Trial of Guiteau resumes as Davidge opens for the prosecution
Mr. Davidge outlines the case to the jury arguing Guiteau planned the crime, showed insanity as a defense weak, and revealed a character described as cunning and depraved. He challenged defense experts and defended the motive of the prosecution, concluding with a dramatic summary of the defendant’s morality and intellect.
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Davidge
Davide
Scoville
Davidre
Cox
America
Cicero
Corkhill
Arthur
Aogetter
Mr. Davidge
J. W. Guiteau
Mr. Scoville
Laek
Dunmire
Dr. Spitzka
Spitzka
Jesus Christ & Co
Congress Debates Tariffs and Indian Affairs in Senate and House
The Senate reported bills on Crow Indians land sale and Morrill Tariff Commission with opposing views from Bunyard and Bayard on tariff policy. In the House, oath for Benjamin Wood taken, memorials for Senator Carpenter’s death scheduled, and votes on elections in Utah. Debates on liquor commissions, suffrage in Utah, and the Three percent Founding bill.
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Committee On
Indian Affairs
Senate
Montana
Bunyard
Finance Committee
Morrill Tariff Commission
Bayard
Beck
House
Benjamin Wood
New York
Senator Carpenter
Utah
Committee On Elections
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Feavs
Lapham
Anthony
Ferry
Blair
George
Jackson
Fair
West
Sherman
Congress
Orth
Committee On Civil Service Reform
Haskell
Missouri River
St. Charles
Ingalls
Chicago Historical Society
la Salle
Bayne
Browne
Treasury
Secretary of the Interior
Iowa State Fair Des Moines Move Noted In Brief
The next Iowa State Fair will be held in Des Moines. Reports indicate Pacific National Bank of Boston is back in business after a suspension. A petroleum vein was found at Pomeroy Kansas near Leavenworth on the 13th. A Chicago express train wreck near Spuyten Duyvil killed twelve, including Senator Wagner. A Galveston fire on the 13th damaged about a dozen large structures, near $2 million loss. Executions occurred in St. Louis and Rimouski Ontario. A $25,000 draft surfaced in the Dead Letter Office and a Treasury bond call for $20 million was issued. Exodus of 5,000 negroes from a South Carolina county noted. Apaches in New Mexico pursued by state troops. Weekly US business failures reach 208. Cumberland River flood affects Nashville.
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Pacific National Bank of Boston
Pomeroy
Kan
Leavenworth
Albany
N. Y
Spuytern Duyvil Junction
Tarrytown
Senator Wagner
Galveston
Texas
Strand
St. Louis
Thaddeus Barber
William Ward
Antoine Moreau
Rimouski
Ont
Wentworth
N. C
Eldridge Scales
Matilda Carter
Joe Hay
Washington
Atlantic
Belfast
England
Ireland
Secretary of the Treasury
South Carolina
Sonoran
N. M
Nana
United States
Cumberland River
Nashville
New York
Atlantic Express
Wrs
Wagner
Red Jacket
Sharon
Vanderbilt
Minnehaha
Empire
Greenbush
Idlewild
Troy
Hudson
Poughkeepsie
Spuyten Duyvil Creek
Kingsbridge
Tammany
Wobster Wagner
Tarrytown Express
Monk
Iowa Legislature Organized With New Speaker and Clerk
The Iowa Legislature organized on the 10th with G. R. Struble of Louisa County elected Speaker and Colonel K. C. Hayne of Appanoose County chosen Clerk of the House. L. D. Jackson of Butler County was elected Secretary of the Senate.
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Iowa
G. R. Struble
Louisa County
K. C. Hayne
Appanoose County
L. D. Jackson
Butler
Senate
Nations swirl in state legislatures and federal moves
Reports from state capitols on the Garfield statue plan in Washington and a New York Assembly deadlock for speaker. Census notes Paris population rise to 2 225 000. South Carolina probes Exodus causes. Philadelphia group to hold a May 24 state convention. Iowa inaugurations mark new leadership as West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Kansas legislatures convene. Postal telegraph study, Cadet Whittaker affair, and Vermont chief justice appointment headline a wide federal and regional roundup.
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Nearty
Ohio Senate
Garfield
House of Representatives
Washington
New York Assembly
Alvord
Patterson
Paris
South Carolina
Miller
Philadelphia
Independent
Republican State Committee
B. R. Saerman
O. H. Manning
Iowa
Des Moines
Wisconsin
George B. Burrows
Senate
Gilson
House
Rusk
West Virginia
Whittaker
St. John
Kansas
State Supreme Court
Assocustercestice
Homer E. Royer
Vermont Supreme Court
Pope defies Italian census law over Vatican personnel
A Vatican census dispute arises as the Pope refuses to enumerate Vatican employees. In Paris a jeweller reports a 250,000 franc robbery on the 13th by two men posing as Americans. England subscribes £500 to Irish defense fund. BisMark Resists Reichstag rescript. France seeks deadline extension for Anglo-French treaty talks. Turkish sultan hires German officers to reorganize gendarmes. Canadian Parliament opens at Toronto without the Governor-General. Gladstone again remits ten percent of Hawarden estate rentals.
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Italy
Vatican
Paris
Gaston
Bank of England
Irish Property Defense Fund
BisMarck
Reichstag
Turkey
Toronto
Marquis of
Lorne
Glapstone
Hawarden
Noted Singer Caroline Richings Bernard Dies in Richmond
After a 13 day battle with smallpox the singer Caroline Richings Bernard died in Richmond Virginia on the 14th she had refused vaccination. Eight people were killed and eleven wounded in a Hudson River railroad disaster at Spuyten Duyvil on the 13th.
A Terrible Railroad Accident at Greenbush and Aftermath
An Atlantic express derailed near Spuyten Duyvil after a brake failure, splitting the Idlewild and Empire cars. Fire followed as passengers fought to escape, with local residents using improvised pails to douse flames amid missing water access and overwhelmed fire equipment.
Empire State Express Disaster Casualties List
Survivors recount a night crash when a New York City bound Empire State Express collided with a Tarrytown train. Flames, screams, and a chaotic rescue followed as nine to twelve died, including Senator Webster Wagner, with a list of the identified dead and injured emerging from the wreckage.
Illinois Corn Crop of 1881 Yield Report
The Illinois Department of Agriculture reports the 1881 corn yield totaling 174,995,707 bushels. The drought hit the Southern Division hardest, reducing the 1881 harvest to 70 percent of 1880 and 50 percent of 1879.
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Illinois Department of Agriculture
State Board extends vaccination deadline to January 24 1882
Springfield notes delayed vaccine supply push back enforcement of school vaccination order to January 24 1882. Health authorities urged to report first causes of smallpox, with reports to the Springfield office. Also details State Agricultural Board actions and regional penal changes plus oil discoveries at Harvel and Litchfield oil output.
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Springfield
State Board of Health
Boards of Health
State Agricultural Board
C. M. Culbertson
Chicago
Smithfield
Eng
Prince of Wales
United States
Carter Harrison
Cagte
Cullom
Calhoun
Christian
Clark
Coles
Cumberland
Douglas
Edgar
Greene
Jersey
Macoupin
Montgomery
Moultrie
Shelby
Northern
Chester
Harvel
Litchield
Litchfield
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