Numerous World News Briefs From 19th Century Dispatches
A wide assortment of short items reported from New York and abroad. Topics include fines in New York City for a telegraph company, a United States steamer replacement ordered for San Francisco, and the death of Tom Hayes. Other notes cover a Winnipeg suspect arraignment, Harvard’s boat race, royal betrothal news, an arctic island coaling station, and railway resistance threats in Africa. Additional items mention a surrogate grant in New York, passengers aboard City of New York, wage woes in Blackstone mills, post office civil service censure, Congo region fever deaths, and Bank of London Latin America plans.
Segment from a late 19th century US newspaper item
Long OCR fragment covers multiple items: Yale Senior class rites, bank executive sentencing, western battles with Native Americans, railway and transportation notes, political nominations, Paris Exhibition Edison exhibit, shipwrecks, Swiss cantonal projects, and various obituaries, accidents, and rail incidents.
Johnstown Notes on Relief Fund and Recoveries
The Fourteenth regiment and relief branches assist workers as funds are distributed. Jaspe Cummins, appointed as disbursing officer, will assess relief applications. Contractors and merchants discuss property sale near Betfort. about seventeen thousand people qualify for the $1 per capita relief. The morgue tally reaches 22,000 with about fifty more unlisted cases. Vincent Webber and Godfrey are named in incomplete records.
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Jonxetons
Fourteenth Regiment
Emplores Jn
Paks Vesterfar
Cambria
Joheson
State Commission
Moming
Retail Merchante” Association
Aok
Philadelphia Capitaliste
Betfort
Mainstreem
S Larre
Om Morgues
Vincent Webber
Godfrey
Saloonkeepers rounded up as closing law enforceme nt sweeps Ohio
Courier reports 125 saloon keepers arrested in Cincinnati for violating the closing law. Other items note Illinois farm mortgage indebtedness up 33 percent since 1880, Louisiana authorities blocking a Sulivan Kilruin clash, and various local tragedies and political moves across the South and West.
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Cincinnati
Louisiana
Suliwan
Kilruin
Tragedy as Sheriff Ramsey Shot by Farm Worker
A Chariton area tragedy recounts the attempted arrest of an insane man at a farm. Sheriff Ramsey confronted the fugitive in a barn and was shot dead by James McGinnis amid alarms from farmhands. The incident sparked widespread shock across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samer? Ramsey
Laras County
Farmer Bioase
Des Mons
Jamesh
Chariton
Haying
Nafua
Myers
McGinns
McGinnis
Southern Gleanings and Notices From Tennessee and Nearby States
Monteagle Assembly plans events with speakers from Vanderbilt Tulane and University of Tennessee. Southern Presbyterian committees relocate headquarters to Nashville to broaden gospel outreach. Death of Mrs Felicien Grundy Porter noted with biographical details. Iron ore vein found near Alabama claims strong steel potential. Strike at Linoleum and Hart furniture ends as Black worker joins whites. University of South Carolina reports diverse degree graduates. Steve Allen, colored, hanged in Oxford Mississippi for murder. execution described briefly.
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Monteagle Free
Coantry
W. H. Payor
Peebely Normal College
EW. Bone
C PF. Smith
Baskerville
Vanderbilt University
PF. Piesgerakl
A G. Hayges
Decatur
W.T. Barrie
Concord Mass
J L M. Curry
Richmond
T. A A’chieon
Nashville
MH. Jones
St. Louis
Maurice Thompson
Crawtwille
Ted
W. & Wyman
University of Alabama
Hoo
W.¢. P. Breckinridge
Kentuccky
Jas. Dh x
Murfreesboro
D. E Bushnell
D. D
Chattanga
MH. Houston
D. C. Rankin
Committees of Foreign Missions
Southern Presbyterian Church
Baltimore
Tenn
General Assembly
Chattagooga
Felicien Gromiy Porter
South
Tean
Felia Grundy
Porter
Robert MW. Porter
TM Steger
Judson
St. Laws
William Eakin
T M Porter
Herspitale
City Seylams
Bo«Pitels
Work at Johnstown to be completed in ten days
Adjutant General Hastings reports the state will finish the Johnstown recovery in ten days from today. The effort includes removing debts from the Conemaugh River area and cleaning streets and cellars. He urges denying relief to wage earning heads of families and single men while proposing temporary housing and a money relief commission to municipalities. The ration list has been cut from 34 000 to 15 000 and the commissary will be turned over to citizens of Johnstown.
