Railroads and smallpox in 19th century items clash in mix
Abundant clippings note diverse topics from railway policy to public health. Expulsions of German-Americans under revived 1841 law, smallpox deaths in Quebec families, court fraud cases in London, Paris Pasteur efforts, and Senator Stanford's California university plan. Also covered are Chicago butterine exhibits, Aspinwall damages, and Western railroad classifications reshaping committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Azari
Silvestri
Gilardo
Filipe Caruso
Chicago
B. J. Franklin
United States
Harko
China
Canton
Pendleton
Fohr
Kathleen
Irrawaddy
Silver City
Col
Harilrod
Sith
Sofia
Lasters
Brockton
Mass
Lake Valley
N. ML
Membres Creek
Deming
Montreal
Galveston
London Daily Telegraph
Kirischal
Copenhagen
Mohr Kjaer
Tar
London Standard
Bulgaria
Balkans
World News Roundup From the Nation and Abroad
A wide wire of items reports new federal appointments in New York and Kansas City, a Dodge City dispatch on a Cheyenne chief death, trade and travel notes, European political moves, crime trials, labor strife, and a Galveston fire loss with thousands homeless. Mentions include Lemuel J. Tilden Jr, James Barnes, Oscar Valeton, and M. De Brazza, plus various court, military, and economic updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemuel J. Tilden, Jr
Fifteenth
New York
James 5. Smart
Tilden
Dodge City
Kan
James Barnes
Kansas City
Oscar Valeton
New Orleans
M. Bant
Washington
Canton
China
B. J. Franklin
W. Hyde
St. Louis
Domestic Problems and Local Incidents in Kansas
At a Lawrence Social Science Club meeting Mrs. Pierce of Junction City presented a cheerful study titled Solution of Domestic Problems, comparing happiness to an algebraic x and urging mutual support in marriage. The issue covered a shooting death in North Lawrence, fire risks, legal updates on Prohibitory laws, county asylum directives, fraud investigations, land claims by Syracuse women, a missing boy, a prairie fire in Finney County, and a roundup of Kansas post office changes, patents, and local crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Social Science Club
Lawrence
Pierce
Junction City
Roche
North Lawrence
Lim
Union Pacific Road
Supreme Court
Issi
Anin
Syracuse
Menlo County
Greely
Mary Campbell
Laura Rodman
Pennsylvania
Jude
Bell Graham
Michigan
Jacon Axle
Kingman
Finney County
Barton Gros
Kansas
Ship
Commanche County
James M. Campbell
el Paso
Edwards County
Grover
Ottawa County
Dallas
Norton County
Oronoque
Waseca
Johnson County
Holliday
Elmdale
Chase County
James R. Jeffery
Greystone
Wilson County
Omer Neff
Hickman
Greenwood County
Ebenezer Keller
Howe
Rush County
John Diehl
Labette
J. S. McLain
LaCrosse
Christ
Hoffmaster
Leonardville
Riley County
A. H. Meier
Marmaton
Bourbon County
D.C
Earporia
W. M. Jane
Des Moines
J. & Doolittle
Cottonwood Falls
H. H. Gardner
Eldorado
Pawsee County
Parsona
Ed. Scott
Missouri Pacific Yards
Sannie
John Smith
Jessie Pattenson
Register of Deeds
Davis County
Comanche
Charles Wiltsie
Wellington
Mitchell & Mitchell
Rebecca A. McDaniel
Barr Oak
James A. Loomis
Arkansas City
J. M. L. Gore
Raymond
Albert N. Bender
Manhattan
D. H. Turnbull
Garden City
Oxenicht
W. W. Manspeaker
Topeka
GREAT CONFLAGRATION DESTROYS GALVESTON DISTRICT
A massive blaze in Galveston starting around two AM burned for hours, destroying over 400 houses across 100 acres. Insurance losses estimate up to 80 million with up to 1,000 families left homeless while the business district remained intact. Authorities suspect incendiary origin amid high winds and spreading flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Relief Committee
Beecher Speaks at Free Trade Conference in Chicago
Henry Ward Beecher addressed a packed Central Music Hall audience in Chicago at the National Free Trade Conference. David A Wells led a preface address arguing for free trade while Beecher denounced protection as “the juggernaut of the devil” and urged direct taxation over tariffs. Officers and executive committee members were elected for the coming year and resolutions adopting governance rules were discussed and adopted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. de Brazza
Lisbon
Davin A. Weis
Free Trade League
Chicago
M. Breanxarrt
Lieutesant Schwatka
Berlin
North Pole
Smanox
San Francisc
Viscount Rayetaca
London
Madame Nicolini
M. Nicolini
Henry Ward Beecher
Central Music Hall
Wells
Mr. Bescher
Mr. Beecher
National Labor Organization
Committee On
David A. Wells
Thomas Holland
New York
Justice Clarke
Iowa
M.M. Trumbull
Llinis
W. P. Fishbark
Lovie
S. Phere
Missins
South
Carolir
Kansas
J. S. Smith
Bickins
Texas
J.T. ¥Iteman
Ore
W. Gibbons
Delaware
Howland Ishburdx Hayward
Rhode Island
