National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Annual Meeting
The Board of Managers met in Washington on the 20th. The annual report notes care for 8,000 soldiers that year and an average cost of 125 per man. Improvement in morals and conduct is reported. Also, a 10 percent dividend is being issued by the men’s bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Managers
The
National Homes For
Washington
Men’s Bank
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Carson
London
Senate Postoffice Committee
Alex. Reed
Toledo
Postoffice Department
Rhode Island and national elections and crimes across states
The report notes Rhode Island nominees for governor and lieutenant governor from both major parties on the 20th and 22nd, a New Hampshire tally with Prescott ahead, a Camden New Jersey murder confession tied to an insurance fraud plot, a Littleton West Virginia double murder with suspect arrest, and a Mississippi or New York bank failure. It also mentions Dartmouth hazing cases, a failed female suffrage bill in Massachusetts, and a Rhode Island constitutional vote defeat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C. McCormick
New York
France
Rhode Island
William Foster
J. P. Hazard
Henry Appleton
A. P. Moore
James Graham
John M. Armstrong
Camden
N. J
Benj. Hunter
Hunter
Graham
New Hampshire
Prescott
Littleton
W. Va
George Wallace
Mary Church
John Wallace
George
Cuares M. Cooke
Dartmouth College
Bartlett
Isaac G. Barrett
Massachusetts House
Rhode Island House
Democratic State Convention
J. B. Barnaby
Isaac Lawrence
First National Bank of
Tarrytown
N. Y
Rasane
Samuel Chambers
George Collins
A S
Newcastle
Deloe
Young Men's
Various 19th Century News Briefs From Across the Nation
A wide range of late 19th century items report organizational meetings in St Louis and Charleston, Emigrant ceremony attended by 5000, counterfeiters arrested in Cincinnati and Memphis, Grand Jury report on New Orleans officers, major fires in Danville Virginia, executions in Abbeville Alabama, South Carolina legislature adjournment, Texas Investgating Commission troop deployment, a San Francisco schooner sinking near Alaska, Minnesota insane hospital abuse testimony, Ohio Valley cold weather fruit outlook, and Iowa legislature adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen
United States
Canada
St. Louis
Order
Charleston
D. C
Ishop Brown
M. E
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Wells
Superior Criminal Court
Whitaker
Farmers’ Tobacco Warehouse
Keen & Keen
L. P. Stovall, & Co
R. J. Jones
Emboy & Rudd
J. I. Keen
Arnett & Wemple
Danville
Ogden
Anderson
Jerry
Isaac
Jacob Childs
Abbeville
Ala
Yon
South Carolina
Gov
Hampton
Senate
Texas Investiating Commission
Hubbard
el Paso
Texas
Gen. Miller
San Francisco
Alaska
Ohio Valley
Lower Lake Region
Iowa
Earl of Rosebery’s London wedding and treaty debates
The 20th wedding of the Earl of Rosebery to Miss Hannah Meyer de Rothschild in London is noted amid a spectrum of international affairs. Reports recount the San Stefano treaty, Russian and English positions, unrest in northern China, Serbia, and Vienna’s call for treaty revision, alongside local Ohio events and a paradoxical political scene.
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Earl of Rosebery
London
Hannah
Baron Meyer de Rothschild
England
San Stefano
China
Russia
Turkey
Journal
de St. Petersburg
Europe
St. Petersburg
Servia
Vienna
Austria
Nicholas
Nelidoff
Constantinople
Landwehr
Berlin Post
Eurydice Sinks Off Isle of Wight in Sudden Squall
London reports that the British naval training ship Eurydice capsized off Dunnose Head near the Isle of Wight in a snow squall. With about 300 aboard, only Benjamin Cuddiford and Sidney Fletcher survived. 7 possibly left in Bermuda, and 298 officers and crew listed in an official tally. The coroner’s inquest returns the loss as accidental with no blame.
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London
Eura
Dunnose Head
Isle of Wight
Eurydice
Marcus A. S. Hare
Emma
Francis H. Tabor
Benjamin Cuddiford
Sidney Fletcher
Cuddiford
Dunnose
Myself
Fletcher
Hare
Bermuda
Lizard
Cornwall
Great Britain
Spithead
Shanklin Chine
Black Gang Chine
Ventnor
Cowes
Admiralty
Barbadoes
Rome dispatch on new Wicen of Italy conquering husband
A Rome dispatch reports the new Wicen of Italy has already conquered her husband. The excerpt mocks male status as a woman’s resolve to rule makes even the scepter powerless to save a man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Italy
Cincinnati Senate and House Actions on Bills and Adjournment
The Senate on the 20th defeated the Cincinnati Police bill while approving bills on fishing restrictions except Lake Erie, property administration for science and art, real estate revaluation maps, and requiring school directors to be district residents. The House amended and made law a pool selling punishment bill and passed measures reorganizing the Reform School for Boys and the Agricultural College Board of Trustees. Senate actions on the 21st included Toledo selling the Toledo and Woodville Railroad and a failed county offices bill. House actions involved militia funding changes and police board reorganization attempts. On the 22nd the Senate defeated a bond proposition for the Cincinnati Southern Railroad and introduced new bills on benevolent fund investments, guardians’ borrowing, railroad car safety, juror pay, canal management, and church property taxation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Adjutant-General
Marietta
Union County
Dalzell
Thorp
Greene
O’connor
O'Connor
Codifyin Commission
House
L. J. Jackson
Southern Railroad
Ohio
Pennsylvania
General Assembly
Cincinnati
Lake Erie
Reform School For Boys
Agricultural College Board of Trustees
Police Board of
Orphans’ Home
Atenia
Cincinnati Southern Railroad
Board of Public Works
Lethal lynching of John Wallace in Burton unfolds
From Wheeling dispatches the Littleton murderer John Wallace was hanged at Burton after confessing to killing Mary Wallace and her infant and Mary Church. His brother George Wallace faced possible complicity as vigilantes seized the prisoners, forced entry, and tied Wallace to a tree beside the railroad. The crowd dispersed after the execution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
W. Va
Joan Wallace
Littleton
Burton
Mary Wallace
Mary Church
Henry Villars
John Wallace
George
Baltimore & Ohio Road
George Wallace
John
Wallace
George Villars
West Alexander
Mary E. Wallace
Mary
Darling
O Leary Wins World Pedestrian Championship in London
In London on March 23 O Leary triumphed in a six day international pedestrian contest covering 520 miles. He led Vaughan to 497 miles with Brown and Ide farther back as crowds of up to 30,000 cheered. The prize belt and £750 guaranteed by Sir John Astley honored the record run.
