Garfield and Ames clash over Credit Mobilier stock
The piece recounts Gen. Garfield denying stock ownership in Credit Mobilier while Oakes Ames testifies, showing records that Garfield held shares and received dividends. It highlights partisan debate as Democrats revive the Mobilier controversy.
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Tariff adjournment sparks House battle over revenue bills
Washington June 9 Congress plans to adjourn sine die next week likely impacting Tariff bills and the electoral count issue. Revenue reformers vow an earnest fight to force separate votes on measures like wood pulp paper chrome ore and salt while protectionists fear tariff moves will be defeated. A fisheries duties bill pares power to the President in tariff matters provoking opposition in the House.
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Garfield Going Home to Ohio Amid Enthusiastic Toledo Welcome
Gen Garfield arrives in Toledo at 6 pm on a train from Indiana, greeted by about 2,000 Republicans. Gov Foster and Garfield address crowds at multiple stops, praising the Ohio nomination. A special engine will carry him to Cleveland for a grand reception.
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First Day At Greenback National Convention In Chicago
About 650 delegates and 1,000 spectators attended the Greenback Labor Convention in Chicago. Gilbert A. De LaMatyr was elected temporary president, with Charlies H. Litehman and Perry P. Maxon as temporary secretaries. The morning featured speeches on party principles and a protest over a portrait, followed by a women's suffrage memorial read by Mrs. Gage. The Pomeroy-Hoyt wing, with candidates Dillaye and Chambers, merged with the National Greenback Labor Party in the evening.
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Kansas
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Congress
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Fourth Congressional District
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St. Louis
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Indianapolis
Lucinda B. Chandler
Philadelphia
Stephen D. Dillaye
New Jersey
B. J. Chambers
Texas
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National
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Wholeale Merchants Fire in Louisville Causes Large Loss
A massive morning blaze gutted Arthur Peter & Co. wholesale drug house in Louisville leaving about 9100,000 in damages. Adjoining firms Kahn and Wolfe and Johnston, Newman & Co. suffered heavy to moderate damage with insured losses totaling well over 100,000. The Arthur Peter building, owned by Mrs. John T. Moore, also sustained significant damage. Nearby fires in Keen, New Hampshire caused further insured losses of about 2,700.
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Aren Woodson
Robert Shelley
Railroads Consolidated in Widespread Consolidation Movements
Rail company consolidations announced as Pittsburg Titusville and Buffalo Railway merges with Buffalo and Southwestern Road, awaiting stockholder ratification. Cincinnati election signals virtual tie between C H and D Road and C I and Road. New York reports May railway earnings up 21 percent year over year, with regular dividends declared by New York Central and Harlem Railroad.
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Garfield nomination sparks Southern praise in New Orleans
Special despatches say Old Mad Wells of Louisiana Returning Board infamy is elated by Garfield’s nomination. He has attracted Southern Republicans in town and is seen as influential if Garfield wins. Louisiana Republicans note Garfield’s past role in New Orleans in 1876-77 as cunning and valuable. Congressman Wood P Russell and Miller also applaud Garfield as a key ally of tariff monopolists.
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New Orleans
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Democratic State Convention Delegates Elected in Large gathering
Atlanta June 9 The Democratic State Convention was among Georgia s largest with delegates elected to Cincinnati. At large picks include Gen A R Lawton Savannah Hon T Barnes Augusta E P Howell Atlanta and Gen P M B Young Cartersville. The convention backed the two thirds rule and the delegation favored Field with one for Bayard and one for Tilden.
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Baltimore Democratic Conservativenominate Bayard favored
Delegates to Cincinnati chosen with harmony at Baltimore convention. Resolutions back Na tional Democratic Conservative policy, denounce Republican actions since 1876, call for civil rights, tariff reform, and restraint on federal power. Delegates named to Cincinnati. electors at large J Negitt Steele and Thomas C Hopkins chosen.
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Garfield Accepts Nomination in Grand Pacific Club Meeting
In Chicago on June 9 Senator Hoar and committee notified James A. Garfield of his nomination, Garfield expressed grave responsibility and gratitude, pledging unity and a fuller reply to outline campaign plans. Senator Hearst similarly presented the nomination to Gen. Arthur, who accepted briefly.
