Crisis of 1876 meeting reshaped electoral crisis
Washington March 9 Representative Blackburn recounted a meeting of thirty eight Southern congressmen in a hotel to decide their duty during the 1876 7 count. They voted to join Republicans to stop filibustering and defend the republic, despite pressure from Tilden supporters.
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Wasrington
Blackburn
Grant
Sunday Herald Today
D. Cameron
Chandler
Michigan
General Grant
Mr. Blackburn
Baltimore
Ben Hill
Georgia
Indiana
Steadman
Toledo
Hill
Erry Rusk
Congress
Wisconsin
Levy
Iisiana
House
Woll
Louisiana
M. ©. Butler
South Carolina
Hampton
Columbia
Mr. Tilden
Mr. Hewitt
Tilden
South
Judas Iscariot
Benedict Arnold
Tariff Question Debates In House Reported By Morrison
Washington March 9 The tariff bill will be reported to the House Monday by Mr Morrison with the majority views. Mr McKinley of Ohio files the minority report. The majority says last Congress tariff was a cheat and a fraud and urges tax relief and lower surplus revenues. The minority notes the last revision and urges delay to assess effects. A Democratic caucus will meet next week to whip opposition to tariff agitation.
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Washinorton
House
Morrison
McKinley
Ohio
Congress
Too Many Officeholders in Washington March 8
A resolution will be introduced in Congress calling attention to federal officers in various states seeking election as delegates to the Republican national convention and asking the civil service commission for information. The piece notes delegates named from New Orleans and lists several officeholders among both at large and district delegates, then warns of potential violations of civil service reform rules.
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Washington
Congress
Civil Service Commission
New Orleans
Kellogg
Pinchback
Dumont
Badger
Custom House
A. L. Martinez
George Drury
Internal Revenue
Louisiana
Rity
Pananeea
Sumner Urges Postal Telegraph Support in House Debate
In Washington on March 8 the House opened debate on the post office appropriation bill. Mr Townshend led the sub committee, Mr Horr urged larger postal funding, and Mr Sumner of California spoke for a Star telegraph. He argued the nation must provide for a postal telegraph as it does for mail transport, contrasting modern needs with methods from forty or fifty years ago.
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Washington
House
Townshend
Horr
Sumner
California
Only Man Voting Against Naval Appropriation
Washington March 9 In the House Mr Dorsheimer offered an amendment to the naval appropriation bill for 449 529 for steel vessel armament amid a heated debate. A statement by Mr Randall claiming 684 000 was available for arming cruisers was disputed by several members who read his figures. The amendment was rejected 93 to 119 and the bill passed with one nay by Mr White of Kentucky.
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Mr. White
Kentucky
Washington
Dorsheimer
N.Y
Randall
Messrs. Reid
Calkins
Horr
Ordnance Bureau
Ordnance
Morse
Massachusetts
A Bachelors Dinner at the White House
President Arthur hosts a state dinner for bachelors in Congress with only Mrs. McElroy as a lady guest. Democrats outnumber Republicans among the attendees, and jokes about politics and future power mark the lively event.
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Washington
Congress
McElroy
Arthur
Marine Band
Senator Jones
Florida
Lamar
Jones
Mr Arthur
Mrs. McElroy
Mississippi
Mr. Arthur
Ochiltree
Herr Lasker
Texas
Bismarck
Open Dakota Sioux Reservation to Settlement Under Bill
Senate Indian Affairs committee backs a bill opening 14,000 square miles of the Sioux reservation in Dakota for homestead entry at fifty cents an acre. The plan shifts land west to railroads, preserves Indian funds, and reaffirms the 1868 treaty requiring ratification by three quarters of male adults. Dawes committee to urge Sioux acceptance next summer amid mounting pressure.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Indian Affairs
Great Sioux
Dakota
Missouri River
Black Hills
Missouri
Northern Pacific
Milwaukee
Northwestern
Aera
Pierre
Hills
Dawes
Appointment clash stirs Maryland colored minister hopes
In Washington on March 9 a dispute over a colored minister for a Maryland regimental captain position escalates. A Prince George’s County preacher rallied politicians for a black candidate, but Secretary Lincoln favored a white appointee. Rumors say the decision harms Robert Lincoln’s political future.
