Ex-Gov McCormick named Paris Exposition Commissioner
News of the Week reports Ex-Gov R C McCormick confirmed as Commissioner-General to represent the United States at the Paris Exposition. Also noted are civil service reform plans to Congress, Navy inquiry on the Huron disaster, pardons, pardoned taxes, and political developments including silver remonetization efforts.
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R. C. McCormick
United States
Washington
Congress
Executive
Naval Court of Inquiry
Huron
Secretary of the Navy
Ryan
Lieut
Palmer
Navy
L. J. Draper
Philadelphia
Menzies
Baltimore
Draper
Patterson
South Carolina
Hayes
Southern Pacific Railroad
Seventieth Birthday of Poet Whittier Noted in Boston
A Boston celebration marked John G. Whittier s seventieth birthday on the 17th. News from Paterson New Jersey reports a devastating coal-oil car fire that night, damaging houses and barns as tanks burst and flooding streets.
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John G. Whittier
Boston
Paterson
N. J
New York
Bankruptcies and deaths mark Chicago and Michigan events
Henry Greenebaum of Chicago filed a voluntary bankruptcy for himself and the private bank H Greene baum & Co on the 17th. Hon John T Driggs former Michigan congressman died at East Saginaw on the 17th. The California Legislature elected J F Farley United States Senator by party vote on the 18th. Springfield Savings Bank failed with liabilities of 162000, depositors to be paid in full. The American Dairy Exhibition opened in Chicago on the 18th with butter and cheese displays and large attendance. Rev George Fox Seymour was elected Bishop of the Springfield Episcopal Diocese on the 19th. Cosmopolitan Savings and Exchange Bank of San Francisco failed on the 19th with depositors to be paid in full. Patterson prosecution in Columbia is to be vigorously pursued and Hampton’s friends seek to remove him from the Senate. A large Sioux and Nez Perces force was reported crossing the region near Sitting Bull.
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Henry Greenebaum
Chicago
H. Greenebaum & Co
John T. Driggs
Congress
Michigan
East Saginaw
California
J. F. Farley
United States
Springfield
Ill
Canada
George Fox Seymour
D. D
New York
Cosmopolitan Savings and Exchange Bank
San Francisco
Columbia
D. C
Patterson
Hampton
Senate
Sitting Bull
Borax Mines of Nevada A Valuable Discovery
The Borax Mines of Nevada describe a valuable discovery in Esmeralda County Nevada where a young prospector found a vast borax bed in Teel's Marsh. An assayer declared the sample the richest borax seen, leading to large claims, equipment, and a thriving operation producing pure borax.
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Esmeralda
Nev
Pepe
Hile
Teel’s Marsh
Columbus
Chicago
Scientific American
War News Dec 13 Russia in Mobilization and Balkan Moves
Russian losses reach 77 658 men as Servians seize Odesse and Prokopolje. Russia mobilizes 60 000 more troops and presses a forward push from Plevna while Danube battalions continue crossing. Austria vows neutrality. Britain panels mediation options. Sulieman Pasha to command in Roumelia. Turkish Parliament to decide on negotiations. English pressure to clarify peace terms.
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France
Italy
Austria
St. Petersburg
Russia
Odesse
Danube
Plevna
Prokopolje
Fort Inramov
Todleben
Rustchuk
Porte
Sulieman Pasha
Roumetlia
Great Britain
Ardanutseh
Komaroff
Erzercum
England
Balkans
Nisch
Leskovatz
Beecher Answers Trinity Questions in Plymouth Sermon
In a Plymouth Church Brooklyn sermon on the 16th Henry Ward Beecher described belief in the Trinity as three persons in one Godhead yet admitted he did not know the why. He denounced orthodoxy as heathenism and warned against universal heaven or hell judgments, stressing conscience in preaching and opposing Satanic substitution of scripture.
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Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
N. Y
Henry Ward Beecher
Mr. Beecher
Adam
Heaven
Hell
Jesus Christ
God
Satan
A Romantic Affair Ends in Baltimore Wedding
A widow from Jackson Mississippi and a widower from Norfolk Virginia met at Saratoga last summer. After a flirtation and a planned secret marriage in Baltimore, weather delays forced them to reunite. They married at St Barnabas Church and planned to buy an almanac for their first housekeeping purchase.
