Multi-incident 19th century news roundup spans fires, accidents, trials
Treasury calls for 25 million dollar redemption of 5 percent bonds from 1881 maturity. Circus train wreck near Richmond Kentucky kills three, injures seven or eight, tiger escapes briefly. Susanville California fire destroys two blocks, 150000 loss. Philadelphia refinery Harrisons Havemeyer Co burns, 1.6 million loss. Transportation, legal and political notes throughout.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Sells’ Circus
Richmond
Kentucky
William Underwood
Mt.Vernon
Susanville
Cal
Franklin
Harrison, Havemeyer & Co
Philadelphia
Jack Cot
Siberia
Melville
Danenhower
Washington Dispatch
Jere Black
Utah Commission
Congress
Nathan Kimball
Utah Commisson
Pittsburg
Crawford
Castle Williams
New Jersey
Government Island
New York
Admiral Grevy
Charles Matthews
Met Springs
Ark
Hornet
W. Fordyce
D. C. Rugg
Frank Flynn
Western Hardware Company
Jechison, Kansas
Iion
Garfield Monument View
Garfield Monument Committee
Washington, D. C
F. T. Wilson
Board of Directors
Wytheville
Virginia
Baptist Association
Hampton Cross Roads
Jerry Cox
Levi Bryson
Bryson
Cox
Nowrzzasteen
Illinois
Vincennes
Indiana
Lafayette College
Easton
Pennsylvania
Tures
Utah
Murray
Egypt rebellion fears and religious notes across Europe
ABEOaD voices Arab anger at British after Egypt unrest urging exile of notables to avert vengeance. He laments war misjudgments and denies Sultan contact. Also reports Rome cardinal appointments and England prayer services, Mayo evictions, and Vienna murder plot confessions as extradition debates rise amid Mexican constitutional press amendment.
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Abeoad
Anant Pasa
Egypt
Churches of
England
Rome
Monsignor
Czaki
Paris
Abianchi
Madrid
America
Oceanica
County Mayo
Ireland
Erris
Overdank
Vienna
Miramar Castle
High Court of
Venice
Austria
Mexico
Fires and futures in a shifting world of 1882
A Ridgeway fire destroys property worth 100000. W G Whittaker is arrested in Philadelphia for poisoning his wife six children and a boarder by arsenic in tea. Egypt retention of 12000 troops to consolidate suppression of Arabi Pasha. Tyrol landowners driven to poverty. Rev H O Hoffman found guilty of bastardy fornication and falsehood. California Prohibitionists nominate McDonald for Governor Sims for Lieutenant Governor. Post Office receipts for year ending June 30 1882 total 41265317.10 up from 36217511.55. postage revenue 39533317 up from 34678212. Dummy car on International Bridge falls into Niagara River. engineer Bohn and Reeve killed. Mrs Parmlee Captain Haggart and a woman injured. Weekly failures 120. Corn beat speculators. pork and lard expected. Imports for year to Aug 31 1882 $741983917. exports $737038772.
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Utah
Congress
Murray
Leanpder Merrill
Chauncy
Illinois
New York
Heathsville
Virginia
Bush
Pensacona
Florida
Secretary of the Interior
Dakota
Schurz
Great Sioux
Turtle Mountain
Interior Department
Montana
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Jim Cummines
James Gang
Caldwell
Kentucky
Crittenden
Missouri
Teller
Hayworth
Arkansas City
Genoa
Nebraska
Mercer
Pennsylvania
Greenville
Clemens Oskamp
Cincinnati
Lancaster
South Carolina
Colonel Cash
D—D Rascal
Ridgeway
Henry Epmund Knnent
London
W. G. Whittaker
Philadelphia
Egypt
Arabi Pasha
Tyrol
H. O. Hoffman
Lincoln
Ill
Hoffman
Judicial Conference
California
R. H. McDonald
Wm. Sims
Post Office Department
International Bridge
Erie
Ont
Black Rock
Buffalo
Niagara River
Bohn
Edwin Hershey Reeve
Bertie
Chicago
United States
The Eastern Deluge Dampens New Jersey Regions
Historic storm devastates Paterson and Hudson County with record rainfall. Fourteen plus inches in the Paterson area over 36 hours floods rivers, topples bridges, and damages mills, homes, and the Lincoln bridge. Hoboken and Jersey City face widespread inundation as rail lines and sewers fail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paterson
N. J
Oldham
Passaic
Redwoods Avenue
Myers
Martin Rossiter
Great Locomotive Works
Lincoln
Hohokus
Zabriskie’s
Hobokus
Hoboken
Ravine Road
Jersey City Heights
Jersey City
Hudson County
Jersey Avenue
Morris Canal
New York, Ontario & Western Railroad
Dward Webber
George Currie
Bea Burke
Terrible Fate A South Pacific Coast wreck claims two Alameda lives
A Santa Cruz through freight on the South Pacific Coast line wrecked near a trestle east of San Leandro Bay. Engineer Symons was badly hurt and appears fatally injured. Fireman Daniel Driscoll drowned after long, heroic efforts to free him. Brakeman Daly died on impact and conductor Langden was injured. Both victims were Alameda residents.
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Santa Cruz
Park Street
Alameda
San Leandro Bay
Symons
Daniel Driscoll
Daly
Langden
San Francisco Exchange
Ohio State News Roundup From Port Clinton to Canton
Abundant hickory hazel and walnut reports with a Port Clinton reunion dates of the Forty first Regiment O V I. Balloon ascent at Uhrichsville, a fatal self inflicted wound near Piqua, a fatal stabbing at Sandusky, drownings near Akron, and a store sale in Mount Vernon. Fire at Wooster pad factory. horse races canceled. insurance company assignment. a seduction case death in prison. lightning killed Ira Kimberly. a jail inmate set ablaze and died. a Kent lake swim wager. feats by Cuares F Cousins and Miller. J Winkler Swiss strongman. deaths at Painesville and Canton area. rail line completions.
