Pigeon census and startling war facts in brief notes
Franer’s census of carrier pigeons suggests the government could mobilize up to a quarter of a million birds in wartime. Cincinnati cremations total ninety five at the local facility, active two years. The lone South American woman journalist is Mrs. Jose do Patrovinha connected to Cidade de Rio. Paris rumor says Mrs J G Ayer, widow of a patent medicine magnate, is betrothed to a royal relation. Jury selection in Georgia includes the murder victim’s name drawn from the box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franer
Jose Do Patrovinhca
The
Cidade de Rio
Worp
Paris
J. G. Ayer
Russia
Heirs of Gaines Win $500,000 Verdict Against New Orleans
The Gaines heirs secure another half million against the city but expect little or no payment. Elsewhere, Africa’s youth seek a Sunday flag from a missionary for religious meetings, and a pugilist’s color reportedly spreads after a street encounter near Oakland leaving the attackers with black eyes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myra Clark Gaines
New Orleans
Jackson
Oakland
Cal
Remark on rapid growth of typists and telegraphers in New York
In New York the increase of type writers and telegraphers over the last ten years outpaces all other classes when measured against their 1880 numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Short Canton Courtship Ends In Quick Marriage
An Ohio man staying at a Canton hotel fell for the cook upon arrival. He proposed the same day, and they wed immediately, marking one of the shortest courtships on record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pispatcu
Ohio
Canton
States Allow Flogging by Masters in Limited Union
The article notes that only five states permit a school master to administer corporal punishment. in all other states a pupil attacked may defend himself with any secret weapon and use it as he sees fit.
Castes Mix on Indian Railways Then and Now
The article notes thirty distinct religious castes in India and recalls that early rail travel segregated riders by caste. It explains natives found this inconvenient and now various castes ride together, mixing during journeys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
New Orleans School Founded by Joan and Jacob Weber
Joan and Jacob Weber have taught at their school opened in New Orleans in May 1840. They have taught without a vacation and only fifteen days of intermission in fifty years to repair the building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan and
Jacob Weber
New Orleans
New York Bill Bans Transferring Insane From State Asylum
A bill passed the last New York Legislature prohibiting moving any insane person from a state asylum to a county house. It also calls for inexpensive new buildings to house all inmates currently in county houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
New York
Drummer Boy of Chalmette Dies in New Orleans
Jorpan B Nosse known as The Drummer Boy of Chalmette died in New Orleans. Born 1796 to slave parents, he served as a drummer under Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, fought in the Florida and Mexican wars, and organized a colored command under General Butler in the Civil War.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jorpan B. Nosse
South
Chalmette
New Orleans
Jackson
General Butler
Emperor of Russia’s suite details revealed
The Emperor’s current suite lists 175 members with 73 generals and 76 extra aides de camp. It includes 15 imperial family members, 17 princes not of imperial birth, 17 counts, 9 barons, and 111 other nobles, totaling 128 Russians, 30 Germans, 6 Finns, 1 Pole, 4 Circassians, 2 Greeks, and 2 Roumanians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Artificial Ice Costs Less in Southern Cities Than Northern Ice
The piece notes artificial ice in Savannah priced at five to seven and a half dollars per ton in bulk and two-fifths to three quarters of a cent per pound at retail. It praises widespread grocery store sales and argues weather dependence for ice supply is outdated, predicting resistance to trusts and high prices in warm winters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
Louisiana bans alligator killings on Mississippi river segment
Louisiana issues a bid to end shooting of alligators from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Officials claim protection will curb rat infestations harming crops, noting rats flourish where gators were killed for hides. The piece argues live alligators were undervalued before demand rose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Mississippi
