Weather Signals for Farmers by Washington Clerk
Alya H. Dean, a Pension Office clerk in Washington, proposes a Farmers signals system using colored flags on side of mail cars to indicate weather: white for clear, blue for fair, red doubtful, black stormy. Telegraph orders from Washington. cost deemed insignificant for wide adoption by Weather Service Bureau. Navy reports note tightened security around ships with extra guards and night precautions. Vice Admiral Commerell reviews items found with prisoners, saying they matched alleged intentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alya H. Dean
Washington
Nar Service Bureau
United States
Commerell
Quarrel Over Goods Sparks Flight at Riddick’s Station
Clerks from rival Florida Southern stores argued over merchandise at Clough near Riddick's Station on the Florida Southern Railroad the 20th. Gibson fled the scene as the dispute escalated.
Postage cuts and church art debate headline items
The Postmaster General announced a domestic postage reduction lowering the first class rate from three to two cents. The double postage rate for ship letters to the United States also drops from six to four cents. In Pittsburgh, Rev A M Wylie denounced church art as violating the Second Commandment, calling such sermons a risky compromise with worldly methods. R G Dun reports 243 business failures in US and Canada for the week ending the 19th, up 56 from the prior week, with increases in Canada and across New England, the South, and the West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Pennsylvania
R. G. Dun & Co
New York Mercantile Agency
Canada
New England
South
Compromise Reaches End in Central Pacific Tax Suit
The United States sues Central Pacific Railroad for internal revenue taxes in California courts. The compromise requires the railway company to pay the Government 69000 plus costs and relinquish a claim for 28816 in interest previously paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Central Pacific Railroad Company
California
Crusade Against Land Cruisers Intensifies
Commissioner McFarland of the General Land Office continues the crackdown on land cruisers in the West. Special agents report 13 entries to public lands in Washington Territory held for cancellation on the 19th. The fraud involved multiple parties including a notary who witnessed the papers, with all entries after confirmation transferred to a single individual.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McFarland
General Land Office
Washington Territory
Treasury circular on corporate ownership of registered bonds
Treasury Department circular dated the 20th directs that ownership and disposition of registered bonds by corporations or companies require verification by a board vote or resolution certified under seal. A copy of the resolution must be certified by an officer of the corporation other than the issuer authorized to assign the bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
Notes on Washington and river improvements report
Secretary Lincoln and Generals Wright and Parke returned to Washington after inspecting Kanawha River improvements in West Virginia. The review was favorable and progress satisfactory. Wright proposes river and harbor funding just under 86 million dollars for this winter. Hatton recommends lowering drop letter postage to one cent in his annual report.
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Lincoln
General Wright
Parke
Washington
Kanawha River
West Virginia
Mexico
Congress
Wright
Hatton
Heavy Sentence for Mail Robbery in Barbour County
In Barbour County West Virginia on the 18th Jacob T Hoffman a former wealthy respected citizen was sentenced to nine years in the penitentiary for robbing the mails. His remaining property was sold to satisfy a judgment won by his niece for posting a slanderous notice on church and schoolhouse doors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbour County
W. Va
Jacob T. Hoffman
Great Land Frauds in Texas
The Texas State Lands Frauds Board on the 18th submitted to the Attorney General a list of alleged illegal purchases of school lands aggregating over 65 000 acres and advised suits to recover. The illegality rests chiefly on purchases exceeding permitted quantities and made by state employees in the names of minors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Texas State Lands Frauds Board
Railroad Time Convention Sets Standard Time Delivery
The Southern Railway Time Convention appoints a committee to coordinate with telegraph firms for transmitting the new standard time to railroads. The new schedule takes effect on November 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Railway
Southern Counterfeiters Arrested in Mobile Capture
Three counterfeiters Thomas H Bohannon Oliver Bohannon and James Hollowell alias Sprague shadowed from Louisville by government detectives were captured at Mobile Alabama on the 19th. Bohannon wounded during escape attempt others secured in a house with plaster moulds acids battery and $114 in counterfeit dollar pieces seized. Oliver Bohannon an ex convict Thomas once a Fort Morgan telegraph operator. Dynamite scare at Halifax noted alongside linked arrests of Holmes Bracken and six British war suspects in the wider conspiracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas H