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O. V.I
Port Clinton
Lorrie St. Clair
Fair Grounds
Uhrichsville
Stillwater
Burge
Piqua
Sandusky
Henry Woolwather
William Zeicker
Micuart Moore
Akron
Stephen Day
Mount Vernon
C., Mt. V. and C
Day
J. W. Emerich & Co
Wooster
Ohio
Montgomery County
Tur Home Insurance Company
Joseph W. King
Green County
William T. Brown
Ashtabula County
Supreme Court
Ira Kimberly
Adam Schatz
Defiance
Epward Sepdens
Hamilton County
Cuares F. Cousins
Kent
Congress Lake
Miller
Cleveland
Joan Winkler
Stone Creek
Tuscarawas County
New Philadelphia
Canal Dover
E. W. Clarky
Painesville
Lorain County News
Belleville Gazette
Edenburg
Virginia
Exiza Miss
Gallipolis
Wm. McGrean
Painsville
Wm. Epwards
Youngstown
Wo. Zeicher
Henry Wellingerhoff
C. and A
Peeneene Marion
Lima
Increase of Fire Risk in Threshing Near Barns
Digest of late decisions notes that a steam threshing machine placed near a barn caused a fire and was not a prohibited risk in the policy, making the insurer liable. Other items cover waiving excess consignments, fraud damages, common carriers, street openings, attorney compromise power, collateral security, liens, offer and acceptance, license tax, will destruction, altering notes, trust, and attorney compromise.
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Foreign Mutual Ins. Co
Moyer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Goodyear Rubber Co
Foster
Law Times
Black
Heid
Stuart
Higler
Haslett
Gillespie Bros. & Co
Schneider
Lang
Supreme Court of
Minnesota
Saxe-Coburg Not Surnamed Royal House Says Burke
Sir Bernard Burke, Irish herald, notes the royal house of Saxe Coburg has no surname. He explains that adoptable surnames were unnecessary for kings, unlike the Plantagenets and Tudors whose sobriquets formed their names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Burke
Victor’a
Saxe-Coburg
James Dunmanway Faces Hammer Attack Trial in Providence
James Dunmanway refused lawyers and sought an insanity plea in a Providence trial for nearly killing a man with a hammer. The defense argued a keen intelligence, and the jury found him responsible, sentencing him to two years in prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Dunmanway
Providence
Apple Dumplings and Apoplexy Tie Scottdale Girl's Fate
A Scottdale Pennsylvania girl collapsed after eating three large dumplings in a race with her cousin. Doctors linked her ailment to apoplexy but hope for recovery remains. If she recovers she plans to train for Vassar College. N FY Suma.
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Scottdale
Vassar College
N. FY. Suma
Platform of the New York Republicans Voices for Tax Reform and Integrity
The New York Republican State Convention adopts a platform urging equitable taxation for corporations and individuals, safeguards for primary elections, restrained use of executive power, careful scrutiny of constitutional changes, and continued support for President Arthur and Governor Cornell. It condemns the Democracy for alleged misgovernance and pledges support to convention nominees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Republican State Convention
Republican Party of
Republican Party
Theople
Cornell
Chester A. Arthur
Arkansas Plan to Suppress Republican Votes Exposed
The piece catalogs four methods used to deprive Republicans of votes in Arkansas, from intimidation in Helena to ballot-box theft in Holly Grove, false counts in townships, and precincts thrown out by a Returning Board in Little Rock. It criticizes the Helena intimidation and condemns bulldozing while denouncing a Little Rock Gazette endorsement, argues for Republican integrity, and cites related state and national implications with references to the Maine election and Indiana impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Helena
Holly Grove
Little Rock
Philwen County
Mangum
Churchill
Adjutant General of
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Savety
Republic
High Court of War
Maine
Ida
Arge
Robie
Congress
Ohio
Indiana
Friends of
Indianapolis Journal
Philips County Democrats Deny Black Vote Rights
The report exposes Phillips County Democrats openly pledging to block black Republican votes in state elections. They threaten to never allow colored voters to elect a ticket and warn Republicans of the ultimatum. The piece notes Helena's Democrats confirm ongoing voting exclusion since 1876, while praising rare but present intimidation elsewhere.
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Phillips County
Union
Helena
Arkansas
South
Slave States
Republican Party
Solid South
St. Louis
The Compression of Cotton Question Examined
A reported test by Gaston County miller J. Dumont compares field baled, country baled, and heavily pressed cotton. He finds compressed cotton yields less waste and more output than other lots, while unpressed fiber may be stronger. Results remain unsettled and debated.
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Aparsmant
Washington
J. C. Hemphill
England
Dumont
Gaston County
N. C
Charlotte
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Grapstone
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Dustin
London Times
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Ismail Bey
Reouf Pasha
Alexandria
Tanteh
Khedive
Chiapas
Moscow
Hickey
Tipperary County
Land League
Carroll
Havana
Upper
Commissariat
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Green Brook
Somerset Street
French
Fred Moore
Bound Brook
Ramsey
Elm Park
Connecticut
North Carolina
The
St. Louis Commercial Gazette
Kirkman
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company
Hatever
City of Allegheny
Black’s Heirs
Lien
City of
Rich
Gilkey
Supreme Court of Maine
O. F. B. Association
First National Bank of Springfield
Fricke
Supreme Court of Missouri
Loving
Ashlin
Supreme Court of Virginia
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Whitman
Rhode Island
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