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le Washington
Lincoln
Maryland
Prince George’s County
Lincan
Robert Lincoln
Bond Holders Across the United States
The treasury secretary reports 66 730 holders of United States registered bonds including 8 292 national banks. Eight percent bonds of 1882 held by 1 570 banks and 4 percent bonds of 1907 by 1 163 banks. Four and a half percent bonds of 1891 in 516 banks and 11 894 other holders. currency 6s held by 44 banks and 1 390 others.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Stormy Reichstag Debate Over Lasker Resolutions
Dispatches from Khartoum report clashes between friendly tribes and 1000 Arabs near Obeid, with Osman Digna's forces and El Mahdi factions shifting in Sudan. In Berlin, a stormy Reichstag session discussed the Lasker resolutions, with Hoffmann elected president and objections raised to Cobdenian precedents and Prussia’s action.
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Reichstag
Berlin
Herr Adolph Hoffmann
Herr Rickert
American Congress
Baron von Hammerstein
Herr Richter
Bismarck
United States
Herr von Hoetticher
Dunne
Albert Haenel
Kiel
Baron Maltzahn
Herr Boettteher
Braun
Prussia
Richard Cobden
Engleman
Aron Maltzahn
Germany
Herr Moeller
Circular seeks prefects' view on propaganda for Count of Paris
Paris reports a ministry circular asking prefects to state whether propaganda for the Count of Paris exists in their departments. The document hints at government readiness to expel the claimant at the earliest pretext. Monarchical papers react with anger while Republican organs approve.
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Paris
Ministry of the Interior
Compte de Paris
France
Wealthy English solicitors abscond with millions
Frederick Searle Parker and William Searle Parker of the firm U Parker solicitors at 17 Ford Street Wy.C. vanish with client Mobilities exceeding 5 million dollars. They served as financial agents for many wealthy clients, including nobility, with collapse blamed on failed speculation and client funds misused. Vienna reports three dynamite factories found and a city uneasy as bombs appear daily and a suspect is jailed for attempting to bring small bombs into the suburbs. Much dynamite used by terrorists is thought to come from America via Switzerland.
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Abso Rnd
Lonpoy
Frederick Searle Parker
Wiliam Searle Parker
Messrs. U Parker
Vienna
America
Switzerland
Par nellite plan to reopen Irish land question
Nellites in Lonpoy on March 7 announce anger at government delay to reopen the land question. They aim immediate agitation in Ireland, launch a special fund drive, hire Michael Davitt, and convene a leaders conference at Easter to outline the programme.
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Nellites
Lonpoy
Parnellites
Ireland
Michael Davitt
Redmonds at Queenstown Honor Irish Cause
The Redmond brothers at Queenstown receive many attentions as they note contributions to the National League have improved Irish conditions toward near independence from landlords. Jerome Collins' remains were buried in Cork with a large municipal funeral procession.
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Redmonds
Queenstown
London
Messrs
Redmond
National League
America
Australia
Jerome Collins
Cork
Lieutenant de Long
Dynamite for a Bourbon Found in Lyons Railway Station
An internal machine advertisement addressed to the Count de Paris was discovered at Lyons railway station. The notice indicates a possible threat or alert linked to royal figures as authorities investigate the incident and security protocols.
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Bourbon
Paris
Count de Paris
Lyons
Night Visitor Says Vandervort Family Slain in Ohio Home
A barefoot frightened woman visiting Mr M T Vandervort in Loveland Ohio awoke at midnight and leaped from a second story window. She claimed Vandervort’s family had been murdered and led watchmen to the house where a man with a revolver appeared at the window. Police and townspeople gathered.
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Loveland
Ohio
M. T. Vandervort
Vanderyort
Guest’s Safe Return After Murders Talk Deepens Fear
A family reports their guest felt unsettled after conversations about murders last night. The guest, never prone to narbulism, appears to have been deeply influenced by the discussion, while the household follows up on the troubling lines of talk.
