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Early 1876 Dispatches Highlight Tilden and Tweed Headlines
Washington reports note Goldsmith Maid’s 2:14 heat at Benning’s station race course with heavy track conditions. Also: Elmer B Washburne resigns as chief of the treasury detective corps. New York factions debate Tilden’s Southern claims and Tammany Hall splits. Reports on Tweed in Cuba, Times strike impact, river pirates, and New Jersey rail stoppages fill the page.
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Washington
Benning’s Station Race Course
Detective Corps of the Treasury
Elmer B. Washburne
New York
Tilden
John P. Lynch
Mississippi
Port Gibson
Miss
Lynch
Army of Claim Agents
the Herald
Tweed
Cuba
Hunt
Santiago
John Secor
American State Department
Tudlow Street
Vigo
Tunt
Maginnis
New Orleans
Lunt
Times
Printers Union
Times Office
Printers’ Union
Joseph Marsh
College Point
Brooklyn
North Carolina
Middletown
New York Midland R. R
Madison
the Tribune
John Kelly
Tammany Hall
August Belmont
Democratic National Committee
Tammany and
St. Louis
Mr. Greene
Tammany
Continental Life Insurance Company
Pratt
J. Anderson
Continental Insurance Co
Taft
Murat Halstead
Cooper Union
Edwin Stoughton
Williams
Communipaw
Roselle
Westfield
Danneler
Plainfield
Somerville
Rhode Island
Provincetown
Almara
New Jersey
Elizabeth
Central Road
Pennsylvania
Lehigh Valley
Central Railroad
Central
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Indiana
Indianapolis
Secretary of State
Harrison
Illinois
Chicago
Sweeney
California
Leonard Swett
Kentucky
Louisville
Methodist Church
Methodist Conference
Baltimore