State of Indian affairs summarized by commissioner report
Washington reports the acting commissioner of Indian affairs submitted his annual synopsis. It highlights gradual progress in tribal industry and agriculture, needs for tools and funds, education shortfalls, and ongoing territorial issues. Sioux, Utes, California mission Indians, and Carlisle rumors are addressed alongside policy recommendations and budgeting concerns.
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Washington
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Secretary of the Interior
Department
Congress
California
Johnson
Schwanux
Offy
Secretary of War proposes 1882 appropriations and fortifications
Secretary submits annual War Department report noting FY ending 1880 expenditures of 59.02 million dollars and current year appropriation of 41.996 million. He outlines 1882 estimates of 435.63 million, supports army increase to 45,000, advocates abandoning useless posts, and erecting strategic ones. Warns forts defendability lacking, urges seacoast improvements, and requests study of magazine guns and small arms reserve. Mississippi River improvements seek 5.143 million.
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Washington
Secretary of War
Conral
Department
Congress
Iscal
South Pass
Mississippi River
Chief of Engineers
Chies of Engineers
Military Academy
West Point
Academy
Ississippi River
National Grange to Present Resolutions to Congress
In Washington last night the National Grange met and submitted strong resolutions to Congress. The action signals a formal push on key policy issues and outlines anticipated legislative proposals from the organization.
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The
National Grange
Congress
Washington
Colored Exodusters Labor Outlook and Exodus Plan
A New York report quotes a Philadelphia despatch urging relocation of African Americans from the South to the West. It notes 100,000 organized in lands with funds to buy, cites Freedmen Savings Bank losses, and describes northern efforts to establish land ventures with 700,000 acres in New Mexico led by J. M. Woodward. General Conway signals inquiry and possible westward exodus to test blacks as landowners.
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New York
Sherman
Mechanics’ Bank of New York
South
Wes
Philadelphia
B. B. Sherman
General Conway
Louisiana
Alabama
Kansas
West
J. C. Browne
W. Conway
Alea
Freedmen’s Savings
Bey
J. M. Woodward
New Rochelle
New Mexico
Bergmann Outrace Editorial Attacks Doctors Over Nurse Exam
The New York Sun decries the Bergmann case and calls for action against doctors who examined Eliza Bergmann. It questions authority, praises Sag Harbor official Stephen French, and blasts medical staff for the alleged ovarian diagnosis, urging doctors be driven from society.
Stellarton Sufferers Face Mass Unemployment After Flooded Foord Pit
Stellarton Nova Scotia November 18 reports the Foord pit flood halting winter work and leaving all miners unemployed. Exodus of single men to the United States underway as inquest into recent bodies drags. Halifax relief meetings raise funds with 1300 subscribed and 1000 from St Johns as Dominion wide aid efforts expand amid severe distress.
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Stellarton
Foord
United States
George C. Carroll
Halifax Coal Company
Halifax
N. S
St. Johnns
Dominion
Republic
Salvini Arrives in New York for Reception in City
Signor Tommaso Salvini, the Italian tragedian, arrived on the steamer Canada and was met by Mr. Chizzola and friends. He was hosted at the Everett House and met his manager Mr. Stetson, with his first appearance planned in Philadelphia as Othello. He foresees little trouble acting with an American company, speaking two languages.
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London
Edwin Booth
Richelieu
Mr. Booth
Joseph
Ponce
France
Mr. Iooth
Booth
Julie
Rome
Leathes
Laertes
Hamlet
Destructive Fire-damp Blast At Mons Reports Rise In Casualties
Paris reports a new explosion from fire damp at Mons with twelve killed and many injured. Across London and Berlin, political turmoil and anti landlord agitation continue as governments debate habeas corpus and crackdowns while Irish unrest unfolds with arrests, evictions, and meetings led by Davitt and Dillon.
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Biggar
Dillon
Denim
Michael Davitt
America
Mallow
Loughrea
Galway
Bigear
Mayo Bridge
County Down
Ballaghader
St. Prrensbure
Paris
Mons
Plaintiff seeks 63000 damages and Supreme Court appeal
The plaintiff pursues 63000 dollars in damages and a move to the United States Supreme Court. Confident of victory, the suits have been started to sue the postmaster at every U S office where the patent is alleged to be infringed.
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New York
C. ©. Campbell
Trenton
Camden
New Haven
Norwich
Norwalk
Hartford
Paterson
Newark
Elizabeth
Lowell
Worcester
Boston
Pittsfield
Springfield
Jersey City
United States Circuit Court
United States Supreme Court
United States
Edwin Booth in Richelieu Shines at London Debut
London reports Edwin Booth as Richelieu captivating crowds with strong elocution and stage presence. Genevieve Ward improves Anne-Mie with pruning and scenic polish. Florence impresses as Captain Cuttle in a weakened Dombey and Son adaptation.
