Unity of Anti-Grant Forces in the Bay State Shifts Tilden
Washington reports say Tilden loses ground rapidly for the Democratic nomination as Pennsylvania antitilden forces push to seat a regular Philadelphia delegation and convene in Harrisburg in April. Virginia senators and Readjusters join the opposition, warning against Tilden's viability at Cincinnati.
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Bay State
Washington
Tilden
Pennsylvania
Democratic State Committee
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Speaker Randall
Cincinnati
C. T. Smith
Democratic State Central Committee
Virgia
Virginia
Major Smith
Virgerie
Democratic State Central Committee of
Recall of Chinese minister Seward dominates capital tumult
A heated national debate centers on Minister Seward as President Hayes seeks to end the Shanghai consulate scandal by recalling him before impeachment. The State Department pressed for his resignation months ago, claiming his misdeeds have disgraced the nation while denying Congress full access to supporting documents. The administration faces backlash for alleged suppression and seeks to shield Seward with a new China treaty credit.
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Hayes
Shanghai
Seward
Congress
White House
State Department
China
Department
Wamed Srr Graph Protected, Secrators. von Tit Ebibear
Anne
Belknap
Mosby
Nister Seward
Evarts
Uther
Interview Debating Star Route Service And Post Office Actions
Washington March 16. Congressman Blount of Georgia critiques post office excesses in star route funding. He argues officials knowingly caused large deficiencies and threaten Congress to secure funds, calling for impeachment implications and nonpartisan public interest scrutiny.
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F Washiletes
Congressman Blount
Georgia
Appropriations Committee
House
Post Office Department
Blount
Public Service
Congress
Post Office
Committee of the House
Postmaster-General
Department
Brady
Hawley
Post-Office Department
Post Office Star Routes Debated in Congress
Democratic lawmakers push for lenient star route funding arguing routes run mainly in Democratic areas while Republicans seek cost containment. The core issue is whether the government should overpay for star service or cut back to avoid annual deficits, despite adequate appropriations.
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Congress
Post Office Department
Ladd Opposes Wood Refunding Bill in House Speech
Congressman Ladd drew broad attention with a house speech opposing Fernando Wood’s refunding bill. He denounced it as promoting four evils: the banking system’s paper currency control, bondholding tax exemptions, silver remonetization aims, and an expensive government serving favored classes. He urged continuing legal tender notes, redeeming maturing bonds from treasury surplus, taxing income on higher earnings, cutting non debt expenses, remonetizing silver, and issuing treasury notes to fund revenue.
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Congressman Ladd
House
Fernando Wood
Ladd
Wood
Treasury
The Sage of Walpole A Massachusetts Political Visit
Hon. Frank W. Bird visits Boston to aid a friend with treasury matters and to push for an appropriation for Taunton River. He expects to return tomorrow night and plans meetings with old associates including Secretary Schurz. He suggests a possible cross party anti Republican union in Massachusetts to carry both national and state elections if Grant is nominated by Republicans and Bayard by Democrats.
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Frank W. Bird
Treasury Department
Taunton River
Boston
Schurz
Massachusetts
Grant
Bayard
Chicago
Washburn bribery case clouds Minnesota seat bid
Washington March 18 report from the House sub committee on the Donnelly versus Washburn contest details systematic bribery and intimidation aimed at swaying the Minnesota election. It lists payments and votes across a 400 by 100 mile region, with Washburn connected to many cases. The committee seeks to declare Washburn unseated and Donnelly rightful winner.
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Washington
House
Minnesota
Donnelly Vs. Washburn
Washburn
Manning
William D. Washburn
Ignatius Donnelly
Charlies Berens
North Prairie
Morrison County
J. W. Bromer
United States
St. Cloud
Bromer
Bremer
Berens
Kittston County
St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company
Arthur J. White
E. P. Webster
Railroad
Minneapolis
Crime in High Life Involves Forgery and Arsenic Poison Plot
A Cambridge case centers on Homer Wellington a partner in Utley and Boynton accused of forging firm entries totaling three to four thousand dollars while suspected of poisoning his wife with arsenic hidden in gruel. Detectives arrested him after investigators linked the poison to a nurse maid and a mysterious accomplice, Henry Hallett, with ongoing questions about a servant’s death in 1879.
