Floor Collapses at Syracuse Church Strawberry Festival Tragedy
A second floor collapse at Central Baptist Church during a strawberry festival in Syracuse, New York, kills fifteen and injures about two hundred. Pastor Rev. Geo Dowling and several others are seriously hurt as rescuers search in darkness for victims. Names of the dead and injured are being collected amid widespread mourning.
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Steadne
N. Y
Central Baptist Church
Geo. Dowling
C. W. Wainwright
Austin Barnes
James M. Crow
J. E. Karr
Gussie Carpenter
Abijsh Veeder
Uties
Grecie Holmes
Misa Miouie Caine
Taaye Atic Leonar
John Austin Orsuranter
Mise Minnie Thomas
Frank Orlvns
Luuibrin
Mra Qo
Wadawiinewitl
Rubidly
Calendar of Conventions and Elections for the Forty-Fourth Congress
The document lists numerous state conventions and elections dates from July through November. It notes ratification of the Isney Constitution on August 18 and outlines the nationwide election schedule for Representatives to the Forty-Fourth Congress, with state-by-state timing and the meeting of Congress on the first Monday in December 1876.
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New York Times
Indianapolis
Montgomery
Kentucky
Topeks
North Carolina
Lanting
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Warrieburg
Tennessee
Nashville
Pitsburg
Columbus
Vermont
Laws
Nebraska
Georgia
West Virginia
Louisiana
Alabama
Arkansas
Delaware
Florida
Wlinota
Kansas
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Missouri
Nevada
New Jersey
New York
Caroline
Texas
Virginia
Wisconsin
Navy
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Connecticut
California
Mississippi
Nathan Mansion Haunts: Not Yet Demolished in City Crime Lore
The Nathan murder four years ago at the family residence on Twenty third street left the house as a haunted site. Unlike other famous crime houses, it has kept investors away, and no demolition occurs due to the public abhorrence. The piece cites similar properties in Bond Street and Twelfth Street but notes the Nathan mansion bears a unique, lingering specter.
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Nathan Manalon
Cunningham
Hokzers
Grand Central
Coe
Nathan
Twentythird Street
Hasen
Canningham Fealdence
Bond Street
Anguinary Burdell
Benjamin Nathan
Rogers House
Twelfth Street
Nethan
New Fork
Minnesota Locust Plague Strains Crops Across Regions
An eyewitness account from Grasshopper county Minnesota describes a vast locust swarm threatening wheat oats corn and potatoes. The writer notes the pests resemble Egyptian locusts veering south and east, with red bugs feeding on locust eggs. They may fly after a month drifting on winds, risking widespread agricultural damage and anger toward railroads.
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Minnesota
Grasshopper County
Hudson
Jean
How Americans are swindled by a Paris swindle
A Paris correspondence recalls a case where an American woman, impressed by a tasteful monogrammed note and matching paper, ordered a large box with envelopes from the same shop. She paid an astonishing price of one thousand francs two hundred dollars in gold for a single box of note paper.
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Paris
Asya
Czar or Emperor Title Debate in Russian History
The article discusses whether Czar is the correct title for Russian rulers. It notes Alexander II is often called Golboldar or Tzar, cites the 1516 first use by Grand Duke John Wastlewitch, and mentions Peter the Great’s 1782 request to be Emperor of all the Russias. It explains the title’s limited use to certain regions and asserts Czar is but an inexact designation for the emperor.
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Czar
New York Evening Post
England
Des Debata
Uist
Clon O
Russia
Alexander II
Lord
Tzar
Sweden
Peter the Great
Russias
Czir
Kazan
Astrakaon
Siberia
Poland
Taurus
Georgia
The Readiness of Reform in the Republican Party
A Harper's Weekly commentary and New York Times editorial praise the Republican Party for independence of criticism and readiness to reform. It notes repeal of the salary grab, abolition of the moiety system, Sanborn contracts repeal, and treasury reforms, arguing these actions show vitality and a path to purification amid Democratic criticism and internal party challenges.