Oliver Bohannon
James Hollowell
Sprague
Louisville
Mobile
Ala
Bohannon
Thomas
Fort Morgan
Gallows Fruit and Hanging Figures in Two States
Margaret Harrison, a colored murderer, was hanged at Calhoun Georgia on the 19th. She asserted her innocence and blamed her plight on her own people as she addressed the crowd on the gallows. Edward Hovey was hanged in Toombs at New York for the murder of his sister in law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Harrison
Lilelia Lewis
Calhoun
Edward Hovey
New York
Alleged Information on Charley Ross Case
Donnelly a one year inmate at Illinois Penitentiary claimed access to Charley Ross whereabouts but investigators found no reliable facts linking him to the missing boy. The report notes no progress or solid leads in the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley Ross
Donnelly
Illinois
Divorce Suit Filed by Former U S Attorney in Connecticut
Roger M Sherman former United States District Attorney in New York City seeks a divorce from Florence Bagley Sherman in Fairfield Superior Court on grounds of habitual intemperance. She is the daughter of the late Governor Bagley of Michigan and heiress to a $2,000,000 fortune. Sensational aspects surround the case affecting prominent families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger M. Sherman
United States District Attorney
New York City
Superior Court
Fairfield
Conn
Florence Bagley Sherman
The Hill Sharon Adultery Suit Dismissed in San Francisco
Miss Aggie Hill, claiming to be wife of ex Senator Sharon of California, brought adultery charges. The case lacked a hearing, the plaintiff failed to appear, and the judge dismissed the complaint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill-Sharon
Sharon
California
Aggie Hill
San Francisco
Miss Hill
Harvard Rowing Platform Collapse Injures Scrub Runners
A crowded Charles River platform near Boston collapsed during Harvard scrub races on the 20th, injuring several spectators and Harvard men. Mead of South Boston class of 87 suffered a skull fracture and both legs broken and may die. Nine others sustained limb fractures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard
Charles River
Boston
Mead
South
Gold Discovery Sparks Dakotan Boom at Lisbon
Intense excitement follows a gold find in Lisbon South Dakota. About 130 samples were assayed yielding from twenty to two hundred fifty dollars per ton. A Chicago capitalist reportedly made the discovery two months ago and concealed details until land nearby could be bought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dakota
Lisbon
Dak
Chicago
Flooding in White River Valley Destroys Crops in Arkansas
Batesville Arkansas dispatch reports White River rising four inches per hour for forty eight hours inundating at least 12000 acres of corn and cotton. Small farms face irreparable damage with many households in peril during winter without aid. Water level higher than ten years save for May six 1882.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Batesville
Ark
21Ist
White River
Lincoln man as murder suspect in Burns case
Zora Burns domestic worker for Orrin A Carpenter of Lincoln Illinois was found murdered with throat cut and skull crushed near the city outskirts. Detectives arrested Carpenter two weeks later on the charge, alleged seduction and murder to conceal the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zora Burns
Orrin A. Carpenter
Lincoln, Ill
Carpenter
Notable Crimes and Suicides Shade Early 20th Century News
Reports include Daniel Bristol a Missouri Pacific cashier who died by morphine suicide after a $800 to $900 deficit, a Chicago saloon brawl where Charles Reynolds killed Edward Patterson, and Henry W. Gwynne ER a New York railroad man who shot himself at home. An Arkansas duel ends with Southerland dead and Ford wounded, while a Virginia attack near Shelby leaves Mrs. Logan dead and her husband nearly murdered. A final note reports Ross Gipson killing Alexander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Bristol
Missouri Pacific Railway
St. Louis
Chicago
Chas. Reynolds
Edward Patterson
Patterson
Henry W. Gwynne ER
Hook Manufacturing Company
National Publication Company
New York City
Charles Ford
Joe Sutherland
Newport
Ark
Southerland
Ford
Wm. Logan
Shelby, D. C
Wace Bn
Duke Brewery
Sidney
Coshocton
Ohio Poultry Association
Toledo
American Poultry Association
Charles’ ScHwaenow
Martin Kroch
Henry Carson
Indiana, Bloomington & Western
Castalia
Erie County
Kirkland Frren
Warren Second National Bank
Cleveland
E. A. Burks
New Orleans
Foster
Harrig Wank
Mount Cory
Hancock County
Rebecca Wade
Akron
Tuscarawas Valley
Ohio
State Geological Survey
Ohio Penitentiary
Michigan City
Cincinnati Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Terrific Loss After Smyrna Earthquake Destruction
An earthquake along Smyrna in Asia Minor destroyed southern coastal villages, with about a thousand believed dead. Many homes collapsed in the first shock, burying occupants while survivors wandered cold and hungry. The Porte issued an appeal claiming twenty thousand homeless and seeking aid.
