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Rail and political brief from Washington and New York
A digest of late reports: Goldsmith Maid's 2:14 pace at Benning's racecourse amid heavy track conditions. Elmer Washburne resigns as chief of the Treasury detective corps. Republicans tighten registration efforts in New York amid fraud concerns. Tilden letters draw mixed reactions in the South. Tweed’s Cuba stay and Times strike fallout in New York. ship and rail accidents. weather and regional political notices across states. international turmoil with armistice talks and Balkan tensions.
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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
Provincetown
Almara
New Jersey
Elizabeth
Central Road
Pennsylvania
Lehigh Valley
Central Railroad
Central
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Indiana
Indianapolis
Secretary of State
Williams
Harrison
Illinois
Chicago
Sweeney
California
Leonard Swett
Kentucky
Louisville
Methodist Church
Methodist Conference
Baltimore