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Harper's Weekly
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Bécime
Douglan
Congress
Saya
Committee On Ways and Means
the Treasury
District of Columbia
Republi
Fdr
House
Ge Butler
Bassachusetts
Committee of Congress
South
Carolina
Ita
Contesband Streight
Douglass Democrats
Pape
The
New York Times
Republiesin Party
Tweed
Butler
A Native Prince Abducts a Married Woman
A Times of India report recounts Maharajah of Gwalior abducting a Muslim resident’s wife in Lucknow. He seized her with armed men after she left him, despite her conversion and new marriage in Mecca. The magistrate referred the matter to the chief commissioner, who ordered the Maharajah to leave Lucknow by special train with no further action taken.
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Germantown
Oman
Durham
Ile
Ande
Times of India
Maharajah of
Gwalior
Sevidis
Lucknow
Moossulman
Maharijah
Gucknow
Mecca
Resa
Ube
Widow feigns aid to robbers then poisons them
A Lexington paper reports a widow in Anderson county received about 600 dollars from Washington for an army claim. Robbers disguised as Negroes raided her at night, demanded the money, and after she offered 125 dollars to pay her nephew, she cooked supper with poison. Two robbers died next morning, one identified as her nephew. Details scarce.
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Lexington ‘Ry
Anderson County
Washington
Hastings
Meatrice's Proposed Husband A Mecklenburg Strelitz Match
Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria's 17 year old daughter, reportedly to wed Adolf Friedrich, heir to Mecklenburg Strelitz. Adolf, 26, is son of a ruler who governs a small territory yet owns vast landholdings. The match links to the British royal family through maternal connections to the Duke of Cambridge. The Grand Duchy faces emigration and shrinking population under paternal rule.
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Meatrice
Beatrice
Victoria
Adolf Friedrich
Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Germany
Adolf
Hite ‘Duke of Cambridge
George II
Hanover
Grand Duchy
Ita
Essay on Mysterious Jug as Parable of the Heart
A Middletown editorial uses a jug as a metaphor for the human heart. It argues the interior remains hidden and only external results reveal purity, praising the writer’s deep subject knowledge and years of observation.
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Middletown
Remarkable Second Break For Temple After Leg Injury
The Nashville Banner reports Gol L. M. Temple, who fractured his leg five weeks ago while adjusting a boot, had a ban dagea removed under Dr Eve. Last Sunday he broke his leg again about five inches below the former fracture. The piece notes his bones seem depleted and chalky.
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Itis
Gol.l. M
Temple
Deaderick Street
Nashville Banner
Eve
The Difference from the New York Graphic about corsets
A satirical note on fashion reform reveals women forming a convention to abandon corsets and garters while men quietly adopt new styles. The Wisconsin State Agricultural Society offers over $6,000 in prizes for the Twenty-first Annual Fair in Milwaukee from September 7 to 11, with allocations for horses cattle sheep swine poultry flowers fruit and ornaments.
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New York Graphic
Wisconsin State Agricultural Society
Milwaukee
Continental menus to reform New York hotel dining
The article argues American hotel meals are overbearing and wasteful and praises Lelands at Ocean House for introducing continental style dining with a few well chosen dishes. It predicts widespread adoption at watering places first, then city hotels, transforming dining culture and health.
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New York Times
New England
France
Herots
New York
Paris
Louis XIV
Martin Chuzzlewit
Lelands
Ocean House
Sealea Sentenced In Saline County Murder Case
Sealea was resentenced at the Saline county court in 1878 for the murder of William Meeker. Convicted a year earlier, he originally faced death by scaffold, escaped jail, hid in Mexico, stole a horse under an alias, and later was recaptured and sent to the penitentiary for five years before being moved back to Saline and again sentenced to death. Public sympathy remained limited.
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Seelea
St. Joseph
F. Carlyle
Saline County
Stonday
Saline
William Meeker
Lafayette County
Mexico
Laclede County
Anderson
Meeker
Regulating the Dogs in New York and Europe
The New York Sun notes revolting scenes at the Fifty seventh street pound and compares European rules where unmuZZled dogs are treated as vagrants. Police may seize and destroy unclaimed dogs, with fines for muzzle breaches and expenses. Destruction methods vary, often by strangulation.
