Reports from the era cover wars and executions across borders
Emperor William’s health improves at Gastein while Ev Meser’s dying wish urges his heir to continue anti Christian war. The New York World notes $100000 for Bartholdi pedestal funds, Ohio bars early morning executions, Wagner hanged for murder. Riel’s rebellion ends in a swift 30 minute verdict and a hanging. Pittsburgh switches to natural gas with fewer accidents, Astoria clamshell deposit spreads across acres, ancient clam relics found, a whale-tooth clam opener recovered amid 400 year old firs.
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Astoria
Ore
Reunion of the Iron Brigade in Madison
Veterans of the Iron Brigade plan their annual reunion in Madison Wisconsin on September 16 and 17 with Gen John Gibbon likely to attend. The Madison organizing committee promises a warm welcome and reduced rail and hotel rates for attendees from Wisconsin Minnesota Dakota Iowa Kansas and Nebraska. General Hollen Richardson will deliver the annual address and Generals H A Morrow and others are expected to attend with governors of Indiana and Michigan possibly present.
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Old Iron Brigade
Madison
Wis
John Gibbon
Heaponstrees Ino
Brigade Associati Font Lanants
W. T
Joux GiBror
Hollen Richardson
Wisconsin
H. A. Morrow
Michigan
Indiana
F. L. Phillips
Minnesota
Dakota
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraskaspapers
Wisconsin Sparta to house the state school for dependent children
The Wisconsin school for dependent children will be located at Sparta, as part of a series of national and local notices. Other items include a $250 contribution to Buffalo Music Hall restoration, postponed Italian murder cases, a large Spiritualist camp meeting at Cassadaga Lake, and various civil and international concerns.
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Wisconsin
Sparta
Paxsipent
Cleveland
Buffalo Music Hall
United States
Cassadagh Lake
Chautauqua County
N. Y
Coorsk & Hewitt
New York
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Chicago saloon keeper arrested in Detroit bank robbery
Joseph Harazis of Chicago was arrested on a charge of complicity in a July 1880 bank robbery in Detroit. The report lists other violent incidents including a jailhouse attack in Georgia, a masked burglary in Minnesota, and multiple local feuds and assaults with fatalities.
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Joseph Harazis
Chicago
Detroit
Monticello
Jack Hopkins
George Gilmore
W. R. Merriam
St. Paul
Davis County
N. C
Charles Owen
Tom Allen
Owen
Knox County
Kentucky
T. Tuggles
Adolphic Bergeron
Montreal
East Saginaw
Mich
Bergeron
Charles H. Bergman
Bergman
Charles River
Boston
Mass
East Cambridge
British soldier hanged in India for rebellion
A British army soldier in India who recently rebelled and shot several native officers was hanged at Bangalore. Reports note severe storms in southern France with heavy loss of life and property. An Englishman in Vienna, Boydell, is under arrest for attempting to blackmail Mr. Gladstone. The Russian government reportedly plans a poll tax on foreigners staying over a fortnight. March 4 and July 4 case counts in Spain are cited, with 28 044 cases and 12 367 deaths. German ambassador Coust Von Munster declines France mission and will retire. A telegraph from Tashkend reports a major earthquake damaging Bisheerzek and Beloochsk. A London rumor suggests Lord Chief Justice Coleridge may wed an American widow. The Russian military claims Afghan forces number 20,000 on the frontier, while Russia has thirty companies between Penjdeh and a border region. Italy drafts conversion talks with England.
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India
Bangalore
France
Boydell
Vienna
Mr. Gladstone
Spain
Coust von Munster
London
Tashkend
Russia
Bis‘heerzek
Suluk
Beloochsk
Coleridge
United States
Destructive Fires Hit Several U S Firms and Homes
A string of fires ravaged businesses and residences across Iowa Ohio and Pennsylvania. Tas extensive ice house at Shedd & Co Chicago destroyed near Oconomowoc Wisconsin. Willow Springs distillery at Omaha burned. John Epis 72 hanged himself near Philadelphia due to domestic troubles. Brakeman Gro Willeer killed near Youngstown. 18 year old Epwanp Dons died on a stock train near Pittsburg Wayne and Chicago railway. Landau & Bohner car factory saw mill burned. Dover & Co flint glass plant in Pittsburg burned. Royal Electric Light Works and Nutters Box Factory Montreal burned with four tenement houses. total losses around 160000. Toronto fire caused over 1,000,000 in damage and two deaths. Maurice Daupheimer drug store Baltimore gutted. Michael Halloran injured. Brighton Ill houses burned including Masonic Hall and News office with losses about 10000. Thunderstorm at Marion NC lightning destroyed barn killing three negroes and livestock valued around 4000. Barn belonged to Solomon Hansell. tenants were Hansell family.
