President Withdraws New York Nominations in Senate Clash
Washington report details the White House move to withdraw all New York nominations except Robertson as part of a direct partisan clash with Senator Conkling. The action triggers swift reactions in the Senate amid debate on the Chinese treaty, with editors and Democratic senators weighing the stakes and potential for Robertson's confirmation.
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Senate
Conkling
New York
Robertson
Jackson
Johnson
Garfield
Platt
Arthur
Senator Platt
Gorham
Post
Mr. Conkling
Senate ratifies Chinese immigrant treaty amid Pacific coast support
The Senate approved the Chinese immigrant treaty in a swift session with only four voting against. Proponents, including Farley and General Miller, argued for national police power to block unfit aliens, while Hoar led the opposition. Jones clashed with Hoar over labor and immigration, reflecting a broader Pacific coast sentiment.
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Washington
Senate
Messrs. Dawes
Hawley
McMillan
Hoar
Farley
Miller
California
Jones
New England
Garfield's Presidency under fire in the Senate reform clash
The National Republican denounces Garfield as a presidential dictator and attacks his attempts to control New York Republican leadership. Washington reports show bonds exchanged, a looming deadline for 3% to 6% bond swaps, and calls for Senate action on Stanley Matthews. Notes mention Hull envoy appointment and Garfi Ield allies shaping Virginia strategy alongside a Cincinnati editorial.
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Edward Howard
Connecticut
United States
Hull
England
Garfield
Mahone
Virginia
Murat Halstead
Cincinnati
Washington
John Sherman
Robertson
Terrible catastrophe near Magellan sinks Doteril
A cablegram from Montevideo reports the sloop Doteril blown up off Sandy Point in the Straits of Magellan on April 26. The 1100 ton composite steam sloop with six guns was commissioned at Chatham last December and was en route to relieve the Penguin on the Pacific station. Of 140 crew, only eleven were saved, many from Chatham, with the cause of the disaster remaining a mystery.
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Montevideo
Sandy Point
Straits of Magellan
Chatham
Pacific
Died in a Dentist's Chair From Chloroform Overdose
Aug 8 reports from Townsend detail the death of Carrie A. Wells age 24 wife of hotel proprietor Wells after chloroform used for tooth extraction by Dr Boynton. Medical Examiner Dr Hartwell found all organs healthy. Townsfolk report prior death in the doctor’s office.
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Carrie A. Wells
Wells
West Townsend
Boynton
B. H. Hartwell
Ayer
Beer Bottle Incident Endangers Child in New York
In New York on May 9 a 23 year old man Cornelius McEnroe faced a crowd of children and threw a beer bottle at them. The bottle struck Albertina White a 10 year old girl and fractured her skull.
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New York
Cornelius McEnroe
Albertina White
Vienna Festivities For Rudolph and Stephanie Tea
Vienna witnesses a grand festival for Rudolph and Stephanie with Hungarian Austrian and Croatian delegates in national dress. A vast crowd fills Schonbuern and Prater as the imperial cortege travels to the burgomaster, fireworks conclude the celebration amid heavy weather.
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Princ Stephanie
Schonbuern
Prater
Vienna
Turbulent events in Havre and Constantinople stun Europe
A large quantity of machinery awaits entry under the new tariff at Havre. In Constantinople, Abdul Aziz’s death prompts arrests as the palace seeks to prevent rivals from seizing power. Exile and quiet settlement of accused officers are reported, with Mahmunu Damad Pasha said to be sent abroad.
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Abdul Aziz
Orr
Lonpox
Constantinople
Shilton Abdu Aziz
Mahmonu Damad Pasha
Hosphorus
Oaths Bill Debate Splits Government in Commons
In the House of Commons last evening a stirring debate on the oaths bill saw Tories resist and obstruct. The government won by a narrow majority and the session adjourned amid the divisions.
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Londen
House of Commons
Despotism in Ireland Ties Arrest to Shootings
May 9 Dublin reports detail Leaney’s arrest as accessory to shooting linked to boy Farrell. Dillon’s arrest curbs lawless activity. Gibbons, James Gibbons, and John Mann, near Roscommon, seized under coercion act and sent to Galway. Gordon to stand trial at Castlebar for inciting murder. Leaney named as a tannery manager and Nationalist, related to O Donovan Rossa case. more arrests expected in the city. Sullivan calls for unity in Home Rule party at Irish Club opening.
