Global unrest and trade notes mix with local mine and court news
Reports describe renewed diplomacy between France and China seeking peace, British actions in Africa against Arab forces, and mine disaster recoveries in Rhenish Prussia. Other items note Cork’s mayor snubbing royal visit, Parnell aiding Stephens relief, tariff shifts in Europe, and U.S. labor and finance updates including a Johnstown bank failure and government payroll figures.
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China
Liverpool
Suakin
Hasheen
Gasheen
Graham
Camphausen
Rhenish
Prussia
Cork
Prince and Princess of Wales
Parnell
James Stephens
Suakim
Osman Digma
Reichstag
Berlin
Zareba
McNeil
Delaware
Easton
Mount Washington
Corea
Independent Party
Cyrus W. Field
London
James Gordon Bennett
Ttn Raion
Aenentef Company
Regi
Madrid
Republic
Navarre
Ovince
Notable Obituaries and Departures Across Nations
A roundup of prominent deaths and notable events: President's age and reception of violets, William H. Vanderbilt visiting the White House, Jennie Hall’s famed endurance diet, E. Jeffords' death in Mississippi, Dr Wixom’s paralysis in San Francisco, William Floyd’s 95th birthday, Senator Frank M. Bridges's death and Senate vacancy in Illinois, Thomas W. Thorne’s police death on Broadway, Mrs Nellie Sartor ie Grant’s arrival from England, Grant autograph requests, David W. Perrine’s 95 years and Masonry status, Sir Harry Parkes’s sudden death in Pekin, Dr David Griffith’s passing in Louisville, Mrs E B Crocker’s Art Gallery pledge in San Francisco, E D Clark’s pneumonia death, pioneer James Daltop’s Lansing death, Eloise Lord’s secret marriage to Francis V Rider, and a Cooperstown daughter’s death.
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William H. Vanderbilt
White House
Jennie Hall
Akron
Ohio
E. Jeffords
Mississippi
Congress
Vicksburg
Wixom
Emma Nevada
San Francisco
William Floyd
New York
Long Island
Frank M. Bridges
Illinois
Greene and
Morgan County
Carrollton
State Senate
Thomas W. Thorne
Broadway
David W. Perrine
Centralia
Ill
Order
United States
Harry Parkes
Ching
Pekin
David Griffith
Sheridan
Army Corps
Louisville
E. B. Crocker
E. D. Clark
Interior
Washington
James Daltop
Lansing
Mich
Gen. Grant
Eloise Lord
Francis V. Rider
J. Fenimore Cooper
Cooperstown
President Cleveland jokes spark at Illinois Congressman's joke
A Cleveland joke to an Illinois congressman highlights excessive candidate lists for bureaus. Texas cattle losses rise 3 to 5 percent as beef prices drop due to surplus. more reads note George W. Reid’s lease plot for Dearborn Park. Des Moines guards seize auditors. Grant's health steadies with surgery undecided. Lotta stars at McVicker's amid theater renewal.
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George W. Reid
Chicago
John Baptista Beaubien
Cook County
Dearborn Park
Newatuma
Lake
Nathan Whitman
Des Moines
Brown
Cattell
Grant
Cohndee
Lotta
Malle Nitouche
McVicker's Theater
Iowa
New Jersey Assembly
Atchison, Kan
Hocking Valley
Stanley Matthews
Freight rates shift to Oregon Short Line network
Financial and industrial brief notes a policy directing transcontinental freight to move via the Oregon Short Line, reducing use of the Central Pacific route from Ogden toward the coast and pressuring Union Pacific to lower charges.
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Central Pacific
Ogden
Union Pacific
Washington special reports shifts in four year offices
The piece notes a crowd decline for office seekers and claims the President will keep four year term offices while replacing incumbents with Democrats. It mentions Cincinnati Republicans opposing a measure and Michigan’s War Governor Austin Brainy accepting an independent bid for Jackson County presiding attorney.
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Washington
Cauge
Cincinnati
North, Jr
Senate
Austin Braiy
Michigan
Jackso County
Cascading Blazes and Disasters Hit Cities Across States
A sequence of fires and accidents causes extensive damage from Elizabethport New Jersey to Seattle Washington. Key losses include a paraffine factory fire, a hotel blaze with lodgers rescued, a Trenton state house explosion destroying a museum, and boilerhouse fires in Boston and Henderson North Carolina. The steamer Michigan sinks after iceberg damage with crew rescued.
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Elizabethport
N. J
Lafayette, Inc
Oriental
Seattle
W. T
St. Joseph’s
Sisters of Charity
United
New Jersey State House
Trenton
Geological Museum
Continental Sugar
Boston
Mass
Boston Machine Manufacturing Company
Thomas Burke
Detroit
Mich
Henderson
N.C
Charleston
W. Va
Hale
Marine Blue Works
Newark
Michigan
Holland
Artic
Crimes and Cranks from fractured report across states
A garbled crime roundup describes a lamp explosion at Dunkirk House in Pennsylvania, a murder at Newark Lunatic Asylum, a fatal shooting between brothers in Illinois, a homicide after a card quarrel at Bird's Point Missouri, and trials or executions in several locations including Los Angeles and Chicago.
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Dunkirk
Hradford
Newark N. J
Herman Fuchs
William Mulcahey
Mucahey
Mattoon
William Kerr
Chas. Kerr
Bird’s Point Mo
George Jones
James England
Jones
England
Ray R. Graves
Frank Babcock
No Insane Hospital
Los Angeles
Cal
M. Martinez
Prisoner Pleads Guilty to Forgery and Related Crimes
A defendant arraigned on multiple forging charges faces ten years at hard labor with imprisonment. Judge Howell imposes the sentence after the prisoner admits to the offenses and related crimes are linked to the case.