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Tas
Shedd & Co
Chicago
Oconomowoc
Wis
Omaha
Neb
Willow Springs
Iler & Co
Peron
John Epis
Philadelphia
Ohio
Gro. Wiieer
Pittsburg
Lake Erie
Youngstown
Epwamp Dons
New York
Fr. Wayne and Chicago
Landau & Bohner
Dover & Co
Royal Electric Light Company
Montreal
Electric Light Company
Toronto
Maurice Daupheimer
Bro. & Co
Eutaw Street
Baltimore
Michael Halloran
Brighton
Alton
Ill
N. W. Waldo’s
Blodgett Bro.’s
Stratton & Tate
Masonic Hall
Marion
N. C
Garters
Solomon Hansell
Hansell
Secretarys EnpirotT and Whitney and Postmaster General Vilas
Secretarys EnpirotT and Whitney and Postmaster-General Vilas will spend most of the summer at their homes. The Marine Hospital Bureau reports 24 yellow fever cases and 4 deaths in Havana up to July 20. General McKeever is ordered to San Francisco Oct 1, relieving Colonel Kilton. Whitney creates a naval officers commission to study Navy Department operations. Garland's opinion holds grazing leases illegal on Cheyenne and Arapahoe lands and Cherokee strip lands. Sorghum seed distributed this year yields about 10 percent germination. Behncke, pardoned, may land in New York as pardon not tied to emigration.
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Marine Hospital Bureau
Havana
Grn. McKeever
Adjutant General’s Office
Washington
San Francisco
John C. Kilton
Whitney
Naval
Navy Department
Garland
Cheyenne and
Arapahoe Reservation
Cherokee Strip
Department of Agriculture
Behncke
New York
Mothers Should Note This Physician Advice on Cough Cure
An old Cincinnati Medical Journal piece urges rural residents to use cough remedies without opiates poisons or narcotics. It promotes Red Star Cough Cure as a recently discovered vegetable formula proven safe by health boards and effective for relief without danger or fatal risk.
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Cincinnati
Boards of Health
Ravages of Cholera and Storm Strike Spain
Reported across Spain there were 3,317 new cholera cases and 1,364 deaths yesterday. In Madrid 37 new cases and 23 deaths occurred. A violent central and northern Spain storm yesterday damaged property and felled telegraph lines, with many people reported injured or displaced.
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Maprw
Spain
Tay
Destructive fire at Toronto drains vast docks area
Aug 3 Toronto reports the most destructive blaze in city memory. A glucose factory fire spread along the Esplanade, destroying vessels, docks, warehouses, and boat houses within a half mile. One watchman, Henry Ward, perished. many sailors rescued by tugs amid scorching heat and flying embers. Loss estimated over a million dollars.
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Toronto
Esplanade
Henry Ward
Glucose Works
Annie Milroy
Church Street
Grant monument association asks clergy to urge gifts
New York on August 3 the Grant monument association issued an address to the nation’s clergy urging contributions at church services after the burial of General Grant. Funds would go toward erecting a monument above his grave.
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New York
Grant Monument Association
United States
Grant
General Hancock Arrives at Mount McGregor Cottage
General Hancock arrives at Mt McGregor with staff, telegraphs from Saratoga requesting no salutes in his honor for bad taste. He marches to the cottage, met by Col. Grant. initial access limited to the general and his staff, later doors opened to others.
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Mr. McGregor
Hancock
Saratoga
Mt. McGregor
Col. Grant
Logan to push Grant burial in national capital
A Washington special says at the Grand Army of the Republic's urging Gen. Logan will seek a congressional resolution next winter declaring it the nation’s wish that Gen. Grant’s remains be interred at the national capital.
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New York
Washington
Grand Army of the Republic
Logan
Congress
Grant
National Capital
Cattlemen Seek Delay on Cattle Removal Plan
Delegations representing leaseholding cattlemen in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe country met Secretary Lamar to urge delaying the president's extermination proclamation. They warned Kansas and Colorado quarantine against Texas cattle risks starving 250,000 head if moved before April, and requested until July to complete transfers. They stressed legitimate business interests and better relations with Indians amid ongoing concerns.
