LAG LATION AT THE CAPITOL ON RAILROAD RIGHT OF WAY
Senate reports adverse on Warner silver bill and considers a resolution directing the interior secretary to outline the Northern Pacific railroad location and land withdrawals. Teller seeks right of way for the Cheyenne Black Hills and Montana railroad. Debate on bonds and territorial authority ensues. House acts on agriculture bureau reach and jury service limits.
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Washington
Bayard
Finance Committee
Warner Silver
Teller
Secretary of the Interior
Senate
Northern Pacific Railroad
Maxey
Military Committee
Cheyenne, Black Hills and Montana Railroad and Telegraph Company
Edmunds
Wyoming
Congress
Committee On Railroads
House
Rush Clark
Iowa
Allion
Allison
Hereford
Parnell and Dillon
Davis
Committee On Agriculture
Agricultural Bureau
Willis
China
United States
Shalienberger
Cox
Judiciary Committees
Culberson
Royal Railroad Racket Cheaper Rates in Consolidation
Gen. G. M. Dodge, chief engineer of the Union Pacific, says the Pacific railroad consolidation completed last week will likely lower transportation rates and not raise them. UP will build some new lines, but not as many as iron prices would suggest. He notes portions of the Deadwood and Oregon lines from Ogden toward Snake River, while the Texas Pacific aligns with different interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
G. M. Dodge
Union Pacific Railroad
Pacific
Union Pacific
Deadwood
Orégon
Ogden
Snake River
Texas Pacific
Treasury to Buy 11 Million in Sinking Fund Bonds
The secretary of the treasury will purchase 11 million dollars of bonds for the sinking fund in the usual manner. Bids are to be opened on the eleventh instant. The Colorado delegation and Gov Pitkin urged frontier defense. the president promised prompt steps and planned talks with the interior secretary and Gen Sherman.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Colorado
Congress
Gov. Pitkin
Secretary of the Interior
Gen
Sherman
Pennsylvania Convention Voters Rally Behind Grant Picks
The Times Pennsylvania specials say the convention will instruct the delegation to Chicago to vote as a unit for Grant with Blaine as second choice. The Tribune Philadelphia specials agree but note strong Sherman opposition and the possibility of an uninstructed delegation.
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Pennsylvania
Chicago
the Times
Grant
Blaine
The
Tribune
Philadelphia
Sherman
Wild Nite on Long Island Snowstorm Rips Drifts
A severe snow storm on Long Island New York brings four inches of snow and heavy wind creating deep drifts. Boats and river craft are impeded while the Long Island Sound region sees a wild night with no damage reported as snow turns to rain and slush.
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Long Island Hound
New York
Long Island Sound
Relief Fund reports deny Irish famine starvation claims
London reports the Duchess of Marlborough relief committee found no starvation cases. Dublin notes no relief requests from Parsonstown and a mansion house committee non political in tone. Dublin also covers Davitt Daly Killen Brennan indictment copies and March trials, plus a Clonmel bread march by unemployed workers.
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London
Duchess of Marlborough
Irish Relief Fund Committee
Dublin
Mansion House Committee
Parsonstown
New York
the Herald
Parnell
Purnell
Irish Court
Queen’s Bench
Davitt
Daly
Killen
Brennan
Thunderer Turret Gun Explosion Cause Substantiated
London February 3 The experimental test regarding the cause of the Thunderer turret gun explosion on January 2 1879 in the Sea of Marmora was conducted at proof Butts near Woolwich. The theory that the disaster came from double loading due to carelessness was substantiated by the tests.
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London
Sea of Maramoora
Government Marshes
Royal Arsenal
Woolwich
MP Samuel Plimsoll Proposes Grain Sack Loading Remedy
London February 3 Samuel Plimsoll member of parliament told Derby constituents the loss of life and property from shifting cargoes could be prevented at a trifling cost. He planned to bring a bill to require grain to be loaded in sacks as the remedy.
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London
Samuel Plimsoll
Derby
Newark Man Turns Iron Block Into Canon in Suicide Tragedy
Newark New Jersey February 3 Charles Decker, hardware store owner, melted an iron block into a cannon and loaded it with powder and lead. He placed the device under his chin and set off the charge, ending in a grisly scene in the room.
