William McSweeny case and Harper's Ferry sale debated in Congress
In Washington the adjournment of Congress remains distant as the House faces key bills on tariffs elections and internal revenue. A plan to lease or sell Harper's Ferry property is considered alongside defense of American citizens abroad with Senator Voorhees criticizing the State Department. Fraudulent landclaims and a liquor case surface, while a large White House furniture sale yields high prices.
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Senate
Voorhees
McSweeny
Ireland
Republican Party
Blaine
State Department
Lowell
Land League
Richelieu Robinson
Brooklyn
Harper's Ferry
the Treasury
Potomac River
Schorril
Barmar
Germany
White House
Buchanan
A Providence Woman Struggles to Keep Family Together
Mrs Anvie McKay a Providence mother of five faces desertion by husband Hugh a 17 year resident who left with no wood coal or food. She works at Oriental Mill earning 12 5 a day to care for children including eldest Charlie 10 who has fallen into bad company. Judge Elias M Jenckes provides aid after the case at Police Court prompting tears from the grateful mother.
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Providence
Hugh McKay
Peabody
Mass
North Main
Star Streets
Jamesa H. Tower
Page Street
Anvie
Charlie
Reform School
McKay
Judge Jenckes
Senate passes bill to reimburse brig Armstrong claim
Washington April 17 The Senate again passed the bill for payment to the captain officers owners and crew of the private armed brig Armstrong. The 65 year dispute reflects diplomatic efforts from Tyler to Louis Napoleon. The measure also covers Ken Holliday overland mail losses with an initial sum of 320000 dollars allocated after previous debates.
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Senate
Washington
Congress
State Department
Budy
Armstrong
Fayal
New Orleans
Tyler
Portugal
Louis Napoleon
Senate Claims Committee
Ken Stolliday
Holliday
Victory for Jay Gould Bill grants right of way through Indian lands
The Senate passed by 81 to 13 a measure to grant the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway a right of way through Choctaw and Chickasaw lands in Indian Territory. The act shifts government Indian policy. if the line fails to use the grant, the Chicago Texas Mexican Central may take the project, with other corporations possible later.
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St. Louis
San Francisco Railway
Senate
San Francisco
Chicago, Texas & Mexican Central Company
Value of a name fuels Jesse James goods sale
In St Joseph Missouri on April 17 the late Jesse James household goods were auctioned at his old city home. Despite little intrinsic value the crowd paid up to 21 dollars for an old cabinet while other items sold for modest sums. the whole lot would be worth far less than the realizing near 200 dollars thanks to the outlaw’s name.
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St. Joserh
Jesse James
London
Dugmore
Parsonstown
Land League
Meath
Forster
Ireland
W. Barlow Smyth
Philadelphia Doctor Accused of Malpractice After Fatal Dose
Coroner probes a case in which Dr. F H Griffin administered atropia digitalis and morphia to a sick woman in a saloon visit. The woman died before he left. Griffin is on $5000 bail to answer malpractice charges. Inquest paused for chemical analysis of the stomach. Parents claim he uses morphine and may be mentally unsound.
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Philadelphia
Lampson
London
F. H. Griffin
Griffin
Legislature proposes 3,000,000 acre land grant for university
Austin reports two bills moving in the Legislature. One would survey and set aside 3,000,000 acres outside the state reservation for the benefit of a state university. A concurrent measure lowers passenger fares on all Texas railroads to three cents per mile, passing both Senate and House engrossment.
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Austin
Tex
Senate
Blaze Destroys Major Business Section at Crisfield Md
Fire swept through Crisfield Maryland early yesterday destroying much of the business district. The blaze caused an estimated loss of 36000 dollars, with partial insurance. James Booth, whose store was the origin, was arrested on suspicion. A man named Hall also detained.
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Crispfield
James Booth
Hall
Vogel Brothers Swindle Shocks New York Merchants
New York reports reveal large scale fraud by Vogel & Co of Hong Kong with 7300 bales aboard the Richard Robinson. Emil Vogel fled to Europe or Naples while Carl Vogel and others seek to limit losses as imports face possible 400000-dollar fraud exposure and 150000-dollar local damages.
