Newspaper War Across New York Courts Libel
A busy drumbeat of libel suits and counterclaims stirs New York press circles as the Trib ume World and Times clash while the Brooklyn Union backs the Tribune and World. Debates flare over jail terms for murder cases and politics as crime, finance, and railroad disputes ripple through the city.
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New York
Tribune
The
Times
Brooklyn Union
the World
Herald
Tribune and World
Journal of Commerce
Brooklyn
Sophia M. Hilteman
William J. N. Shepard
Moravia
N. Y
John Hiltsman
Stokes
New Hampshire
James A. Weston
Erie Railway Company
Drew and
Vanderbilt
Henry C. Bowen
New York Tribune
Brooklyn Eagle
Bowen
Henry Ward Beecher
Woodhull-Claflin
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Congress
Sandwich Islands
United States
World
Horace
Greenwood
Greeley
Duane Street
Cyrille Dion
Maurice Daly
Dion
Daly
Napoleon
Carr
Delaware County
Woopatous
Claflin
New York Stock Exchange
Pacific Mail
Lupra Sherman
Connecticut Borgia
New Haven
Retirements and Elections Stir in 19th Century News
Col. Wrurram M. Grosvenor retires as St Louis Dispatch chair editor. Arkansas Republican ticket declared elected and new officers sworn in. New Orleans telegram notes quiet city. Pinchback Legislature counts governor votes amid quorum issues. Obituaries and international dispatches cover Napoleon’s remains, royal arrivals, and Franco Spanish affairs.
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Wrurram M. Grosvenor
St. Louis Dispatch
Arkansas
New Orleans
The
House of the People’s Legislature
Senate
Congress in Brief: Wide ranging bills and votes in early January
Senate actions include amending the National Currency act to aid free banking and bond reserves, and authorizing note redemption in bonds. Other measures cover public works, executive salaries, western boundary readjustments, and investigations into elections in Louisiana and Arkansas. House moves include general appropriation bills, Credit Mobilier inquiries, and Colorado statehood.
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Ohio
New York
Illinois
Gen
Humphreys
Congress
Falls
Des Moines Rapids
Mississippi
Delta
Gulf
Buckingham
United States Senate
United States
Ra E. Payne
James Ward
Toronto
Buffalo
Paine
New Orleans
Saville
Golden Head
Rio
Patagonia
Straits of
Magellan
Tursday
Senate
Treasury
Anthony
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Frelinghuysen
Contesta
Supreme Court of
Sherman
Louisiana
Arkansas
Hovsett
House
Credit Mobilier
Union Pacific Railroad
Wilson
Imd
Shellabarger, Hoar, Swann and Slocum
Werpxes Bay
Stenatre
Evansville
Ind
Grand Rapids
Mich
Secretary of the Interior
Oregon
Dakota
Butler
Sargent
Holman
Tuersday
Seenate
Executive Department
Washington
Kansas
Nebraska
North Central Railway Company
Minnesota
European and American Land and Emigration Company
Ramsey
Committee On
Post Offices
Missouri River
Lexington
Housh
Colorado
Utah
Bureau of Emigration
Vripay
Ames
Niblack
Ho Serrion
Hawark
Port Gratiot
Mili
Death of the Ex-Emperor Napoleon
News confirms the death of Emperor Louis Napoleon at Camden House Chiselhurst England on January 9 at 10 45 am He died amid preparations for a third operation with embolism and heart failure cited The Empress Eugenie Prince Imperial and close staff were present The body to be interred at Chiselhurst before removal to France Universal sorrow follows in London Paris reports and telegraphic condolences continue
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Wulke
Charles Dilke
Derby
England
Dilke
Chisxelhurst
Napoleon
M. Riviere
Marshal Bazaine
Vienna Post
Count von Beust
Rome
Independence Belge
Brussels
Count von Duest
Duke de Grammont
Austria
France
Prussia
Vance
China
Mori
Washington
Japan
Chiselhurst
Benedetti
M. Olivier
Marshal McMahon
Murat
Suite
Prince Imperial
Napoleon IV
Chixelhwret
Cardinal Bonaparte
M. Rouhergasemene
London
Paris
Eugenie
Milan
Italy
Louis Napoleon
Liverpool
America
Manchester
Madrid
Porto Rico
Spain
Camden House
Woolwich
Gull
Father Goddard
Henry Thompson
Louis
Messager de Paris
Savi
Victoria
Col
Gardiner
National Assembly
Terrible Snow Storm Takes Many Northern Victims
An Arctic blizzard across the Northwest left numerous deaths and dire losses. Reports describe frozen casualties near New Ulm and Wilmer Minnesota, a marriage party estranged by the storm, and riders freezing on prairie roads as the 60 hour tempest raged with brutal force.
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New Ulm
Minn
Nicolet
Wilmer
Casserly
Hermann
St. James
Litchfield
Kirkhaven
Worthington
Lemars
Iowa
Sioux City
Lee
Covington
Nebraska
A. C. Jenkins
Ohio Bridge Company
Cleveland
Lyons County
Towa
Legislative notes on 1870s Senate actions and amendments
The excerpt records Senate debates on the cotton claims amend ment, mining act exemptions for Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota, and the Agricultural College bill allocating land proceeds to states for agricultural colleges with a school support amendment rejected. It also lists bills re post routes treasury reform civil service debt consolidation and banking, and a failed motion to suspend rules to repeal the iron clad oath.
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Senate
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Agricultural College
Congress
Treasury Department
Judiciary Committee
Carell
United States District Court of Louisiana
Jury rules guilty after penny toss in Pa case
A Witxesnarre Pennsylvania jury that failed to reach a verdict in a criminal case ended the session by tossing a penny to determine the defendant’s guilt.
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Virginia
Hannibal and St. Joseph
Decatur
Lal
Hillsdale County
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Hazel Green
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Lil
Charles Ducharme
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Western Union Telegraph
Cincinnati
Hibler
Fort Wayne
5Th Cavalry
Salt River
Wisconsin State Normal School
Oshkosh
H. C. Bowen
Leo Canman
Chicago
House Commerce Committee
Shellabarger
House Committee On Public Lands
Ketchum
Finance Committee
Soutwell
Sumner
Preston
Brooks
Henry M. Stanley
Washington Aay
Senate Committee On Elections
Senate Finance Committee
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