Numerous World and Local News Items Across Regions
A digest of items: Empress Carlota's health failing. Prof Weiton of Ann Arbor reports finding another asteroid. Swiss cantons reject a new constitution. Greeley backed by Breckinridge and Reverdy Johnson. Edward King elected President of the New York Stock Exchange. postal telegraph bill advances in House Appropriations. Court of Claims adjourns to November. Athletics defeat Troys 25 to 5 in baseball. French budget projections for 1873 set. Empress Augusta honored on visit to Queen Victoria. large financial and railway notes from Davenport, Scranton, Hamilton. wrecks and accidents reported including a powder mill blast and a canal break. ships and ice on the Great Lakes. various political and civic notices from Tennessee, Ohio, and New York.
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Order of Victoria and Albert
Empress Augusta
Germany
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Grand Trunk Railway
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Iowa
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Voorhees speech stirs Democratic convention outlook
Special Dispatch reports Washington May 14 detailing Democratic reactions to Mr Voorhees speech in the House. Editors anticipate a Baltimore Convention split over endorsing Greeley, with Brooks predicting a three fourths vote to back him and possible withdrawals by foes. Other observers doubt Greeley’s broader support as Southern sentiment shifts.
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Times and Chronicle
Washimgton
Voorhees
House
Cincinnati
Baltimore
James Brooks
Greeley
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Brooks
Grant
Ways and Means
Supreme Court
Treasury
House Banking and Currency Committee
Merriam
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Murder on Cement Switch Tragedy Stuns Jeffersonville
Special Dispatch reports in Clark County a brutal murder near the Jeffersonville road at Cement Switch. An unknown man with ten head and body wounds survived briefly at the hospital but is not expected to recover. Authorities suspect the attackers left him on the track before fleeing.
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Times and Chronicle
New Anany, Inc
Clark County
Jeffersonville
Warehouse Destroyed by Fire in Louisvitus
Special Dispatch to the Times and Chronicle reports a large wareroom of H. J. Lewis & Pte Ehse burned this morning in Louisvitus. About $10,000 worth of materials were stored there and the total loss is expected to exceed $15,000 with no insurance.
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the Times and Chronicle
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H. J. Lewis & Pte Ehse
Times and Chronicle
Xena
Laura Sweney
Thos. II. Winters
H. H. Eavey
Superior Court
Winans & Gatch
New York Officers Elected as Law Institute Chooses Leaders
May 14 New York reports the Law Institute elected Charlies O Conor as president, Charles Tracy and Samuel Blatchford as vice presidents, Edward H Omer as treasurer, and Joseph G Bosworth as secretary for the coming year. An opposition slate led by Field contested the ticket.
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New York
The
Law Institute
Charlies O’conor
Charles Tracy
Samuel Blatchford A
Edward H. Omer
Joseph G. Bosworth
Messrs. Field
John Leslie
Lealie
Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Dipetine Riten
Burlington County
Mount Holly
Newavon
Board of Public Works
Richmond
Enquirer
Walker
Virginia
Greeley
Cadiz
Howard
Span
Fleetwood Park
Frank
Belle Jones
George M. Patchen
Starlight
Dairi
Eight-Hour Law Debate Cites Armories and Arsenal Work
Washington May 13 reports from Springfield Armory and Rock Island Arsenal compare eight hour and ten hour systems. Commandants note workers show varying gains per hour, with carpenters benefiting but laborers and masons not. Savings of about 2500 yearly per squad are claimed under the eight hour plan, while total output from both sites remains debated. Senate deliberations address secrecy and treaty implications with Britain.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Washington
Secretary of War
Senate
Springfield Armory
Ruck Island Arsenal
Rock Island Arsenal
United States
Britain
Great Britain
Gulig
Tore Bissen
Committee On Foreign Relations
Better Condition of Affairs on the Miextenan Border
MaTamoras May 13 Cevallos reoccupies Camargo today and the telegraph line has been repaired. Roads in Tamaulipas are open and business revives. The army is reported in the state of Nueva Leon moving toward Coahuila. He lacks strength to oppose Government troops. A decree disarms but spares those with passports. a small revolutionary force in Mier will exit tomorrow, restoring order.
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MaTamoras
Cevallos
Camargo
Eas
Tamaulipas
Nueva Leon
Conabala
Con Ce
Mier
Kingston Fire Rages Through Shawangunk Mountains
Kingston on May 13 reports a wildfire in the Shawangunk Mountains burning two miles wide and destroying three hundred cords of timber. The ore seam runs from base to peak and now burps toward Long, as drought makes fruit grain and health at risk if rain is delayed.
