Dethroned Allan Campbell Elected in His Stead
New York December 10 The extraordinary political coup d etat in the Board of Aldermen today ends Boss John Kelly and Tammany Hall power. Allan Campbell becomes the new figurehead as Kelly’s era collapses amid charges of patronage and fraud. Campbell, born in Albany in 1825, rises from civil engineer to railroad executive and public works commissioner, vowing to steer a changed Democratic machine.
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New York
Board of Aldermen
John Kelly
Tammany Hall
Elizabeth Street
Old Grammar School
Marion Street
Henry Dwyer
Grand Street
Kelly
Broome Street
Mott Street
George Molyneux
Fourteenth Ward
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Teresa Mullen
Cardinal MacCloskey
Congress
Tweed
Gumbleton
Robinson
General Hancock
Mr. Kelly
Jamaica
L. L
Slevin
Fox
Muller
P. G. Duffy
Morgan Jones
Kirk
John Morrisey
John Fox
Augustus Schell
Sachem
Cooper
Board of Supervisors
Allan Campbell
Albany
Lima
Callao
Harlem Railroad
Commodore Vanderbilt
Cumberland Coal Company
Ohio & Mississippi Railroad
Consolidated Bonds
Consolidation Coal Company of
Maryland
Fitz John Porter
Wickham
Kelly's Fight for Office Defeats Tammany Backing
The New York Sun reports a fierce struggle over Comptroller John Kelly's renomination. Tammany leaders pressed aldermen via threats and promises, while Kelly and allies sought to block Mayor Grace's nominees. Rumors swirled of eleven votes, with bets and counterclaims shaping the tense City Hall atmosphere.
Tammany Hall Power Vacuum After Assassination Fallout
The text notes a 1876 figure who had led the Board of Engineers and oversaw the Fourth Avenue project, describes a political blow to John Kelly, and foretells Tammany Hall reorganization with Justice Donohue named to lead, while Samuel J. Tilden exacts revenge via Mayor Cooper, leaving Kelly politically dead.
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Board of Engineers
Fourth Avenue
Alfred W. Craven
Buckhardt
Harlem Railroad
Joan C. Campbell
Board of Public Works
John Kelly
Tammany Hall
Justice Donohue
Supreme Court
Samuel J. Tilden
Cooper
Allan Campbell Confirmed for City Comptroller
In New York on December 10 Mayor Cooper sent Aldermen Allan Campbell as comptroller replacing John Kelly. After a heated session the vote to confirm Campbell passed 13 to 8 amid charges of Democratic deals and anti Tammany sentiment. Other nominations confirmed included Solon B. Smith police justice and Maurice Power as police justice.
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New York
Cooper
Allan Campbell
John Kelly
Verley
Kirk
Committee On
Haughton
Sauer
Tammany
Republican Party
Sauer Rose
Slevin
Shields
Morris
Arthur
Solon B. Smith
Maurice J. Power
Hugh Gardner
William Lambeer
William P. Mitchell
Morris Friendsom
Hubert O. Thompson
Anti- Tammany
Public Works
William C. Whitney
anti-Tammany
Salem H. Wales
John D. Lawson
Tax Commission
Bailiff Shot Dead by Farmer at Cookstown
Reports from Ireland detail a fatal shooting of bailiff Mulhull by farmer Gormley at Cookstown while executing a decree. Forthright measures urged by Chief Secretary Forster aim to curb unlawful assemblies as unrest rises across Ulster and Wicklow eviction scenes provoke anger and tragedy.
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Cookstown
Forster
Dupin
Mr. Mulhull
Gormley
Newry
Ireland
Floating Hell on Switz erland voyage to America
English and other passengers describe the Switz erland voyage from Antwerp to New York as a horrific, overcrowded crossing. Immigrants allege filthy conditions, scant lighting, rationed water, foul bedding, and rough treatment by officers and crew during the Red Star line trip.
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New York
Switzerland
Red Star Line
Nebraska
Hull
London
Antwerp
Thompson resigns navy secretary to lead Panama Canal Company
Indiana's R W Thompson resigns as secretary of the navy to accept the presidency of the American branch of the Panama Canal Company led by M de Lesseps. The branch forms in October, with $120,000,000 subscribed so far. Thompson arrived from New York and cites confidential associates to be named after organization.
