President's Message on Tariff Reform and Foreign Policy
President's message urges tariff revision to equalize burdens, reduce duties on cotton iron and steel, and expand the free list while preserving internal revenue. It discusses foreign affairs including Britain Russia Egypt and China, naval modernization, post office reforms, and civil service overhauls. It emphasizes discretionary diplomatic powers and restraint on political influence in appointments.
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United States
Ireland
Great Britain
American Isthmus
Russia
Iter
Faris
France
Congress
Switzerland
Egypt
China
Tariff Commission
Debate Over Presidential Succession and Electoral Questions
The passage discusses arrears of taxes, steam railroads, and real property assessments, alongside a Senate debate on presidential electors, constitutional provisions for transferring executive duties to the Vice President in case of presidential disability, and a hope to resolve these issues before the next national election.
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Halls of Congress
The Little Compton Murder Shocks Rhode Island Farm Family
A Well to do Rhode Island farmer Albert Seabury, 63, was found dead on a Little Compton beach after gathering seaweed. Authorities say the death shows signs of brutal violence with a jaw broken and facial injuries. Neighbors cite long standing seaweed disputes and threats over beach privileges as possible motive. A coroner's jury deliberated but no arrests were made as detectives pursue leads.
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Fall River
Albert Seabury
Little Compton
R. L
Seaconer Creek
Seaconet River
Mr. Seabury
Willie
John
Almy
Little Compton Commons
Cowen
White
Seaconet
Seabury
Ed Davis
Henry Aly
Thomas Almy
Henry Almy
Married in Spite of Them at Trenton Church
William Sheeny’s planned marriage to a South Trenton woman was halted by objections from two women claiming he was already married. He raced to Burlington to obtain a priest’s single-man certificate, then hurried back to St John’s for the noon mass. He arrived just in time. the ceremony proceeded and the couple wed.
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N. J
William Sheehy
South Trenton
St. John’s
Thaddeus Hogan
Sheeny
Philadelphia
Burlington
Clinton Street
Paylor Street
Astronomer Warns U S Ships to Seek Harbors Before Great Storm
Professor E Stone Wiggins of the Canadian finance department warns Washington that a predicted storm will sweep the Atlantic from the Gulf to New England. He advises ordering all United States ships into safe harbors by March 8 before the tempest, described as the greatest since the first president’s era.
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E. Stone Wiggins
LL. D
Canadian Finance Department
Ottawa
Arthur
United States
Mareth
Northern Pacific
Gulf of Mexico
Rocky Mountains
American
Rocky Mountain Range
New England
Atlantic
Equator
Man Falls Into Molten Metal at Scoville Works
In Buffalo on December 2 a Scoville Car-Wheel Works worker named Fox attempted suicide by placing his head into a large molten metal bath. Fellow employees intervened, but Fox sustained severe injuries including burned eyes, scalp, hands, and face.
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BufFalo
Fox
Scoville
Loss of a Schooner and Crew Off Pictou Nova Scotia
A schooner H Folger from Cleveland bound for Brockville ran ashore on Salmon Point reef Thursday night near Pictou Nova Scotia. Captain J W McDonald and eight crew members were lost. Two bodies washed ashore today, one believed to be the captain. Folger was a large three masted vessel built at Clayton New York and owned by Dennis and Ellis of Cape Vincent New York.
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Pictou
N. S
H. Folger
Cleveland
Brockville
Salmon Point Reef
J. W. McDonald
Folger
Clayton
N. Y
Dennis & Ellis
Cape Vincent
N. Ys
Tragic stage shooting ends in death at Cincinnati Coliseum
Frank Frayne shot Miss Annie Von Behren during a Thanksgiving matinee of Si Slocum at the Coliseum Theatre. The left eye area injury proved fatal within minutes after the play ended. Frayne was arrested, posted $8000 bond, and faces charges as investigators weigh the circumstances and safety of stage weaponry.
