Eight-Hour Delegation Advances in Congress and Sherman Joy
Washington dispatch reports the eight-hour delegation pushing enforcement through a unanimous House education and labor committee report now on the House calendar. A similar Senate resolution has been referred and may gain a Senate hearing soon. Secretary Sherman returns from Ohio claiming political fences mended, while Grant supporters claim ten Ohio delegates.
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Boston Globe
Washington
House Committee On Education and Labor
House
Senate
Wallace
Education and Labor
Sherman
Ohio
Luther
Evidences of Hostility Between Two Republican Factions
Washington reports reveal growing bitterness between Grant supporters and Blaine adherents. The fight centers on alleged attacks in the Senate and House over appropriation bills and election laws, with Blaine and Garfield cited as stances shaping intra party tensions. Strong entities include Grantites, Blaine, Edmunds, Carpenter, Garfield, Sherman, and Maine.
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Washington
Grant
Blaine
Republican Party
Senate
Edmunds
Carpenter
Supreme Bench
Springfield Lyce Tican
Sherman
Garfield
House
Grantites
Senator Blaine
John Sherman
Statesman
Maine
Garfield-McMahon
Blainewell
Reublican Senate
Lurisr
Charges Against Mr Springer Stir National Attention
Washington dispatches say tomorrow in the house will start with bills for reference but likely be interrupted by Mr Springer of Illinois calling for a personal explanation and an investigation into a $5000 bribe offer to vote against seating Donnelly. Springer denies influence. the affair surges through Democratic circles as reports and anonymous letters are debated. Pennsylvania Democrats face differing views on delegates and Tilden support as new counts emerge.
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Mr. Springer
Washington
Springer
Illinois
Donnelly
Committee On Elections
Manning
Washburn
Onnelly
Pennsylvania
Washington Post
New York
Tilden
Boston Orphan’s Fate. Skeleton Found in Ohio Field
A human skeleton in Warren county on Samuel Hardy’s farm is believed to be William J. Lanning, an orphan from Boston. A double-barrelled shotgun, pencils, keys and valuables were found, along with a $400 purse. Mrs Griffiths identified the clothing as Lanning’s. Hardy, son of Samuel Hardy, is arrested, denying guilt. He says he accompanied Lanning to Monroe station and later to California and Texas, and has since received letters from him.
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Samuel Hardy
Warren County
William J. Lanning
Boston
William Griffiths
Lanning
John Hardy
Monroe Station
Hardy
California
Texas
War Department Ignored Bridge Act Requirements
The chairman was told to write to the secretary of war for information on whether the company complied with the act of March 3 1869 authorizing bridge construction. The committee holds it the war department’s duty to enforce the law and notes the department never paid proper attention to the act’s requirements.
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Secretary of War
War Department
Sherman Room and Grant Faction in 1880s Gop Battle
A Sun summary reports Sherman supporters in Washington and Grant loyalists in New Orleans clashing over office holder control and a possible Blaine surge. Drafts note Pinchback’s move toward a Grant faction, while Harrisburg dispatches claim Blaine will sweep Pennsylvania on first ballot, calling Grantism dead in the state.
A Little Mistake at East Liberty Church
In an East Liberty church a young artist slid a temperance meeting notice to one of three ministers during Sunday service. The note, dated as a child’s Lent season message to a priest named Dar John, prompted bemused smiles and a brief reading before benediction.
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Philadelphia
East Liberty
Liberty
Dar John
Papa
Mamma
Woodbine
Soule withdraws entry for 6000 Hanlan Courtney Riley race
Rochester April 1 donor Soule reports to Referee Blaikie that the $6000 prize will be awarded to the race winner after deposits and unconditional drafts are arranged. The three oarsmen consent to Blaikie’s control of race logistics and prize handling. The contest may be held in Baltimore Philadelphia or Washington with a May 19 date under Blaikie oversight.
