Observer Grills Crapo Endorsement Amid Hop Price Talk
The Utica Observer condemns the first district Republican convention for endorsing Congressman Crapo as a bare faced official rascality. It disputes reports of a hop price spike from the New York Sun, noting market figures never exceed 70 cents and arguing no need to raise beer prices by a dollar.
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Utica
Crapo
New York Sun
New York
Butler Accepts Governor Nomination Acknowledgment
Gen Butler accepts the Democratic and Greenback nominations for governor in 1882. He cites unforced unanimity, duty to clients, and his belief in democracy rooted in Jefferson Madison and Jackson while pledging to campaign on economy, equal rights, and prudent public spending.
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Butler
Washington
D. C
Jostaph G. Abbott
J. W. Coveney
Boston
Convention
Jefferson
Madison
Jackson
Commonwealth
Blaine Plot Aides Kasson Eyeing Senate Path in 1834
Washington reports Rep Kasson, a close Blaine ally from Iowa, backs Blaine’s plan to control the next Republican convention while nominating Senator Allison of Iowa as a nonself candidate. The piece notes Blaine’s southern gains and Kasson’s push for a senate seat, plus other global dispatches on labor, fires, and politics.
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Washington
Kasson
Blaine
House of Representatives
Iowa
Hiscock
Cameron
Keifer
New York
Pennsylvania
Grant
Senator Allison
Allison
Senate
Mr. Kasson
Mr. Blaine
Mr. Allison
South
Virginia
Saratoga
Billee Taylor
Mr. Arthur
State Department
Desperate Straits of Boss Mahone and His Schemes
Washington reports allege Senator Mahone sought Prof Langston’s services to aid his Virginia election effort and to secure a district commissioner post for a cash payment of 2500 dollars. The tale also claims possible patronage shifts under President Arthur. Also charged: Salter and Ward arrested for conspiring to steal bonds and plates from the bureau of engraving and printing and to bribe workers.
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Washington
Mahone
Langston
Virginia
Arthur
District of Columbia
William F. Salter
Wilmot H. Ward
Secretary of the Treasury
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Th Bureau
Bureau
Prescott Killer Captured Return to Old Quarters
Maine reports Prescott the Williams killer captured by Bristol men and returned to his former quarters after escaping state prison days earlier. An unknown thief broke into the Lewiston Grand Trunk ticket office during lunch, stealing 44 dollars. Adelbert Kelly, thought killed at Monroe Trot ting park, is alive with injuries including a broken collar bone, dislocated shoulder and scalp wound. Frank S. Manson aged 20 was shot dead at Litenfield by an accidental gun discharge. he was son of Rev. Edwin Manson of Farmingdale and a rising young man.
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Litenfield
Edwin Manson
Farmingdale
Charles P. Johnson
St. Louis
Frank James
Missouri
Mystic
Owen Sound
Wiarton
Edward Hanlan
New York
Harlem
Chicago Board of Trade
Havana
Treasury
Board of Freedom In
Cuba
Belen
Caribbean
Memphis
Wimberly
Col. M. C. Galloway
Appeal
J. F. Espy
Buford
Capt. Espy
H. Dow Hopkins
James A. Watkins
Appomattox County
E.S. Britting
Appottomox
Luen Lauerssen
Harrison, Havermeyer & Co
Philadelphia
Poughkeepsie National Bank
Elisha B. Vail
William V. Brown
Barnard
Circuit Court
Mr. Vail
Mr. Brown
Brown
Charles Fallon
Montreal
John H. Parke
James H. Parke & Co
Parke
Nicholas Barber
Thomas H. Smith
Henry Starr
Philadelphia Almshouse
Almshouse
Phipps
Starr
Rowan
Oil City
W. D. Archibald
Exchange
Arete
Large Salmon Added To Plymouth Hatching Pond
New Hampshire reports 32 salmon now in the Plymouth state hatching-house pond the largest spawning total to date. A separate equity case challenges an August 1878 state legacy tax law as unconstitutional. Burglars opened Kimball's Grocery in Salem stealing 230 dollars then fled to Rochester and were captured in Lebanon Maine.
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Plymouth
Curry — Spencer
Blodgett
State Supreme Wea
Kimball
Salem
Rochester
Charles Downs
Lebanon
Kent
Portsmouth
Howard and
Rayburn
Bank Safe Bomb Plot and Rail Accident Report
An early Saturday morning attempt to blow Northfield Savings Bank safe failed to access any funds as the deposit was kept at the national bank. Later that evening Vermont Valley engineer Michael Stack suffered serious injuries when his engine was struck on a siding by a misaligned switch. He may recover.
