Notable Social Bits From a 19th Century Bulletin
Switzer Lamp has built one thousand inns since tourists began visiting that country. Susan B Anthony is seventy two years old yet she hopes to live to see women vote and have the same right as men to propose marriage. Two Hebrews own the site of ancient Babylon where their ancestors were captives and slaves. There are still over ten million square miles of unoccupied districts in heathen lands where missionaries have never entered. P Myett with a dog has driven from California to Pennsylvania. He calls the going miscellaneous. Cuamuan Cootey of the Interstate Commerce Commission pays his own railroad fare and says others should follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan B. Anthony
Electric cartridge firing eyed by War Office
The War Office is considering an invention to discharge firearms by electricity. In other notes, Mr Grapstone's Hawarden library ranks as a premier private collection with over twenty thousand volumes, while Mr Gladstone lends his books to locals for reading.
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British War Office
Mr. Grapstone
Hawarden
England
Switzerland to Compensate Two American Travelers
Switzerland informed Minister Washburne that full indemnity will be paid to the two American travelers mistaken for pickpockets who were briefly detained in Lucerne. An ample verbal apology will accompany the settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
Washburne
Lucerne
Pessimistic sermon quotes Paxton on honesty
Rev. Dr. Joan R. Paxton of New York warned in a late sermon that while people are more humane, dishonesty persists. He joked that if stealing were punished by stoning, all quarries would soon be exhausted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan R. Paxton
New York
Carriers form Milwaukee association at G A R encampment
In Milwaukee carriers attached to the Grand Army of the Republic formed an association with W H Wood of Detroit as president. The group backs pensioning of letter carriers and stripes on the arm like sergeants chevrons signifying four years of service.
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G A. R
Milwaukee
W. H. Wood
Detroit
Mich
Centenarian Mrs Weeks Becknam Celebrates 100th Birthday
Mrs Latty B Weeks Becknam marked her centennial at a snug Mount Prospect New Hampshire farmhouse where she has lived for more than seven decades. She hosted children grandchildren and many friends and acquaintances during the celebration.
Miracle at Stane Shrine Heals Quebec Woman in Public
A Quebec woman reportedly recovered after nine months of paralysis and breast cancer when she prayed at the shrine of Stane, received communion, and venerated relics before two thousand pilgrims. Separately, in Black Bart’s room, 340 yellow-backed dime novels were found after the Michigan highwayman’s spree of stagecoach robberies, train thefts, and assaults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec
Stane
Canada
Black Bart
Michigan
Piketown
Noted American Author J. T. Trowbridge Remembered
J T Trowsrwaeer born 1827 in Western New York taught himself Latin French and German. He writes mainly for Youth's Companion and earns a handsome income. Tall with a pleasant face and white hair he shuns society and lives retired in Boston. He enjoys speculation but has never indulged deeply.
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J. T. Trowsrwaeer
New York
Boston
Memoir recalls America's youth and pin borrowing motto
In a memoir Sarah Pugh recalls a 1851 exhibition complaint and her reply that America is young. She notes she remembers asking for a borrowed pin and a school motive about a pin lying forgotten. Pugh, born in 1800, reflects on national progress and female leadership.
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Sarah Pugh
Washington News Digest Reflects Storms and Deaths
President Harrison accepts Corporal Tanner’s resignation as Commissioner of Pensions. A sweeping Atlantic storm devastates Coney Island to Atlantic City, wrecks ships, and causes numerous fatalities. Notable deaths include Congressman Cox and boat builder Captain Rees. Widespread wrecks extend from Lewes to Milton, with extensive property loss and torpedoing weather across the coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison
Corporal Tanner
United States
Treasury Department
Regents and Regiments Across the Nation on the Eleventh
Reports from July 10 to 11 describe killings in Louisiana and Indiana, a murderers’ execution in New York, labor strikes in Tennessee, flood damage across Texas, a Wyoming constitutional vote, Yellowstone geyser activity tied to a Atlantic storm, and a factory explosion in Oakland killing four workers.
Multiple 19th century crimes and events reported in one column
Waltr Cars abducted William Brown from his bed in Indiana and flogged him in his yard. In Mississippi Louis Mortimer was lynched amid a race riot. The National Association of Colored Baptists faced mob violence in Georgia while in Indiana a farmer killed himself after farm losses. A Chicago divorce decree sped through in ten minutes. A rare coin theft occurred at an Indiana fair. An iron worker died from a hot iron injury in Ohio. White mobs burned a negro church in Mississippi. A coal palace opened at a county fair in Illinois. Three-card monte swindlers fleeced a farmer in Ottawa. Miners’ families faced famine in Newfoundland. A druggist stabbed a Baptist minister in Indiana. Drunk miners fought in West Virginia. A railroad bridge and snow-sheds burned in Sierra Nevada. A Tennessee doctor received ten years for assaulting a child. A church conference in Illinois licensed two women preachers. John H. Jones, iron pioneer, died aged seventy-seven. An aged Afro American woman Dinah Young died at one hundred thirteen in Kentucky.
