Wanton Work Washington S Fond Hope on Trans Allegheny Plan
Washington March 9 long article traces early plans for a Cumberland to Pittsburg canal across the Alleghenies. It notes three surveys from 1825 26 and 1875 cost estimates ranging from about 20 to 25 million dollars and outlines route options via Cumberland Castleman and Youghiogheny with a 2100 foot summit tunnel and potential water supply from Savage river.
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Congress
William FE. Merrill
United States
Ohio River
Allegheny Mountains
Cumberland
Pittsburg
New York
Washington City
Tur Dispatch
War Department
George Washington
Chesapeake and Ohie Canal
Savage River
Castleman River
Piney Run
Sedgwick
Merrill
Savage and Blue Lick
Connellsville
Chesapeake and Ohio
Georgetown
State of
Maryland
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
National Turnpike
Brownsville
Monongahela River
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
William E. Merrill
T. S. Sedgwick
Revolt in Hayti Could Support Twenty Million, Says British Minister
Special telegram from New York reports British Minister to Hayti James Zohrab predicting an imminent revolution in the island. He says Hayti, rich in ore, could sustain a population of twenty million under stable rule with property secured. He describes voodoo practices as still prevailing and calls the current calm the calm before a storm.
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Hayti
Garden of Eden
Distatch
New York
James Zohrab
England
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal survey figures from 1820s plan
General Bernard estimated a 341 mile Chesapeake and Ohio route from Georgetown to Pittsburg with 308 locks and a cost of 22 million dollars excluding land. A 1829 resurvey cut the distance to 340 miles and raised questions about total cost, while later reports documented extensive surveys and maps for a potential navigable line through the Alleghenies.
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Bernard
Georgetown
Pittsburg
James Geddes
Nathan 8. Roberts
Canal Company
Cumberland
Will’s Creek Route Sought for Westward Canal
The survey proposes slackwater on the Youghiogheny from Connellsville to McKeesport to end the canal at Connellsville. Colonel Merrill questions Sedgwick’s plan size for Cumberland to Connellsville and orders the Will’s Creek route explored with a new estimate for a westward canal through the mountains.
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Youghiogheny
Connellsville
McKeesport
Merrill
Sedgwick
Cumberland
Merrill Directed the Sedgwick Exploring Party To Examine the Will's Creek
Canal Route Across Pennsylvania Survey Details 1874 75
The Will's creek route to Meyerdale along Castleman and Youghiogheny rivers was long studied as the best path between Cumberland and Pittsburg. Sedgwick notes vast forest obstacles and rock strewn slopes, with a 70 by 7 foot canal profile, 120 by 20 foot locks, a 53 mile summit tunnel, and multiple river dams and inclined planes planned to feed and support the canal.
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Plucher Reservoir
Castleman
Flaugherty
Meyersdale, Pa
WAR Department
Cumberland
Will's Creek
Castleman River
Moyersdale
Youghbiogheny
Connellsville
Youghiogheny
Monongahela
McKeesport
Summit
Potomac
North Branch
Savage River
Piedmont
Salisbury
Youchingheny
Ervey No. 4
Crab Creek
Deep Creek
Youghlogheny River
Oakland
Will’s Creek
Meyerdale
Pittsburg
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Pennsylvania
Will's Valley
Merrill
Sedgwick
Aperereonts
Ohio Pyle Falls
Bridgeport
Ohio Pyle Palis
Ohio Pyle
Georgetown
D. C
Meyersdale
Garrett Station
Pittsburg and
Castleman Station
Pinkerton
Confluence
Wealth and revolutions sting Haiti and islands in interview
A lengthy interview discusses Haiti's wealth from wild crops like coffee and sugar cane, massive government drains, and repeated revolutions. Officials allegedly exile with public funds while unrest continues. Mention is made of a coal station, U S prejudice, and fire-ravaged Port au Prince amid political strife.
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Nemours Auguste
United States
Revolutionary Party
State Department
Pursuit of Apache band ends in desert clash near Globe
U S troops and Indian scouts caught the renegade Apaches after 300 miles across Arizona. Two attackers were killed and a third wounded. remaining two surrendered. Prisoners taken to Globe for confinement as the troops move to their stations.