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Edwin Booth
Cardinal Richelieu
Genevieve Ward
Anne-Mis
Florence
Captain Cuttle
London
Anne- Mie
George Augustus Sala
London News
Anne-Mie
Prince of Wales Theatre
Bein
M. Roster Faassen
W. J. Florence
Dombey and Son
Gaiety Theatre
The Czars Dancer Rumors On His Attack and Abdication
Paris reports conflicting rumors about the attack on the Czar. Observers doubt the public narrative and suspect deeper currents within the imperial family and nobility over the Czar’s marriage to Countess Dolgourki. The Czar allegedly sought legitimization of children as a precondition to abdication, with whispers of higher influences at the winter palace directing events.
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Paris
Livadia
Dolgourki
St. Petersburg
Czarewitch
Winter Palace
Death at French's Hotel Mirrors Bernhardt's Stage Death
Charles Rasch of Norway, age about thirty two, killed himself in his French's Hotel room in New York by a revolver mimicry of Sarah Bernhardt's stage death. A letter, written in multiple languages, found in the room explained his distress and fixation on the actress, detailing his travels, poverty, three visits to Bernhardt, and intent to imitate her death on stage. He arranged a death scene with a trunk and mirror, and his body was found with a bullet wound to the temple.
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Sarah Bernhardt
Charles Rasch
French
Sarah Berkhardt
Raseh
City Mall Square
City
Herr C
Langt- Finne
Stravanga
Norway
Lidelsen
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Miss Bernhardt
Rasch
Fagniani
London
Duke of Queensberry
George Selwyn
Warsan Warner
Paris
Fagnianis
Mme. Fagniani
Selwyn
Mr.Selwyn
Nan
Genn
Strance
Matson
England
Tunbridge
Warner
Mr. Selwyn
Mie Mie
Nihilist Arthur Lieberman Ends Life in Syracuse
Burial held for Arthur Lieberman in Syracuse after he shot himself last Thursday. A Pole born in Vilna, he fled Russia over Nihilistic beliefs, edited a Hebrew newspaper in London, then moved to New York and Syracuse. He left two notes in German and Hebrew and a $16 purse, with reports of a Russian reward for his head.
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Ecuse
Syracuse
Arthur Lieberman
London
Lieberman
Russia
Vilna
Hebrew
New York
Wilna
Firework Factory Blast Injures Five in Rochester
A guard rail incident at Palmer's Sons fireworks works led a boy to warm himself by a stove. He lit powder used for Roman candles, sending flames along the table and burning five workers: Thomas Hastings Cassius Nephew John Ripon Henry Tibbets and a boy named Shoemaker. Burns were on hands and faces but not fatal.
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Rochester
N. Y
Palmer's Sons
Thomas Hastings
Cassius Nephew
John Ripon
Henry Tibbets
Shoemaker
Romance of Leona Dare Three Matrimonial Ventures
Leona Evaline Stuart known as Leora Dare, once a trapeze performer, married and separated from Frank A. Hall in Chicago after a life across Europe and America. She then wed Ernest Greenbaum of Vienna following a prior divorce from Hall granted November 12, with a later Illinois remarriage.
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Europe
Greenbaum
Hamburg
England
Acres
Hall
America
Chicago
Charleston
Lllinois
Bone setter Regina Dal Cin aids Springfield cases in Brooklyn
Springfield residents travel to Brooklyn to seek treatment from Italian bone setter Madame Regina Dal Cin. She reduces a hip dislocation in a boy and treats a woman with long standing hip disease. Dal Cin plans to return to Italy this week, potentially visiting again. In New York, Mrs. Duerring and five children remain missing, with theories of elopement involving H. Paffe, and Castle Garden authorities report rare departure with another man's wife and children as detectives pursue leads.
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Brooklyn
Madame Regina Dal Cin
Stewart L. Woodford
E. C. Pierce
Madame Dal Cin
New York
High Street
Dalwin
Italy
Duerring
New York and New England Railroad Locates Northward Route
Engineers locate a line diverging north from the Newburg Dutchess and Connecticut railroad near Wicople, running parallel to the New York Central to the Fishkill Landing dock. If the old track cannot be used a separate line will be built. A steam ferry link to Newburg connects to coal fields. Operations expected next summer.
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Newburn
N. Y
New York and New England Railroad
Newburg, Dutchess and Connecticut
Wicople
New York Central and
Hudson River
Fishkill Landing Long Dock
Fishkill Landing
New York
New England
Lake Erie and
Western
Newburg
Erie
Newbury
Silver Smelting Works Destroyed Near St Louis
Fire at the St Louis Silver Smelting Company works in Cheltenham nine miles from St Louis destroyed the frame buildings after a broken crucible spilled molten metal. Engineer John Williams attempted to enter for his coat but fell into a stream of molten metal and was not saved.