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Cambridge
Morris Boynton
Utley & Boynton
Wiggin and Wood
Homer Wellington
Utley and Boynton
Hiomer
E. 8. Wood
Marston
Wellington
Messrs
Boston
Hallett
Mang
Mr. Oynton
W. E. Jewell
Maggie O'Brien
Tammany Refuses To Back Tilden In Any Case
New York March 17. Democrats outside the state fail to unite on Tilden and anti Tilden factions. Controller Kelly declares Tammany will not support Tilden as a nominee, despite having influence with many Democrats statewide. 209 opposition to Linden.
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New York
Kelly
Tammany
Tilden
Sand Lotter unrest flares as Kearneyites denounced
In San Francisco radical activists linked to Kearney and his followers face intensified tactics as Mayor Kalloch denounces Rev. Hemphill. Incendiary rhetoric continues at sand lots with threats of rifles and violence. Kalloch also launches a weekly People’s Tribune and plans a lecture tour to promote anti Chinese agitation.
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San Francisco
Kearney
Citizens Protective Union
Hemphill
Steenanan
Gale on the Texan coast ship Reform Leader lost
A strong twenty four hour gale battered Galveston harbor causing ship Reform Leader to break from anchor and wreck with 3600 bales of cotton aboard. Fifteen stevedores and two pilots were lost. Rescue attempts by revenue cutter McLean failed. Rumor of City of Mexico with General Grant aboard unsettles harbor as General Ord arrives to meet Grant.
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Tex
Havre
United States Revenue Cutter
McLean
City of Mexico
Grant
New Orleans
United States
General Ord
Pen Antonio
Ran
Maine Mariner Believed Drowned Returns From Ocean
Frank Durning of Belfast survived a schooner Helen M Condon wreck in a late August gale. He and another swam to two planks, were rescued by the schooner Maggie Gray near Delaware Breakwater, then later sailed to Baltimore and onward to Africa and the East Indies.
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Helen M. Condon
Frank Durning
Baltimore
Africa
Philadelphia
Delaware
Condon
Magge Gray
East Indies
Revolt of Regulators Ends in Hasty Lynching near Grayson
A detachment of 100 regulators rode to James Binion's home on Big Sinking Creek in Carter County Kentucky to seize John Boggs. After Binion fired on the group, Binion was killed. Regulators seized Boggs, hanged him at a tree, and fired on his body before disposing of the corpse. Mrs Binion was injured.
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Crverxnatt
Grayson
Big Sinking Creek
Carter County
James Binion
John Boggs
Binion
Boggs
Murder Plot Unfolds In Iowa Feud Headlined 100 Per Life
Des Moines report says Howeye and Westfall families feud in Warren county Iowa led to a two year-old shooting. Reuben Westfall wounded while hog hunting. George Wheeler admits hiring Howeyes to kill the Westfalls for 100 dollars per head with 200 dollars for completing the last fatal. Four Howeyes arrested, two more detained, others at large.
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Chicago
Des Moines
Howeye
Westfall
Warren County
Iowa
Reuben Westfall
George Wheeler
Howeyes
Wheeler
Why Do Not the People Elect Their Own Candidates?
New York edition notes an editorial asking if the American people lack vitality and will rally to defeat attempts to amend Washington's precedent by electing a president a third time. The piece questions why citizens do not nominate and elect their own candidates without party interference.