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New York
Hong Kong
House of Vogel & Co
Richard Robinson
Brooklyn
Boston
Vogel Brothers
China
America
Vogel & Harvand
Harvand
Emil Vogel
Carl Filward
Nw York
Hl. E. Moering & Co
Smith
Charles Pfizer
Lanmur & Kemp
C. Vogel
Vogel
Vogel & Co
Pot Vogel Brothers
Henrix Kirchoff
Frm
Shanghai
Edward Vogel
Carl Vogel
Mr. Vogel
Emil
Europe
Snow
Snow & Burgess
Recknagle Co
Beaver Street
Ira Bursley
South Street
D. G. Bacon & Co
Pearl Street
Naples
South America
Brad Street
Lawrence
Supreme Court
Mathiesson & Whitcher
Sugar Refining Company
Bank of
Voxel & Coy
Dog’s remarkable journey returns home to Dover
The dog escaped in Dover then vanished for days. He boarded a steamer to Fall River, rode trains to Boston, and walked to Dover as a “dead head.” The owner in New York and Rossiter both conclude the dog always finds its way home. Rossiter licenses the dog and plans to keep it.
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Rossiter
Dover
New York
Fall River
Hoston
Boston & Maine
Attack on American schooner Diana by Russians
Aboard the Diana returning from a sealing voyage she stopped at Copper Island for water and wood when Russians opened fire. Three seamen were killed and three wounded. The vessel sailed to Petropavlovsk where authorities confiscated all sealskins. The captain reported to the American consul in Yokohama. Russians claim the sealing islands as Russian territory and have ordered warships to prevent sealing there.
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New York
Yokohama
Conan
The Jeanette’s Arctic Voyage Told From Siberia
Dr H C Ledyard in Irkutsk relays details of the Jeannette disaster. The crew fought crushing ice for years as the ship sank after June 11 1881, then endured a grueling southward drift of 300 miles through broken ice, discovering Bennett Island before reaching the Lena river mouth.
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San Francisco
H. C. Ledyard
Siberia
Irkutsk
Ledyard
Daneneuver
Jeanette
Hersla Island
Jeannette
Bennett Island
Lena River
Melville
Butler's Open Letter on Chinese Immigration to China Minister
General Butler reviews Chinese immigration and a vetoed bill in an open letter to Joan Knussell Young. He argues the burden of Chinese labor and capital drain on the Pacific coast warrants diplomatic pressure on Britain to curb emigration, rather than breaking a treaty with China. He cites Ireland as a warning and urges restrained policy balanced with existing Irish-American concerns.
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B. F. Butler
Joan Knussell Young
China
Sunday Globe
Ireland
England
California
Butler
Hong Kong
Macao
Mr. Young
Court of St. James
Great Britain
Lowell
Labor Troubles. Central Trades' Union Demands Eight Hours
A New York meeting adopting a platform calls for an eight hour day, ban on child labor under 14, abolition of government contract labor and convict labor, and equal pay for equal work with a national bankless circulating medium. Toronto discusses arbitration to settle strife, with a three to five member board and a mayor appointing a chair. Reports from New York and Montreal note wage demands and strikes across builders, printers, coopers, engineers, and other trades, amid rising hourly rates and work hours.
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New York
Central Organization of the Trades’ Unions
Toronto
Stair Builders
Bakers
Puintera
Block-Makera
Norwegian captain plans Atlantic row in homebuilt boat
Captain Fred Norman, aged 28, proposes to row across the Atlantic in a 12 by 4 by two and a half foot long boat. He will use a drogue to steady head to wind, sleep only when wind is ahead, and average about thirty miles daily. He envisions 100 days at sea with provisions, water, lamp, and rubber encasement, seeking $6000 in backing from supporters.
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New York
Fred Norman
Atlantic
Little Western
George Thomas
Halfax
Recoleta church fire and Peruvians jailed over forged notes
Lima reports the Recoleta church in Peru, among the oldest churches, was destroyed by fire. General Lynch ordered arrests of Peruvian officials over counterfeit nine million dollars in $500 notes traced to New York. The Loboe Orova railroad is closed, forces clash at Huancayo, and Bolivia and Chile reach an understanding while prisoners are repatriated.
