Anarchist Defense Bills: What Talk Costs and Owed Sums
editor Dell of the Arbeiter Zeitung cites estimates on amounts owed to Gen. Butler A Pryor and J Randolph Tucker for anarchist defense work. Tucker has received about 200 for bereaved families and about 2000 owed. Pryor's retainers total around 7204.65 while Butler has received 1500 so far. No solid plan for families yet.
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Gen. Butler
A. Pryor
J. Randolph Tucker
Dell
Arbeiter Zeitung
Kto
Stauber
Tucker
Pryor
Ben Butler
First Clash of Blaine and Sherman Forces in DC Delegates Fight
The District of Columbia Republican convention in Washington seethes as rival factions contend for National Convention delegates. Police restore order after a chaotic session that ends with competing groups declaring delegates loyal to Chase and Sherman factions.
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District of Columbia
Chicago
Washington
Associated Press
Frederick Douglass
Dea
Hargony
Bedlemate Joose
Digory
Chase
Elec
Carson
Sherman
Internal Revenue Collections for Liquor Taxation Since 1862
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue reports totals from Sept 1 1862 to June 3 1887. Special taxes on distillers 25 128 819. Brewers 4 932 355. Rectifiers 7 270 079. Capacity tax on large distilleries 7 132 487. Distilled spirits produced 1 66 865 194 gallons and fermented liquors 269 719 782 barrels. Taxes on spirits 1 199 379 990. Taxes on fermented liquors 249 246 119.
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Internal Revenue Collections
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue
Senate Divides Labor on Pacific Railroads Problem
Senate debates seven member committee to study Pacific railroad issues. Gorman’s motion to refer President’s message to a five member select panel is defeated. Other bills include Montana state formation, mail free to second class subscribers, and a bridge at the Mississippi near Burlington Iowa. House considers customs duties, river crossing at Lexington Missouri, and Indian Territory jurisdiction. Public printing inquiries probe recent discharges and furloughs.
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Patmen
Senate
Hoar
Gorman
Railroads
Davis
Select Committee
Yeas
Plumb
Kansas
Iowa
Voorhees
Montana
Missinsigni River
Burlington
House
Breckinridge
Lexington
Issouri
United States
Suth, Rainye River & Southwestern Railroad Company
Minnesota
Death of Mrs Garfield Ends Long Illness in Mentor
Gen Garfield's mother Mrs. Garfield dies at eighty six after a quiet end to a long illness. Friends say her influence helped shape his life and rise to power. She was known as Grandma Garfield and died in Mentor. Mrs Josephson, a witness in the Arensdorf case, was fatally injured when thrown from a wagon in Sioux City Iowa.
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Ohio
Garfield
James A. Garfield
Mentor
Mra
Financial turmoil hits Eagle Tron Works and rail unions
Eagle Tron Works at Wilkes Barre Pa fails with heavy liabilities. San Francisco Bridge Company assigns $300000 owed assets placed at $200000. Miners and railroad workers fear a protracted strike, prompting departures to Wyoming and Clearfield. RG Dun & Co notes overall quiet business with pockets of dull trade and rising coal and iron prices. Turmoil includes Kur tz Blanchard & Co bag makers failure for 250000 and Auburn Bank closure after cashier flees. Pennsylvania Railroad sells mileage tickets for 2000 miles at two cents per mile.
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Eagle Tron
Wilkesbarre
San Francisco Bridge Company
Reading
Pittsburgh
Wyoming
Clearfield
RG. Dun & Co
Chicago
Drouth
Chattanooga
Tenn
Kurtz, Blanchard & Co
New York
Louis
Toledo
Louis and
Kansas City Railroad Company
Pittsburg
First National Bank of
Auburn
N. Y
Charles O’brien
Canada
Elmer E. Morse
Tur Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Release of Father Ryan sparks public ovation in Limerick
A cable report says Father Ryan jailed for sympathy with the plan of campaign in Ireland has been freed and greeted by a large crowd. Also an assassination attempt in Havre against Louise Michel. A man named Lucas fired at her during an anarchist meeting wounding her head. Gendarmes arrived to prevent lynching.
