Last Chilean Victory Tells of Allied Rout and Slaughter
The report notes a disastrous defeat of Peruvian and Bolivian allied forces with heavy casualties on both sides. It also mentions a Senate debate yesterday over a resolution to investigate the exodus of able-bodied colored voters from North Carolina into Indiana.
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London
Noria
Bolivia
Dolores
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Villegas
Tariff Commission Bill and Congressional Appointments
A Washington despatch reports Senator Garland of Arkansas introduced a bill to create a tariff commission with three Senators three Representatives and three others to study tariff effects on industries consumers and producers and to recommend changes for a simpler law and better enforcement. The piece also notes bank currency figures from the Comptroller of the Currency and political contention over clerical pay for deputy marshals, plus nominations for Swatow and Ghent consular posts.
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Comptroller of Currency
Congress
Washington
Garland
Arkansas
House of Representatives
Six classes of war claims outlined by House sub committee
The House War Claims Committee sub committee divides pending claims into six categories. It lists classes including Quartermaster and Commissary General allowances, Southern Claims, service and contractor disputes, constitutional government responsibility in loyal state seizures and damages, and rebel war claims. It states the government not legally responsible for rebel war losses and suggests full committee adoption.
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Washington
House Committee On War Claims
Quartermaster’s Department
Commissary General's Department
Southern Chaims Commission
Java
McCabe challenges Orth seat in Indiana with fraud affidavits
At a House Elections sub committee meeting, McCabe filed his sworn petition against Gioulove Orth representing Indiana’s Ninth District. Affidavits claim fraud, intimidation, bribery, and illegal voting in the October 8, 1978 election, including college student ballots and out of county voters.
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Washington
House Committee On Elections
McCabe
Gioulove
Orth
Indiana
T. HE. Ballard
Lafayette
Wabash College
Lie State
Otter
John OC. Dobelbower
Yelle Dispatch
Lafkyethc
Mr. Orth
Plan for Distribution of Clinton Award Debated in Senate
A bill introduced by Senator Hereford proposes a Court of Commissioners review of Alabama Claims to adjudicate three classes of claims. Class one covers damage by Confederate forces with 6 percent interest and higher freight loss adjustments. class two adds 2 percent extra interest on prior judgments. class three handles war risk premiums with deductions to avoid double payment.
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Washington
Hereford
Deim
West Virginia
Court of Commissioners
Alabama Claims
Pension test case before Supreme Court on Soldiers Home
A pensioner's test case is under consideration by the Supreme Court. The Court of Claims held that disabled soldiers who contributed to the Soldiers Home fund have a right to care there and cannot surrender their pensions to the home managers. Mrs Belva Lockwood represents the soldiers with Senator Matt Carpenter as associate counsel. The Pacific Railroad accounts auditor French visits Boston to discuss government transportation payments with railroads. The Cherokee Artillery Company appropriations bill moves forward with an amendment to loan four guns and equipment, with a bond for safe keeping and return.
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Washington
Upreme
Court of Claims
Belva Lockwood
Cherokee Artillery Company
Secretary of War
Rowe
4Ia
Gen. Benet
Pronance
Spier
House Debates Petitions and Naval Nominations
Mr Weaver denied authorship of petitions for payment of greenbecks and gold to pensioners and rebutted a newspaper accusation. Senate Naval Committee backs many navy promotions but delays Dr Wales Surgeon General nomination until after holidays. The Guinare yacht may be bought by Capt Howgate for Arctic expedition. Block Island signal station bill reported favorably by Appropriations. Gen McClellan spoke with ex Confederates on Senate floor.
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Dr. Wales
Howgate
Guinare
Greenock
Block Island
House Appropriations Committee
Aldrich
Rhode Island
George B. McClellan
Senate
Joe Johnston
Wade
Hampton
Railway interests spar over Rio Grande to El Paso route
Santa Fe advices warn of renewed conflict between the Denver and Rio Grande and the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe over rights of way in the Rio Grande valley between Santa Fe and El Paso. Both lines race to locate lines and secure priority under differing legal bases.
