Interior Secretary rules right to amend homestead entries limited
The Interior Department says an amendment to a homestead entry is a right only to correct a mistake that would deprive a settler of his home or improvements. New land must be vacant and free from adverse rights to avoid injustice.
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Secretary of the Interior
Arizona
New Mexico
Rio Grande
San Carlos Reservation
Iron Manufacturers
United States
Pittsburgh
David Torcheimer & Co
Hatters
New York
Short
Marion
Sanitary Council of
Mississippi Valley
Jackson
Miss
Congress
National Board of Health
Fred Ingram
James Green
Hastings
Neb
C. H. Miller
Baltimore
Chicago
Vignaux
Schaefer
Morris
Nashville
Tenn
Wilson
Hartwick
Otsego County
N. Y
Birnee Horsky
Hudson
Valatie
West Union
W.va
Barney Doyle
Harper
New York Chamber of Commerce
Harry Woopson
the Black Diamond
Cincinnati
Jim McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Lawrence & Asher
Stationers
Hengehold & Yungbluth
Galena
Empire City
Kan
James 8
Lyon
Bork
Buffalo
Canada
C. H. Coy & Co
Notable Deaths and Political Shifts Across Nations
The era closes on Peter Cooper a New York business titan aged ninety two. Edward Cooper Hewitt and Mrs Abrams are noted as kin. President Arthur appoints Walter Gresham as Postmaster General. Rhode Island holds a gubernatorial election with Republican victory by about two thousand. Wisconsin and Ohio state politics shift as governor signatures pass through. The Bay State and Atlantic world see upheavals from Panama to Dublin.
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Peter Cooper
New York City
Edward Cooper
New York
Abrams
Hewitt
Cooper
Arthur
Walter Q. Gresham
Indiana
Gresham
Ohio
Rhode Island
Sprague
Bourn
Wisconsin
Thurman
Columbus
Society of the Army of the Cumberland
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Baton Rouge
W. A. LeSeur
Capitalian Advocate
W. T. Sanders
Chandler
Washington
Florida
Joseph K. Barnes
United States Army
Bright
W. H. H. Murray
San Antonio
Tex
Nathan
Morsks
New York Daily News
Jacksonville
Fla
Wisconsin House of Representives
House
Senate
Parnell
Irish Parliamentary Party
Philadelphia
Arson probe and disasters color late 19th century news
Eight arrests near Ennis Ireland on conspiracy to murder. A Cincinnati court limits bucket shop injunction against Western Union over betting tickets. Southern Louisiana endures a record rainfall and levee breaches near New Orleans. President Arthur visits Sanford Florida and Peter Cooper funeral draws crowds in New York. London and Birmingham police uncover nitro plot links with recent arrests and mob action, revealing a large conspiratorial network with dynamite and chemical filtering found in suspects’ lodgings.
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Ennis
Ireland
Cincinnati
Western Union Telegraph Company
Louisiana
Jth
Mississippi
New Orleans
Arthur
Sanford
Fla
New York
Peter Cooper
London
Kirton
England
United States
Bernhard Gallagher
Glasgow
America
Birmingham
Suh
Whitehead
Norman
Gallagher
Dalton
Sweens
United
Peter Cooper Dead Aged 95 In New York
Peter Cooper died at three this morning after a pneumonia attack. Born February 12 1791 in New York City he built Canton Iron Works Trenton Iron Works and founded Cooper Union He supported education for workers and was a Greenbacker presidential nominee in 1876 Funeral notices and public mourning followed in New York City with flags at half mast and tributes from notable figures.
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Ter Cooper
Cooper
Abram S. Hewitt
Cooper Institute
Pennsylvania
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
Hancock
New York
Delmonico
Peter Cooper
New York City
Newburgh
N. Y
Hempstead
Long Island
Brooklyn
Baltimore
Maryland
Canton Iron Works
America
Trenton
Atlantic Telegraph
Cooper Union
International upheaval spans lard drills fires and plots
Reports describe Cuba ordering health inspections of American lard in wooden casés, Nice pier fire causing heavy losses, a large Nihilist mine near Moscow, massive fires destroying Iquique structures, a Bohemian bishop denouncing Spiritualism, and Birmingham dynamite operations thwarted with arrests. Additional details note Irish revolutionary activity and security moves around the Queen.
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Board of Health
Nice
Czar
Moscow
Iquique
Peru
Bohemia
Birmingham
Eng
London
Dalton
United States
Windsor
Newry
Ireland
Brave Girl Defends Forest Oil Property In Pennsylvania
Miss Dot Purviance, awarded patent to 30 acres in Butler County, repels Forest Oil Company workers with an ax during a forcible eviction attempt. Sheriff halts riot as arrests follow. property worth $50,000 with two producing wells remains in dispute between Purviance and the Renfrews.
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Pittsburgh
Butler County
William Purviance
D. A. Renfrew
Forest Oil Company
Dot Purviance
Board of Property
Harrisburg
Renfrew
Renfrews
Sheriff Donaghy
Miss Purviance
Butler
Miss Dot
Forest City Oil Company
Public High School to Install Record Telescope
Hartford public high school plans a new equatorial telescope with a nine and one half inch aperture. Officials say it will be the most powerful telescope owned by any high school in the country.
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Hartford
6-Glycer Factory Discovered in Ingham Eng
Police raid on Ledsam street Ladywood uncover a nitro glycerine factory operated by Whitehead an Irish American. They seize explosives and reveal a central imperial explosives depot with a clever smoke suppression system. Additional arrests follow in London Manchester Lambeth Cork and Westminster linked to a wider dynamite plot.
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Brr
Mincham
Ledsam Street
Ladywood
Whitehead
City Press
Secret Service
Manchester
Fleet Street
Bow Street
Army
Woolwich
America
Ministry
Windsor Castle
Lambeth
London
Southampton Street
Strand
Ormund
Norman
Wilson
Wolverhampton
Henry Dalton
United States
Commons
Sir William Harcourt
Home Secretary
Birmingham
Dalton
Westminster
Destructive Kentland Fire Destroys Town Business District
Kentland Indiana suffered a devastating fire that consumed the business portion of the town. Twenty firms were burned out and the total loss is estimated at 100000 dollars with about half covered by insurance.
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Kentland
Ind
Secretary Lincoln to Guard Yellowstone Park Property
Secretary of War to detail a military guard for Yellowstone Park property per request by Secretary Teller. Lincoln will comply with the directive and arrange protection for the area.
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Teller
Secretary of War
Yellowstone Park
Lincoln
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Ww. M. Kennedy
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Daly
Dion
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Passo Correse
Italy
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Childers
House of Commons
Ottawa
Can
Featherstone
Cork
Liverpool
Freeman’s Journal
Dublin
Prince Bismarck
Financial Department of Government
Grija
Servia
Ith
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