Debate on Geneva award and House proceedings
The debate on the Geneva award opens with Clarkson N Potter defending underwriters drawing close attention as most members lack understanding of the merits McMahon and Frye are anticipated to speak for war premium backers New England lawmakers likely back the war premium side Judge Buckner to push a resolution Monday demanding inquiry into Secretary Sherman influence on New York banks regarding silver Hayes administration moves Hangman Foote for New Orleans Mint director gain support for Tennessee campaign Hayes nominates Murphy for U S Marshal of Alabama Labor figure Edward Atkinson testifies before Hewitt committee today with more remarks due tomorrow Holiday recess continues
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McMahon
Frye
New England
Buckner
House
Banking and Currency Committee
Sherman
New York
Hangman
Foote
New Orleans
Tennessee
Hayes
Fortification and West Point Bills Pass in Congress
In a legislative update, the Fortification and West Point bills have cleared Congress, marking a significant step for defense funding and military preparedness. The measures move to the next stage for approval and implementation.
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West Point
Senate Confirms Wide Range of Federal Appointments
The Senate approved numerous nominations including Thomas Hillhouse as United States Assistant Treasurer at New York G C Chandler as United States Attorney for the Northern District of Massachusetts D C Macdy as Associate Justice for Dakota and Maximilian Ferdinand as Refiner in Louisiana Also named were postmasters James Hutchinson Jr and Horace Halton and naval officers including Richard L Law Earl English and J Winthrop Taylor with various command ranks and medical positions specified in the confirmation list.
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Washineton
Senate
Thomas Hillhouse
United States
New York
G. C. Chandler
Massachusetts
Northern
D. C. Macdy
Dakota
United States Supreme Court
New Orleans
Martin V. Davis
Pennsylvania
Colver
Joseph Albrecht
Louisiana
Maximilian Ferdinand
Horace Halton
Augusta
James Hutchinson, Jr
West Randolph
Richard L. Law
Indiana
Earl English
New Jersey
Bureau of
J. Winthrop Taylor
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Charles McGregor
Robert D. Evans
George A. Converse
Samuel P. Comley
Sidney H. May
Hawley O. Ritterhouse
Howard 3. Waring
Frank P. Sawyer
Milton K. Schwenk
John M. Brown
John C. Spear
Abel F. Price
Kenry Stewart
Henry G. Colby
John R. Carmody
John C. Sullivan
James B. Cann
George H. White
James H. Perry
William H. Nauman
Edward Warburton
Mead money question under consideration in commerce committee
Washington December 18 The House Committee on Commerce will tomorrow consider the immigration bill regulating the imposition of money. The committee has not decided on river and harbor appropriations, aiming to fund only principal projects. Hoyt says reports of Dr Irwin’s removal from Red Cloud agency are unfounded. Pension bill for next fiscal year appropriates 29 366 000 with slight reductions and a proviso for unexpended balances. Potter Committee plans to wait until after holidays to act. Mr Hiscock expected as Republican subcommittee member to New Orleans. New York Boston fast train may be cut if postal cars are discontinued. Cyrus W Ruggles nominated Postmaster at Brookline Massachusetts. Debate on Southern question in Senate not resumed this week.
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Congress
Banning
Ordnance Department
Springfield
House
Messrs Young
Tennessee
Morse
Massachusetts
Garfield
Ohio
Gibson
Louisiana
Harmer
Pennsylvania
Chittenden
New York
Hooker
Mississippi
Goode
Virginia
Senate
Washington
House Committee On Commerce
Indian Office
Irwin
Red Cloud
Hiscock
New Orleans
Boston
Post Office Department
Cyrus W. Ruggles
Brookline
Mass
Daring robbery at St John targets Trumbull office
St John New Brunswick December 12 — a bold theft occurred at the private office of Trumbull Co on Ward Street. Valued over 100000 in bonds stocks and papers were taken from a cash box and safe during business hours. The loss includes 46 debentures of 1000 each 21000 in Spring Hill Coal and Mining stock and 15000 in People's Bank or Bank of New Brunswick stock certificates. Access was aided by repairs but no stranger was seen. The exact time of the theft remains uncertain.