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Father Ryan
Limerick
Ireland
Louise Michel
Havre
Lucas
Fires and accidents in multiple U.S. towns and Canada
A string of fires and drownings across Illinois, Washington Territory, Texas, Minnesota, and Canada kills and injures many. Notable losses include Dodd’s drug store and Hickox’s grocery in Springfield, Oderkirk Seminary fire in Rich View, Texas ice deaths near Ennis, a deadly Tower blaze with twelve fatalities, and fires at Montreal coffee mills and Rogers Locomotive Works Paterson.
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Springfield
Ill
R. N. Dodd
W. Hickox
Oderkirk Seminary
Richview
Tacoma
W. T
Victoria
San Juan Islands
Washington Territory
Ennis
Texas
William Williams
Babbitt
Tower
Minn
Barnaby
Oni
Liser
Montreal
Can
Rogers Locomotive Works
Paterson
N. J
Democratic State Central Committee Chooses Kisner Chairman
At Harrisburg the Pennsylvania Democratic State Central Committee elects Eliott Kisner of Bergen County as chairman over Dallas Sanders, with 42 votes to 35. The body adopts a resolution endorsing Cleveland’s administration and urging his reelection, amid broader party division and national reaction.
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Pennsylvania
Democratic State Central Committee
Harrisburg
Dallas Sanders
Philadelphia
Randall
Eliott Kisner
Lagerne County
Scott
Eisner
Sanders
Robert E Wright
Congress
Cleveland
Republican Party
Washington
House
Train Robbery Foiled East of Missouri City by Armed Posses
A masked band attempted to rob the Kansas City to St. Paul express near Missouri City. Officers, forewarned, engaged the robbers as trains halted and a gun battle ensued, scattering the attackers and wounding several. Leader John Sweeney fled into timber with accomplices still at large.
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Wabash
Kansas City
St. Louis
St. Louis Express
Issouri City
Cooley's Lake
Mersey
John Sweeney
Who
Missouri
Jesse Tames
Outwe
Desperadoes
Jomes
Indian Territory Bank Robbery and Executions Reported
A bank raid at Citizens Bank Lime stone Indian Territory ends with a cashier killed and about 2300 dollars taken. Three robbers flee after a firefight. leader hanged, two captured. Separate items note U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Missouri murder sentence in Brooks Maxwell case and the Whyos gang murder of Beezie Garrity with Dan Driscoll hanged in New York.
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Citizens’ Bank
Limestone
Indian Territory
W. T. Reynolds
Reynolds
Thomas Evan
United States
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Hugh M. Brooks
W. H. Maxwell
Missouri
Maxwell-Prelier
Brooks
Maxwell
St. Louis
C. Arthur Prelier
Supreme Court of Missouri
Waite
Dan Driscoll
New York
Whyos
Beezie Garrity
The Brazen Soldier Guard and Ford’s Theater Mystery
A fragmented reminiscence describes a picket guard by graves of heroes and a robin nesting near a soldier’s arm. It then shifts to Ford’s Theater souvenirs from Lincoln’s assassination and a behind the scenes gas man’s crucial role in the plot. The piece cites alleged deathbed revelations and secessionist circles as context.
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Ford
Washington
Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Ford’s
Booth
Baltimore
Richmond
Charleston
New Orleans
America
Great Talleyrand
Tragedy at Ford's Theater and Gettysburg mule tale
Dramatic narrative recalls the Lincoln assassination plot with the gas signal and Booth in the theater. It also recounts a Gettysburg incident where Union soldiers aided Confederate wounded, one man wounded through the jaw and later becoming a Pittsburgh figure.
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Ceres
Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers
William W. Jeffery
Isaac N. McMunn
M. Copeland
J. Porter
J. Rigdon
J. N. McMunn
McMunn
MccMunn
Pittsburg
H. E. McB
Commission backs electricity as humane death method in capital cases
A New York Legislature commission reports in 1886 that electricity is the most humane and practicable method to carry out the death penalty. It notes instantaneous death, private use, and safety for officials, while detailing animal experiments and debates over shocks and heart activity. The bulletin also notes train robberies in Nebraska, bitter winter impacts on Michigan wooding and peach buds, Greely's funding complaints, a boxing match where Tom White defeated Billy Dempsey fatally, and Boston harbor freezing to the Narrows.
