Weekly Summary of Global Events and Local Incidents
Hostilities begin between Dominica and Hayti. A 1200-barrel oil well at Bennebuff Run marks the week’s oil region event. Quantrell the guerilla reportedly arrested for Washington trial. Joliet murder convict Hlingis to be hanged May 23. Nearly thirty New York distilleries seized for internal revenue fraud. Cuban rulers order all native Africans from captured slave expeditions to Havana within 15 days. Spanish forces mass before Valparaiso. Chile Peru talks fail. Rhode Island bans color or race in public school exclusions. Rains swell rivers. flood danger rises. Weathering melts reduce ice on the Mississippi. river levels rise. Missouri rail lines offered for sale: Southwest, Iron Mountain, Cairo and Fulton. Five men to be hanged in Effingham County. Supreme Court writ issues stay. Heavy river rises near Cincinnati. freshet potential. Lake Michigan ice fading. nation resumes normal navigation. New fatal horse disease reported in New York livery stables linked to diseased army horses. Army bill outlines Lieutenant, four generals, artillery, and multiple regiments across the services. Total U.S. infantry, cavalry, and artillery counts to be stationed. Total lunar eclipse timed near midnight. International horticulture exhibition planned for May 1860 in London at South Kensington. Atlantic cable project advances. Great Eastern to lay cable to Newfoundland, then tow to Atlantic to recover lost end, with grappling vessels. hoax involving Spanish authorities and Chilean envoy leads to naval misdirection. Spanish cost estimated at 520,000.
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Dominica
Hayti
Bennebuff Run
Washington
Quantrell
George Chase
Joliet
Hlingis
New York
Internal Revenue
Cuba
Havana
Valparaiso
Peru
Rhode Island
Dama
Miziguri
Pacific Eailwe
Iron Mountain Railway
Cairo and
Faltua
Lake Aga- Evie
Teeprussia
letHhigaghumi
United Eleven
States
Detroit
Norwich
Connecticut
Litchfield County
Deerfield
Warren County
Ohio
Quincy
Louis
Tapa
Wool’s
Lucy Rushton
Fourteenth Street
Fourth Avenue
Lafayette
Ind
Boston Post
Bierstadt
Rocky Mountains
Vermont
Supreme Court of New York
Gen. Washington
la Crosse
Booth
Renuhtinan
Symes
Democrat
Symns
Yale
Chester
Mass
Cape Emery
Naxos
Smyrna
North Wales
New Lisbon
Buckeye
Columbiana County
New York Chess Club
Mackenzie
Graves
St. Johnsbury
Broad Street
Broadway
Lincoln Avenue
Adrian, Mich
Massachusetts
United States
New England
Boston
Maine
Universal suffrage, elections and appointments across states
The political page notes Wisconsin Senate vote tallies on suffrage and death penalty, New York eight hour labor passing, New York Governor race results with Stayth leading by about 5000, New Orleans mayoral result, Idaho governor appointment, and various federal actions. Also mentions Fenian activity, Irish questions, and national fiscal measures with treasury notes and tax proposals.
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Wisconsin Senate
Lows
Senate
New York
Dhown
Stayth
New Orleans
John T. Manree
Mayer
Moore
National Union
Richard C. McCormick
Arizona
Idaho
Caleb Lyon
Lyondale
Frank
Glair
Missouri
Washington
Johnson
Wisconsin
Remarkable 1865 Notes From The Nation And Press
Gen Grant's eldest son to West Point and Whittier's Snow Bound top sales. Poems, editors, and clergy deaths noted. Towns report emigration, court cases, riots, and odd legal notices. Financials include O'Brien gift concert ads and Boston paper history. diverse literary and civic items across cities.
Southern News Highlights Civil War Reorganizations and Reprisals
The report notes East Tennessee abolition of its district and troop withdrawal, Treasury Department orders to Confederate cotton loan subscribers about seizure, and Freedmen’s Affairs issuing land grant validity for freed people under Sherman. It also mentions a Norfolk Navy paymaster flogging incident and a Swedish immigrant group passing through Richmond.
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Stoneman
District of
East Tennessee
Treasury
South
McCulloch
Freedmen’s Affairs
Charleston
Sherman
Gould
Norfolk, Va
Heath
Flint
United States Navy
Charles W. Butts
Norfolk Old Dominion
Mr. Butts
Hichmond Inquirer
Enya
Territorial unrest and river change impact trade and crops
In the interior, returning workers complain of mistreatment and fraud by a minister who paid them in Confederate money after five months of labor. Memphis reports Terrapin Neck cut-off breaking through, widening a channel sixty feet wide, shortening the Mississippi River by about fifteen miles and shifting current toward Island 102. The Vicksburg Cotton Planters' Quette argues for Southern reintegration and postwar prosperity, while Savannah papers fear rice cultivation may end as swamp lands become unproductive.
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Chicago
Memphis
Island 102
Vicksburg Cofton
Quzette
Union
Savannah
Fires and shootings hit nation in grim St Patrick's Day week
A sequence of brutal events across cities recalls a violent week: Hessels shoots his mother in New York while handling a loaded pistol. MWeinmann loses 0,000 bonds and 15,000 in cash on a Michigan Central railroad trip. Buffalo depot and 460,000 bushels of grain burn. Minneapolis loses 20 buildings. Kilbourn City stores burn. Chicago and Alton depot suicide follows robbery claims. Ghett shoots wife then self in New York. Erie mill boiler explosion kills Sibley and injures three, demolishing the mill.
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New York
Hessels
Mweinmann
Michigan Central Railroad
United States
New York Central Railroad
Buffalo
Minneapolis
Minn
Kilbourn City
Wis
David Flynn
Chicago and Alton
East St. Louis
John Ghett
Althoffs Planing Mill
Erie
Sibley
St Catharines
C. W
Tragic deaths from jail suicide and street accident
A jailed young man in Geneva hanged himself by twisting from his iron bed, ending a presumed derangement. In Louisville a drunken rider was crushed when a horse car wheel severed his left arm amid crowding. Mathew Sheeley at Adams sugar refinery fell into a six foot vat, was severely burned, given laudanum, and died hours later.
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Geneva
Angel
Louisville Journal of Monday
Mathew Sheeley
Adams
Boston
Sheeley
St Paul Opera House Plan and Mississippi Bridge Proposal
A site for a new opera house in St Paul Minnesota is broken ground on the first. A free bridge across the Mississippi above Fort Snelling is planned. Berkshire events note harsh financial and civic developments including gas darkening and legal actions.
Best to Bryant & Stratton's Chicago Commercial College
Promotion for Bryant & Stratton's Chicago Commercial College offering a practical business education and telegraph operator training. Circulars available from Bryant & Stratton, Chicago, IL.
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Bryant & Stratton
Chicago Commercial College
Buryant & Stratton
Chicago
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