Oscillating News Capsule From Milwaukee to Memphis
A mixed dispatch lists Oscar Wilde in Milwaukee with audience respect, the Irish Land League reserve fund at 287000, Ohio Pond Bill on liquor tax, German emigrants 12655 from Hamburg, a severe Minnesota snow storm, Curtis indicted for campaign money, British atheists excluded, Nihilist arrests at Odessa, Chicago gambling raids, 400000 more relief funds for Mississippi Valley sufferers, Belcham hanged in Cincinnati, Senator Hill's cancer trouble, a Kentucky senator’s death, Memphis rainfall near twenty seven inches, and a ferryboat tragedy off Africa with sixty feared drowned.
Sale of Piedmont and political notes in Chicago
Mesgen of Chicago sold the famed stallion Piedmont, record 3 1 7 3, last week to Ex Governor Leland Stanford of California for 30000 dollars. The Greenbackers met in St Louis and elected a National Executive Committee to harmonize the party. The report mentions injuries and a call for church and public restraint on Sunday theater. A woman offers Charles J Guiteau autographs for twenty five cents. Stickney, accused of killings in Denver, was acquitted and released.
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Mesgen
Chicago
Piedmont
Leland Stanford
California
Greenbackers
St. Louis
Hessie Helfmann Dies in Childbirth in St Petersburg
Hessie Helfmann, once spared from execution for complicity in the assassination of the late Czar of Russia, died last week in childbirth at a St Petersburg hospital.
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Hessie Helfmann
Czar
Russia
St. Petersburg
Newark Bank Director Arrested in Civil Suit
Director Condict of the Mechanics' National Bank Newark New Jersey has been arrested in a civil suit claiming crooked dealings caused a $700000 loss. His bail is set at $250000. Peruvians Again Defeated in Chilean Clash. Chilean forces beat Peruvians at Piveara killing their Chief of Staff Colonel Tafur and a lieutenant colonel. one officer and fifteen men dead.
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Condict
The
Mechanics’ National Bank
Newark
N.J
Piveara
Tafur
Pinkerton
Philadelphia
Mr Bradlaugh Again Refused Oath to Office
Mr Bradlaugh, elected to Parliament, is again denied permission to take the oath of office due to his disbelief in a Supreme Being. The dispute centers on the religious requirement for office holding.
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Bradlaugh
House of Commons
Mr. Bradlaugh
Woman slain in Boston burglary ends in death
Mrs Harriet Bell of Boston was attacked by a burglar who drew a knife in her hallway and stabbed her neck. She bled to death within moments before the thief fled the scene.
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Harriet Bell
Boston
Sindram
New York
Prince Milan Named King of Gervia Stuns Pesth
Dispatch from Belgrade reports Prince Milan accepted the royal dignity at the unanimous invitation of the Skuptsechina. The proclamation of Milan as King of Gervia causes surprise in Austria and a great sensation at Pesth. An ex broker in trouble in New York is accused of bond fraud at the Fourth National Bank with Cornwall as loan clerk.
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Belgrade
Skuptsechina
Milan
Prince of Milan
Gervia
Austria
Pesth
B. Cornwall
Fourth National Bank
New York
Bank Failure Shocks Boston as Massachusetts Central Bonds Fall
A Boston bank, Charles A. Sweet & Co., fails with debts over 3,000,000 due to risky advances on Massachusetts Central Railroad bonds. The firm will likely pay dollar for dollar, but resume is unlikely. collateral markets shrink amid mounting losses.
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Charles A. Sweet & Co
Boston
Massachusetts Central Railroad
Fatal Explosion at Marquette Packing House
The Lake Superior Powder Company's packing house in Marquette Michigan blew up last week destroying the area. Four workers Peter Doyle Shas Hatch Herman Eckstrom and another unnamed man were killed in the blast.
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Lake Superior Powder Company
Marquette
Michigan
Peter Doyle
Shas. Hatch
Herman Eckstrom
Decline of Supreme Judgeship Casts Light on Demand
Mr. Conkling has declined the Supreme Judgeship and Senator Edmunds of Vermont has similarly declined. A friend says Edmunds would have accepted if the appointment had been offered initially.
