Government and social notes from Washington early June
Treasurer Wyman and Graves take office in Washington. De Frouville killed wife and himself over jealousy. President Arthur names Gresham Postmaster General and Nelson deputy governor of Soldiers' Home. Gold gilding on nickels grows. multiple arrests reported. Creeks and Comanches in camp near Sac and Fox. possible council and troop moves. Arthur and officials depart for Jacksonville. Barnes dies of Bright's disease. Multiple federal appointments announced. Antonchico Grant patent for 378537 acres in New Mexico. Honolulu sugar rumors denied. Norwich woolen mills burn. Weekly new-business failures total 197. Free Pipe Line bill passes Pennsylvania Senate. Child labor enforcement shown. Lawrence & Asher assignment.
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Wyman
Graves
Treasury
Washington
Frederick DE Frouville
Signal Corps
Agricultural Department
De Frouy@ile
Arthur
Walter Q. Gresham
Indiana
Mr. Howe
Anderson D. Nelson
U.S. A
Soldiers’ Home
Milton Cogswell
Treasury Department
Secret Service
California
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Louisville
Nashville
New York
Boston
Kansas City
Dubuque
War Department
Sproche
Sac and Fox
Forts Reno and
Sill
Platt
Major Bates
Twentieth Infantry
Chandler
Mr. Miller
Jacksonville
Fla
Joseph K. Barnes
United States Army
Bright
A. W. Sheldon
Maryland
Supreme Court
Territory of
Arizona
W. W. Hoover
General Land Office
Surveyor General of
New Mexico
San Miguel
Bernaillio Counties
N. M
Secretary of State
R. M. Daggett
United States
Honolulu
Daggett
W. K. Shaw
Norwich
Conn
New England
Western
Middle
Southern
Pacific States and Territories
New York City
Canada
Pennsylvania State Senate
Philadelphia
Society To
Lawrence & Asher, Stationers
Fires burn Jersey Shore town. post office among losses
A fire on the third destroyed six brick and two frame buildings near Williamsport Pennsylvania including the post office. The loss is estimated at eighty five thousand dollars.
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Jersey Shore
Williamsport
Western Iron Association
Pittsburgh
Nathan
Morse
New York City Daily News
Board of Control
Allegheny College
Meadville
David H. Wheeler
New York
Wheeler
United States
Florence
Italy
Lincoln
New York Methodist
Pennsylvania State Senate
House
Davin Torcheiner & Co
New York City
Jennie Patten
Edna Murphy
Lula Hewitt
Valalie
Columbia County
N. Y
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
John A. Wilson
Hartwick
Otsego County
Wilson
Joan M. Morton
Morton
New York State Senate
Jesus Christ
Wood
Jersey City
N. J
Barnard McDermott
James Tulley
Samuel Staples
Erie
Staples
Erie County
BarNwUm
Murder and Fire Strikes Shelbyville and Fort Custer Losses
The narrative notes a hatchet murder tied to theft with Doyle as a target and Harper arrest, while Lt. John H. Coats dies at Fort Custer after a long illness. A major fire at Shelbyville destroys the Masonic Hall Western Union office and six stores, totaling an estimated $100,000 loss, insured for $50,000.
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Doyle
Harper
John H. Coats
Second Cavalry
United States Army
Fort Custer
Montana
Masonic Hall
Western Union
Shelbyville
Tenn
Davitt Urges Patience Over Dynamite Tactics In Ireland
Michael Davitt writes to the Young Ireland Society in Glasgow urging against dynamite and despair. He favors waiting twenty years rather than aiding Ireland’s enemies by rash actions. He warns such violence exasperates the English democracy and harms the cause.
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Dublin
Michael Davitt
Young Ireland Society
Glasgow
Ireland
Frankfort
Moscow
Kremlin
St. Jersburg
Panama
Isthmus Canal
de Lesseps
New York
Copenhagen
Herr Tiebknecht
Denmark
Birmingham
England
Lesdam Street
Whitehead
America
Germany
Bismarck
Reichstag
Kiel
Multiple Disasters and Deaths Reported Across States
The notices recount scarlet fever closing the Town State Agricultural College in Des Moines, the Ends House in Greenville Texas collapsing with fifteen dead, and fires destroying Industrial Works in Augusta Georgia and George W. Rouse & Son’s implement house in Peoria Illinois. Obituaries include L D Oper of Ohio and Colonel D G Carr of Petersburg Virginia. Other items note Freeman Younglove’s suspected forgery, a Mount Vernon mill fire, a Rio Grande passenger train reaching Denver, and civic projects on education and schoolyard tree planting.
