Hypocrisy Attack on Labor and Immigrant Policy Sparks Political Debate
Excerpts from 1887 interviews and a May 27 1887 Butterworth lecture critique organized labor universal suffrage and naturalization. Articles quote Butterworth accusing labor of conspiracy and demagoguery while opponents decry universal suffrage and nativeism amid immigration waves.
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Ben Butterworth
Music Hal
Changed Employers and Local Troubles Reach Probate Court
Fred Conrad, owner of a Hamilton pike pretzel factory in Cumminsville, seeks ex-employee Adolph Vogt who vanished with fifteen boxes of pretzels. August W. Bruck, Union Labor candidate for Probate Judge, is praised for judicial ability integrity and decisiveness.
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Fred Conrad
Hamilton Pike
Cumminsville
Adolph Vogt
Vogt
Baker
August W. Bruck
Prater
Local BREVITIES items include thefts, crimes, and deaths
James Miller fourteen was jailed for placing a PG on Vine street Cable Rail. Holy Trinity parsonage on West Fifth street entered. Vicar General Albrinck robbed of watch and $40. Dr. Walter A. Dun dies of typhoid fever. Charles Rodgers stole $10 from John Moser’s saloon. Typhoid fever and malaria rise. seventeen deaths this week, six more. Price Hill Incline Plane surveys begun, old site unsold. Wife of barber Joe Volz left home with money, rumored elopement with George Ford. N C Mendenhall dies after injuring on train. inventor of a handloom. Gus Zertsman beaten on Walnut street. suspects arrested.
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James Miller
House of Detention
Holy Trinity Church
West Fifth Street
Albrinck
Price Hill
Joe Volz
Ludlow
Joe
George Ford
Telegraph Taps Report From 19th Century News
Rev. Cwns A Berry may succeed Beecher at Plymouth Church. E H Watts of Oxford Ohio found insane near Parsons Kansas. brother carries him home. Davin Scott of Ivanhoe Paper Paterson NJ and Lawrenceville Cement Rosendale NY disappears leaving 60000 in unpaid notes. State Auditor Kreswetter’s name forged. treasury balance misrepresented. A brutal double murder in Spencer Ohio by stepmother of two girls, with arson and insurance motive.
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E. H. Watts
Oxford
Ohio
Parsons
Kansas
Davin Scott
Ivanhoe Paper Company
Paterson
N. J
Lawrenceville Cement Company
Rosendale
N. Y
Vernon Bros. & Co
Kreswetter
Treasury
General Reserve Fund
Cappeller Gang
Spencer
Gillet
Street Railroad Expansion Affects City Streets
By due to improvements on Eighth street between Elm and Centr avenues the Eighth Street car began this morning running north on Walnut from Fourth to Fifth and west to Vine then north to Seventh to Freeman then to Eighth toward Price The Cincinnati Street Railway Company began yesterday operating the Colerain Avenue and Hamilton Pike extensions in Cincinnativille.
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Eighth Street
Elm
Centr Avenue
Cara
Walnut
Fourth
Fifth
Vine
Seventh
Freeman
Eighth
Price 1
Cincinnati Street. Railway Company
Colerain Avenue
Hamilton Pike
Cumminaville
Kidnap Plot Involving Eva Sheridan Pitfalls
Mrs Eva Sheridan formerly Widinger wife of Andrew Sheridan who left her after disputes abducted her child yesterday afternoon from the residence of his sister in law on Front Street between Race and nearby. The case centers on custody and flight as authorities investigate.
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Eva Sheridan
Widinger
Andrew Sheridan
Front Street
Race
Eternal boycott urged against food speculators by Powderly
T W Powderly in a Pittsburg Commercial Gazette piece from August 16 1837 denounces wheat and coffee cornering by speculators. He calls for an eternal boycott on grain and stock gamblers, details losses from the deals and pushes workers to seize control of telegraph lines and reform railroad regulation to protect farmers and laborers.
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New York
Chicago
United States
Canada
Wall Street
Congress
Washington
T. W. Powderly
Pittsburg
Odds, Ends and Oddities From Past Times
A Nebraska City statistician estimates young women chew gum six hours daily, mov ing jaws 600 inches a day. Boston and Albany conductor W W Wilber has logged 1 65 million miles in 44 years and aims for 2 0 million before retirement. England superstitions say a white pigeon signals death. A US Mint Helena medal from Jay Gould mine weighed over 2 500 ounces and worth about $27 000. the first gold bar seen in the world came from North Bloomfield Hydraulic in Nevada County California.
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Nebraska City
Uni States
Helena
Mont
Jay Gould
North Bloomfield Hydraulic
Nevada County
Cal
Turner Hall Ticket Note on Local Politics
A party member argues a loyal voter should not compromise ballot integrity by backing improper nominees. The Twenty first Ward reports the Fire Commissioners buying a Gest and Depot streets lot at $3760 per front foot for a firehouse project.
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Board of Fire Commissioners
N. Wilder
Gest and
Depot Streets
Twenty-first Ward
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Walter A. Dun
Board of Medical Examiners
Police Department
East Third Street
Charles Rodgers
Findlay
Elm Streets
John Moser
Eighth and A Streets
N. C. Mendenhall
Gus Zertsman
Seibel’s
Walnut Street
Jacob Ertel
Stark Street
John Hick
Atlantic Street
Jung Brewing Company
Cwns
A. Berry
Henry Ward Beecher
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Knights OF Labor
Dick Turpin
Jesse James
Jack
Christ
All Street
Temple of Old
W. W. Wilber
Boston and Albany Railroad
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