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Denver and Rio Grande Company
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el Paso
Grand Cajon
Rio Grande Company
Supreme Court
Atchison Company
Union Pacific
New York
Union Pacific Railroad
Virginia
Boston
Richmond
Senate
Richmond and Southwestern Railway Company
Kentucky
Tidewater
Maicaco
Piles in a Theatre and Narrow Escape in Fire Alarm
The Abbey's Park Theatre in New York faced a late evening fire alarm during the play Bitz in Ireland. Fire detected only by smoke, audience directed to exit quietly through two Twenty-second Street doors with no injuries.
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New York
Bitz
Ireland
Abbey's Park Theatre
Genere
Fiie
Twenty-second Street
West Chester County
Patrick
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Chareter
Cold Snap Grips Northeastern Towns With Deep Frost
The report describes extreme cold across New York and surrounding areas. Littleton New York shows 20 below, Lancaster 16 below, Whitfield 14 below. Dartmouth College observes 12 below at its observatory. Ottawa Valley and other Ontario locales report 18 to 34 degrees below zero. The Hudson River corridor from Albany to Catskill is ice bound with bays frozen, risking further freezing after two or three cold nights.
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Lancaster
Whitfield
Hanover
N. H
Dartmouth College Observatory
Drerny Line
Liwanon
N.N
Ousom
OiTawa
Ont
Ottawa Valley
Toronto
Onalurid
Poughkeersif
Hudon
Albany
Catskill
Meeting in Cooper Union seeks lunacy reform commission
A New York gathering at Cooper Union addressed reforming asylum care for the insane. George W. Curtis presided with Chief Justice Daly and D B Eaton among speakers. Resolutions urged establishing a lunacy commission to oversee both public and private asylums and to present a bill to the next Legislature.
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New York
Cooper Union
George W. Curtis
C. E. Whitehead
Geo. M. Beard
M.D
E. C. Scrain
Mayor Johnston Deficit Found in City Books
At a Board of Revision meeting Richard Zeidler reported a deficit of about $42,000 in the late Mayor Johnston’s books with erasures and missing records. Hanson admitted erasing entries to balance accounts, saying Johnston took money without returning it and ordered the edits. The board called for a full investigation and Johnston’s bondsmen may be asked to cover the shortfall.
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Board of Revision
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J. M. Hanson
Hanson
Grant Enjoys Rest and Informal G A R Reception in Philadelphia
Gen Grant rested for a few hours this morning and later attended an informal reception with officers of the Pennsylvania and National Departments of the Grand Army of the Republic at department headquarters. He spent half an hour smoking and chatting with old comrades. Grand Army Day closed with a camp fire in honor of Grant by Philadelphia posts at the Academy of Music, featuring military ceremonies, addresses, and music.
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Philadelphia
Grant
Pennsylvania
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Army
Academy of Music
Emigration Debate Over Negro Exodus from North Carolina
In Washington on December 18 the Senate debated Senator Voorhees’s resolution to probe why many able bodied colored voters left North Carolina for the North. Windom, Hill, Ransom and others argued about motives, treatment, and regional contrasts as the measure evolved into a five member committee inquiry into causes of emigration. The resolution passed 27 to 12 after amendments, with several pairs breaking party lines to form a quorum.
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Conflicting Cabul Report Praises British Resolve
From London reports differing views on Cabul show British forces in good spirits and sanitary condition with confidence in leaders. Despatches say Gen Gough holds Jagballak with reinforcements en route from Gundamak. meanwhile tribes and Afghan units threaten positions as allies press toward Jugdullah and Shirpur.
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Roberts
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Jallalabad
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Peshawar
Pall Mall
Yakoob Khan
Bright
Baker
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Shirpur
Lahore
Jugdullah
Demonstration in England for Free Trade and Indian Question Debate
London reports a Rochdale rally in support of free trade with John Bright and Thomas Potter present. The dispatch covers Ute removal debates in Congress, Chilean victory details, Cuban emancipation discord, and European political tensions amid calls for Irish relief and canal interest.