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Panama Canal
Washington
R.W. Thompson
Indiana
Navy
Hayes
Thompson
Panama Canal Company
M. de Lesseps
New York
National Associated Press
Philp as a Lecturer In Brooklyn At Academy Of Music
About 200 attendees including around 50 women gathered at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn to hear Kenward Philp speak on Morey Antique. He mocked the grand jury system as barbaric, defended obeying orders, and accused press figures of calling Grant as liar while noting a $50,000 Republican committee payment to prosecute him. his views on conviction shifted recently.
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DuBuy
Land League
League
Ireland
Murrey
County Limerick
John Hayes
Croker Barrington
Ryan
Hayes
Connoly
The
Brookeborough
Ulster
Brooklyn
Academy of Music
Kenward Philp
Garfield
New York Sun
National Republican Meee Committee
George Bliss
World's fair committee selects Inwood site for 1883 exposition
The New York World's Fair Committee adopted a report favoring the Inwood site for the 1883 exposition. Located eight miles from Manhattan on the New York Central and Hudson River railroad the area covers about 250 acres.
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New York
Inwood
New York Central
Hudson River
How to Cure Corns With Pike's Salve and Foot Fit
A short home remedy note advises wearing properly fitting shoes and applying Pike's Centennial Salve to corn pain. It promises relief from soreness when used consistently until all signs disappear. Also claims Ike's Centennial Salt Rheum Salve can cure various issues like coins, chapped hands, sore head, burns, or bruises across humanity.
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Pike
Toils of a Queer Case Unfolds in Providence Defense
An Rhode Island case centers on Dr Virgil C Harden accused of unprofessional conduct and later adultery and bastardy. The woman Sarah Kelly testified Harden wooed her wife, attempted poisoning, and a night scene with morphine and poison was described. Warrant issued December 4 and Harden jailed. grand jury sessions and witness confrontations followed amid ongoing investigations.
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Providence
Virgil C. Harden
Sarah Kelly
Hannah Kelly
Sarah
Wightman
Harden
Cena
Train Wreck Near New Ulm After Axle Breaks
A passenger snowbound train suffered a rear-tender axle failure five miles east of New Ulm at 2 80 o clock Thursday morning. Cars derailed into a snow bank on a level prairie, one baggage car was partially destroyed by fire, others wrecked. Passengers shaken but unharmed. temperature was 20 below zero with considerable cold. Engine from New Ulm moved passengers back. Superintendent Sanborn directed track repairs and by 3 pm the road reopened.
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New Ulm
Sanborn
Iowa Division
Eighty seven miners killed in Penygrig Pit explosion
An early morning blast at Penygrig colliery in Rhondda valley traps and kills eighty seven miners. An exploring party uncovers sixteen bodies as officials rush to the scene to aid grieving families amid dangerous gas conditions.
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Penygrig
Wales
Canover
Rhondda
Dinas
Fire Record Destructive Pensacola Blaze Destroys Town Center
Fire swept nine tenths of Pensacola's business district on December 11, destroying vast blocks from Romana to Tarragossa streets. Loss estimated at 500000 dollars with two seriously burned. The fire, starting in a confectionery, overwhelmed steam power left in repair, gutting The Gazette and Advance offices and triggering widespread merchant losses including a large number of dry goods, groceries, hardware, and post office buildings.
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Gazette
Trater & Monroe
W. B. Hoyt
W. I
A. Chasbonier
H. Rosenstein
N. B. Cook & Co
A. L
A. M. Avery
P. Maloney
A. Arbani
L. M. Davis & Co
W.S
H. G. Carter
James Ward
Boots
J. B. Watson
Caver & White
Koln
P. Stone
W. F. Fordham & Co
H. White
Western Union
the Telephone Exchange
H. C. Cushman
Merino
Tarnes
Firemen Perish In Cincinnati Blaze At Royal Roofing Yard
Five firemen die during a Cincinnati warehouse fire that damaged J P Gays roofing material lampblack and varnish factory on East Sixth street. The blaze also destroyed three or four story buildings including Crown Manufacturing Company premises. Damage totaled 25000 dollars.
