Liberal surge unsettles rivals in British returns
Recent returns show Liberals with 235 seats, Conservatives 187, and Home Rulers 16. Beaconsfield is downbeat, Parnell celebrates, while Liberals revel in unexpected gains and foes brace for upcoming party conventions and battles.
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Beaconsfield
Parnell
Blaine Favored to Win Key US Nomination Votes
The Grant managers and Blaine camp predict strong showing for James G Blaine at the Chicago Convention with Vermont Ohio and New England gains noted. Sherman prospects brighten in Ohio as Sherman workers credit resumption policy and campaign judgment for growing support.
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Washington
Blaine
Blaine Club
Chicago
Vermont
Edmunds
Ohio
J. W. Bartlett
Grant
New England
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Maine
Pennsylvania
New York
Indiana
Kentucky
Sherman
Cincinnati
Boston Herald
Eiver
Mr. Sherman
John Sherman
Mr. Blaine
Newport Observes Channing Centenary with National Figures
Newport prepares for a centennial birth celebration of William Ellery Channing with a large indoor service at the Opera House led by Gov. Van Zandt. The program includes letters from Emerson, Whittier, Longfellow, and others, along with sermons and readings by prominent clergy and lay leaders from Boston, Providence, and beyond.
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Newport
R. I
Ellery Channing
Opera House
Gov. van Zandt
W. H. Channing
London
Eng
Dr. Bellows
New York
de Normandie
Portsmouth
N. H
Wilson
Salem
Mass
Hosmer
Edward Everett Hale
W. H. Baldwin
Charles Lowe
Julia Ward Howe
Boston
J. C. Kinball
Unitarian Church
Hartford
Mary A. Livermore
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Schermerhorn
England
William Lloyd Garrison
Garrison
Channing
Whittier
Longfellow
Bishop Clark
Episcopal Diocese of
Rhode Island
Bishop Huntington
Central New York
Dean Stanley
James Martineau
George William Curtis
Harper’s Weekly
Phillips Brooks
William Ellery Channing
M. K. Schermerborn
Channing Memorial Church
Sidney Smith
Dr. Channing
Messrs
Welsh Mountain thieves terrorize Honey Brook township
Reading Pa April 3 The people of Honey Brook township Chester county fear a band of Welsh Mountain thieves burning barns driving off stock poisoning horses and cattle and robbing homes. They have burnt a barn and posted skull and crossbones threatening desolation if pursued. Citizens fear nightly attacks and foresee widespread ruin.
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Reading
Honey Brook Township
Chester County
Detective Company
Honey Brook
Gap Gang
Evarts Says No Treaty Yet With China Delicate Negotiations
Secretary Evarts told Mr. Willis that no treaty with China has been negotiated and no attempt made. He urged delaying the resolution until Senate action on commissioners for negotiations. Willis, acting on committee instructions, pressed for an immediate reply.
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Boston Post
Washington
Willis
Evarts
Seward
Pacific Coast
Senate
Wills
Manning-Springer
Springer
Washington Post
Manning
Washburn
Mr. Springer
Post
Pensions and Liberality in Senate Debate on Scout Pension
Senator Ingalls argued in the Senate for high pension costs, declaring the United States the most liberal nation and noting last year's pension outlay of 60 million dollars. He contrasted with England France and Germany and warned that continued growth would become financially unsustainable. He cited survivors of the war of 1812 and described pensions as a difficult but necessary policy debate.
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Washington
Ingalls
Senate
England
Europe
Napoleon
France
Germany
Illinois
Gen
Logan
Committee On
Delays in Census Supervisors Nomination Threaten June Take
Washington April 4 132 of 150 census supervisors nominated to states have been confirmed nine pending in Senate with nine rejected. The census superintendent warns further delay could disrupt the census due in June. Congress debates schedules amid a disagreement and no conference committee ordered.
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Washington
Senate
Walker
World News Roundup From London April 5
A St. Petersburg dispatch confirms reports of Chinese invasions into Russian territory. Despatches mention Jesuit decrees, royal health concerns, and hopes for a peaceful India settlement. Reports from Cabul, Berlin, Paris, and Bombay cover elections, Jesuits, and cable breaks amid global tensions. A fire in Montainmont kills seventeen. Anderloes colliery disaster claims forty-two lives.