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Biblical measures and values summary
A list of ancient Hebrew units with approximate modern equivalents. It covers shekels of gold and silver, talents, cubits, reeds, bins, an ephah, a bath, a Sabbath journey, day’s journey, hands and finger breadths, and farthings in dollars or cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ezekiel
Bath
Berlin climber to tackle Mount Kenia ascent
Dr. Meyer of Berlin plans a perilous ascent of Mount Kenia in Africa, a nine teen thousand foot peak second in Africa. Repeated attempts have failed, and the climb promises extreme danger. The region features snowy summits seen by Stanley amid an equatorial sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Meyer
Berlin
Kenia
Equator
Africa
Killima-Njaro
Stanley
Sun Moon Conjunction Dated at 435 Years Ago
Prov Torren of Yale cites Joshua where the sun stood still and the moon hers in the valley, claiming the event a sun moon conjunction that occurred 435 full lunar years ago or 2555 BG. Prof Totten agrees, inviting readers to verify the calculation themselves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Torren
Yale University
Joshua
Gibeon
Ajalon
Totten
Congressional Week Highlights Idaho Admission and Elections Debate
The Senate discussed Idaho statehood and passed the agricultural and other appropriation bills. In the House W H Dickerson sworn in for Kentucky sixth district. A commission to study social vice and labor, marriage, and welfare proposed. Idaho admission bill moved forward on July 1. The Federal elections bill dominated debate with extensive activity across days July 1 to 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Idaho
Senate
W. H. Dickerson
Carlisle
Kentucky
Shell
United States
House
Lodge
U S Mercantile Failures and Debt Statistics Highlight Summer Report
Washington notes show six months ending June 30 with 5466 mercantile failures, public debt at 1.5956 billion dollars, cash in treasury 55.41 million, debtless cash 988.18 million, June decrease 20.68 million, and June 1889 decline 88.47 million. Revenue for June 37.55 million, fiscal year total 402.08 million, gold imports 12.88 million, exports 17.10 million, net gold loss 4.22 million. Labor strikes total 681 with 174,263 strikers. Idaho statehood signed into law. rail track 1,900 miles built by July 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Treasury
Pension Office
Idaho
Wide range of 19th century incidents reported in brief
The itemized notices cover factory and ship fires in Rahway and New York, drownings in the Allegheny river at Tarantum, and mine disaster near Dunbar. Political nominations include the Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania district, Scranton convention, and Augusta governor race. A 250th anniversary celebration in Haverhill features Whittier poetry. Warns of a Starch Trust formation in New York and major fires harming Swift, Armour, Hammond, and Morris beef houses. Also notes a Buffalo execution by electricity and a Standard Oil refinery fire in Louisville with casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall-Paper
Jardine & Co
Rahway
N. J
Great Admiral
New York
Hong Kong
Eslep
Mary Helmut
Allegheny River
Tarantum
Pennsylvania
Andrew Stewart
Congress
Hill Farm
Dunbar
Pittsburgh
Augusta
William P. Thompson
Belfast
Fine
Peabody Institution
Danvers
Mass
Scranton
Robert E. Pattison
Haverhill
Whittier
Alawe
Adam Steinler
Bradenville
Steinler
West Manayunk
A Starch Trust
National Starch Manufacturing Company
Boston
Swift, Armour, Hammond and Morris
Chicago
Keemmler
Buffalo
Veterans of the Army of the Potomac
Portland
Association
Alex. M. McDowell
Gilman Marston
Exeter
N. H
Hendricks Monument Dedicated at Indianapolis
Thousands gathered at the Indiana State Capitol to dedicate the Hendricks monument. James Whitcomb Riley read a poem praising the late Vice President as Senator Turpie delivered an approving oration. The event marked a public tribute to a national figure in a era of political ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
James Whitcomb Riley
Turple
Ind
State Capitol
Thomas A. Hendricks
Hendricks
Fisher
Hanover College
United States
Turpie
Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de
Vincennes
Hendricks Remembered as Nation-Building Statesman
