News of the Week roundup from the era
Summary of varied items including Payne's smallpox report in Chicago, a bankrupt law movement in New York, Cyrus W. Field merging into an administration organ, King Alfonso's birthday observance, a fatal boiler explosion in Jacksonville Texas, naval expenses for 1883, storms and fishing losses off England, England’s murderer Leroy hanged in London, matrimonial fraud concerns, and a Butter Cheese and Eggs convention warning against oleomargarine masquerade in Iowa.
Mob Stones Actress Sarah Bernhardt in Odessa
Intelligence from Odessa reports a mob attacked Sarah Bernhardt’s carriage after a theatre performance, alleging Jewish descent. The assault targeted her hotel and halted the show as the crowds continued rousing hostility.
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Odessa
Sarah Bernhardt
Jewish Refugees Reach New York in Large Numbers
The influx of Russian Jewish exiles to New York has become overwhelming and beggars belief. Most are destitute and helpless, prompting New York Hebrews to form a society to assist them and consider establishing farming colonies for their settlement.
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New York
Msas
Washington Crank Arrest Highlights Capitol City Trend
The article notes Edward Fittschas P. Paul was the ninetieth crank arrested in Washington since Garfield's shooting, claiming he came to save Guiteau.
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Washington
Edward Fittschas P. Paul
Capitol City
Garfield
Guiteau
Tragic double suicide after love quarrel in New Orleans
Margaret Vessey, 19, was shot by her lover Henry Menne, 21, who then shot himself. Both believed fatally wounded. Menne left a letter saying they would die by their own action since the girl's mother barred their meetings.
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New Orleans
Margaret Vessey
Henry Menne
Menne
Insane Mother's Deed Claimed by Widow Near Waterloo
A widow named Mrs. Miller from the Waterloo area alleges an insane mother’s deed. Her husband died two weeks ago, leaving her to face legal questions in the settlement.
Women Support Lynching After Ohio Case
In Athens County Ohio women of Albany held a meeting after the Chris Davis lynching and passed resolutions commending the act. The resolutions imply that lawmakers should harshly punish such crimes, reflecting the views of villagers exposed to possible retaliation.
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Chris Davis
Athens County
Ohio
The Cashier Trick at Prince Edward Island Bank
The bank cashier, once the star on stage, failed to call directors and confess. He suddenly became honest and the vaults were found stabbed to a total of $900,000.
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Prince Edward’s Island
Triple murder near Aberdeen Miss shocks local community
W A Walker and Alonzo R Walker two brothers and two fourteen year old boys traveling by wagon from Russell County Alabama to St Francis County Arkansas were found murdered in their beds three miles from Aberdeen Mississippi. A fourth person who rode with them is suspected and has been captured. The victims were killed by crushed skulls from an axe while still asleep and bed coverings undisturbed.
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W. A. Walker
Alonzo R. Walker
St. Francis County
Ark
Russell County
Ala
Aberdeen
Miss
Thomas North
John A. Logan
Edmund E. Smith
John A. Morse
Guitean
White House
Chicago
Ann Arbor
Witness
Paeyine
Berean
Wisconsin
Montgomery County
Ofco Belle Centre
M. B. Hassano
Madison
Crank
Sandusky
Holmes Douste
Exocn Lange
Lancaster
Henry Langle
Clendennin
Celina
Patrick Kenny
Lima
Ohio Railroad
Jacob Egugat
Fen Ee Reine
Praktoris
Ion
Nda Harrman
Wilikm Young
Young
Zanesville
le Baste
W. Trier
Toledo
Oupam
Richland County
Levi Pay
al Eas
Eas
Lexington
Albert Ansport
Mount Vernon
Lawrence Alsdorf
Joan Gronch
Muskingum County
Bronson
Day
James M. Syoporass
the of
Delaware
Dunina
New Philadelphia
James K
Nichols
France
William Reed
Pye
Swcomerstown
Forelivering
Lyons
Reed
Saxs
Philadelphia
Grim Ohio carting tragedy as tongue torn by horse
In Licking County Granville, a driver enraged by horses failed to pull a heavy slate load. He tied a rope to a horse tongue and tore it out. The tongue was found next day amid mob pressure while authorities kept the accused man, Cummings, from the angry crowd.