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Washington
Cheyenne
Arapahoe
Secretary of the Interior
Kansas
Colorado
Texas
Lamar
Earthquake Hits Tashkend Region Damages Cities
Despatch from Tashkend Asiatic Russia reports a major earthquake in Bisheetzek Suluk and Bzl voodsk. A church shattered in Bel ooodsk as crowds gathered, with many killed and dozens injured. Shocks persist and panic spreads among inhabitants.
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Lonpox
Tashkend
Russia
Bisheetzek
Suluk
Bzlvoodsk
Belooodsk
Germany Fears France May Attack. Egyptian Cabinet Cut to Four
The North German Gazette says France is agitating at the frontier and may attack Germany with allies. In Cairo the Egyptian cabinet plans to reduce to four ministers for economy. Sennaar garrison resists Mahdi's forces with frequent sorties. Marseilles reports cholera cases mainly among the poor. quarantine talks underway as 22 deaths occur in 12 hours.
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Paris
France
Germany
Vienna
Cairo
Nubar Pasha
Abdel Kadir Pasha
Mustapha Fernia Pasha
Abderrhaman Ronchdi
Sennaar
Mahdi
Marseilles
Legrande
Bronordel
Fate of Riel Dominates Montreal Conversation
In Montreal on August 4, the fate of Louis Riel dominates street talk. French Canadians allege preconcerted condemnation and accuse the judge of bias. Some say the government will not hang Riel and petition for pardon are being signed. Funds are being raised to enable an immediate appeal.
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Montreal
Riel
Jefferson club opposes fusion with greenbacks in Scott county
Davenport authorities report the Jefferson club of Scott county adopts a resolution opposing fusion with green backers on the state ticket. In Louisville Tate wins state treasurer seat over Fox, amid low turnout after Citizens' league defeats. Cattlemen protest Texas land sales while 30 million acres await sale or lease. Helen Hunt Jackson lies dying in San Francisco after a fall months ago.
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Davenport
Jefferson Club
Scott County
U. S. Consulto Vera Cruz
Department of State
Tate
Louisville
Auz
Citizens’ League
Fox
Galvestox
Austin
Texas
San Francisco
Helen Hunt Jackson
State election in Louisville for treasurer and legislature
Louisville Kentucky August 3 state treasurer race pits Tate Democrat against Fox Prohibition with Republican support. Legislature seats also on ballot. Voters report light turnout and public lethargy toward a constitutional convention call, contributing to a subdued election day.
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LouisviLle
Tate
Dem
Fox
Prohibition
Two Little Blue Boots At Seaside Park Widow Scandal
Bridgeport reports a widow in a Brewster victoria drawn by bays attracting stares. In a Park incident last Saturday her blue kid boots flashed from under founces as a trotter struck the carriage. She fell to the road, boots visible, then vanished with her carriage covering. The widow, said to rent a cottage at Southport, has not been seen since.
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Seaside Park
Brewster Victoria
Bridgeport
Barnum
Victoria
Park
Southport
Philosophy of being easily pleased in heat
A Washington Irving style reflection advises enduring heat by being easily pleased. It cites digestion as half the battle, urges gratitude for cooler seasons, and praises tempering worries. The writer praises a mindset that shrugs off discomfort, with Whittier’s Snow Bound and autumn as comforting anchors.
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Washington Irving
Whittier
Gladstone to campaign in Midlothian this October
England reports that Gladstone will visit Midlothian in October to mobilize support for the general election set for the third week in November. London notes a new clause’s approval in the commercial bill granting search rights to guardians and others in good faith involved in girls welfare.
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Lonpon
Gladstone
Midlothian
London
House of Commons
Baker leaps from Nashville suspension bridge into Cumberland River
Henry Vanderfeight, a baker, leaped from a Nashville suspension bridge into the Cumberland River while intoxicated. He fell 110 feet, turned midair, struck the water with heavy impact, and is expected to recover. A new Pittsburgh play traces a abstinence pledge drive since November 26, with 57,800 participants across 76 meetings conducted by Francis Murphy and his son.
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Nashville
Henry Vanderfeight
Cumberland River
Francis Murphy
Pittsburgh
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