WICKED WINDS DAMAGE ACROSS EVANSVILLE AREA
Storm reports detail extensive destruction from Evansville and surrounding counties. Homes and barns unroofed, livestock killed, telegraph and telephone lines down, and flooded streets. The L. and N transfer packet Belmont sank with fourteen lives lost, and several mills and works suffered heavy losses. Two thousand people are rusticating in Yellowstone National Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Wiley
Wm. Wells
The
Agricultural Society
J. B. Elliott
Wm. Armstrong
Mt. Vernon
John Soper
Stewartsville
Poseyville
Griffin
Evansville
Roelker
Armstrong Furniture Co
J. W. Throop
Silverthorn
James Blackman
Belmont
Henderson
John Smith
Evanaville
Yellowstone National Park
Various World News Bits From Many Regions
A sweeping miscellany notes Bald win's Santa Anita Ranch in Los Angeles County with vast acreage and orchards, a Mississippi man tallying grain counts, Brazil demand for U S wooden houses, J B Grinnell’s town claim, and the largest organ in Riga. It covers oil from sunflowers in Russia, French voters in Maine, a mule driver near San Fernando, opium poppy cultivation by Chinese in Merced County, Watt’s workshop preserved, a Trumbull body misadventure, polygamy in Utah, and boiler explosions in the past year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin
Santa Anita Ranch
Los Angeles County
California
United States
Brasil
Rio Janeiro
la Plata
Buenos Ayres
J.B. Grinnell
Grinnell
Iowa
Walck
Ludwigsburg
Cathedral
Riga
Russia
Maine
San Fernando River
Tamaulepas
Mexico
Merced County
James Watt
Heathfield Hall
Trumbull
Conn
Beecher
The
Salt Lake Tribune
Utah
London
North Carolina
Auberine
Czar
Poland
Stanley
Central Africa
New Mexico
Hudson
DeVoe
Hackensack
Philadelphia
Hernando County
Florida
Keys
Local Drift Neighborhood Notes and Gleanings
A roundup from Rockport to Richmond reports near misses on rail lines, a barn collision on Wabash track, and a veteran shot 129 times in the Civil War who receives a $216 annual pension. Also notes political nominations, local curiosities, weather-ish events, and outbreaks of smallpox in Richmond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockport
Air-Line Railroad
Evansville
Wabash
Alton
Quantrell
Oakland
Lynn
Levin Wilson
Owensville
Blaine
Logan
Gibson County
Stilwell
Clark County
Vanderburg County
Scholz, Wunderlich, Pfafflin & Co
Gloomy outlook marked by party defections and pledges
The Washington Gazette notes a bleak political mood with defections from Blaine’s camp and waning enthusiasm. Maine polls show prohibition likely to pass. Ohio and Wisconsin factions realign. Ohio Republicans raise funds while Maine and Virginia divisions stir the race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Rep
Maine Statesman
Mr. Blaine
Mexico
Butler
Ben
Charles A. Dana
Maine
Indiana
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Ohio
Blaine & Co
Pound
Wisconsin
Cleveland
Hendricks
New Jersey
Virginia
Gov
Cameron
Commercial Gazette
Patent Helmet Siege Turns Politics Into Riotous Humor
A Chicago Herald piece recites a tall Iowa tale about a beer-filled patent helmet as a campaign stunt. An Iowa man plans mass production to sway voters, boasting beer-accessible helmets and wide Republican influence from Davenport to Council Bluffs. It mentions Blaine cabinet talk, New York cargo displays, Vermont losses, and Rhode Island Senator Axmont’s death, with colorful political current events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Cleveland
Wieke
Greenbackere
Davenport
Council Bluffs
Blaine
First Guns Arkansas and Vermont Maine on Monday Next
Reports from the September elections show heavy turnout with Democratic gains overall. Arkansas and Vermont-Maine predict strong Democratic majorities, while Maine and Vermont are watched for Blaine supporters amid Republican confidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Vermont
Maine
Little Rock
Arx
Simon P. Hughes
Ware River Junciion
Michigan
Ohio
Illinois
Portiana
Blaine
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Register
Oow- Slater
Hunadon
Rotary Publici
Ilinois
New Harmony
Ind
Notary Public
New Harmony Register
Brall & Mumford
Jerd Brothers
Glaseware
H. T. Slater
Enry Brown
F. Owen & Co
Wiihelm & Co
Eter Weber
Ord & Bennett
John Walz
Register
Ohn W. Miler
Marble Works
U. S
U.S
C. A. Snow & CO
Oppositite Patent Office
Washington
Hovey & Menzies
United States Courtea
Supreme Court of the State
Posey
Vanderburgh
Court House
Sepdy
Mount Vernon
Arctic
Albert 8. Newsom
Church St. Bet. Main & Brewery
Albert
Star Saloon
Thomas
Ford
William Richards
Gibson
Union
Henderson and Daviess Counties
Eureka
Main Street
G. W. Warren & CO
Gibson, Vanderburgh
Warrick, Spencer
Dubois
Chickering, Mathushek
Emerson, Hazelton, Guild, Hallet & Davis
Christie & Sons
Peek & Sons
Packard Orchestral Organs
A. B. Chase and Johnston
E. W. Noen
Black and Harmony Townships
Meat Market
Noah Frank
Haas
Charles Kimmerling
Kimmerlin's
Henry Brown
Casadays
E. F. Owen & CO
Monitor Saloon
Tavern
J.T. Hagie
Adam Marsh & CO
Jacob Breith
Breith& Auch
Breith
Jes Y
Horace P. Owen
Eugene
Thrall
New Harmony Banking Co
Eugene 8
Thomas Mumford,Jr
Eugene F. Owen
Charles A. Parke
William H.owen
Alfred Dale Owen
Cook & Rice
Evansville, Ind
Awful
Ohio River
Carmi
Centerville
Here
Phillipstown
Crossville
William Zeigler
John Haffa, Jr
Zeigler's
Sylvester Tobin
Poseyville News
Dominion of Canada
Western Union
Chicago
Zacatecas
San Antonio
Robert G. Ingersoll
Martha Washington
Denis Osborne
India
Buffalo
Mars. L. M. Barza
Saratoga
Ventura
Cal
Nicuroan
Californis
Aurora
South Bend
Geo. Ford
Congress
H. G. Thayer
Terre Haute
Indianpolis
William D. Bynum
New Albany
James A. Keigwin
Albion
Cairo
Vincennes
Fort Wayne
Princeton
Olney
Richmond
Chicago Herald
Illinois Central
New York
Knights
New Hampshire
Connecticut
New York City
Ben Butler
Clevelano
Adirondack Mountains
West Brighton
N. Y
Buffalo County
Dak
J. B. Axmont
Rhode Inland
Bex Borten
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