An orator lauds Thomas Hendricks noting his Shelby County beginnings, Civil War support for federal power, and Reconstruction leadership. He defends his Union restoration plan as constitutional, contrasts it with critics, and concludes that Hendricks’ genius and legacy endure in law and history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelby
General Assembly
Hendricks
Union of the States
Congress
Turpie
Fabius
Foreign Intelligence Highlights Around the World
The record notes the 52nd anniversary of Queen Victoria's coronation celebrated in England on the 28th alt. It reports the Buenos Ayres National Bank failure on the 10th alt. and a poisoning death of James O Connor's family near Dublin. A new law on the 2d imposes life imprisonment for reporting Canadian fortifications. Several gambling house proprietors were sentenced in St. Petersburg to five years exile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Victoria
National Bank of
Buenos Ayres
Dublin
James O'Connor
United Ireland
St. Petersburg
Siberia
Famine in Sudan and Recent World Events Reported
Reports from the fifth district warn of accelerating famine in the Sudan with thousands starving and numerous deaths. Other items note a 115 year old burial in Cicero Center, a powder explosion injuring seven in Industry Pennsylvania, a Milford cloudburst causing $100000 in damage, and a Port Huron wagon accident fatal to two children. Also, a Spain cabinet change with Canovas del Castillo as Prime Minister and baseball league standings for the week ending the fifth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milford
N. J
Port Huron
Mich
Henry Henderson
State Prohibition Committee
Birmingham
Ala
Rev
S. L. Russell
Barouxe Leer
United States
Tukcholera
Valencia
Spain
Josefa Tripbie
Mississippi
Wathena
Kan
Thomas Kincaid
Holland
Black River Falls
Wis
Parkersburg
W. Va
Kanawha
Muskingum
Senor Canovas del Castillo
Players’ League
Boston
Chicago
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
New York
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Buffalo
Cincinnati
Monument to Hendricks Stands as Bronze Masterpiece
A New York monument honoring Hendricks rises with a bronze statue fourteen and a half feet tall weighing over 26,000 pounds. Sculptor R H Parks framed the figure mid address on a granite pedestal imported from Bavano Italy. The 29 by 21 foot base includes niches and a gold leaf inscribed name Hendricks and a bronze oak and laurel wreath from Rome.
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Governor Hill
New York
R. H. Parks
Bavano
Italy
Royal Foundry
Rome
Paris
Parks
United States
Heat Ravages Cities As Prostration Death Toll Climbs
Dispatch from Cuiiaco and panels across Illinois Wisconsin Missouri report extreme heat with dozens dead from sun stroke and prostration. From Joliet to Milwaukee and Kansas City the death toll rises while livestock perish and work halts in the fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuiiaco
Springfield
Bravostown
Ill
William Bell
Decatur
David Logan
Macon County
Jolliet
Joliet
Tuscota
Woopstrock
Carmo
John Kennedy
Andrew Sherrick
James Boren
Tuscoa
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Fort Wayne
Ind
Bridget Murphy
Dusugur
Milwaukee
Kansas City
Terrific storms cause farm damage across Indiana and Wisconsin
Reports from Fort Wayne and Madison describe a severe July storm system. Farm buildings, crops, and outbuildings suffered damage across Allen County and surrounding Wisconsin areas with hail and flooding. Fatalities include two teens in Ohio and several riders struck by lightning in rural roads.
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Fort Waynr
Ind
Allen County
Madison
Wis
Cottage Grove
Token Creek
Waunakee
London
Cambridge
Westport
Castle's Yorkville mill destroyed by fire
Aurora Illinois report states Castle's paper mill at Yorkville was destroyed by fire on Monday with an estimated loss of 10 000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
Ill
Yorkville
Idaho Becomes State as Congress Passes Admission Act
Washington July 5 The President signed Idaho’s admission bill making the territory a state and ratifying the July 4 1880 constitution adopted after the November election. The act grants one representative until the census and preserves school, university, and penitentiary lands while prohibiting polygamy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Idaho
Congress
Boise City
Idaho Statehood and Resources Highlight Idaho Growth
