News of the Week Highlights From U S Government Reports
The Geographical Society of France honors Lt Frederick Schwatka for his 1878 80 King William Land expedition with a gold medal. Treasury and Mint reports show fiscal receipts and coinage totals, with retirements, dismissals, and bank charter refusals for Indians in Indian Territory. Postmaster Foster dismissed for false accounts. Dominion postal savings inquiry requests more Canada bank data.
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Geographical Society of France
Frederick Schwatka
United States Army
King William’s Land
Secretary of the Treasury
Indian Territory
Knox
United States
J. Bancroft Davis
Supreme Court of the United States
Otto
Post Office Department
Amos P. Foster
Austin
Tex
Upton
Dominion
Canada
Fire, crime, and deaths plague midland towns and cities
A jumble of incidents reports a tenement shooting at 192 Bleeker Street New York with Matthew Donnelly wounded by Lee Hardwick who fled. Other items note Utica lawyer Arthur Johnson suicide, Mrs Gibbs death near Baltimore after long melancholia, and Hungarian workers jailed in Gibraltar Pennsylvania rioting. Additional reports cover robberies on trains in Indiana Illinois, a Willoughby Ohio fire, and various accidents, murders, and public notices across multiple states.
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Bleeker Street
New York
Matthew Donnelly
Lee Hardwick
Hardwick
Donnelly
Utica
N. Y
Arthur
B. Johnson
Elizabeth Gigss
Dr. Gibbs
United States
Baltimore
Washington
Gibraltar
Jacobs Leis
West Millcreek
Calvin Haines
Topton
Benjamin L. Coffin
Mary Rosinson
Annie Kelley
Boston
C. F. Dewey
Halpert
San Francisco
Montreal
Kidder, Peabody & Co
William Swineburn
Patterson
N. J
Anna Ottendorfer
J.& W.levieman & Co
Paris
Peter R. Brockwit
West Shore Railroad
Republican gains and Democratic wins across states
Election results show Republicans victorious in Massachusetts Pennsylvania Kansas Nebraska and Minnesota while Democrats win New Jersey Maryland and Mississippi. New York leans Democrat with a Republican likely taking Secretary of State. Vermont not listed. Connecticut elects half the Senate and all House with Republican majorities. Other notes include proposed repeal of a tax on national bank circulation, notable deaths, the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society aims to fund a India periodical, and a deadly Minneapolis elevator accident amid typhoid cases in Port Jervis.
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Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Nebraska
Minnesota
New Jersey
Maryland
Mississippi
New York
Virginia
Connecticut
Senate
House
Iris
Folger
Willard Carpenter
Evansville
Ind
Lee Whittee
Northwestern Railroad
Oakland
Wis
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Des Moines
Iowa
India
David C. Cook
Minneapolis
Minn
Frank Wilkes
Zanesville
Commodore Wilkes
United States Navy
Pleasant Valley
Utah
Ohio
New York School of Trades
Port Jarvis
Tragic Indian Attacks Claim Father and Son
A man living in New York mourns after his son was killed and scalped by Native Americans in Texas two weeks earlier, reflecting the violence that crossed state lines in hostile frontier clashes.
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New York
Texas
Multiple Fragments Include Missing Person and Shipwreck Report
A woman returned home to St Louis after time in Indianapolis asylum pursued by detectives. The whaling ship Louise was lost Sept 22 in Arctic ice. six men died. Toledo plans abolition of Wreck Inquiry Courts for local marine courts and three shipping commissioners to hear appeals. In Dubois County Indiana a man shot a girl’s father after eloping. Anti Mormon societies condemned by Mormon press. Wetzell Brothers lumber firm of Grand Rapids failed with $150000 liabilities. W A Seelz found dead near Mitchell Dakota Territory with $700, a bullet hole and a revolver. he had been drinking.
