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Newspaper
Dubuque Democratic Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1865
Page
1
A local convention in Jones County is set for Wednesday with Moorman as a featured speaker. The event aims to promote civic engagement and discuss county priorities, including public safety and infrastructure needs.
A Cedar Valley celebration marked by a ground breaking for a planned railroad linking Cedar Palls and Minnesota. Citizens, stockholders, and officials attended a parade, speeches, and a ceremonial spade strike as $309,000 of $575,000 stock was already subscribed.
South Bend Indiana on the Michigan Southern line shows rapid growth after a past fire and a later cyclone. The Studebaker Brothers plant dominates local industry, producing wagons sleighs and carriages and supplying western markets with timber based goods and heavy demand from St Joseph and overland routes.
At Wisconsin's Democratic state convention in Madison nominations were set for governor Hacrigan Hobart lieutenant governor D W Maxon secretary of state L B Wilox state treasurer D B Davis comptroller McMahon state prison commissioner C Lar uetter superintendent of public instruction Johnny Parkinson. New York abolitionist convention in Syracuse nominated Ward Hunt and John K Porter for court of appeals general Francis I Hneton secretary of state Thomas Lt Billhouse state treasurer Howland.
A Johnson County letter to the Chicago Times describes Byington's convention and a ticket: Bailey for Governor, Lysander Ny Babbitt for Lieutenant Governor, James Geant for Supreme Judge, J. D. Jenkins for Superintendent. Lewistown and Waterloo factions oppose the regular Republican slate with nominees Messnacs, Eberhart, Speer, Bird. Jones County Solar Legion holds Monticello meeting opposing negro suffrage and backing a White Man rule. expect Judge Hamilton to attend.
Sir Morton Peto, born in 1809 and apprenticed to his uncle Henry Peto, built a vast railway and landmark program with his brothers. After their partnership dissolved, Peto led eastern counties lines and major routes, employing thousands and shaping 19th century British rail and street projects. Renowned for strengthening worker character, he guided large crews and heavy machinery through vast operations.
Telegraphic dispatches from South and North Carolina report the militia to be called out in Alabama, with military officials forbidding polling interference and ordering guards at elections. The North Carolina reconstruction convention plans and postwar civil transition are noted, alongside pardons and other federal actions and various regional updates.
The Richmond Whig reports a Tuesday evening meeting of rebel generals Echols Davis Barton and Moore and other officers to establish a great international express company. It outlines stock subscriptions, a five million capital petition, and offices in Richmond with allocations by state. News from Havana notes Cuba reductions and a Puerto Rico earthquake near San Juan.
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