30 Jul 1886
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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1886
Page
1
A weekly chronicle reviews which battle saw greater losses based on historic data. Waterloo tallies: 152000 troops and 488 guns with 60000 total casualties. Gettysburg totals reach 150000 troops and 418 guns with 64000 casualties. The piece notes near balance in size and impact between the two fights and records community reaction among G A R members.
A heated Republican congressional convention in Corry last Tuesday erupts over Mackey and Watson Brown delegates. Delegates clash, adjournments fail, and Mackey wins the nomination amid boos and groans. A Brown Watson split forms, with further meetings planned and calls for minority resolutions.
The drought across Nebraska Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota and Dakota slashes yields with corn oats and potatoes failing in many states. Michigan Illinois and Wisconsin report uneven corn and a need for rain while Minnesota fares better but still feels drought. Fruit in Michigan Minnesota and Wisconsin looks promising though hail may have damaged crops near St Paul.
The annual report of the commissioner of internal revenue shows district totals by collector. In the twelfth district McGonigle collected 1 448 629. In the nineteenth district Etaples gathered 460 190. In the twenty-second district Dawlin posted 1 898 175. In the twenty-third district Biglos reported 958 077.
John Worrell Keely staged a dramatic exhibition of a large engine at 1422 North Twentieth Street. The copper globe device vibrated violently, generating powerful motion and windlike sound, with backers and scientists marveling at the potential to power factories via sound-induced torque and a “liberator.” Observers from Keystone Bridge Co. to Westinghouse and New York figures attended as Keely claimed future factory-wide use from a simple morning bowing of a fiddle bow.
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