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Jackson
Miss
Saratoga
Norfolk
Baltimore
Virginia
Mississippi
Camden Station
St. Barnabas’ Church
Doni zetti and the Ulster tailor tale in Paris
A Paris journal recounts Doni zetti as the inventor of the Ulster. While the composer plays at the piano the tailor measures for an overcoat from knee to ankles. The amused exchange ends with the boast I never walk I soar.
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Paris
Donizetti
Devastating Barclay Street Candy Factory Explosion
A massive explosion and rapid fire at Greenfield & Sons candy factory at 63 Barclay Street and 3 College Place, New York, killed and wounded dozens. Estimates place workers at 120 to 200, mostly young girls and boys, with at least forty to fifty bodies buried. searches continued as flames spread and roofs collapsed.
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New York
Greenfield & Sons
Barclay Street
College Place
Greenfield
College-place
Barclay-street
R. Kleinn
Peter Stadtmiller
Stadtmiller
Mr. Greenfield
Grocers’ Bank
D. D. Tompkins’ Brown Paper
Barclay
Col. French
French
United States
McGill
Roundsman
Coffee
New Yorks
William H. Bradley
Brooklyn
William Bennett
New York Hospital
War on the Rio Grande stamps El Paso unrest with troops sent
Washington reports Gov Hubbard sought aid from the President. Gen Sherman directing Sheridan to deploy all available troops to San Elizario and El Paso County to keep the peace. Fort Stanton and Fort Bayard forces expected to move to the scene. the conflict seen as local with no warlike aims. Mexico denies cross-border participation. salt mine dispute blamed for local violence.
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Washinaton
Gov. Hubbard
McCrary
Sherman
Sheridan
Fort Stanton
el Paso
Fort Bayard
San Elizario
Cuicano
Tex
New Mexico
Texas
Army
Capt. Blair
Fort Bliss
Texas Rangers
Judge Howard
Atkinson
McBride
Mexico
Gilmanton Woman Farmer Runs 75 Acre Farm
Mrs. J. D. Piper of Gilmanton New Hampshire is a woman farmer over sixty who manages a seventy five acre farm and does all fencing planting hoeing and other farm work except haying.
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Gilmanton
N. H
J. D. Piper
Fail on the Snow Shovel Drifted Sidewalk Title
A Rome Sentinel note recalls a boy with a snow shovel facing a drifted sidewalk. The vivid phrase Fail appears on the title page in oversized letters, capturing a youthful, brisk moment from a local scene.
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Rome Sentinel
Crimes and Casualties From a Grim Ledger Across States
A long list of fatal and brutal incidents across Illinois, Alabama, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming details skirmishes, fires, stabbings, drownings, beatings, and hangings. Notable cases include Miss Sadie Nicholson’s death after an ice accident, a Lynn Mass. arrest for brutal abuse of an orphan, and a mob lynching of Henry alias Boot Alexander after a trial. In Kentucky, an unknown shooter killed William Buchanan, while a detective in St Louis fought for survival after a gunfight. A Missouri convict, John Donahue, dies from an emery-wheel accident in prison. The report paints a portrait of violence, crime and tragedy across 19th century communities.
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Robert Dennis
Benwood
W. Va
Ann Cary
Lynn
Mass
Day
William Buchanan
Marshal
Grey
Buchanan
Lewis Leech
St. Louis
Yost
Leech
Ala
Sand Mountain
John T. Boon
Jacob Horter
Kahoka
Horter
Boon
William H. Devlin
Lowell
Devlin
John Kintzler
Snyder County
Henry
Boot
Alexander
Thomas Dougherty
Readville
Tenn
Warren County
Murfreesboro
Romance of a Singer's Life in Annie Cary's Circle
A reminiscence from the Chicago Inter-Ocean notes Miss Annie Louise Cary aided two friends who married, she became their sisterly counselor, and later divested affections to her art. The piece ends with a playful quip on changing wives and modern marriage.
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Annie Louise Cary
Miss Cary
Iss Cary
Thut
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Englishman in Boston Bites Man's Thumb Off
An Englishman newly arrived in Boston bites a man’s thumb off in a startling incident. The remark suggests the offender may be from distant lands, reflecting period attitudes toward foreigners.