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Bartlett Street
Shawangunk Mountains
Bail Storm Prefits of Gold Digging in Sal Lake
In Sal Lake on May 13 a severe hail storm causes fruit damage. In Bingham the acer diggin industry reports earnings of ten to fifteen dollars per day per worker. Three new quartz mills and seven smelting furnaces are contracted, planned at an aggregate expense of about two hundred fifty thousand dollars.
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Sal Lake
Bingham
Methodist General Conference Notes in New York May First
The Methodist General Conference reassembled in Brooklyn Academy with Bishop Ames presiding. A day for memorial services was moved to May 19. Resolutions on episcopal authority and Book Concern frauds were read, debated briefly, and tabled before the conference adjourned.
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Brooklyn Academy
Ames
Jeronalth
Theesers
Winiees Pansheon
Sutherland
New York
Cincinnati
Advocate
Brother Brice
Laws
Meeting of the Army of the Tennessee in Madison
Madison Wisconsin May 13 extensive preparations by the Local Committee for the Army of the Tennessee meeting on the 34 and 4th of July. General Grant Sheridan and others to deliver the annual address with distinguished attendees expected.
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Army of the Tennessee
Madison
Wis
Gee
Grant
Sheridan
Democratic State Central Committee Adopts Plan for Conventions
In St Louis on May 14 the Democratic State Central Committee decayed conventions to elect representatives to the State Central Committee and to participate in the National Convention.
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St. Louia
Democratic State Central Committee
Emerson
Whisky seized from Michael Carney Co as stamps claimed counterfeit
United States detectives yesterday seized five thousand dollars worth of whisky found in the possession of Michael Carney and Company. Officers assert that the barrel stamps are counterfeit.
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United States
Michael Carney & Co
Senate Debates Amendments to Enforcement Act
Amid morning session, Senator Casserly proposes a substitute to punish attempts to influence or reveal ballot choices. Calverly pushes to bar any federal official from involvement in elections, citing abuses at Mare Island yard. Debate continues, executive session, amendments rejected, and related House actions noted.
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Caseery
United States
Calverly
Syoe Pas
Oer Yard
Mare Ichand
Thor Nares
Cas Orly
Velestiany
Elie Hon
New York City
Cole
Mare Asland
Vatley
Pacific Railway
Stockton
Cageerly
Messrs
Casserly
Cule
Chen
Isto SI
Mr. Trumbull
Nye
Legal clash over habeas corpus in cigar case
In a United States Circuit Court session Judges Emmons and Swing addressed a defraud case involving John J. Robbins. Robbins, previously jailed for a tobacco and cigars fraud, sought habeas corpus claiming the court lacked authority to imprison until fines were paid. Judge Emmons overruled the motion, affirming full jurisdiction and delaying rearrest, with no immediate further action expected.
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United Sates
Emmons
Swing
John J. Robbins
Unty
Robbins
Emmets
United States
Government
A. FP. Williams
Mary L. Ryan
Redway
Burton
Eastern Kentucky nears road plan tying coal iron to wealth
In May at Waswinctos Senator Ferry signals solid support from Connecticut allies for re election, while a Kentucky railroad project seeks $1.01 million bond-like land bonuses to finance a survey and route from Paris to Richmond. Proponents claim huge mineral wealth and rapid value rise for lands near the proposed line, with committees formed to study the route and align with chambers of commerce.
Kentucky route advocates seek Cumberland Gap line to Columbus
Thomas Turner and Judge B. J. Peters address Montgomery County citizens in Moon Kentucky urging a Cincinnati to Cumberland Gap rail route via Knoxville. They describe a charter plan to secure lines through Kentucky Central and Knoxville branches, argue for a fall operation start, and outline a long, coal and ore rich corridor with potential freight and passenger connections to Nashville, Morristown, and Charleston, claiming 212 miles of road to build and extensive mineral resources along the path.
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Commissioners Seek More Funds for Government Building Site
The Commissioners met at noon in the Masonic Building to review the site for the new Government buildings. Present were Taft Stevenson Gieves beck Carson and Foulds with Supervising Architect Muller. They proposed increasing the appropriation to 590000 to secure a suitable half block site and to cover condemnation powers and further actions.