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Rochester
N. Y
Soule
Blaikie
William Blaikie
New York
City Bank of Rochester
Riley
Hanlan
Courtney
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Washington
Loule
Extraordinary elephantiasis case in East Providence burial
A woman buried from East Providence in the North End cemetery presented the most extraordinary elephantiasis seen in the area. Struck about twenty-five years ago at the feet, the swelling spread to the hips with knees each over twenty six inches in circumference. Feet and body swollen, yet she remained a hearty eater and recently could still move about. A casket two feet wide for the full length and depth was required due to the body's dimensions.
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Providence
East Providence
North End
Singular accident at Natick pantaloon shop
About two weeks ago at the pantaloon establishment of AR H Gilman on Common street Natick Mrs Ella Taylor forewoman burst the drum of her ear while laughing during a nose blowing incident. She was taken home unconscious for days then revived and declined again. Mrs Taylor is the daughter of Albert Colbath and a niece of the late Vice President Henry Wilson.
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Ar. H. Gilmans
Common Street
Natick
Ella Taylor
Mrs. Taylor
Albert Colbath
Henry Wilson
Great Sierra Storm Blocks Reno Rail Lines
The severest April storm in the Sierra Nevada halted western rail traffic near Reno. At Emigrant Gap 75 feet of snow sheds collapsed, requiring at least 48 hours to clear. East of Reno the road remains clear while trains are abandoned pending repairs.
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Sierra Nevada
San Francisco
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Reno
Emigrant Gap
Flooding Drowns Mobile Streets and Rail Lines
In Mobile on April 4 the Tensas river overflow damaged streets and railroads. The Louisville and Nashville and Great Southern lines are submerged for twelve miles, disrupting transport and commerce in the city.
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Mobile
Mosile
Tensas River
Louisville
Nashville
Times Plans Variable Page Sizes By News Volume
The Times of Chicago announces a new feature to vary its newspaper sheet size daily. If news requires a forty eight column sheet will appear, and a ninety column issue will unfold when news volume is larger.
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the Times
Cowley Eclipse Reveals Cruelty at New York Juvenile Asylum
The New York Evening Mail exposes alleged abuse and neglect at a 30-year-old New York juvenile asylum housing 800 children. Charges target Superintendent E. M. Carpenter and his wife, including brutal beatings, hiding sick children, improper payrolls, filthy wards, disease from diseased pork, and staff misconduct. Witness Harriet Armstrong and Bridget Hanlan describe violent punishments and squalid conditions. The paper calls for accountability and justice.
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New York Evening Mail
New York
E. M. Carpenter
Helen Carpenter
Appoloo R. Wetmore
Sarah E. Armstrong
Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum
Carpenter
Harnet Burleigh
Willie Phillips
Welsh marauders terrorize Honey Brook township Pennsylvania
In Reading Pennsylvania on April 3 authorities report Welsh mountain thieves burning barns poisoning livestock and driving off stock in Honey Brook Chester county. A schoolhouse Bible was stolen and nailed to a tree with a skull and crossbones warning. Local residents fear widespread destruction and nightly robberies as the band escalates.
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Reading
Honey Brook Township
Chester County
Honey Brook
Gap Gang
German Woman Smuggling Broadcloth Hidden in Illness Story
A German woman aboard the Rotterdam was detained by customs after a hospital check revealed she was carrying forty yards of fine broadcloth wrapped around her body. Her husband accompanied her as the inspector insisted on a searching room transfer amid doctors' protests. The incident ends with the inspector claiming a successful catch.
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New York
Rotterdam
Castle Garden
Custom-House
Tammany Democrats Call for Open Primary Delegates Assembly
The Tammany Hall Democratic state committee issues a call for open Democratic primaries to choose delegates for the Syracuse convention on April 20 and for the national convention in Cincinnati on June 22. Delegates meet at Syracuse and the Grand Opera House will host proceedings with Empire hotels reserved for delegates.
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Syracuse
New York
Tammany Hall
Democratic State Committee
Cincinnati
Nathaniel ©. Monk
R. M. Skeels
Grand Opera House
and Empire Hotels
West End Diphtheria Tragedy Sparks Charitable Aid
A Providence family, John A. Snow and wife with four children, living near 18 Auburn Court, lost earnings to illness. Diphtheria struck the children, two died, and the mother fell ill with a newborn to care for. An onlooker’s remark prompted local aid. Officer O'Neil logs the case and responders donate 150 dollars plus food, yet the family still needs help.