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Fenians
The
Land League
New York
Fenian Skirmishing Fund
O’ Donovan Rossa
Breslin
John Mahoney
Rossa
Fenian Brotherhood
Ireland
John Devoy
Clan Na Gael
Buffalo
N. Y
Irish National Land League
James Mooney
J. J. Hynes
Patrick Ford
New York Irish World
National League
Mooney
Hynes
General Council
National Land League
Dublin
Ford
A. M. Sullivan
National Treasury
Father Walsh
Waterbury
Conn
Northfield Savings Bank
National Bank
Michael Stack
Vermont Valleyra
Bellows Falls
Fatal fall at Fall River wharf and multiple local deaths
John Butler fell into a vessel hold at Brewer s wharf Fall River while unloading coal and is listed in critical condition. Elsewhere Dwight Cadwell s body is found in the woods after a days long missing search by about 250 men. Thomas Kenney of Amesbury dies after being kicked by a horse. George Huntington his wife and four children drown when their sail boat capsizes on Plum Island river. Huntington a carriage painter and prominent Amesbury resident.
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Land League Fund
Dublin
Boulevard Charonne
Paris
Durin
England
Manila
Paris Nationale
Madagascar
France
Cairo
Arabi Pasha
Edward Malet
Khedive
Wolseley
Nile
Mansourah
Vienna
European Danube Commission
Russia
Davitt
Wexford
Land League
League
John Butler
Brewer's Wharf
Fall River
Becket
Dwight Cadwell
Thomas Kenney
Charles Wing & Co
Amesbury
George Huntington
Plum Island
Mr. Huntington
Huntington
Sprague Manufacturing Sues United States Flax Mills
A suit was entered Friday by A and W Sprague Manufacturing against United States flax mills of Central Falls and part of the Sprague estate. Today the property was attached in the sum of 500000. The action is in assumpsit and indebtedness, adding to the Sprague affair complications.
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A.& W. Sprague Manufacturing Company
United States Flax Mills
Central Falls
Sprague
Hale and party riven by press split in New Hampshire
Special correspondence notes scant campaign zeal among Republican papers in ConCorp New Hampshire with Nashua Telegraph as sole active enthusiast. Editorials show mixed support for Hale, with Keene Observer Milford Enterprise Sun cook Journal and Manchester Times all over mapping internal party tensions. In the Senate district scene Democrats show strong locally with Cogswell of Gilmanton among hopefuls and potential gains in Manchester district 18 Nashua district and Merrimack district. Deaths include Daniel Evans 104 Miriam Osgood 104 Esther Sargent 103 and others aging residents across the state.
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Boston Post
Concorp
N. H
New Hampshire
Nashua Telegraph
Telegraph
Hale
Keene Observer
Milford Enterprise
Suncook Journal
Col. Haynes
Congress
Col. Edgerly
Edgerly
Manchester Times
Itoas
Haynes
Peterboro Transcript
Manchester
Carroll County
Nashua
Col
Thomas Cogswell
Gilmanton
Senate
Dover
Rollinsford
Merrimack
Laconia
Lake Shore
William Evans
Barrington
Lydia Batchelder
Mount Vernon
William Brown
Amherst
Mr. Brown
Horace Greeley
Fires in Oak Hall and Kneeland Street Building
Fire in the basement of Oak Hall was put out Saturday morning by engine No. 8 and ladder No. 1. Damages totaled 50 dollars. An alarm from box 5 at 1 PM Sunday reported a fire on the fourth floor of 40 Kneeland Street. The tailor shop of M. Webber was burned out with a loss around 200 dollars and the building sustained 150 dollars in damage.
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N. H
Epping
Graves
A. A. White
J. W. Graves
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Yaldoboro
Redington Creamer
Syracuse
N. Y
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Hughson Wagon Works
Milwaukee
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Express Sapa
Brighton
England
Oo Hall
Oak Hall
Engine Company No
Hook and Ladder Company No. 1
Franks
Kneeland Street
M. Webber
Political shifts and plans in six Massachusetts districts
Boston observers report factional splits in H. Cabot Lodge supporters and mixed views on Converse and Hale. Edits note Harvard figures considered for seats, with independents stirring in the ninth district. The scene includes Republican and Democratic campaigns, ratification meetings, and Butler’s return to Pemberton Square as campaigns mobilize across districts.
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Springfield Sunday Republican
H. Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Converse
Lodge W
Phayer
Harvard Law School
Haskell
Wade
Fourth Congressional District Committee
Democratic City Central Committee
Sherman House
Republican State Committee
Hoar
Dawes
Robinson
Stone
Rockwell
Robert R. Bishop
Charles Rollin Brainard
Ward 10
Brainard
Tremont Temple
W. W. Crapp
George D. Robinson
Stewart L. Woodford
New York
Ward 2
Lynn Base
H. H. Bigelow
Worcester
Lynn
Gen. Butler
Milton
Norfolk
Plymouth
Dedham
A. J. Norris
Elijah Howe
Joseph Guild
Eustis Baker
Servno
Fitchburg
E. A. Hall
Greenfield Gazette
A. J. Clark
Orange
O. Lyman
A. Harding
Hall
Music Hall
Faneuil Hall
Utler
Bowerman
Pittsfield
Gen. Collins
Albert Palmer
Springfield
Butler
N. A. Plympton
Democratic State Committee
the Herald
Pemberton Square
Washington
Cranberry Crop Outlook and Fishing Decline At Sandwich
Weather favors Cape harvest with over two thirds of cranberries gathered and prices up from last year. Quashuet bog at Mashfel yields 800 barrels and Crowell Bros 2000 barrels at White Island pond. Cape Cod meadow acreage nears 1100 with typical yields 30 to 100 barrels per acre, income $400 000 to $500 000. Mackerel fleet active but September landings at Wellfleet fall sharply to 2,914 barrels from 8,610 last year, season total 31 782 barrels.
