Events of the Week and World News Snippets
Water famine hits New York City with rising sickness as shortages bite. London reports Davitt to be treated leniently by the British government. Lancashire colliery strikes spread, while Irish coast Bohemian wreck reports many lives lost. High water floods streams north of Ohio. 1847 comparisons. English colliers endure wage-driven idleness. Idaho gov urges legislature to curb polygamy. Chicago Post Office weigher arrest noted. Whitfield Colliery explosion traps seventeen men as fire rages.
Tragic Ural Tribes Sell Boys for Grain
St. Petersburg dispatch reports severe hardship among Ural Mountain tribes with parents selling their male children for grain while daughters face starvation.
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St. Petersburg
Ural Mountains
Hind Attacks Canadian Trade Reports in 1871–77
Professor Hind denounces Canadian trade returns from 1871 to 1877 as worthless and false following the Washington treaty and Halifax Commission award. He calls the figures deluding and criminally misleading.
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Hind
Washington
Halifax Commission
Water supply company proposal for New York City
A bill before the New York Legislature would authorize incorporators to form a corporation with $15,000,000 capital to supply drinking water to New York City. Lake George is noted as a potential water source.
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New York
Lake George
Train Collision at Rock Hill Station Kills Six
A collision at Rock Hill Station on the North Pennsylvania Railroad between a freight and a passenger train killed six people and seriously injured several others. The crash stemmed from a misconstructed dispatch by the freight engineer.
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Rock Hill Station
North Pennsylvania Railroad
Peregas
Bohemian Wreck Off Irish Coast Claims Thirty-Two Lives
The steamer Bohemian, Captain Grundy, sailing from Boston to Liverpool, foundered in a January gale in Dunlough Bay on the Irish coast. Thirty-two lives lost, twenty-one crew saved, all suffering from exposure and injuries.
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Grundy
Boston
Liverpool
Dunlough Bay
Floods From Snowmelt Threaten Southwest and California
Snowmelt has caused major floods in southern Colorado, Northern New Mexico, and Montana. California rivers are subsiding. about 3500 square miles of the Sacramento Valley have been flooded.
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Colorado
New Mexico
Montana
California
Sacramento Valley
Newark Family Haunted by Hydrophobia After Dog Bite
A New York dispatch reports Minnie F. Lee aged nine from Newark New Jersey is rabid and wild with hydrophobia after a dog bite last month. Her two brothers were bitten by the same dog at the same time. Their father is grief stricken and said to be mentally unsettled by the shock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Dispatch
Minnie F. Lee
Newark
N. J
Executive Committee changes at Western Union
Russell Sage succeeds C W Chapin on the Western Union board while Twombly joins the Executive Committee. General Eckert replaces Anson Stager as Vice President and General Manager, strengthening top leadership.
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Twombly
The
Western Union
Russell Sage
C. W. Chapin
General Eckert
Pce
Anson Stager
Death of an Eminent Author Thomas Carlyle Dies in London
Thomas Carlyle, eminent author, died in London on February 5 after days of critical illness. He had been in a grave condition with no hope of recovery. He was renowned for his writings and influence in literary circles.
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Thomas Carlyle
London
Man Wheeler Found Guilty of First Degree Murder
In San Francisco Wheeler was convicted of murdering his wife's sister over jealousy. He killed her because he loved her and could not bear to see her marry another man. The court ruled this passion did not permit a lesser verdict or mitigate the crime.
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Wheeler
San Francisco
Carroll County Infirmary Superintendent Indicted
Milton Rutledge, superintendent of Carroll County Infirmary in Ohio, faces a three count cruelty indictment. Witness Wilson testifies meals were only two daily and unfit for table. Fourteen hogs butchered. paupers fed feet ears and tails with hair. An elderly inmate aged eighty was scrubbed with a broom and ice water. another deaf resident suffered a bleeding back.
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Creele
Milton Rutledge
Carroll County
Ohio
Wilson
Sol
Centennial Invitation and Legislative Action Highlighted
A joint resolution invites the Government to join Yorktown Centennial celebrations with $20,000 appropriated. Senate and House bills cover public buildings, surveys, land districts, and public uses. Debates touch census frauds, pension provisions, eight hour law enforcement, and liquor prohibition proposals, with confirmations and inauguration arrangements underway.