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Yale College
Gimaiahee
mInent
Fasp Brsor
Wace
Magtenga
Cambria
Augusti
Denmark
Sante Paola
W. Tuomas Haapecastig
Lancaster
Flynn and McKnight
Johnstown
Chicago
Baltimore & Ohio Railway
Woant Pilatus
Klimsendorf
Palleya
Mount Pilates
Bellevue Hotel
Goverson
Forskee
Thiridl
Mromrex
Sars Edison
Hexsar Woops
Alabama Mining Company
Saintly
Nassau Street
New Fork City
Stetel
Mass
University of South Carelins
Columbian
Hen
Ewart Atkinson
Massachusetts
Philsilphian Reading Railroad Company
Stewart Will
Famvoom Sivsat
Des Moines
Des Mofines
Fredifie
George
Wintiau Wattsa Pusers
New Jersey
Congress
Eva J. Smith
Brich- L Metor
New York
German Federal Council
Mege
Cuncecer M. Carew
Washington
White House
New York City
Hanameran
Govermor
Hastings Sss
Merrow
Cogemaagh
Dobastown
Mysterious Box Found in Pythagoras Hall Sparks Plot Theories
A strange box with a dirt colored sabetace and a face was found in Pythagoras Hall after a disrupted District Assembly session. The finder blamed Quinn faction plots to blow up the building. an officer disposed of the box by tossing it overboard at Grand Street Ferry. Meanwhile a separate note mentions Ashur D Cohen seeking release for McDow to reunite with his wife and child.
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Jane
Pythagoras Hall
District Assembly
Edward Kantar
District Assembly 40
James E Quinn
Quinn
Bureau of Combustibles
Grand- Street
Sierra Leone
West India
Benk Ruysch
Maiaman
Blumenbach
Basil Hall
Vatea
Hervey Island
Polo
Abremani
Newcastle
Eng
Local Man Falls From Window in Gallatin
In Gallatin Tens Clay Lyles of Saunderville fell from the third floor window of A Trousdale’s law office to the pavement about twenty feet below and suffered a fatal skull injury.
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Gallatin
Clay Lyles
Saunderviille
Hom 3. A. Trousdale
Multiple Disasters Hit South Regions From Explosions to Drought
The Burrow dynamite works near Ladin ation of the East West railroad of Alabama exploded with shock felt in Cartersville and surrounding towns. A child near the works was fatally injured, and reports describe widespread damage to cotton crops across Tennessee Arkansas and Mississippi amid unusual frostless injury. An electric street railroad test near Chattanooga proved successful. In Beattyville Kentucky Miss Mattie Steele reportedly hanged herself in search of a railroad camp. the cause unknown.
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East & West Railroad
Alabama
Cartersville Gap
Landedale
Dyer
Tipton
Tenn
Mississippi County
Ark
Electric Street Railway
Chattanooga
Beattyville
Mattie Steele
Bowe Camp O
Iiteben
Notable Global Oddities and Maritime Tales Reported
A collage of world notes covers London police staffing, footpath protection, English society figures, hawking legends, inquests into pheasant egg mishaps, Yorkshires watchmaking push in Lancashire, Paradise papers from Honolulu, and shark lore from Sierra Leone to West Africa. It sketches royal governess Hildyard, Kaiser William naval zeal, and perilous shark encounters near ships with historical anecdotes.
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National
England
Vera
London
Duke of
St Albans
Hawks
Hawking
Nel Gwynne Swath
Prescot
Lancashire
Tong
Honolulu
Mise Hildyard
Prince of Wales
Princess Royal
Vacquero Horsemanship Compared To Modern Cowboys
In reminiscence the author recalls old Mexico vaquero riders who could pick up tiny objects on the gallop by hitching spurs to the sinch and using rowels to grip. He contrasts with contemporary cowboys who, he says, merely jingle spur bells for show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Mexico
St Louis Giobe
Lack of Courtesy to Wives in Western Life
A Western woman laments husbands' courtesy to wives and contrasts it with women who lack servants yet bear heavy burdens. She recalls how a man thanked her for saving him a seat at a concert, then awkwardly apologized, mistaking her for his sister Mary.
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James
Mary
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Tax Civil Service Commission
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Lower Congo
Conge Commercial Company
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Mexico
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Sherif Ramsey
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Ala
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Lincolne & Hart Furniture Works
Chatume
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University of South Carolina
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Steve Allen
Oxford
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