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Smyrna
Asia Minor
The
Porte
Atrocities Reported At Hue Village Massacre
The article describes brutal killings in Hue where Annamites were trapped in a burning village and shot as they escaped under French fire. Eight hundred to one thousand killed. Sailors then killed the wounded with musket butts. Also mentions Lord Coleridge’s American tour and a London Irish National League resolution praising his speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hue
Lord Coleridge
Irish National League of London
Coleridge
New York Bar Association
Ireland
Cholera outbreak and other news from the era
The items report a cholera outbreak near Alexandria with four deaths, Moody mission meetings in Cork and Limerick, a deadly mine explosion in Yorkshire killing twenty, claims of German tools flooding Russian service, a Black Sea pirate gang luring ships and implicated Crimean officials, and donations in Dublin to families of Phoenix Park murder victims.
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Alexandria
Moody’s
Cork
Moody
Limerick
Yorkshire
England
Russia
Black Sea
Dublin
Phoenix Park
Earthquake in Asia Minor Kills Near a Thousand
Reports from Oct 12 describe a seismic event along the Smyrna coast from Chesme to Vourla causing widespread destruction. Up to about a thousand deaths feared, with many villages wrecked and tens of thousands homeless. Rescue efforts are underway as survivors face cold and privation.
Civil Rights Question From Arkansas Lands Row
Attorney General Brewster reviews J. W. Miles letter on alleged grievances of Arkansas blacks. He states remedies lie in US Constitution and state courts, with federal power limited to insurrections invited by state authorities and mob violence handled by state judicial system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Brewster
J. W. Miles
Arkansas
United States
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court of the
Supreme Court Rules Civil Rights Act Unconstitutional
Washington in Oct 15 reports Justice Bradley’s ruling in United States v. Singleton that sections one and two of the Civil Rights Act of March 1, 1875 are unconstitutional. The decision holds Congress lacked authority under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. dissent by Justice Harlan contrasts with the bar’s reaction. Prominent black leaders Douglass Langston and others decry the ruling as retrograde, while some applaud or seek Congressional action. The decision triggers wide national debate and is described as stirring more discussion than any since Dred Scott.