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Conkling
Senator Edmunds
Vermont
Edmunds
Flood damages Austin Mississippi amid rapid river breach
The Mississippi River cut through Austin Mississippi between Memphis and Helena destroying key buildings including the Masonic Temple and Centen nial Block, with water surrounding the latter at twenty two feet. Stores and dwellings were washed away up to half a mile. The report also notes reaction to Skobeleff's Warsaw speech and Russian promises in Europe.
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Austin
Miss
Mississippi
Memphis
Helena
Masonic Temple
Supreme Court rules sugar color sets duty value in sugar case
In the sugar case the Supreme Court decides duties are based on actual color as graded by duties standards, not on saccharine content from chemical tests. The Treasury Department must refund importers about 2 million dollars.
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United States Supreme Court
Treasury Department
Skobeleff Speech Hints Stir Europe Says Vienna Presse
A Berlin correspondent reports good authority that on the day of Skobeleff’s first speech General Ignatieff predicted a remark would provoke a Europe wide sensation. Those familiar with Skobeleff trust his language was authorized. The Presse notes Skobeleff’s brother in law keeps up agitation in Paris.
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Skobelef
Berlin
General Skobeleff
General Ignatieff
Europe
Skobeleff
The
Presse
Vienna
Paris
Indignant Husband Slaps Priest Over Alleged Slur
A Greensburg PA correspondent reports that a husband slapped and spit on Rev. B J Jennings of the Episcopal Church after he described the wife of a professional man as untruthful. Observers say the pastor’s past troubles, including one at a graveside, justify the punishment as merited.
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B. J. Jennings
Episcopal Church
Greensburg
Justly Indignant Diplomat Appeals Over Intercepted Mail
Charles Adams United States Minister to Bolivia writes from La Paz on February 2 to Representative Belford complaining that Chileans intercept and read his diplomatic and private mail. He says Bolivian newspapers glorify the act and he requests State Department action or recall. A separate account describes a hail storm damaging a venue with collapsing poles causing panic and minor injuries to several attendees.
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Charles Adams
United States
Bolivia
la Paz
Representative Belford
State Department
Hugo protests harsh sentences on Nihilists in St Petersburg
A Paris dispatch reports Victor Hugo condemns the St Petersburg judgments against Nihilists and appeals to civilization to intervene warning the Czar to spare the people or face divine vengeance. Vienna reports follow with additional details.
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Paris
M. Victor Hugo
St. Petersburg
Vienna
Cracow Authorities Suppress Student Demonstration
Cracow authorities moved to stop a planned student protest against a recent death sentence carried out on ten Nihilists in St Petersburg. The clash left several students and four gendarmes dead.
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Cracow
Cit
St. Petersburg
Mississippi Flood Crisis Reaches Unseen Depths
Descriptions from the valley recount extreme suffering as the Mississippi River rises above prior records between Vicksburg and Helena. Levees fail, counties flood, and families ride rafts or shelter on ridges with scarce food while steamers assist. Starvation looms without prompt relief.
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Mississippi Valley
Vicksburg
Helena
Assassination in Kentucky at Roundstone near Mt Vernon
In Roundstone seven miles from Mt Vernon Kentucky Mary Sigman a notorious scarlet woman and her mother Rhoda Sigman were shot to death at midnight by unknown assailants. James Bishop arrested with A S Henderson and William Hysinger as accessories. Circumstantial case strong. Mary believed murdered for vengeance for the deaths of Wat Bishop and Adam Hysinger by Ab Fisher.
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Kentucky
Roundstone
Mt. Vernon
Mary Sigman
Rhoda Sigman
Mary
James Bishop
Henderson
William Hysinger
Bishop
Wm. Hysinger
Adam Hysinger
Wat
Hysingers
Hysinger
Ab. Fisher
Eads Proposes Ship Railway with Government Bond Guarantee
Capt Eads outlines a plan to build a ship railway from near the Coatzacoalcos River to the Pacific to haul large ships. He would carry U S commerce for ninety nine years at half the tariff of rivals with a six percent dividend guarantee for fifteen years on fifty million dollars. The government would take bonds due in fifteen years and bonds could be paid at ten percent premium if unpaid. A six percent government guarantee would back the company’s bonds, enabling easy sale.
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Eads
Coatzacoalcos River
Pacific Ocean
United States
Isthmus
Mexico
Vast 19th Century News Roundup From March Addresses
Snow blankets Abilene Texas as Czar reprimands Skobeleff and several crime, disaster, and political items unfold. Two Indian murderers hanged at Lakeport, California. Henry Garnett dies. a dredging ship sinks near Race Point. barbed wire monopoly fights Iowa action. Mason court martial findings. Cumberland River flood near Nashville. Utah memorials flood Congress. and a gunboat concludes losses after a steamship explosion in Ravenswood, with multiple injuries.
