Autumn heat fades as Davis rises in Mississippi
The Springside Register notes autumn begins on the calendar as the season cools from a week of temperatures up to 110 degrees in places. It highlights Davis, a former cook and slave who rose from lowly stations to become a policemen turnkey in Memphis before moving to Mississippi for a gubernatorial bid.
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Mississippi
Memphis
154Th
Tennessee
Buill
Metropolitan Police
City Council to Consider Bridge Ordinance Tonight
The ordinance seeks to approve a river bridge project with two amendments. The Bridge Company must start within eighteen months and finish within three years. It also bars assigning the franchise to another bridge firm. Both amendments reportedly accepted by the company.
Railroads revise Missouri freight classifications jointly
A meeting of general freight agents from the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Chicago de Alton, Chicago & Northwestern, and North Missouri Railways was held yesterday at the Pacific Hotel. They agreed to revise the classification of freights to and from Chicago and St. Louis for Missouri river points, aligning with local tariffs. Freights formerly labeled Spurta class are now divided into first, second, third, and fourth classes.
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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Chicago de Alton
Chicago & Northwestern
North Missouri Railways
Pacific Hotel
Chiago
St. Louis
Missouri River
Missouri
Inter. Ocean
Change Ranks in August Corn Market at St Louis
The St Louis Democrat notes intense activity on the corner for No 2 mixed corn for August delivery with at least a million bushels of deals on the books and large outside trades. Light receipts have left spot corn in a few hands who now control the market and shorts who sought cover failed to gain relief as short supplies force settlements at ruling prices. The paper predicts Friday will be the most exciting day as shorts rush to fill their contracts before delivery deadlines.
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St. Louis Democrat
The Old Story A Boy Killed at Mr Sterling
A Quincy Whig special from Sterling Illinois reports a youth named Morton accidentally killed himself while trying to blow out the rifle with his foot on the hammer. The hammer slipped, the gun discharged, and the ball entered his mouth lodging in the back of the skull killing him instantly. Nearby items note railroad accidents in Iowa St Clair County and a circus Pullman wreck in East St Louis with injuries, plus a Brooklyn defalcation, railroad bond forgeries, and a Paroka Indiana distillery fire causing $50,000 loss with 150 cattle dead. The reports mix local deaths and multiple transportation mishaps with financial crime and fire news from Aug 31.
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Sterling
Ill
Morton
Japanese Students Abroad Ordered Home
The London Times reports about 600 Japanese youths abroad in Europe and America who were sent by the government to study science. The resident minister chose the most deserving for return, but ministers preferred to recall all. CARLISTS INT&RRUPTING RAILROADS. Maprin, Aug. 31.-Carlists disrupt rail traffic and damage mails on Madrid to the northern frontier. NEW CABLE BROKEN, Lisbon, Aug. 31.-A Brazil coast cable laid from Lisbon to Brazil is broken 180 miles from Madeira.
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America
Japan
Maprin
Madrid
Lisbon
Brazil
Madeira
Senator Alcorn Calls Mississippi Republican Mass Convention
Memphis Aug 31 Senator Alcorn arrived en route home confident about his contest with Gen Ames He has called a mass convention of Mississippi Republicans to meet at Jackson Sept 18 OBITUARY Savannah Aug 31 Jacob N Cardo Sr long connected with local and Charleston newspapers died last night aged 87 PARALYZED Beau Hickman Washington Aug 31 stricken with paralysis in a hopeless condition House pay switch left one member drawing old rate of compensation on Aug 31 others at new rate
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Alcorn
Gen. Ames
Mississippi
Jackson
Savannah
Jacob N. Cardo
Charleston
Washington
Beau Hickman
Wasnixatox
House of Representatives
Multiple 19th Century News Snippets From Nationwide Dispatches
A compiled list of miscellaneous 19th century items: rail line completion to Fulton Arkansas. major fires at Greencastle Indiana Sharon Springs New York. insurance losses and notable deaths. political conventions in Massachusetts Wisconsin. international finance and railroad loan talks. local government debates on bail and indictments. criminal cases including Nathan murder case. forged bonds on New York Central. Cincinnati Pork-packers gifting cartoons to Count Gichy for Pesth. insurance scandal in Philadelphia. a San Francisco murder by Indians. royal and diplomatic notes from Madrid and Windsor. Caribbean and Spanish debt speculation. naval storm damage at Cansea New Brunswick. Franco American postal talks.
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Erie Railroad
Europe
Hugh McLaughlin
Brooklyn Fire Department
Rodman
Brooklyn
Daniela
Irving
Nathan
Dani. Kelley
David Gerrian
New York
Shean
Dunan
Washington
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New York Central Railroad
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Williamson
Pork-packers’ Association of
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Vienna
Count Gichy
Hungary
Pesth
Walter Snowden
New York Life Insurance Company
Philadelphia
Snowden
San Francisco
John J. Sprek
Portland Geliarers Mexican Affairs and cholera notices
Portland reports aid after the fire totaling about 150000 dollars to cover needs. Cholera hits Wheeling and Millsburg with multiple deaths and fairs postponed. A Mexican diplomat Ignacio Marenca arrives denying anti American enterprise rumors. A banker is robbed at 16 Wall Street. A man named Knight kills his sister and nephew then burns the house and commits suicide.
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Ignacio Marenca
Mexican Congress
Foreign Affairs at Cartagena Don Carlos Promises
Reports from Manay New York Washington expose volatile press about Cartagena. Don Carlos reportedly promises to reestablish the Inquisition if successful while English residents flee ahead of Gen Campos. Rebels near starvation raid ships for food amid growing tensions.
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Manay
Alden
Barcelona
Campos
Don Carlos
Inquisition
Barkets by Telegraph New York stock and money market Sept 1
New York stock and money market reports dated September 1 note a steady flour market and firm grain with wheat firmer at Chicago and Milwaukee bids for September. Corn remains firm with values around 55 to 60, lard steady near 15 and a quarter.
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New York
Chice New
Chicago
Milwaukee
Market notes on hogs and cattle from Chicago
Hogs receipts this morning 8,920, market active and a shade firmer. Extreme range 4 208 5 40. Cattle receipts 4,000, market shows demand better with prices generally higher. Bulk of receipts were Texans, Cherokees and common natives.
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