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Wilkesbarre
Delaware & Hudson
Plymouth
Atlantic Coast
Coney Island
West Brighton
Brighton
Manhattan
Bay Head
Barnegat City
S&s
Cox
New York
John 8
Oroway
Loudon
N. H
Bourke Cochran
Albany
N. Y
Democrats of
New Jersey
Trenton
Leon Abbott
The
Sons of Veterans
Paterson
N. J
Abbott
Lewes
Del
Ocean City
Maryland
Atlantic City
Anna Mead
Binghamton
Niagara Falls
Margaret A. Dillard
Easton
William F. Bartholomew
Joserh Arrington
Connellsville
Concord
Wilton
James Rees
Pittsburgh
Rees
Charles F Griffin
Indiana
Barnett
Buffalo
Carver
Bartlett
Johnstown
George H. Dunsford
Reading
Bangor
Fredericton
Moncton
N. B
Danby
Teemer
Gaudaur
McKeesport
Hamm
Ty Brooklyn
F. W. Gesswein
Christian Deyhle
Atlantic
Milton
Delaware
Waltr
William Brown
Heth Township
Ind
Clarkdale
Miss
Louis Mortimer
Puckett
National Association of Colored Baptists
Indianapolis
Boxley
John Orenland
Pecatonica
Lil
Tucker
Chicago
A. P. Reynolds
Floral Hall
Montgomery County
James Derreth
Findlay
Post Oak
Jasper County
Springfield
Til
Sangamon County
Fred Fleim
Ottawa
Spring Valley
Donnrye
Millard Jones
Clayton
Rev Smith
Baptist Church
Danville
Bramwell
W. Va
Dan Lambert
Tom Eadle
Central Pacific
Upper Cascades
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Griffin
Cleveland
Tenn
United Brethren Conference
Arrowsmith
John H. Jones
Youngstown
Dinah Young
Louisville
World championship boat race and other 1889 events
Searle the Australian defeated William O Connor of the United States and Canada for the London world championship in a boat race on the ninth. Canadians reportedly lost 400000 on the event. Also noted were drownings at Killarney, Edison banquets in Paris, Ira Paine’s death in Paris, a London murder in Whitechapel, a ship canal project between Edinburgh and Glasgow, a fire at Shoal Lake Manitoba, Stanley’s advance in East Africa, a Lulu Island cyclone, William Gooderham’s death in Toronto, France's wheat yield forecast, a London dock strike end, and trichinosis deaths in Eisleben.
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London
Searle
William O'Connor
United States
Canada
Killarney
Paris
Edison
Ira Paine
Whitechapel
Edinburg
Glasgow
Shoat Lake
Man
Henry M. Stanley
Mombassa
Uganda
British East Africa Company
Upper Nile
Lulu Island
British Columbia
William Gooderham
Toronto
Ont
France
Eisleben
Prussian
Saxony
Major Louisville firm burned with six killed in wall collapse
A large Louisville wholesale dry goods house LATER BAMBERGER BARCO burned on the 15th with a $1,000,000 loss. A wall fell during the blaze, killing six men. Concurrently the New York oyster trade faced nearly $2,000,000 in losses from a recent storm and other incidents include a San Diego bandit sentenced to life and a Port Leavenworth Grant statue unveiling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bamberger, Broom & Co
Louisville
New York
Sylvestro Morales
California
San Diego
United States
Ith
Coast Storm Wrecks Barges and Sinks Vessels Near Delaware
Reports from Atlantic City and surrounding bays describe a fierce storm that broke up the craft Wallace and St. Cloud, each carrying five crew, with fears of loss. Rescue saved Mira A steward Reed and his wife from rigging. Other ships including A L Snow and Orrie and Brisk were abandoned or wrecked. many vessels went down near Brandywine shoals, with widespread coastal damage and thousands displaced.
Greatest Cave-In Shocks Wilkes-Barre Coal Region
A massive cave in at No 5 colliery Poke Hollow Wilkes Barre Pa is the largest in years. Earth sank over twenty feet in places affecting about thirty acres belonging to the Delaware Hanson Company. About 1,500 miners face unemployment for months. Twenty five workers were present but all escaped. Farmhouse cellar damage noted as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkesbarre
Poke Hollow
Delaware & Hanson Company
Crops Damaged Across Texas by Persistent Rains
Dispatches from North and Northeast Texas report broad crop and property damage due to constant rains. Flooding has washed away bridges, blocking rail lines and isolating towns for days. Cotton crops face large losses as rainfall continues with no relief in sight.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Young Northern Michigan Desperado Bound Over for Robbery and Murder
Holszhay, the young train robber who tormented Northern Michigan and Wisconsin through the summer, was bound over to the circuit court on robbery and murder charges after a Wednesday preliminary hearing in Bessemer. His trial is set for the October term. The packed courtroom reflected wide public interest in his May-to-September exploits.