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M. J. Bond
Grand Rapids
Mich
Horrman
United States District Court
San Francisco
Sonora
Cal
Wells Fargo
Port Costa
Central Pacific
Faulkner
Conner
Frenchtown
Harrison County
Ind
Springfield,Inc
Mrt
Edmonson
St. Mary’s Catholic
Brookline
Republic
Methodist Episcopal Church of
Arkansas
Eliza Millahey
Charley McComas
Cove Creek
Utah
Salt Lake City
Mary Churchill
St. Louis
Bth
Indianapolis
Louise
Arctic
Board of Trade of
Toledo
Birdseye
Dubois County
Ewing
East
Wetzell Brothers
W. A. Seelz
Michigan
Mitchell
D. T
Ith
Peruna praised by Ellen Maynard in Oswego letter
A patient letter from Ellen Maynard of Oswego New York praises Dr Hartman and the Peruna remedy. She reports ulcers healing and overall improvement with less opium use and gratitude for a sympathetic physician and gratuitous druggist support.
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Oswego, Potter CO
DR Hartman
Ellen Maynard
Swayne's Pills promise relief for oppressed sicks
Swayne's Pills advertised as comforting for the sick neglecting proper blood treatment and diseases like malaria dyspepsia and rheumatism. The ad claims medicinal properties and offers mail orders from Dr. Swayne and Son of Philadelphia priced at 25 cents a box or six boxes for a dollar.
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Sivayne
Swayne
DR. Swayne .& Son
Iladelphia
Itching Piles Symptoms and Swayne’s Ointment Cure
An advertisement describes itching piles with moisture and night distress, promising a cure with SWAYNE'S OINTMENT for fissures and skin diseases. Sent by mail for 50 boxes or 1.25 dollars in stamps from Swayne & Son of Philadelphia. Sold by Druggists.
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Swayne
Swayne & Son
Philadelphia
Waynes
Hart
DE. Swawne & Son
Railroad Service Changes In Ohio and West Virginia
Train schedules show Cleveland Lorain and Wheeling R R operating from July 22 1888 until further notice Arrive and leave 2 Wheeling by streetcar to Bridgeport depot All trains run daily except Sunday Trains stop on signal.
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Eveland, Lorain and
Wheeling R. R
Wheeling
Bridgeport
Connections at Cleveland and surrounding lines with Ohio rail routes
Schedule notice lists connections at Cleveland and Elyria with L S M S R y and other lines, naming Grafton Sterling Warwick Massillon Dover Winchville Wheeling routes. Receiver Oscar Townsend and WM. T unintlurnburgh appear in the signoff.
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Enn
No. Boe
A.M
River Ar
Elyria
Grafton
Cleveland
Medina
Chippewal
Seville
Sterling
Easton
E Warwick
Fulton
Massillian
Navarre
Canal Dover
N.philaphia
Urichvyte
le Urichy Ar
East
Pr’y
N.Y
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T. S. Harbach
Barnes Brothers
Huntington
Charlotte Epps
Epps
Nathan
Dayton
Clara Fredericks
T. P. Pond
McConellsville
McClure
Chattanooga
Tenn
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
L. Wolfstein
Humeston
Rocky Mountains
Earl Grainville
Denver
Salt Lake
Danville Junction
Indiana, Bloomington & Western Road
Danville
Wabash
First National Bank
Clinton
Ill
Toledo, Cincintinati & St. Louis Railroad
Foreign Intelligence
Spain
Cuba
M. Challemel-Lacour
England
China
France
London
Orleans
Bismarck
Germany
Cook Tait
Flesherton
Ont
Rosannah Leppard
Courbett
Tonquin
Canton
Canada Pacific
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Juh
Duke of
Castel Monte
Trapani
Sicily
Coleridge
Liverpool
Moopy
Sankey
Mission Hall
Islington
David Moses
Dr. Hill
Wim E. Belknap
The
Erie (Pa.) Morning Dispatch
Jis
WM. Grout
Gen'l Frt & Ticket Ag’t
Suneerintendent
Nced
S. B. Hartm
Hartman
8. Hartman & Co
Columbus
Man-A-Lin
Mitchel
Durstine
Whrzs
East Lake
Queene
Elizabeth Anne
Clas
Hoelzel & Kaltwasser
South-East Side Public Square
Unegusa
Sheridan
Jonanson & Co
Rostas
Tare
P. J. Power
South Market ST
People’s
Pollock
A.l.ason
J.C. Rip
Jones Bros.& Co
Stragedy
Alyon&healy State
Monroe Sts
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