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Russia
New York
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Havemeyer
Europe
New York Sun
Pound
Fifty-seventh Street
France
Germany
Move to create new archbishops and sees across nation
The Bishops of St Louis province under Archbishop Kenrick urged the Pope to swiftly erect Milwaukee and Santa Fe as metropolitan sees and divide Chicago and St Paul into two suffragan dioceses with Peoria and St Cloud as cathedrals. A Cincinnati meeting with ten leading prelates discussed elevating Philadelphia to archbishopric due to its size. Action expected this month with Milwaukee Santa Fe and Philadelphia named metropolitans and Gnforton preconized metropolitans.
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Cathelis Pietrepolitan
Province of
St. Louis
Kenrick
Baltimore
Milwaukee
Wia
Santa Fe
N.af
Chicago
St.Paul
Peoria
St. Cloud
Mion
Purcell
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Santa ,Fe
Fiennt
Lamy
Wood
Sanitation for the Blind at Jacksonville Institution Opening
Trustees of the Illinois Tactitation for the education of the blind in Jacksonville seek names, addresses, and guardians of every blind child in Illinois aged ten to twenty one. The new building will house more students, with the school year running October 1874 to June 1875. Parents must provide clothing and travel costs. the institution covers all other expenses. Letters to Rev. F. W. Phillips, Superintendent, Jacksonville, Ill.
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Jacksonville
Illinois
F. W. Phillips
Til
Wealthy Rector Moves Into $80,000 Trinity Chapel Residence
The New York Herald reports Rev. Mr. Dix and his wife will occupy a mansion costing $80,000 near Trinity Chapel. Trinity Vestry controls Trinity Church St Pauls St Johns and Trinity Chapel, with church music costing about 40,000 yearly funded largely by rents from the poor. The piece questions missionary use of funds, noting urban inequities and calling for aid to distressed classes.
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Dix
New York
Utica: Herald
Trinity Chapel
Clans
Trinity Vestry
St. Paul’s
St. John’s
Trinity
King’s Farm
Americas
Alodocs
Young Bride Falls Into Swiss Crevasse on Mountain Tour
An English couple on a wedding tour in Switzerland perished on Blount Blane after a rope broke while they rested on a guide’s army. The bride Bir a Liskeard and her companion vanished into a crevasse covered with snow. Despite aid from Grandz-Chalets, their bodies were not recovered and are believed to lie thousands of feet down.
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Galignant
Switzerland
Birs
Liskeard
Blount
Indies
Bira
Grandz-Chalets
Carpenter's Practical Joke Backfires On Calory Bill
Washington correspondence in Chicago Times recounts Wiait Carpenter sending a prank pamphlet titled the Mortification bill to the document room. Edmunds Vermont Morrill and others waited for its arrival, only for Tipton to hand them a real copy. The gag exposes the repeal of the calary, leaving Carpenter and his allies with uneasy smiles at their own joke.
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Tipton
Ether safer than chloroform, data shows eightfold risk
A synthesis of American and British data concludes ether is safer as an anesthetic than chloroform. It finds chloroform eight times more dangerous than a chloroform ether mix and notes even with careful dilution and skilled handling, insensibility can rapidly turn to danger. The London chloroform committee report supports ether’s comparatively lower risk.
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Ream
London
Tea Adulteration and Coloration Draw Critics’ Alarm
The piece warns tea buyers about adulteration and artificial coloring in green tea and other varieties. It cites sand, brick dust, iron filings, and Prussian blue as common additives used to alter color and bulk. It notes English rulings require disclosure, predicts market shifts, and urges consumers to choose cautiously.
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New York Times
New Jersey
China
Japan
The Armies of Europe Rise in the 19th Century
A German paper notes Europe’s army growth since 1859 with Austria adding 223,580 to 856,980, Russia 1,519,810, Italy 605,200, Germany 1,201,160, and France 977,060. Britain reaches 478,820, Sweden 204,510, Belgium 93,590, Netherlands 04,320, while Denmark declines to 48,700. Total forces now stand at 6,110,690 with varied gun and cavalry ratios per nation.
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Europe
Austria
Russia
Italy
German Empire
Louis Napoleon
Britain
Denmark
Rusaija
Asia
Somnambulist's perilous walk ends with rescue in cistern
A Sixty-one year old manufacturer, famed for wandering in his sleep, walked 310 feet along a narrow grape arbor ledge to a decayed cistern. Found clinging to a cross-bar, he was exhausted but revived after rescue. Neighbors, including his two sons, had raised an alarm when he disappeared in the predawn hours.