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Abilene
Texas
Skobeleff
Lakeport
California
Johnny Dwyer
Brooklyn Hospital
Smallfox
Ilinois
Wilkesbarre
Henry H. Garnett
United States
Liberia
Race Point
Boston
Iowa
Tue
Albany
N. Y
Michigan
Garfield
Lake View Cemetery
Cleveland
United States Senate
Mason
Cumberland River
Nashville
Signal Service
U. S. House
Utah
Treasury Department
Congress
Custom House
New York
Bernhardt
Sidney
Ohio
Ravenswood Landing
Little
Louisville
Parkersburg
W. Va
Stephenson
Portsmouth
Middleport
Alonzo West
Gallipolis
Graham
Ravenswood
Senate debates on Chinese bill and naval history printing
Adverse reports were made against printing 10 000 copies of the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. The Senate discussed the Chinese immigration bill and considered amendments as it faced a vote tally of 29 to 15 in favor. The bill would suspend Chinese laborers’ entry for twenty years after ninety days post passage.
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United States Senate
United States
Farley
Messrs. Matar
Soulhbury Garland
Ingalls
Senate
House
Sherman
Finance Committee
Beck
Secretary of War
Peru
Chili
Edmunds
Garland
Mississippi
Platt
Yeas—Bayard
Call
Cameron
Wis
Cockrell
Coke
Fair
George
Gorman
Hal Harris
Hill
Col
J Eeconas
Jones
Ney
Miller
Cal
Pendleton
Anthon Windom
VanWyck
Mitchell
Awley
Sewes
Senator Hill
Mitchel
Messrs
Kirby, Pollard and
Eason
Hartshorn
Mr. Strong
Hall
Committee On Finance
Vallandigham
Kinney
Hollingsworth
Chapman
Pond
Gross & Deitrick
M. and E. Canal
Cincinnati Board of Public Works
Ohio
House Advances Various Appropriations and Debates
The House reviewed the Mississippi River works funding of 6 113 000 and passed the diplomatic appropriation bill. Debate covered missions consolidation, consular duties, and pension restoration. Additional actions funded river dam work, sorghum beet root sugar research, forestry, and agriculture measures including oleomargarine inquiry.
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HOUSE
Gibson
Mississippi River
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Hiscock
Smith
Illinois
Randall
Springer
France
Spain
Germany
Austria
Converse
Bruner
Lisbon
Russia
Kelley
Hewitt
Alabama
Pensee
Dibrell
Tennessee
Davis d Dam
Ohio River
Committee On
Congress
Devil's Tramping Ground Reported In Randolph County
A Gulf Letter from the Wilmington Star describes a circle about twenty five feet in diameter in a wooded area near Randolph with a clean central path and a ring of sand and wire grass that avoids intrusion by large trees. Locals express superstitious dread and one observer quit after three feet of digging found nothing. The note ends with Carlyle’s living sum of the past.
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Randolph Line
Gulf
Wilmington
N. C
Ohio county briefs report diverse crime and industry
A Marion courthouse is planned while marriages, shootings, fraud cases, burns, and business bets populate the Ohio notes. Notable items include a New Lexington livestock firm failure, Caldwell grocer insolvency, and missing Carrollton clerk. Industrial growth in Newcomerstown and Akron hotel and mill projects are announced.
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Marion
Joan Parker & Broruer
New Lexington
R. E. Fours
Carrollton
Suerirf F. C
Saran Stellwell
Fredericktown
Joan Corsitt
New California
I. P. Sappier
Uhricksville
Pittsburg
Theodore Windmohlon
Lancaster
Leetonia
John Bush
Joseph Burbeck
Burbeck
Messrs
Barter & Adams
Dresden
Ohio
Newcomerstown
Ferdinand Schumacher
Akron
London
Henry Severling
Dayton
Johanna Madden
John Madden
Henry Lerr
Rochelle
SaMouel N. Sharrer
Board of Education
Board of Health
Oserlin
Goodrich
Gardner
Bronson
Carter & Wood
Tobin
Ellis
Herrick’s
Frank J. Corwin
Mansfield
Joseph Thrailinkill
Columbus
Thrainkill
Corwin
Canada
David Parker
Hancock County
Parker
Mt. Gilead
John Mossman
Cox
Modie
Mossman
Morgan Center
Morgan Township
Gallia County
Chillicothe
Lawrence Holtzcher
Cincinnati
Nam Summerset
Rattlesnake Brooch Worn In Grateful Memory At Ball
A Washington letter notes a remarkable ornament worn by a naval officer's wife. The long brooch features a large rattlesnake head and a set of rattles mounted in gold, used to honor a daughter saved from a deadly snake. The piece provokes mixed reactions among guests at high society events.
