Early Postmastership Odds and Senate Confirmations
Washington March 26 reports a cabinet member signaling New York Postmastership may be settled soon with Pearson possibly reappointed. The Senate confirmed nominees including McConville as Treasury Auditor and Conworth and Torrey for customs posts. The inquiry into Pennsylvania militia at the inauguration adjourned to Philadelphia for defense statements.
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New York
Wasutheron
PD. C
Pearson
Washington
Vilas
Wasuiseron
D. C
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Northwest Rebellion Moves as Forces Rally South
Reports from Ottawa say Dominion Government orders A and B Batteries to the Northwest. Regulars will travel by Canadian Pacific route avoiding the U S and moving via Lake Superior. Four hundred men from Eastern Canada to reinforce Fort Carlton and Regina defenses amid rising tensions.
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Northwest Territory
Sellen
Irwin
Fort Carlton
Riel
Batache
Saskatchewan
North Saskatchewan
Crozier
Fort Quepelle
Middleton
Quepelle
Regina
Ottawa
Dominion
Quebec
Kingston
United States
Canadian Pacific
Lake Superior
Nipegon
Northwest
Thunder Bay
Canada
Medical Report on General Grant’s Condition
The Medical Record for General Grant notes a comparatively comfortable week with controlled insomnia using snodynes. He has not lost flesh, and absorption remains intact. Local disease in abeyance with ulceration not increasing. swelling near the jaw modest but not worsening. Throat and tongue surfaces show yellow exudate with limewater and permanganate, hot topical applications reducing circulation and slowing infiltration. no swallowing pain. No imminent danger to vital power or nearby vessels. Grant walks with a cane, climbs stairs, and enjoyed a carriage ride on Wednesday.
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General Grant
New York
J. H. Douglas
H. B. Sands
Geo. F. Shrady
Fordyce Barker
Belmont Iron Works bookkeeper commits embezzlement then suicide
Wiertna West Virginia March 27 W D Cushing a Belmont Iron Works book-keeper was arrested for embezzling county funds totaling 2100 dollars and held on 8000 dollars bail. At eleven he died by self inflicted gunshot after returning home following bail. He was a trusted young employee.
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Wiertna
W. Va
W. D. Cushing
Belmont Iron Works
Couny
Cushing
Stranger Dies After Fall From Third Floor Window
A well dressed stranger registered at the Davis House on Clark street, allegedly robbed of over 300 dollars, left his overcoat as security, and leaped from a third floor window around 8 50 pm, dying from his injuries. Letters on the body were addressed to Andrew Keddy of Quincy Michigan.
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Carcago
Davis House
Clark Street
Andrew Keddy
Quincy
Michigan
Duel on the Wichita Agency Ends in Double Homicide
A Fort Reno scout reports a Western style duel at the Wichita Agency Indian Territory last Monday. Cowboy Frank Copeland and half-breed John Foster faced at fifteen paces and fired on three. Copeland was fatally shot in the brain and Foster through the heart. Both men were known to have killed before in the Indian country.
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Kansas City
Fort Reno
Wichita Agency
Indian Territory
Frank Copeland
John Foster
Copeland
Foster
Paddy Ryan Denies Sullivan Fight Financing Offer
Paddy Ryan rejects Philadelphia dispatch claiming Richard K Fox offered 2500 to fight and whip Sullivan plus belt with expenses paid to Butte City Montana. Ryan says he will fight Sullivan in New Orleans for 2500 a side and notes Jim Patterson handles his affairs in Philadelphia for a Sullivan bout.
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Cmcapo
Ill
Paddy Ryan
Philadelphia
Richard K. Fox
Sullivan
Fox
Yan
Butte City
Montana
Paddy
New Orleans
Jim Patterson
Harvard Board keeps 1844 admission requirements for freshmen
The Board of Overseers of Harvard College today decided admission requirements for the Freshmen Class shall remain the same as in 1844, unless changed by the board. The move reverses a recent action that removed Greek from the obligatory list.
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Boston
Mass
Harvard College
Roach Replies on Dolphin Insurance and Speed Trial
Washmnetor D C March 27 Mr John Roach replies to Secretary Whitney about the Dolphin insurance lapse and notes no comment on a second speed trial as Whitney suggested.
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Washmnetor
D. C
John Roach
Whitney
Connecticut Senate Rejects Margin Stock Speculation Ban
The Connecticut Senate rejected the House passed bill prohibiting stock speculation on margins and imposing fines and imprisonment for violations. The measure had been approved by the House on Tuesday.
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Hartrrorp
Conn
Connecticut House of Representatives
Senate
Ship Passes Burning Vessel Spotted at Sea
The steamship Schiedail arrived from Rotterdam reporting that on March 16 it passed a burning ship with no crew visible. The vessel was painted black with a copper bottom and round stern and had no visible name.
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New York
Schiedail
Rotterdam
Senate committee informs president of adjournment readiness
Washington March 27. The Senate Committee to wait on the President and inform him that the Senate was ready to adjourn performed that duty yesterday afternoon. It was understood the President would be ready for adjournment by Saturday afternoon.
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Wil
Washington, D. C
Senate
Entered Upon Their Duties
Washinator D C March 27 Italian Commissioner Atkins General Land Commissioner Sparks and Assistant Sec start duties in a formal transfer of responsibilities.
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Roach
Retary of the Interior
Washinator
D. C
Ttalian
Atkins
Sparks
Sec
Mrs Morgan Widow of Ex Governor Dies in New York
New York March 27 Mrs EB D Morgan widow of ex Governor Edwin D Morgan died yesterday at her home 411 Pitt Avenue She was daughter of Henry Waterman a Hartford Conn merchant and prominent figure in that city.
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New York
EB. D. Morgan
Edwin D. M
Pith Avenue
Twenty Years For Murder Sentenced in Sanders Case
In Monroetmn Minnesota Sanders, convicted of manslaughter in the killing of Daniel Carr, was sentenced yesterday morning to twenty years in the State Prison.
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Monrretmn
Clark W. Sanders
Daniel Carr
Patricos Manhunter Riker Dies After Wild Manhunt
In Patricos New Jersey on March 27 Andrew Riker, once an outlaw linked to rural post office robberies and accused of assaulting his niece, was found near a secluded cave by a lake after a gun mishap and prior manhunt. Authorities deemed him insane as villagers watched the aftermath.
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Patricos
N. J
Constable Post
Paterson
Andrew Riker
Two
Riker
Sonk
Grand
Jennie Riker
Enna
The Starving People of West Virginia
The condition of affairs in the foodless counties of the interior grows desperate as frozen streams and hard roads hinder aid. Parshed corn and sorghum molasses feed many for three months while relief efforts expand. Kanawha Ritchie Pleasants Wirt Nicholas Braxton counties meet to provide relief measures.
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West Virginia
Wheeling
W. Va
Parkersburg
Kanawha
Ritchie
Pleasanta
Wirt
Nicholas
Braxton County Courten
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