Reform promises amid global trade and crime notes
The text surveys reform hopes in civil service, reports $2 million in American paper exports, and notes varied topics from a Russian vase gift to the senate case of K. Goopwin, with debates on food adulteration, labor strikes, regulations on elopements, and evolving drug and trade policies. It highlights Greenville’s cotton mills, Canada’s gold rush, and harsher marriage laws in New York. The broad miscellany reflects late 19th century concerns in economy, governance, and social change.
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New York
Mixed 19th Century News Briefs From Transcribed Page
A compilation of brief items covers international diplomacy from Honolulu advices to Gresham’s recall note, naval budget cuts in Italy, and Austrian leadership changes. Posts in Indianapolis, Denver, and New York report obituaries and wills while local disasters include a Minnesota school fire and a Homestead steel mill blast. Crime notes mention fraud in Vienna, counterfeit arrests, wrecking trains, and a London confession. Also noted are railroad, mining, and trade developments across the United States and overseas with weathered poetic asides and corporate wage adjustments.
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Oraikiites
Ianes Vieod
Honolulu
Australia
San Francisco
Hawaiian’ Foreign Office
Gresham
Thurston
Mora
Spezzia
Indiana
Central Christian Church
Indianapolis
Northern Indiana Ministerial Association
Frankfort
G. A. R. Post
Prince Francis Joseph
Deoreuvery
Jones & Laughlin
Pittsburgh
Schofield
Washington
Memphis
Tenn
Sanger
Count Golchowski
Count Kalnoky
Austria
Vienna
Frederick, Cleveland
Phelps
N. Y
Bright
George J. Boals
Denver
Col
John Herron
Ind
Indianapolis Art Association
Annie Turrell
Mr. Herron
California
Edwardd Bayson PitchEr
New York City
Newburg
Strone
New York
Brooklyn
London People
Arthur Orton
Wapping
Wm. H. ‘Smith
Chicago & Grand Trunk Railroad
Holly
Mich
Grand ‘Trunk
Battle Creek
American Railway Union
Crow
Carnegie Steel Works
Homestead
Theodore McHenry
Jamies Anderson
Sleepy Eye
Minn
Village
Ansurante
Charles
Mail thief Ambrose Hamlin's six months of pilfering revealed
Telegrams report Ambrose Hamlin a carrier in Indianapolis arrested for pilfering from the mail. He confessed to stealing from December for six months, was committed in default of $1000 bail. Other items note bank changes in New York, a violent Florence earthquake, and naval and political dispatches from 191? including Formosa and Baltic naval movements.
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Ambrose Hamlin
Mai
Indianapolis
Ind
Post Office
Fletcher
Associated Banks of
New York City
Florence
Italy
Cuthbert Pogwall Wallace
United States Navy
Tien
Li Chang Fang
Li Aung Chang
Formosa
United States
New York
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Kiel
Columbia
Paris la Lanterne
France
Russia
Florida Senate
House
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Boston
Bell Telephone- Berline
Illinois frost damages crops and a statue debut at fair
Frost ravaged crops across the region damaging berries grapes strawberries potato vines and apples with severe frost in Romsey Champaign and Virginia. Illinois welcomed the world statue by Miss Julia Bracken was presented to the state and placed in the capitol rotunda watched by officials and supporters.
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Romsey
Champaign
Virginia
Tllinois
Tlinois
Illinois
Tennessee
Julia M. Bracken
Chicago
Capitol
Woman’s ‘Board
Distillery Cattle Feeding Urged to Stop
A legislative committee calls for a ban on feeding animals in large numbers at distilleries claiming the practice harms people and produces germ-laden milk. It warns diseased meat could spread pestilence, urging action to protect communities. Also notes a Stark County jail pardon and a report on teaching children to pray in Illinois Sunday School circles.
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Ilinois Sunday-School Association
Elgin
M. A. Lampreaux
Joliet News Collects Death, Elections and Odd Finds
Information from Edwin Uhl announces the death of Maria Christina Beckerman in Copenhagen. G A R officer Powell wins Bloomington encampment command, with a Cairo encampment next. A silver and lead ore find near Beardstown prompts examination. Tuscola resident Conrad Scheideman dies after swallowing carbolic acid by mistake. The Big Four plans $100,000 division shops at Mount Carmel. Murphysboro inmates Hood and Henderson condemned to hang. August Freede of Lacon dies after a work accident turning a shoe.
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Joliet
Edwin Uhl
Washington
Maria Christina Beckerman
Nee Hyberg
Copenhagen
Denmark
W. H. Powell
Belleville
G.A. R
Bloomington
John.,.McNulta
Cairo
Debates Over Illinois Tax and Prison Reforms in Springfield
In Springfield a heated session debated allocating 880000 to Isaac R. Hitt and heirs of Gen. Logan for 1861 direct taxes. the measure passed 28 to 4. The revenue bill added penalties for assessors refusing to testify or under valuing property, with fines up to 5000 dollars. A committee reported on reformatories and Joliet Chester prisons, noting overcrowding, health issues, and that most state industries lose money, urging a new hospital and separate female facility. Senate and House considered normal schools for Northern and Eastern Illinois, with 50,000 each, and other measures including poll tax abolition options and mining labor proof requirements.
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Td ‘Atray
Springfield
May
Mr. Templeton
Isaac R. Hitt
John A
Logan and
Wi.w
Wiltshire
Illinois
Dunlap
Gisten
Leéper
Homers
Templeton
Littler
Houss
Needles
Cochran
Perrottet
Pontiac
Chester
Joliet
Senate
Humphrey
House
Ilinois
Kitzmiller
Yeas
Eastern Illinois‘state Normal School
Journal of the Senate
Hunter
Niehaus
Morrison
Snyder
Miei Aiatter
Itain
Missionary Ridge
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Germany
K. Goopwin
Lexington
Richmond
Greenville
S.C
South
Baltimore
Keeley
Sevengalis
Canada
Rainy Lake
Minnesota
Yuion
Northwest
Ohio
West Virginia
National Guard
Prorte
Lizar
Ybarra
Confre de Venadito
American Steamship Alliance
Cape Maysi
Cuba
Spain
Hastines
Pennsylvania
Charles ‘Clam
Rothschilds
Baku
Billiton
Langkat
Jan Dingrenfarm
R. G. Dun & Co
Interior Department
Siletz
Oregon
Tur
Norway
Chautauqua County
Cials
Stark County
Frank Fogelsong
Fogelsong
Starke County
Marie Christina Beckerman
Beardstown
J. A. Donaldson
Mr. Donaldson
Conrad Scheideman
Tuscola
Mount Carmel
Big Four
Jeffrey. and. Henderson
Murphysboro
August Freede
Lacon
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