Grand Army Reunion Opens At Camp Van Dervoort
An estimated forty thousand attend the Grand Army reunion at Camp Van Dervoort in Denver on opening day. Gov. Grant of Colorado and Comrade J. R. D. Adams of Lynn address veterans while Mayor Routt and Dept. Commander Stimson welcome them to the city and state. A grand procession follows, noted for a carriage bearing four soldiers with two crutches each and a splendid review before the St. James hotel. Albert B. Heath of Philadelphia is elected national commander-in-chief.
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Syms
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Colorado
van Dervoort
John L. Routt
J. R. D. Adams
Lynn
Mass
Stimson
John A. Logan
St. James Hotel
Washington
Albert B. Heath
Philadelphia
Grand Army
Collision on the Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad
A derailment near Carlton New York on the Thousand Island train results in multiple deaths and injuries. Engineer fatally wounded and fireman killed protectively. Rescue efforts staged from Charlotte twenty five miles away with aid arriving promptly. Hon Thomas Hoyne of Chicago among the dead, passengers mainly from Michigan.
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Charlotte
Thomas Hoyne
Chicago
Michigan
Death of Gen Ord from Yellow Fever in Havana
Gen E O C Ord of the U S Army, who sailed from Vera Cruz to New York on the City of Washington, contracted yellow fever and was removed ashore at Havana. He died last evening at ten oclock. The body is iced while the family arranges burial.
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Fuller sues Western Union for blocking messages
Philadelphia today C E Fuller of 188 South Delaware avenue filed five civil suits against the Western Union Telegraph company for refusing to transmit a message under ordinary printed conditions. Fuller appeared before the magistrate this afternoon and had the writs issued returnable Monday. Processes will be served on Superintendent Zeublin this afternoon.
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C. E. Fuller
South
Delaware Avenue
Western Union Telegraph Company
Fuller
Zeublin
Curiaco
Western Union
Chicago & Milwaukee Company
Brotherhood
Stfikers
Board of Trade
New York
Dillon
Cudliff
Richmond
Detroit
Stewart
Board of Trades and Transportation
Pirristne
Huces
Brotherhood of Telegraphers
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United States
Canada
American Rapid Telegraph Company
Joan Campbell
Western Union Company
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Washington
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Pittsburg
Albany
Syracuse
Nobley
Bremer
Kingsley
Board of Aldermen
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Exchange
How Many Know From Bill Arp on Education
In the Atlanta Constitution Bill Arp extols practical training for youths, praising a self-made path from northern schooling to mining engineering and factory leadership, and questions how many state college boys understand timber, surveying, steel, and basic mechanical skills.
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Atlanta Constitution
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Resignation defined as placing God between us and trouble
A succinct reflection defines resignation as the act of placing God between ourselves and our troubles, framing faith as a buffer and guide during hardship.
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God
Nebraska Democrats call convention in Omaha for August 29 1883
The Nebraska State Democratic Committee announces a convention to nominate a Justice of the Supreme Court and three University Regents. Delegates are apportioned by county votes from 1882, with a July 20 1883 notice urging counties to organize delegations for the August 29 meeting at the Academy of Music in Omaha. J Sterling Morvon chairs the state committee. N W SM Alls serves as secretary.
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Omaha
Academy of Music
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Cattle Disease Tracks Across Wood River Valley
Plum Creek Pioneer reports a peculiar cattle illness spreading in the Wood River valley and the Loup region. Early signs are watery eyes with total blindness developing after about two weeks. affected animals otherwise remain healthy, with one eye showing a cataract-like condition.
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News of the Week Highlights and Disasters
Storm victims at Bellevue Hospital New York collapse on a balcony twelve men injured none seriously. Geddes blast furnace disaster eight men killed instantly. one hundred tons of brick fell. President Arthur visits Cape May as Union League Chicago hosts reception. Schenectady collision injures six. East Greenville telegraph error blamed. Prize fight near Niantic Pa halted by armed women. Roscoe Conkling travels to Yellowstone. Julia Blake quarantined Philadelphia yellow fever death. Bridgeport sewing machine works fire leaves four hundred idle. Tewksbury investigation costs Massachusetts eighty six thousand. Rob Roy sunk near Jefferson City Missouri. Montgomery Blair dies at Silver Springs Maryland. Grand Army encampment set for Minneapolis. Havana yellow fever deaths forty eight. Carey arrives Montreal under alias O Neill.
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Mob Attacks Steamer After Convict Boss Fatally Wounded
Ida Darraugh reports a mob of several hundred at Burnett's Landing fired on a steamer fatally wounding Alfred Werner boss of a convict gang. Sheriff Deshan later escorted Werner and three convicts toward Arkansas City before the mob attacked. A negro convict swam ashore and escaped. The report also covers a Chicago incident where private watchman Richard Conner fatally wounded Myron Franks, a Louisiana crime, a Nashville embezzlement verdict, and other varied public notices.
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Richard Conner
Myron Franks
Chicago
Natchitoches Parish
Louisiana
Gabriel McLaughlin
Polk
Nashville
Treasury Acts to Inspect UK Vessels for Cholera Risk
The secretary of the treasury orders immediate appointment of a sanitary inspector to examine ships leaving the United Kingdom for the United States. The inspector will report any vessels with disease on board to U S health authorities. The move follows cholera rumors in London docks.