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Newark
N. J
Chas. Decker
Milwaukee County Hospital Fire in Wauwatosa
A fire swept Milwaukee county hospital at the county farm in Wauwatosa destroying the building and burning books. About sixty inmates were present. thirty were removed and others escaped. Two bodies were recovered, one identified as Christian Nelson, with others feared still in the ruins.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee County Hospital
Wauwatosa
Christian Nelson
Severe Atlantic storm disrupts trains and damages shipping
A fierce wind and snow storm along the Atlantic coast has raged for days. Reports from interior towns mention drifting snow blocking railroad trains while shipping sustains serious damage across ports and coastal areas.
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New York
Atlantic
Samuel J. Tilden to wed Miss Fanny Ranch this week
Reports from Scranton indicate Samuel J. Tilden will marry Miss Fanny Ranch of Lewisburg, Pa., this week. The Weekly Leader, noted for its large circulation, promotes itself as the leading paper west.
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Scranton, Pa
Samuel J. Tilden
Fanny Ranch
Lewisburg
Leader
Lest Paper West
Sioux Attack Gros Ventres Over Meat Loot in Montana
In a Fort Buford dispatch the Sioux attack the Gros Ventres camp on the Missouri river after being denied meat. Fifteen ponies were driven off before a pursuit ended near the Big Forks east of the Yellowstone. Lone Bull and Old Beaver are dead. Skunk and Long Tail wounded. Detective Lee Grimes was killed while attempting to escape from Doc Middleton's gang amid a heavy snowstorm in the Hills.
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Deadwood
Spotted Tail
Pine Ridge
Gros Ventres
Missouri River
Fort Buford
Big Forks
Yellowstone River
Lone Bull
Old Beaver
Skunk
Longtail
Llewellyan
Boone May
Lee Grimes
Desper
Fierce clash as Grosventre and Uncapapa tribes clash
A Fort Buford dispatch reports that on January 28 Uncapapas raided a Grosventre camp and seized ponies. On January 29 Grosventres counterattacked after forty miles of pursuit, a bloody battle leaving fifteen men dead and the stock retaken. Braves growl for uprisings along the Yellowstone in spring.
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New York
Fort Buford D. T
Yellowstone
Montreal to Halifax royal party departs Tuesday
The royal party left Montreal for Halifax on Tuesday. Reports conflict on Tilden's alleged engagement as he denies knowing the lady involved. Headlines from Newark to London note various deaths, trials, wrecks, and racing entries.
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Montreal
Royal Party
Halifax
Gold discovery near mouth of the Platte West of Denver
Denver reports a Dolly Varden mine vein struck at twenty feet depth. An assay pegs ore value at 21011 dollars per ton with 20276 dollars in gold. By Sunday morning one paper publicized it and by night 100 visitors gathered, reaching 200 total by now with 200 locations staked.
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Denver
Cafton
Platte
South Park
Dolly Varden
Bonds Stolen From Crane Iron Company Office
A young man snatched fourteen one thousand dollar bonds from the Crane Iron company inside the Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co. office in Philadelphia yesterday.
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Philadelphia
Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co
Crane Iron Company
English Remedy Claims Astonishing Vital Restorative Healings
A Denver doctor promotes Sir A Cooper's Vital Restorative as a universal cure for nervous debility and related ills, claiming even long standing cases can be cured. It is sold by druggists with office hours and home delivery offered to addresses otherwise free from observation.
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Mintié
Holliday Street
Denver
Consider Your Cough Medicine Saved My Life
A fragmented 19th century letter mentions cough medicine and relief on a journey. It includes a request for bottles and a closing sign-off. Also notes a postponed meeting of stock growers due to majority abstentions and scheduling issues for the annual meeting in 1880.
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Deixven
Mesava
Addins & Glover
Ayn
Wromley
A. Sratig
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Uncapapas
Grosventres
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Akron
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Israel Boothly
First National Bank
Big Monauea
Annie E. Simmons
Peter Simmons
District Court
First Judicial District
Wyoming Territory
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J. G. Spaun
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Cheyenne
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Ferguson Street
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Supreme Court
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Laramie City
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Pensiona
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Fletr
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D. H. J. Maynard
Cheyenne and Vicinity
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Surukeon
McDaniels’ Block
Eddy Street
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Dyer’s Hotel
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Olice Boure Fing Vo, mm. Loo P.m. Mayor
the Hatter
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FURS
Frank Melander
Sixteenth Street
J. W. Bruner
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
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Fairbanks Street
Cincinnati
Ekh. Ward
Je Builder & Contractor
Ferguson
Joseph Slader
Fred Landau
Venison
Fellows’ Compound
Reformer
Vitanleer
Brain Power
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St. Vitus
J. I. Fellows
All Druggista
Noritgaat
Eddy Streets
Joe Larose
P. Schweickert
Mechanics
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