London and World News Roundup From the Era
An Englishman Boydell is jailed in Vienna for attempting to blackmail Gladstone over 1500 pounds. Tory journals denounce Lord Iris policy, threatening a Conservative split. Churchill’s Livrogal address sparks party disputes. Mah argued to persevere against Christians. France sees storm damage. Turkey’s Grand Vizier, insane. Burns nights in Ayr feature chairs sold for £17. London papers attack Randolph Churchill. Rie symbolizes foreign complication as death penalty looms. Cholera cases in Spain tally 33,037. Tonquin dysentery kills many. Gautier shoots Jealous Mme Linart then kills himself. Britain to settle Zulfiqar by Anglo-Russian Commission. Ohio and Pennsylvania miners strike over 15% wage cuts. child labor bans spread. Cotton boll worm noted. U.S. monthly coinage shows 1.9 million silver dollars in July. Joliet strike ends in surrender. Bergman of Detroit assigns assets of 129000 with 37060 liabilities.
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Vienna
Gladstone
Ee Iris
Randolph Churchill
Tipcal Ory
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Prio
France
Pasha
Turkey
Burns
Ayr
Scotland
Tom Q'Shante
Johnny
Burns Cottage
Aoldier
Bombay
India
London
Torgarson
H -Louis Rie
Spain
Tonquin
M. Gautier
Lille
Mme
Linart
Massillon
Tuscarawas
Ohio
Shamokin
South Carolina
United States
Loose personal and public notices from a late 19th century dispatch
Mount Male Gregor reports Mrs. Grant's letter found by the General in his cabinet before death, plus a hair lock and brief farewell. Mrs. Grant visited the remains and retreated to her room for hours, then returned. Also notes a Cardinal appointment for the Baltimore archbishop, Dr. Shrady’s review of Grant’s case, and various legal and obit items about disbarment, violence in San Francisco, naval attaché Nye’s death, Baker’s bicycling journey, Huntley’s death, Uriburn’s passing, Sharon Hill’s lecture funds, Jewish memorial efforts, and a Grant monument proposal.
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Mount Male Gregor
George Fi Shrady
General Grant
Jordyce Barker
Ibs
Charles L. Skinner
Baltimore
Interior Department
Master of Chancery
San Francisco
Dave P
Terry
Miss Hill
Sharon
California
Broderick
Lieut. Nye
Phelps
George W. Baker
Boston
St. Louis
Stanley Huntley
Resince
New York
Evaristo Uriburn
Sarah Althea Hill-Sharon
Nevada
Sir Moges Montefior
Central Park
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Riel
Francis Cosgrove
Regina
Richardson
Grant Cottage
Mount MacGregor
Newman
Job
Riverside Park
Gen Grant
Cleveland
Hayes
Arthur
North River
Fitz Hugh Lee
Hancock
Grant funeral armada plans and public tributes described
A lengthy dispatch details funeral preparations for General Grant including parade columns under Major General Hancock, electric city decorations, and funds raised for a Broadway window. notes officers’ assignments and the role of Mrs Grant in safeguarding relics awaiting Congress action.
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McVicker
Chicago
Ihtridan
New York
Sayks
Grant
Hancock
Broadway
Berg
Alexander Shaler
E-Cort
Army
Navy
Hiregina
Northwest Territory
Gov
Pendne
Mupie Creek
Cypress Hills
Destructive Storms Hit Multiple Cities Across States
A cascade of cyclones and fires caused extensive damage from Montfort Wisconsin to Philadelphia New York Delaware and Ohio. Wrecked ships destroyed dwellings and factories with losses running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and several deaths and injuries reported.
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Montfort
Wis
Lake Genesa
S. W. Alierton
Chieragzo
Wisconsi
Ilinois
Atalallin Kersyillc
Martha Brown
Mannaville
N. Y
Montreal
Joss
Lode & Co
Biltshareh
Omaha
New Croton Aqueduct
New York
Asworth
Iyrna
Antofarasta
Bolivia
Toronto
Henry Wort
Bowling Green
Financial distress hits Lawrence Plow Company and Suffolk Bank
The Lawrence Plow Company of Lawrence Kansas made an assignment with liabilities listed. During the week 199 business failures were reported in the United States and Canada versus 226 a year earlier. The Commercial Bank of Suffolk Virginia suspended with liabilities of 100000. Eastern markets show no improvement and overall merchandise movement remains unchanged.