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Doublin
Leaney
Farrell
Dillon
Lawless
Michael Gibbons
James Gibbons
John Mann
Roscommon
Galway
Castlebar Assizes
P. J. Gordon
Kilmainham
Mayo
O'Donovan Rossa
Levy
Land League
The
London
A. M. Sullivan
Irish Club
Conversation by Electrophone Undersea Telegraph Link
The Paris daily reports a Calais to Dover experiment using a new electrophone telephone over a submarine cable. Voices heard clearly at the far end while telegraph messages ran on other wires, with witnesses including Sir James Carmichael and Sabine. The inventor claims transatlantic conversation is as easy as room to room.
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London Daily Telegraph
Calais
Dover
Electrophone
James Carmichael
Submarine Telegraph Company
Sabine
Despointes
Dreamland
Atlantic
Orangemen Threaten Monuments Words Removal Fight
In May 1877 a Briton, Thomas Lett Hackett, was killed by a mob opposing Orangemen. A monument in Victoria Square bears the inscription Irish Roman Catholic mob, which cemetery directors say is improper and threaten to erase unless the Orangemen yield. The clash involves ownership claims over the gravesite and potential legal action.
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Mooon
Trral
Thomas Lett Hackett
Victoria Square
Dominion
Orangemen
Possible Murder in the Hundred Wives Company at McVicker's
May 7 Curiaco. At 10 o clock last Thursday night, backstage during the play One Hundred Wives, Charles Rolf who plays Dickson allegedly threw Will Harris who plays Edward Bradford from a cliff scene two weeks ago. Harris then attacked Rolf with a sling shot in the dressing room, striking him on the forehead and seriously injuring him. Harris was arrested. Rolf received medical care.
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Curiaco
McVicker's Theatre
Charles Rolf
Dickson
Will Harris
Edward Bradford
Rolf
Harris
Shooting at Dedham Street Leaves Swede Father Wounded
A table shooting on Dedham Street in Slyde Park injures Charles Sandeen, about 60, as his son George, 18, attempted to draw back a revolver’s hammer. The gun fired into the father’s breast just above the navel. Doctors ordered his removal to City Hospital. George is distraught over the accident.
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Slyde Park
Charles Sandeen
George
Czar Hesitates as Empress Influences Reform Debate
Vienna dispatch reports the new Czar wavers between autocracy and limited reform, swayed by his wife who fears popular rule. Nine of fourteen ministers back an elective council, but its fate remains uncertain as authorities weigh the danger of upheaval against pressure for August change.
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Vienna
St. Petersburg
Mariakopf
Freight Train Plows Through Burning Bridge Resulting Fire
GREENBAY Wis May 8 A freight train on the Greenbay and Minnesota road with ten cars and an engine passed a burning bridge between Elm Lake and Dexterville stations. The center spans were on fire unnoticed until impact. cars piled on the locomotive and burned with all contents destroyed. The engineer was badly hurt but not fatally. fireman escaped. The blaze is attributed to arson and total damage is about 30000 dollars.
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Greenbay
Wis
Minnesota
Elm Lake
Dexterville
Eecapteres
Turkey Warned of War If Tunis Force Sent
Paris reports the French foreign minister warned the Porte that sending armed forces to Tunis now would be treated as a cause of war by France. No reply from the Porte. Meanwhile French operations in Africa face Kroumirs resistance and Arab tribe revolts. The Monetary Conference notes Germany joins gold standard. British and Canadian delegates abstain from voting. France also reports American machinery tariffs drop to 6 francs.
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Porte
Turkey
Tunis
Africa
Germany
France
Oshkosh Man Seeks Reward From Fire Rescue Offer
Charles Rees, assistant fire marshal, sues 8 B Paige for 5000 dollars claiming the reward offered for rescuing Mrs Paige from a Beckwith House fire. He found her suffocated in a room and carried the body to the street but the reward allegedly was not paid.
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Oshkoosh
Wis
Charles Rees
B. Paige
Leip
Paige
Reef
Mrs. Paige
Drought in Jamaica Eases Some Areas While Others Suffer
Latest advices from Jamaica report relief in some regions after a prolonged drought since December yet many districts face acute water shortages. Crops may be seriously affected as people drink muddy water. The Royal Mail Company plans a steamship line between Jamaica and New York.
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New York
Jamaica
Royal Mail Company
Fire in a coal shaft imprisons twenty miners
A furnace ignited Green's coal shaft near Carbondale Kansas. Twenty miners worked below, with fourteen rescued alive and three killed. six men remain missing and are presumed dead. Names listed include Kugace Jake McDonald Andrew Warner Charles Jones Michael Mullen and Pat Mullen. Three survivors are recovering slowly.