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Cincinnati
Coliseum Theatre
Frank Frayne
Annie von Behren
Ruth
Fennessy
Frayne
Miss von Behren
von Behren
Brooklyn
N. Y
Frayne Acquitted After Manslaughter Case in Cincinnati
Frank J. Frayne the actor was acquitted in Police Court of manslaughter for shooting at Anna Von Lehren at the Coliseum Theatre. The verdict met loud applause. He plans a comeback performance on Saturday in Troy in Marco and has withdrawn Si Slocum from his list, disposing of props and rifles to Oliver Duddyron and the arresting sergeant.
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Cincinnati
Frank J. Frayne
Anna von Lehren
Coliseum Theatre
Frank Frayne
Troy
Marco
Oliver Doud Yron
Former Frayne troupe member recalls shooting and Frayne’s plans
Miss Ella Hatton, a Walnut Street Theatre performer in The Tourists, recalls how Mr Frayne used a mirror sight to shoot an apple from her head and a potato from her hand without incident. She notes his cautious display, mentions Mrs Frayne’s death and Frayne’s intention to retire after this season to settle on a fruit farm in South Jersey.
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Philadelphia
the Times
Frayne
Ella Hatton
Walnut Street Theatre
Lucy Slocum
Freddie
Mr. Frayne
Ohio
South Jersey
Frayne's Fatal Shot Tells of Dangerous Stage Tricks
In recalling the Cincinnati shooting of Miss Von Behren, E D Davies cites Frank Frayne as introducing a dangerous style of ventriloquist shooting in 1869. He recounts Frayne's accuracy with a rifle and the spread of similar acts by Buffalo Bill and others, including a fatal incident involving Mrs Franklin's stand in and a young girl.
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Miss von Behren
Cincinnati
E. D. Davies
New York
Frank Frayne
West
Jersey City
Franklins
Franklin
Pawtucket
R.1
Buffalo Bill
Austin Brothers
Europe
Romantic Double Death by Own Action in New York
Albany reports that D Whitcomb, Cambridge businessman, and 17 year old Nellie Shaw died last week with identical symptoms. Post mortem shows corrosive mercury in Shaw. Both believed to have committed suicide by agreement due to legal barriers to their marriage.
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Albany
N. Y
D. Whitcomb
Cambridge
New York
Nellie Shaw
Miss Shaw
Whitcomb
Preacher Dow Invites Texts for Sunday Sermon in Monson
Years ago Lorenzo Dow the eccentric preacher visited Monson with Elder Bennett. After a Saturday gathering Dow offered to preach Sunday from any text if attendees handed him a strip of paper at the Baptist church door.
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Lorenzo Dow
Monson
Bennett
Dow
Baptist Church
Mysterious tramp travels fraught with political mania
A despondent Old Man With gray side whiskers wandered Kriposa Kansas December 4. He left Worcester Mass. on the 8th and drifted westward amid Democratic political chatter. Taken to the calaboose then released, he claimed a broken mind from a life of political labor and sought a peaceful state free of party strife.
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Kriposa
Kan
Calaboose
Worcester
Mass
New York
West
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Indiana
Massachusetts
Mim
Kansas
Journal
Globe
Pennsylvania Dwarfs Death of Little Minnie
Reading Pennsylvania dispatch reports Peter B Shearer of Stouversville father of two dwarfed children famed as among the smallest in the country. The elder Hannah Verdilla Shearer now 18 weighed 20 pounds, is blind, unable to walk or talk. Minnie died aged about eight or nine. she weighed ten pounds at six and had bright teeth and keen hearing. The parents cared for both like infants. crowds visited the children and medical men studied them. The note describes the children’s growth, appearance and limited abilities, and the family’s sorrow and devotion.
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Reading, L’enn
Peter B. Shearer
Stouversville
Hannah Verdilla Shearer
Anna Mineva
Minnie
Dillie
Boy shoots self during gunning at Salisbury Plains
Newburyport Mass December 2 three boys gunning at Salisbury Plains. John E True 13 years old was looking for a bird when his companion fired accidentally and the load struck him in the head. He died instantly.