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Sandwich
Mass
Cape
Mashfel
Crowell Bros
White Island Pond
Plymouth
Barnstable
Cape Cod
Dennis
Manomet Point
Wellfleet
Peru conflict widens as Montoneros threaten swing to Pierola
Lima reports Sept 27 decree raises import and export duties by 50 percent. Garcia Calderon and Logan head to Arequipa to seek peace. Montorero plans a new party. A train carrying Chilean troops was ambushed byMontoneros with seven to eight dead. Italian consul Picasco captured demanding 100000 for release. An Italian battleship seeks his release. Yglesias opposes Garcia Calderon and Montero, calling for congress in Cajamarca in Pierola’s interest. Montero forms a new Arequipa cabinet. Cable to Valparaiso soon repaired.
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Lynch
Garcia Calderon
Logan
Arequipa
Montero
Peru
Pisco
Inca
Monteneros
Signor Picasco
Montoneros
Yglesils
Pierola
Cajamarca
Valparaiso
Notable 19th Century notices from Boston area press
Rev Reven Thomas returns from London and seeks the Harvard pulpit as a new town in Maine receives gifts. Notable movements include H H Hunnewell’s town hall plans, Anna Dickinson on suffrage, railroad executive resignations, Stephen P O’Donnell’s death, Vanderbilt family rail interests, President Arthur’s health, and a Cunarder Cephalonia passenger list.
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London
Harvard
H. H. Hunnewell
Wellesley
Maine
Samuel Wells
Augusta
Anna Dickinson
Omaha Herald
W. F. Smith
General Eastern
Central Vermont Railroad
Grand Trunk Railroad
New York City
Stephen P. O’donnell
Highlands
Boston Post Office
Roxbury Gazette
Fenate Southern Railway
Chicago
W. H. Vanderbilt
W. K. Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Augustus Schell
Arthur
R. G. Dun
Crossman House
Alexandria
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Hoseason
Liverpool
Alexander
W. A. Bangs
Ethel Bangs
W. Bulingham
T. C. Cobb
Ketchum
P. Sener
George A. Leland
Leland
Ss.a. Swan
Misses Swan
Dresser
Samuel Epes Turner
Turner
C. A. Vernon
Ver
Van
Reopening events at Berkeley Street Church and Suffolk Conference
The Berkeley Street Church resumes services with a sermon by Pastor Rev. W. B. Wright. The Suffolk Conference gathers at Rev. E. BE. Hale's Church to continue its programs and discussions.
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Berkeley Street
W. B. Wright
Suffolk
E. BE. Hale
Berkeley Street Church
W. E B. Wright
Repairs Transform Wide-Worship Space With Symbolic Frescoes
A Berkeley and Warren avenue house of worship lists summer improvements from fresh tinting to dark stained woodwork and new furnishings. Rev. William Burnet Wright preaches on Holiness to the Lord, linking renovations to Zechariah and tabernacle symbolism.
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Berkeley Street
Warren Avenue
William Burnet Wright
Moses
Zachariah
Jerusalem
Judah
Tabernacles
Jehovah
Temple of
Babylon
Angel
God
Crossing Bridges Before You Come to Them Sermon
Rev. Brooke Herford of Arlington Street church preached at the Christian union on Boylston street. He reframed Christ s instruction about not worrying for tomorrow as be not anxious and urged active trust. The talk warned against feverish modern life and urged planning plus faith, crossing bridges when encountered.
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Jerusalem
Christ
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Moses
Tabernacle
Nehemiah
Bethany
India
Brooke Herford
Arlington Street
Christian Union
Boylston Street
Rayvens
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Beyonce
Wordsworth
Interpreter accuses agent of ration selling to traders
Charles Hussler, longtime interpreter at San Carlos, charges Agent Tiffany with keeping rations from Native Americans and selling them to traders last season. He claims Apache raids and plunder were orchestrated by one or two white men.
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San Francisco
Cal
Tucson
Charles Hussler
San Carlos
Tiffany
Hussler
Nebraska man commits suicide in railroad car
George F. Helion of Glenwood Nebraska killed himself this afternoon on a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger car near Greensburg Pennsylvania while en route to Philadelphia. He had valuable papers and over $5 000 in his possession at the time of his death.
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Holyoke
Jonathan Allen
Commonwealth
Pittsburg
George F. Helion
Glenwood
Nance County
Nebraska
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia
Greensburg
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