Weather and Local Notices From the Western Hotel District
Cloudy weather reports mix with local items from Corryville and West Fourth Street. A coroner’s inquest over Caroline Volmer at the Western Hotel returns death by disease after illness on arrival from New York while planned social events and police activities surface amid scattered community updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ee Court of Inquiry
Walch
East Witnit
Hook and
Corryville
Parker's
Dr. W
How
J. T. West
T Street
Charles
Botts
Vine
Cushman
Louisville
Joseph Ornan Frite Smith
Thompson
Hammond Street
Caroline Volmer
Western Hotel
West Fourth Street
Caroline
Kansas
New York
Amusements at Melodeon Hall and Pike's Opera House
A fine audience attended Victor Fiechter's return recital at Melodeon Hall with a strong encore. Anna Dumphy and other performers received praise though some vocal enunciation issues were noted. Upcoming events include Beasop at Wood's, the National diorama and ventriloquisms, and a Women’s Christian Association tableaux at Pike's Opera House with unique frontispiece design and strong ticket demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melodeon Hall
Victor Fiechter
Sakata
Skawien
Andres and
Jasiewicz
Anna Dumphy
Newhall
Tyrrell
Ballenberg
Wood’s
Mit
Arkansas Traveler
Davies
Jack Sheppard
National
Pike’s Opera House
Adolf Sehmits
Dusseldorf
Muale
Emma Cranch
Shocking Accidents Reported in City Newsroom
A Stonewall Jackson Kerr relative, teen, shot by his brother Cornelius during a rabbit hunt. Two women injured by horses in a buggy collision. one severely. George Schmidt arrested for careless driving. case continued. A coal oil lamp explosion starts a fire with a German woman's injuries. officer Ormston saves the child and fights the blaze. No fire alarm details provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stonewall Jackson Kerr
Camp Dennison
Cornelius
Ormston
Long Kilgour Street
No. 16
Ormieton
Probate Court Appoints Administrator in Clemens Kaume Case
In probate court Beronxy Jupox Homrrex names Auguataera as administrator of Clemens Kaume with a $6 000 claim noted. The record references jury action and involvement of local business figures connected to a Nashville event and prior office holders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beronxy
Auguataera
Clemens Kaume
Sas Psanee
City Finance Committee Awards Ice Contract and Budgets
The Finance Committee awarded the Cincinnati company an ice contract for the coming summer at 85 cents per hundred pounds. They seek 500 for expenses in securing National Conventions. A University Directors funds request asks 150000 in bonds at 7 percent for buildings and materials, referred to two trustees and the City Solicitor. Water Works trustees seek 300000 in bonds to finish Garden of Aden reservoir, referred to the same committee. An amendment reduces 1100 to 50 for clerk hire. 75 for clerk hire approved. Chamber of Commerce requests 1190 for Newport bridge elevation and canal appropriations, referred to the chairman. The committee adjourned after other routine business.
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Cincinnatine Company
Messrs. Goshorm and
Bissell
Water Works
Garden of Aden
Eles Oeik
Tod
Rot
Payee
Ital
Ots
Brookfield
Bishop
Rowland
Chamber of Commerce
Newport Bridge
Louisville, & Portland Canal
Skaate
Railroad freight rates debated by Board of Trade committee
At a Board of Trade on Transportation meeting, Mr. Macneal urged scrutiny of uneven local and through freight rates across roads. Mr. Waters presented a yearlong freight tally from eight railways showing mostly noncompliant rates. officials pledged closer legal adherence despite no action taken. Separately Colonel Pummill, sued in U S Court, denied receiving a sergeant’s pay after overdrawing funds during service with the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trade On Transportation
Macneal
Board of Trade
Boards of Trade
A. B. Waters
Pummill
United States
Fifth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry
Esteaenae Darian
Savannah
Georgia
Goldsborough
North Carolina
River conditions and steamboat arrivals noted in early report
The text records rising river levels with 8 feet 10 inches in the channel, rain continuing and navigation becoming precarious. It lists arrivals including Gen Lytle Buell and other vessels, mentions iron ore shipments, a river wreck, and a potential river improvement plan with dredging and dam elevation proposals.