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Newburyport
Mass
Salisbury Plains
John E. True
Workingmen Thrown Out of Employment at North Chicago Mills
CaicaGo December 4 The North Chicago Boning Mills shut down Thursday for want of work, throwing nearly 2000 men out of employment. The mills at South Chicago belonging to this corporation will continue to run as rails can be made there $5 cheaper than on the North Side. The steel mills at Joliet have also shut down until January 1.
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CaicaGo
North Chicago
South Chicago
Joliet
Tragic derailment on Delaware & Hudson bridge
In Plattsburg New York this afternoon a derailed platform car on a construction train toppled into the Saranac river. A mason from Troy and Patrick Murray of Cohoes were killed instantly. Two others are severely injured.
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Plattsburg, N
Delaware & Hudson Road
Saranac River
Efferon
Troy
Boss Mason
Patrick Murray
Cohoes
Woman Thrashed Deacon by Kate Kinser in Kansas Office
December 3 in Toppka Kansas Mrs Kate Kinser a pretty young woman visited James Seery a prominent businessman in his office an agricultural warehouse and gave him a severe thrashing with a horsewhip She says he insulted her yesterday at her home He denies the insult and claims blackmail scheme by her
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Toppka
Kan
Kate Kinsel
James Seery
Henry C Murphy Dies. Brooklyn Bridge Leader and Statesman
Henry C Murphy, 72, president of the Brooklyn Bridge Company, died Friday morning after pneumonia. A Brooklyn mayor in 1842, a U S congressman in 1848, and thrice elected to the New York State Senate, he also served as minister to a foreign country during President Buchanan's administration.
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New York
Henry C. Murphy
Brooklyn Bridge Company
Brooklyn
Congress
Buchanan
Ten Year Old Boy Hangs Self Over Unrequited Love
Davenport Iowa December 4 Willie Bohle aged 10 years committed death by own action last week by hanging himself to a rafter in his father's barn. A morbid and unrequited love for a neighbor's little girl is supposed to have been the cause of the child's act.
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Davenport
Willie Bohle
Prorogation and Foreign News From December Dispatches
Prorogation to February 15 is announced in London as Parliament ends its session. The Queen praises Egypt army success and notes no treaty with France but cordial ties persist. France faces unrest from anarchists and strikes while debates over Grevy’s health and a possible vice president stir fear of political chaos. Arabi Pasha faces trial with death sentence commuted to exile. a major bank in St Petersburg collapses. a Viennese woman hanged for poisoning husbands.
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Garnet Wolseley
Egypt
England
France
Ireland
Paris
Chamber
M. Leon Say
M. Grevy
National
French Republic
Grevy
Curfew Proclaimed in Ireland Under Repression Act
Privy Council meeting prolongs as Earl Spencer announces city curfew under the repression act. Police may arrest suspicious persons after sunset until before sunrise, with aims to target criminal designs. Freeman’s Journal warns of intensified evils, job loss, and potential unrest from curfew measures.
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Ireland
Drurix
Privy Council
Earl Spencer
Freeman's Journal Today
American Pork Import Banned in Germany Ordinance
Berlin December 1 The Bundesrath presented an ordinance forbidding all imports from America of pigs pork bacon and sausages. The chancellor is prevented from granting exceptions. It abolishes the June 26 1880 restriction and takes effect thirty days after promulgation. The June 25 1880 act covered minced pork and sausages only.
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Germany
Berlin
America
London-US Talks Reported on Joint France Policy
Rumors from Liverpool on December 2 suggest negotiations between England and the United States to appoint joint representatives to France in Cepcenson regarding France's Madagascar venture policy.
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Liverpool
the Mercury
England
United States
France
Cepcenson
Madagascar
Madagascar Trouble Denies Grandville Treaty Claim
In Paris on December 1 The Republique Francais rejects Lord Granville’s claim that no Franco Madagascar treaty exists and that France cannot act without English cooperation. The piece asserts that formal agreements and the ability to act are independent of Britain’s consent.
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Madagascar
Paris
Republique Francais
Lord Granville
France
England
Davitt Summoned to Court in Navan Ad
New York dispatch reports Irish leader Michael Davitt summoned before the Court of Queen's Bench in Navan on Tuesday. He declares he will not post bail and expects to be sent to prison.