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West End
The
Courier
John A. Snow
Providence
Auburn Court
Chardon Street
O'Neil
Break in the Levee Swamps Plantations and Trains
In New Orleans on April 3 the levee opposite the sixth district broke and widened, flooding several plantations and stopping Morgan railroad trains as tracks flooded for miles. Three Black workers were swamped and drowned while surveying. Lafourche county and the Orleans right bank face inundation. orange groves will be destroyed if the break remains unrepaired. On April 4 the crevasse remained unclogged with little chance of closure. Mor gan trains continued running as the break flooded Oaks and Amos plantations.
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New Orleans
Morgan Railroad
Lafourche County
Orleans
Morgan Road
Raiders Drive Off Apaches Near San Jose Village
Apaches capture and kill a Ninth Cavalry soldier with despatches from Fort Craig. They attack San Jose, seventeen miles from the Rio Grande, but are repelled by two soldiers and several Mexicans, leaving one soldier and one Mexican dead.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Ninth Cavalry
Fort Craig
Hooker
San Mateo Mountains
San Jose
Rio Grande
Ex-Governor Price sues for 1 million in San Francisco
Rodman M. Price former New Jersey governor sues Squire P. Dewey in the California supreme court to recover one million dollars alleged due as agent. The suit claims Price owned valuable San Francisco real estate entrusted to Erasmus D. Keyes who conspired with Edmunds Scott and Dewey to defraud. Scott died in 1873. Accounting for income and proceeds of all sales and conveyances is sought along with judgment for the million and costs.
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San Francisco
Rodman M. Price
New Jersey
Supreme Court
Squire P. Dewey
Theodore Payne & Co
Erasmus D. Keyes
United States Army
Keyes
Edmunds Scott
Scott
Pennsylvania Poorhouse Murder Trial Shocks Prison
Crawford assistant steward at Allegheny poor house and inmate Coolforth are arrested for the murder of inmate Gearing. Coroner notes death from skull fractures after body was disinterred amid efforts to hush up the incident. Coolforth claims he struck Gearing with a rolling pin.
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Prrrsburg
Penn
Crawford
Allegheny Poorhouse
Insane Department
Coolforth
Gearing
Twelve Persons Dumped Into a River at Terre Haute
A wagon carrying twelve people fell from an embankment into a river near Terre Haute Indiana during a protracted meeting. Mrs Geer and Hanna Geer were drowned while others were rescued or remained in the water, with responders fighting to save additional victims.
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Terre Havre
Ind
Geer
Hanna
Gladstone's Boom and Home Rule Hopes Rise in Ireland
Parnell arrives at Cork to an immense cheering crowd calling him Ireland's new liberator as he pledges a balance of power between old parties and Home Rule. He cites US sympathy and defeats for Tory leaders, urging Liberal candidates to win big in parliament.
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Doetry
Parnell
Cork
Ireland
Treland
United States
Parnel
James Lowther
York
Lowther
Liberals jubilant as Beaconsfield downed in early returns
London reports Liberal victories spread across Brighton, Southampton, and Middlesex with Herbert Gladstone likely elected. Beaconsfield presumed to resign amid party upheaval. Early tallies show Liberal majority expanding, while Tory strength fluctuates in Midlands and Scottish districts as London political desk notes volatility and stock reactions.
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London
Brighton
Southampton
Herbert Gladstone
Middlesex
Lord Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield
Cuban Independence Movements in New York Strive for Cuba
The New York Tribune reports that Spanish authorities warned of a Cuban expedition being formed in the United States with headquarters in the city. About 40 to 50 recruits, mostly militiamen, gathered near New Jersey and were to sail from Delaware. Leaders named include General Carlos Garcia and General Carlos Ruloff, with key organizers in Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Cuban patriot in the city asserts continued hopes for freedom, but says no expeditions will depart the United States.
