansemond River
G W. Covington
Eva Osborne
James
Watson
Peg Point
Emily N. Burton
Rising Sun
West Norfolk
Godfrey
Carrie May
Western Branch
Smithfield Creek
Scawell’s Point
Pig's Point
Old Dominion
Guyandotte
Virginia, Capes
James Boyce
Charles N. Briggs
Lamber’s Point
Fairwood Suffolk
Salisbury
John W. Covington
Hiester A. Waters
Hampton Roads
Petrel
Hampton
Princess Anne
Ida
Portsmouth
Watchful
Pillner’s Point
Naval Hospital
Seaboard
Roanoke
Atlantic & Danville
Christian Church
Berkley
Annie Fr. Clark
Robert Nealy
Mary A. Irving
Berkeley Flats
Anna
A. Williamson
Sleepy Halls
Woodward
Elijah J. Bercie
Georgia
Norfolk
Rappahannock
Kasson Describes Samoan Conference Aims
John A. Kasson arrives in New York en route to the Berlin Samoan conference. The commission includes William Phelps, George Bates, and Kasson with Harold Sewall as clerk. They seek uncommitted ent to secure order, honor native independence, and avoid large force on the islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Kasson
New Yor
Iowa
Washington
Berlin
William Walter Phelps
New Jersey
George H. Bates
Delaware
Mr. Kasson
Harold N. Sewall
Maine
Herbert John A. Kasson
Bismarck
Count Berchen
Edward Malet
England
Kasson
Prof. William Glass Blazes Egg Eating Challenge
In Verndale Minnesota on April 9, Professor William Glass took a $40 wager to eat five dozen eggs in thirty minutes. He boiled eggs briefly and finished all 60 in eight minutes, eating 32 in 45 seconds and the remaining 28 in under two minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlottesville
Somerset
Josefa J. McDowitl
St. Louis
Oklahoma Country
Santa Fe Road
Oklahoma
Grand Army of the Republic
Decatur
Rmpert Key
Steubenville
Norfolk
Chicago
New York
Briparr Curting
Louisville
Salt Lake City
Wilford Woodruff
Mormon Church
Elizabeth Smith
Bridgeport
Conn
Worcester
Mass
Autmost
Smithfield
N. C
J. Laupermminch
Lebanon
George Rudolph
Davis Junction
Kokomo
Ind
Lynch Brothers
Tur
Canyon Diablo
N. M
Sth
Virginia
Bloomfield
Mich
Frank Harss
South Dakota
Firer
Illinois
George Washington
United States
Secretary of War On
Denver
Fort Logan
John A. Logan
Jacos Sanot
Hugh de Payen
Knights Templar
Easton
Willliam Simpson
Kelly
Atlanta
Wisconsin
Harrison
Military Department of the East
Department of Dakota
Stanton
George Q. Cannon
Princeton
Ghent
N. Y
William Glass
Verndale
Minn
Masonic Temple
Col
Minnesota
Gla
Indiana Farmers Boycott Binding Twine Trust
A large Anderson meeting on April 9 pledged to pay no more than fifteen cents per pound for binding twine and to shun any merchant selling twine above that price. They resolved to boycott twine binding reapers while the trust endures and said they will let hogs eat wheat rather than submit to the trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Binding Twine Trust
Anderson
Ind
Twine Trust
Terrible Prairie Fire Wrecks Dakota Farm District
In Yankton County and surrounding areas prairie fires devastate farms and homes. Eloise Madison, badly burned, is rescued with others escaping through smoke and flames. Dozens of families lose possessions. Douglas and Brule counties report heavy losses and fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pawn
Minn
Dakota
Yankton County
Rapid City
E E. Bailey
Eloise Madison
G. E. Bailey
William Ashton
Mrs. Bailey
Mr. Ashton
Miss Madison
George Hunt
Freeman
Douglas County
William Cline
Cline
E. W. Cline
Ashton
Oakwood Lake
Frank Goodfellow
Chicago
Wisconsin Woods
Proclamation Urges Centennial Observance and Prayer Hour
President Harrison urges nationwide observance of Washington’s centennial on April 30. He calls for a 9 AM hour of prayer and thanksgiving in churches and synagogues to seek providential blessings for liberty prosperity and peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washieton
Harrison
Washington
New York
George Washington
Republic
Congress
Benjamin Harrison
United States of America
Wedding charivari ends in fatal shooting in Iowa
A Des Moines report says Wheelock was married at Chester Center Poweshick County. A charivari crowd used improvised instruments until about 1 AM when a young lady relative returned with a shotgun and fatally wounded Fred Bacon who died Friday morning. The incident marks a second such tragedy in the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moine
Wheelock
Chester Center
Poweshick County
Fred Bacon
Furious storms sweep over states cause widespread damage
Storms lash Delaware Bay Norfolk and Lewes with high winds and floods. A barge Sunrise sank near Lewes on Saturday night, five people drowned. Norfolk reports a cyclone like storm with 54 mph winds, heavy flooding, and major property losses including cotton and coal warehouses. The Pensacola sank in drydock. widespread telegraph and infrastructure damage followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware Bay
Norfolk
Lewes
Del
Norfolk Norfoirk
John A. Gamage & Son
Savage, Son & Co
Commission House
Cotton Exchange
J. W. Perry & Co
Opera House
Masonic Temple
Virginia Beach
United States
Pensacola
Simpson Dry Dock
Winchester
Ricu Mono
Washington
Alexandria
Fredericksburg
Cincinnati
Missing Cashier Sparks Bank Scandal in Anoka
P T Pratt, cashier at First National Bank of Anoka Minnesota, disappeared with about 80000 in funds amid a tangled case involving a handsome woman and overdrawn accounts. Bank directors and the examiner moved to appoint a receiver as Pratt’s whereabouts remain unknown in Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. T. Pratt
First National Bank
Anoka
Minn
Canada
First National Bank of
Minneapolis
Pratt
Merchant's National Bank of St. Paul
Chicago
New York
Jacobson
Boston
H. C. Ticknor
Northwest
A. C. Frauman
Ei. L. Reed
T. Woodbury
W. Husaanon
D. C. Durhuain
M. Peck
Merriam
Presidency of Woodruff Organized at Mormon Conference
At Saint Laverry Utah on April 8 the Mormon conference saw the first presidency reorganized with Wilford Woodruff as president and George Q. Cannon and Joseph T. Smith as counselors. Lawrence Snow becomes president of the Twelve Apostles. Woodruff, long head of the Twelve, delivered an inaugural sermon urging piety faith and obedience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brigham Young
Woodruff
Saint Laverry
Utah
George Q. Cannon
Wilford Woodruff
Joseph T. Smith
Lawrence Snow
Twelve Apostles
John Taylor
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W. H. McGinnis
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James L. Cunrsrm
United States Senate
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