The article notes Idaho rules on voting and marriage, describes its geography and land use, and praises irrigation for sagebrush lands. It cites population growth, mining output of gold and silver, education system with 318 districts and 10,000 students, peaceable Indians on reservations, and towns like Lewiston and Moscow in Northern Idaho.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Boise City
Union Pacific Railroad
Boise County
Shoshone
Nez Perces
Latah
Kootenai
Lewiston
Moscow
Murray
Wardner
Weber
Chloride
Tragic Ballooning Death At Beardstown Celebration
A crowd in Beardstown Illinois watched FP Black an 18 year old aeronaut from Quincy perish during a Fourth of July balloon ascent. The parachute caught fire and tangled rope kept him from releasing the chute before the balloon burned and crashed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B& F
Black
Union Labor Party nominates Ohio state ticket at Columbus
The Union Labor party of Ohio met in Columbus on July 5 and nominated a state ticket: Ezekiel T. Curtis for Secretary of State, William Baker for Supreme Court Judge, Joseph W. Leavitt for Clerk, and Eli Raub for the Board of Public Works. The platform calls for government loans on real estate, pensions for ex soldiers, land and natural resources for all, limited municipal interference, and opposition to Republicans and Democrats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CoLumBus
Union Labor Party of Ohio
Ezekiel T. Curtis
Farmington
Trumbull County
Supreme Court
William Baker
Newark
Joseph W. Leavitt
Board of Public Works
Eli Raub
Wood County
Republican
Democratic
Ohio
Congress
Union Labor Party
Cincinnati
United States
Young Firebug Arrested Over Church Fire in Indianapolis
In Indianapolis on July 5 a five year old boy, Johnny Hampden, was arrested after a girl identified him fleeing Antioch Church as it burned. He confessed to setting the church and earlier fires at Excel sior works and Frick's livery stable to watch the fire engine horses run. The mayor held him for criminal court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Antioch
Johnny Hampden
Excelsior Works
Frick
Criminal Court
Killed in the Ring by a Blow From Frank Girard
Brennan 21 of Brooklyn died after a sparring bout with Frank Girard in Curfew Ill. He collapsed Thursday night and died Friday morning at Battery D. Girard’s second Harry Gilmore was arrested. fifth arrest in the brutal exhibition. Also reports: Henry Butler pardoned after 15 years in Missouri penitentiary. a convict’s life sentence was noted as unusually long. And a swimmer, John Lincoln Soules, failed to clear the Niagara whirlpool rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curcaco
William Brennan
Frank Girard
Battery ‘‘D
Parson Davies
Brennan
Harry Gilmore
Girard
Harrison Street
Chicago
Brooklyn
Jefferson City
Henry Butler
Missouri Penitentiary
Nraagara Fatus
N. Y
John Lincoln Soules
Soules
Samuel Smith
Lewiston
Smith
Tragic River Tragedy Near McKeesport
At McKeesport Pennsylvania on Friday afternoon a rotten boat sank on the Youghiogheny River twelve miles above town. John Thompson and Richard Smith perished with their two daughters Bessie Smith and Alice Thompson. Mrs Thompson and infant were saved by their son Robert and by rescuers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PortTspurnen
John Thompson
Bessie
Richard Smith
McKeesport
Bessie Smith
Alice Thompson
Robert
Tragedy Near Louisville Kills Three In Wagon Crash
A north bound express struck a wagon returning from a picnic at the Preston street crossing near Louisville Kentucky. Three people Frank Pratt 21 Ben Pratt 17 and Mary Noltemeyer 8 were killed instantly and eighteen others injured heavily. The incident occurred about 8 oclock Friday evening as the wagon carried twenty one passengers. Independent Party in Nebraska seeks a state ticket via a July 29 convention with 930 delegates. A woman burns to death in Washington Missouri as her dress catches fire near the fairgrounds. The Red Star tug International sinks off Bar ny after collision with a British tramp steamship all hands reported saved or missing details pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Louisville Southern Railway
Preston Street Road
Frank Pratt
Ben Pratt
Mary Noltemeyer
Philadelphia
Red Star
International
A. T. Bernard
Barney
Freaks of Nature Reported Across Several States
A census enumerator in San Francisco finds a family of ten children all club-footed. A Pennsylvania child sleeps every other three days. An Indiana cow births eight calves in five years, with quadruplets and twins following. A Missouri convict’s per doe bears twins. A featherless chicken in Macon, Georgia, survives healthily. Augusta shows a spring curing nausea. A Tennille radish resembles a human hand. A gosling near Tunkhannock shows a mixed-foot defect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Franklyn
