Reno News Briefs and Town Notes in August 16 1884
Local items include Senator Marker’s move toward Reno, rainfall impacts on Sierra street, and progress on the Horn building roof. Notables Amelia Jones and Thomas Branton wed at Reno Exchange Hotel, and Mrs Crawford returned from San Jose. Earthquakes near Lower Lake, and Apache county court matters in Franktown noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Marker
Reno
Truckee
Roberts
Smoke Creek
Dr. Tibbetts
Sacramento
Cambers
Wadsworth
Capt. Griffin
San Francisco
Commissioner Jones
Carson
Bijou Opera Company
Ophir
Dayton
Gen. Davenport
Bay
Carzon
J. F. Triplet
Nevada Cattle Association
Emma Jones
Thomas Branton
Reno Exchange Hotel
Prof. Bristow
Austin
Lovelocks
Sierra Street
Phillip Clark
Lake House
Genoa
Virginia Street
Alf Hill
Pete Dalton
Arcade
Lawrence Archer
San Jose
Chicago
P.N. Norton
Pyramid
Pyramid Company
Central Committee
Court House
F. J. Crawford
State Normal School
Thomas
North Virginia Street
Ernest Ingersoll
Manhattan
California
Arcadia
F. L. White
Lee’s
Los Angeles
Democratic County Central Committee
Lower Lake
Cal
Alexander
Franktown
Marlette & Folsom
Gulf of Mexico
New Orleans
United States
New York
Thyes & Co
Virginia
Orpheus Burlesque at Bijou Opera Company Opens
Max Freeman’s Bijou Comic Opera Company in New York staged a modern burlesque based on Orpheus and Eurydice. Harry Pepper as Orpheus impressed with a solid voice and tasteful delivery. Daisy Murdock as Cupid drew applause for her graceful performance. E S Grant as Jupiter provided merry, grotesque spectacle, while Miss Jennie Prince as Eurydice showcased deft stagecraft amid lavish costumes and dancing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Plato
Eurydice
Hades
Earth
Max Freeman
Bijou Comic Opera Company
New York
Harry Pepper
Orpheus
Taten
Murdock
J. D. Redding
Cupid
Daisy Murdock
Jennie Prince
Jupiter
Grant
Digby Bell
Farmer Nets Hammonp Responds to Paper Criticism
An 1884 letter from Nets Hammonp defends his farming abilities and factual reporting. He corrects figures about a haycock, weights, and mercury, discusses his diet and health, reports Sheriff Walker River conditions, and notes improvements at a Reservation school run by Mrs. Hammond. He invites readers to visit and praises Blaine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egservarioy
Auguat
Eprrort Jorgnan
Walker River
Blaine
Nets Hammonp
Orpheus and Emrydice Burlesque Spectacle Draws Applause
Describes lavish scenery with calcium lights and silken surfaces as the burlesque spectacle unfolds. The crowd responds with warm applause, while the text is deemed absurd and entertaining amid handsome faces and lively action. Orpheus and Emrydice return for another performance tonight, with parquet seating in demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orpheus
Emrydice
Clawson Leaves Los Angeles for Ogden Union Depot Hotel
Friday’s Daily Journal reports H A Clawson proprietor of Depot Hotel and Diving Palace has acquired the Union Depot Hotel in Ogden Utah. He will direct the Ogden operation while supervising the Los Angeles Depot Dining Palace. William Gillespie will manage here. Clawson’s move is hailed as a gain for Ogden and a loss for Southern California patrons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles Express
H. A. Clawson
Depot Hotel
Union Depot
Ogden
Utah
Mr. Clawson
Depot
San Francisco
Chesapeake
Clawson
California
Arizona
Orden
Wm. Ee Gillespie
Reno
Nevada
A New Kind of Grass
John Boynton received a letter from B F Fletcher of Solano County California about a new kind of hay on his farm. The grass appears on land once alfalfa and flooded for years and grows five feet high with a broad leaf and bushy corn tassel like head. It thickly covers ground and yields three to five tons per acre. It may only grow from native seed. Boynton plans trials next summer using seed exchange with Fletcher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Boynton
B. F. Fletcher
Solano County
Cal
Boynton
Mr. Fletcher
New York Life Non-Forfeiting Limited Tontine Policy
Do you want term insurance at low rates with surplus accumulations at compound interest The option to continue insurance at original rates after the Tontine period and the cash value in ten fifteen or twenty years based on full legal reserve A grace period of one month for premiums with immunity of indemnity If a premium is not paid after three years the policy is protected by a paid up or ordinary policy The Reno travel ing agent S P Walker is in the city for the company
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Life
S. P. Walker
Reno
New York Life Insurance Company
California
Alex. G. Hawes
Pacific Coast
Sansome Street
San Francisco
Tibbitts
Sacramento
Poeville
Salt works shut due to desert floods between Wadsworth and Lovelocks
Heavy rains flooded the desert between Wadsworth and Lovelocks, forcing a shutdown of the White Plains salt works and Leete's Eagle Salt Works. At White Plains the salt lands and evaporating tanks were submerged by 15 to 20 inches of water. Operations will resume after the water evaporates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wadsworth