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Lawrence Plow Company
Lawrence
Kansas
United States
Canada
Commercial Bank of
Suffolk
Virginia Democrats nominate Fitzhugh Tee for Governor
A disrupted party report shows the Democratic state convention in Virginia nominating General Fitzhugh Tee for governor. Indications point to the incumbent facing a potential challenge from New York’s Democratic convention as it approaches.
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Virginia
Fitzhueh Tee
Bo HA
New York
Weather vane swindle fleeces farmers across Pennsylvania counties
Reported swindle claims gullible farmers in Somerset Fayette and Bedford Counties were lured into buying weather vanes and lightning rods from a Chicago company that does not exist. Separate items note executions for murder in Plaquemine Louisiana and a fatal jail shooting in Monticello Georgia.
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Somerset
Fayette
Bedford
Pennsylvania
International Manufacturing Company
Chicago
Charles Davis
George Jones
Mathilda Jones
Plaquemine
Monticello
George Hopkins
Valentine Wagner
Colum
Murder case and election row reported with crimes
The item notes a murder case in Ohio involving Daniel Sheehan and his brother in law with an attempted execution and a struggle with officers. It also mentions an Athens Kentucky election row where Bud Harris killed two men, was wounded, and a masked burglar robbed banker W R Merriam of $600 worth of jewelry and fled.
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Bus
Ohio
Daniel Sheehan
Athens
Kentucky
Bud Harris
Walker
Neal
Funeral rites for General Grant at Mt McGregor
The article describes General Ulysses S Grant's funeral at Mt McGregor with over 1,000 attendees. Notables such as General Hancock Colonel Jones Admiral Rowan and others attended. The service included psalms prayers sermons and hymns, followed by a final viewing and the train’s departure for Albany.
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Mt. McGregor
A. 8
Grant
Gen
Hanegock
Hancock
Colonel Jones
Rowan
Sherman
Senator Evarts
Rufus Ingalls
Mills
Joseph W. Drexel
Drexel
Bishop Harris
Newman
Martin
Tre
Abany
Gov. Hill
Joliet
Illinois
Rolienlis
Emma McMillan
Grant County
Indiana
Sieke
Drs. Corey
Strowlam
House of Commons
Lord & Istory
Mrehuk
Alshins
Penjdeh
Hyatt
Washington
India
Adelaido Tigeria
Edinburg
Texas
Mexico
Public Debt Statement Shows July Decline and Cash Totals
The monthly debt report issued on the 1st records a July decline totaling 8,662,739,982 dollars and 789 cents with cash in the Treasury around 48,418,719 dollars and 1 cent. It lists gold and silver certificates, deposit certificates, and outstanding fractional currency among items, ending with a net cash balance near 44,152,029 dollars and 75 cents. The recap covers interest bearing bonds, refunding certificates, and pension funds, detailing principal and interest figures and final totals.
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Navy Pension Fund
Pacific Railroad Lord
Princ al Meer
Eee
le Ag
O. Ae A Ee
Wren Ee
Treasuer
Treasuy
Treasurs
Bae Teeees
RK OH
United States
Refusal to Carry Mail Shifts Route for Pacific Mail
The Postoffice reports a department agent tried to sail on a Pacific Mail steamer from San Francisco with mail for Mexico and Central America. The trunk was refused and the mail reassigned to travel via New Orleans by rail and steamer, reaching Mexican and Central American ports in twelve days.
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Mexico
Central America
Washington Telegram
Postoffice Department
San Francisco
Pacific Mal Company
Central Americ
New Orleans
United States
Monster rattlesnake terrifies Georgia community
In Fayette and Clayton Counties residents report a ten foot rattlesnake with twenty five of thirty rattles slithering through a McDonough area home. McJunkin describes finding the creature near his sleeping wife before it fled under a bed and out. Residents pursued it with shotguns and killed it in a hollow log after a hundred bullets were fired.
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Jonesboro
Bay of Fayette
Clayton Counties
McDonough Road
McJunkin
Genoa marks Columbus with relics and produce exhibit in 1892
A demonstration planned in Genoa for 1892 honors Christopher Columbus. One feature will be an exhibition of American relics and produce.
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Genoa
Christopher Columbus
Philadelphia chemist cites kissing style harming teeth
A Philadelphia chemist asserts American kissing style damages teeth. The piece notes Brazil's diamond output valued between 1.5 and 1.6 million dollars yearly. Wisconsin dairymen form a price-raising pool to push up dairy prices.