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State Agricultural College
Des Moines
Greenville
Hunt County
Texas
L. D. Oper
Wayne County
Ohio
Big Prairie
That County
Odell
Augusta
George W. Rouse & Son
Peoria
D. G. Carr
Otsego County
N. Y
Petersburg
Grant
Hayes
Freeman Younglove
Cohoes
New York Assembly
Nicholas Clute
Mount Vernon
Troy
Ith
Salt Lake City
Denver
Sth
Mowsray
Stockton
Minn
Society of the Army of the Potomac
Washington
Ohio Senate and House Pass Constitution and Tax Measures
Ohio Legislature reports multiple bills advanced or adopted. Actions include amendments to Article 4 to create a Circuit Court and adjust Supreme Court judges, railway duties and stock changes, tax and constitutional publication provisions, and health board reforms. Debates and adjournments noted with several votes and proposed October 1883 constitutional questions.
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Senate
House
Mr. Jones
Delaware
Supreme Court
Ohio
Cincinnati, Wheeling & New York Railway
Carroll County
Godfrey
Cochran
Messrs
Locke
Stillwell
Hadley
Belmont County
St. Clairsville
Chapman
State Board of Health
Cincinnati & Eastern Railway Company
Wolcott
Ashtabula
Ashtabula River
Hall
Common Pleas Court
Court of Common Pleas
State of
Conference Committee
Hartshorn
Commissioner of Common Schools
Committee of Conference
Kinney
Hoar
General Assembly
Hathaway
Bowersox
Death of Peter Cooper in New York at 92
Peter Cooper died of pneumonia at 3 30 yesterday morning aged 92. He had been ailing with a cold and his death drew many mourners including ex Mayor Cooper and Mrs Abrams Hewitt. Flags half mast marked public sorrow and Cooper Union will be a lasting monument.
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New York
Peter Cooper
Cooper
Abrams. Hewitt
Samuel J. ‘Tilden
Algernon
Sullivan
Alexander 8. Webb
Andrew H. Green
Cooper Institute
Pennsylvania
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
Hancock
Delmonico’s
New York City
Newburgh
N.Y
Hempstead
Long Island
Brooklyn
Baltimore
Maryland
Canton Iron Works
America
Trenton
Atlantic Telegraph
Cooper Union
North Carolina man finds gold on farm
John Barnes of Moore County, North Carolina, discovered gold on his twenty acre tract a fortnight ago. He secretly moved the metal and eventually obtained over one hundred pounds of gold, selling part of his land for $43,000 while keeping a large interest for himself.
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John Barnes
Moore County
Barnes
Chicago Times
Stamps to feature Washington on new two cent issue
United States postage stamps will bear the head of Washington on the new two cent stamp, not Grant as reported. The list of faces on stamps includes Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Jackson, Clay, Webster, Hamilton, Commodore Perry, General Scott, Stanton, Lincoln and Garfield. No living person’s likeness is used on stamps.
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United States
Washington
Franklin
Jefferson
Jackson
Clay
Webster
Hamilton
Commodore O. H. Perry
Winfield Scott
Edwin M. Stanton
Lincoln
Garfield
Grant
Swedish tailor Nelson Sahlstrom dies by self poisoning
Nelson Sahlstrom a 59 year old Swedish tailor of Jamestown New York died after drinking tea containing phosphorus tipped matches. He died after a prolonged agony according to reports.
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Nelson Sahlstrom
Jamestown
N. Y
Louise Michel Says She Will Fight On And Warns Of Crisis
Paris interview from Lazare prison records Louise Michel denying fear, saying she stays alive for the party work, choosing to suffer for justice rather than vanish. She cites mother’s distress and spies as reasons to surrender, vows to spread the social crusade from abroad if acquitted, and predicts the red flag rising after an imminent economic crisis.
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Paris
Louise Michel
Lazare
France
Anti Monopolists call for mass convention in Indianapolis
At the Grand Hotel a conference of Anti Monopolists decided to issue a call for a mass convention in Indianapolis. Dr O N Tucker presided with about forty gentlemen present aiming to start the Anti Monopoly movement in the state. Speeches were given by Colonel Spann Judge Denny Tucker M N Daniels and others.
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Ianapolis
Grand Hotel
O. N. Tucker
Hamilton County
Colonel Spann
Denny
Dr.Tucker
M. N. Daniels
Rumored Arrest in Cork Over Compromising Documents
In Cork on April 6 authorities reportedly arrested another man after compromising documents were found on him. Police have not confirmed details.
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Cork
Panhandle Texas Lands Sold to London Syndicate
April 6 report in Cascado confirms the Texas Panhandle, 3 000 000 acres, was sold to a London syndicate for 10 million dollars. Congressman C B Farwell verified the sale and explained terms including a first payment by April 15 to the Bank of England.
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Cascado
Texas
Indian Territory
Chicago
C. B. Farwell
Messrs
John V. Farwell
Abner Taylor
Farwell
London
Bank of England
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Marble and Granite Works
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True & CO
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Tiffin
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el Paso
W. G. Randall
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Frank Emmett
Isaiah Wood
George Lott
William Huber
William Carder
Cincinnati
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Barney Doyle
Foreign Intelligence
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Marshall Mallory
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Henry Dalton
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Sir William Harcourt
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