Noted Global Oddities and Local Weather Wonders
A collage of curiosities from across the era includes claims about Austro Hungary public expense totals and shipbuilding in San Francisco, moralizing quips from New Orleans, a German court tooth ownership case, a mosquito plant exhibit in New York, and cowboy lore on cattle herding. A salt rain episode in Pocatello, Idaho, linked to the Great Salt Lake, is described with novelty and local flavor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocatello
Idaho
Great Salt Lake
Utah
Great Dead Sea
Elado
Chicago Times
Georgia Democrats Name State Ticket at Atlanta Convention
The Georgia State Democratic convention in Atlanta elected temporary and permanent officers, nominated Governor atkinson by acclamation, and adopted a platform urging limited federal powers, local self government, tariff reform, currency restoration, and public education. Resolutions backed Cleveland’s administration and set rules for future primaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Berner
Monroe
Berner
Allen Fort
James
Pope Barrow
Hal Lewis
J. A. Brannon
Brinson
E. P. Boyd
A. L. Hawes
Hodge
Mr. Wright
Warner Hill
Price
W. ¥. Atkinson
Hewlett Hull
James H. Blount
Bibb
Hardwick
Washington County
Henry Persons
Talbot
Atkinson
Clay
W. Y. Atkinson
Coweta
Georgia
Democratic Party
Democrats
Democracy of
A. D. Candler
Col. Clifton
Chatham
Candler
Clifton
Statehouse
William A. Wright
R. A. Hardeman
J. M. Terrell
K. T. Nesbitt
Dick Wilson
Committee On Platform
Cabaniss
Democratic Party of Georgia
Jefferson
Grover Cleveland
Congress
House of Representatives
Cleveland
W. E. Simmons
Jacksonville
Supreme Court
Florida Democracy
S. M. Sparkman
John H. McKennie
Jackson County
Henry W. Long
Marion County
McKinnie
Long
Rail bonds coupon payments announced for several companies
The Georgia Pacific Railroad Company receivers in New York announce coupons from the 5 percent equipment bonds due August 1 will be paid at Central Trust Company. The Washington Ohio and Western Railroad Company 4 percent bonds due August 1 will be paid at Drexel Morgan & Co. Also, coupons due July 1 on the consolidated mortgage 6 percent bonds of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company will be paid with interest to August 1 at the same office and time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Railway Company
Georgia Pacific Railroad Company
New York
Central Trust Company
Washington, Ohio and Western Railroad Company
Drexel, Morgan & Co
Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company
Atlantic Cable Completes May 1870 Laying at Hearts Content
The final splice of the Anglo American Telegraph Company cable was made at Hearts Content Newfoundland at 11 o'clock Friday morning Greenwich time, marking the successful completion of the largest Atlantic cable lay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anglo-American Telegraph Company
Heart
Newfoundland
Greenwich
Atlantic
China Orders Torpedo Boats From German Shipyards
Berlin dispatch reports Beijing has ordered four torpedo boats built by German shipbuilders. In Oxfordshire a robin nesting story unfolds at Thames’ ark Chapel with an egg scene and a mother bird visiting during services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Berlin
W. A. Wykeham Musgrave
Thames’ark Chapel
Oxfordshire
England
London Standard
Western News Briefs From 1880s Era Telegraphic Dispatches
The Michigan Republican state convention in Grand Rapids drew 929 delegates with about 5,000 in attendance and renominated Governor Rich on the first ballot. A Hamburg warehouse burned, destroying cotton wine and more with losses likely over a million marks. Korea war news and Italian Kassala victory are reported, while the China London embassy notes unconfirmed naval clash rumors. Major defaulter J B Sutler implicated in Methodist mission funds shortage in Little Rock. Russian press vow to defend Korean independence and territory amid China conflict. Des Moines Town convention records a full slate of nominees. Pullman’s Wickes resumes plant operations and rehiring proceeds. Indiana railroads resist funding court injunction costs linked to striker orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Eggert
Conrad Eggert
Corea
Seoul
Yasham
Joseph Holt
Washington City
Africa
Kassala
London
Tien-Tsin
Shanghai
J. B. Sutler
Little Rock
Ark
State Board of Missions
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
China
Japan
Russia
Corean