Lovelocks
White Plains
Leete
Eagle Salt Works
New Goods At Gallatin and Folsom’s Store
The market offers pickled Pyramid Lake trout for sale at Gallatin and Folsom's. They have received from the East patent coal oil lamps with new designs and majolica ware in elegant styles. It costs nothing to inspect the new goods even if you do not buy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallatin & Folsom’s
Team crashes at depot dashed through town
A lively dash yesterday afternoon from the Martin's Sierra Valley butter wagon frightened the team at the railroad depot. They sped along Commercial Row into Sierra street until stopping after colliding with Chism's buckboard at Jack Everett's store. No injuries. Chism's buckboard wrecked. Gov. Kinkead visits Reno and plans to sail for Alaska on the 27th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin
Sierra Valley
Commercial Row
Sierra Street
Jack Everett
Chism
Local notices mix in Reno town events and travel
Ross and Lewers of Washoe visit town while Judge Cook arrives from Beck with. Kim Woods drives in forty head of cattle. The Bijou Opera returns to the Theater Saturday. Various residents and visitors arrive from Sierra Valley Susanville and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada Theater
Dana declines chairmanship of Butler mass meeting
New York August 14 Charles A Dana editor of the Sun declines to act as chairman of the Butler mass meeting on August 30. He says it would be a great meeting and any citizen of New York interested in promoting Democratic principles might be proud to preside over it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles A. Dana
the Sun
Newark bank opening ends in unusual prayer ceremony
A Savings bank in Newark New Jersey opened recently with a Baptist clergyman leading a prayer breaking with the usual crowbar opening ritual. The quip notes Ossicier persona and depositors reacting with humor as the bank inaugurates an innovation in procedure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saving’s Bank
Newark
N. J
Ossicier
Cleveland scandal reports diverge yet deny general immorality
The Independent and Democratic papers publish committees of investigation findings on the Cleveland scandal. Both reports admit the Maria Halpin matter but deny widespread drunkenness or immorality, with claims the Buffalo editor failed to substantiate broader charges and the Twining report acquits Cleveland except for Halpin.
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Independent
Democratic
Cleveland
Buffalo
Rev. K. Twinning
Maria Halpin
Twining
Halpin
Independent Party
Democrats Plan Short Campaign as Maine Doubt Looms
Washington August 11 The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee faces slow action under Senator Gorman as the secretaries tourists away. The party plans a short campaign after Cleveland’s return, with 79 doubtful districts tabulated and Republicans aiming to win around 40 seats to control the next House, while some Republicans boast a potential ten seat edge.
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Wasurxeton
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Secresty
Canada
Cleveland
Gorman
Maryland
New York
National Committee
Congressional Committee
Maine
Democratic Congressional Committee
McPherson
Republican Committee
Government Stationery Contractors Alarmed By Paper Tester
Government stationery contractors protest as Postmaster General Gresham adopts a new paper tester. Investigations show envelopes supplied by Plympton Manufacturing Company at New Haven, Conn, fail the contract’s strength tests. Ten years of suspected underhanded paper quality could lead to suits against all contractors if fraud is proven by Judge Gresham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gresham
Ins Department
Postoffice Department
Plympton Manufacturing Company
New Haven
Conn
President Arthur in the Catskills
The Times Catskill special details President Arthur's visit to Hunter New York. crowds of three thousand welcomed him as villagers waved flags and banners. Col Mason and local committee hosted lunch and a reception. Grand Army escorts led the parade while cottage residents and schoolgirls offered songs and decorations. The president expressed pleasure and lasting memories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times
Catskill
Hunter
Hunter House
Col. Mason
Grand Army
Butler and Curtin clash over platform and sovereignty
The Independents accuse Butler of participating in a convention and seeking to defeat the ticket. Curtis boasts sovereignty under his hat while Curtin stays in the convention, bolts the ticket, and accuses Butler of bad faith. Butler opposed the platform defending labor, Curtis acted deceitfully, and Curtis and his gang are criticized as hypocritical. The Carson Appeal notes a rumor that Hon. John Dennis might run as a Salvation Army candidate for U.S. Senate this fall.