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Michigan
Carved the Wrong Man in Evansville Saloon Brawl
James F. Rose, son of Dr. W B Rose, entered a saloon and was stabbed by John Cook, a hotel runner, who mistook him for another man. Cook was knocked down, then attacked again. Cook arrested. Rose remains in critical condition.
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Evansvirzm
Ind
James F. Rose
W. B. Rose
John Cook
Cook
Young Rose
Sherman Arrested in Canada Over Forgery Charge
Wilson H. Sherman, once linked to grain shortage fame, reportedly agreed to return to Burrato New York to surrender to authorities. He was arrested in Toronto on Wednesday and remanded until the 19th, with Judge McDougall to hear the case in Toronto chambers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Burrato
N. Y
Wilson H. Sherman
Canada
Toronto
McDougall
Avondale fire sparked by burning sulphur in bedroom
Mrs. Thomas A. Logan of Avon dale set burning sulphur in an upper bedroom to drive out mosquitoes. The blaze damaged the house, nearly destroying it, with losses estimated at 15000 dollars and fully insured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Thomas A. Logan
Avondale
Losa
Pennsylvania Monuments Dedicated In Gerrysnune Pa
Survivors of the Pennsylvania volunteer regiments dedicated their regimental monuments on Wednesday in Gerrysnune with a crowd of about 25,000 people gathering in town for the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Gerrysnune
Tragic Wabash Limited Run-Over Fatality at Torr Wayne
In Torr Wayne Indiana on September 12 Thomas McGraw a 50 year old longtime resident was struck by the westbound Wabash Limited and killed instantly. The accident occurred on the tracks near the city. Police and railroad officials investigated the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Torr Wayne
Ind
Thomas McGraw
Wabash Limited
American Workmen Return From Europe After Tour
Fifty US tradespeople returned on the City of Rome after a European inspection tour. They found European machinery less complete than American, with wages about one third lower in Glasgow and printers' wages about half. Ogden of Cincinnati reported Europe’s printing trades lagging two decades behind. Thorpe of Murphysboro reviewed European engineering and noted lack of organization and lower wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scripps’ League
New York
Europe
Rome
Thompson
Glasgow
Campbell
H. M. Ogden
Cincinnati
Joseph Thorpe
Murphysboro
Dr Bartlett Breaks Glass Records in Six Days at Burrato
Burrato N Y Sept 13 Dr Bartlett completed a record attempt to surpass Dr Carvers 60 000 glass balls in six days He started Saturday 6 30 am and worked twelve hours daily finishing yesterday at 5 pm with 64 017 balls He set other feats including 500 in 14 minutes and 10 balls in 8 seconds and broke Oakleys 100 in 8 minutes 10 seconds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Bartlett
Carver
Burrato
N. Y
Oakley
Ill farmer ends life after animal trouble
John Grenland, a Pecatonica farmer, woke to a dying cow and a horse entrapped in barbed wire. He then returned to his home, killed himself with a revolver, dying instantly, leaving his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Rockrorp
John Grenland
Pecatonica
Passed Bogus Money Arrest in Providence
Providence R I Sept 13 Peter Smith once a Cincinnati counterfeiter was arrested here for passing Confederate money. Several Italians and others were swindled by the operation before his capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
R. L
iAvtle
Peter Smith
Cincinnati
Atlantic Coast Storm Eases Amid New Damage Reports
Reports from New York and coastal towns detail a five day storm easing off with vessels arriving and crews recounting harrowing experiences. The Clyde Line steamer Vermusse rescued Captain P A Bull and crew from a sinking bark Abby Cass near Sandy Hook. Barnegat City remains cut off. the cruiser Atlanta survived the hurricane off Newport with seas washing over decks. Knickerpocker faced a perilous voyage. Widespread destruction at Sea Isle City and Monmouth Beach includes sea walls breached, hotels wrecked, and numerous houses flooded. at Lewes nine lives lost on the W C Snow and Casilda crew saved by life-saving crews.