Great Britain
Des Moines
H. F. Dale
Polk
John W. Sitfield
United States
Phillips Wisconsin Burning Leaves Town In Ruins
A massive wildfire devastated Phillips, Wisconsin, destroying 39 of 700 buildings and leaving about 3,000 homeless. Thirteen people died, most drowning in Elk Lake as they fled the flames. The John R. Davis Lumber plant, worth up to 600000 with heavy insured value, was a total loss. The city suffered widespread destruction with many insured and uninsured residents losing homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillips
Prince County
Wisconsin
Elk Lake
F. W. Sackett
Phillips Times
John R. Davis Lumber Company
Growth of the South Notes Weekly Industrial Rise
The Tradesman reports a steady advance in southern business during the past week. Crop prospects improve, debt levels ease, mercantile conditions stay sound, and rail transport remains healthy. Forty-one new industries were started or chartered, including the Maxim Power and Torpedo Co in Norfolk and several plants across Arkansas, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Texas, La., Va., and Fla, with notable buildouts in cotton, glass, lumber, and mining sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
South
Hs Maxim Power and Torpedo Co
Norfolk
Capital
Little Ark
Gulett
Ark
Central City Glass Works
Central City
W. Va
Greensboro Iron and Steel Co
Greensboro
N. C
Southern Powder Works
Atlanta
American Talc Co
Asheville
Potomac Lumber Manufacturing Co
New Alexandria
Birmingham
Ala
Monroe
Rockdale
Texas
Coal Mining
Potee Brick Company
Alexandria
Empire Box Printing Co
Pineville
Palestine
Corsicans
Fort Myers
Fla
Rome
Crowley
Danville
Daphne
Florence
Jacksonville
Newport News
Roanoke
Selma
Tupelo
Mias
Unrest in China and Japanese Naval Victory Reports
Reports from Hong Kong describe anti missionary disturbances in Kiang Yon and a deadly mob attack at Skek Lung near Lung Kun on the Pearl River, killing at least one Christian. Catholic missions escaped, while Protestant centers suffered. A later cable from Tianjin notes a fierce China Japan battle in which the Japanese sank the Chen Yuen and captured or destroyed two large Chinese cruisers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
China
Kiang Yon
Yang-Tse-Kiang
Skek Lung
Lung Kun
Pearl River
Tien Tsin
Chen Yuen
Armstrongs
Exposition Bill Passes Senate Without Opposition
The Cotton States and International Exposition appropriation bill advanced in the senate committee of the whole with no objections. The sundry civil bill discussion centered on the exposition clause detailing funding for the Atlanta event and related acts, including transfers from the Smithsonian and the fish commission. Exports of specie from New York last week totaled 864,081 dollars with most gold and silver sent to Europe.
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Senate
Atlanta
United States
Georgia
America
Chicago
Illinois
Smithsonian Institution
Fish Commission
Secretary of the Treasury
New York
Europe
South America
Atlanta Markets Corrected Weekly Groceries Listing
Corrected weekly Atlanta market notes list a wide range of groceries and provisions. It records prices for coffee sugar tea rice salt canned goods flour grain and meal meats and dairy with various grades and weights across multiple items.
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Arbuckle
New Orleans
Cuba
Japan
Hawley’s
Virginia
Georgia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Austria-Hungary
San Francisco
East
Niagara Falls
Picsyune
District of Columbia
Gera
New York City
Tribune
Vincetoxicum Acuminatum
the Convention
Fea
Tures
Spalding
T. R. R. Cobb
Fulton
Cobb
Boynton
M. A. Hardin
W. A. Harris
James BR. Smith
Trox Bankston
Ringgold New South
Bankston
Judge Boynton
Mr. Clay
Convention
B. A. Denmark
W. T. Herrington
Burke
W. W. Dews
Randolph
W. H. Luke
Berrien
C. R. Warren
Pulaski
W. S. Thompson
Dooly
J. E. Danson
Troup
B. H. Richardson
Muscogee
John S. Candler
DeKalb
J. Haden
Richard Johnson
Jones
Douglas Glessner
John J. Black
Floyd
Sam P. Maddox
Whitfield
James M. Smith
Oglethorpe
R. D. Calloway
Wilkes
J. C. Allen
Gilmer
C. H. Brand
Gwinnett
W. H. Fleming
Richmond
James Whitehead
Warren
J. L. Beach
Glynn
J. E. Wooten
Dodge
Fleming duBignon
Bob Lewis
Hancock
Democratic Executive Committee
Platform Committee
Telegraphic News
Wis
Tillman’s
Columbia
Democrats OF
Florida
Earux
Heer
Bier
House
Western Creamery
Tennessee
Chiwice
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