Guiteau's Execution Scene Described in Graphic Detail
The account portrays Guiteau's troubled night before execution, his emotional collapse at dawn, and the ceremonial steps to the scaffold. It notes the crowd around the jail, the prayers by Dr Hicks, the reading from Matthew, the blasphemous verses, and the swift fall of the trap ending the condemned man’s life.
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Garfield
Dr. Hicks
Guiteau
Rotunda
Otunda
Matthew
Nselor
Ben Hill
Cluiteau
Old Camp Morton
Indianapolis
Wilson McCandlish
U.S. Distric Court
Pittsburg
James G. Blaine
Topeka
Kansas
Christian Breckel
Cincinnati
West End
Census Bulletin Shows Ohio Surpassing New York in Farms
The census bulletin notes Ohio has overtaken New York for cultivable farms, rising from third to first among states in ten years, with a 41 percent farm increase nationwide from 1870 to 1880. It also cites a pension total of 500 781 950 to March 1 1882 and about 250 000 living Civil War pensioners, plus 30 000 service pensions from 1812.
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R. R. Dawes
Census Bulletin
Ohio
New York
General Cowan Takes Editorial Control of Ohio State Journal
Gen. B. R. Cowan assumed editorial control of the Ohio State Journal on the first of this month. He is a recognized political writer and will boost the paper’s influence, a leading Republican newspaper in the state. The piece also notes urges for Pennsylvania Republicans to unite on one ticket to avert disaster and mentions 1,590 convicts in the Ohio Penitentiary, with 1875 to 1878 saw 1,800 inmates less due to economic prosperity.
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Atlanta
Townsend
Wilson
National Surgical Institute
Ohio
Harrison
Johnson Station
Scioto
Urichsville
Lacharis
Bucyrus Journal
Patterson
Gillmore
B. R. Cowan
Ohio State Journal
Pennsylvania
Ohio Penitentiary
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Alney
Robert E. Pattison
Philadelphia
Washington Territory
Donner Lake
Nevada
Virginia
Louisiana
Macon
Georgia
West
St. Louis
William Thomas
Harvard
Europe
America
Howard Carroll
Helmbold
Jane van Wart
Isaac van Wart
Major Andre
Tarrytown
Jersey City
Washington
San Francisco
Paris
Maryland
Congress
Coshocton County
Columbus
John Flynn
Cleveland
Butler County
Alex Hall
Cedarville
Reuben Russell
Huntington Township
Gallia County
United States Senate
Gallipolis
Shroup
Young Madder
Thurman
Williamsport
Pickaway County
Abe Nichols
Deer Creek
Nash
Henry Cole
Cole
Woodward High School
Ngmboring Counties
Henry Bohl
Whipple Run
Wm. Lord
Mina Buchanan
Harmar
Dennis Freed
Warren
M. D. Follett
Marietta College
The
Register
Washington County
Marietta
Henry Best, Jr
Elizabeth
John Gerhold
Fearing
M. A. Hays
Duluth
Minnesota
Sallie J. Cooper
Parkersburg
James Darlington
Muskingum River
Zanesville
Joseph Wood
Marietta Register
Marietta Observatory
Fourth and Wooster
A. B. Smith, Esq
Newport
Messenger
Alexandria
Hugh Eddleston
Harmer
Raton
New Mexico
Milo P. Jewett
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Karly
Salesbury
Matamoras
West Virginia
Furthe
MEIGS
Meigs County
Pomeroy Iron Works
Rebecca Black
Rutland
Ladies of the
Esquire
Austin Barton
Court House
Pomeroy
Middleport Herald
Opera House
Mary J. Lasher
John V. Lasher
Middleport
Minersville
Racine
H. H. McRibinny
Lucinda Church
Mr. Joseph Church
Meigs Children's
F. Moore
Charles Logan
Rudolph Coughenour
Olmsted Henderson
Novelty Iron Works
Ohio and West Virginia
Mill Street
Hocking
Col. Rempel
Gallagher Avenue
Logan
Main Street
Logan House
John Thress
Jacob Flannigan
Saltcreek Township
James W. Haynes
Junction City
South Bloomingville
Messrs
Valley Tribune
Wolf
Lizzie Rhinestetler
Morgan
James Sherlock
Hackney
Maria
John Kreigbaum
Taylorsville
Albina Hambleton
Hambleton
Windsor Township
John Peebles
Marion Township
Arza
New Lexington
Morgan County
New Lexington Independent
Perry
Somerset
Ki. A. Bowles
Buckingham
Bowles
Rush Creek
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