Notable Summer Homes and Quirky Anecdotes from Early Notices
A Newport mansion valued near half a million dollars features a $40,000 main staircase with Florentine style carvings. Madame Lind GoLp- Schmidt lives near Madame Albani in South Kensington amid trees, flowers, and artful furnishings. A North Carolina investor dies of a sudden shock after declaring he wouldn’t swap his chance for heaven, while Gen Wager Swayne relocates to Bergen Point due to Wabash duties. Captain Bates tests mining expert status. Tennyson quips about women as flowers. weather forecaster Henry G. Vennor predicts June heat and late frosts. Justice Bradley, from humble roots, contemplates becoming president or a Supreme Court judge.
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George Peabody Wetmore
Newport
R. I
Madame Jennie Lind GoLp- Schmidt
South Kensington
Madame Albani
Wager Swayne
Noah Swayne
United States Supreme Court
Toledo
Ohio
Wabash Road
New York
Bergen Point
Indiana State News Summary of Various Local Incidents
A Swede and his children walk near Muncie when an eastbound train strikes a girl, killing her. M M Campbell in Bloomington is severely injured. army worms appear in Sullivan county. grain dealer D R Ball vanishes mysteriously. Tipton men Cravens and Welch fight leaving Cravens wounded. Tipton crops look good. Dr Gro Woop dies after chloral overdose near Anderson. Andy Moynihan makes a new confession blaming others. Mrs Potty Bowman dies at 105, Harrison County's oldest resident. indictments in Harrison for Long shooting and riot charges against several Otts and others. Samuel Finley mutilated in Richmond oil mill accident. two fatal accidents in Brazil: Morgan Thomas killed by blast, Eddie Morgan crushed on a shaft. Ledger-Standard reports wheat crops across multiple counties will be the heaviest since 1879. fruit crops also large. digressive essay on ague and its relation to civilization ends with call for real reform and quinine.
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Lake Erie & Western
Muncie
M. M. Campbell
State University
Bloomington
Sullivan County
D. R. Ball
Silver Lake
Elkhart County
James Cravens
Philip Welch
Quarlter
Tipton
Welch
Cravens
Gro. B. Woop
Knightstown
Cumberland Church
Anderson
Potty Bowman
Harrison County
Jacob Bruce
Indiana
Harrison
Peter Ott
Henry Long
Blue River
Felix Ott
Riley Mosier
John Berry
Albert Howerton
Henry Dinkelaker
Long
Sanuel Finley
Mathews, Winder & Co
Richmond
Brazil
Morgan Thomas
Chicago Coal Company
Thomas
Eddie Morgan
H. R. Irwin
Ledger-Standard
Floyd
Clark
Crawford
Perry
Spencer
Warrick
Dubois
Gibson
Pike
Orange
Washington
Creesar
Europe
Ague
St. Louis Times
Leavenworth
Kansas
D. R. Anthony
Leavenworth Times
Thos
Thurston
Anthony
Platte County
Blackguard
Jefferson City
Kansas City Times
Times
Kansas City
Embry
Appeal
Douglass
Lucian Baker
Baker
Fort Leavenworth
Sultan and Ministers vow to resist foreign interference
The Sultan and his ministers pledge to repulse any foreign meddling by the Powers. France prints Rochefort’s second letter noting his son’s wounds are slight and omitting violent passages. Geneva’s Great Council adopts a law ending subsidies to religious bodies, risking disestablishment of Protestant and Catholic churches.
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la France
M. Rochefort
Great Council of
Geneva
T&n
London Bridge
Dublin
Duke of Leinster
Colgan
Cote Unt
Berlin
Kong Kong
Russian Fleet Chief Appointed to Command in Chinese Waters
Vics Admiral Schetaroff, a naval agent for Russia in the Southern States of Europe, is named to lead the Russian fleet stationed in Chinese waters as part of reinforcing the German squadron.
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Vics
Humidity and Stupidity in Malaria Debate
The Indianapolis Journal notes Dr Bowen’s critique of malaria versus brain development. It argues climate and era shape disease, retarding intellect, with examples from Sines valleys, Peruvian highlands, and Arctic regions.
Singular Recovery of Lost Valuables
A Providence Journal writer recounts two remarkable recoveries. A gold ring found inside fleecy-lined gloves at L. D. Anthony & Co. after nearly a year, with initials confirming ownership. A carnelian bought in the Isle of Wight reappears from a bureau drawer after seven years, hidden under folded paper.
