Progress of the Babcock Trial at St Louis
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette reports employees and witnesses as the Babcock case extends. Mr Storrs concludes a long argument with passion praising the President for revoking a supervisor change while McGill testimony is upheld. Public opinion favors conviction or a hung jury as argument continues.
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Cincinnati Gazette
St. Louis
Storrs
Porter
Oyer
Thgtone
McGill
Scock
Lindell Hotel
Dabcock
Washington
Avery
Roger M. Sherman
Dyer
Babcock
McDonald
Joyce
Broadhead
Globe-Democrat
McKee
Chicago Tribune
Cincinnati Enquirer
Gilson
G.D
Owl Club
Toto
Everest
MicGill
Courtroom Crowd in Babcock Trial Reflects Citywide Interest
Special Correspondent describes a packed St Louis courtroom and crowded streets as Gen Babcock’s whisky ring trial nears a verdict. Attendees include attorneys, press, and public figures, with Avery and Sherman among the conspicuous locals.
Storrs resumes address in Babcock case in St Louis
Emory A. Storrs, representing Gen. Babcock's counsel, opens the United States Circuit Court address in St Louis. He recounts dispatches between Joyce and Babcock about Ford's successor, arguing Maguire's appointment followed honorable motives and that the President heeded Ford's bondsmen. He notes a long silence since October 1878 and moves to the next dispatch in time order.
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Dillon
Judge Dillon
Treat
United States Circuit
St. Louis
Joyce
Babcock
San Francisco
Ford
Douglass
Washington
Dispatch
Storrs
New York State
Gen. Babcock
McDonald
Revenue Service
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Rogers
Internal Revenue Department
Mac
Brooks
Hogue
Bingham
Fitzroy
Mississippi
Col. Broadhead
Arenes
Brasher
Mr. Storrs
Hague
Tutten
Emory A. Storrs
United States Circuit Court
C. W. Ford
Maguire
Illicit distilleries raided. eight arrested in Nashville
Deputy U S Marshal King and Deputy Collector Ptster with fifteen soldiers arrived from raids in Lawrence and Wayne Counties. Six illicit concerns with capacity of three barrels per day were broken up, eight illicit distillers arrested and jailed in Nashville.
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Nashville, Tenn
United States
King
Ptster
Lawrence
Wayne Counties
Raid in Ogelthorpe County Sparks Illicit Distillery Destruction
WasuixoTox Feb 20 A recent raid by internal revenue officers in Ogelthorpe County Georgia resulted in seizure and destruction of ten illicit distilleries and 15 000 gallons of mash and beer. The prisoners including a United States Commissioner were brought in all charged with violating the internal revenue laws.
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WasuixoTox
Internal Revenue
Ogelthorpe County
Georgia
United States
More Work in Chicago
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette reports from Chicago that all cases prepared for trial are ready and that further exposures long threatened are about to be made.
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Chicago
The
Cincinnati Gazette
Washington
Radway
Beverly
Mass
Hannah P. Knapp
Logansport Sensation: Forced Marriage Ends in Divorce
Logansport Indiana February 21 social circles debate forced marriage of William M Wilson a leading young hardware firm member to Ida J Dawes daughter of the late Elisha Dawes. After a January 10 ceremony Wilson deserted and refused support. a divorce decree granted with alimony of 3500 and custody to be decided at birth. Wilson's deceit includes a secret engagement to another Dayton young lady.
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Logansport
Wm. M. Wilson
Allery & Co
Ida J. Dawes
Elisha Dawes
Wilson
Masonic Lodge
Dayton
Blakely Troupe to Perform Elijah with 300 Local Children
Kestox C Feb 21 reports beloved Blakely Troupe giving fine musical entertainments with 300 town children. They plan Elijah in about three weeks. Meetings continue in churches. Sabbath school membership grows. Judge John R Goodin, father of Congressman Goodin, dies at home yesterday at 9 am.
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Kestox
Blakely
Elijah
M. E
John R. Goodin
Congressman Goodin
Washington News Sparks Democratic Struggle Over Finance
Special Dispatch reports in Washington on February 21 show the House Democrats wrangling over the financial bill and failing to gain support for pension bureau transfer. Holman pushes repeal of the resumption act while letters seek to move the Republican convention from Cincinnati. The Democratic convention hints shift between Chicago and St. Louis as the GOP gathering site.
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House Committee On Pensions
Pension Bureau
War Department
House
Holman
Indiana
Cincinnati
Republican National Committee
Thurman
Chicago
St. Louis
Levees and the cotton tax debate dominates reports
Washington dispatch notes Mississippi Levee Committee backing an appropriation of three to five million dollars as a refund of illegally collected cotton taxes. Other items include M C Jewell named Chief of the Treasury Bureau of Engraving and Printing, new storekeepers appointed in Kentucky and Indiana, a February 22 presidential order suspending government work for a centennial holiday, Ross Cherokee charges and denial, a bill for a new silver dollar, a Supreme Court recess, and Kentucky amnesty attempt halted.
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Washington
Mississippi
M. C. Jewell
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Treasury Department
George B. McCarter
Charles M. Buckner
John T. Ross
Kentucky
Mangum S. Hay
Indiana
Fred. B. Held
Congress of the
United States
Union
George Washington
Ulysses
Grant
United States of America
U.S. Grant
Secretary of the Interior
House
William P. Ross
William E.chandler
Ross
Kamil
J. W. Wright
Delano
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Coungel
the Lindell
M'Kee
Onalaska
Henderson
Bristow
Tutton
Beach
Tutten’s
Abijah M. Everest
Abijah
Court of Justice
Tennessee
Kenton
Crete
DR. Rradway
Washivetox
Senate
Sargent
Piper
Supreme Court
Jones
McArthur
Margarette Nixon
Claypoole
Dungan
Duhadway
Vinton County
Frank Foote
Porthorse
New York
Rapway
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
Wen Root
Co. W. James
DR. Radway
Seis
Warren
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