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E of
Yorktown
Board of Agriculture
United States
Senate
Quincy
Ill
House
Wford County
Wisconsin
Council Uffs
Towa
Carr Lake
Ohio
Kansas
Hamlin
Kurman
South Carolina
of the Interior
Butler
Conkling
Eee Commedeant Surgeons
Carevyn
Philetus Sawyer
Arthur P. Gormad
Committee On Education
Inigu
Beck
Kernan
Wallace
Blair
Merton Monumental Association
Post Office
Messrs
Pendleton
Anthony
Bayard
St. Louis
West
Senate clash over Electoral count and river improvement bill
Privileged Senate debate centered on Georgia irregularities in counting the Electoral vote. The second resolution passed 160 to 77 amid disputes, while the House set tellers for the count. The River and Harbor Bill faced delays as internal clashes and slow progress plagued rail safety and harbor funding efforts.
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Senate
Georgia
Acklen
Converse
Culbertson
Hurd
Slemons and
Young
Tennessee
Belford
Bisbee
Wman
Burrows
Calkins
Cannon
Chittenden
Crapo
Doggett
Gerdon
Field
Fisher
Hallawley
Hayes
Hazelton
Hiscock
Hoar
Kelley
Killinger
Lindsey
McGowan
Morton
O'Neill
Prescott
Rice
Robinson
Stone
Taylor
Ohio
House
Crowley
Trish
Gillette
Forthcom
Bloomington Leader's Mourning: Mrs Nicholls Ends Her Life
Mrs Elliott Nicholls of Bloomington, formerly Ella Hogg, has died by self inflicted immersion at Carthage Missouri. Her family lines include William Hogg who fatally shot two children and killed himself amid business reverses. Mamie Hogg, her sister, previously died by self harm near Nicholls home. The article links these tragedies to spiritualist influence that unsettled the family.
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Elliott Nicholls
Ella Hogg
Bloomington
Carthage
William Hogg
Mamie Hogg
Nicholls
Mysterious Death in Tateville Stuns Kentucky Village
In Tateville Kentucky James Barnett died soon after dining with friends. His son in law grew ill after eating, a dog died from the vomit, and a cat exhibited strange behavior before also dying. Locals suspect wife’s threat to kill Barnett amid the puzzling, unverified claims surrounding the death.
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Tateville
Somerset, Ky
James Barnett
Barnett
Noclus
Washington Briefs Recap From Capitol Debates and Appointments
President Garfield era notes: Ord retirements, Capitol grounds to glow with electricity, electoral vote counting approved by House, Senate finance bill delay on new tax, town money for centennial, and naval officer exams. Patents order ends trade mark interference. Arkansas department extend Fort Elliott. Senate debate over presidential electoral count and absences. Butler and Conkling exchange sharp words. agriculture bureau salary appeal. ongoing inter-ocean canal debate. Army signal Fort Myer renamed.
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General Ord
Tue House
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
House
Nashvile
Tenn
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Yorktown
Reach
Board of
Naval Medical Officers
Piladelphia Naval Hospital
Medical Co. of
Navy
House Committee On Commerce
Patents
Secretary of the Interior
Union League of America
National Committee
Washington
League
Garfield
Wuar
Tanpina
Inter-Oceania Canal
Department of Arkansas
Fort Elliott
Texas
Department of Pepe
Ece
Fort Myer
Fort Whipple
Myer
House of Representatives
United States
Dibbrell
Tennessee
Agricultural Bureau
le Duc
Butler
South Carolina
Mr. Conkling
New York
New
Carolina
South
Conkling
Senator Butler
Mr. Butler
Conkle
Three Lives Left In Illinois Rail Collision
A construction train on the Ohio and Mississippi Road near Pana Illinois backed toward Owaneco to clear a passenger train when a collision occurred. Twenty-five to thirty men crowded a flat car ahead of the caboose as the passenger train approached. The engine tore through the caboose killing Allen Jones W W Tablock and H McPherson and wounding several including Louis Selby and Jacob Headley. Conductor Lockhart of the construction train is held responsible for the accident.