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St. Paul
Bir
Navans
Elder Reynolds the Prowler of Public Printing
An aging figure once known to reporters and lobbyists, Elder Reynolds of LaCrosse Wisconsin moved through Washington as a claim pusher. He sought pay for extra services as receiver, then pressed a claim for public printing, and endured stark poverty to influence members. Congress cut and later Conference split the sum, leaving him frustrated yet undeterred for next winter.
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Reporters’ Gallery
Elder Reynolds
LaCrosse
Wiscontin
South Carolina
Washington
Senate
House
Lke
Reynolds
Pittaburg
Brooklyn Girl’s Wool and Silk Last Supper Art Suit
Emma Leiser then twelve began a wool and silk Last Supper on canvas, completed in two years, shown at the Vienna Exposition where a $9,000 prize was offered and refused. The piece, seven by five feet, came to Brooklyn, leading to a sharp custody dispute over labor and ownership between the girl and her father Louis Leiser. Sheriff seized the artwork to satisfy a $480 judgment against the father, drawing crowds to view the piece. Replevin was served by Thomas E. Pearsall asserting the work as a gift to Miss Leiser, making it her property. The case marks a pioneering legal question in Brooklyn County courts.
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Emma Leiser
Brooklyn
Emma
Williams
Thomas E. Pearsall
Mies Leiser
Miss Leiner
Louis Leiser
Myrtle Avenue
Skillman Street
Grasshopper Raid Darkens Northern Iowa Crops
The editor from Algona reports widespread crop destruction in Palo Alto County and similar damage in our own, with more than four fifths of crops in the county ruined or unprofitable to harvest. While starvation is unlikely, many debtors face hardship as grain for sale or debt relief vanishes, and prospects grow dark for many citizens across northwestern counties.
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Dubuque
Des Moines
Algona
Kossuth
Palo Alto
Love Putto Flight Tale Ends In Snowy Snore Ruin
A Wheeling paper recounts a young couple breaking off their engagement after the groom to be slept through a night of loud snoring. The bride to be, waking, declared she would not marry a man who snores, ending the match. Neighbors and friends spread the now familiar tale.
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W. Y
Prisoners At Auburn Describe Roles Inmates Assigned
Young Walworth, confined in Auburn prison, is now deemed of little use to the contractors and works in the hospital waiting on patients due to epileptic symptoms. In contrast, Ingersoll, the Temanny Ring swindler, has behaved well and cooperates fully, employed in a shop where he oversees collar production and handles tasks as an overseer or general clerk.
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Young Walworth
Auburn
Ingersoll
Lawmaker cites shifting defense and civil appropriations
Mr. Garfield presents a ledger of annual funding changes showing navy outlays dropping from 22,250,000 to 16,750,000, army from 33,200,000 to 27,750,000, fortifications from about 20,000,000 to 9,000,000, and land and river projects, with deficits and civil bills moving from 32,000,000 to 26,000,000 and 6,000,000 to 5,000,000 respectively, totaling a 27,763,797 rise year over year.
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Landry
Fashion and Money in New York Society
A column laments fashion driven excess in New York, detailing women who refuse hard times, overspend on laces and diamonds, and rely on husbands' funds. It notes high credit limits at Stewart’s, unpaid trades, and lavish spending while servants and tradespeople go unpaid. The piece also covers a dog pound plan, dog theft for resale, and a Brooklyn hydrophobia death tied to a dog breeder Butler.
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New York
Abe
Tiffany’s
Stewart's
Stewart Doean
Riak
Brooklyn
Butler
Batler
Bpitz
Unlucky Locomotive No 10 Claims Another Life
From the Backenssck Republican the tale of Engine No 10, once the C A Wortendyke, blamed for a sequence of fatal mishaps. John Williams was killed last week amid its alleged draught failures, as the engine earned a grim reputation for wrecks and deaths on the line.
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Backenssck Republican
John Williams
C. A. Wortendyke
Shopa
Saddle River
Rochelle Park
West End
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