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Licking County
Ohio
Granville
Bishop
Cummings
Attempt on Russian General's Life by Nobleman
A young nobleman Nicolas Sankowsky from Grodno sought urgent state business and met General Tcherevine at the Interior Ministry in St. Petersburg. He fired a revolver. the shot missed, passing between the General's arm and side. Sankowsky, a Catholic of unknown age, was detained. He claimed nihilist Melnikof urged him to the political murder after professing personal dissipation.
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Nicolas Sankowsky
Grodno
Ministry of the Interior
St. Petersburg
Tcherevine
Sankowsky
Committee of Confederate Bondholders Appeals
A fragment announces the Committee of Confederate Bondholders stating their appeal process and public involvement, though the text is garbled and incomplete. No clear names, dates, or places are readable in the excerpt.
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Speenma
Committee London
Committee of
Advertising rates and terms for Clermont Gourier and ADVERTISINC
The Clermont Gourier and ADVERTISINC announce legal and transient ads at $1.00 per square for first insertion plus $0.50 per extra insertion. Yearly reductions offered. Business cards up to six lines priced at $4.00 per year.
Restriction on Fourteenth Amendment Debt Settlement Debate
A legislative committee urges removing constitutional limits on Southern debt settlements and rejects pursuing litigation to reclaim Confederate property in Europe.
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United States
Europe
Lynching of John Brodie and Shadrack Hester in North Carolina
A mob of about a hundred masked men took John Brodie and Shadrack Hester from Oxford Jail and hanged them to a tree in a nearby grove after they reportedly confessed to a prior killing of T. M. Lynch. A Yazoo City report adds Jordan and Craig confessing to the Robert Catlin assassination near Huntsfield Landing on the 17th. They were hanged by locals near Shepardstown.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
John Brodie
Shadrack Hester
Oxford
T. M. Lynch
Yazoo City
Mississippi
Jordan
Craig
Robert Catlin
Huntsfield Landing
Bank Failures in Kansas Prompt Defiant Settlements
In Kansas a savings bank at Hunnewell and another at Caldwell failed. At Hunnewell cashier Bowers settled with depositors, paying within about 3000 of total debts using collateral and real estate. Caldwell’s cashier Danford offered guards bribes to escape, but they resisted and demanded settlement or death.
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Kansas
Caldwell
Hunnewell
Bowers
Danford
Colone Hood
Emporia
West
Comptroller of the Currency Report on National Bank Notes and Currency
The statement shows national bank notes outstanding at various dates from 1874 to 1880 with totals around 361 million and a last-month increase of 1.8 million. Tender notes outstanding and retirements under acts of 1874 and 1875 are listed, plus deposits changes. The United States currency outstanding totals 362.6 million, including old demand notes and various bond and fractional currency issues.
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Comptroller of the Currency
National Bank
United States
Arkansas Lynching Narratives Stir Debates On Justice
The report recounts a lynching in Arkansas involving James Holland and two others tied to the Burgess James murder case. It notes the mob’s actions after a jail escape and contrasts vigilante justice with due process while describing an autopsy of President Garfield and detailing careful postmortem methods and bullet retrieval.
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Arkansas
James Holland
Helphrey
Carey
Burgess James
Holland
Hill
Stenéend
Taylor
Trial records reveal Guiteau's insanity defense faltering
The long DC trial updates show defense witnesses painting Guiteau as insane while cross examining reveals his firm grasp of facts. He asserts divine inspiration guided Garfield's removal and defends his own actions as necessary act. Cross talks reveal tension with Judge Porter and medical experts shifting opinions.