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St. Louis
St. Louis Silver Smelting Company
Cheltenham
John Williams
Roasting Tragedy Leaves Man Fatal in Fire
A man perished in a blaze after being trapped in a burning mass. Firefighters pulled him free but his arms were torn from their sockets during the attempt. Buildings involved carried $4,000 in insurance and, with contents, about $100,000 in value. Rebuilding work to begin at once.
Railway pact forms mutual running plan among three railways
The Baltimore and Ohio, Philadelphia and Reading, and Central New Jersey strike a mutual running agreement. B and O will use Reading’s roadway through Philadelphia to a junction with Central New Jersey to Jersey City. Central New Jersey gains one third of trackage fees plus compensation for Jersey City facilities. Approach starts December 1 for passenger service with freight soon after. The trio expect faster routes to Chicago and the western states, with mutual benefits anticipated.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Philadelphia and Reading and Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Toads
Reading Company
Cty
Philadelphia
Bonn Brook
Central Railroad of
Jersey City
Central of New Jersey
Lattor
Trafic
Chisago
Three Men Injured In Grave Bank Collapse At Brockton Works
A caving bank at the Brockton Water Works during canal excavation trapped three men. James McCarty suffered a compound leg fracture and hip injuries, John Cogan sustained severe head lacerations and a sprained ankle, while a third man was lightly injured and soon returned to work. Uninjured colleagues arranged transport to the general hospital by train.
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Brockon
James McCarty
James B., Adams
Lowell
John Cogan
Fall River
Rs. Waine
Brockton
Gifford
Page
Linfield
East Stoughton
General Hospital
Murderer on the Run From Lebanon Jail
William J. Martin, under a death sentence, escaped from Lebanon jail with his fifteen year old niece acting as custodian. The pair fled and were traced a few miles away, with Martin armed with a Spencer rifle and unlikely to be captured alive.
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William J. Martin
Neice
Martin
Gladstone praises Tennyson and names Disraeli greatest poet
At a recent dinner Gladstone argued Tennyson's language will be valued by future generations. When asked who is the greatest genius, he clarified not the greatest genius but the greatest poet, answering Disraeli without hesitation.
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Gladstone
Tennyson
Penius
Disraeli
The
Our
Senator Cameron's Daughter Weds in Harrisburg
William Hornblower Bradley youngest son of Judge Bradley of the supreme court, married Miss Eliza M daughter of Senator Cameron. Rev W C Cattell Lafayette College president officiated at Lafayette College area, with many guests. A reception at Senator Cameron's palace followed. About 200 donors contributed mostly elegant costly presents not shown to guests.
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Harrisonurg
Penn
William Hornblower Bradley
Bradley
Supreme Court
Eliza M
Senator Cameron
W. C. Cattell
Lafayette College
Cold Sunday Delivers Record Lows Across the Northwest
Reports from Carcaco Milwaukee Winnipeg and Deadwood mark the coldest conditions of the season with temperatures from 16 below to 1 below. Vessels iced over and land interiors colder. Winnipeg noted 10 below and Deadwood 16 below as the region endures extreme cold. Maud S. remains horse turf queen with a Rochester Hartford record and a trophy transfer note from St Julien to MaxwIS. Maude holds the trophy in trust for the next trotter who beats her mark.
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Winnipeg
Man
Deadwood
D.T
St. Julien Vielda
Maud
Maud S
Chicago
O. A. Hickok
George N. Stone
Rochester Association
St. Julien
Maxwis
Rochester
Hartford
Sun Proposal Urges Presidential Pension Fund
The Sun proposes to test the electoral commission's validity by condemning the 1876 fraud and vindicating Tilden, urging Congress to establish a presidential pension fund for all former presidents and allow Mr. Tilden to sue in U.S. courts for his share.
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the Sun
Electoral Commission
Tilden
Congress
United States
Old Blue Jeans Williams dies after illness in Indianapolis
Indiana Governor James D. Williams, Democratic leader and longtime public servant, dies at 12 40 AM after a lingering illness begun on Election Day. A farmer turned congressman known for honesty and conservatism, he leaves fifteen grandchildren and a legacy of integrity, with funeral arrangements planned on his farm near Wheatland.
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Indianapolis
Ind
James D. Williams
John Williams
Wheatland
Judge Scott
George Williams
Joan Williams
Mccoy
Williams
Indiana
Pickaway County
Ohio
Locddonn
Senate
State Board of Agriculture
Joseph A. Wricht
Congress
Joe
Fies
Ile
Lee
Jace
Williama
House of Representatives
Corerean
Washington
Gants
Perjury cases dismissed in Harrisburg court
In Harrisburg on November 20, juries were empanelled for William H. Kemble Charles B. Salter and Jesse R. Crawford but due to insufficient evidence the court instructed the juries and each returned a verdict of not guilty.
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Harrisburg
Fenn
William H. Kemble
Charles B. Salter
Jesse R. Crawford
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