Indiana
Per Doe
Missouri Penitentiary
Macon
Augusta
Tennille
F. B. Cullins
Eaton Township
Tunkhannock
World Exposition Site Chosen for Jackson Park Lakefront
National Columbian Exposition commissioners vote 78 to 11 to accept Chicago directors’ plan locating the fair on Jackson Park and the lake front with adjoining acres offered. A ten member committee will study site legalities and transportation between proposed locales. New York notes an international workers congress linked to the 1893 fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lake Front
Jackson Park
National
J. Irving Pearce
Sherman House
New York
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Storm Ravages Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio
Reports from Canton and Newcastle describe heavy lightning and long rain with widespread damage. Bridges and roads washed out in Zanesville and Coshocton counties, crops ruined, and a hotel and two businesses struck at St Joe. Furniture floated in Canton streets amid the storm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittspurgh
Canton
Sparta
St. Joe
Newcastle
Hiram Woods
Zanesville
Ohio
Wooster
Wayne County
Apple Creek
Coshocton
Coshocton County
READY FOR SERVICE The Big Aqueduct Completes in NYC
The One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street gatehouse pipeline to Central Park reservoir is finished. Four iron conduits, each 48 inches, will deliver 125 million gallons daily to reservoirs. Capacity is 318 million, with 1500000 gallons to lakes and 68000000 reserved for annexed district. Awaiting opening within two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Thirty-fifth Street
Convent Avenue
Central Park
Jerome Park
Manhattan Island
Lamp Explosion Kills Two Children in Greensburgh
In Bradenville, Adam Steinler the butcher is ill in bed when a lamp explodes burning his two children aged 3 and 6 who were playing in a room. The mother had gone out and, despite the father’s rescue attempts, the children died in a roasted condition as neighbors fought the blaze. The father is expected to die and the mother is seriously burned from the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenspuren
Adam Steinler
Bradenville
Death of temperance leader Georgie Hulse McLeod in Baltimore
Mrs Georgie Hulse McLeod died in Baltimore at 61 after a noted career in literary and temperance circles. Daughter of Dr Isaac Hulse she married Rev Dr Alexander W McLeod and was Southern Secretary of the National Women's Christian Union. survived by husband and two children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Georgie Hulse McLeod
McLeod
National Women's Christian Union
Caught in His Own Trap Kills Two at Dam and Falls
Hugh Gilmore was killed by a dynamite explosion while attempting to blow up a dam near Anderson Indiana to block a railroad bridge. His father and a railroad hand were wounded as the plan failed. Also reported Peabody Institute fire in Danvers Massachusetts causing $75,000 loss and two people drowned at Gravenhurst Ontario after going over Moon River falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Gilmore
Anderson
Ind
Ouid
Fall Creek
John Forney
Peabody Institute
Mass
Danvers
George Peabody
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Pan Wert Salletin
John A. Arnold & CO
Georgia
Art Chisamba
Tur
Standard Oil Company
P*sons
Richmond
William Hinshaw
Northern Pacific
Drummond
Mont
Allen Bradley Distillery Company
Troy
Western Union
California
Calhoun County
Ist
Seattle
Wash
Illinois
Phillip Sidney Post
Louisiana Lottery Company
Joan Chapman
Governors Hill
Francis
Campbell
Des Moines
Kavanaugh
District Court
Iowa
F. H. Chapman
Walter I. Hayes
Rowan County
Ohio River
Muskingum Valley
Marietta
Churchville
National Music Teachers’ Association
Detroit
J. H. Hahn
National Columbian Commission
Samuel Black
Beardstown
Masonic Fraternity
Colorado
Denver
J. A. T. Hull
James R. Williams
Pullman
Westland
the Hendricks
Sol
Wisconsin
CoLumpus
M. Stutz
Willie Wise
Andrew Feathers
Messner
Montana
Union Laborites
Columbus, O
MceKeesport
Independent Party
Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
Farmers’ Alliance
Knights of Labor
Grange
Washina Ron
John Rother
Fair Grounds
Greensburgh
Gravenhurst
Ont
John Beard, Jr
Bala
Muskoka Lake
Miss Hostetter
Toronto
Moon River
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