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Boston
Gnanthumberland
N. Y
Ohio proposes separate prisons and workhouses reforms
State charities board urges a segregated system with prisons for minor offenders and workhouses for those accused, proposing Cincinnati Cleveland Toledo Portsmouth and Zanesville sites. Reports also note Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia health, funding, and aging plans, plus railroads commissions and growing canal conditions and various local incidents.
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Board of State Charities
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Toledo
Portsmouth
Zanesville
General Assembly
Xenia
Ohio
Shaw
Youne
L. G. Delano
Chillicothe
William Burke
Supreme Court
Victor
Franklin County
Hine
Chester Cross Roads
Geauga County
Erie Street Medical College
Creighton
Lancaster
Doylestown
Joseph Keller
Akron
Board of Public Works
Miami & Erie
Lewistown
Henry Banks
Dayton
Eowwarp Robinson
H. J. Walls
William C. Cocoran
Bellaire
Incuam
SchuLtz
Columbus
Joan Moss
Thomas Charter
Mineral Ridge
Gypsum Floor Treatment Aims to Reduce Stable Odor
Ground gypsum spread over stable floors reduces ammonia fumes that irritate equine eyes and can cause ophthalmia. A practical method is to pour water on the floor then scatter a shovelful of gypsum to absorb odors and improve horse health.
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Cambridge New
Cambridge
Guernsey County
L. G. Haines
Cooper
M. Jefferson
Drs. Cooper & Jefferson
West Market Street
Shaffner & Beymer's
Thompson S. Crow
Farmers’ Etatel
Mill Street
Wm. Rainey & Son
J. G. Ferbrache
Times Building
Cambridge, Ohio
Morton
Starr Hotel
Joseph Morton
West Side Public Square
Warner
Caldwell
Thomas Lloyd
Corner Market and
Fifth Streets
N. D. Savage
Capt. J. McVay
William A. Carr
Rainey
Mill St
J. Woodford
Prrk Street
Noors
Z. D. Taylor
T. H. Anderson
Taylor & Anderson, Attorneys-At-Law
Taylor
Wm. M. Sions
Guernsey
Jane
D. K. Kyle
Mackey’s Art Gallery
India
A. F. Hubert
Main St
Cambridge, O
Sarah Jane Moss
Jani
C. T. Sweet
Cumberland, Ohio
Lambert Thomas
E. Harper Jeffri
Lambert, Thomas & Co
North Water Street
Delaware Wharf
Philadelphia, Pa
Kirk House
Grant House
M. Kirk
Proprietors
Zanesville, Ohio
J. W. Lippincott
Beecher
Cor. Broadway
South Streets
Quaker CI
Effairview House
Fairview, Ohio
J. F. Dubois
Sehobing
McCollum . & McKinney
South End Mill Street
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Lone Deer
Indiana
Indianapolis
Hiram Smith
Sheboygan
Wis
Philadelphia Board of Trade
City Chamberlain
New York City
Peter B. Sweeney
Albert A. Woodward
Tammany Ring
Woodward
Dorin
Wilkesbarre
Sunday News
George B. Kulp
Kirkendall
National Trust Company
National Reform Convention
U. S
Rochester
Henry Hickey
John Cronin
Cronin
Hickey
van Hoesen
Albany
George Baker
Chester
T. S. Lambert
American Popular Life Insurance Company
Montgomery Blair
City
Court of Appeals of
Maryland
Union League Club
Evarts
Gen. Devens
Henry Norfolk
Annapolis
Vandyke
Ogdensburg
Canton
Willie Hopkins
Pittsburgh
Yorkville
Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad
Foreign Intelligence
San Domingo
Baez
Spain
Mercedes
Europe
Gen. Grant
Mount Vesuvius
James Ballantyne
Edinburgh
Lachine Canal
Santi Spirito
Cuba
Milne
M. Prevost Parados
Grant
Herculaneum
Pompeii
Fenian Davitt
Dartmoor
Turkey
Crete
Greece
Christ
Nevada
Philip Hertzbach
Horton
Sanitary Squad
Walling
Rio Grande
Austin
Sadie Nicholson
Maron
Frank Flynn
Providence
A. L
Jake Horn
Fred Fritsch
Mr. Swartz
Farmer City, Ill
Silver Springs
Wy. T
Co. A
Third Cavalry
Kennedy
Schaffer
John A. van Molt
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