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Rochdale Toigit
John Bright
Thomas Bayley Potter
Mr. Potter
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America
Oiter
Bright
President Hayes
White House
Eastbound freight pool deferred by executive committee
The executive committee of the trunk lines deferred action on forming an Eastbound freight pool. The export freight rate adjustment was referred to a committee and the chairman was authorized to consult with foreign agents in Eastern and Western cities and report statistics.
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CuicaGco
Trumk Lines
Plymouth and Starch Company cases heard in New Hampshire Supreme Court
In Concord the New Hampshire Supreme Court heard G. M. Wooster vs Plymouth on damages from a defective highway. The Lancaster Starch Company vs Moore and others argued over stock limits, par value, and additional assessments raising liability questions for stockholders. Arbitrators for tax appeals of Atlantic and St Lawrence Railroad and Boston Concord Montreal Railroad were proposed. The court debated single versus dual commissions and who bears the reference costs with hearings likely in Concord.
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Supreme Court
G. M. Wooster
Plymouth
Lancaster Starch Company
Willard R. Moore
E.S. Cutter
Nashua
Willim A. Hurd
Sandwich
William Clark
Claremont 2 Commission of Arbitration
State Board of Equalization
Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad
Boston, Concord and Montreal
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Boards of Commissioners
Tappan
Narrow field in six day pedes trian tournament at Gilmore's Garden
New York reports a six day pedes trian tournament at Gilmore's Garden with 19 women remaining from 25 starters. The leaders include Tobias and Howard vying for first while the night score lists many competitors and scattered results across events.
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New York
Gilmore’s Garden
Tobias
Howard
Murdered elder William Young found at home in Indiana
In Flehart Indiana an elderly man William Young was discovered slain at his residence near Edwardsburg, with authorities believing the motive was robbery. In Rhagersstown Indiana authorities report a rising manhunt after the disappearance and suspected murder of a Jewish peddler tied to John Caraday, whose son sold the wagon and whose farm yielded a buried horse. Caraday is jailed while the son remains missing.
Noted coal magnate Thomas Neill vanishes after large failure
ProRIA Ul December 18 reports coal king Thomas Neill, once widely respected, left the city days ago and today it is announced that he has failed for an amount between $200,000 and $800,000, likely the higher figure. His whereabouts remain unknown.
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Proria
Thomas Neill
Neill
Judge Frees Hotchkiss Suspects in Poisoning Case
Buffa o New York December 18 Judge Haight of the Supreme Court ordered bail for Mrs Adeline C Hotchkiss and Dr Hugh Mc Gregor Wilton recently arrested at Detroit on charges of poisoning George C Hotchkiss at Youngstown Niagara county New York twelve years ago The bail was set at ten thousand dollars each.
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N. Y
Three Men Drowned Crossing Kentucky River in Gratze
In Gratze Kentucky last night John Huilman John Davis and John Roberts attempted a crossing of the Kentucky River in a small flat boat the craft capsized and all three men drowned with no bodies recovered as the river remains unusually high.
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John Huilman
John Davis
John Roberts
Kentucky River
Gratze
Fall River Trials and Local Incidents Highlight Regional News
The Hayden murder case costs exceed four thousand and nine dollars. Mrs. Clary suffered severe burns from a kerosene lamp explosion at a Sagamore Mill house in Fall River. Worcester police arrest a 22 year old Charles Lawrence over suspected complicity in the Battey murder at Oxford. Captain James Young of Newburyport is found dead near his stable after a likely horse accident. Dr. Frank Battey is injured as his buggy collides with a train at the Old Colony crossing. Fall River’s Montana Mill begins a dye house to color its own goods. A Royalston barn collapse destroys the structure while livestock survives. The State Grange meeting in Worcester elects officers for two years and discusses freight tariffs. Hampden Agricultural Society votes to disband and reform under a new constitution. Company M hosts its first annual ball in Music Hall with many officials in attendance.
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Frank D. Battey
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