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Philadelphia
Wisconsin
Fatal Accident at Zanesville and Other Ohio News
A Mukingum County resident Samuel Bell died after a steer struck him while he fed cattle and played with a dog. In Lancaster a black snake attacked wheels on a carriage injuring Mrs Emma Spangler. A farmer Eli Hower was shot from cover in woods, grazed hand and wheel axle damaged. a detective is hired as suspicions grow.
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Samuel Bell
Mukingum County
Mr. Bell
Ittie Son
Fota
Xteenia
Eli Hower
Bellbrick
Hower
Asassin
IJ2
State Board grants fifty-one teaching certificates in session
At the latest session of the State Board of School Examiners fifty-one certificates were awarded with eleven for life. The list includes life certificates for Lewis D. Bonebrake Columbus F Gillum Cromer Union City Indiana Charles E Flanagan Batesville H C Markley Pierce Frederick Schnee Norton Center Daisy M Scott Columbus J A Shawan Mr Vernon J L Trisler Harrison W W Weaser Columbus William G Williams Delaware and Frank Aborn Cleveland. Ten year certificates issued to John W Jones Lebanon Idea L Baker Woodville Currie A Reich Racine T R Berry Miamisburg Dina Bowen Sharonville W T Bushman New Lisbon John A Cassady Clarksville Emma Deterly Columbus R E Liehl Van Lue William W Don Bain Lindale Charles C Dotules Alliance T M Duncan Keene JB Duran Manchester J V Doe Norwich R B Ewing Jabanon Miury A Fanning Fremont Samuel J Fuley Delos S Ferguson New Lexington W J Sewell Sabina C B Galbreath Salem I M Heistand Pleasantville BR F Hoover Southville John B Herot Leesburg Wic Hines Deersvill Louisa John Despnos JW Jones Circleville John M Kay Hillsboro CE Aen drick Springfield Wo W McCray Logan Anne M Murphy Lebanon PC Robingen New Cor win Idora Rose Van Wert J OH Roland Jackson Estella Sharp Front EB J Shives Spinefield J D Simkins Contubure Linda Snyder Colombiane Silas Mo Taj eurt Leesburg G Wo Walker Kenton L Westfall Columbus O F Milhaimas Newtown. The next exam will be held in Columbus beginning December 29 for about one week.
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Sesson
State Board of School Examiners
Lewis D. Bonebrake
Columbus
F. Gillum Cromer
Union City
Indiana
Charles E. Flanagan
Batesville
H C Markley
Pierce
Frederick Schnee
Norton Center
Daisy M. Scott
J. A. Shawan
Mr. Vernon
J.L Trisler
Harrison
W.W
Williaim W Donbain
Lindale
Charles ¢. Dotules
Pleasantville
BR. F. Hoover
Southville
John B. Herot
Leesburg
W. Vic Hines
Deerssvill
Louisa John
Despnos
JW Jones
Circleville
John M Kay
Jackson
Estella Sharp
EB. J) Shives
Spinefield
J .D. Simkins
Linda Snyder
Silas Mo
Judge Okey of Ohio Supreme Court Dies at 58
Judge J W Okey of the Ohio Supreme Court died at his Columbus home on Saturday July 25 in the 59th year of his age. He was born January 3, 1827 near Woodsfield and had a long legal career including Probate Judge, Common Pleas Judge, and member of the commission to codify the Ohio statutes before serving a second term on the Supreme Bench. His family includes two sons and two daughters, with George B Okey as Reporter of the Supreme Court.
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J. W. Okey
Ohio Supreme Court
Columbus
John Waterman Okey
Woodsfield
Monroe County
Monroe Academy
Cambridge
Supreme Court of the United States
Common Pleas
Bimini
Cincinati
W. Y. Gholson
Fird
Okey & Miller
Allen
Supreme Bench
Okey
C. N. Danenhower
Cincinnati
George B Okey
Supreme Court
Trevie W. Okey
Grand
Comsock
Nail department to resume work at Bpaulding Iron Works
The nail department of the Bpaulding Iron Works in Steubenville is about to resume operations. The body of S. Hexter was found floating in a Cleveland lake recently and is reported to be a suicide. The Lake side Sunday School Encampment held its ninth annual session, noted as highly attended and engaging. Smith N. McCloud has been commissioned postmaster at Marysville.
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Cleviland Killing Mill
Syndicat
Saverak
Cleveland Rolling Mill Company
Bpaulding Iron Works
Steubenville
S. Hexter
Cleveland
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