News of the Week Bares Lynching Tornadoes and Silk Road
Henry Cotzert, a colored man, was lynched near Hickman Kentucky for assaulting a white woman. A tornado damaged Hempstead Long Island injuring ten to twelve. Mystic Bridge Connecticut saw a cannon misfire injuring eighteen veterans. Missouri Sumner City Utica and Chillicothe suffered cyclone damage.
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Henry Cotzert
Hickman
Hempstead
L. I
Mystic Bridge
Conn
Missouri
Sumner City
Utica
Chillicothe
Cincinnati
Arkansas
William M Direly
Columbus
Ashland
George Ellis
William Neal
Ellis Craft
Direly
Dobney Jones
Reuben Kendall
Crested Buttes
Col
John Williams
Little Rock
Ark
United States
Rome
New York
Beebetown
Harrison County
Mt. Sterling
John Barnett
Newton Yarber
John
William Becraft
John Gibbs
Elliott Watkins
Vaughn Hilton
William Sis
Kansas Board of Agriculture
Aaron Harris
Enterprise
Miss
James McDaniel
Tallahassee
Fla
John Skepper
Illinois
Iowa Railway Commissioners
Reelaive
Crook
Sierra Madre Mountains
Teller
New England States
Middle States
Charles Sowell
Chicago
Rutherford
N.C
Hebe
Lake Champlain
N. Y
George Morrison
Toledo (O
New Orleans
Robert Lee
Collinsville
Notable Deaths and Political Moves Highlight Late War Era News
Admiral John Randolph Tucker dies at 72 in Petersburg after a career in the U S Navy and Confederate service. Massachusetts Medical Society votes against admitting women. West Point graduation exercises conclude with diplomas handed by Secretary Lincoln. Ohio Greenback Labor party nominates a full state ticket in Columbus. James Nutt shoots N L Dukes in Uniontown PA following his father’s murder. Garfield Monument Association receipts reach 130758 68. Star route conspiracy jury returns not guilty verdicts. Ex Governor Charles J Jenkins dies. Ohio Prohibitionists nominate a full ticket in Columbus. Eugene CassERly dies at 61. A C Jordan dies at 107 near Chattanooga. Judge William Lilly dies in Washington. Coroner’s verdict confirms Dukes died of two heart bullets. Harper High License bill passes Illinois Senate 30 to 20 and signed. Rev J C Brace ordained in Burlington.
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John Randolph Tucker
United States Navy
Petersburg
Tue
Massachusetts Medical Society
West Point
N. Y
Lincoln
Ohio Greenback Labor Party
Columbus
Charles Jenkins
Mahoning
William Baker
Licking
James Nutt
A. C. Nutt
N. L. Dukes
Uniontown
Dukes
National Garfield Monument Association
Washington
Brady
Dorsey
Peck
Charles J. Jenkins
Georgia
Ferdinand Schumacher
Summit County
H. T. Ogden
Hamilton County
Eugene Casserly
United States
California
San Francisco
A. C. Jordan
Chattanooga
Tenn
J. C. Brace
Mips
First Baptist Church
Burlington
Few Nations Report Of Disasters And Trials Abroad
Famine in Kurdish Asia Minor drives high grain prices while storms in Prescott Ontario wash away rail and flood depots. Trials in France convict emigration fraud leaders and a London dynamite case ends with life sentences. Elsewhere fire in Valloires kills cattle, a Sterling Ontario blaze costs 125000, and Inverness tenement deaths prompt church and government changes.
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Asia Minor
Prescott
Ont
St. Lawrence
Ogdensburg
Marquis de Ray
France
Port Breton
Oceanica
Buenos Ayres
Kaluga
Russia
Scutari
Turkey
London
Gallagher
Wilson
Whitehead
Curtin
Ansburgh
Bernard Gallagher
Belden
Annogance
N. B
Dublin
Phoenix Park
Panama
Ecuador
Cotopsgi
Valloires
Firre
Sterling, Ont
Methodist Church of Canada
Methodist Church
Dominion
Chamber of Peers
Mello
Inverness
Scotland
Democrats nominate James Taylor Jones for Congress
The Democrats of the First Alabama District in the 16th Congress nominate James Taylor Jones for Congress. He is presented as the party's candidate for the district race.
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Alabama
James Taylor Jones
Consolidated Failures, Tornadoes and Tragic Fire Toll North
McGeone EverineHam & Co of Chicago failed with liabilities around 2.5 million, dragging six others to losses totaling 41.5 million. A tornado in Neligh Nebraska killed one woman. Chicago editor James W. Sheahan died aged 59. Major storms across Illinois Missouri and Kansas disrupted rail, bridges. Col. Bippue rescued five Mexican women at Tucson. Ed Mul holland shot his mother after reproach. Grand jury indicts Brady for Star route frauds. Victoria Hall panic in Sunderland kills 186 children in a crush. Soldiers deployed to restore order.
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McGeoen
Everinehamm & Co
Chicago
James M. Ball & Co
Ellis & Lightner
Holley & Allen
M. B. Crafts & Co
Tabor & Wilson
W. M. Martin & Co
Neligt
Neb
James W. Sheahan
Tribune
Mr. Sheahan
Baltimore
E. H. Rotuins
United States
New Hampshire
Illinois
Missouri
Kansas
Leavenworth
Kan
Chicago & Alton Road
Bippue
Tucson
A. T
Crook
Edward Mulholland
Mingo Junction
Grand Jury
District of Columbia
Thomas J. Brady
Socorro
New Mexico
Silver City
Victoria Hall
Sunderland
Eng
Star route trial opens with judge’s charge on law and conspiracy
Judge Wylie outlines legal points in the Star route case. He explains that a public officer may err without a crime, and that conspiracy requires an overt act after May 20 1879. The jury is instructed to weigh evidence, consider Dorsey’s influence, and determine if a fraudulent combination existed beyond the statute of limitations.
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Washington
Wylie
Star Route
Brady
Congress
United States
Dorsey
Senate
Miner
Peck
John Dorsey
Miner, Vaile
The
Sky
W. Dorsey
John W. Dorsey
Vaile
Rome
Mr. Bliss
Not Guilty Verdict in Star-Route Jury Case at City Hall
The Star-route trial concluded with a not guilty verdict after jurors signaled readiness to communicate. Judge Wylie discharged the jury after six months of service as spectators cheered and officials congratulated winners S W Dorsey and General Brady.
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Court of Justice
S. W. Dorsey
Brady
Horrigan
Sheriff
Green
Acccuittal
Evans
Loway
Gill
Reshaw
Messrs
Bliss
Ker
Merrick
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Willie Hardee
Conway
8. C
Jeremiah Stalvery
Eastman
Wynne
Dubois
Warner Station
John Smith
Coosacoo
Ala
Jordan Corbin
CuIna
Captain Keelly
Lucretia
Arctic Ocean
James Madden
Bucks
Till Warner
Nellie Lyons
Cheboygan
Mich
Beidell
Kellogg
George Brady
Department of Justice
George Bliss
Brewster
James
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