Garfield’s Promises to New York Financiers in 1880 Campaign
Ex senator Dorsey discusses the 1880 Garfield bid, alleging prearranged nomination tactics, financing by New York bankers, and trades for cabinet appointments. He claims Gould and Huntington funded the effort, with $400,000 plus moving sums to Indiana, and notes a supposed Hubbell letter error by Garfield.
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Stanley Matthews
Dorsey
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Vineyard Haven Fire Devastates Village and 50 Acre Burn
The August Vineyard Haven blaze, sparked at the Crocker harness factory, raged from Saturday evening into night, consuming about fifty acres. Insurance coverage amounted to roughly 62,200 with total losses near 195,000. Cottage City fire crews struggled against the northeast wind as residents sought relief, with 376 dollars raised on the spot.
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Association Hall
H. H. Smith
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Merchants and Farmers
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Holyoke
Salem
Fitchburg Mutual
Ioucee
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Fitchburg
Hanover
Northern
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la Contiance
France
Wonderful cave discovered under Lookout Mountain
CHATTANOOGA Tenn August 13 Last week a party of gentlemen discovered a wonderful cave which penetrates Lookout mountain. They explored it to the depth of half a mile and discovered immense subterranean lakes and shot great waterfalls, one 150 feet high.
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Lookout Mountain
Chattanooga
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Mass Meeting and Benefit Concert Arranged for Strikers
Local assembly finalizes plans for a Tremont Temple mass meeting tomorrow evening with Master Workman Chute presiding. Addresses expected from Congressman elect Collins, Hon. John K. Tarbox, and Charles H. Litchman, plus invitations to Lodge and Long. A concert for the strikers will be at Horticultural Hall Thursday night due to Boston Theatre repairs. tickets go on sale tomorrow at White Smith & Co., the Parker House, and Young's Hotel.
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John D. Long
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Boston Theatre
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White, Smith & Co
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Young's Hotel
Campbell Testifies On Telegraphers Wages Before Senate Subcommittee
New York August 13 a Senate labor subcommittee session opened with John Campbell master workman of the Knights of Labor testifying on telegraphers wages and strikes. He cited 18 000 to 19 000 telegraphers in the brotherhood with total membership about 22 000 and described wage declines since 1870. He noted current monthly salaries ranging from 35 to 40 dollars for small stations to 80 85 dollars for first class commercial operators and 38 85 dollars for Pennsylvania railroad operators, with New York higher than most cities except New Orleans Memphis and Nashville. The committee seeks data to inform future labor legislation.
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United States
Senate Committee On Labor and Education
Post Office
Blair
New Hampshire
George
Mmoey 1
Pugh
Alabama
Call
Florida
Drich
Rhode Island
John Campbell
Pittsburg
Knights of Labor
Brotherhood of Telegraphers
Canada
Brotherhood
Pennsylvania
New York City
New Orleans
Memphis
Nashville
Captain Rhodes to test life-saving armor in whirlpool rapids
Buffalo August 12 Captain J D Rhodes plans to swim Niagara whirlpool rapids to prove his armor’s value for a government prize of 650000 offered for the best air-ereceising apparatus by October 15. He will enter where Captain Webb vanished and swim to the last sighting, with a rope and lifeboat across the river and expert help nearby. Rhodes, 39, a carpenter with a wife and four children, is determined despite warnings that the centre channel at the rapids is too dangerous.
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J. D. Rhodes
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Rhodes
Captain Webb
Niagara Falls
Pension swindle exposed by shrewd lawyers on advance fees
Washington action suspends Jenkins A Fitzgerald a pension claim agent for pressuring advance fees without agreements from claimants. The scheme used C O D express packages stamped Fitzgeralds Pension Agency to mislead recipients. Disbarment followed for the Fitzgeralds and a related denial of practice for his wife.
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Cotton condition declines in most states in August report
Washington August 10 The August cotton returns to the Department of Agriculture show a weaker condition than July in most states with only two northern states spared. The data reflects nationwide easing in fiber quality and yield prospects for the season.
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Department of Agriculture
Cotton Crop Conditions Deteriorate Across States
The season’s erratic weather has hurt cotton yields from Georgia to North Carolina. May was too cold, June too wet, July too dry, cutting plant vigor. Georgia shows a drop from 93 to 78, South Carolina from 91 to 80, with overall state averages sliding to 84 from 90 in July.