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Guiteau
Europe
Porter
Jones
Mason
New York
Logan
Reed
State Department
Gui
Sherman
Garfield
Chicago
Grant
Blaine
Labor Standard American Auxiliary Association
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry
Spn
Willie Blake
New York State
Alton
Barnard
Charlotte
Mich
E. Curtiss
Lake Ontario Levels Fall Threaten Toronto Harbor
Lake Ontario is subsiding despite stable rainfall in the Great Lakes basin. Observations over a long period indicate a gradual drop in water level. The most probable cause is artificial changes to lake outlets, blasting at Gallops Rapids, and removal of obstructions increasing outflow. Ports now allow only light draft vessels.
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Toronto
Lake Ontario
Cultural contrasts in Ceylon dress and behavior
The passage notes that men and women in Ceylon wear similar clothing and style, including a throat covering and brushed long black hair secured with combs. It then describes them as cowardly and deceptive, yet suggests they show respect and kindness to the elderly and infirm.
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Ceylon
How He Found a Wife by Failing to Catch Other Girls
A homely man explains his marriage path by saying he pursued several girls without success until one who desired him came along, after which the arrangement happened quickly. The tale humorously contrasts attempted pursuits with a simple mutual interest.
Pat and the sick man discuss mortality
A sick man laments life and death and jokes that dying multiple times would ease his worries. Pat counters as the exchange reveals humor amid hardship and fatalism.
Between Two Gals and a Yankee Weather Quip
A clipped Hardy era exchange features a humorously blunt remark about a man trying to court two women at once. The speaker notes that despite weather, the best-made comeback remains the joke about crooked eyes caused by the double courtship.
Washington Briefs Show Era News From Capitol and Fortunes
President Arthur moves into the White House as Congress begins arrivals on the 26th. Treasury officials dismiss secretary aides while reports from the Signal Service recount a balloon ascent. Government bond rate analysis finds no profit in Four and a half and Four percent bonds. Grand Jury indicts William Jones for assault with intent to kill Guiteau. Ute Commission reports partial success in reservation aim. Virginia Lieutenant Governor elect denounces cross party deals. Seventeen contested Congress seats listed with party margins across several states.
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Arthur
White House
Congress
Babcock
the Treasury
Boutwell
A. K. Trxetx
Treasury Department
Henan
Signal Service Corps
Chicago
Hashegan
Folger
William Jones
Charles J. Guiteau
Chas. J. Guiteau
James Leonard
Perry H. Carson
Chas. R. Vernon
M. P
Wm. Z. Edelin
J. B. Slack
Sandy Fuller
Guiteau
Mr. Mayrenny
Columbus
Ohio
Ute Commission
Kirkwood
Joan F. Lewis
Virginia
Virginia Assembly
Lewis
United States Senate
Alabama
South Carolina
Mississippi
Floriia
Louisiana
Missouri
Iowa
Maine
James Gillette
Thos. J. Herndon
Paul Strobach
H. A. Herbert
Jas. Q. Smith
Co. M. Shelley
W. M. Lowe
Jas. Wheeler
J. T. Stowall
George ©. Cabell
S. P. Bailey
J. 8. Barbour
Samuel Lee
J. S. Richardson
E. W. M. Mackey
M. P. O’connor
C. J. Stolbrand
D. W. Aiken
Robert Small
George D. Tillman
G. M. Buchanan
van H. Manning
John R. Lynch
J. R. Chalmers
Florida
Horatio Bisbee
J. J. Finley
Alexander Smith
E. W. Robertson
Lessinghaus
R. G. Frost
J. C. Cook
M. E. Cutts
S. J. Anderson
Thos. B. Reed
Herndon
Gillette
Herbert
Strobach
Shelly
Smith
Wheeler
Lowe
Greenbacker
Cabell
Stovall
Barbour
Bailey
Williams
Richardson
Lee
Aiken
Stollbrand
Tillman
Smalls
Manning
Ementary
Buchanan
Harris
Chalmera
Lynch
Finl Ocrat
Bisbee
Robertson
Frost
Eypnlice
Apublican
Cook
Reenbacker
Reed
Andersom
Charity and hardship in a street encounter
A needy man with a wooden leg asks for help while another speaks of poverty and calls for greater pity for the rich. They swap small alms and cold meals as they acknowledge shared destitution and the prospect of the poorhouse.