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Mississippi Road
Pana, IL
Owaneco
Allen Jones
W. W. Tablock
H. McPherson
Louis Selby
Jacob Headley
Thomas Verdin
Charles McGowen
Frank Green
Owen Gleeson
Charles Mills
Daniel Donohue
John Hardman
Charles Walcher
Lockhart
Floods Do Substantial Damage Across Ohio and Indiana
Heavy rains and thaw swollen rivers in Ohio and Indiana flood lowlands. Creeks overflowed, washing fences and property. stock swept away in places. Bridges on highways and railroads suffered severe damage or were carried away in multiple locations.
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Ohio
Indiana
Emigrant Rates Hit Record Low Across Major Routes
Rates from New York to Chicago Cleveland Cincinnati St Louis Kansas City San Francisco and other destinations quoted at notably low levels. Chicago 3 Cleveland 2 Cincinnati 2.50 St Louis 5 Kansas City 10.80 San Francisco 53.75. These are claimed to be the lowest rates ever reached for emigrant traffic westward.
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New York
Chicago
Cleveland
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Kansas City
San Francisco
Fatal Fire at St Paul Refinery Claims Two Lives
The Oil Refinery Works of Archibald and Schuremier in St Paul Minnesota burned last week after an explosion of super heated steam and benzine. Superintendent James McNally and assistant John Petri died in the flames. Loss estimated at 250000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archibald & Schuremier
St. Paul
Minn
James MccNally
John Petri
Appalling Depot Disaster Kills Five Men on Exchange Street
A snow weakened roof at the old New York Central Depot in Buffalo collapsed shortly after 9 am, burying cars and passengers. Depot Master Byron King and Henry Walters died among several injured as fire crews cleared debris and mourners counted losses.
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Buffalo
New York Central
Exchange Street
St. Louis Express
Central
Lake Shore
Canada Southern
Frank Schaeffer
Byron King
John Reedy
Johnston Brothers’ Eating House
Dewitt C. Gibson
Beth Robert Barry
Smithassenger
P. J. Hartwig
Ry Eckert
Hubby
Scott
Henry Walters
Tillinghast
King
Smith
Walters
Een
Captain Byrnes
Tethe
Wm. Wells
Howe
Lake Shore Railroad
John H. Jackson
Wm. F. Odell
Wagner Sleeping Car Company
J. Covey
Ireland in turmoil as Land League vows defiance and flight to America
A week in Ireland sees a murder linked to a land dispute at Derrylee. Dublin Land League meetings vow to resist the Government, refuse rent payments, and press Parnell to depart for America. Dillon warns England of Irish resolve as Parnell plans Washington speech amid a flotilla of visiting Irish Fenians.
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Derrylee
Dublin
League
Parnell
America
Dillon
Killmallock
Uniates
Congress
Washington
Phoncepa
Ireland
Death of Convict in Jeffersonville Prison After Solitary Punishment
Charles O Neil a prisoner at the Southern Indiana Penitentiary in Jeffersonville died in his cell after a brutal punishment regime. He had been part of a six man group attempting to escape last December and was kept in solitary confinement and forced to stand for long hours on a bare floor. Coroner's inquest and post mortem found heart disease and congested lung, with no evidence of staged murder.
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Southern Indiana Penitentiary
Jeffersonville
Charles O'Neil
O'Neil
Fatal explosion at Robbins coal mine kills several men
A blast at P. C. Mauser’s coal mine on the Niles and New Libsor Railway near Robbins killed James Logar and his son, James Mehan, plus William Haley, George Henshilwood, and Ed. Smith. One other man was wounded as twenty six workers were in the mine when the lamps ignited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. C. Mauser
Coa
Robbins
Niles and
New Libsor
James Logar
James Mehan
William Haley George Henshilwood
Ed. Smith
Smith
California Grangers Back Nicaragua Canal Plan
The California Grangers endorsed the Nicaragua Canal project claiming it would save the state 11000000 dollars in freight. They also resolved to form a Wheat Growers Protect ive Association to cut out middlemen with an agency planned at Liverpool. Oregon farmers are pursuing a similar movement and plan a convention at Salem.
