25 Sep 1886
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1886
Page
1
Detectives captured Sam Thomas alias The Greek in Cariaco on Sept 25. He and partners allegedly circulated at least 1500 worth of bogus fifty cent pieces and dollars in New York Philadelphia and Chicagos area over three weeks. Moulds and dies found. hunt for additional gang members continues.
A Decatur dispatch reports a Wednesday storm across Adams County with widespread damage. Fences toppled, timberlands denuded, orchards ruined, stock killed or unowned, and uncut corn leveled. Decatur manufacturing roofs were torn off but no deaths recorded. County damage estimated at 50000 dollars. A separate item notes doctors forming a national medical congress with Dr Busey of Wallneron as chair and Dr J Ewing Mean as secretary.
A garbled roundup reports: a man from Chicago seeks a new trial for condemned anarchists. Rev Henry Whits visits President Cleveland at afternoon urging action per Gov Dayser. Other items note a Danish river, livestock disease, moonlighting arrests near Berlin, a suicide near Baltimore, business failures, Berlin troop collision, a Hope County abduction, a Wabash thunderball incident, ex president Arthur health, and a distant treaty rumor with Britain via Ottawa and a note of Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland thanking neighbors for aid after a Holland Patent fire.
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