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the Tribune
Washington
Evarts
Cuba
Woodford
Wilson
Delaware
New Jersey
Lewes
United States
Carlos Garcia
Carlos Ruloff
Brooklyn
Eighth Avenue
the Sun
Garcia
Kemble Threat: He Will Expose Ring If Not Pardoned
Philadelphia April 6 Kemble the bribery fugitive spent the last week at Atlantic City and says he will turn state's evidence if pardoned He claims certain railway men and political managers aided in the four million riot damage case and warns of naming them if his plea fails The delay is blamed on two pardons board members and Kemble insists there must be no further failure as he bears the burden of the alleged sins.
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the Sun
Sherman Club of
Washington
New Orleans
Sherman
Grant
Pinchback
Miss Flood
Young Grant
Hayes
Grant Pfficeholders
Harrisburg
The
Sun
Donald Cameron
Chicago
James G. Blaine
James McManes
Philadelphia
Blaine
Taylor and Hitner
Bucks
Montgomery
Waddell and Garside
Chester
Delaware
Kaufman and Siltzer
Lancaster
Lake Erie
Lancaster County
Adams, York
Cumberland
Cameron
Kemble
Atlantic City
Eee
Board of Pardons
A Poor Marksman Fires Nine Shots at Divorced Wife
Theodore Wasson of Illinois entered his divorced wife’s room at Harkers Corners near Teoria and fired nine shots, two from a shotgun and seven from a revolver, wounding her in the breast and head. He then kicked her, attempted to bind wounds, and cared for her until morning before fleeing as the sheriff pursues him. the woman may recover.
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Peoria
Ill
Harker’s Corners
Teoria
Theodore Wasson
Sailors rescued after sinking ship off Havana coast
Captain Lawrence and nine men of the barque Flora M Hurlburt were picked up near Cape Henlopen after the ship sank in a heavy sea on February 28. They endured twenty two hours in a yawl with no food or drink before rescue and later traveled to Philadelphia despite the ordeal. Separately, Cheyenne chiefs Wild Hog and Old Crow recount 1878 cruelty on the reservation, detailing cold, starvation, and executions during a forced return order.
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Havana
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
Wild Hog
Old Crow
Union Pacific Blockade Removed Clears Sierra Snow Sheds
The snow sheds on the Sierra Nevada were cleared and trains can move both east and west on the Union Pacific. The blockade ends unless warm rain causes further changes or adds weight to remaining structures.
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Union Pacific
San Francisco
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Foreign News: Blockade Run at Arica and Other Affairs
Reports from Lima and New York detail the corvette Union breaking the Arica blockade with seven hours of combat aided by a monitor and fortifications. Captain Villavicencio earns praise for landing cargo and returning to Callao amid Chilean pressure. The Huascar bombs Arica. Peruvians defend with 12,000 troops. Additional items cover Russo Chinese tensions, a Dublin plot to blow up the Lord Mayor, a broken Atlantic cable, and various European dispatches on wars, fires, and royal illnesses.
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Lisbon
Huascar
Arica
New York
Peru
Don Pedro Jose Calderon
Lima
Manco Capac
Villavicencio
Callao
Chalaco
Shooting Affray Fatal for New York Pawnbroker Son
In New York a pawnbroker firm Simpson and Somers faced a deadly shooting as George C. Randolph, once jailed for blackmail, shot William Simpson twice in the office. The initial wound in the mouth and a second in the back are feared fatal. Randolph surrendered to the police without resistance after the incident and officers took him to the station.
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New York
William Simpson
Simpson & Somers
George CC. Randolph
Philadelphia
Randolph
Simpson
Dolph
Belleville Train Brawl Delays Westward Railway Crew
A fight broke out at the Grand Trunk station in Belleville among about 300 men bound for section B of the Pacific rail line. Quarrels after Montreal led to arm clashes with seventy to eighty involved, bottles used, one razor, and several men cut. Police intervened after hours, four arrests made, train moved on about three hours later.
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Belleville
Ont
Grand Trunk
Montreal
Grand Trank
A Big Lumber Drive From Camp Town
Plymout h New Hampshire April 4 Davis and Sargent of Lowell began their annual log drive from Camp Town yesterday amid spring freshet conditions.
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Plymounth
N. H
Davis & Sargent of
Lowell
Camptown
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