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Aeen
California
Nicaragua Canal
State
Cotton Suits Withdrawn Against Ex-Secretary McCullough
In New York the Georgia Importing and Exporting Company known as the cotton suits withdrew its suits with costs. The action sought $548,000 plus interest dating to 1865 against ex-Secretary of the Treasury McCulloch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia Importing and Exporting Company
McCulloch
United States
New York
Ingersoll Blasphemy Address For Grand Jury Probe
At the opening of the Criminal Court in Wilmington Delaware last week Chief Justice Comegys drew the Grand Jury's attention to Colonel Robert G Ingersoll's recent address in that city. He called it blasphemous and said it warranted jury scrutiny under blasphemy law.
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Ingersoll
Criminal Court
Wilmington
Del
Comegys
Robert G. Ingersoll
Public asylum attendant faces cruelty charges
Francis B. Churchill, once an attendant at the State Asylum in Buffalo New York, files cruelty charges against the management naming two attendants Jones and McMichael as implicated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis B. Churchill
State Asylum At
Buffalo, N. Y
Crulty
Jones
McMichael
Missouri House considers guardian fraud bill
A Missouri House bill proposes imprisonment for wards' guardians who defraud or connive, fixing a minimum five year term in the penitentiary.
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Missouri House of Representatives
Pleasant Paragraphs and Clever Local Quips
A collage of light verse, humorous notices, and social quips from various papers. Items include jokes about vaccination, restaurant ads, flirtatious lines, undertakers, and puns about newspapers and chewing. Notable lines touch on mock poems and playful anecdotes.
The Chicago Maiden Love Test and a Glimpse of 1981
A dramatic scene shows Cecil defying her formidable father to marry a poor farmer, as he tests her vow with a choice between a check and a wheat pit, reflecting class tension and family power. The piece then notes the Boston Globe’s special 1981 edition predicting future innovations and social changes.
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Cecil
Niagara Falls
Hackman
Cupid
Board of Trade
Chicago Tribune
Ohio State News Highlights A World of Dreadful Fires Floods and Deaths
A chaotic Ohio roundup reports thefts from Hudson Congregational Church. drownings at Logan and Urba na, scarlet fever deaths in Carey, fatal scalding at Vienna Junction, and woe from floods. arrests for arson and murder in Athens and Cincinnati. a man fatally kicked at work near Marysville. several accidental deaths from botched handling of machinery and falling trees. a remarkable domestic dispute ends in a rapid remarriage after divorce.
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Congregational
Hudson
Logan
Foraker
Salt Creek
Carey
George Anderson
Vienna Junction
Tiffin Woolen Mills Corporation
George Green
Beeen
Coe
Marysville
Brownstetter
London
Daniel Smalley
Kienbalton
Isaac Sprinnerr
Zanesville
Warren
Tet City
Patrick Kavanaues
Urbana
Dugan Creek
William Noble
Steuben County
Frank Touives
Pat Carr
Carbondale
Athens County
Johnson County
Kentucky
Mahomina
N. Y
Julius Radtke
David Delaughetna
West al
Neae Granville Frank Henthorn
Henry Gilbert
Clyde
Abner G. Shafer
George Street
Baymiller
Cincinnati
Garrison
Sandusky
Manley
Miss Huber
Manleys
Exner
Frank Harper
Coshocton
Uhriesville
Frank
Ile
Williads i Pianos
Pyee
Leggeee
Lone
Partner Trouble At a Restaurant Settlement Talk
A Cincinnati Gazette report recalls a tense restaurant discussion about a failed venture. One man seeks a settlement offering forty cents on the dollar while blaming a rogue partner who misused a company note and ruined him. The other man hints at grave ruin and silent suffering.
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Cincinnati Gazette
Abolition of the old parlor debated in papers
The New York Evening Post reopens the plea against the old fashioned parlor with Eastern papers following. The parlor is largely obsolete except in rural back districts and those with a parlor too small for a living room are seen as out of date. A Nebraska journal notes a prompt electric shock can revive a person dying from chloroform.