Separation, Lot and Beunion After Fourteen Years
Fat River March 8. A 14 year old girl wrenched from a self serving guardian was raised by a benevolent couple and now a refined 21 year old with a good position. Her younger sister, taken to Boston years earlier by another woman, traced to Fall River where the two sisters were joyfully reunited after an emotional search spanning fourteen years. The sisters, now devout and accomplished, meet with tears and relief, illustrating Providence tempering life’s hardships.
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Fat River
Virginia
Fall River
Boston
Min
Wks
Bizarre My Father's Son Death Case Tangles Two Cavanuags
In Providence on March 10 a man from Woonsocket identified a pneumonia death at the Workingmen's Home as his missing son James Cavanaugh 27. The Woonsocket father and the McAvoy Street man each claim the body, each insisting the other is wrong. Officials meanwhile keep the body in custody as the feud unfolds.
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Providence
James Cavanaugh
Cavanaugh
McAvoy Street
James
Woonsocket
Mc Avoy Street
Yue
Levee Breach Floods Oldtown Arkansas Coast
Helena reports severe flooding after a 400 yard crevasse washed out the Oldtown levee. Inhabitants were moved to higher ground with no lives lost. Alvin B. Jones and family endured six days adrift with little food. Lower Helena and western Mississippi rail lines face weeks of repair.
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Helena
Ark
Oldtown
Alvin B. Jones
Colonel Jones
Jones
Mississippi
Kansas City
Memphis
Memhis
Litte Rock
Vicksurg
Vast storm floods Santa Clara Valley in California
TURNED INTO A VAST LAKE, SAN FRANCISCO, March 10 The storm of Saturday night and yesterday was the most severe experienced in many years. The Santa Clara valley for eighteen miles is a vast lake with damage to property fully 500000 dollars. It is still raining.
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San Francisco
Santa Clara Valley
Snow Storm Delays Rail Lines In New England
SouTH Framingham reports extensive damage to trees from the prior storm as freezing rain formed an ice cover. The Boston & Albany main track between SouTH Framingham and Holliston was impassable, trees bent over the road. Grand Trunk line trains face delays with deep snow and high winds causing slow tracks and late departures at Portland and Gorham.
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South
Framingham
Boston & Albany Railroad
Here
Holliston
Grand Trunk
Portland
Gorham
Snow blocks Maine Central trains to Farmington
It has snowed since Saturday morning and both rail and country roads are blocked. No trains have run over the Maine Central since Saturday morning in Farmington Maine.
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Maine Central
Farmington
Passengers Rescued After Train Falls Into Harlem River
A Harlem railroad train of three cars and an engine derailed at St Ann's avenue Morrisania and plunged into the Harlem river. Passengers were rescued by bystanders and brought ashore. One woman Maggie Maguire of Hunter's Point suffered a fractured skull but was treated. the rest escaped with minor injuries. The mishap occurred on the Port Chester line about 9:55 p.m. due to a broken rail.
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New York
St Ann’s Avenue
Morrisania
Harlem
Maggie Maguire
Hunter's Point
Port Chester
Mange
Ottawa altercation in Commons as Campbell assaults Mills
In Ottawa on March 9 Charles Campbell of Victoria North Ottawa entered the House intoxicated and savagely attacked Liberal David Mills of London with harsh language and a cane. Bystanders blocked the blow and Mills plans to raise the incident in the House tomorrow.
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Ottawa
Ont
House of Commons
Charles Campbell
Victoria
David Mills
London
Land grant forfeiture shift to reclaim vast Atlantic & Pacific lands
Washington March 8 The House committee on public lands voted unanimously to forfeit the unearned Atlantic and Pacific railroad land grant. The move would restore about 40 million acres to the public domain following the route from Vineta Indian Territory to Paletu on the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe line and from the Needles of the Colorado River to the Pacific Ocean.
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Washington
House Committee On Public Lands
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
Tis
Dama
Vineta
Indian Territory
Paletu
Colorado River
Pacific Ocean
Spirits in a Palace Seance Exposed by Archdukes in Vienna
A Tribune dispatch from Vienna details a staged seance at Archduke Johns palace for American medium Bastian. Crown Prince Rudolph Archduke John and others trapped the ghost illusion, revealing Bastian in socks as the supposed spirit. The event ended with laughter as Bastian fled into the street.