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St. John
N. B
Trumbull & Co
Ward Street
Trumbull
A. F. Randolph
People’s Bank
Fredericton
New Brunswick Railway Company
Spring Hill Coal and Mining Company
People’s Pank
Bank of New Brunswick and Maritime Bank
National Board of Steam Navigation Meets in New York
The annual conven tion closed in New York with next session planned for Cincinnati in September 1879. Resolutions urged Congress to clear rivers of snags and wrecks and to treat wrecks blocking navigation as abandoned after 30 days. A Special Committee protested foreign vessel enrollment and registry. E T Evans of Buffalo elected President, Frederick W Nickerson of Boston Treasurer, with J B Coyle Portland L N J Stark Vermont and H M Whitney Boston on the Executive Committee.
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New York
National Board of Steam Navigation
Cincinnati
Congress
E. T. Evans
Buffalo
Frederick W. Nickerson
Boston
J. B. Coyle
Portland
Jury finds Nagle and Vicker not guilty of appropriation
Philadelphia jurors return verdicts on the West Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company case. The foreman states the defendants are not guilty of appropriating funds but are found guilty of knowledge as charged in the indictment, with the judge to record the verdict formally.
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Philadelphia
John R. Nagle
George W. Vicker
West Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company
Rarus and Sweetzer Exhibition Trot at Stockton
In Stockton today Rarus and Sweetzer raced for a $500 purse with $3500 added if Rarus beat Goldsmith Maid’s 2.14 1-2. Rarus opened in 2.16 1-2 with a trailing horse, then 2.14 1-4 in the second heat. The track was fast and in good order.
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San Francisco
Dre
Stockton
Rarus
Sweetzer
Goldsmith Maid
Floods swell Merrimac region halting mills and swamping towns
Dec 12 reports from Lowell and neighboring towns describe the Merrimac rising to its highest December level since 1870 with nine feet over the Essex dam in Lawrence and widespread damages. Bridges, basements, and rail lines flood across North Adams Haverhill and Northampton while mills idle and workers out of work as waters inundate factories, wharves, and streets.
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Boott
Nashua
North Adams
Hoosac
Lawrence
Mass
Merrimac
Essex Company
Everett
New Pacific
Air Line Road
Almost Total Suspension Of Travel On The Railroads
Concern, N. H., Dec. 12. The river rose steadily all night and reached a height near the October 1869 record. Concord Railroad workshops flooded with suspended work, intervates submerged, and tracks on the Montreal line between Concord and East Concord impassable. No Bristol line trains due to water, small bridge destroyed, washouts at Bow Junction, Turkey river bridge washed away, tracks submerged near Hooksett. Peterboro road washouts halt service. Page's betting factory shut. river forms a four mile by one mile lake. Waters subsiding last evening and travel generally resumed.
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Boston and Albany Railroad Company
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Page
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Here
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Kennebec freshet causes historic flooding and damage in Gardiner
The Kennebec River flood, the largest since 1882, devastates Gardiner and surrounding towns. 3000 logs from Fairfield passed downstream, bridges and piers were damaged, the skating rink building was swept away, and coal and mill stores suffered heavy losses. Roads and causeways are ruined, with framing closures and back towns reporting higher damage. Ships, mills, and sawmills suffered, while rescue and transport efforts rely on special train arrangements.
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Gardiner Skating Rink Association
Cobbessee
Richards & Co
Berry’s
Dingley Brothers
Knickerbocker Tee Company
Philadelphia
Small, Ayres & Co
Varney & Co
Widespread Flood Devastates Railroads and Towns
Despatches from Pennsylvania and the West report extensive rail and farm losses amid floods. Hundreds of miles of railroad property under water, bridges swept away, trains wrecked, mills ruined. Nebraska and Kansas suffer record floods with loss of life. many towns inundated and telegraph lines down. Road travel resumes as repairs proceed.
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Columbus, Chicago and
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Lewiston mayor warns appropriations are too small
A Lewiston mayor announces this year’s appropriations fall short by 10,000, James Webster of Orono plans to cut logs worth 1.5 million this winter on the Mattawamkeag, and Portland shipbuilding tonnage shows historic declines from 1874 to 1878.