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New York Evening Post
Lincoln
Neb
Vermont Farm Mortgage Scheme Turns Equity on Its Head
A Vermont farmer Brown borrows from a Boston lawyer with a first mortgage on his sheep farm. When debts grow, a Vermont judge proclaims equity over titles, favoring the lawyer but forcing Smith to hold the security. The banker departs with funds and a wiser grip on the case.
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Vermont
Brown
Boston
John Smith
Mark
Smith
Penith
Squire Sree
Coe
Squire
Jes
Justice Joyce
Springfield
Mass
Giants of the The The 16 061 Noted Falmouth Winnings in 1880
A long financial roundup tracks Lord Falmouth and other racehorse figures through 1876 1879 with 1880 results. It notes Hermit horses leading earnings at £29 107 and Dwyer stable in America with £15 577, plus dramatic drops for the Duke of Hamilton and Mr Houldsworth. The piece also mentions clairvoyant dreams and a cousinly tale of a Dubuque woman foreseeing her future husband.
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Falmouth
Lord Falmouth
Count de Lagrange
Duke of Hamilton
Mr. Houldsworth
Houldsworth
Hermit
Messrs. Dwyer
Pali Mali Gazette
Advertising Rates in Clermont Courier Ad Page
Legal and transient advertisements offered at 1.00 for the first ten lines and 0.50 for each additional line. Yearly advertisers receive liberal reductions. Business cards over six lines cost 0.60 per year.
Columbus notes reflect political shifts and local measures
The piece notes a defeated local option bill in the House, discussion of a new license law, and various Ohio matters. It mentions Dayton’s Arcade Market Company incorporation, a penitentiary expansion plan, an anti liquor local option effort, tax debates, and railroad consolidation bills amid broad legislative activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dark Horse
Arcade Market Company
Dayton
Capital Stock
Coop
Columbus
Crankey
Huron County
Mr. m
Taxbright
Ohio Senate
Senate
Congress
Granlay Matthews
Gupsdins
Supreme Court
Dawes
H. B. Sternes
State House
Lecrane
O Assembly
Treasury
Wayne County
Detroit
Sosteeny Commins
Con- Gee
Western Union Lory
Wcce Betnan
Atxinson
Belmont Soteapet
Beetsee oOuditor
Bellaire
Enue
Wipro
Oreign Alse Gschaet
Ohio Legislature Faces Slow Senate Again This Session
The Ohio Senate on January 7 saw little business beyond introducing a bill by Van Cleaf to standardize School Board membership with township and municipal officers. Several bills advanced or discussed include bond authority for water works and rail or city projects, plus a proposal to reform prison guard appointments and warden powers. a Stubb's plan debated amid sharp exchanges between Senators Harr and Marriott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
van Cleaf
House
Senate Creamer
Moringhetd
Stubb
Renee Ce
Harr
Marriott
Ohio House Acts On Local Bills And Tax Proposals
A fragmentary report shows Ohio lawmakers considering local bond issues for Marysville and Mount Gilead, tax measures for liquor sales, and a freight of petitions on local option. House and Senate actions include printing clerks lists and advancing Bills on prison treatment and liquor legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Counlevy
Trumbull
Geo
Kennedy
la Peence
Marysville
Mount Gilead
Morrow County
Atesarasapr
Cole
Ion
House
Senate
Hitchcock
State of Poe
Lucas
King
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Vance
New York City
Davitt
Lancashire
England
Idaho
John P. Leist
Whitfield
Chell
Staffordshire
Senat
Mages
Ayers
Reagan
Cox
Dunnell
Maine
Turner
Washington Briefs
Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald
New Orleans Picayune
Cleveland Herald
Undertakers
Detroit Free Press
Galveston News
Houston
Joe
Buffalo Express
Adolphus
Mme. Z
Assembly
Rockland Courier
Marathon
Chicago Maiden
Boston Globe
Hiram Grant
Messrs. A. Vogeler & Co
Baltimore
Ohio State News
Vermont Equity
Dubuque
Grand Central Hotel
Che Clermont Courier
Columbus Notes
HIO Legislature
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