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Tennessee Delegates Favor Most Available Cincinnati Candidate
The State Democratic Convention elected four at large delegates Maj. Thomas O Connor Knox Ex Gov James D Porter Henry John W Childress Rutherford and H W Carroll Shelby. Delegates favor the most available candidate with Bayard Thurman Seymour or Field as preferences. A Wilson county delegate contest led to bolting by the repudiation faction after admitting both delegations.
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Tilden Delegates Chosen to the Cincinnati Convention
Detroit June 9 The Democratic State Convention at Saginaw nominated Tilden delegates led by Daniel M. Dickinson O M Barnes Col J E Messmore and Dr Foster Pratt at large The convention also resolved to retain the two thirds rule and to back defeat of the Chicago nominee labeling any Eight to Seven commission member as unfit for president
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Republicans Split Over Third Term Refusal Controversy
The passage notes discomfort in the party over a third-term refusal. It suggests Senator Conkling faces personal discomfiture and calls the second name a scandalous blot on the ticket, highlighting tensions between sound thinking Republicans and semi independent members.
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Tennessee Crop Report Signals Improved May Conditions
State agricultural commissioners report May weather started dry causing crop worry but June rains improved prospects. Wheat 67, corn 94, tobacco 77 mid Tennessee, 81 West Tennessee. fruit outlook strong except peaches. grasses excellent. cotton averages listed as over 160 West Tennessee and 97 Middle Tennessee.
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bogus medical colleges face charges in Philadelphia
Proceedings start against five fake schools selling diplomas for 12 to 15 years. John Buchanan, dean of Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania, arrested and named president of the National Eclectic Medical Association, issuing diplomas under the alias James Murray, D. D. He led Livingstone University of America. Two more faculty members, Charles L. Polk and John J. Liggins, also arrested. six remain at large.
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Deliberate Johnston murder shocks Rhode Island
Inquest into the killing of Amelia Potter at Johnston on June 7 1880 concludes with Walter Winsor confessing to a brutal crime motivated by a petty grudge. He describes luring Potter with strawberries then bludgeoning her with an iron bolt and attempting to assault her before disposing of her body in a pit. The bolt and grisly details galvanize Olneyville onlookers as Winsor awaits further examination.
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Lord Mayor appeals for Ireland relief in distant telegrams
London reports the Dublin Lord Mayor cables U S and Canada for further Mansion House Fund aid as Ireland endures distress for farmers awaiting harvest. Also noted are Portugal the Belem monastery burials of Vasco da Gama and Camöelos, and a string of European dispatches from Madrid Berlin and Brussels.
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Garfield's Credit Mobilier ties scrutinized in political clash
Special despatch details Garfield's alleged ties to Credit Mobilier and a $1090 dividends loan standoff. It cites House committee findings, Ames correspondence, and letters naming Garfield among key beneficiaries as the 1860s graft controversy resurges in campaign talk.
The Rise and Fall of Putiloff the Russian Tycoon
The life of Nicoli Ivanovitch Putiloff spans naval service to vast Russia contracts. He built gunboats for the Crimean War and expanded into iron mills and rail production. Critics say subsidies and officials financed his fortune, with the Cronstadt St. Petersburg canal project draining funds and his empires teetering on collapse.
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Shipping interests to back convention for oceanic competition
The Board of Trade will convene ship owners in New York or Boston next October to outline legislation to strengthen US shipping for oceanic trade. Schell Tufts & Co. suspended in New York due to heavy liabilities from iron speculation. Funeral of John Brougham conducted at the Little Church Around the Corner with many in attendance.
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Dublin University Club Offers Honorary Membership to Americans
The Dublin University Club invites the American team to enjoy honorary membership during their stay in Dublin. Rev. S. W. Folger, Baptist minister in Delhi Ontario, hanged himself in his barn on Wednesday, with temporary insanity suspected. Bart Stanchfield of Elmira New York died Wednesday from malarial fever contracted at Princeton College. The French Chamber of Deputies fixed July 14 as the national fete day, replacing August 15. Pittsburgh dispatch reports iron manufacturers voted to resume puddlers scale, signaling an end to the strike. A man named George W. Andrews, from Boston, was arrested in Buffalo on two failed forged checks totaling $740. The Swiss attached to the American Mission at Assioat aided freeing 68 slaves and arresting 35 Arab slave dealers. Through the British Consul at Cairo, 300 soldiers were sent to Assioat to seize the caravan. more than 1,000 slaves were believed to have arrived, with only 63 found, the rest escaped before arrival of troops.
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