From News of the Week Gen Sickles to Erie president bid
In this consolidating roundup a wide array of 19th century items surface. Gen. Sickles touted as Erie presidency candidate. smallpox hits Dickinson College Carlisle PA. New York refiners strike. eight hour fight by NY manufacturers. emigration to New York rises. Stokes trial opens. Peter Cooper aids shirt workers. rail convention bans discount tickets for politics. Jefferson's condition improving. McClellan favored for Erie presidency. many legal and crime notes follow.
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SickuEs
Erie
Dickinson College
Carlisle
New York
Stokes
James Fisk, Jr
Peter Cooper
New York Central
Cosylvania Central
Joseph Jefferson
B. McClellan
T. B. Blackstone
Chicago and Alton Road
James F. Joy
Michigan Central
Gen. McClellan
Fierce Fight Between Two Chinamen in Vienna Montana
A widely reported brawl in Vienna Montana between Mun Gee and Ching Ho ends with Ho slashing Gee’s face neck and ear with a hatchet and tomahawk strikes. Gee suffers severe wounds but may recover while Ho flees to avoid arrest.
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Vienna
Montana
Mun Gee
Ching Ho
Gee
Question of Dr Howard citizenship in amnesty appeal
The note discusses claiming Dr Howard as an American citizen by friendly intercession for amnesty from the Spanish Government. Mexico news says 8000 Juarists march on Matamoras with a decisive clash expected. A Windsor Canadian militia raid wounded Corporal Isles after Edwin Bennett garden attack. Public anger rose at Bennett.
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Norman B. Judd
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Allen
Golden City
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Graham
Cedar Creek
Ruggles
Howard
Arizona
Indian Affairs
State Department
James Bliss
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Cree
Washington
West
Mexico
Matamoras
Windsor
Edwin Bennett
Isles
Bennett
Grand Trunk Horror and Related Rail Disasters
A June 22 catastrophe near Belleville Canada on the Grand Trunk killed twenty three and injured many as a locomotive left the track. A Pittsburgh Washington and Baltimore collision near Connellsville killed three and injured eight others. A New York Liberty Street chemical explosion wounded about twenty five firemen.
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New York
Grand Trunk
Grand Trunk Railway
Belleville
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Connellsville
Henry Paxton
Robi. Lockhart
J. Blackburn
Binding the World Together to Link Continents
A new submarine cable runs from Lowestoft in Sussex to Emden in Hanover, linking England and the Continent. In two years 23,000 miles of electric cable have been laid across England, France, Spain, Holland, Turkey, China, South America, and Australia as the grand system shrinks world distances.
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Lowestoft
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Emden
Hanover
France
Spain
Holland
Turkey
China
South America
Australia
Agricultural statistics of the United States 1870 census
The census lists total improved farm land 188,921,099 acres and woodland 159,310,177 acres with farm cash value about 9.26 billion dollars. It records wages paid to farm laborers at 810 million, and total farm production around 2.448 billion, including stock additions, with orchard products 47.3 million and market garden output 20.7 million. Also shows livestock numbers, crop yields, and changes since 1860.
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