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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 27, 1880

Page

2

Dalrymple Seeks Vast Wheat Harvest With Machinery

Mr. Oliver Dalrymple, a prominent Minnesota farmer, plans to cultivate thirty thousand acres of wheat this year. He will run twenty steam threshers and one hundred thirty-five reaping machines, hiring at least seven hundred workers this season, up from six hundred last year.

Oliver Dalrymple Minnesota

Maine Turmoil and Fires Mark Uneasy State Amid Court Delays

Fusionists refuse to transact business and will adjourn daily until court decisions arrive while Republicans remain rattled by bayonet protests. A Penitentiary shoe shop blaze in Brooklyn injures none, with 3.3 million in losses and 200 external workers displaced. Grant supporters in Philadelphia predict a stand against nomination. Jason Scribner at Augusta Me jailed for life for attempted family murder in 1878. two children died.

Maine State House Brooklyn Grant Philadelphia Augusta Jason P. Scribner Holbrook White Bangor Smith Damariscotta John B. Rafter Fusion House New York the Herald Washington Pennsylvania the Sun Ava Gunsita Superior Court Libby Scribner Muurder

Maine Capitol Tensions See Troops at State House Backed by Rumor

Republican leaders hold off on action against Fusion treasury chief White while Maine's State House festers with military presence. Guards man doors as Fusionist claims of planned force are dismissed. Gov. Smith denounces such talk and cites legal remedies. Correspondent notes prior Chamberlain pledge and alleged electoral corruption.

Augusta Treasury Department White Fusion Stephen J. Young Holbrook State House Maine Henry Ingalls Wiscasset Supreme Court Bangor Appleton Jan Smith Standard of Hayes Davis United States Kei Chamberlain Maj. Reynolds Portland Mel Monmouth Linn Somerset County Boston Boston Post The Post Rpublicans Lamson Jesuiual Chamberlan Ad. Gould Nash Herald Lew Barker Boutelle Loth Woodbine Libbey Blaine Virgin Peters Garcelon Josers L. Smith

Ple of Maine Denies Seductive Canard Rumors

The Maine official denies sensational rumors circulating about the agency and clarifies the situation with a firm public statement. No details support the claims, and the department urges the public to rely on verified information.

Government seizes Reading scrip for tax claim

United States collector seizes locomotives and roundhouse assets of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad valued at about 185000 due to a 10 percent tax on scrip circulated to employees. Officials say relief comes only via payment, with total scrip issued near five million and the debt approaching half a million dollars. A Pueblo and St Louis Railroad financing plan also emerges with Woerishoffer & Co. securing full subscription.

Philadelphia and Reading United States THE Revenue Department Philadelphia Collector of Internal Revenue Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company Washington Internal Revenue Law Internal Revenue Ashworth Round House Port Richmond ST. Louis New York Messrs

Parliament urged to create Dublin land purchase commission

John Bright urged in Birmingham that Parliament appoint a commission to visit Dublin with power to sell landlord farms to willing tenants and advance three quarters of purchase money repaid in thirty five years. Dublin reports say Davitt Daly Killen and Brennan may be prosecuted for sedition with trials set for early February. In Dublin Town Council Lord Mayor Gray announced Lord Lieutenant declined banquet invitation. the council adopted a plan to abandon the event and donate 500 to the poor. Other items note Duilio’s speed trial, royal visits to St Petersburg, and various European political developments.

London John Bright Birmingham Dublin Bright Davitt Daly Killen Brennan Gray Ireland Rome Russia Prince of Wales St. Petersburg Frederick Charles of Prussia Peror William Germany Czar Canovas del Castillo Senor Herrera Chamber of Deputies Tehhikislar Tchikislar Chatte Tekker Yurcomans Cabul Caprera Italy Garibaldi Donna Francesca Manlio Cletia Louis Blanc Reichsrath Herr Fax Constantinople Sawas Pasha Austen Layard Turkey Berlin Signor Depretis Rio de Janeiro Prince Bismarck

Mackenzie and Grundy Lead In New York Chess Tourney

The New York chess tournament completed with Mackenzie and Grundy tied for first after seven hours of play. Grundy must win or draw to force a playoff for first, with Mohle in third and Sellman fourth. A banquet at Westminster Hotel closes the event and a Wednesday congress will revise the chess code for a future international contest.

New York Mackenzie Delmar Cohnfeld Congdon Sellman Ryan Mohle Judd Grundy Ware Mackeenzie Deimar Selman Jucd Westminster Hotel

Potter to handle U S wealth and tax statistics

Census Superintendent Walker assigns longtime Inter Ocean editor Robert P Potter to oversee all matters concerning US wealth debt and taxation statistics and information. Billiards tonight featured two exhibition matches Daly vs Schaefer and Sexton serving as opponent Daly won the second game with a 25 best run. Wheat prices rose after Keene combination unloaded stocks then bought in during the recent decline to drive today’s uptick.

