Weekly Berlin Dispatch Reports Empire to Ems and Pacific Annexation
The Berlin dispatch notes the emperor’s trip to Ems planned for Thursday. Garibaldi memorial services were held on Staten Island. Several large fires in Trenton and Chicago caused major losses. Pacific colonies urge annexation of New Hebrides and Solomon Islands. Chester W. Chapin dies in Springfield. A lake crossing tragedy near Hampsville, Ontario, drowns a mail carrier and a woman. Gould’s yacht shows high speed in Philadelphia trial. A bogus diploma case ends with arrest in Philadelphia. Frances Scoville seeks name change in Chicago court. Italian laborers riot near Haverford. sheriff called. Litta curves back from danger in Bloomington. Philadelphia court voids Major Nickerson decree with costs. Dallas dispatch reports cattle drive surpassing expectations with 200,000 head through Albany. Albert Ives sails to help launch Dispatch in Paris on July 1.
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Berlin
Ems
Garibaldi
Staten Island
Stock
Trenton
New Jersey
Benjamin Morley
Syracuse
New York
Mia
Luélla Hynes
Douglass, Stewart & Forrest
Sixteenth Street
Chicago
Philadelphia
Buchanan
Frances M. Scoville
Charles Guiteau
George Scoville
Frances Maria Howe
Philadelphia and
Chester County
Haverford
Chester
Dallas
Albany
Albert C. Ives
New York Times
Rome
The
Dispatch
Paris
L. 8. Chamberlain
James Gordon Bennett
Dr Wagner and Co Advertises Men Health Cure
A Denver medical notice promotes Dr Henry Wagner and his firm offering treatments for chronic male and female diseases. It claims cures for seminal weakness and private diseases with a five hundred dollar guarantee, along with examinations, consultations, and a medical book. The address is 343 Larimer Street, Denver, Colorado, via post office box 233.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Wagner
Wagner
Henry Wagner
Denver
Colorado
H. Wagner
Denver Governor to Call Extra Session for Capitol Plan
Telegraphic dispatch from Denver reports Governor Grant will convene an extra legislative session to address Colorado's proposed capitol building and to correct defective laws. A separate Philadelphia note describes a mysterious theft of stock from the American Railway Supply company, Universal Printing, and a cash note totaling 10 400 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Grant
Colorado
Philadelphia
American Railway Supply Company
Universal Printing Company
First Named Company
Beagle Shot by Neighbor in Salem
Omaha dispatch reports Budd Beagle of Falls City was shot in the body at Salem by John Leid who claims Beagle had criminal intimacy with Leid’s sister. Beagle is said to be dying. Leid faces a grave crime accusation.
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Omaha
Budd Beagle
Falls City
Salem
John Leid
Leid
Beagle
Cadet Green First Graduate Sheltered From Parade
A Baltimore report from Annapolis states Cadet Green became the first graduate but twenty graduates applauded including Glasscock Webster and Gray. Captain Ramsey sent them to the frigate Santee and refused to permit graduation.
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Baltimore
Annapolis
Green
Glasscock
Webster
Gray
Ramsey
Santee
Chicago Cattle Market Brisk on Light Supply
Chicago cattle market on June 9 reports 900 head receipts with brisk trade and prices firm to higher. Light supply supports gains with good to choice shipping cattle at 5.40 to 5.75, common to fair 5.00 to 5.40, stockers 3.25 to 4.90, Texans 4.00 to 5.20. sheep receipts 100 head, market quiet and steady with inferior to fair 2.00 to 2.75, medium to good 3.25 to 4.00, choice to extra 4.50 to 5.00, yards cleared at close.
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Chicago
Robbed an Editor
London reports Palmer known as Irish Lord Palmer and Hamilton, his ally, pulled a robbery in Paris in 1881. They were captured on a Rouen Dieppe train after Maxim, an electricist, was robbed. Williamson, editor of a New York paper, was robbed by the pair ten days earlier.
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London
Maxim
Rouen
Dieppe
Paris
Palmer
Lord Palmer
Hamilton
Williamson
New York
Officials Censure Mining Stock Scheme By Grand Army
The Grand Army of the Republic denounces the Veteran Mining company for circulating investment stock across the east. They condemn department officials for backing the scheme. County records question mine titles and value. The second item notes the pope’s refusal to see Errington in Rome signaling possible Irish policy shifts.
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Denver
Grand Army of the Republic
Veteran Mining Company
Department
Prisoners Aid Society member reports Kelly at meeting
Varian, a four member of the Prisoners Aid Society, told the lord lieutenant that Kelly attended a society meeting at 8 pm on the night of the Phoenix Park murders. He waited at the jail for news of a reprieve as the crowd prayed for the dying and cursed informer James Carey after the black flag was raised.
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Dublin
Varian
Aid Society
Phoenix Park
Kelly
James Carey
Payne laid to rest in native soil after thirty years abroad
Washington June 9 After thirty years in exile the author of Home Sweet Home John Howard Payne is buried in his native land. A national funeral pageant honors his genius with Marine Band, scripture reading, poem, monument unveiling, and interment at Oak Hill cemetery beside a fourteen foot marble shaft. Brown's Iron Bitters is recommended as a tonic.
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Washington
John Howard Payne
Oak Hill Cemetery
John Aloward Payne
Marine Band
Robert 8. Chilton
Payne
Leigh Robinson
Hallelujah Chorus
Handel
Philharmonic Society
Philharmonic Society and Marine Band
Jesus
Van Wyck's Post Office Feud Heads to Ballot Line
A Chicago June 9 dispatch reports an Inter Ocean Washington special linking Van Wyck's attack on the post office department over the Fort Niobrara and Deadwood mail route to a personal feud with Valentine. Gresham deflects calls for a reply, noting General Elmer and Chief Clerk Lyman as trusted officials.