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Denver
United States
George Herbert
Arizona
Salt River
Globe
San Carlos
13Yearold Girl Accused in Poisoning Case
Alice Page a 13 year old employed by William Smith of Rocheville Mo is under arrest on charges of poisoning his two children arsenic poisoning suspected after both children fell ill following bread with saccharine batter. Authorities seek confession. girl denies wrongdoing and shows composure in public.
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Rockville
Alice Page
William Smith
Murder suspected in Rowland Leach disappearance
Chicago March 9 It is believed Rowland Leach a New York traveler vanished from the Palmer House last Sunday night was murdered. He was last seen in a saloon known as the Little Auditorium and left by a rear door into a dark alley. A woman identified as Edith who lives near the saloon admits meeting Leach and planned a reunion at 8 pm. Leach carried a gold watch and about 100 dollars suggesting a motive for a crime in the rough area.
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ChicaGo
Rowland Leach
New York
Palmer House
Leach
Worden Charged With Bigamy in New York Court
Eugene W Worden, a streetcar conductor, faces bigamy charges at Jefferson Market Police Court. Wife No 2, 22, testified as Worden’s second marriage to Margaret Hefferman was in Jersey City 1887. Wife No 1, Maggie E Worden, claims their Stamford ceremony in 1884. Worden pleads not guilty. judge bound over awaiting New Jersey requisition.
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Dispatch
New York
Eugene W. Worden
Jefferson Market
Maggie E. Worden
Worden
Maggie E. Sherwood
Stamford
Conn
Adrift Five Days Rescued Suffering Sailors Endurance
Gloucester Mass March 9 The schooner Blanche arrived from Grand Bank carrying Edward Fogarty and William Wilson crewmen of Nellie G Thurston who were adrift after 27 February while tending trawls in thick fog. They endured five days of swelling limbs hunger and fear in a dory before rescue.
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Gloucester
Mass
Blanche
Grand Bank
Edward Fogarty
William Wilson
Nellie G. Thurston
Mysterious Tragedy Near Des Moines River Bridge
A frozen body of an unknown young man was found in a thicket near the Des Moines river bridge north of Alexandria Missouri. His throat was cut from ear to ear and his wrists and arms were deeply lacerated, with investigators describing a most perplexing case.
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Alexandria
Des Moines River Bridge
John Sinclair Resigns Ayr Parliament Seat
John Sinclair announces resignation from his Ayr district seat in Parliament. The move comes amid political shifts within the Liberal camp and questions regarding party leadership and Irish policy.
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John Sinclair
Ayr
Mr. Gladstone
Family Perishes in Fire After Kerosene Explosion
A French Canadian farmer near Montreal loses his wife and seven children when a kerosene can explodes and engulfs their stone house. The father, badly burned, tried to rescue them. one child escaped and the other seven died. The oldest girl was away and another girl fled.
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Zohrab
Hore
Mr. Zorab
Spencer St. John
Mr. St. John
Montreal
Dispatch
Cote St. Michael
Collerette
Island
Anvent
Atenpeng
Altoay
Flack Case Mystery Deepens Over Missing Wife
The missing Mrs Flack was traced to William L Hill a political lieutenant of Flacks and kept under guard at the Vanderbilt Hotel. Detectives raced from ferry depots and friends’ houses as trials loomed and a plot to spirit her away was suspected.
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Dispatch
New York
Flack
Bingham House
Mrs. Fiack
Goff
Col. Fellows
William L. Hill
Flacks
Vanderbilt Hotel
Imperial Mausoleum Dedication at Charlottenburg
In Berks on March 9 the imperial mausoleum at Charlottenburg was inaugurated. Sightseers lined the route to the tomb and the imperial party, with heads uncovered, attended ceremonies. The Emperor and family laid wreaths on the coffins of William and Augusta, concealed by abundant fresh flowers.
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Berks
Charlottenburg
William
Augusta
Mary Gallagher 102 Dies in Cleveland Born in Mayo Ireland
Mary Gallagher aged 102 died in Cleveland on March 9. Born January 12 1758 in Achille Parish County Mayo Ireland she immigrated to the United States in 1862 and never learned English.
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Cleveland
Mary Gallagher
Achille Parish
County Mayo
Ireland
Parnell to Prosecute Gazette Over Forged Letter
March 9 report states Mr. Parnell will prosecute the Izeter Gazette for publishing the first forged letter printed by the Times in its coverage of Par nellism and Crime and for daily copying of Times articles.