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London
O’ Leary
England
John Astley
M. P
Weston
Daniel O'Leary
Crossland and
Howse
Vaughan
O’leary
O'Leary
Lewis
Brown
O' Leary
Cynosure
Ide
The Postal Savings Bill Moves in House
Washington March 21 the house introduced a bill to establish a postal savings depository run by the Post Office Department. Deposits from twenty five cents to three hundred dollars may be made at money order offices with pass book credit and a postmaster general certificate of deposit. Deposits earn 3 percent interest and may be withdrawn anytime. Depositors gain absolute security with no charges for deposits or withdrawals and may convert funds reaching fifty dollars into 3.65 certificates or 4 percent bonds. The measure covers all management details and aligns with the 4 percent loan provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Howe
Wis
Jo Whitaker
Anderson
New Orleans
United Elite
the Pacific Railroad
Cuba
Leonard
Louisiana
House
Finance Committee
Territory
Lincoln
Pacific Railroad
Deat
Blaine
Fishery Commission
New Mexico Assembly
Society of Jesuit Fathers of
New Mexico
Committee
Treasury
Jones
Fla
Schurz
Morgan
Ala
Matthews
Ohio
Davis
Chicago
Commerce Committee
Post Office Department
United States
Judiciary Committee
Washington
Benjamin Noyes
Connecticut
U. S
McDonald
Ind
Sherman
Wallace
Whitaker
Butler
Mass
Delfosse
Halifax Commission
Foreign Relations Committee
Corbin
South Carolina
Elections Committee
W. Va
Secretary of the Treasury
Internal Revenue
Committee On
Ways and Means
Massachusetts
Dean Vs. Field
Byalso
Packard
Williamson
Senate Elections Committee
John Allison
Register of the Treasury
Beaver
Congress
Inst Wallace
Pennsylvania
Senate Committee On Public Lands
McGarrahan
Navy Department
Narrowax
Conscience Fund of
the Treasury
Cincinnati
Hayes
Grant
White House
L. E. Parsons
Alabama
Union Pacific Railroad
Charles F. Adams, Jr
Ralph P. Buckland
G. W. Smythe
Iowa
Daniel Chedwick
C.c.housel
Nebraska
Allison
John M. Dunn
U. S. Marshal
Delaware
Philadelphia
House Invalid Pension Committee
Glenni W. Scofield
Postal Savings Depository
Ulric Dahlgrens Leg Legend From Navy Yard Corner Stone
The piece chronicles a corner-stone plaque at a navy yard where Ulric Dahlgren’s leg is interred within a wall of munitions. It notes Dahlgren wounded July 6, 1863 in Hagerstown after Gettysburg, reflecting on legacy and sacrifice and contrasting roving volunteers’ fates. A concluding line offers a separate sentimental thought on enduring affection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dahlgren
Navy-Yard
Ulric Dahlgren
Hagerstown
Gettysburg
United States
Washington Cor
Chicago Times
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M. D. Hom
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Councellor
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Charles E. Bronson
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God County
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Adam Minsel
Defiance, Ohio
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Opera
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Moore
Miller & Craft
Boot and Shoe
Clinton St
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Hicksville
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Defiance County Express
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Germany
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Sandusky
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Solomon
Illinois
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Gov. Bishop
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Detroit
U. S. Senate
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Mount Vernon
John G. Poole
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
Frank Knalts
Gallipolis
R. B. Hayes
Columbus
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Jabez W. Fitch
James Barnett
Rarenea County
J. F. Perry
Summit
Archibald McGregor
Stark
D. L. Wadsworth
Lorain
D. W. Brooks
Franklin County
P. Smith
Pickaway
E. J. Blount
Franklin
Benjamin Myes
Ashland
Gen. G. W. Morgan
Camillaboners
J. M. Pugh
Charles Mains
Logan
B. W. Chidlaw
Hamilton
Jacob Cherryholmes
Holmes
J. Reinmand
Fairfield
Athens
John Shreiner
Meigs County
M. McMillen
William Waddle
Ross
A. M. Stimson
Fayette
Isaac Stanley
Dayton
I. D. Styles
Darke County
J. B. Owsley
C. M. Godfrey
Cinewe
Durbin Ward
Warren
Henry Schonefeldt
Montgomery
George M. Weinman
Columbus Pump-Works
George Weinman
Burgess Steel and Iron Works
Portsmouth
W. C. Watson
Bellaire
Ohio Teachers’ Association
Putin Bay
Legislature
Lynch Law
Dan O’leary
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