Five Thousand Tim Signs Erected in St Louis
A wide array of 5 000 street signs has been installed across St Louis as part of a city improvement push. The effort aims to enhance navigation and safety for residents and visitors.
23 Aug 1890
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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1890
Page
1
A wide array of 5 000 street signs has been installed across St Louis as part of a city improvement push. The effort aims to enhance navigation and safety for residents and visitors.
Masked highwaymen seized control on the Kansas City Limited Express leaving Tipton Missouri, taking about 75 000 dollars from the express car. They forced the engineer and fireman to move the train to Otterville, and fled with five confederates after loading the safe. The sheriff and detectives pursue the band.
A quarrel between two white men and several black men aboard the Big Four accommodation leaving Cincinnati at eleven Saturday night escalated near Coal City between Delhi and North Bend. A revolver duel left Mrs Queen Crooks colored dead, George Singleton colored and George Godfrey white fatally wounded, with two other men seriously injured.
At Albany New York on Sunday crowds of roughs along the New York Central tracks attacked armed Pinkerton men with stones. The Pinkertons fired back injuring three bystanders. One Pinkerton was arrested and later rescued by colleagues.
Partial OCR notes describe a stagecoach robbery between Linkville and Lake View. Details are incomplete with a list of passengers and a boxcar mention. No clear suspects or outcomes are provided in the fragments.
Dispatches report Guatemala troops mutinied on the Salvadoran frontier over pay. Guatemala cites 30 000 troops with Honduran support, while El Salvador lists over 20 000 troops elated by recent victories. Diplomatic talks in Mexico City indicate peace efforts likely to end soon. a Mexican guards’ unit deserted, bayoneting its lieutenant, with three deserters captured.
A brutal cyclone overwhelmed Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania on a Tuesday afternoon. Homes were demolished and roofs torn off while trains and wires lay down. The death toll stood at twelve with early reports of more possible fatalities and extensive property loss across Hazard Wire Rope Works Stegmaier brewery and East Market street blocks.
Vice President Webb of the New York Central declines to arbitrate after letters from T WY Powderly Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor. He says all dismissals were for cause, not because workers are Knights. Members of all railway brotherhoods will be ordered to strike.
In Boston at a large Steam Railroad Men's Union, No. 1 gathering and in Charlestown No. 3, resolutions were passed to back the New York Central strikers. They argue the Central’s action is a prelude to similar road-wide labor actions to defend organized labor.
The record traces Senate and House activity from August 2 to 18, noting resolutions to investigate steel stamping, tariff debate limits, and conference reports. Oklahoma relief, Grant burial request, river and harbor bills, and Chickamauga Park set pieces feature amid adjournments and quorums. Heavily tied to federal appropriations, public works, and memorial actions.
Aunt Lizzie Green died in Charleston West Virginia reportedly at 102. Friends claim she once had dark chocolate skin and had recently turned white. only portions of her face and toes remained darker, rest of her body very pale.
Davis Dalton swam the English Channel from Grisner to Folkstone on his back in twenty three and a half hours with a boat acting as pilot. The feat concludes with a strong finish by the American swimmer.
Mary Pagle, aged fourteen, climbed a fence to pick pluma from a tree near Bloomington Illinois on Monday evening. The fence broke and she fell into an uncovered well. She was found dead about half an hour later.
Henderson Fax a Black man was removed from jail and fatally harmed by a mob of about 200 men from the crime neighborhood near Trenton Tennessee last May, after confronting Miss Dowling a white girl.
Henry Hunter, a prominent young man of Athens area, was assassinated Monday night at Carter's Camp along the Georgia Carolina and Northern railroad about eight miles from Athens. The killer was a negro named Ed Morrison.
Several steamers of the new Russo Servian line under Prince Gagardin arrive at Radujevaz on the Lower Danube bringing 75,000 rifles and 2,500,000 cartridges for the Servian military.
George Faribault, chief of the Indian Police at Standing Rock Agency North Dakota, has died. He was known as the Daniel Boone of Minnesota and a man of great influence among the Indians.
Police Officer Eagan was shot in the side while attempting to arrest a desperado in a rough Birmingham, Alabama, district. The officer is reported to be seriously wounded as the confrontation unfolded.
A woods hall express derailed near President's bridge in Mass causing a 12 foot embankment crash. Twenty five injured and about twenty dead including Oscar Fennely's family from Louisville. Car No 236 scene of most horror with many passengers crushed and dying.
Train crews report Summerville, Pa, thirty miles west of Scranton, was struck by a cyclone Tuesday afternoon. The engine was lifted from the track and the cab blown off as windows shattered under the wind, with reports of two trainmen eyewitnessing the destruction.
Michael Curtiss of Brownsburg Hendricks County suicided by hanging after a three months confinement at the Insane Asylum. A fire at C. E. Geis endorf Co woolen mills in Indianapolis caused estimated losses of seventy thousand dollars. Dora Beetman of Huntington died from rabies contracted by a dog bite years ago. Democrats nominate Martin for reelection in the Eleventh District. Shively renominated in the Thirteenth. A division in Terre Haute’s German Lutheran Church leads to a new church over funeral regalia. Robbery, fires, and fatalities are reported across several counties including Columbus and Indianapolis. A burglarized gun shop owner dies by trap in Columbus City. A boy's tree accident near Brazil injures two, and other local incidents and political notes appear.
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