Senate debates Porter bill and House actions on various measures
The Senate debated the Fitz John Porter relief bill, with a party line vote rejecting a one-year restoration limit. In the House, Townsend presented E B Taylor’s pretensions as Garfield’s successor, and Crapo introduced a canal policy resolution opposing foreign capital. Other measures discussed include tariff and rail regulation bills, civil service reform, and treaty terminations. The Electoral Count resolution received further debate.
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Abolition of flogging in British Navy proposed
A Paris dispatch notes Spain bought 50,000 shares in De Lesseps Panama Canal scheme while Ireland faces unsettled law enforcement. Reports recount arrests, lynchings, mine disasters, and political tensions across the United States and Europe, including Panama share sales, legal notices, and security measures.
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Swiss Plan to Coin Gold Faces Backlash Abroad
The Swiss National Assembly rejected the Federal Council proposal to coin a large sum of gold into twenty franc pieces, fearing foreign regard as a move toward a gold standard. Across the Atlantic, reports from Ireland to Chicago note political and criminal events, from land league threats to a Welsh author's libel dispute, plus a deadly trichinosis outbreak in Chicago and a Colorado-like raid into the Indian Territory.
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Tragic Illinois murder spree ends in escape then killings
Louis Tockstein 26, a farmer near Chester Illinois, erupted in a brutal rampage striking down a family at a hillside house. He shattered windows and killed old man Ryan his daughter in law Mrs Smith and granddaughter Sarah with an ax before being subdued and remanded to the sheriff. Authorities say finances and farm losses preceded the insanity. The victims were buried today and witnesses described the scene as horrific.
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Calumny and Commerce in Dated Gossip Lines
A collage of brief quotes from multiple papers mocks praise, satire, and ads. It cites Detroit Free Press praising rows, Philadelphia Chronicle on silks, Herald on policemen, Graphic on Edmund About, Boston Post on fiction, WN Picayune on hash, Galveston News on a converted Chinaman, Pottery Gazelle on a child spelling that, Peck’s Milwaukee Sun on patent medicine, and Oil City Derrick on labor and pay.
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Diphtheria and street filth blamed in New York letters
A New York Sun physician argues diphtheritic disease stems from foul air and sewer gas, linking gutter filth to illness while criticizing urban cleanliness. The page quotes multiple editorials and opinions on politics, including Barnum, the Democratic Party, and the Chinese letter controversy, noting public health fears and political blame.
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President Garfield Receives Ohio Electors at Mentor
President-elect Garfield thanks the Ohio Electoral College for their visit at Mentor and reflects on the election. He emphasizes the sovereign will of nine million voters and vows to pursue liberty, peace, prosperity, justice, and culture for the nation over the next four years.
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Sleigh Bells Echo as Snow Fades in Child's Death
A dying nine time snowbound girl on St. Antoine Street gazed at falling snow hoping for one sleigh ride. Her mother, loyal at the pillow, promised a sleigh carrying her coffin if she died. She died before morning, the mourners noting the hearse on runners in an early winter funeral.
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Joint stock venture to develop White Sulphur Springs
A joint stock company is planned to buy White Sulphur Springs near Cokesbury South Carolina. It aims to raise $30,000 to build a large hotel and improve the resort. Several wealthy gentlemen have pledged loans and prospects are strong that Abbeville will gain a premier watering place in the state.
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Tall Australian trees rival world heights in Gippsland and Victoria
A Gippsland fallen tree reached 435 feet from root to highest branch tip, while a standing specimen in Victoria’s Dandenong district is estimated at 460 feet from ground to the top, making Australia home to some of the world’s tallest trees.
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Democrats ponder Garfield seat fill as Republicans vow action
The Democrats consider who will succeed Garfield in the Senate while Republicans promise to name a candidate promptly, according to the Post and Tribune report.
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