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America
Lansdowne
London
Colonial Office
Montreal
Washington
Cincinnati
Justice Harlan
Colorado
Alexander Brown
Pleasants County
W. Va
Nancy Wells
Isaac Henderson
Brown
Henderson
Henry Mosher
the Mosher
Charley Ross
Cheyenne
Junius RosenBerc
Stefan Batthyany
Temesvar
Hungary
Montgomery
Ala
Huntsville
Mayne Reid
Supreme Court
Bradley
United States
Samuel D. Singleton
Harlan
Bayard
Garland
Congress
Territories
District of Columbia
Red Douglass
Europe
John M. Langston
Hayti
Charles Sumner
Court
Dred Scott
Taney
Woman Knits Through Nine Hours While Horse Balks
A New Hampshire woman calmly sat with her knitting as a horse balked for nine hours, a scene noted by the Boston Herald. The horse relented and moved on, an incident described as unusual given the animal’s lack of prior experience with women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Herald
Shinplaster Cache Found in Batavia Arsonage Debris
Workmen removing the old Catholic arsonage to Liberty street Batavia New York uncovered a rat's nest containing shinplaster notes worth about two hundred dollars in fairly good preservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty Street
Batavia
Accident to Mr Vanderbilt at Fleetwood Park
An unusual Wall Street gathering at the Windsor Hotel learned that William H. Vanderbilt was thrown from a wagon at Fleetwood Park while driving Early Hose on the track of the Gentlemen's Driving Association. He was unconscious but not seriously injured, carried to a club-house platform, and later driven home with Mr. Turnbull.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wall Street
Windsor Hotel
William H. Vanderbilt
Gentlemen’s Driving Association
Fleetwood Park
George B. Alley
Vanderbilt
David Bonner
Mr. Vanderbilt
William Turnbull
Gabe Case
Turnbull
Wall Street National Bank to Open State Institution
The Wall Street National Bank, capitalized at $500,000, abandons the federal system and will operate as a state institution, signaling a major shift in its regulatory framework and banking operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street National Bank
Tragic Child Tragedy Near Connellsville on Rail Line
In Connellsville Pennsylvania a Baltimore and Ohio train struck a group of three children and a young woman supervising them on the tracks. Victims include Margaret Curren seventeen Alice King five Mary Farrell ten Daniel Farrell seven. The children were the Farrells kin of a widow and Alice King is the daughter of Harry King. The group had stepped off the westbound track to avoid a freight train when struck by an eastbound passenger train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connellsville
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Margaret Curren
Alice King
Mary Farrell
Daniel Farrell
Mary
Farrells
Harry King
Baltimore & Ohio
Miss Curren
A Rare Old Coin Gift From Masonic Leader
Cuicaeo Oct 16 H R Rothwell received a rare old bronze coin from Robert Morris Past Grand Master of Kentucky Masonic Grand Lodge. The coin was found near Gebal in the Holy Land and dated A D 180 under Emperor Commodaus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Rothwell
Robert Morris
Masonic Grand Lodge of
Kentucky
Gebal
Holy Land
Commodaus
Doctor Koch Links Cholera to Micro Organism found in Egypt
Berlin Oct 16 Dr Koch of the German Commission who studied the Egyptian cholera outbreak reports the disease is caused by a living thread like microscopic organism resembling the organism seen in phthisis. The finding addresses the mechanism of cholera transmission and may influence treatment and prevention strategies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Koch
Egypt
Whirlpool rapids depth proved at seventy five feet
A geological survey places the maximum depth of the whirlpool rapids at seventy five feet. General Butler remarks tobacco has become as essential as tea or coffee and anticipates tax relief soon. A Boston busting dig at intellectual ladies by Butler follows. A clergyman from Evanston writes of matrimony and plans to marry. Census shows U.S. wealth at fifty trillion dollars, vastly more than Vanderbilt's reputed fortune.
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Butler
New Orleans Doctors Link City Sickness to Cistern Water
New Orleans physicians warn that much illness in the city stems from drinking cistern water drawn from the slimy bottoms of cisterns. They urge water improvements and cleaner storage to curb outbreaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Oreans
State elections set for November 6 across seven states
State elections will be held on November 6 in Maryland Massachusetts Minnesota Nebraska New Jersey New York and Pennsylvania. Connecticut Mississippi and Virginia will elect members of the Legislature.
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Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Nebraska
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Mississippi
Virginia
Germany’s war with pork sparks trichinosis outbreak
Germany’s long war against American pork is blamed for neglecting native meat. An outbreak of trichinosis infects nearly two hundred people in a province where only German hogs were raised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Taxpayer limits on costly public works argue posterity
The Philadelphia Ledger notes cities cannot invest heavily in enduring public works because current taxpayers cannot bear expenses for the benefit of future generations. The argument emphasizes prudent spending over century‑spanning obligations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tus
Philadelphia Ledger
City construction spending in nine months totals 248 million
In New York City during the first nine months of the year, construction expenditures reached 248,067,223. Of this total 13,081,700 funded French and English flats and 13,353,000 supported first class dwellings.