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Michael Davitt
New York
New York Daily News
Doublin
Court of Queen's Bench
Navan
Poole and Devlin Stand Trial Over Detective Cox Murder
DuBLIN November 20 The murder investigation of Detective Cox continues. Poole, among yesterday’s arrestees, asserts he had no involvement in the killing and believes the others acted for their own reasons.
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Poole
Devine
Dublin
Cox
Thirteen Lives Lost In Lake Michigan Steam Barge Fire
A steam barge the Peters, bound from Chicago to Manistee, caught fire amid a bitter Lake Michigan storm off Milwaukee. The vessel sank with thirteen aboard including Captain John Larsen. the sail barge A W Lucky could not aid. The Peters owned by Sands of Milwaukee valued at $82,000.
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Chicago
KR. GQ. Peters
A. W. Lucky
Milwaukee
Manistee
John Larsen
Lucky
Hnally
Peters
Sands of
Porter Lee Convicted of Bank Embezzlement in Syracuse
Reuben Porter Lee of Buffalo was found guilty of embezzlement from the First National Bank where he rose from messenger boy to president. He allegedly used unsecured Hall & Co. discounts and his own notes, collapsing the bank, leading to a ten year sentence in Erie county penitentiary.
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Syracuse
Reuben Porter Lee
Buffalo
First National Bank
Herman J. Hall & Co
Hall & Co
Lee
Erie County
Desperate Train Robbery Foiled Near Blum Station
At Blum Station the northbound Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe express was boarded by three robbers who forced the engineer to move. A torpedo exploded signaling accomplices as a gunfight erupted with about seventy five shots. The guard fired effectively and the train sped away. No injuries reported. several bandits believed killed or wounded. two possibly captured.
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Dallas
Texas
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe
Blum Station
Corpse in Heavy Whiskey Barrel Found in Dayton Express Office
A dead man was found inside a large whiskey barrel left at the Dayton express office by a wagon driver. The barrel bore the label Dr J Gilley care of Dr Herman Cincinnati. Police were advised to track the barrel to a Cincinnati medical college. Suspected are two gamblers seen with cenry on clothing. widow of local farmer Pollock opposes further investigation.
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Dayton
United States Express Office
Express
J. ” Cilley
Herman
West Eighth Street
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Medical College
J. G. Pollock
Cen & Y
Mayor’s costly bid retaliation shocks Minneapolis readers
Minneapolis reports great excitement as the mayor, criticizing the Daily Tribune, orders arrests after midnight Saturday to enforce Sunday law. Acting Mayor Walsh countermanded the orders. The mayor planned to sue the Tribune for libel seeking $50,000 and targeted Tribune staff.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Daily Tribune
Spose
Washington
The
Tribune
Walsh
Grant letter says Porter injustice after review
General Grant furnishes a letter to Senator Cameron about the Fitz John Porter case. Grant states he began with Porter guilty as found by the court but, after investigation, believes Porter was unjustly treated and that the public benefited from reconsideration. He urges fair examination by any intelligent man or lawyer.
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General Grant
General Porter
New York
Senator Cameron
Fitz John Porter
Matt Carpenter Prophecy on Telegraph Trusts
In 1869 Matt H Carpenter predicted a near future of a single telegraph company in the United States and warned that unchecked railway consolidation would lead to a few magnates sitting in Wall Street and guiding continental commerce by candlelight. He was ridiculed yet persisted, similar to Galileo, while his opponents remained powerful.
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Matt Carpenter
Matt H. Carpenter
United States
Wall Street
Galileo
Centenarian Johannah Sullivan Dies in Bunker Hill District
Johannah Sullivan aged 100 dies at 14 Monument avenue in the Bunker Hill district. Born in Banharen Coorra, she came to Boston nearly 65 years ago and lived in Boston and Charlestown since 1817 except for brief periods in Old Concord and Lowell. She leaves four daughters.
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Bunker Hill District
Johannah Sullivan
Banharen
County Corre
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Lowell
Boston
Charlestown
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