Utah and Mormon conflict rumors reach Salt Lake
Dispatches from July report Gen Johnston meeting Brigham Young at Provo while rumors swirl of a possible occupation of Salt Lake City. News notes roads, mail routes, and military movements toward peace negotiations with Gov Cumming and the peace commissioners.
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Ttah
Josena
Ju'y
Booneville
Salt Lake Uneit
Les
Johnsten
Echo Canon
Provo City
Yung
Cumming
Peace Commissionera
Col
Huffman
Salt Lake City
St. Joseph
Sinlair
Fir Urah
Tinegh
Dodge
Utah
Fort Les Woking
Sb Louis
Fort Kearney
Utah Mail
St Joseph
Ubag
Cura Wing
Peace
Lee
Port
Aime
May
Fort Laramiz
Ash Shelow
Mjor Emory
Vort Bridger
Fort Bridger
Hendrickson
Wnth
Swith
Sixth Infantry
Stewart
First Cavalry
Louis
Republicanhug
United States
Colan
Hnazog
Guy- Erhor
Turbulent Mexico News Reaches Port of Vera Cruz
The Yarque Tribani and Uupuntn Sigsbee ship docked bringing Vera Cruz updates to the 26th. Ambassador Farasth had not yet received passports. Britain and France planned to pay the forced loan under protest. A severe earthquake on the 18th caused extensive property damage, many injuries, and about fifty deaths, with capsuled buildings collapse.
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Mexico
New Duncans
Thin Port
Uupuntn Sigsbee
Picayune Key
Advins
Vera Cruz
Ulti-, Wa
Farasth
Waal Jamion
Comittey
Capsul
Ceneral
Porsyth
The
Picayune
Guanijuaia
Monelia
Talgainaro
Drowned in a Bath Causes and Confusion in Virginia Valley
The Virginia Valley Whig reports the drowning of Mrs. Blowra of Jamcaster Pennsylvania in a bath at Roanche Hed Bulphor Springs. Details are murky with a servant and two other women present. The incident left Mrs. Blowra's husband and children in mourning.
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Blowra
Jamcaster
Pennsylvanis
Bulphor
Stuard
Mya. S
Thei Losa
Porter the Sunday School Defaulter Confesses Crimes
A Boston Journal correspondent reports Mr Brad W Porter, once a trusted American Sunday School Union official, confessed to nineteen years of fraud totaling over 8600,000. A Philadelphia broker covered about 89,000 of the loss. Porter describes his guilt as religious pretense ending in ruin and impending legal action.
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Sunday School Union
Sborny Park
Philadelphia
Porter
Portitt
Los
Uinion
Jey
F. W. Porter
Indiana Lynchings and a Vengeful Mob Cleanse a Deceiver
A Louisville Courier account details a sensational vigilante act in Crawfordsville Indiana. A man named Coons who pursued a young woman faced a mob, was tarred and feathered, then escorted from town. A Kentucky case follows, with a city marshal killed and Barker executed by a public scaffold after a mob break. The report also notes a boy beating a man at dinner and a Michigan case of a man shooting a woman during a row over a young lady.
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Judge Lynch
Indiana
Choma
Crawfirdsville
Minoa
Lafayette
Ladoga
Grawfordsella
Whch
Lynch
Mr. Coons
Tomas
Ahoom
Galifornia
Kentucky
Orformsatt
Deasaph Beard
Warshal
Lesington
Barker
Moening
Wis
Qwarket House
Court Board
Ginniamati
Queen City
Jemmy Daly
Cincinnati
Appointment at York Male High School headline changes
The former York County Normal School instructor is named Teacher of the Male High School in York. The pastorate at Conowage Chapel ends, with Rep Dutcher Catama succeeding. Wheat prospects show potential half-crop yield. a Grand Tournament at Mammarsburg is planned. Captain Burman withdraws resignation at Independent Blues. News from New York Erie railroad accidents and telegraph cable work. The Delaware Canal sale to Philadelphia financiers is approved. The American Sunday School Union is saved from losses via donor support and security measures.
The People’s Convention at Harrisburg and brief items
The People’s Convention assembled at Harrisburg with full attendance led by Gov Rueper of Northampton and Oret Governor of Kansas presiding. On the tenth ballot Jon M Reap was nominated for Supreme Judge and Van E Fraasman for Canal Commissioner. Also noted fire in Hampton destroying Dix Lewis Canonister’s home with no insurance, a suicide near Hugover Junction, and a railroad barge blaze near Philadelphia with heavy losses. Military and foreign affairs items follow, including Oregon conflict, Mexican loan issue, and political commentary from local papers.
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Union County
Gettysburg
Adams County
Lecompton
Justain
Salavkey
P. IL
County Conveniton
Genysburg
Chas
Horner
Wa PF
Warren
Seely
People's
Harrisburg
Wannesroce
C. J. Buennen
Rueper
Northampton Caualy
Oret
Kansas
Jon M. Reap
Philadelphia
van E. Fraasma
Payette County
Buchanan
Hampton
Dix
Lewis Canonister
Twipton
Horo
Carapiter
The High Cost of Encampments and Monuments in Pennsylvania
A late 19th century broadside criticizes state spending under Governor Packer and Congress, denouncing a proposed Williamsport military encampment costing about a hundred thousand dollars. It rails at monument appropriations for Mexican War dead, recounting rising costs and questionable commissions. Reports of boiler explosions, earthquakes, and violent incidents in Lawrenceville, along with commentary on protectionism and economic distress, fill the page with a panorama of public waste and social unrest.
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Congress of the
United States
Williamsport
Maita
Mexico
Ann Tharscul Dolmrs
Barrinburg
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Newis
Northern Central Railway Route With Atlantic to Lakes Link
The article describes the 138 mile Northern Central Railway from Baltimore through York Cumberland Perry Dauphin and Northumberland to Sanbury connecting with Sunbury and Erie to Williamsport and Elmira New York via Williamsport and Elmira Road to the Canandaigua and Niagara Trails line ending at the Niagara suspension bridge. It notes travel times and fares from Philadelphia and Baltimore and mentions an all-rail route between Atlantic cities and the Great Lakes.
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Northern Central Railway
Baa
Pennsylvania
Baltimore
York
Cumberland
Perry
Dauphin
Northumberland
Sanbury
Sunbury and
Eria
Williamsport
Susquehanna
Elmira
Lakes
Philadelphia
Niagara
National Union shifts support to Douglas in Chicago paper
The National Union in Chicago, once backing the Administration, has moved to support Douglas. Editors claim the Administration failed to deliver promised funds while officials deny confidence in the editor. The note follows protection demands and economic strains as iron and coal markets falter, leaving thousands jobless.
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The
National Union
Chicago
Douglas
Tha
Adinistration
Falke
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Anderson County
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Washington County
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Mona
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Department of Commerce
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Apostles of Free Trade
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Trouisville
Louisville ‘Democrat
New York Ledger
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Washington
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Florida
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