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Providence
R. I
L. D. Anthony & Co
England
Isle of Wight
Gasoline Explosion Shocks Piqua Home
A gasoline barrel exploded in the cellar of Mrs. Fanny Jones’s High Street home in Piqua Ohio injuring several and killing two boys. The blast wrecked the southwest wall and flung debris fifty feet. Fred Amendt and two Perdue children were burned. the younger Perdue boy died. Elder Perdue boy buried in rubble. Mrs Jones and Miss Newland escaped.
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Piqua, O
Third Ward
Fanny Jones
High Street
Caldwell Street
Broadway
Jo’¢lock
Border feud in Leavenworth ends with gunfire and detentions
A long running clash between D R Anthony of the Leavenworth Times and Thurston of the Appeal erupts on Wednesday on a Leavenworth street. Anthony fires twice, wounding a secretary and a lawyer, while Thurston survives. The sheriff places Thurston under guard at Fort Leavenworth as the dispute fragments into renewed threats and potential further violence.
Judge Elliott Opinion on County Treasurer Bond Case
Indiana judge Byron Elliott returned from Winchester with full opinion in State ex rel Edger v Hunt. It discusses approval of treasurer reports, estoppel on county for fraud or mistakes, and differences between allowance of claims and auditing reports. The Winnesh Jour publishes the full ruling.
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Byron E. Elliott
Indianapolis
Winchester
Edger
Sands
Kneedler
Steinbergh
French Crime Budget Shows Stable Murder and Homicide Rates
A Paris table of five year crime statistics notes France with about 37 million people averages 200 murders and 123 unjustifiable homicides annually, with capital sentences remaining steady. It contrasts Britain’s population and murder rates, joking that only one in a million are guillotined though extenuating circumstances blur the figure.
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Paris
France
Great Britain
Richard the Third's Bed and the Leicester Treasure Tale
In Leicester records a tale shows Richard III's bedstead carrying a hidden treasure receptacle. After Bosworth Field, plunderers ignored the bed, enabling a house owner to rise to mayoral wealth. The bed later passed to Babington line and remains preserved in a Blothey home.
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Corporation
Leicester
Richard
Bosworth Field
Junniber
Babington
Btothley
Lincoln's prompt prompt to Deming for promotion
In Hartford the late Hon. Henry C. Deming sought a soldier’s promotion and prepared a written application with three reasons. President Lincoln advised replacing reasons with a simple request and signed back “Let this be done. A Lincoln,” noting it would be done without explanations. The tale offers a political convention insight.
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Hartford
Henry C. Deming
Congress
Lincoln
Four-man sawmill accident leaves man paralyzed near log
A mill incident in Michigan reports a man struck by a shifting log as it fed into a saw. He remained conscious but trapped while the saw half cut through his arm, creating a dire, unfolding emergency.
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Paralysis
Michigan
Witty Crankings and Roundabout Remarks Across Papers
A collage of quips from various papers including Oil City Der rick Cincinnati Commercial Philadelphia Sunday Item Detroit Free Press Mauch Chunk Democrat Boston Post Albany Law Journal Danbury News Boonville Herald Rome Sentinel and Savannah tale of a thief, church hats, cows, and a Deacon Henry gag.
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Cincinnati
Missouri
Philadelphia
Detroit Free Press
Boston Post
Albany Law Journal
Boston
Ohio
Hammond
Bridgeport
Key
Danbury News
Same Style as Last Year Croquet Tale in Detroit
A Detroit scene on Woodward Avenue shows a croquet game between a young couple and a tramp observer. The couple quarrels over cheating with sharp exchanges, while the tramp notes changes in croquet’s rules before leaving.
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Detroit Free Press
Woodward Avenue
Gould
Toledo
Heat wave toll rises with sunstroke deaths
The day’s heat records show two sunstroke deaths and several prostrations. Brooklyn reports four sunstroke cases with one fatality, and Jersey City and Newburgh record fatalities among Irish emigrants. A schooner captain bound down the Hudson also died from the heat.
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Brooklyn
Jersey City
Newburgh
Hudson
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Sullivan Union
J. A. Hays
Odds and
James Woops
Pierson County
N.C
Tom Bates
Freiberg
Henry G. Vennor
Montreal
Justice Bradley
Troy Times
United States
Supreme Court
Indiana State News
Andy Moynihan
Logansport
McMillen
Patty
Moynihan
Jackson
Bowen
Indiana Institute of Homeopathy
Sines
Peru
Pizarro
Arctic Circle
Galen
Hippocrates
Wabash
Nichols
State
Goodwin
Allen
Blackford
Bigelow
Freeman
Richard the Third
Oil City
Boonville
Frenchy
Savannah
Policeman
Deacon Henry
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