President Arthur Visit Sparks Desert Cabin Inscription
While crossing a dry gulf in Western Wyoming on a presidential trip, Arthur and companions reportedly saw a coal scrawl over a vacant cabin door reading Only nine miles to water and twenty miles from wood No grub in the house God bless our home The line captures a stark frontier moment during the journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur
Wyoming
Oyster beds decline prompt Chesapeake Bay remedies
The Bay's oyster beds are failing and proposed remedies include banning foreign dredging boats, encouraging bedding of oysters, establishing a closed summer season, protecting spawning activity from disruption, and closing river canneries during summer months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesapeake Bay
A Personal Critique on the Champion Unbeliever
A friend of Robi. G. Inger soll comments on the champion unbeliever, praising the man yet fearing his tongue. The speaker rejects his use of others as strawmen to puncture with personalities and epigrams, lamenting the pattern even among friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robi
G. Ingersoll
Fraudulent subscriber collector sought monthly paper scam
Little Eva Brrirtton, who has traveled the country soliciting subscribers for a monthly paper called The Iurricane published in Charleston South Carolina, was arrested in New Orleans as a swindler. She allegedly obtained thirty thousand subscribers at fifty cents each for a paper that does not exist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Brrirtton
the Iurricane
Charleston
S. C
New Orleans
Publisher Advances Reward Big for New Book Author Blaine
Mr. Blaine secures 75000 dollars cash down and a royalty of 15 cents per volume from his publishers. With advance orders at 100000 copies and expected sales of 300000, the author could earn around 120000 dollars, well above the typical writer’s income.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaine
Fashion dictates dogs for street prom parade
Fashion decrees in a street promenade the larger the lady the smaller the dog she carries. The thin pale woman may bear a Newfoundland or bloodhound, but the robust leader must show the smallest, weakest-eyed hound on her bosom.
Vaporized crude oil proves economical fuel for iron works
Practical tests show crude petroleum oils vaporized as the most economical clean and effective fuel in iron and steel manufacture. The simple vaporizing machine, about the size of a flour barrel, allows fuel flow through a one and a half inch pipe to operate several engines, furnaces, and reduction machines.
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U.S.A
Price
Ely Brothers
Ely
Owego
N.Y
N & Hamlin Organs
Hamlin Organ & Piano Co
Tremont St
East 18Th
Wabash Ave
Dhoy
Arch
AM Engines
OURO
Bodley Co
Joux Axp Warri Srs
Fulton Street
N. At
South-west
N. BR
Warwick
Vine Street
Ci Cinnati
Queen of Sample
Queen City Suspender Co
Business College
Newark, N. J
Borate Andres Tras & Co
Augusta
NSON
N & CO
Mass
Cafe Specife
Les & Berry
Hot Springs
Mercury
Anakesis
Jay Bronson
Addy
News OF the
Halifax
Holmes and Bracken
Dlinois
Liberal
Leeds
Wilfred Lawson
Commons
Bradlaugh
Prohibition
Secretary of State
Conscecdantes Voac Ee
Allen Ciewpee
Ashland
Ewer
Ashtabula
Athens
BYOWE
Sas
Esplclev Ira Eleree Seite Ccecinis Oacere Olsa
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Champaign
Larke
Columbiana
Eerie
Fayette
Franklin
Fulton
Hamilton
Etna Rinitietels
Hancock
Hardin
Ge Harrison
Reeres
Hiehland
Hocking
Jefferson Ee
Pei Eras Oreon Clas
Erclopae Etceinaiels Shagat
Woop
Lorain
Lucas
Madison
Manroding
Marion Weer
Medina
C. Eesciee
Morrow
Muskin
Ers Noble
Ottawa Weer
Ewe
Paulding
Perry Pet Lla Gall
PRG Soc
Goa
Putnghie
Richland
Ross Sisrge
Iaieeeinen
Trumbull
Tuscarawas
Union
Vinton
Warren
UG Velco
Pufayas
Wyandot
Noten
Constant Nobse
Yestersday
Chesme
Chios
Vourla
Gulf of Smyrna
Jacksonville
Fla
Butleer
Evanston
Ill
W. H. Vanderbilt
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