Various International and Domestic Affairs Highlight Turbulent Era
A broad rundown notes Russian advance on Charkoi, Grant's arrival in Constantinople, naval disbursements to Marmora, and Britain ready to raise an army. It covers Senate actions on silver, Pacific bonds, Bulgarian indemnity, Pope reforms, and Wardrobe of political figures as recruitment surges and pensions debate unfold.
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Charkoi
Grant
Constantinople
Sea of Marmora
England
Dardanelles
Hellespont
Egean Sea
Egean
Black Sea
Bosphorus
Death of Benjamin Wade Former Ohio Senator
The telegraph reports the death of Benjamin F. Wade of Ohio at his Jefferson residence aged 77. Born October 27 1800 in Springfield Mass Wade served as Ashtabula County prosecutor state senator judge and United States senator. He is remembered as an outspoken opponent of slavery and a supporter of the Homestead Act. Wade chaired the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War and pushed for emancipation during the Civil War.
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Patagonia
U. S
Omaha
Commodore Vanderbilt
Wm. H. Vanderbilt
Cornelius
Kansas
Coyville
Wilson County
Washington
United States
John Donald Cameron
Pennsylvania
Lizzie Sherman
Charles Sherman
Cleveland
Ohio
Sherman
Miss Sherman
Secretary of the Treasury
Gen. Miles
Regular Army
Lincoln
Senate
San Domingo
Ashtabula County
Wade
South
Ben Wade
Benjamin TF. Wade
Jefferson
Springfield
Mass
State Senate
Cuba
Tvo
Territorial Committee
Minnesota Legislature Impeaches Judge Sherman Page
The lower house votes to impeach Judge Sherman Page from counties Mower Fillmore Freeborn and Trouston alleging tyrannical conduct toward citizens litigants and others and interference in justice for personal malice. The piece compares this to actions in Wyoming under the Organic Act and questions territorial rights under American government.
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Minnesota
Sherman Page
Mower
Fillmore
Freeborn
Trouston
Wyoming
Supreme Court
Congress
Senate of the
United States
Chicago Cattle Market Receipts and Prices Steady Downward
Receipts last week 19 330 head and shipments 11 371 head with continued dullness in demand. Prices failed to hold previous reductions as buyers remained cautious and sentiment suggested prices would stay near the present range due to ample supply. Extra native steers brought 4 95 to 5 00, choice native steers 4 00 to 4 75, good native steers 8 50 to 4 00, and various native stock and cow prices ranged from about 2 00 to 3 60 with calves 4 00 to 5 00.
Support Your Paper Builds City Prosperity
The editorial urges readers to support their newspaper, praising quality printing and editing as reflections of the community and urging business leaders to back a paper that promotes the city and county’s growth through better typography, presentation, and coverage.
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Central Register
Sculling a Senator This Week? Vinnie Ream Bilk Case
Artist Vinnie Ream reportedly signed a contract to remove the counterfeit likeness of Senator David Davis. The item frames a political caricature dispute with artistic retribution speculated.
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Vinnie Ream
David Davis
Senator to Commission Statue from Clay Bank and Circus Tent
A democratic senator forms a stock company to fund a clay statue of himself at a circus tent. Plans consider marble but settle on a single lump of clay. He objects to marble dust and suggests comrades use the dust from his own origins for the monument.
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Cardiff
Transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department
Representative Scales reports in favor of moving the Indian Bureau from Interior to the War Department arguing lower per capita costs and greater efficiency. The committee notes past efforts failed to civilize tribes despite church and agent work and cites military supervision as the preferred path for policy and administration.
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Representative Scales
Committee On Indian Affairs
Indian Bureau
The
Interior
War Department
Interior Department
Military Movements and Leaves Noted in Army Ledger
Lieut J B Fowler and Capt Geo Price depart eastward from Fort McKinney and Omaha. Capt A B Taylor of the Fifth Cavalry takes a one year leave on surgeon's certificate, with permission to exit the Department of the Platte. Fort Lar amie to remove Third Cavalry detachment from Hat Creek and transfer records. A board in Washington reviews a new army tent model. Capt Anson Mills assigned to Paris Universal Exposition duties in New York. War Department grants six officers leaves ranging from one month to eight months.
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Touey
6Th Cavalry
Frank West
A. Moore
Third Cavalry
Department of the Platte
John E. Smith
14Th Infantry
Alexander Moore
3D Cavalry
George N. Jones
8D Cavalry
Omnaha Barracks
Department of Dakota
Fort Laramie
Charles I. Durand
Edward Bushlepp
Cavary
8. J. Mulhall
War Department
War Department To Report To the Superintendent of the General Recruiting Service
New York City
19Th Infantry
Camp Douglass
Fort Hall
Bannock
Bannock Agency
Geo
IF. Price
Fifth Cavalry
Fort McKinney
Omaha
A. B. Taylor
Hat Creek
T. L. Crittenden
Seventeenth Infantry
C. H. Carlton
Smith
Second Artillery
Washington
Anson Mills
R. ©. McCormick
United States
Lieut. Guard
Crandal
24Th Infantry
Col
A. Rt. Eddy
Maus
Odds and Ends from Detroit to Paris and California
A Detroit lawyer is a crack oarsman and a legal mind with a sharp profile. Parisian gossip notes a belle as paradise of the eye and purgatory of the purse. In California drought and floods alternate while Sutter seeks supplies. Major Lewis Cass dies in Paris after years abroad. A mule-born jury member jokes from the bench as Captain Bogardus and his son tour the East. a Deadwood incident ends with one fugitive fleeing justice.
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Detroit
Paris
London Spectator
California
Clara Louise Kellogg
Anna Louise Cary
Peter
General Sutter
Washington
Mule
Detroit Free Press
Bogardus
East
Eugene
Mich
Lewis Cass
General Cass
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Austria
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Missouri
Senate Judiciary Committee
Thurman
Union Pacific
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Hall
Lyford
Spencer
Leo XIII
Roumania
Tus Senate
Albert G. Porter
Indiana
Toe
David Eckstein
Amsterdam
National Party
Senator Wade
Dennison
Butler
Portland
Weeks
Turner
Booth
Committee On Foreign Relations
Royal Artillery
Chicago Cattle Market
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Sage Brush Bill
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