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Cincinnati
J. P. Gay & Co
East Sixth Street
Crown Manufacturing Company
Andrew Barret
David Love
William Kelly
Edward Barker
Thomas Coaling
Louis Wesley
Finest Baltimore residence destroyed by fire
The North Charles street mansion built by J. Stricker Jenkins and valued at $75,000 burned after 5 this morning. Charlies D. Fisher of Gill & Fisher had recently bought it for $55,000 and moved in about a month ago. Two enslaved servants escaped by upper windows after being warned not to, both leaping to safety as flames cut off their exit. Only the walls remained at dawn.
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Ennis
County Clare
Lyons
O'Callaghan
Limerick
Swaniin
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Belcor
Pettigo
Inniskillen
Tipperary
Cachel
Megs
Sranaphen
Sarah
Palmer
Baltimore
J. Stricker Jenkins
Charles Street
First Square
Washington Monument
Charlies D. Fisher
Gill & Fisher
United States Marshal Fatally Stabbed in Brooklyn Gallery
United States deputy marshal Thomas F. Slater was stabbed three times in the neck by counterfeiter A Yates in a Brooklyn photograph gallery. Yates resisted capture, wounded Slater, and was subdued by officers James Liggert and F W Angell before being taken to the police station. Slater died expectedly from his wounds. Yates had a prior homicide charge and federal sentence history.
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F. W. Angell
United States District Attorney
Yates
Slater
Marshal Liggert
Officer Curran
Metropolitan Police Force
Patesyoneny
Bloody Family Affray at Maybinton Sale Result
In Spartansburg a sale near Maybinton led to a fatal shooting when John Lyles killed John Thomas in self defense after Thomas’s son-in-law J J Thomas and a third man were wounded. Lyles, with two deceased wives, faced a family dispute over their property. In New York a woman shot at a robber in self defense after he demanded money and life, then returned fire.
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D. C
John L.lyles
Newberry County
Maybinton
John Thomas
J. J. Thomas
James Thomas
James
Lyles
Thomas
New York
George McNeil
Second Street
JacNeil
Coal Famine Grips Western Towns Amid Cold Weather
December reports from OmAwA describe a coal famine west of the Missouri. In Friendville Nebraska and Gratton trains carrying coal were seized by citizens and coal confiscated. A clash occurred at Gratton when the train heads were confronted by locals.
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Omawa
Missouri River
Friendville
Neb
Gratton
Shocking double crime in Lawrence as man kills woman
Lawr ence December 12. Knapten Wardman a former Washington mills overseer shoots Miss Avis Pinkham 29 then returns home and shoots himself. Wardman dies from a right ear wound. Miss Pinkham dies at the scene. Wardman a Bradford native, married 13 years with two children, suspected of liquor use.
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Knapten Wardman
Worsted
Washington Villa
Arlington Wills
Avis Pinkham
No. 9 Pacific Corporation
Wardman
Miss Pinkham
Pacific Corporation
Lunt
Lincoln Street
Hampshire
Canal Street
Washington Corporation
Black
McCoy
Carlton
Chase
Bradford
Yorkshire
England
Washington Mills
Arlington Mills
Kiffie
Ella
Ash Street
City
Haverhill
Philadelphia
Illinois
Twenty Two Lives Lost In Cape Breton Wreck
A private letter from the Bay of St Lawrence reports a vessel lost at Pleasant Bay near Cheticamp in a late gale. Twenty two persons perished. No details on name rig or nationality are yet available due to poor telegraph and mail service.
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Pleasant Bay
Cape Breton
Dark Day in Porkopolis Promises Stomach Purifier
A dated blurb from Crxvernnxall reports heavy darkness at 11 am and gaslights lit indoors. It claims nineteen-twentieths of illnesses stem from weak stomachs and promotes D. R. V. G. as a stomach purifier, guaranteed by all druggists and urged for sale.
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Porkopolis
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