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Georgia
South Carolina
Louisiana
Florida
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Eminent Baltimore Lawyer Shot by Wife in Tragic Incident
Prominent lawyer L. L. Conrad is fatally shot by his wife at Glyndon on the Western Maryland line after a long illness and presumed insanity. Mrs. Conrad, previously rational after parents visit, remains unconscious as officers remove the smoking revolver. Conrad, a former Confederate staff officer and New Orleans native, moved to Baltimore in 1868 with Minnie Worthington, a noted Baltimore County Belle.
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Glyndon
Western Maryland
L. L. Conrad
Mrs. Conrad
Mr. Conrad
Conrad
New Orleans
Southwest Division
Minnie Worthington
Baltimore County
Mystery surrounds Jersey cremation of mother and children
At Estillville near May's Landing a woman and her daughter were burned alive in a cabin fire. Neighbors found a six year old son dead and the mother and daughter badly burned. Jewish settlers from Rasslan group, led by General Burbridge, face taunting rumors of sacrifice amid unfriendly neighbors. The mother lies near death after seven hours at a railway station.
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Estillville
May's Landing
Atlantic County
Burbridge
Philadelphia
Ivan Lotowski
Smith Spence
Joseph A. Dodge Dies at 67 a Bright's Disease
Joseph A. Dodge former general manager of the Boston Concord and Montreal railroad dies of Brights disease at about 67. Born in New Boston he spent years in railroad service including posts from Soubornton Bridge to Meredith Village. A Democrat and Mason, he leaves a wife and two daughters.
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N. H
Joseph A. Dodge
Boston, Concord & Montreal
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Dodge
New Boston
Boston & Lowell
Boston
Soubornton Bridge
Ion
Lake Village
Meredith Village
Papeete
Monterey
Los Angeles
Cal
Profile
Franconia Notch
Pemigewasset Valley
Whitefield
Feats of a blind man in mental arithmetic
Danielsville Connecticut August 13 Mr Pardon Tillinghast who is entirely blind and barely distinguishes day from night has recently performed remarkable feats in mental arithmetic. He studied the number 142857 and showed its multiples form the same digits in order with shifts. He linked these to the decimal ponency and the repetend of 1 7 and its powers. He computed reductions and cubes producing long repeating decimals, all without memory aids. Mathematicians doubt whether such feats by a blind man have been surpassed.
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Danielsonville
Conn
Pardon Tillinghast
Reproached by a Dog in a Hunter's Tale
An amateur hunter recounts loaning his dog and missing shots while the dog watches with a reproachful gaze. He recalls crowd jeers, a demoralizing miss, and the dog's dejected return to the wagon with bared teeth as he tries to coax him out.
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Iover
Canada Emigration Scheme Aims to Move 200000 Irish Poor
London reports the government will officially aid large scale Irish emigration to Canada. A plan proposed by Canada Pacific Railway to settle 50,000 Irish in five person families near Winnipeg with government loans was abandoned by Catholic opposition. A Mansion House conference approved a broader plan to move 200,000 Irish, with 10,000 families next spring, to lands offered by Stephens and funded by a government assisted scheme using homestead principles. The plan includes free homes for three years and 3 percent rent thereafter, with eventual title on payment. The second 50,000 emigrants location remains undecided.
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Charles Tupper
Lord Dufferin
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United States
Indiana 80 Election Story of Dorsey’s Back Room Funds
An Inside Sun World account details Republican operatives in 1880 Indiana, led by Dorsey, orchestrating voter intimidation and fund management from a hotel back room. It describes greenbacks, a $60,000 arrival by Senator Cameron, and a cash stash in a black walnut bureau guarded by Gorham and others, with agents and treasury officials cited as aware of operations.
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Garfield
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India
Back Bay
Murray Hill
New York
Conkling
Arthur Pay
the Sun
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Indianapolis
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Dudley
New
George C. Gorham
Swaim
Don Cameron
Cameron
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Gorham
Orsey
Decision in $2,000,000 lawsuit ends long dispute
MILWAUKEE August 10 The famous case of William Barnes as trustee against the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad Company was decided today ending a twenty five years of litigation in the federal court. The suit sought two million dollars in damages over alleged railway mismanagement and breach of contract with Barnes acting as trustee for investors. The decision awards the plaintiffs substantial relief though the final amount is not yet specified.
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William Barnes
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company
Bondholders for Lacrosse bonds swap for railroad stock
The United States Circuit Court ruled that bondholders who brought suit against the St. Paul company exchanged their Lacrosse bonds for stock in the Milwaukee and Minnesota Railroad Company, leaving no claim against the St. Paul company. An appeal to the Supreme Court is anticipated as the case involves over one million dollars.