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New York
the Sun
Washington
Disaster strikes grain millers in Grand Rapids bank collapse
Report from Grand Rapids Michigan on March 18 states the failure of Hibbard and Graff millers, with L H Randall bank president and H W Hinsdale capitalist involved. Mobilities heavy and include 400,000 borrowed dollars. Cause linked to grain option speculation.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Hibbard & Graff, Millers
L. H. Randall
Farmers and Mechanics’ Bank
H. W. Hinsdale
Foreign News and Parnell Campaign Movements
Reports from St Petersburg describe Russia delaying talks with China until the Livadia treaty is ratified and new tensions rise as Chinese actions press into Russian territory. In Ireland, Parnell's campaign plan unfolds with visits to Queenstown and Dublin, as Home Rule and Land League contingents greet him. Russia threatens to sever ties with Turkey over the Comberoff assassination case, prompting cautious official responses in Constantinople.
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Turkey
Constantinople
St. Petersburg
Comeroff
Alleged Confession of Martmann the Nihiliat
Londown reports Hartmann, fresh from Paris, claims he planned and executed the Moscow bombing with friends. He says he hired the house for the boiler and acted to mislead investigators, fled after the blast, and now plans to aid Nikists from the United States. He warns Russia and France risk diplomatic rupture over his case.
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Hartmann
Paris
Russia
Moscow
Aczor
St. Petersburg
United States
France
South American War Readies Decisive Chilean Attack on Arica
Panama March 10. Reports indicate a forthcoming decisive Chilean assault in Tarapaca with 17,000 to 19,000 troops ready to embark. General Montero’s 12,000 troops plus 4,000 Bolivians reinforce Bolivian and Veruguian forces as Lima hosts about 20,000 troops. Chilean navy backs operations from Pisagua and Arica, while new war orders authorize bombardment of forts and rail lines and harsh penalties for unregistered combatants.
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South Pacific
Arica
Lima
Pisagua
Pilcomays
Huascar
Peru
Santiago
Tarapaca
Albarracin
Escala
Tarapac
Basilis Urrutia
Pierrola Inerson
Finance and Commerce
San Jose Maria Quimpier
Twenty Million Cartridges Ordered From Winchester Arms
The New York Herald reports Winchester Arms will manufacture 15 to 20 million cartridges for the Chinese government. It notes this is the first such order by China to foreigners and that Europeans may arm China to counter Russia. Rumors speak of British shipments of guns to China and planned actions in Central Asia.
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Winchester Arms Company
New York
England
China
Great Britain
Lord Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield
Russia
Central Asia
Herat
India
Irish Distress in Mayo Warns of Famine Return
The Irish distress report from Mayo cites widespread hunger and no work, with only Indian meat allowed from relief. Seed potatoes have been eaten, funds may avert starvation until May, but gravest results loom if donations stop, per London cable via Mr Redpath.
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New York
the Tribune
London
Redpath
Mayo
Relief Committee
Peculiar Railroad Calamity Kills Three at Annville
An eastern bound Lightning Express crashed into a crowd at Annville station on Lebanon Valley railroad. A man was killed by the cowcatcher and several others died or were fatally injured. Names listed include Michael Bachman Fontana John Flickinger James Datmer A Griffith among those injured.
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Penn
Lebanon Valley
Annuille
Akees
Michael Bachman
Fontana
John Flickinger
James Datmer
A. Griffith
Nown
Tragedy in St Louis: Husband Kills Wife and Infant Then Wounds Brother
In St Louis suburbs early today Conrad Hieman, after a delirium tremens episode, fatally stabbed his wife at breakfast and pierced the infant in her arms. He also stabbed his brother when the brother tried to intervene, then fled toward the river and remained at large.
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St. Louis
Conrad Hieman
Broadway
Wright Street
Hieman
International pigeon shooting winner marks Florence match
Frederick Sands of Rhode Island won the grand international pigeon shooting match in Fiorencer Florence. A Narragansett gun club member, he previously won the Newport Subscription cup with ten birds hit, and later tied for another cup before securing a Colt’s gun in sweepstakes.