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Atlantic
Man
Rehoboth
Lewes
Delaware Bay
Del
William R. Grace
Havre
Philadelphia
Capes
Wilmiy Gron
Henlopen
Pamapetphia
Atlantic City
N. J
States Avenue
Pleasantville
West Jersey
Longport
Great Eye Harbor Bay
Peters’ Beach House
Penrose Track
Coney and Blazen Islands
Rockaway
New Jersey
New York
Long Beach
Fire Island
Arverne
Point Lookout
Coney Island
Manhattan
Brighton
Staten Island
Sandy Hook
Cape May
Long Branch
Asbury Park
Ocean Grove
Long Island Sound
Greenwich
Stamford
Bridgeport
Connecticut
New Rochelle
Willet’s Point
Chester
Sea Isle City
Hewland House
Star House
Shakspeare
Continental Hotel
Sea Front
Cuester
Townsend Inlet
Seabright
Shrewsbury River
Central Railroad
George Blanden
A. F. Carpenter
Low Moor
Esquire Howland
New Methodist Episcopal Church
Wisconsin
England
Colorado
California
Sainspury
Ocean City
Atlantic Hotel
Congress Hall
Bay TimMore
Chesapeake
New Haven
Conn
Rev
C. M. Pegg
George N. Harford
Jacob Smith
Daniel Craft
Norwalk
Long Island
Wallace
St. Cloud
Bath
Reed
A. L. Snow
Taunton
Mass
Willmincton
Slaughter's Beach
Orrie
Brisk
Cumbes Falls
Mex
John Richardson
Belle
Dover
Milford
Ella R. Simpson
Hog Island
Brandywine Shoals
L Bryan
E. W. Tunnell
Edmunds
Jersey
Dorris Eckoff
Harlan & Hollingsworth Company
Wilmington
Rio Janeiro
Ward Line
Columbia
Havana
City of Rome
Liverpool
Arizona
Jacob Lockmann
City of
Rome
National Line
Carre May Court-House
Wildwood
Avalon
Townsend's Inlet
Sea Isle
Louisbury
Wicomico County
W. W. Donnelly
Camden & Atlantic
Reading
Ocean Terrace
Mansion House
Mediterranean
Baltic
Arctic
Arkansas Avenue
Bowen
Philadoux
Remy Fegel
Fegel
Mr. van Horn
McKee
Clyde Line
Vermusse
P. A. Bull
Abby Cass
Copehagen
Barnegat City
United States
Atlanta
Newport
Cromwell Line
Knickerpocker
Congry Island
L. II
Brighton Beach
Manhattan Beach
Oriental
Sheepshead Bay
Public Ledger
Continental
Senator Crouse
Charles Ricker
New Line
Shakespeare
Struther
Henry L. Thomas
Edward W. Crullen
George Sayers
Monmovutu Braca
Ocean Avenue
Episcopal Church
St. Peter's
Galilee
John P. Duncan
Henry Tuck
D. Sackett Moore
J. A. Scrymster
Monmouth Beach
Onancockx
Metompkin
National flowers debated amid agricultural debates
The piece weighs in on whether Waart should be named national flower with candidates like golden rod mountain laurel mayflower sunflower and magnolia discussed. It also notes a 10 foot long sea turtle caught near Cape Cod estimated at 200 years old and a massive bridge plan over the St Lawrence. A telegraph lightning case is cited and a remarkable telephonic link between Charleston and Omaha is described. Mentions Millet study for Angelus and Walter collection Sheepfold as superior works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural
South Harwich
Cape Cod
St. Lawrence
Quebec
Charleston
D. C
Western Union Telegraph Office
Omaha
Miller
Angelus
W. T. Walters
Baltimore
Millet
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Man Wert Bulletin
Switzer Lamp
Ancient
Babylon
P. Myett
Cuamuan Cootey
Inter- State Commerce Commission
Virginia
General Washington
White House
Washington
Mount Vernon
Peter Callanan
Bethlehem
Turoveneur
Italy
Pasteur
Miss Pugh
Rosemond Cormier
Rosalie
Lafayette
Washington Territory
Ellensburg
Eugene Simple
Samuel Wheelwright
Thomas C. Griffith
Congress
Santa Fe
N. M
United States Monitor
Passaic
Sandy Point
George Allen
le Flore County
William Brian
Baker's Station
James Lemon
Mos
Franklin Stack
David Boone
Yellowstone Park
Oakland
Cal
Foreign Intelligence
General Grant
Port Leavenworth
Kan
J. Wiss
Texarkana, Ark
Savings Bank
Tur St. Joseph
John Franchiskello
Michael Franchiskello
Wyoming
European Union of Astronomers
I'ling
Thurg
Geneva
Caterina I
Pensacola
Swansea
Isaac Prteno
American Association
Brooklyn
Gos de Louis
Athletic
Sue
Kansas City
Columbus
Western Association
St Paul
Minneapolis
Sioux City
Denver
Vesse
Kate E. Morse
Walter F. Parker
Parker
Peter Nelson
Casilda
Towanda
Argus
Jensevavy
Winslow
I Britfield
Seo
Hanes Ono Point Cou Fort
Holszhay
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