News Of The Week Bullets From Washington And Beyond
Treasury notes British remonstrance against returning pauper emigrants. Washington orders strict measures to prevent infected cargo landing and to burn rags from Europe. Bavaria left Liverpool for Boston with Alexandria rags. West Point hazing case cuts Cadet Hartigan. $500000 embezzlement cited. Remains of Carl Mininger cremated in Washington Pa. Buckboard party wreck. Miss Case killed. Miss White and others injured. Pennsylvania Railroad crossing accident claims three lives. Mrs Welsh dies.
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Treasury Department
England
United States
Washington
Bavaria
Liverpool
Boston
Alexandria
Carl Mininger
Cincinnati
LeMoyne
Court Martial for Chaplain over Pay Duplications
The Secretary of War ordered the Judge Advocate General to prepare charges for trial by court martial of Chaplain Toussalist Mes plie for multiple duplications of pay accounts during his absence without leave. He returned from abroad, was arrested in San Francisco, and officials report at least three accounts were out for one month’s pay on several occasions.
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Secretary of War
Judge Advocate General
Army
Toussalist
San Francisco
War Department
Fever-free New Orleans season noted by Louisiana health board
A telegram to Surgeon General Hamilton from Joseph Jones reports no fever cases in New Orleans this season. The Diamond Match Co. gains stamp redemptions credit per the Treasury's First Comptroller. Kalama 200 Mich Postmaster suspended for absence. President Arthur appoints Edward H. Nervin Jr as Naval Officer of Customs in Philadelphia and George F. Leland as Surveyor of Customs in Philadelphia.
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Hamilton
Joseph Jones
Louisiana Board of Health
New Orleans
Comptroller of the Treasury
Diamond Match Co
Kalama- 200
Mich
Arthur
Edward H. Nervin, Jr
Naval Officer of Customs
Philadelphia
George F. Leland
Poisoned Ice Cream Sicken Dozens At Illinois Lawn Party
In Joliet Illinois more than one hundred attendees at a lawn party became seriously ill after eating ice cream flavored with a likely poison. No deaths are reported though several victims remain critical.
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Jolliett
Ill
Masked mob lynching and arson strike in Milestown Montana
A group of masked men seized Rigney from Milestown jail and hanged him with a railroad tie projection. Two hours later a fire engulfed the Cosmopolitan Theater and six other buildings, including a drug store, causing about $100,000 in damage. The blaze is believed to be an incendiary retaliation for Rigney’s hanging.
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Mon
Rigney
Cosmopolitan Theater
Righey
Death of Hon Montgomery Blair at Silver Springs
Hon Montgomery Blair died at his residence near Washington in the morning on the 27th. The notice states the location as Silver Springs and records the passing of the public figure.
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Montgomery Blair
Silver Springs
Washington
Polk ex-treasurer guilty of embezzlement in Tennessee
Ex-Treasurer Polk of Tennessee was found guilty of embezzlement on the 26th and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. He was fined 536540.10 dollars, the full embezzled sum, and a motion for a new trial was filed immediately. The verdict surprised Polk’s friends.
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Polk
Tennessee
Saloonkeepers in St. Louis Move to Defy Sunday Law
The Saloon-keepers' Protective Association of St. Louis met on the 27th and nearly unanimously resolved to ignore the Sunday law and keep saloons open. They also voted to expel any member who follows a different course.
Western Union service protests prompt regional meetings
The Cotton Exchange of New Orleans protests its service method by Western Union. The Board of Trade of Indianapolis convenes a conference with Mississippi Valley Boards of Trade and Western Union. Five suits have been filed in Philadelphia over alleged indifferent service.
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Western Union
Board of Trade of
Indianapolis
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The
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Western Union Company
Philadelphia
Victims of Italian Padrones Arrested at Atlantic City
Thirty six Italian bootblacks, ages five to seventeen, were arrested in Atlantic City New Jersey on the twenty seventh under a new city law barring under eighteen from boot cleaning soliciting aid music or mendicancy. Each paid five dollar licenses and many were housed together under padrones who exact daily sums with punishments. Governor Butler vetoes Samuel Angier Chace pardon request detailing the case and his refusal.
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N. J
Butler
Massachusetts
Boston Council
Samuel Angier Chace
Fall River
US District Attorney sues 165 Boyd letter patrons in New York
The United States District Attorney has begun suits against 165 patrons of Boyd's private letter express at New York for penalties of 0 dollars each for violation of postal law. Another suit has been filed against Wm. Blackham, proprietor of Boyd's post, for penalties for infringing the law in carrying on a letter express.
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Boyd
New York
Wm. Blackham
Boyd’s Post
Rail Crash Kills Nineteen as Train Plows Through
A Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad excursion train bound for Clayton collided at Carlydon Station New York on the night of the 28th. Nineteen people were instantly killed and about thirty injured. The double header, traveling at forty miles per hour in gale winds, struck a freight car on a main track after it had been blown off a side track. One engine toppled, the other lurched into a ditch and the crash was heard three miles away.
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Watertown & Ogdensburg
Carlydon Station
N. Y
Clayton
Michigan
Yellow Fever Quarantine After Californian Arrival
The steamship Californian from the West Indies reached Baltimore quaran tine on the 28th with four yellow fever cases aboard. She went through the capes up the Chesapeake Bay without notice and is now under strict quarantine by health authorities.
