Russian and Turkish war news dominate the front
Vast dispatches report Russian occupation near Charkoi and Turkey paying heavy indemnities to Russia. Ex President Grant arrives in Constantinople as Britain raises an impromptu army. Congress debates tariffs and silver, while recruiting drives expand the army as a new Bulgarian tribute and Papal changes loom.
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Charkoi
Grant
Constantinople
Sea of Marmora
England
Kansas Pacific
Congress
Pierrepont
Sherman
Wallace
New York
Emma
Cardinal Simeoni
Pontifical
Turkey
Russia
Bulgaria
Europe
Tut
Treasury
Vienna
Austria
J. B. Price
Missouri
Senate Judiciary Committee
United States
Thurman
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Bosnia
Herzegovinia
Bismarck
Leo XIII
Roumania
Tus Senate
Albert G. Porter
Indiana
Toe
David Eckstein
Ohio
Amsterdam
National Party
Senate
Death of Benjamin Wade Pioneer Ohio statesman and senator
Telegraph reports the death of Benjamin F. Wade of Ohio at his Jefferson residence. Born October 27, 1800 in Springfield Massachusetts he rose from farmer and teacher to lawyer judge senator and U S
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Lincoln
Senate
United States
San Domingo
Ashtabula County
Ohio
Wade
South
Ben Wade
Benjamin TF. Wade
Jefferson
Springfield
Mass
State Senate
Kansas
Cuba
Tvo
Territorial Committee
Minnesota Legislature Votes to Impeach Judge Sherman Page
The lower house votes to impeach Judge Sherman Page serving in the circuit across Mower Fillmore Freeborn and Trouston counties citing tyrannical conduct toward citizens litigants and others. The piece questions territorial rights under federal law and recalls the Peck case and Senate actions.
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Minnesota
Sherman Page
Mower
Fillmore
Freeborn
Trouston
Wyoming
Supreme Court
Congress
Senate of the
United States
Chicago Cattle Market Faces Continuous Dullness Amid Oversupply
Receipts for the week reached 19 330 head with 11 371 head shipped as prices remained weak. The market showed no improvement in selling demand and buyers failed to sustain even prior reductions, reflecting a national downturn with supplies expected to outpace demand for the near future. Prices varied by grade from extra native steers at 4 95 to 5 00 and calves at 4 00 to 5 00.
Support Your Paper for a Prosperous City
The Central Register urges business leaders to back a well printed and ably edited newspaper. A quality paper reflects the city’s character and promotes local interests, helping build up town and county through reliable typography and editorial standards.
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Central Register
Sculptor Vinnie Ream Wins Contract Over Davis Image
Vinnie Ream, famed sculptor, has secured a contract to create a likeness of Senator David Davis. The project involves producing a bust or statue intended for public display, signaling recognition of Ream's artistic stature and the political figure's prominence.
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Vinnie Ream
David Davis
Senator Plans Clay Statue Amid Proposals for Marble Dust
A Democratic senator in the so called Sucker state organizes a stock company to buy a clay-bank and dig raw material for a life statue. He secures a circus tent to stand as morning muse while a female artist molds a single lump statue rather than marble sections. The senator opposes marble dust and prefers material from his own origins for the memorial.
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Cardiff
Transfer of Indian Bureau to War Department debated
A committee report argues transferring the Indian Bureau from Interior to the War Department would lower per capita costs from 23.05 to 4.28 and improve efficiency. It notes past efforts to civilize tribes through churches and agents, but says the current system fails. The text lists military officers’ leave and reassignments and related troop movements amid Bannock agency redeployments.
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Representative Scales
Committee On Indian Affairs
Indian Bureau
The
Interior
War Department
Interior Department
Military Notices From Forts And Commands
Lieut J B Fowler and Lieut A B Taylor depart east and leave Fort McKinney Omaha. Captain A B Taylor granted one year leave on surgeon's certificate with permission to depart the Department of the Platte. Fort Lar Aimy to withdraw Third Cavalry detachment from Hat Creek and remove public property there. A board at Washington reviews a new army tent model. Capt Anson Mills assigned to Paris Exposition duties reporting to Commissioner McCormick in New York. Leaves of absence granted: Lieut Guard eight months Capt Crandal three months Lieut Col A R Eddy six months Lieut Maus six months Lieut McMinn one month.
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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
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
A. B. Taylor
Hat Creek
T. L. Crittenden
Seventeenth Infantry
C. H. Carlton
Smith
Second Artillery
Anson Mills
R. ©. McCormick
Lieut. Guard
Crandal
24Th Infantry
Col
A. Rt. Eddy
Maus
Odds and Ends from Detroit and Beyond
A Detroit lawyer known for rowing prowess and a garrulous style is cited. The column jokes about grammar, gun cotton on cannons, Parisian beauty, a honey bee, Bourbon kings, California weather, Kellogg and Cary disputes, the Pope’s ring, General Sutter, jury bias, Captain Bogardus and son, Major Lewis Cass’s death, and a jailbreak in Deadwood involving Hurricane Jack and Sage Brush Bill.
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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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Hall
Lyford
Spencer
Senator Wade
Dennison
Butler
Portland
Weeks
Turner
Booth
Committee On Foreign Relations
Royal Artillery
Chicago Cattle Market
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Odds and
Jack
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Deadwood
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