National Bank charters extended and Arctic expedition funded
Senate and House actions cover the extension of National Bank charters and a $35,000 Arctic expedition appropriation. Other items include a memorial column for Washington’s headquarters, a centennial peace celebration, river and harbor money, and pensions. Also noted are train wrecks, bank robberies, hangings, and executions in several states.
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Senate
Allison
House
Morrill
Japan
Washington
Newburgh
N. Y
Senate On the 14Th Mr. Miller
Bayard
Maxey
Morgan
McMillan
Mr. Hoar
Blair
Indian Territory
Whih
Dandridge
Zachary Taylor
Floods Kill Eight In Indiana Bridge Collapse At Depot Tunnel
A heavy storm in Indianapolis on the 14th flooded Pogue's Run and washed away a rotten foot-bridge at the depot tunnel, drowning eight people. Property losses reach about 300000 dollars along with multiple other disasters and incidents reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Depot Tunnel
Galveston
Tex
Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railway
National conventions and nominations across parties
The report lists multiple political moves on the 13th to 16th including the Maine Republican State Convention in Portland nominating Frederick Robie for Governor and Reed, Dingley, Boutelle, and Milliken for Congress. It notes Arthur's administration, convention activities in Kentucky and North Carolina, and various state and local political updates across the country.
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Portland
Senator Hale
Frederick Robie
Thomas B. Reed
Nelson Dingley
Charles A. Boutelle
Seth D. Milliken
Garfield
Arthur
Daniel H. Pinney
Illinois
Supreme Court of
Arizona
Lexington
James Wilson
Iowa
North Carolina
Raleigh
Newton
Mass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Society of the Army of the Potomac
Detroit
Andrew A. Humphrey
R. R. Dawes
Congress
Fifteenth
Ohio
Craig
Supreme Court
Ilinois
William Wmennison
Lincoln
Columbus
Roustav
New York
Little Rock
James H. Berry
Mississippi Valley
Jupge Grerce Y. Sawyer
New Hampshire
Nashua
Clarkeston
S. C
Tug Republicans
Indiana
Thomas Browne
Washington, D. C
United States
Galveston
Tex
Spectator
Father Houck
Bishop Gilmour
Cleveland
Leader
E. Cowles
New York City
Peter Cooper
Cuarces
Borte
Twenty-first
Pennsylvania
Cabinet picks five for Utah Commission duties
The Utah Commission lineup announced includes Alexander Ramsey of Minnesota, Algernon & Paddock of Nebraska, C W Godfrey of Iowa, Ambrose B Carleton of Indiana, and James R Pettigrew of Arkansas. The New Hampshire GOP set its state convention for September in Concord. President Arthur filled Tariff Commission vacancies on the 16th by naming William H McMahon of New York and Alexander R Boteler of West Virginia.
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Utah
President Arthur
William H. McMahon
New York
Alexander R. Boteler
West Virginia
Turmoil in Egypt and Pacific: Khedive, Hawaiians, and British
Dispatches report Egyptian soldiers pressing abdication of the Khedive with threats and European exodus spreading as Cairo shops close and natives seek passage. In Hawaii a new cabinet under Walter Gibson pursues reciprocity and black immigration policy. A steamship wreck near Cape Race and a murder in Ontario accompany regional upheavals and unrest.
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Alexandria
Egypt
House of Commons
Gladstone
Sandwich Islands
Walter Murray Gibson
United States
Garibaldi
Caprera
Montreal
Cape Race
Lake Manitoba
William RowLane
Oxford
Ont
Derviseh Pasha
Cairo
Jules Crevaux
Platt
Bolivia
Khedive
Democratic Convention Nominates Breckinridge for Congress At-Large
The Democratic State Convention in Little Rock on the 17th nominated Clifton R. Breckinridge son of the late General Breckinridge for Congressman at Large. A resolution favored resubmitting to the people a Constitutional Amendment to ban payment of alleged fraudulent bonds.
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Arkansas
Little Rock
Clifton R. Breckinridge
General Breckinridge
Kentucky
St. Peter’s Bank
Leavenworth
Kansas
St. Mary’s Academy
Atchison
Kansas City
Wilkesbarre
Justice Bradley
Washington
Guiteau
London
Clerkenwell
Timothy Remick
Boston
Grinnell
Iowa
Malcom
Dresden
Gadsden
Ala
M. M. Lawin
Cambridge
Mass
Duncan Taylor
Brussells
Ont
United States Senate
House
Page
Secretary of War
Robeson
Starvation in Patrick County Va Terrible Suffering Reported
A courier from Patrick County Virginia describes 5000 starving residents, including women bearing infants, dying for lack of meat and flour. Witnesses recount crowds fighting for corn, with relief efforts organized to provide meat and flour, as families trek mountains and boil weeds to survive. Special dispatch from Danville dated June 10 reports widespread distress and pleas for food rather than money.
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Patrick County
Infanta
Danville
Chicago Trine
New Swindle Targeting Iowa Farmers Emerges
Farmers face a rising two person scam that uses estray notices and detailed animal descriptions. A staged loss leads to a quick sale of the animal at a low price, then the real owner reclaims it and the buyer loses money.
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Iowa
Chicago Times
Tax on distilled spirits shifts use from industry to beverage
The Farmers' Journal notes that whisky taxed as a beverage pays about half the tax per gallon of alcohol used in arts and manufacturing. Pre tax 33 percent of production served industry. now nearly all is consumed as beverage. If tax dropped to 50 cents, 16 million gallons of alcohol would return to industry, boosting grain demand while revenue could stay unchanged.
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Farmers’ Journal
Revenue Department
Thompson Makes His Getaway From Barbour County Dig
The Barbour County Times reports the eccentric Thompson who had led his followers to a money dig has disappeared after abandoning the operation. His crew dwindled to one impaired man and others mocked him as he claimed to reach gold by dinner time. He left quietly, packing and departing into the woods.
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Wilkesbarre
Marsa Wat
Carterville
Carthage
James Mitchell
Mount Sterling
Warren County
Pennsylvania
Two Mile Creek
Winchester
John Nelson
Red Wing
Minn
Mississippi
Nelson
Bradley
Art Park Station
Montana
William Broder
Kentucky
Frankfort
Castle Garden
Thompson
Barbour County
Ala
Barbour County Times
Ancient Szegedin fortress walls reveal early tobacco use
Workmen uncover two bundles of tobacco sealed within a demolished Szegedin fortress wall in Hungary. The placement suggests tobacco existed in the East long before Europeans encountered it in the West, dating back to the fortress’s remote construction period.
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Szegedin
Hungary
Y. Y. Sun
Digitated stockings spark swift dressing mishap in alarm
A Norristown Herald note reports digitated stockings with a compartment for each toe akin to gloves. It warns a sleepy person racing to dress during a midnight fire alarm may rip and swear when toes jam into a single compartment.
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Norristown Herald
Vermont girl cor responds with stranger in California
A Vermont girl wrote to a Californian stranger and agreed to wed a wealthy suitor. She traveled across the continent only to find a gray, ugly crank. He owned a leaky hut in a lonely canyon and, despite neighbors offering to fund her return, she stayed and married him.
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Vermont
California
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