Week in Review of Crime and Finance Across Regions
A roundup notes Jons H. Jacobs jailed without bail for a fatal gun incident and other cases including Enos Crowther's complicity in a major bond robbery. creditors accept 40 percent for George H. Taylor & Co. and plans to resume. Also covered are railroad contract disputes, a murder trial in Uniontown, executions in St John New Brunswick, fire losses, circus injuries, and tariff law changes affecting duties and valuation.
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Jons H. Jacobs
Catherine Edwards
Caseyville
Enos J. Crowther
St. Joseph City
John 8. Cox
George H. Taylor & Co
Chicago
Surf
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
N. A.and C
M. M. Hueues
St. John
N. B
Wm. Nims
Hartford
Wis
H. B. Meyers
U. S. Express Co
Hopetown
Ill
Pennsylvania Road
Gebhard
Dayton
Indianapolis
Robinson’s Circus
United States Fish Commission
Congress
Pacua
Wyoming
Ft. Fetherman
Committee On
Labor Legislation
National Congress of Labor Unions
Senate
Humpnster & Co
New York
A. H. Chase
Coal and Coke Dealer
Buffalo
Tue
Western Union Telegraph Company
Sleeping Rabbit
Spieche
Porter
Okmulkee
St. Louis
Washington
Treasury
U. S
Treasury Department
State Department
Printing Office
Citizens’ Committee
Washington, D. C
Hite
Logan County
Interior Department
Detroit
Bloody Run Creek
Wid
Telegraph suits halt Belt Road line in East St Louis
Juper Snyper of the Belleville Circuit Court again blocks the Board of Trade Telegraph Co from building a line on Belt Road Company's right of way in East St Louis until the state Supreme Court rules on pending cases. Indictments and trials are noted in Illinois and Ohio news, including embezzlement charges, a wife-beating law move, and the Dukes Nutt murder trial verdict of not guilty amid public indignation.
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Juper Snyper
Belleville (Tit
Board of Trade Telegraph Company
Belt Road Company
East St. Louis
Supreme Court of the State
Henry Att House
M. M. Buck & Co
Supply House
St. Louis
Chicago
Illinois
Springfield
Schronrock
General Gridley
Bloomington
Emmett O’nerill
Schenectady
N. Y
Nicholas A. Dukes
Uniontown
A. C. Nutt
Dukes
Multiple Affairs Reported in Brief News Miscellany
Counterfeited railroad bonds in DeWitt County Illinois may have been negotiated. Tar Commissioner reports smallpox among Peach Springs Arizona Indians with 600 people hungry. Randolph County North Carolina man loses 690 dollars in Cincinnati gambling. Virginia Court of Appeals overturns Fayette Mc Daniel death sentence for Creed Carter murder due to lack of premeditation. Treasury tariff confusion over Sumatra tobacco amid Coolie labor concerns. Altoona near parlor of prize fighters hosts 47 rounds. O Niel Pittsburgh versus Kobne Philadelphia. Kobne wins. Ohio Joint Stock Insurance Companies formed led by President S F Covington to promote proper underwriting. Shanghai donates 2355 to Garfield Memorial Hospital Fund. 225 business failures in week ending 16th. farm crops show declines but slight. White railroad workers ignite dynamite in Marlborough New York. one killed others likely fatally hurt. Ex Senator Taser reappears in Washington seeking to sell Denver land to Government. Delavan House Albany panic caused by a manze. damage minor.
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DeWitt County
Illinois
Tar
Indian Affairs
Peach Springs
Arizona
A. Hoover
Randolph County
N. C
Cincinnati
Virginia Court of Appeals
Fayette McDaniel
Creed Carter
Dovust
Treasury Department
Cot. Rone
Altoona
O’ Niel
Pittsburgh
Kobne
Philadelphia
Ohio
F. Covington
Shanghai
Garfield Memorial Hospital Fund
Agricultural Department
Marlborough
N. Y
Taser
Washington
Denver
Delavan
Albany
Burning sleeping car escape on Western express
A Pullman sleeper on the Western express of the Pennsylvania Railroad caught fire near Wilmore Station after five this morning. Twenty six passengers escaped the blaze with no injuries though many lost clothing and valuables. loss estimated around $20,000 to the Pullman Company, with several prominent travelers aboard including General Dudley and Colonel Wilson.
