Lynching of Whitney Shocks Hermann Missouri
A mob of about two hundred broke into the Hermann jail at midnight and hanged Whitney, the alleged killer of Burchard, after forcing the jail door. Whitney claimed the name Fisher and said he did not know if he killed Burchard. Colllier aided in robberies in Gasconade County and burglary attempts in Bern.
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Burchard
Fisher
Virginia
Collier
Gasconade County
Burchard & Lakes
Bern
Young Burchard
Carbondale
Jackson County
M. P. Alsup
Albert Ausberry
Alsup
Ausberry
Illinois State Medical Society
Decatur
Springfield
Stratford
Bloomington
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Highland
Madison County
Millersville
Christian County
J. F. Blackburn
Litchfield
Elizabeth D. M. Ingraham
Chicago
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Normal
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Gerard & Co
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Logan County
Gilbert
Tom Ray
Brownstown
Fayette County
Tom
Frances Hart
Windsor
Shelby County
Gussie Barnard
Rockford
Winnebago County
Illinois Homeopathic Association
M. B. Campbell
Joliet
Illinois General Assembly
Eugene Merillot
Kankakee
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
James
Newton Modge
Illinois Training School For Nurses
Fannie Perrine
Wabash Railroad Company
David Davis
San Francisco
Shipwreck at Hereford Inlet: Fannie A Bailey Lost
The schooner Fannie A Bailey from Windsor Nova Scotia with 370 tons of rock plaster ashore on Hereford Inlet north bar in thick fog. Captain Manson Hume Jr and crew perished. Captain Holmes and Captain Ludlam saved the mother and child after a shipboard disaster near Barnegat light. Vessel 19 years old from Portland Maine.
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N. J
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Manson Hume, Jr
Hereford Inlet
Windsor
N. S
Philadelphia
Barnegat
Holmes
Ludlam
Hume
F. Bruce
Thomas Shields
Harry Huling
Harry Worden
Charles Dailey
Harrold
Portland
Railroad decision grants Utah & Northern mail payment rights
Washington June 6 Judge Lawrence First Comptroller of the Treasury declares the act of March 3 1873 does not bar the Utah and Northern Railroad Company from cash payment for mail transport services. He rules Thurman act and later statutes do not authorize withholding payments from non subsidized lines. The decision favors Pacific Railroad companies and ends long dispute over mail carriage receipts. Edmund L Cushing former New Hampshire Chief Justice dies at 76.
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Lawrence
the Treasury
Utah & Northern Railroad Company
United States
Nenre Department
Post Office Department
Pacific Railroad Companies
Senate
House
Sarre
General Assembly
State Board of Agriculture
Judiciary Committee
Chicago Washingtonian
East St. Louis
Committee On
Illinois River
State House
Julia A. Bakewell
Cook County
Kersten
Prindiville
Chicago
Ilinois Central Railroad
High License Investigation Committee
Haines
Galena River
Illinois News Report Highlights Prisons Firearms and Trials
May data from Joliet Prison shows onhand inmate count 1410 with 63 male and 7 female admissions and 43 discharged. July releases include notable figures Scotty Lerock Tommy Ryan Frank Lee Al Cramer and J W Paulson. Also details on a Carbondale fatal knife fight and ongoing state legislative actions.
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Joliet Prison
A. R. Carpenter
Wheaton
Maurice Thompson
Sangamon County
Louisa O’brien
Rose
Chicago
John Anderson
Mooney
Frank Wilmer
Ives
Crabtree
Kentucky
A. J. Walton
Kalamazoo Bank
Senator Bayard on the Tariff in Delaware Letter
Senator Bayard argues against tariff for private gain, urging the Democratic Party to uphold public property rights and just compensation. He calls for a revenue tariff with fair administration, Civil-service reforms, and a shift from executive favoritism to public interest principle. Prepared in Wilmington on May 23, 1883.
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Wilmington
Del
Joseph Pulitzer
New York
Treasury
Democratic Party
United States
United
Radical Party
T. F. Bayarp
Democratic split over Hendricks refusal to run again
A St. Louis Republic excerpt records discussions among Democrats about a Hendricks nomination and the pressure to run. It notes support from various party voices and praise for Governor Butler's work in Massachusetts as a moral influence against civiliation’s abuses.
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Mr. Hendricks
Indianapolis
New York
Mr. Tilden
Maine
California
Garfield
Hendricks
Tilden
The
Republic
Cincinnati
Brady
Dorsey
Cincinnati #nquirer
Massachusetts
St. Louis Repubican
Platform of the Iowa Democratic Convention 1892
The platform reaffirms equal rights for all and opposes special privileges. It calls for civil-service reform, budget economy, and a revenue tariff with reductions. It denounces Republican excesses in spending and tariff schemes, supports regulated license laws for temperance, and demands railway regulation to protect public interests. It also upholds trial rights for citizens, opposes foreign imprisonment, and expresses solidarity with oppressed peoples seeking constitutional rights.
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Democratic Party
Republican Party
1St
Republican Congress
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New Hampshire
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State Prison Report
Illinois
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Anna Asylum
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Rountree
Spann Lodge
Chicago Journal
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English
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Morrison
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McClellan
Bayard
Thurman
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Turpin
Wabash Courier
Senator Bayard
Iowa Democracy
Iowa
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