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London
St. Petersburg
Paris
Vatican
Berlin
William
India
Mohamed Jan
Napoleon
Cabul
Mahomed Jan
Ghuznee
Hartmann
Asterabrad
Persia
Tchikeslar
Montainmont
Savoy
France
Sophia
Alexander
Russia
Anderloes
Belgium
Bombay
Calcutta
Simla
Anglo-American Company
Gen. Melikoff
Bourbon
Madagascar
Ghastly Vault Quietly Sifts Bodies in City Church
In a Methodist chapel vault opened after 25 years the bones of over 5 000 people from the 1832 cholera era were exposed as walls collapsed. Police search for missing Edward N Taft of Worcester Mass, last seen March 23 in Brooklyn. A man was murdered in a separate incident on Third Avenue. naval workers in Brooklyn face reorganization. an ocean yacht race plan and juvenile asylum mismanagement allegations dim the city’s mood.
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Massachusetts
Brooklyn Navy Yard
New York
Methodist
Attorney Street
Methodist Church Extension Society
Brooklyn
Edward N. Taft
Worcester
Mass
Taft
Thomas Barker
Third Avenue
Richard O’connell
Barker
O'Connell
O’connell
Naval Constructor’s Department
Naval
Boush
Norfolk Yard
Bags Liloc Gazette
Chester
Philadelphia
Newbury
Southampton
England
Maine
P.S. Gilmore
Paris
Twenty-second Regiment
Destruction by Cyclone Hits Ottawa And Girard
A Kan cyclone struck Ottawa damaging seven Elm Street homes and destroying more houses near the river. One child killed and about twenty injured. several freight cars overturned near the junction. Seventeen houses destroyed at Girard with two deaths and multiple injuries reported.
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St. Louis
Ottawa
Kan
Elm Street
Lawrence
Spencer and Wilkinson
S. F. Benier
J. Marshall
A. H. Baldwin
Black
Harting
Jones
Storm Hits Wheeling Wrecks Buildings With No Loss Of Life
A severe rain hail and wind storm struck Wheeling West Virginia this afternoon causing major damage to property. The Riverside Nail Works roof collapsed and the Third Presbyterian Church steeple blew down. Beitz's Carriage Factory three story addition was destroyed. Several minor losses reported. No lives were lost.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Riverside Nail Works
Third Presbyterian Church
Beitz
Liberal Victory Sparks Parliament Crisis Rumors
London reports Liberal gains of 245 seats to 187 for Conservatives with a possible 150 more to win, prompting talk of Beaconsfield's resignation and a new cabinet led by Gladstone or Hartington. Parnell and Irish Home Rule gain momentum while The Times and Spectator debate cabinet composition and imperial policy. Fire and disaster reports from Greenwich and Columbus headline the day.
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London
Lord Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield
England
Edward Birkbeck
Edmund Lacon
Lord Brooke
John W. Miles
Alexander Hi. Gordon
York
City
James Lowther
Ireland
John Lubroock
Maidstone
Radnor
Marquis of Hartington
Lancashire
London University
Robert Lowe
Cladstone
A. Charles
Stafford Northcote
Parnell
Cork
Ory
Parliament of Ireland
United States
Lowther
The
Saturday Review
Independent
Russia
Gladstone
Lord Granville
Lord Hartington
St. Petersburg
Europe
Berlin
Vienna
Paris
O Leary belt race opens at Madison Square Garden
The second contest began at midnight with eighteen contestants. Hart led early with a 45 second lap and 6.20 for the first mile, followed by Merritt and Murphy among others. Over 7,000 spectators watched as Hart and others push for the record in the first hour with Hart at 8 miles and Merritt, Murphy, Ennis, Allen, Depler, Kerwin, Henry, Brown, Woods, Jaynes near 5 to 8 miles.
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New York
O’leary
Madison Square Garden
Hart
Murphy
Merritt
Dobler
Pegram
John Ennis
Ennis
Allen
Depler
Kerwin
Henry
Brown
Woods
Jaynes
Emigration Demand Rise in South Colored Population
The American Colonization Society reports growing unrest among Southern Negroes and daily appeals for help. It notes up to a half million colored people ready to emigrate to Liberia if passage and six months support are provided, with a ship of about 100 to sail soon.
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Washington
American Colonization — Nits
South
Liberia
Mendocino Man Kills Wife and Her Lover at Narrow Ridge
A Mendocino City despatch reports Neil S. Hammond shot and killed his wife Johanna and her paramour Frank Allsen as they slept together at Narrow Ridge. Hammond, who was asleep in the same bed with them, alerted by his son, was seized. He says the affair had continued for a year and he felt obliged to act.