Bat
Minniepin
Sherman
New
Aspiring To Statehood For Montana Territory
Montana seeks admission as a state amid booming cattle and mineral wealth. Rep. elect Joseph K Toole highlights population near 110000, railroad prosperity, and 28 million dollar mineral output for 1885. He notes a new constitution and citizen committee pressing Congress for statehood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hontane
Wasutxarox
D.C
Joseph K. Toole
Montana
Congress
Martin Maginniss
Missouri
Colonel Toole
Granstix
Monttana
Uth
Tacoma Style in Tacoma Expulsion Conspiracy Arrests
Prominent Tacoma citizens including Mayor Weisebach and Editor Lawson were arrested with others under guard of U S Marshals and infantry for conspiracy and insurrection tied to the Chinese expulsion. Citizens pledged 3000 for defense, bonds totaling 80,000 each, and a large crowd greeted the advance party amid fears of a wider white solidarity movement on the coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Washington Territory
Unser
Therm
Waxcoverr
W. T
Weisebach
Hancat and
Bacon
Jndge Wickersham
Epberson
Lawson
The
Tacoma News
Nixon
Mills
Tacom
Midle
A Strange Story of a Father's Dream in Disappearance
A Frederick Missouri tale reports a missing son, Columbus Dronerberg, aged twenty five, last seen at a neighbor's home. After a father's dream of his son's corpse, searchers find the body in a barn near Ariana, with coroner's post mortem awaited. leads discuss bruises and death cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frenerick
Sant
Columbus Dronerberg
Urbana
Cronenberg
Seixthers
Thouars Dixon
Ariana
Murderer Townsend Pushes Boy to Die in Clay Pit
Inquest testimony from Troy Pennsylvania reveals Edward Townsend twelve years old pushed five year old Frederick McAllister into a clay pit where he suffocated after twenty hours. Townsend admits planning to remove him and claims Freddie cried to be pulled out. Jury verdict cites death by exposure and urges District Attorney action. Townsend jailed. Separate notes report Pennsylvania printing anniversary celebration, a St Louis quarry accident, and General McClellan's will in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
Frederick McAllister
Hoe
Edward Townsend
Boyced
Townsend
Saii Be
McAllister
McClellen
New York
George B. McClellan
Isis
Eilen Mares McCiellac
George B., Jr
Mary M
Bla
Philadeipsis
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Strother & Litts
Fixx
Blanchette
Father Point
Que
Barsex
Marsden
Great Eastern Steamship Company
Brown
New Orleans Exhibition Syndicate
Great Eastern
State Board of Agriculture
Paris
Algeria
France
John Haines
Haines
Stanford
California
San Francisco
Palo Alto
Menlo Park
Gridley
Vina
Whitney
Tennessee
Garena
Panama
Washington Star
Aspinwall
Colombia
Missouri River
Joint Western Classification
Joint Western
Southern
Central Pacific
St. Paul
Daily News
Shawnee
Keithsburg
Lil
Patrick Conway
James MecCanna
John Olsen
Melbourne
Plg River
Sydney Geographical Association
New Guinea
Stead
Armstrong
Rebecca Jarrett
Sampson Jacqnes
Madame Louiss Morey
Bard Inbur
Bureau of Statistics
Gronox J. Frayver
Glenroe
Ont
Snesthen
Lake Conneaut
Pittsburgh
America
Glasgow
Myers
Emporia
Neosho Rapids
Walkup
Chattanooga
Tenn
Fons and Murphy
Captain Murphy
Knights of Labor
Mallory Steamship Company
Sawyer
Ohio Wesleyan University
Cleveland
Opera
Fred Warde
Foehry
Schleswig
Prussia
Tarp
Schottenburg
Washington Express
Baltimore & Ohio
Collinsville
Boyle
Fayette County
Pine Iron Works
Reading
Jeremiah Zimmerly
William Eagle
William Baughber
Pistatca
Fort Myer
Ark
Japanees Postal Commission
Tex Grand Jury
Edgefield
D. C
Brant
Arrow
Rangoon
Nationa
Union Square Theater
Axpersos Evaxes
Postmatah Court House
Sbe
Dr. Hicks
Gulteau
Zeening Star Company
Washington, D. C
Hicks
Guiteau
Medics
Jons L. Heckser
Catholic Knights of America
Grafton
W. Va
Iss
Oxx
Aurora
Rkyugre
Cairo
Khartoum
Gordon
Armagh
Ireland
Parnell
Blair
Hopkinsville
Cold Bath Fields
Woollentiers
Lorenzo
Cal
Thomas J. Fumo
Recorder
Baton Rouge
Marpiy
Tnsvateurs
Union Pacific
Oana
Carbon
Treary
Clements
Saganche
Marshall Clements
John D
Nallie
Kate Clements
Fort Pond Bay
Servin
Kansas State News
Tex
Lomgshoreten
Bay
Sixteenth Street
Broadway
Sixteenth
Nineteenth Streets
Gulf
Horse Car Company
Galvestox
Ste Bezay
Tenorth
Thestrand
Jong
Dames
Massachusetts
Cty
Louisiana
Maine
N. Y
Eastbourne
Dilan
Privsnvron
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Ioyle
Baltimore
Youghtogheny
Wasurtsotox
Western Points
Pritaperrita
Historical Society of
North America
St. Loum
Bambrick & Vruin
Cabanne Avenue
Manchester Road
Chouteau Avenue
Max Tanner
Sarpy Avenue
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