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Chicago
Washington
van Wyck
Post Office Department
Fort Niobrara
Deadwood
Valentine
Gresham
Elmer
Lyman
Sensible Decision Upholds Refusal of New Trial in Ashland Murders
Louisville June 9 The court of appeals affirmed the lower court’s denial of a new trial for Wills Craft one of the Ashland murderers charged with first outraging and then murdering a girl named Gibbon and setting fire to the house where the bodies of the girl her comrade and brother were found.
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Louisville
Court of Appeals
Wills Craft
Ashland
Gibbon
Murder Plot Aimed at New York Editor Charged
Wong Chin Fee, editor of a Chinese American paper, reports Chin Pon Tip arrested for an alleged assassination attempt in New York. Fee says Tip sought a revolver from a grocery store proprietor and plotted to kill him in Chicago for 1000 dollars, with 500 for serious injury, then fled after the plot fell apart. Tip later robbed a Cincinnati dry goods store of 3000 dollars in silks before sailing to China and returning to San Francisco at gamblers’ behest.
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New York
Wong Chin Fee
Chin Pon Tip
Fee
Tip
Chicago
Cincinnati
China
San Francisco
Tabor Draft Sparks Treasury Department Scrutiny
There is notable sport at the treasury department over a $65,000 draft drawn by ex Senator Tabor. The draft, deposited in a Colorado bank, aims to pay for land sold to the government for a Denver post office and court house. The process requires multiple official reviews and registries before a voucher and warrant are issued. Tabor is criticized for his haste and reliance on a long bureaucratic path.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Tabor
Colorado Bank
Court House
Denver
United States District Attorney
Register of the Treasury
United States
Bruce
Eclipse observed on Caroline Island by allied expeditions
The total solar eclipse of May 6 was successfully observed on Caroline Island in the South Pacific by American, French and English parties. Vulcan was not visible. Several good photographs of the corona and spectrum were secured.
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San Francisco
Caroline Island
South Pacific
Rates Cut on Meats Between Chicago and Ohio River Points
Due to light traffic the pool on that business fell apart and meat rates dropped from fourteen to five cents per hundred. The cut extended to carloads of other freight. A meeting of involved lines set a temporary seven cent rate on meats pending another Cincinnati meeting in a few days.
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Chicago
Ohio River
Cincinnati
English Brig Flies Fenian Flag Incident at Sea
Corunna reports an English brig hoisted a Fenian flag on green ground with a central white cross and a small English flag at foremast. The English consul's messenger was rough handled. coast guard and armed sailors boarded the ship to remove the flag. An inquiry has been instituted.
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Corunna
Arbitration dispute over overpayments to star route contractors
In June 1882 agreements were made between George Bliss and Robert G. Ingersoll to refer government claims of overpayments on star routes to Richard A. Elmer for arbitration. Elmer’s review led to the postmaster general citing revised statutes and deciding arbitration is not binding. Suit was filed on the 8th seeking about $300,000 from the Salisburys Parkers and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
George Bliss
United States
Robert G. Ingersoll
Salisburys
Parkers
Richard A. Elmer
Elmer
Court Rejects Rehearing in Cadet Engineer Leopold Case
Chief Justice Drake of the court of claims overrules motions for rehearing in the Leopold case. The original opinion stands as matured judgment. Navy orders Leopold to join the steamer Yantic as it sails to the Arctic. President approves 25 miles of Northern Pacific railway in Montana. May star mail service shows net increase of 9590 dollars. steamboat service up 5189 dollars. Secretary Teller plans to spend all legally allowable funds on stock cattle for Indians.
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Washington
Court of Claims
Drake
Leopold
Chandler
Supreme Court
Navy Department
Arctic
Northern Pacific Railway
Montana
Star Mail
Teller
Secretary Chandler Accepts Navy Yard Consolidation Plan
Memoranda from the navy yard commission led by Commodore Luce favor closing several yards and consolidating operations to cut expenses. Plans call for one workshop per yard, retain Mare Island, and close Pensacola while keeping Norfolk and New York yards in first class condition. League Island to close until new plans, New London to be dropped, and Portsmouth deemed indefensible.
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Concord
N. H
Chandler
Navy Yard Commission
Luce
Congress
Navy Yard
Mare Island Navy Yard
Pensacola
Norfolk
Washington Yard
Naval Arsenal
League Island
Naval Station
Department
New York Yard
New London
Naval Asylum
Thames
Boston
Portsmouth
Free remedy pledge from South American missionary
An advertisement promises a free cure for youthful errors and nervous weakness. It claims a remedy discovered by a South American missionary and asks readers to mail a self addressed envelope to Rev. Jasmin T. InMAN, Station D, New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
Jasmin T. Inman
New York City
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Weekly Leader
Telegraphic News
Gould
Mile
Marie Litta
Bloomington
Illinois
Pyme
Court of Common Pleas
Philadel
Nickerson
DR. Wagner
Summer Street
Beaver
Telegraphic
Chicago Cattle Market
Errington
Vatican
England
Army
Navy
Brown
Gent
Cownick & Whitcomb
Cheyenne, Wyo
Edwin C. Burt
Burt & Mears
Butterick
Arete Nantes
Sco Bena Ana le
Eone
SUN
Ivorces
Stamp
W .H. Led
Broadway
N.Y
Geo
P. Rowell & Co
Spruce St
N. Y
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