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Tyler
Ins
Milwaukee & Minnesota Railroad Company
St. Paul
United States Supreme Court
Black Sea Pirates Exposed in Odessa Pilot Fraud Ring
London reports reveal a large fraud scheme linked to Black Sea wrecks near the Straits of Kerch. Francesco, an ex pilot, heads a multinational pirate salvage ring with English, Italian, Greek, and Russian members. Fifty ships stranded and sought salvage within two years as insurers warn of compromised officials.
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Odessa
St. Petersburg
Straits of Kertch
Yenikale
Black Sea
Francesco
Fate Euchred by a Reporter Lovers Reunite in Paterson
Miss Annie Rich and Ernest Rathzeb, once separated by a dispatch error sending Rich to Plattsburg Missouri, reunite in Paterson New Jersey after a reporter’s hunt. Rich had lived in Nebraska while Rathzeb stayed in Paterson. their wedding soon in sight at Seene Hotel with Rich's dress nearly ready.
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Ernest Rathzeb
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Patterson
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Rathzeb
Alda
Hall County
Neb
Charles Schnetter
Paterson Volksfreund
Schnetter
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N. J
Seene Hotel
Wickham Accepts Democrat Nomination for State Senate
General William C. Wickham a Virginia Republican leader writes to accept the Democratic nomination for the State Senate in Hanover and Caroline counties. He denounces Coalition Readjuster forces and pledges to oppose misrule, urging Republicans in the district to aid his bid in a district where Democrats hold a small majority.
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William C. Wickham
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Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
State Senate
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Caroline
Wickham
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Virginia
Pennsylvania Lawyer Elopes After Embezzling 30000
James O Parker, senior partner of Parker and Bentley, fled Williamsport after stealing an estimated 30000 from the firm. Bentley fears the amount may exceed this figure as collections from the firm went on for some time. Parker allegedly persuaded a young local woman to elope with him, and the couple is said to have fled toward Europe.
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James 0. Parker
Parker & Bentley
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Parker
Lim
Europe
Riding for vengeance details of General Morgan death
Colonel John Bell Brownlow refutes reports that General Morgan was dragged through Greenville Kentucky and shot by Campbell after capture. He asserts Campbell lives and isn’t a ruffian, the betrayer is a department clerk, and Morgan was killed in a woman’s yard while trying to escape, effectively a deliberate shooting in self defense.
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John Bell Brownlow
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Campbell
Devon Inn Fire Destroys Wing Near Philadelphia
A fire at Devon Inn, a Pennsylvania Railroad station hotel near Philadelphia, damaged the building badly. Guests faced heavy losses as flames spread from a wing to a new addition, reducing the property to ruins with total costs exceeding 600000 dollars.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Lessons From Quarrelling Heirs At Amasa Stone Estate
The Amasa Stone estate in Cleveland valued at several millions was settled in three weeks after executors John Hay and Samuel Mather took charge. Disputes were resolved by concessions. $1,200,000 plus intended bequests not in the will were paid in cash. In Lowell, Rev. William Cole traveled 3000 miles by carriage, visiting over 400 schools, returning in good condition with his horse and buggy. Advertisements for Corus claim a complete permanent cure for warts bunions and related ailments.
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Amasa Stone
John Hay
Samuel Mather
Lowell
Mass
William Cole
Minneapolis
Minn
Cole
Noahs Ark Discovery on Mount Ararat Reported
A Constantinople cable discloses Turkish commissioners found the ark protruding from Glacier on Mount Ararat. An American negotiator seeks its removal to Boston, with plans to place the vessel on display at Col gn or similar venue, prompting public interest and debate.
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Ark insured in Noah era humor prompts probe
A New York Times reporter quotes Gotham insurance minutes about Noahs Ark. Details include tonnage 42413.95, length 525 feet, beam 87 feet 6 inches, hold 62 feet 6 inches, bulk of gopher wood, used as passenger and cattle transport. Officials dodge questions on insuring livestock and Noahs life, yielding a joke ending as revolver is reached.
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New York Times
Gotham Insurance Comepany
Noah
Noah & Sons
Japhet
Ham
Shem
Turn Oklahoma Mission Draws Colored Residents
Rev J W Dyson of A M E Church missionary to the Indian Territory says Hon J Milton Turners Oklahoma movement stirs colored residents who follow his lead rather than Payne. He has bought wagons and supplies for implementing his plan as discontent rises over lack of voting rights and land held by Indians. overall unrest may prompt government action.
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J. W. Dyson
A. M. E. Church
Indian Territory
J. Milton Turner
Oklahoma
Payne
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