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Carbondale
Kan
Green
Kugace
Jake McDonald
Andrew Warner
Charles Jones
Michael Mullen
Pat Mullen
Murder at the convicts farm near Memphis ends in arson
Two convicts quarrelled this morning over a game of crapy eight miles down the river. One killed the other with a club and then burned the body. The murder was discovered when the victim's body was found in the jail.
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Memphis
Petty Tyranny in Woonsocket Sparks Mill Uproar
Woonsocket May 9 Jonathan Andrews superintendent of the Lippitt Woulien cement mill discharged five operatives this morning who testified against him in an assault case in the Justice's Court Saturday. The action creates considerable excitement among mill employees.
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Jonathan Andrews
Lippitt Woulien Cement
Justice’s Court
German immigrant Henry Pfenninschmidt dies by self harm
SPRINGFIELD May 9 Henry Pfenninschmidt an immigrant from Germany killed himself last night in despondency over homesickness. He was in bed with his wife at the time and the tragedy was reported as a self inflicted death by his act.
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Springfield
Henry Pfenninschmidt
Man Falls From Engine and Is Killed in Rochester
Rochester New Hampshire May 9 Samuel J Holt 30 an employee of the Worcester and Nashua railroad fell from an engine while coming from Nashua to Rochester and was instantly killed He leaves a wife and one child.
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N. H
Samuel J. Holt
Worcester
Giant Monopoly Tax Evasion Case Affects Standard Oil
Harrisburg May 8 The Standard Oil Company is accused of evading state taxes from 1872 to 1880 with interest and a 10 percent penalty. Taxes listed per year total 8,144,873 dollars. Auditors say requests for business statements to the department have been persistently declined by the company’s officers in New York Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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Harrisburg
Standard Oil Company
Ohio
Auditor-General
New York
Pennsylvania
Department
United Pipelines arrears claimed by Commonwealth
The United Pipelines is charged with undervaluing capital stock. Affidavits say stock worth 5 to 75 cents on dollar, but the Auditor General believes it worth par. Amount claimed due is $27,114. Commonwealth financial officers expect to collect arrears by legal process.
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United Wee Jines
Auolito General
United Pipelines
Commonwealth
Stranger Than Fiction in Brookfield Elopement Case
A Brookfield man William S Prink vanished with a young widow decades ago leaving a wife and six children. A Natick resident identified as W S Rice turns out to be Prink, sparking a case to determine support duties for Prink’s wife while noting his standing in Natick and the local Methodist church.
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William S. Prink
Prink
Williamstown
Mass
C. MM. Griffin
Natick
Felchville
W. 8
Ricean
Weene
Griffin
Chas
Link
William 8. Prink
Wheter
William 5
Rice
Natick Register
Methodist Church
Survivor of French Warship Describes Ocean Ordeal
A black man named Antonio Pato, speaking broken French, arrived at Jersey City police headquarters with a Masonic pin and signs of distress. He claims to have sailed from La Rochelle on the warship La Marine, endured a week of hurricane, lost the captain and five crew, drifted two weeks before rescue, and was later brought to New Orleans aboard a steamer. The French consul questions his language and the vessel's identity, suggesting a possible Russian warship.
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New York
Jersey City
Antonio Pato
la Toche
la Marine
New Orleans
Puffed-Up Pups by a Henderson Tobacconist
A local tale describes a tobacconist who raised a litter of setter dogs by feeding them from a milk pan behind his stove. He moved the pan to the wood-house at night, dipping each pup’s nose into the milk. The breakfast mishap led to bread dough being used, causing the pups to swell with yeast and resemble misshapen creatures from a culinary mishap.
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Henderson Tobacconist
Prohibition Evasion Plots on French Broad River
In Transylvania county North Carolina Brevard township avoids the prohibitory law by a river crossing setup. A rope basket with conch horn signals drink orders across the river with whiskey and ice quickly transferred to the prohibition side before the ice melts. Price is placed in the basket and hauled back by the non prohibition side.
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Crantorre
N. C
Brevard
French Broad River
Transylvania County
Gloucester men survive four days adrift after fog loss
William Kennedy and Angus Chisholm of the schooner Bellerophon were lost April 15 in fog, picked up April 19 by the bark Voumtalka near the Delaware breakwater. They spent four days and three nights in a dory, suffered from hunger and thirst, endured raw fish, and were saved by a quart bottle of fresh water. The Voumtalka crew treated them kindly on arrival.