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the Tribune
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Crown Prince
Rudolph
Archduke John
Austria
Baron Helsenbach
London
Saltzburg
Linz
Rudulph
Archduke Rather
Archduke Ruiner
Prince Batthany
Baon Schimssingg
Baron Meussfengeo
Baron Hellenbach
Mr. Bastian
the &Peetitors
Hin
Salls
Baron Hellenbaeh
Mr. Bastian W.S
Ludolph
Archduke’s Palace
Chen
Haren Helenbach
Gasttin
Soa
Hanover
Flaying Out a Boy's Life in South Carolina
A Greenville dispatch from March 10 reports a brutal whipping by John Barnes a Black man who tied his sick nephew to a post and beat him with hickory switches until the boy died. Spectators and rescuers arrived as the crowd demanded Barnes be hanged, the case underscoring severe child cruelty.
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South Carolina
Greenville
D. C
John Barnes
Barnes
Jim
Lynching Tension Surges as Prisoner Is Apprehended
A fugitive was captured amid clashes between white residents and Black settlers. The incident led to threats of lynching as authorities moved the prisoner to Anderson jail. The boy, son of Barnes' sister, had been placed in the care of his uncle after his mother’s death last summer. The countryside near Townville woke to crowds vowing to take swift action against the detainee.
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Secon
Anderson Jai
Barnes
Bass Wania
Townville
Wagedy
Pee
Ex-Governor Sprague Faces Forced Ejectment at Estate
Providence dispatch reports ex governor William Sprague and his wife likely to be ousted from their Young Orchard avenue home after the Rhode Island Supreme Court overruled their lower court appeals. A writ of ejectment will be served, returnable in fourteen days, giving two weeks to decide. The Union Company seeks possession, aided by the passing of Sprague's mother who had previously blocked action. He may relocate to Canonchet, while competing claims to the estate persist.
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Providence
Sprague
William Sprague
Young Orchard Avenue
Supreme Court
Union Company
Moyig Ba
Hidy Sracae
Overnor
Canonchet
Cheese made of lard shocks State Senate probe
New York March 10. Dr W W Martin testified before a State Senate committee on food adulteration that a Cheshire Orange County factory produced cheeses mainly from lard mixed with butter at 75 to 26 percent. Lard was deodorized and rendered at near blood heat, and germs may survive. Dr Love found only six of thirty samples labeled pure butter were genuine, with imitations dominant and no olive oil traces detected.
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New York
State Senate
W. Martin
State Board of Health
Cheshire
Orange County
Love
Snow slide at Alta buries New Emma mine workers
A Friday night snow slide half a mile wide at Alta in Little Cottonwood district swamped the New Emma mine killing eleven men. Names include Gus Lybecker D D Wasson W W Wasson Samuel Prothers Charles Colgreen Mrs Charles Colgreen Edward Crockett Little Pilton C J Johnson N B Delano Willard Stephenson and John Richardson. All bodies except one recovered. The slide the worst here, with snow forty feet high. Superintendent George Cullins brought news of the tragedy.
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SaLt Lake Ciry
Alta
Emma
Gus Lybecker
D. D. Wasson
W. W. Wasson
Samuel Prothers
Charles Colgreen
Edward Crockett
Little Pilton
C. J. Johnson
Delano
Willard Stephenson
John Richardson
Little Cottonwood
Wassen Brothers
Port Henory
George Cullins
Caring for Their Cattle Immediate Action Takes in Maine
In Avanspa Maine March 10 officials report foot and mouth cases in the southwest of the state prompting action by a 1881 commission of practical farmers. The panel has visited affected towns, isolated each case, and enforced precautions to halt spread with full authority and readiness to act.
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Avanspa
Mare
Elephants Run Wild in Kent Town
Two elephants from Sanger's menagerie broke loose at a Kent depot after a train move. They charged through streets injuring two people seriously, smashed depot gates, and forced entry into a house where floorboards gave way. Other elephants aided in pulling them from the cellar amid chaos.