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Western Express
Pennsylvania Railroad
Wilmore
Altoona
Cresson
Mr. Paltern
Baltimore
Dudley
Benjamin Wilson
West Virginia
Calkins
Indiana
Davidson
Beaver
Yorte
Connelsville
Porter
Ben Wilson
Harry Hawkins
Pullman Company
State Senate and House Pass Broad Legislation in Ohio
The legislature approved multiple measures including funding for Springfield water works, bond issues for various towns, and restrictions on liquor production. A constitutional amendment proposal and a liquor tax bill advanced, with numerous local bills and education measures debated, defeated, or sent to committees across both chambers.
Pig heads and their surprising culinary voyage in New York
A World article traces the Pig's Head Club and the meat trade revealing how hog heads are cured brined and smoked in Manhattan. It covers processes from brining two weeks to three days of smoking and notes prices five to seven cents per pound with tongues and brains sold separately.
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Pig’s Head Club
Illiam Geoghegan
Daniel O’brien
Produce Exchange
Charles Lamb
Europe
America
Reichstag
Chamber
Congress
Shakspeare
England
Germany
Italy
Virginia
Fred Miller
Brome Street
John
Charles Sabin
West Indies
Vienna
Fashion Notes Describe New Silks and Draped Garments
Fashion items emphasize pelerines and shoulder capes, redingotes and polonaises in many forms, with colors including Cordova and Russia leather, deerskin, antique blue, tea rose pink, orage and malatesta brown. Elaborate braided jerseys pair with tweed skirts, Pekins feature satin stripes, and light evening tints appear in ruffled Pekin trims alongside transparent French mail handkerchiefs with Oriental lace edging.
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Russia
Checked Silks Bring Spring Fashion for Dresses
Small checks return as a fashionable spring silk option with multiple colors in one pattern. Tyingham checks pair with or without white, offering prevailing colors to match dresses. Velvet and cashmere trims, box plaits, Watteau folds, and velvet collars create elegant outfits. youthful green and white checks with black veiling also appear.
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Paris
Specia
Newmarket
N. Y. Evening Post
Harper’s Bazar
Uncertain diagnoses cited on malaria by Dr G Elliott
In a New Haven ACS Society paper Dr G Elliott argued that when diagnosis is uncertain doctors may inform a patient he has malaria. He warned physicians are superstitious about the malaria specter and favor a strong quinine dose early in obscure cases.
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New Haven Acs Society
G. Elliott
Advertising Rates in The Clermont Courier
Legal and transient ads priced at $1 per square (ten lines) for first insertion and 50 cents for each additional insertion. Annual reductions offered. Business cards up to six lines available for $6 per year.
Rice potential grows in Alabama far from coast
A Maplesville farmer demonstrates rice can be grown in Alabama, while global notes report typhoid linked to housing, new blue marble near Dalles Oregon, and various scientific and trade insights including beef preservation, drill tooling, and Jamaica umbrella stick exports.
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Maplesville, Ala
Alaama
PITH AND POINT Jests and jibes from a century ago
A collage of quips and witticisms from several papers including the Herald, Hawk Eye, Boston Transcript, Atlantic, Lowell Citizen, and Detroit Free Press. Snippets poke at fashion, names, politics, religion, and daily life with humor about nurses, servants, baronets, and trains.
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Boston Post
Fogg
Boston Transcript
Atlantic
N. Y
Herald
Lowell
Wnyf. Herald
Nevada
Detroit Free Press
Chicago Herald
O’raffe
Teddy
Fayther
Texas
London
Quail Diet Sparks Talk of Madness Says Historian
An old physiologist claimed nine of ten men are more or less insane. Evidence cited is the curiosity over a man with a sepeenes stomach who eats a set number of quails within a given period, becoming a matter of national interest.
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N. Y. Herald
Alabama Legislature Rejects Rome Avenue Railroad Charters
The Alabama Legislature refused to grant charters to an out of state railroad, opposing the use of state authority to advance an out of state project.
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Alabama
Detroit Post
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