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Recoleta
Peru
Lynch
New York
Calderon
Lina
Lobe Orova
Caceres
Ayacucho
Huancayo
Bolivia
Chili
Comancho
Zucua
Floods in the West Stop Rails and Rail Bridges
Floods wash out the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul track near Dell Rapids Dakota halting trains. A Beloit dam on the Big Sioux River washed away. Bridges on the Cheyenne River road to Fort Yatten carried away and James River ice bound. Jamestown bridge feared.
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Sioux Fallus
Dak
Big Sioux
Dell Rapids
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
Beloit
Jamestown
Oak
Cheyenne River
Fort Yatten
James River
Explosion Levelled Mills Near Pratt Tremont and King Streets
A boiler explosion Thursday demolished the big Pratt Tremont King street complex killing seven people and injuring many more. Victims include engineer John Addison and fireman Harrison Waters among others. two girls Ida Rosenber and Georgie Pentz were trapped in adjacent houses. The blast wrecked Nos 171 and 175 King street, destroying multiple mills and factories connected to A H Sibley C C Rumpf H H Herr and G W Garrison companies.
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Bav Tim Morey
Pratt, Tremont and
King Streets
John W. Addison
Harrison Waters
Frank Kraemer
Abraham Herron
Maria C. Knapp
George Pentz
Gracie Gray
Eipuil
King Street
Maggie Pentz
Minnie Sherman
Ida Rosenber
Georgie Pentz
A. H. Sibley
C. C. Rumpf & Co
H. H
Disposition of Confederate Specie Details
General Dibrell recounts handling of Confederate specie during surrender talks. The train moved under General Duke to Breckinridge, then Breckinridge headquarters packed on May 3. Major White, ranking quartermaster, received payrolls and paid out funds totaling $108,322.90 to Dibrell.
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Washington
G. G. Dibrell
Congress
Tennessee
Joe Johnson
Durell
Sherman
Johnson
Basil W. Duke
Dibrell
Intelligent dog sold to traveling agent receives $10
Pat Rossiter notes his dog, sold to a Philadelphia mercantile house agent for ten dollars, traveled by rail to Boston then Fall River, by steamer to New York and lodged at Lovejoy's hotel as night fell. The text ends abruptly leaving the fate of the dog and the buyer unclear.
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Pat Rossiter
Philadelphia
Dover
Boston
Fall River
New York
Lovejoy’s
Cheese Poisoning Alarm Hits Rockport and Gloucester
Arsenic-laced cheese sickens several residents in Rockport and nearby Gloucester on Thursday. Epes Parkhurst and Honard Dennen fall ill after consuming the tainted dairy, while an analysis confirms arsenic impregnation. In New York, P T Barnum announces plans to build a large museum in Whis City featuring natural history specimens, a wax figure gallery, a menagerie, and a theater to amuse and instruct the public.
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Rockport
Epes Parkhurst
Honard Dennen
West Gloucester
Main Street
New York
P. T. Barnum
James A. Bailey
James L. Hutchinson
Whis City
Danish revenue cutter to be built in Brewer
Bangor ship broker Pierre McConville reports the Danish government has ordered an immediate cutter build for Denmark. The vessel, modeled after an American yacht, will be about seventy five feet long on deck and fast in all respects. Construction likely in Brewer with sailing to begin mid summer from Bangor.
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Bangor
Pierre McConville
Exchange-street
Brewer
Aud
Atlantic
Abduction Report Muddies Hubbell Kinship Claim
A Wisconsin abduction tale surfaces as a Wisconsin boy stolen last November is claimed to be the Hubbell grandchild. The report notes a mixing of facts with false attributions to Congressmen Jay A. Hubbell of Michigan and cites a five year old boy, William E. Dickenson, as the victim’s father’s friend. The mother’s pursuit and alleged suspect Williams Morris are mentioned.
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Washington
Jay A. Hubbell
Michigan
Republican Congressional Committee
Wisconsin
Mr. Hubbell
Hubbell
William FE. Dickenson
Commonwealth
Wis
Dickenson
Wother
Williams Morris
Wisconsin mother traces missing boy across the country
A Wisconsin mother followed leads from Culpepper to a distant station in pursuit of her son. Detectives aided the search as clothing was found in Culpepper that she believed belonged to the boy. After a stop in town she returned home when the trail grew unlikely, with a large reward offered for the child’s recovery.