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James Webster
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C. F. Holbrook
Main Street Baptist Church
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N. H
Henry Abbott
David F. Brown
Mexico
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Brown
Leadville
Col
Ellis T. Hersey
T. Hersey
Auburn
Hersey
West
George Lawson
Gardiner Fire Works
Bowdenrham
Lawson
Lucy Stone
North Yarmouth
New Hampshire Grange Meets in Plymouth Next Tuesday
Reported in Plymouth for the fifth annual meeting. Miss Ida Parker aged 14 daughter of Phineas Parker of Bartlett drowned Thursday afternoon in a brook at Upper Bartlett while attempting to cross a temporary bridge. Irwin Cater about 20 arrested in Rochester charged with brutal assault on a six year old girl named Clough. her condition precarious. Amor W. Baker of Lancaster, employee of the Boston Concord and Montreal Railroad Company, died Thursday from injuries after being knocked from a freight tram over an over pass bridge two weeks ago. VERMONY John W. Beebe fled from Bennington. Two prisoners McCane and Connor escaped from Bennington jail by sawing hinges. Patrons of Husbandry state meeting at Montpelier with A. B. Franklin Master of Newfane. Miss Nell EK Farrington attempted suicide at Montpelier by shooting Thursday but not dangerously wounded. A forged 656 note by a cattle buyer with signatures of three Trajectu rers found at Newport Bank.
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Ida Parker
Phineas Parker
Bartlett
Irwin Cater
Rochester
Clough
Amor W. Baker
Lancaster
Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad Company
John W. Beebe
Bennington
McCane
Connor
A. B. Franklin
Newfane
Montpelier
Nell EK. C. Farrington
Newport
Massachusetts roundup of crimes and incidents across towns
The report tables a string of local misfortunes and crimes: a church debt paid down at Winchendon. Edward Friel killed by an Old Colony train. burglaries in Westminster. a man named Clement killed by a tram in Cheshire. Patrick Berry’s body found near Rockport. John Hancock injured in a barn fall. Milkman Dowd discovers Margaret Driscol dead in Holyoke. Henry Burchard found injured after escaping a poor farm. Leonard Clark seeks a mandamus over a county commissioner vote. burglar George Briggs bound over in West Brookfield and jailed after failed bond. several Brookfield and Worcester arrests and preliminary hearings.
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Edward Friel
Holbrook
Old Colony
John Borey
Westminster
Rock Bottom
Clement
Patrick Berry
Rockport
Granite Company
John Hancock
Barre
J. Dowd
Margaret Driscol
Walnut Street
Holyoke
Margaret
Henry Burchard
Bellingham
Leonard Clark
Springfield
Supreme Court
Lawson Sibley
Boston
Oldest Providence resident dies at 105
Mary Dunn, aged 105 and Ireland-born, died at her son Thomas Dunn’s Providence home. She leaves forty grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren. A fire in a rear tenement on Hich Street killed 4 year old Georgie Thierfelder after a suspected matches incident, mother away briefly, door locked, boy burned alive.
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Thomas Dunn
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Ibeft
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Thierfelder
Georgie
Ats
Thnerfelder
Mob Destroys Two Suspects After Fatal Arrest Attempt
In Omana on December 12 a mob of about 25 armed herders seized Ketcham and Mitchell from Custar county Sheriff and posse, tied them to a tree, and burned them alive after they allegedly killed a herder attempting to arrest them. The bodies of Mrs Hartson and her three children were later found in a haystack near Kearney, with S D Richards suspected of the overall murder and a reward offered for his capture.
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Stevens
Custar County
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Kearney
S. D. Richards
Penitentiary Report Details Convict Mortality
The surgeon reports 2 of 350 convicts died from poor treatment and exposure at the James River and Kanawha Canal Company project, nine percent mortality versus two and a half in prison. the General Assembly names a committee with power to investigate and compel witnesses and papers.
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Val
James River and Kanawha Canal
General Assembly
Portand Superior Court Verdict in Steer Injury Case
In Portland Maine a Superior Court verdict favored the Dominion and Mississippi Steamship Company in the case of Allen R. McDonald against the defendants. The action claimed injuries from a Texas steer that was to be transported to Liverpool but escaped in the streets, causing serious harm to the plaintiff.
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Allen R. McDonald
Dominion and Mississippi Steamship Company
Liverpool
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