CuicaGco Walker Robert P. Potter Inter-Ocean United States Daly Schaefer Cushion Carém Sexton makinSs Keene

Earthquake Ravages Vuelta Abajo San Christobal

Repeated shocks rocked Vuelta Abajo with heavy damage at San Christobal where public buildings lay in ruins. Seventeen civil guards wounded by collapsing structures on the night of the 22d as engineers are sent. insurgent chiefs Carvillo and Serafin Banchez defeated in Cinco Villas with four dead. Lieut. Col. Vidal Pich among wounded. Heavy rain falls in the district.

Havana Vuelta Abajo San Christobal Engineer Corps Carvillo Serafin Banchez Cinco Villas Vidal Pich

Schuyler to Receive 8000 For Life of Peter the Great Serial

Eugene Schuyler will get eight thousand dollars for the right to serialize Life of Peter the Great in Scribner's Monthly with all rights reserved for book publication on completion. The illustrations will cost no less than twenty five thousand dollars.

Eugene Schuyler Scribner’s Monthly Peter the Great

Bail Granted to Rev Mr Hayden in New Haven

Rev Mr Hayden was admitted to bail in $5,000 today with counsel George H Watrous and L M Lubbard as sureties. State Attorney Doo little believed the trial proof did not exclude bail under the constitutional provision and approved Hayden's release.

New Haven Conn Hayden George H. Watrous L. M. Lubbard Doolittle

Supreme Court Invalidates Tax Levy Act and Refuses Mandamus

The Supreme Court nullified the last Legislature's tax levy act and refused the Attorney General's request to force the Comptroller General to proceed with collection. An extra session is planned for February.

Columbia D. C Supreme Court

Cincinnati Board member accuses committee of city fraud

Dr. Davis of the Board of Education charged the Standing Committee on Stoves and Furnaces with involvement in jobs defrauding the city by several thousand dollars. An investigation was ordered.

Cincinnati Davis Board of Education

Woced refunding bill court on bond terms and actions

Washington reports the Ways and Means Committee weighing a modified refunding bill. The plan would deny refunds on the 4 and 4 1 2 percent bonds, fix the new bond at 1 2 percent for fifty years with a twenty year refund option, and has Wood favoring the change. Other items include nominations confirmed and bills introduced in the House.

Ways and Means Committee Woced Carlisle Kentucky Wood Mr. Page E. T. Gerry New York Society For the Prevention of Cruelty Yakoob Bey House United States Supreme Court United States Superior Court Court of Claims Senate Morrill Vermont Committee On Education and Lavor National Education Association Department of Government Carpenter Wiscoshh Perons New England Mt. Vernon White House Russell Massachusetts Capitol Hill Blair Briggs ‘Hose New Hampshire Richmond Pascal P. Kidder Dunkirk N. Y John Cook Illinois Rosebud Dakota Milo A. Boynton Michigan Maquis Pueblo Agency Arizona

Fraud and a Curse Exodus Claim Heard by Senate Panel

Charles N. Otuy, editor of the Washington Argus and Howard University figure, testifies on the North Carolina Exodus. He says a small group misled Black migrants with promises of wages and clothing to move to Indiana while Indiana laws restricted Black residency. Otuy links the push to political manipulation and notes opposition by North Carolina Black leaders and six state papers. The committee plans cross examination with Senator Blair.

Washington Senate Charles N. Ctay Washington Argus Howard University School North Carolina Oberlin College Howard University National Emigrant Aid Society St. Louis Kansas Mississippi Louisiana Mendenhall Indiana Otny South Ian Ku Klux Mr. Ilayes White House Ohio Perry Williams Taylor United States Otuy James H. Harris Osborne Hunter, Jr M. W.turner Gov. Holden Richard Badger Collie Young Witness West Raleigh Oberlin Blair

Fire at Kings County Penitentiary shoe shop causes large loss

A morning blaze destroyed the three story Bay State Shoe and Leather Company shop inside Kings County Penitentiary in Brooklyn. 425 inmates and 300 outside workers were inside. 150 women were affected as the stock and machinery valued at about 250 thousand dollars were lost. The building not insured and only bare walls remained.

Brooklyn N. Y New York King’s County Penitentiary Bay State Shoe and Leather Company Bay State Shoe Company Chas. H. Bixby Meriden Hartford Providence Washington Phoenix Security New Hampshire First National Massachusetts Boston

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