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Fiorencer
Prince Paul Demidoff
San Donato
Frederick Sands
Rhode Island
Narragansett Gun Club
Newport
Electric light exhibit at 226 West 34th Street in New York
The Sawyer electric light was shown with six lamps delivering about twenty seven candle power each and a switch to adjust brightness without affecting other lamps. A carbon pencil auto-feed device was demonstrated but not yet used. A cement seals glass cylinders to keep nitrogen pure for months and recharged cheaply. Electricity came from a generator a quarter mile away. Walrz Riven Junction Vermont March 19.
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New York
West Firty-fourth Street
Erring Daughter in Cincinnati Plea for Help
Dr Herman Schroeder reported his daughter Mrs America Abbott eloped with J C Mahan a Lake Erie and Western conductor and now sends word from Cincinnati claiming Mahan deserted her leaving her penniless and with her jewelry stolen and threatens self harm unless given money. the father wired Cincinnati friends to assist.
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BloominGray, I
Herman Schroeder
America Abbott
J. C. Mahan
Lake Erie and Western
Cincinnati
Mahan
Wife-Fatal Shooting by Husband in CuIoaco Dawn
Martin Powers fired twice at his wife at the breakfast table wounding her fatally before turning the gun on himself. He shot twice, one bullet penetrated his brain, in a suspected frenzy. The woman is incomunicable and the full motive remains unclear.
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CuIoaco
Martin Powers
Powers
Colored miner shot amid Molly Maguires fear in Illinois
Rapiperry Illinois reports a colored miner at the Taylor Williams shaft was shot through the heart by a concealed assailant amid Molly Maguires threats against black miners replacing strikers. James Berry and 8 Baker were arrested. William Mee warned sternly before resuming work. further trouble anticipated.
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Rapiperry
Taylor Williams
Molly Maguires
James Berry
Baker
Illiammee
A New Factor in Murder Trials
Saratoga New York March 20 Jesse Billings the alleged wife murderer has engaged Rev H A Hayden to lecture in Saratoga the day before his trial.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Jesse Billings
H. A. Hayden
Runaway Lord Returns to Be Forgiven in Scots Tale
New York reports George Essex Monti fex Lord Drummond, heir to the Earl of Perth, fled to America after marrying his grandmother's maid. He lived in Brookhaven as a fisherman, later moved to New York as a drug-house porter, fathering a son. A reconciliation with the Earl is believed to have occurred. his wife, though educated less, is capable and Cockney speaking.
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George Essex Montifex
Drummond
Earl of Perth
Scotland
Brook Haven
Long Island
George
Pouness
Walter Campbell
Duke of Argyll
Lorne
Fall Of A Hall Floor Traps 500 At Brumata Event
In Brumata Pennsylvania on March 22 during a public school entertainment in Lincoln public hall about 500 people were present when part of the floor collapsed sending between 100 and 150 to the floor below. About thirty were injured some seriously including Mrs. Koenicher Miss Bowman Miss Springer Miss Miller Miss Erb and Miss Bingaman. Some escaped by jumping from twelve foot high windows. Two coal oil lamps toppled during the panic starting a small fire but the blaze was extinguished. Neighbors faced intense excitement and it remained uncertain whether all injured would survive.
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Wellington
Anne
Homer
Brumata
Penn
Lincoln
Jacob Koenicher
Isses Alice Bowman
Ada Springer
Ada Miller
Laura Erb
Christie Bingaman
Kellis Lumber Mill Boiler Explosion Kills Thirty In Letellers
A Kellis lumber mill boiler explosion at Letellers destroyed the mill and adjacent properties last night. Thirty workers were killed and extensive damage followed the blast as emergency crews investigated the disaster in Galveston reporting.
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Galveston
Phelps
Kellis
Letellers Switch
Unity of Life Disease and Cure in Brandreth Cure
A 1830 discussion by B Brandreth extols unity of life and disease and urges Brandreth's Pills and Allcock's Plasters as universal cures. It claims pills purify blood, plaster externalizes treatment, and cites royal endorsements and a Sing Sing company lineage. The piece promotes holistic, heat and blood-focused medicine.
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Brandreth
Allcock
Sing Sing
A. Brandsken
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