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Washington
Florida
Tiffany
Amena the Arab chief’s daughter noted for beauty and daring
The Algerian revolt leader's daughter Amena stands out among Arab tribes as a poet of merit and fearless combatant. She rides beside her father on a swift Arab courser with a striking blue and white plume and gold border on her tail as French observers compare the scene to Horace Vernet. Puayine on the violin is claimed to cure nervousness.
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Amena
Horace Vernet
Puayine
Ohio Senate passes education land swap and liquor control measures
The Senate approved a bill allowing school boards to swap real estate with municipalities upon majority votes and council concurrence. It also advanced and debated several liquor related and educational bills, including a constitutional amendment to grant Legislature control over liquor laws and bills on taxation, banking, and public works.
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Senate
Board of Education
Municipal Corporation
If All My Ships Came Home From Sea Song Poem
A verse on longing for one ship to return from sea and bring wealth or a loved one. The speaker imagines wealth if many ships arrive, yet fears loss if the lone ship sinks. A blend of longing, sea imagery, and romantic fervor with classic countryside sentiment.
Ohio House Debates Canal Sales and National Guard Aid
The Ohio House disputed sales or abandonments of canal sections and debated appropriations for National Guard duties at Garfield's funeral. Bills addressed ditch laws witness fees, prison reform, and divorce grounds. A motion to tax liquor passed, and Tyler's law against luring under eighteen into prostitution passed unanimously.
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Hocking Canal
Miami Canal
Ohio National Guard
State House
Cooper
Ohio
Sharp
Fairfield
Licey
House
Reece
Green
Shelby
Price
Jones
Jackson
Brunner
Brownell
Senate
Perenny
Montgomery County
Montgomery
James A. Garfield
Adjutant General
Mr. Thorp
Messrs
Maury
Rees and Holbrook
Linton
Liccy
Cory
Throp
Mr. Tyler
Unreadable Weather Talk Cites Prayer Meetings and Shows
The Steubenville Herald laments how weather affects public morality noting how little rain deters prayer meetings while heavy weather can send crowds to a show. The quote emphasizes behavior shifts amid changing forecasts.
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Steubenville Herald
The Molly Ann Hulls Storefront Saga on Squatterville Coast
On a remote Atlantic coast two abandoned Tory mansions become a squatter hamlet. Molly Ann Hull, a rough but energetic fisherwoman, fends off rivals as she seizes a chance to run a store in a fish house. A sign dispute escalates into a barroom mob, ending with Molly revealed as Mrs Bilkins by a justice of the peace.
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Atlantic
England
Howard
Vaughn
Sey Pony
Bok
Molly Ann Hull
Tas
Molly Ann
Liverpool
America
Henery Edwards
Jinkins
Maine
Molly
Jenkins
Putti Henry Edwards
Stewart
Sendo
Bell
Marth
Horder
Miss Billins
Billins
Sanne
Molly Ann Mull
Henry Edwards
Edwards
Treckon
Miss Edwards
Olly Ann
H.E. Bilkins
M. A. Bilkins
Maesel Bikine
Bilkins
Billings
Tother
Ani
Advertising rates from Che Clermont Courier
The Che Clermont Courier lists legal and transient advertisements at one dollar per line for the first insertion and fifty cents for each additional insertion. A yearly discount is offered for advertisers. Business cards up to six lines are priced at four dollars per year.
Mormon Proselyte Recruitment Sparse in Past Two Decades
Fragmentary text notes that proselytes among Americans over the last twenty years are few and far between with limited recruitment amid broader religious activity.
Auction Records Highlight Rare Books Sold in Ewnors
In Ewnors a copy of the first edition of the Decameron brought 11000 dollars and one of the Gutenberg Bibles on vellum sold for 17000 dollars at auction.
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Ewnors
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