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Liverpool
United Kingdom
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Senate Committee On Education and Labor
New York
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General Land Office
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Cholera Flares Across Countries Amid War Fear and Strikes
Reports tally cholera deaths in Cairo and environs, Mansurah, and other Egyptian cities with hundreds of fatalities. Dispatches note outbreaks in France England and Russia, with Paris inspectors tightening housing measures and Bismarck's health. meanwhile telegraphers strike disrupts lines across the United States, arousing labor actions and arbitration talks.
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England
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Liverpool
Catholic bishops order priests to return to Prussia
Mehalla 62 Tantah 28 Issmalia 3 and a British soldier are noted as part of the figures. Catholic bishops begin using powers from the government church bill recently passed and demand vicars and candidates for the priesthood to return to Prussia.
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Tantah
Issmalia
Germany
Prussia
Last Swim of Captain Webb Believed Fatal at Whirlpool
July 25 Burya Ohio reports fading hopes for Captain Webb. Bets hint at life elsewhere. eye witnesses deny alive ground. Webb planned the rapids swim, saying he could hold breath a minute and a half, faced current, aimed to prove it and denied seeking fame. His manager reports no sign of him by night.
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Paul Boynton
Vengeance Struck: Polk City Murderer Hung by Mob
A mob of about fifty men from Maine seized Hardy, the Polk City killer, from a Harlan jail at 3 AM and hanged him with ropes and sledges. They shot him during the act, then disposed of the body in the river. Jailor Watkins was forced to yield the keys. Sheriff Chatborne took custody of the corpse as an inquest was planned.
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Norman Cassler
Friendville
Crete City
Dainley
Seward
Hampton Journal
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Department of Justice
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Brown County Election Decides County Seat at Ainsworth
The official count from a special election in Brown County confirms Ainsworth as the permanent county seat. The People's ticket from Ainsworth swept all elected positions.
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Nes
Brown County
People‘s
Calamity at Tivoli Pier Drowns Sixty to Seventy
A catastrophic plunge at North Point Tivoli exca vation resort near Baltimore after the barge Cockade City struck the wharf. An estimated sixty to seventy people drowned, many women and children, as the wharf gave way under the crowded end awaiting the return boat. Coroner to open investigation. causes disputed between barge overload and wharf collapse.
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Calamity Strikes Cassimbola in Naples Area Earthquake
A severe earthquake near Naples devastates Cassimbola and nearby towns Loria and Lacumena. The quake at 9:30 PM collapses most Cassimbola houses and sinks Hotel Piccola Sentinella. Three thousand believed killed. rescue and evacuation efforts mobilized with steamers chartered to bring wounded to the mainland.
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Lacumena
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Forio
Terrana
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Ischia
Horrible Accident Near Webster Leaves Boy Dead
In Taylor county near Webster a farmer, Wm. Carsons, drove a mowing machine while holding his three year old son. The horses panicked, the father fell, and the machine cut down both. The boy was killed, the father fatally injured, one horse died, and the farmer's wife fears death from shock. The mower was shattered in the accident.
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Taylor County
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Fatal shooting in Smoxey narrows to a jail term
Special to the Omaha Republican reports a fatal shooting affray in Smoxey Neb. between H Maynor and Ir Rickets after a elopement involving Rickets daughter. Rickets died, Raynor was wounded and jailed. The incident followed attempts to separate the couple with Raynor’s wife sent to Cheyenne.
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Neb
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Rickets
Cheyenne
Burial of famed naturalist Warder in Cincinnati
Prof John A Warder renowned naturalist and horticulturist died last Friday in North Bend Kentucky and was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery Cincinnati at night with minimal ceremony. His sons sought a flat coffin to allow rapid decay but an ordinary coffin was used. Only the undertaker and the two sons attended the burial, which occurred in near midnight. Warder’s society members express anger at the lack of notice for the funeral.
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John A. Warder
United States
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Spring Grove
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Warder
Pure Water for Hogs by J M Stahl
J M Stahl argues in the American Agriculturist that hog health hinges on pure water. He warns decaying plant and animal matter in water as disease carriers and notes August as a critical month when hogs drink more, face heat and fever, and the September–October fatal period follows ingestion of disease germs.
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J. M. Stahl
A Diamond Story Reveals a Frauds in Gems
A Boston letter recounts a scam where a fine diamond, bought for 7000 dollars, was revealed as two stones joined with Canada balsam. Expert testing showed the beam of light and microscope exposed the deception, exposing a 4500 dollar loss.
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Boston Herald
Projected Deep-Sea Lighthouses Stir Engineers in London
London engineers discuss W C Anderson plan for hollow riveted iron buoyant lighthouses. A 200 foot tube would have a 140 foot upright waterline section and a submerged ballast section anchored by steel cables. The device would ride waves, stay stationary, and connect to telegraph cables.
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Rentroud Journal
W.C. Anderson
London Society of Engineers
Anderson
Jon
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