Washington notes and a train wreck in Knoxville
The Treasury issued $242,600 in unregistered bonds replacing District of Columbia audit certificates. A fiscal statement shows 1880 revenues of customs $186,522,064 and internal revenue $124,009,378 with total net revenue of $333,526,610 and normal expenditures of $267,642,957. An Arizona affair reports a small party crossed the Sonora line. marshal cooperation to arrest violators is ordered. A train wreck near Knoxville injures several, with Mary Battle, eight, killed.
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Washington
United States
District of Columbia
Congress
Treasury Department
War Department
Navy Department
San Francisco
Sherman
Department of Arizona
Sonona
Tucson
Whiteside
Drake
Evans
Tuscon
Col. Carr
Tron
Marguere
Irwin McDowell
Military drills thrill crowds at Monroe commandery event
Rochester, Dayton, Indianapolis, St Paul, Louisville and Grand Rapids groups performed hour long drills amid heat reports. One death occurred from heat and dysentery after a man from Coldwater, Michigan, collapsed on arrival. The event included theater entertainments and a large fireworks display as the Republican Convention convened in Trenton.
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Knights
Chicago
Monroe
Rochester
Reed Commandery
Dayton
Ohio
Raper
Indianapolis
Damascus
St. Paul
DeMolas
Louisville
Grand Rapids
St. Louis
George Fouth
Coldwater
Mich
Jacobs Commandery No. 10
Apollo Commandery
Directors elected for Chicago Hannibal & St. Joseph Rail
At the first annual stockholders meeting the Chicago Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad elected directors John B. Lyon George C. Walker N K Fairbanks Wilbur Dowd Jay Gould Myron P Bush H Cook Charles B Farewell S J Medill Jobin W Singleton Russell Sage Julius Hallgarten The board then chose Wm Dowd as president and John W Hilton as secretary and treasurer Construction will begin immediately on the Quincy to Chicago segment.
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IE. & St. Joe
Chicago
Chicago, Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad
John BE. Lyon
George C. Walker
N. K. Fairbanks
Wim. Dowd
Jay Gould
Myron P. Bush
H. Cook
Charles B. Farewell
J. Medill
Jobin W. Singleton
Russell Sage
Julius Hallgarten
Skipper Fails to Elicit Details in City Case
Albert Knaut, prescription clerk for T. M. Biddle, disappeared eight months ago after a pattern of speculative losses totaling about $500. Authorities recovered $60 worth of cigars and goods at his home hidden in bed clothing and trunks. A second dispatch reports a brutal murder of Mary Cassidy, a ten year old girl, whose body was found mutilated in a brush heap with a knife wound.
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Wayne
Albert Isnaut
T. M. Biddle
Knaut
Boston
Mass
A. Lerald
Barnstable
Mary Cassidy
Viking’s Ship Unearthed From Old Norwegian Tumulus
In Norway near Gogstad a tumulus on King’s hill yields a complete Viking war ship entombed with a noble chief. Excavation by local peasants, begun in January and February, exposes the vessel prized as a remarkable link to ancient Norse life and legend.
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London Times
Copenhagen
Scandinavia
Schliemann
Olympia
Hissarlik
Mycens
Christiania Fjord
Norway
Sandefjord
Tonsberge
Gogstad
King’s Hill
Kongshaug
Nuary
Viking Vessel Unearthed at Gogstad in Norway
Archaeologists under Nicolaysen excavated a 74 foot long Viking ship at Gogstad, Norway, revealing a 16 foot beam, 20 ribs, and a funeral chamber. The hull shows ornamental shields, oaken boats, oars, and a copper kitchen cauldron, with most grave goods looted. The craft will remain in situ with a protective roof. smaller artifacts will go to Christiania.
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Christiania
Society For the Preservation of Ancient
Nicolaysen
Engelhardt
Nydam
Sehlesvig
Tune
Norway
Gogstad
Lome
Treschow
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Garfield
Arthur
Fred A. Potts
Banker Crummere
Z. I. Pangborn
Freelinghuysen
Knoxville
Tenn
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Armstrong
Whitelock
Young
Express Mmessenger Corcoran
Devlin
Mary Battle
Trenton
N. J
George M. Robeson
Sitting Bull
Bismarck
C. T
Poplar River
Freadquarters
Naga
South Side
Sullivan
Indiana
Coele NG
Oliver
Richmond, Hamilton, Pittsburg
Grands Detour
Brown Cultivators
Elorn Dptus
Hoosier
Hampion Reaper & Mower
Studebaker Farm
Dvagons
Gilpin
Casaday
J. EF. Hoke
Ind
Commercial Row
Sullivan Or
Terre Haute
J. P. Stratton
SIG Clothing Store
Siee
Michols,shepard & CO
Kitlle Creek
Ain
Nichols, Shepard & CO
Battle Creek, Mich
New Denison Hotel
West
Howe
B” Howe
Howe Mac Company
Denison Hotel
Briggs & Lacey
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