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Masonic
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Gievesbeck
Carson
Foulds
Muller
Congress
Haif
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Maletdered
Secretary of the Treasury
Steamer Colombia to South America sails from this port
The sternwheel steamer Colombia built at this port by John Witherbury & Fon for Captain H G Summers leaves tomorrow for Barranquilla and Honda. Summers, joined by two engineers and a crew of fifteen, plans a 8230 mile voyage via New Orleans and the Caribbean to the Magdalene River. The 166 by 30 and 6 foot hull draws 2y feet and the boat costs above £10,000. Captain T T Smith, formerly of the yacht Challenge, joins for lookouts.
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John Witherbury & Fon
H. G. Sammoers
Louisville
United States
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South America
Summers
Columbia
New Orleans
Gulf of
Barranquilla
Honda
The
Yacht Challenge
Terrible Railroad Tunnel Accident In City
A man named Crawford from Washington County was found in a railroad tunnel after midnight. He was badly mutilated with his head and legs in separate positions along the track and his body rolled between the rails. Identification on papers found on the victim remains incomplete.
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Times and Chronicle
Crawford
Washington County
Iris
PAGLISH JOURNALISTIC LAWS AND SHIFTS IN PARLIAMENT
The morning editorials discuss indirect claims and the English Government position in Lords and Commons. They approve ongoing negotiations but doubt U S Senate concurrence. The Senate rejects a treaty addendum harming American securities and Royalty reports Empress Augusta’s return to Berlin. Parliament adjourns for Whitsuntide. Lords and Commons reconvene on the 27th inst.
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House of Lords
Iranville
Commons
Gladstone
United States Senate
Americas Securities
Empress Augusta
Germany
Queen Victoria
Berlin
House of Commons
Government and Carlist Troops in Biscay Department
Fifteen thousand Government troops concentrate in the Biscay Department while seven thousand Carlists, adopting a Fabian policy, oppose them. Carlist leaders Ugarte Elio Rada and others who fled to France have been arrested and sent back by French authorities.
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Biscay
Ugarte
Elio
Rada
France
Six White Men Murdered on the Plains in Montana
Montana dispatch reports six white men including Simmons Hond and five others killed by Indians while descending a river near Fort Benton. Friends sent to verify. Alabama correspondence and the President's papers are printed in confidence for Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which met with most members present to discuss a proposed additional treaty article but reached no conclusion.
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Washington
Helena
Montana
Fort Benton
Simmons
Hond
Alabama
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Patterson
Selda
Grand Procession of Workingmen Planned in Chicago
Chicago sees extensive preparations for a large workingmen march tomorrow. A 20 000 strong procession is expected though leaders deny an actual strike. In related crime news a suspect tied to a separate murder case was arrested in Racine after a night watch found the victim and 61 dollars.
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Young Kimpke
M Ses
Muosford
Kenosha
Racine
Suspected Phelps Gang Members Arrested in Store Assault
Henry Porter James Robbins and William Fitch were arrested as alleged gang members who entered Charles Phelps store and assaulted him. James Hallick, believed to have fired, was cornered in a tenement but escaped. Arrests followed information from thieves suspected in the same crime. L Spencer of Oil City Pa, staying at Merchants Hotel, disappeared last night. The Coroner will hold an inquest today.
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James Robbins
William Fitch
Phelps
James Hallick
L. Spencer
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Detroit General Strike Expands Across Michigan Mines
DETROIT May 14 reports a general strike across Calumet Hecla Schoolcraft Quincy Franklin Pembamic mines with about two thousand workers. Ringleaders at Calumet and Hecla were arrested but rescued by a mob. no injuries to date. Strike has lasted twelve days.
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Sud
Hecla
Waskin Treaty Bill Debated by Hincks and Cameron
In Ottawa on May 14 the Waskin Treaty Bill debate resumed and extended late. Sir Francis Hincks and Hon. John H. Cameron spoke in its defense. The session adjourned with plans to reconvene today and a division likely. In Arbasy New York on May 14 the Judiciary Committee backed Judge McCann for removal, sending the case to the Governor with a Senate recommendation.
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Canada
Oace
Sir Francis Hincks
John H. Cameron
Arbasy
N.Y
Judiciary Committee
McCann
Senate
Coalition elects Ferry in House with sixteen vote edge
In New Haven Connecticut on May 44 the coalition to elect Senator Ferry won in the House by a sixteen vote majority. The Senate approved Hawley while Ferry's joint ballot majority to be decided Wednesday remains in doubt at either ten or another figure.
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Ferry
Connecticut
Senate
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Sameer
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Conn
House
Hawley
Underground Railroad Bill Killed in Senate Vote
In Albany New York on May 14 the Senate refused to go into Committee of the Whole on the Central Underground Railroad Bill requiring a two thirds vote, effectively killing the measure.
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N. Y
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Central Underground Railroad
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