Canal Receipts and Local Music Event Noted in Cincinnati
The Cincinnati ledger lists canal receipts on May 11 including lumber ice flour lard paper middlings meal and sundries. Eben Park will be enlivened tomorrow from 4 to 7 by Currier's band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Eben Park
Currier
Daily Market Review from the Evening Star May 17 1872
The report covers prices and demand across multiple commodities including flour, coffee, cotton, sugar, lemons, dried apples, oats, corn, lard, petroleum, tea and pork. It notes firm or improved demand for some items, excess receipts for others, and specific price ranges or per-unit figures where readable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office OF the Evening Star
Neato Ee Ie Pangea
Shipstuf &O
Chia Western Reserve
Cpa
Aras
Ohio River
Selves
Youghioghen
Shipwella
Inter
Ana Ieee
Ogi
Privat
Anon
Ley
New Orleans
Agar
Markets by Telegraph Summary
Market telegraph notes list pork, tallow, and coffee prices with shifts in value. Mentions California white goods and futures in Rio de Janeiro with duty paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Rio
Look Before You Jump On Embankment
Yesterday at five thirty PM three well dressed youths stood opposite the embankment near the rolling mill. They ran down to cross the water which looked like a quick passage but shallow and green with scorix. The first leaped it and sank in eight feet of water. a second man saved him, while a third fled to change clothes. This morning another man tried the same stunt with a similar result, his name withheld due to railroad competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boot Purnace
Terra Firma
Columbus & Ferrara Railroad
Columbus Dispatch
Morrible Massacre of Nine Texans at Fort Clark
The San Antonio Herald reports a massacre near Howard Springs on the El Base road 150 miles from San Antonio. About sixty Indians attacked a wagon train of fifteen, killing and scalping several, looting arms and goods, then fleeing as Gen. Ari’s column pursued. Lieutenant Vinson was mortally wounded in the skirmish that followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Fort Clark
Plains
Howard Springs
el Base Road
U. S
Gen
Ari
United States
Lieut
Vinson
World's Exhibition of 1873 at Vienna Begins to Rearrange City
Advices from Vienna state the 1873 World's Exhibition will dominate minds and journals as 2000 workers build a vast gallery complex. The centerpiece is a 102 metre span iron rotunda weighing about 2000 tons with a roof by Scott Russell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
St. Peter’s
Rome
Scott Russell
Prater
Paris
Clara Louise Kellogg and Her Famous Mentor Tale
The article recalls Clara Louise Kellogg as a celebrated American singer and notes she was the sole survivor of George Kellogg, born in Hartford, a Wesleyan graduate and inventor. It recounts her early guidance by Colonel Henry G. Stebbins and N. P. Willis, plus a humorous homeward dog anecdote and a troubling Louisiana incident involving Chinese laborers carrying a dark object to a mansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Jane Elizabeth Crosby
Middletown
Henry G. Stebbins
N. P. Willis
Home Journal
Steb
Willis
the Hudson
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the Evening Star
NOTIC
Daxe, & Nng ST
Pirth & Vine
Ste. Mafrance On
Wvanine Stan
Roll Twitch
Cian
West Fourth
Silver Grove
Aaa
Court Report
N City Company
Nashville
Col. Jones
Col. O'Brien
Lytle
Buell
James
Maysville
Telegraph
Andes
Pottehiey 'Natoa Sani Cis
Renbag
Wildwood
Daniel Boone
Cinnati
Brunet
Merrill
Congress
Cincinnati and
Memphis Packet Company
Alice Dean
Silver Moon
Robert Burns
Mt. Vernon Banner
Avalanche
Silverthorn
Eseneville Journal
Silver
Hyansvill
James Howard
Memphis
Daily Market Review
Calfornia
Clara Louise
Illinois
Louisiana
Sineng
Eiexcanae
Central Avenue
Feldman & Brother
Fheemie Gas Carbonizin Co
Spectal
Pep
Partington
Waas
Granger
Fifth Street
Plum Street
Sg' Korte Bros
West Fifth Street
Kennedy
da Beck
Dr. B
John Street
Pshayne
Tagle
Hendley’s
Fifth and Central Avenue
Geo. B. Wood
Washington City
D. C
Obert Warden
Ben
M. Piatt
Warden & Piatt
Covington
E. Nixon
West Sixth St
Justice OF the Peace
MH. Bowar
Stice OF the Peace and Notary Public
Main Street
Resarton
OFI
Walnut Street
BE. Kinney& Co
Bunkers
BR. Hoses & Son
Babbett, Harkness & Co
Henry Morganthau
Tnt
NEW York Star Company
Mary Stuart
Spenton
Andes Dickens
Deborah
Lear
Iit
WOOD
Yacaceer
Kit
Arkansas
Kit Redding
Women’s Christian Association
W. A
Newport Bar
Rees
John Churur
Nation
H. J. Sargent
al Theater
Marwager
Jack Uepeaes
Bonne
Wilson Bro's
Pike
Wabash Veuue
Oeashington Street
Chicago
Intel Unees
Steve Porter
Pomeroy, Peckover & Co
J. McCormick
Evening Star
Corner Fi
Vine Streets
West
Ninth Street
Gi Street
Jos
Rae
Hird Street
Ieee
Oruen & Co & Co
Magoffin
King River
Eras Aera
Tenaine
Pepere
Hall Street
Tadien
Aya
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