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Atpepeet
Culpepper
First National Bank of Buffalo Closed in Bank Examiner Custody
The First National Bank of Buffalo N Y is closed and in the hands of Bank Examiner Youngs. Rumor says its New York Fourth National Bank correspondent refused to accept securities and that it had loaned $200 000 to Herman J Hallgrain a known speculator. The cashier traveled to New York with more securities but could not satisfy the Fourth National Bank. E G Spaulding aided yesterday but the bank closed this morning.
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Bank Examiner
Borrao
N. Y
First National Bank
Youngs
New York
Fourth National Bank
Herman J. Hallgrain
Readjusters Defeat Reapportionment Bill in Virginia Senate
In Richmond on April 13 the Readjusters' reapportionment bill failed in the Virginia Senate, with the motion to reconsider also defeated 19 to 16. Democrats hail a victory, aided by four Readjusters who bolted and by Wingfield the sole straight Republican senator. Indications point to an early adjournment of the Legislature.
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Richmond
Senate
Wingfield
Fatal Planter Steamboat Explosion Near Charleston
The steamer Planter exploded its boiler Thursday after leaving the dock at Charleston South Carolina. Deck hand Jake Washington died from scalding while mate L F Bosang and engineer W J Ham were seriously burned. Two other colored men were slightly injured and twelve cabin passengers escaped unharmed.
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Charleston
S. C
Planter
Jake Washington
L. F. Bosang
W.J. Ham
Yue Planter
Guiteau Publishes The Truth a 240 Page Book
Guiteau releases a 240 page work titled The Truth. In the preface he calls it a contribution to the civilization of the race and urges careful reading to the end. He claims a new line of thought runs through the book and notes that it cannot prove heaven or hell.
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Guiteau
Heaven
Hell
Triplets Born on a Railroad Train Near Baldwin
A Chicago to St Paul train stopped near Baldwin Wisconsin on Saturday when a lady passenger gave birth to triplets two girls and a boy. Physicians awaiting by telegraph assisted the delivery and the mother was removed from the train for care.
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St. Paul
Chicago, St. Paul
Omaha
Chicago
Baldwin
Wis
Mystery of Blue Creek Woman Believed Dead Reopens After Funeral
In Charleston West Virginia on April 17 officials report Miss Jenkin of Blue Creek appeared to revive after burial. After funeral services mourners viewed the body, and the corpse was removed from the coffin and brought home where signs of life persisted into Saturday.
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Charleston
W. Va
Jenkin
Blue Creek
Hop Bitters Promised Cure for Kidney and Urinary Ailments
All kidney and urinary complaints, especially Bright's Disease, Diabetes and Liver trouble, Hop Bitters will surely and lastingly cure. Cases exactly like your own have been cured in your own neighborhood, and you can find reliable proof at home of what Hop Bitters has done and can do.
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Bright
Archbishop McCabe Receives Cardinal Title in Rome
The ceremony at St Sabina saw Archbishop McCabe take the cardinalate for Ireland with a large Catholic attendance. Father Kirby praised his virtues. McCabe vowed to aid religion and order in Ireland, accepting Pope’s gift as support for British rule in dominions. The event featured a Pope portrait and 4000 francs in offerings.
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McCabe
Ireland
Church of St Sabina
Father Kirby
Irish College
Cardinal McCabe
Father
Pope
Bianchi
Fire devastates Main Street businesses in East Saginaw
Despatches from Harrison Clare county report a Thursday afternoon blaze destroying the south side of Main street in the village. Losses include R. Smith & Co fancy goods post office Simon Turts & Co dry goods Central Hotel South Wick House Christy & Weatherwax general store Sears & Co hardware Joe Sylvester clothing L. C. Dreamer boarding house confectionery A. N. Gernart saloon Kit Carson billiard hall and offices affecting ten private residences and three other facilities.
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East Saginaw
Mich
Harrison
Clare County
Main Street
R. Smith & Co
Simon Turts & Co
Central Hotel
Southwick House
Christy & Weatherwax
Sears & Co
Joe Sylvester
L. C. Dreamer
A. N. Gernart
Kit Carson Billiard Hall
Fea
Custer Cures by Night Help for Pains at Night
Fragmentary verse notes a mother distressed by infant pains at night and a father in trouble. It hints at a claim that Custer cures by night, promising relief for fever and cramps, with a reference to Leonora and a house without Cantoria.
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Leonora
Custer
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