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James
Vannes
Wendon
Hed Trom
Sige
Howell
Mi ‘Stal
Mixed 19th century notices cross a crowded page
A crowded dispatch lists civic, political and legal items: reform association members meet the Interior Secretary to protest Eugenes Higgines, Joseph Patard presents resolutions, West Chester postmaster Fields dies by drowning, a Union Pacific accounting shows a $1.135 million due Government in 1884 with $1.185 million credited, Judge Gresham grants a writ of error in a Mackin Gallagher election fraud case, a Brad docks fire kills Nicholas Schormiski and injures John Ormand, and other brief items including Carter Harrison’s mayoral renomination, General Gordon diaries arrival, Edwin Weightley resignation, Osman Digna’s forces, New York municipal election timing bill defeat, and reduced examiner force in the Dept of Justice.
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Joseph Patard
Wim. Winchester
Civil Sérvice Reform Association of Maryland
Secretary of the Interior
Eugenes Higgine
Treasury Department
M! Fields
West Chester
Pennsylvania
Union Pacific Railroad
United States
Adams
Court of Claims
Edgar Thompson Steel Works
Braddocks
Nicholas Schormiski
John Ormand
Gresham
United States Circuit Court
Chicago
District Court
Mike McDonald
Anson & Co
Urk Ohio
W. Cook
C. Stockert
Ganson & Co
Edwin W. Weightley
The
Treasury
Con
West Weightley
Indiana
Hiyes
Manning
Osman Digna
Tamaj
New York
Bill
Oerre
Garland
Senate actions and nominations in March session
Senate debated forest preservation funding for a clerk during recess and confirmed multiple nominations including Montgomery, Durham, Hay, and Ryan. Executive sessions swore in Wilson and Gray. Alaska Commission and printing committee actions were discussed amid procedural votes and a probe into trade dollars.
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Senate
Erbiolutiod
Miller
Newark
Committee On Agriculture and Forestry
Call
Riddleberger
Sherman
Grant
Milton J. Durhey
Kentucky
Treasury
William, Garrard
Nevids
Carson City
Nev
James Rail
Nevada
Malcom Hay
Pennsylvania
Martin V. Montgomery
David & Baker, Jr
Rhode Island
United States
Dis
Benjamin H. Hill, Jr
Georgia
T Ey Hram K. Wilson
Maryland
George Gray
Delaware
Benator Bayard
Committee On Printing
Ingalls
Oklahoma
Jay
The
United
van Wyck
Albany
New Orleans
Messrs
West and
Awley
Alaska
Committee On
Territories
Michigan
Jon J. Durham
Malcolm Hay
Joseph R. Ryan
William Jarrard
J. D. C. Atkins
Tennessee
James D. Porter
Mitchell
Souths American Commission
Tel
Interior
Frye
Committee On Rules
Ohio legislature passes bonds and officer reforms in March sessions
The Ohio Senate and House review numerous bills on county borrowing for schools hospitals and streets. Measures authorize Cleveland to issue $100,000 for a free hospital, Hamilton County bonds for deficits, and bureaus for forestry and reform schools. The salary for legislators is set at $1,000 with a 70 day session.
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Senate
House
Bennetts
Highland County
Deyo
Wauseon
Stor
van Cleat
Elior
F. Power
Toledo
State Board of Pharmacy
J. K. Rukenbrod
Columbia County
Reform School
DC Coolman
Portage County
Ohio Penitentiary
Harbaugh
City of
Cleveland
Hughes
van Wert
Ford
Bargar
Columbus
A. V. Craft
Ogden
Ohio State University
Cabe
Champaign
Mami
O’brien
Cincinnati
Olice Commission
Cozan
Cincinnati Board of Public Works
Ryal
Hancock County
Findlay
Welch
Athens Insane Asylum
Bruce
Elliott
Buler County
Mhamilton
Fair Grounds
Johnson
Williams
Common Pleas
Circuit Court
Lewis
Geological Survey
Sur
Agreverend
Hague
Conference Committee
Oren
Congress
Thompson
Hamilton County
Judiciary Committee
Crites
Cuff
A. N. Craft
Sherman
Franklin Township
Hamilton
Mr. Bruce
J. Lisle
Newark
Love
Thompson’ Hoase
Committee On Municipa Corporations
George Eliot Wisdom on Conversation and Death
The excerpt reflects on lessons women rarely learn about refraining from anger with drunk men and the kindness shown to unworthy partners. It notes that tenderness often accompanies death’s final reconciliation and warns against needless mental clutter in art. Imagination is described as a license to trespass into forbidden views.
Gladstone’s Appearance and Tastes Deemed Odd Character
The Atlanta Consilation notes that the great Premier is mild looking with baggy trousers and shabby dress. He is seen in back streets, a tumble hat before bric-a-brac windows, amid a hard bony face, strong forehead and nose. The piece says he is a studious churchgoer and fan of negro minstrel songs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladstone
Orde
Atlanta
Cleaning Brass and Moral Maxims From the Press
The Philadelphia Press describes cleaning brass by dipping in a mix of nitric and sulfuric acids then water and polishing with sawdust. It notes grease requires potash and soda to let the acid work. Quotations warn about riches and Christian virtue. A man who leads a fast life ends by being led by it.
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Philadelphia Press
Whiteha
Ohio News Notes
Lieutenant John P. Tinley visits Columbus Signal office. Novelty Iron and Steel Works in Columbus damaged by fire for 1650 dollars. Mrs Sechrist over 90 fatally burned after falling into an open grate in Zanesville. Clarke County adopts ordinance restricting loads over 2530 pounds on turnpikes from November to May. Three prisoners escape from Portsmouth jail recently.
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Novelty Iron and Steel Works
Columbus
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