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Cleveland
Butler
Curtis
General Butler
Mr. Curtin
John Dennis
U.S. Sonator
Salvation Army
Carson
Infamous Libel in Granapolis Targets Blaine Wife
In Granapolis on August 14 the Sentinel editor accused Blaine of seducing his wife in Kentucky and marrying her in Maine after pursuit by her father. Blaine denies the charge as malicious and infamously false. He telegraphs Colonel Halloway of the Times to sue the Sentinel. Senator Harrison’s law firm handles the case as papers proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Granapolis
Sentinel
Blaine
Kentucky
Maine
Colonel Halloway
The
Times
Halloway
the Sentinel
United States
Harrison
Blain e accused mobster tale shocks campaign
A controversial account alleges Blaine incited anti foreign mobs and describes a Swiss priest of the Church of Rome burned alive amid crowds. The piece condemns the act as unkind yet claims support for Blaine to honor a married friend.
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Switzerland
Church of Rome
William Casey
Blaine
Casey
Mr. Casey
Logan
Bis
Philadelphia Man Finds Sunken Spanish Treasure Fleet
J J Boyle returns from Vigo Spain after locating a fleet of sunken Spanish galleons in Vigo Bay. He reports vast bullion potentially totaling about 20 million dollars sunk in the inner harbor since the early eighteenth century. Boyle secured divers in Liverpool and received Spanish government permission to begin recovery work at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Philadelphia Record
J. J. Boyle
Philadelphia
Vigo
Spain
Boyle
Sevtral
Liverpool
Bayona
Esteles
Vigo Bay
False Blaine scandal traced to gossip and fabrication
In 1876 Paris Kentuckian claimed James G. Blaine seduced a New England teacher in Lexington and fled with her. The Frankfort Yeoman echoed the tale, but the Courier-Journal later vindicated Blaine and disapproved the charges. A New York Herald reporter found the accusations baseless, attributed to envious locals.
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Louvisville
Paris True Kentuckian
Paris
James G. Blaine
Georgetown
New England
Miss Jackson
Lexington
Blaine
Frankfort Yeoman
J. Stoddard Johnson
Kentuckian
Louisville Courier-Journal
Statesman
Slady
Courier-Journal
New York Herald
Scott and Fayette Counties
Louisville
Hendricks Portrayed as Reformer Despite Brazen Record
The Inter Ocean mocks Thomas A. Hendricks for claiming reform while recounting his role as Commissioner of the General Land Office during Pierce and Buchanan. It cites clerks’ salaries diverted to Democratic campaigns, forced subscriptions, and assessments to fund the party in various states. The piece ends by noting reformers like Curtis are commended to the record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inter-Ocean
T. A. Hendricks
Hendricks
Pierce
Buchanan
General Land Office
Department of the Interior
Philadelphia
Democratic Committee
Baltimore
Curtis
Democratic nomination and Civil Service debate in The Sun
An editorial from The Sun questions Coveland’s nomination and predicts trouble for the Democratic belt. It suggests Bayard or Thurman would help, while noting the October state issue and a civil service exam query favoring Butler or Blaine, but not Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anya
Coveland
Thos. F. Bayard
Allan G. Thurman
the Sun
Butler
Blaine
Cleveland
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State Journal
Wm Chureday
L. W. Lee
Bootblack
Rawmmend
Daily Journal
Harry Clawson
Gov. Kinkead
Alaska
Phi Bates
Tahoe
Colorado
Sierras
John Smith
Justice Young
North Center Street
John Mullen
Whitehead
Charley Chase
Virginia City
Horn Building
Lem Allen
Churchill
Virginia and Gold
Harry Laselle
Scott
St. Paul
Minn
Laselle
John Torre
Blaine and Logan Club
Eureka
Nev
A. W. Campbell
Torre
Grover and Mann
Fkokaev
Arthur
Catskills
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