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New York
Albany
el City
Nebraska
Union Pacific
Chippewa Falls
Wis
Michigan Woods
Washington
General Greely
Tom White
Swipes
Billy Dempsey
Fort Hamilton
Dempsey
Boston
O Brien Free From Jail Presses Ireland Supporters
William O'Brien M P editor of United Ireland was released from Tulloomore Jail on January 28 after a brief crowd gathering at a priest's house in Tulamore. The event drew cheering crowds with no disorder reported. Father McFadden and Mr Blane were arrested at Armagh and Donegal on charges of anti landlord meetings and incitement.
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William O'Brien
M. P
United Ireland
Tullamore
Tulamore
Father McFadden
Gweedore
Armagh
Blane
Jtil
Donegal
South Armagh
Meade orders and then counters orders during Mine Run assault
Meade seeks a demonstration against the enemy at Mine Run and orders a Fifth Corps assault led by Warren with support from the Third Division. A late meeting between Meade and French yields the countermanding order as dusk approaches, and the division returns to its corps. The piece shifts to a Christmas reminiscence of a turkey raid near Camp Relief and various superstition notes.
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G. Feather
Philadelphia Times
Mine Run
Meade
Washington
Fifth Corps
Warren
Third Corps
General Meade
General French
Envelopes carry Civil War images and a dying soldier song
A war era envelope collection displays pictures and emblems including a Lion versus donkey scene and Liberty bell motifs. A ballad titled The Dying Soldier portrays a wounded fighter recalling a loved one as death nears.
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Boonville
Jack
Gov. Jackson
Lyon
Bowers
Fancy
Heaven
Lost Arts of Living and Warner’s Log Cabin Remedies
A mused essay on longevity and old time cures contrasts ancient medicines with modern ones. Warner’s Log Cabin remedies including Saraaparilia Hops and Buchu Remedy Cough and Consumption Cure are advertised as wholesome old fashioned cures from War ner’s Safe Cure.
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Epemenides
Apophus
Erotion
Jacitua
Tuisca
Haddon
Alexander Cornelius
H. H. Warner & Co
Warner’s
Fete Honors Three Heroes Shot by Prussians at Bougival
A large gathering of gymnastic and rifle associations attended a patriotic fete in Bougival honoring Debergue Martin and Cardon, local heroes executed by Prussians in 1870. Debergue, a gardener, repeatedly cut telegraph wires and, defiant, accepted death rather than reveal plans. He declared his duty as a Frenchman and vowed to repeat the act if freed. The Germans ordered his execution.
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Bougival
Debergue
Martin
Cardon
Galignani
London Valentine Manufacture At The Year Round
A London factory keeps valentines in steady production with laced springs mottoes and colored flowers. Workers hand assemble stamped and imitation papers. German valentines are assembled by women, the most skilled making about three dozen daily. They use the third finger of the right hand as a mucilage brush.
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London
Papa and Shop Boy Puzzle Ends in a Rigged Riddle
In a London Exchange snippet a father asks a riddle about buying five penny papers with six pence. The boy struggles then answers that no change would be returned if the six pence is provided. The exchange ends with the father planning a different wording next time.
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Papa
Chang
Xone
London Exchange
Valley City Mills generated great excitement says foreman
The foreman at Valley City Mills describes a wave of energy and optimism around operations. He highlights new processes, improved efficiency, and worker morale as the plant prepares for upcoming production shifts.
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Valley City Mills
Clergyman Cured of Catarrh by New Recipe
A clergyman cured after years of suffering from catarrh by a new prescription. He urges others to seek the remedy and, by sending a self addressed stamped envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence in New York, readers can receive the recipe free of charge.
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J. A. Lawrence
East Ninth Street
New York
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