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Loxpox
Parnell
Izeter Gazette
The
Times
Two Cents a Month in Coal Region Hardships
Scranton dispatch reports miners in the Lackawanna Valley face extreme destitution as several months of poor coal demand yield only two cents to one worker after coal deductions. Relief efforts expand with a citywide committee, a Washington Avenue relief store opens, and a flour fund raises quickly. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad lays off 100 trainmen amid shrinking February wages and a bleak outlook for March payments.
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Scrastox
Lackawanna Valley
Delaware, Lackawanna
Scranton Poor Board
Aather
Washington Avenue
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company
Industrial Senate formed by Knights of Labor and Farmers Alliance
A secret meeting in Trenton New Jersey united Knights of Labor and Farmers Alliance delegates into the Industrial Senate. Forty delegates from each Assembly district supported wage earners and farmers, with officers elected Henry A. Beckmer J A Craig and F W Merritt. They backed nonpartisan election boards and official ballots, denounced ballot box fraud, and endorsed weekly wage payment legislation advancing through the Assembly and to lobby in the Senate.
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Trenton
N. J
Knights of Labor
Farmers’ Alliance
Industrial Senate
John W. Hayes
National Organization of the Knights of Labor
Charles H. Zimmerman
State Labor Oe
Henry A. Beckmer
New York
J. A. Craig
Paterson
F. W. Merritt
New Brunswick
Senate
Assembly
Builders threaten strike over non union labor
The Central Labor Union decided to circulate to New York architects a demand that contracts require union only workers. A strike was expected tomorrow on the Nassau Street building by Eugene Kelly near Temple Court, amid disputes with Volkening & Co over non union hires.
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New York
Building Trades Union
Central Labor Union
Eugene Kelly
Nassau Street
Temple Court
Volken
Elections in France vote totals for Toulouse and surrounding districts
Paris reports elections for the Chamber of Deputies in multiple districts. In Toulouse First district Leygue 5292 and Susini 3255. Second district Calyinhac 4396 Labat 5124 Sirwen 4058. second ballots needed. Loreau re elected at Gien with 7633 over Portalis 7224.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Toulouse
M. Leygue
M. Susini
M. Calyinhac
M. Labat
M. Sirwen
M. Loreau
Gien
M. Portalis
Detective Jackson Killed in Burrows Gang Hunt
A detective named Jackson tracking the outlaw Rube Burrows or his gang was murdered. He had been in Lamar County weeks ago posing as a pedlar, found in the woods five to six days dead with bullets in him.
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Jigpatch
Birmmincham
Ala
Jackson
Rube Burrows
Lamar County
Burrows
Fire destroys multiple Detroit factories on Congress Street
A March 9 blaze gutted Gray & Buffy’s six story furniture factory at 98 100 102 West Congress, Carroll Hunt chair factory, Ostler Printing house, and Carroll’s cigar factory. By midnight fire was under control but fierce. total loss about 250000, largely insured. Buildings belonged to Senator James McMillan and valued at 70000.
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Detroit
Gray & Buffy
West
Congress Street
Carroll & Hunt
Ostler Printing Company
Carroll
James McMillan
Beaver to Start a Bank in the New State of Washington
Governor Beaver and Secretary Stone discuss establishing a Seattle bank in the near future. George Pearson, private secretary to the Governor, may leave his post to manage the proposed institution.
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Washington
Stone
Hakkrispung
Beaver
Seattle
George Pearson
Meewares Debate Mars French Press on Dahomey War
Paris reports the Republican papers back M. Etienne's call for vigorous measures against the King of Dahomey while the people oppose expanding the war into the interior.
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Paris
M. Etienne
Meewares
Ahomey
Giant 193 Acre World’s Fair plan towers over Chicago
A Chicago proposal envisions a 193 acre main structure with a 1000 foot height and a central 1100 foot tower supporting a vast roof via cables. The scheme, a single roofed exposition hall with no interior columns, would use a 3000 foot diameter circle, brick outer wall, and an elevated central gallery system for panoramic views.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Paris
Crystal Palace
London
Raiders Prepare to Move into Cherokee Strip for Farming
News from Wicarta Kansas notes E. B. Roll plans a 120 man company at Caldwell to move Monday into the Cherokee strip about 20 miles south to locate and begin farming. No soldiers are reported to interfere. Other border points may follow the same day.
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Wicarta
Kan
E. B. Roll
Caldwell
Cherokee Strip
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