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Loupow
Sanger
Kent
Fnally
WIPING OUT A FAMILY Jealous Virginian kills wife and three children
A Despatch from Dela plane Fauquier county Virginia says John Ginscock murdered his wife and three children and then shot himself after setting fire to his house. The house fire was discovered and extinguished before severe damage occurred. John Ginscock was the second and youngest son of Thomas A Glascock, a wealthy local landowner.
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Baltimore
Delaplane
Fauquier County
John Glscock
John Ginscock
Thomas A. Glascock
Scheme for a Creat Canal to cross Manhattan
New York March 8 Mr Henry B Wood proposes a straight canal 300 feet wide crossing the island at about 125th street with 25 feet depth at low water and about 3 miles long The estimated cost including adjacent property ranges from 5 000 000 to 10 000 000 He thinks railroads entering New York would place freight depots along the canal and New Jersey railroads would reach it via carriage across the Hudson from the Palisades to Washington Heights.
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New York
Henry 8
Wood
Harlem
Hudson
New Jersey
Palisades
Washington Heights
Burning of a Wisconsin Landmark Eggiston Mill
News from Horicon reports a fire consuming the Eggiston mill, a historic Northwest landmark once owned by prominent state figures. Estimated loss about 15000 dollars with insurance around half that amount.
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Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Horicon
Eggieston
Northwest
Cattle Dealers Meet to Suppress Foot and Mouth Disease
In Emporia Kansas a large meeting of cattle dealers was held to organize efforts against foot and mouth disease. Resolutions urged citizens in affected districts to use all available means to stamp out the cattle plague.
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Kansas
Emporis
Kan
Death of the Champion Soda-Eater
WATERTOWN Wis March 10 Rev John G Hull died at Sioux Falls Oak Friday. De vened was known far and near as the Champion Soda Eater having partaken of large quantities of it as a remedy for a disordered stomach He is said to have consumed from ten to twelve pounds of soda per week for a long time prior to his death He was 88 years of age.
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Watertown
Wis
John G. Hull
Sioux Palls
Oak
Devened
Lily
Miracle or Improbable Escape in Imperial Russia
A daring tale from forbidden literature recounts a staged assassination plot in St. Petersburg. General Gourko eludes a phony prefect of police and an armed entourage as a mysterious visitor impersonates the prefect, nearly triggering an attack on the czar before the ruse collapses and the imposter is captured. The ultimate mastermind remains unnamed and imprisoned.
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St. Petersburg
Gourko
Odessa
Nevsky
St. Peters- Lure
Ehys
Don
Gourke
Liexander
Neva
Winter Palace
Cyar
Lis
Uils Point
Yebl
Lice
Wis Koug
Pulgepiay
Sinppees
Basil Island
Corsaeiea
Peter and
Paul
Miner boom in Coeur d Alene district drives rush to Eagle City
San Francisco reports over 2000 miners converging on the Coeur d Alene district. Eagle City houses about eighty cabins with a single restaurant serving meals and goods priced high. Quartz claims show surface veins ten to twelve feet wide, and most ground is already taken. Severe winter weather slows work for three months as towns Murrayville Butte Bear Gulch Raven rise above the creek routes.
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San Francisco
John L. Burns
Coeur d’Alene
Eagle City
Murrayville
Butte
Bear Gulch
Raven
Eagle Creek
Woman Defends White Husband in Arkansas Vigilante Scene
Helena Arkansas March 8 a white woman and Henry Casmon a colored man married in Manchester England arrived by steamer Mary Houston. At Glenmary Mississippi locals confronted the couple and Mrs Casmon drew a Colt revolver warning she would shoot if interfered. A warrant was sworn for illegal cohabitation. no one was harmed.
Monstrous Calf Birth Baffles Somerset Community
In Somerset Maine a cow near this town gave birth to a curious monstrosity. The creature is five feet in girth with a mud turtle like body and back, hairless except for leg fur, a small head and ears the size of silver dollars. It shows no sex and was nearly dead when found as the mother deserted it.
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Somerset
Woodstock Vermont reports unusual epidemic disease spread
In Woodstock Vermont March 9 an unusual illness resembles a bad cold but is more severe with glandular swelling in the throat. Attacks last about a month. many men are bedridden and unable to work. West Woodstock alone logged twenty cases with larger village totals unclear.
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Woodstock
Rutland
West Woodstock
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