Uncle Mose Overcharges Woman in Austin Siftings
An Austin butcher hires Uncle Mose to deliver bills to customers. Mrs. Mc Spilkins suspects a fifty cent overcharge. Mose pretends to add sums but reads the days of the month, claiming the amount is short while muttering the days aloud. He muses that the woman has lost her senses.
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Austin
Uncle Mose
Dai
No rent manifest backed by Irish Nationalists in Chicago
A Chicago convention of Irish Nationalists endorsed the No rent manifesto. Other items note a November mail-service reduction in the Star by nine thousand dollars and a series of violent incidents, including a fatal New York kerosene fire and a brutal Alton riot among Swedish railroad workers.
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Star Mail
Chicago
Internal Revenue Report Urges Four Year Collectors Terms
Commissioner Baum presses four year tenure for revenue collectors and outlines tax collections across banks in major cities. He cites tobacco and cigar taxes, notes rising receipts, and favors stamps for cigars. He outlines spirits stock, distillery data, and civil service pay reforms. Pensioning widows and orphans of fallen officers is urged amid a five year tax enforcement campaign.
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Baum
Internal Revenue
Chicago
New York
Baltimore
Boston
Philadelphia
Treasury
Congress
Kentucky
Raum
Imperial palace fire sparked by a single match in Berlin
Report claims 400000 wax candles in the Berlin imperial palace were ignited instantly by one match. The wicks connected with a gun cotton thread ignite and spread across the 700 rooms. A separate note mentions seven thousand Morwomen divided among 3000 Mormen.
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Imperial Palace
Berlin
Mint Director's Report on World Gold and Silver Coinage 1881
The annual Director of the Mint report for year ended June 30 1881 covers gold and silver production coinage and world circulation. It cites $226 225 522 in precious metals processed with gold $193 371 101 and silver $32 854 421 and notes large inflows from abroad. It discusses silver dollar coinage totals 100 672 705 and debates international demonetization and bi metallism including the Paris Conference outcomes and possible suspension of silver coinage until wider agreement.
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United States
Treasury
Treasne
Burchard
New York
Messa
Mon
France
Paris
Europe
America
Latin Union
Measuring by the Eye in Childhood Estimation
A Boston Transcript correspondent recalls a rural school lesson where children estimated length and weight by eye using a cane, chalk marks, and wall measurements. He argues such eye training reveals truth about size, noting common misperceptions and a belief that early estimates illuminate future growth.
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Boston Transcript
Aol
Actor Josern Jefferson Quips on Rip Van Winkle Record
The actor Josern Jefferson recalls playing Rip Van Winkle about 2,500 times and wishes for forgiveness in a better world without matinees and managers. A Boston mendicant asks for help, saying 10 cents would buy a decent supper with his 40 cents.
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Josern Jefferson
Rip van Winkle
Boston
Ohio state news reports accidents and crimes across counties
A sprawling Ohio item recounts numerous incidents from Montgomery to Muskingum counties. It notes deaths from falls and train tracks, hunting accidents, thefts, aloft injuries, a suicide attempt, and a spate of fraudulent land note schemes targeting farmers.
Encounter in Maine Endangered Puma Attack On Two Sportsmen
A Boston Journal report recounts a Maine encounter where a panther attacked two men while they hunted near a pond. Prof. A E Jones was knocked down, then E B Stickney shot the animal with a shell as the creature leapt. Jones survived with injuries. the panther, about six feet four inches long with two inch claws, likely fed on local sheep and lambs.
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Maine
Boston Journal
A. E. Jones
Washington
Prof. Jones
E. B. Stickney
Jones
Escaith
England's old gentry vs modern peerage power
A critique notes the continuity of old gentry families dating back 500 to 800 years while ministers grant new noble titles. Of 418 peer heads, only 77 were nobles in 1707, with 341 raised since then, reflecting a widening, less hereditary noble class. The piece labels later arrivals as a lower, ragtag caste arising from the union era.
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England
Scotland
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