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Wiley
New York Methodist Conference
San Francisco
Mendocino
Narrow Ridge
Neil S. Hammond
Johanna
Frank Allsen
Hammond
Grain laden vessels arrive with bulk corn wheat oats rye flax
In Chicago on April 3 grain laden vessels arriving or at sail contain 2 575 000 bushels of corn 189 000 of wheat 79 000 of oats 78 000 of rye and 29 000 of flax seed. Vessels awaiting cargoes boast capacities over 1 000 000 bushels. The Straits of Mackinaw are reported open with active mariners today.
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Chicaco
Straits of Mackinaw
Storm Rips Through Ohio Valley Dozens Hurt
A strong night storm swept the Ohio Valley with heavy wind. In Evansville Indiana a half finished dwelling and the Unitarian Church turret were blown down while a tug Dick Williams was wrecked and sank after the pilot house blew off.
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Cincinnati
Ohio Valley
Evansville
Indiana
Unitarian
Dick Williams
Boiler explosion at Lawler saw mill kills one
A boiler in the saw mill of John H. Lawler ten miles from Rushville Illinois exploded yesterday afternoon, demolishing the mill. Wesley M. Parker was killed instantly John Randall and Thomas Jones were fatally injured and two other men were seriously hurt.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
John H. Lawler
Rushville
Lls
Wesley M. Parker
John Randall
Thomas Jones
Election tides and local shocks sweep Maine towns in one week
The report notes a strong Fusionist sweep in Fort Fairfield Veazie and Lewiston towns with election results showing Fusionist gains and Republicans losing control. A Fort Fairfield earthquake shook residents between 2 and 3 am Saturday and county cases of adultery end in arrest. A Rockland resident finds 975 in her apron and a Hiram man reaches eighty six descendants. Local mills push output to meet demand while a Knox county case details a death caused by a couple living together in sin.
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Edward O’brien
Thomaston
Fort Fairfield
Maysville
Foley
Rockland
Linscott
Lucy Johnson
Appleton
Knox County
Danforth
Fugier
A. Curran
Lowell
Burlington
Lewiston
Barker
Samuel Ridlon, Sr
Hiram
Veazie
Portsmouth Factory Robbed of New Sample Goods
The Rockingham Shoe Company's Portsmouth factory lost a considerable quantity of new sample goods Friday night. No clue to the thief was available as yet. Miss Nancy Pareber was found dead in bed Friday evening at the Faith Home in Portsmouth. She was about seventy years old. Charles N Coburn of Nashua was discharged after a weak state case for arson at Baker Coburn. A lockjaw case in Manchester involved Joseph Daniel, a French Canadian who cut off three toes with an ax and died after delayed treatment.
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Rockingham Shoe Company
Portsmouth
Nancy Pareber
Faith Home
Charles N. Coburn
Baker & Coburn
Nashua
Fassett
Manchester
Joseph Daniel
Westfield to see another large whip fac pal under Edwin L Sanford Co
Worcester county tax for the current year is 120000 dollars, down 14500 from last year. A Frenchman, Charles Hood of South Deerfield, was severely bruised after falling through a dry bridge in Springfield during the storm. Worcester baseball club votes to raise capital stock to 5000 dollars, most already pledged. Taft of Worcester has not been heard from since March 23 after going to New York to handle unsold stock. Mrs McVickar of Dighton burned to death by falling on a stove, husband found her on the stove after cries. Mrs J L Robinson of Dennisport attempted suicide by jumping into Swan Lake Pond. Captain Kelley rescued her. A horse death by suicide occurs in Nantucket when a driven horse walks into the water at a wreck scene. Kenney and others attempt rescue, horse drowned, wagon washed ashore.
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Worcester County
Charles Hood
South Deerfield
Springfield
Worcester Baseball Club
E. A. Taft
GC. Whitney
Valentine and
Worcester
New York
Brooklyn
McVickar
Owen McVickar
Dighton
J. L. Robinson
Dennisport
Swan Lake Pond
Valentine Kelley
Kelley
Robinson
Nantucket
Charles A. Kenney
Sylvanus Morey
Mr. Kenney
Diamond rings stolen from Hartford jeweler shop
A tray of twenty four diamond rings valued at eight thousand dollars disappeared Thursday afternoon from Ernst Schall's Hartford store. Police suspect a thief opened the show case during the day and fled with the jewelry.
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Ernst Schall
Hartford
Eli Carpenter
Bridgeport
Amos June
Greenwich
Benedict Farms
Westport
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