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Gloucester
William Kennedy
Angus Chisholm
Bellerophon
Voumtalka
Carrie
Delaware
World's Fair project abandoned in New York
The world’s fair project for 15838 is abandoned. Sullivan, a commissioner and counsel, says subscriptions will be refunded and the trustees will resign. He warns it is folly to continue with only $1,000,000 subscribed as $5,000,000 more is needed. No debts will be left. The project was dead when General Grant resigned and cannot be revived.
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Gorham
The
National Republican
Garfield
Chicago
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Grant
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New York
Algernan
Sullivan
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General Grant
A Righteous Outcome of a Trial
Suneveport on May 8 reports that a manslaughter conviction case involving 8 M Thomas was withdrawn from trial. The prisoner received one hour in the penitentiary and a $1 fine plus costs. Petitions from judge, jury and nearly every citizen urged the Governor to grant clemency.
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M. Thomas
Hugh Dickson
Boy Vanishes in Alleghany Allegedly Stolen for Reward
Pittsburg May 8 Marshall Irvin a six year old boy who disappeared from his home in Alleghany last Wednesday remains missing despite a thorough search. Authorities fear a kidnapping tied to a reward and liken it to a second Charlie Ross case.
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Marshall Irvin
Alleghany
Charlie Ross
Eloped Wife of Saloon Keeper With Bartender
SPRINGFIELD May 9 The wife of John Greim a saloon keeper eloped with his bartender Louis Phieler and took about 1700 dollars from him Greim pursued them to New York where it is reported he had them arrested
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John Greim
Louis Phieler
Greim
New York
Protest Against Police Interference at May Day Meeting
In New York on May 8 a mass meeting of workingmen from all trades adopted resolutions denouncing police interference with laborers during strikes. The item notes claims of obstruction and calls for solidarity among unions.
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New York
Ex-Senator Dorsey faces district court money claim
The Arapahoe county District Court has begun proceedings against ex-Senator Dorsey over money promised for services in obtaining petitions to boost mail routes from Eugene City to Bridge Creek. Letters show aims to secure daily service and fast time, with contracts and payments outlined. Washington coverage notes related straw bond prosecutions and a broader push by Justice to pursue about 180 cases.
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the Tribone
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Arapahoe County
Dorsey
Oregon
Portland
Ore
Tribune
Ono
Washington
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Bridge Creek
Slater
Grover
Chamber of Commercce
Looking-glass
Cogville
Riddell
Fink
Brady
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Department of Justice
James
Unpleasant Countries and Locust Ravages Reach Central America
A Panama dispatch from April 30 reports looming revolution in Antioquia as acting president resigns and vice presidents refuse office. Bolivar State faces famine with locust swarms in Sinu and Savannah regions. Panama’s Nunez declines Bolivar presidency for Panama. Francisco Cisnero granted 10 000 hectares. A pan-Spanish federation movement plans a September Panama meeting. Yellow fever and smallpox affect Panama stations and Arrabal.
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Antioquia
Cartagena
Bolivar
Nunez
Bogota
Cauca
Francisco J. Cisnero
Mexico
Columbia
Arrabal
Butter Wars Escalate To Produce Exchange Clash
In New York on May 7 the long running battle between butter dealers and oleomargarine supporters spread to the Produce Exchange. The dispute touched some members or even the exchange itself amid tight ties with the Commercial Manufacturing Company and oleomargarine dealers. Reported is a near hand to hand confrontation between representatives of opposing sides after legislative adjournment, with plans to pursue court action.
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New York
Premeditated Disappearance Shocks PortsMouth Hotel
Herbert Newell a Kearsarge Hotel clerk in PortsMouth New Hampshire has vanished leaving a wife and child. He took only twenty dollars and left letters to hotel proprietor Mr Goodwin saying he was discouraged and seeking to vanish where he cannot be found.
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N.H
Herbert Newell
Kearsarge
Goodwin
Jury list quashed as jury box not wax sealed in Erie
In Erie on opening day of the Criminal Court Sehwinger case attorneys moved to quash the jury list claiming the jury box lacked wax sealing as required by law. Investigation showed juries drawn in the county for ten years using mucilage instead of wax. Judge Galbraith ruled the rule absolute and discharged all jurors bursting the May term.
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