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Baltimore
West Indies
Capes
Chesapeake Bay
Algernon Sartoris Advertises City Lots for Sale
A Green Bay dispatch reports Algernon Sartoris advertising city lots for sale and stating he will never return. Officials have collected proof linking Mrs. Bush with Sartoris and sent it to General Grant. The public suspects the adventuress is in Cincinnati and that they did not intend to go to England.
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Green Bay
Wis
Algernon ‘Sartoris
Mine explosion in Colta nisetta Cicily kills 35 miners
An explosion struck a mine at Colta nisetta Cicily on the 28th, killing thirty five miners. Seventy workers were in the mine at the time of the disaster.
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Coltanisetta
Cicily
London syndicate forms to settle Confederate bonds
A London cable dispatch reports a syndicate formed to settle Confederate bonds. Bondholders will entrust 400 million in bonds to the National Life Deposit Company for five years, with return to owners if no settlement occurs. If settled, holders receive five percent first, then the remainder shared with the syndicate.
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London
National Lafe Deposit Company
Europe
Captain Webb's Drowning Near Lewiston Inquest Verdict
The body of Captain Webb was found floating below Lewiston New York on the 28th. An inquest returned a verdict of found drowned. A ragged wound on the head about three inches long was noted, likely caused by a rock at the whirlpool entrance where rocks protrude and currents run strongest. The wound is believed to have caused his death and he sank promptly after.
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Captain Webb
Lewiston
N. Y
Spanish Envoy Francisco Barca Dies In New York Hotel
Francisco Barca the Spanish Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States died by his own hand with a revolver in his Albemarle Hotel room in New York on the 29th. Authorities suggest financial troubles may have driven the act.
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Francisco Barca
United States
Albemarle Hotel
New York
Multiple Local Suicides and Murders Reported
Miss Jane Teague of Lexington North Carolina hanged herself in her attic on the 25th. James W Donover a Chicago brewery bookkeeper had his throat cut by Hankey Pankey on the 25th. the killer remains at large. Daniel B Phillips an evangelist died by his own hand in Boston on the 26th. Tips the desparado stabbed farmer Kittle near Graysville Georgia a few days ago. the killer escaped. David W Durges killed his stepfather James Smith with a stone near Snarta.
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Lexington
N. C
James W. Donover
Western Brewery
Chicago
Hankey Pankey
Daniel B. Phillips
Boston
Tipps
Kittle
Graysville
David W. Durges
James Smith
Snarta
Mysterious Assault and Dual Fatalities Reported
On the 26th Teun and Smith were involved in a violent incident where Smith abused his wife, Durges’ mother, and surrendered, drawing community sympathy. Earlier, during a fight in St Paul Minnesota on the 29th between Martin Grogan and George Gundlach, Grogan was killed by Gundlach’s son who slashed Grogan’s throat with a shovel.
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Smith
Durges
Martin Grogan
George Gundlach
St. Paul, Minn
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Grogan
Emigration Aid and Earthquake Catastrophe News
Reports from Cork show 5327 assisted Irish emigrants over three months at a cost of £35000, with £26000 from government funds, while Ischia Cassamicciola endured a devastating earthquake killing about three thousand. News notes cite Cetewayo reportedly killed, Paris World Exhibition delegation, and other global items.
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Tukes Committee
Cork
Reports on murders, shipboard assassination and social unrest
James Curry, called the Irish informer, is reportedly assassinated on a ship off the South Africa coast by O'Donnell. In New York GeorgE Shephard and his wife were found dead in bed with gunshot wounds. Europe and the U.S. face firm distress as factory failures hit Copeland & Co and Shaw & Bros, with large liabilities. Substantial opium shipments to San Francisco banks loom, while riots and public notices accompany earthquakes in Italy.
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Scandinavian Settlers and Wealth on the Plains
A narrator recalls traveling through Western states, noting neat Scandinavian farms with hedges and cattle. Investigations of county records show many Scandinavian farms mortgaged to finance small scale stock raising, with higher personal property taxes due to increased livestock. The author reflects on his Kansas experience and contrasts Scandinavian wealth with American neighbors on fertile bottoms.
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Tragic Wedding Accident at Meyersburg
Albert Kesler and Miss Ida Campbell married at Campbellford and returned home. While Kesler tended a water bucket by the riverbank the horse startled, Kesler fell, and Campbell, still in the buggy, fell on the wheel and was instantly killed. Kesler mourns his bride as villagers react to the tragedy at Meyersburg.
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Herald
Reader quotes on cigars and everyday humor in 19th century press
The excerpt compiles humorous anecdotes and satire from the era, including debates on cigar value and cost, trivial witty lines, and cartoonish vignettes. It quotes opinions from a reporter and clerk, then offers jests about marriage, a baseball fine, a bald man missing a fly, and social mishaps.
Lawyers of Washington Beat Baltimore in Exhibition Base Ball
A group of Washington lawyers and Baltimore lawyers played an exhibition baseball game. After much eloquent talk and some batting, the Washington team emerged victorious. Washington 1st.
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