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Newspaper

Dixon Sun

Location

Dixon, Illinois, United States of America

Date

May 02, 1883

Page

6

Platform of the Irish National League at Philadelphia

The Irish National League met in Philadelphia on April 27 for a formal organization, adopting a platform denouncing English misrule in Ireland. The resolutions condemn coercion laws, mass imprisonment, land monopoly, and famine as tools against Ireland, and pledge support for Irish self government and a united American Irish party.

Irish National League Philadelphia Alexander Sullivan Chicago England Ireland S. Cox New York Edward O’meagher Condon Cox Father Agnew Scotland United Manhattan League Fathers Boylan Agnew Committee On Tre‘airad America Edward Ill Elizabeth Earl of Stratford Charles I Anne Gladstone Irish National League of America Irish National League of Ireland Charles Stewart Parnell Butler Limerick Forster Parnell Great Britain France John Ireland St. Paul John O'Connor Omaha John Lancaster Spalding Peoria John Williams Boston W. Ryan Buffalo Patrick A. Feehan Edward Fitzgerald Little Rock United States Patrick Egan John Dillon Eugene Sheehy Matthew Harris Chadwick Brown St. Louis

Irish National League leaders chosen after convention dispute

The American Irish convention adopted resolutions, elected officers including Sullivan as President after a tense session with dynamite-men protests. Mrs Parnell was named President of the Ladies National League, while a memorial and cables supported Davitt and Parnell. The night gathering honored Patrick Egan with speeches and attendance neared twelve thousand.

Thomas Bracken New York Charles O’ Reilly Detroit New League Alexander Sullivan Chicago John Byrne Cincinnati Sullivan Dublin Castle Major Byrne John J. Hynes National League Michael Davitt Land League Charles Stewart Parnell Ireland Foran Parnell National League of America Henry F. Sheridan God Save Father McKenna Massachusetts W. Wallace James Reynolds New Haven M. V. Gannon J. G. Donnelly Wisconsin John F. Armstrong Georgia United States Fair Nevada Canada Buffalo N. Y Patrick Egan The Academy of Music Thomas Brennan Samuel J. Randall Colonel McClure the Times Father Boylan James Redpath

A Cry for Help from Louisiana Red Cross Units

Clara Barton receives a telegraphic appeal from Louisiana Red Cross officers detailing devastation from a cyclone in Coahoma County Mississippi and surrounding areas. One hundred dead two hundred wounded and one thousand homeless. Appeal for money to fund nurses food clothing through New Orleans Association via New York Chamber of Commerce.

Georgia Mississippi Louisiana New Orleans Times-Democrat Wesson Beauregard West Wesson Peach Orchard Street Mississippi Mills Calvin Reed Sexton Rease Butler Beauregaré Georgetown H. C. Lewis Savage J. W. Crawford Tillghman Natchez & Jackson West Point Clay County Central Hotel Henly House Cotton Exchange Osborne County Aberdeen Caledonia Columbus Chattanooga Wesson and Beauregard Washington Clara Barton Red Cross Association Louisiana Red Cross State Association Wasson Miss Associate Society Copiah County Ublic New York Chamber of Commerce

Fatal Railroad Collision Near Olivet Station Detroit

A Detroit April 28 report details a Chicago & Grand Trunk collision near Olivet Station between the westbound passenger train and a following freight train. Faulty air brakes halted the passenger, but a signal error allowed the freight to rear into the cars, killing conductor P. J. Wall of Montreal and passengers H. Frye of Englewood New Jersey and John W. Higgins of Detroit, with ten to twelve others seriously injured.

Detroit Evening News Chicago & Grand Trunk Railroad Olivet Station P. J. Wall Montreal H. Frye Englewood, N. J John W. Higgins H. P. Baldwin & Co

Death of Rev. Dr. C. B. Boynton in Cincinnati

The Rev. Dr. C. B. Boynton a noted Congregational minister and former Chaplain of the National House of Representatives from 1865 to 1870 has died at age 77 in Cincinnati.

C. B. Boynton Cincinnati National House of Representatives

General Logan Buys Interest in New Mexico Cattle Ranch

The Denver paper reports that General John A. Logan has purchased an interest in a large cattle ranche in New Mexico. The move signals expanding land holdings and influence in the southwest.

Denver John A. Logan New Mexico

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