Bills Aim to Pay Officers Earned Rank and Free Desertion Stamp
From Washington a description of two House War Claims Committee bills. One lets officers receive pay from the time they assumed rank, not muster date, illustrated by a case where a First Sergeant commanded a company four months before promised commission. The other relieves a class of deserters and sick or wounded returning soldiers from the stigma, with examples of postwar transfers and a Mansfield prisoner who swore allegiance to the Confederacy to escape. Lafayette Indiana hosts a Shropshire Downs Association meeting with officers from multiple states. An independent witness in Harrisburg discusses taxing foreign corporations.
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WasnineTos
Geddes
House Committee On War Claims
House
Ohio
Stone River
Washington
Congress
Fourth Corps
Texas
Union
Last Honors Paid to Wendell Phillips in Boston
A massive Boston tribute marked Wendell Phillips memory with Abolitionist and suffrage leaders in attendance. Frederick Douglass wept at the casket, while Army guards of color stood as ceremony. About thirty thousand attended, and services moved to Faneuil Hall before interment at Granary Burying Ground.
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Wendell Phillips
Boston
Charles Summer
Hollis Street
Robinson
Martin
George T. Downing
Rhode Island
Ruffin
Sanriel Longfellow
Samuel J. May
Phillips
Faneuil Hall
Cradle of Liberty
Frederick Douglass
Philips
Douglass
Irish National League of America
Ireland
Butter
A New Board of Trade Organization in Terre Haute
Terre Haute Indiana February 8 A Board of Trade is being organized with membership limited to five hundred and annual dues of twenty dollars Its aim is to advance commercial manufacturing and general business interests while it will not traffic in grain or provisions The Ohio State Redistricting Bill Passed in Columbus February 8 The bill redistricting the state for congressional purposes passed the Senate and was approved by the House with Democrats downing Republican amendments Validating the measure as law.
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Board of Trade
Trrnee Haute
Ind
Ohio
ColumbBus
House
Senate
England
Pars
Egypt
Journal Des Debats
Romanque
Gordon
Souday
Lly
M. P
Nace
Doily News
Gulf of Aden
Aden
Alexandria
Daily News
Germany
Braun
Nord Deutsche Zeitung
Admiralty
Reichstag
Womneral
M. Rouer
Paris
M. Rouher
Mapkin
Lersic
Spain
Vatican
Rome
La&avennonrta
Kas
Wasson
State Penitentiary
Washington
El Mahdi Victory Congratulated by Irish Paper
An Irish paper hails El Mahdi's victory and hopes Khartoum and Sinkat are not relieved while praising Gordon's fate like Baker Pasha. Paris and London editorials mock Britain’sEgypt policy and discuss Gordon’s stance on Egyptian supremacy amid ongoing Nile crisis.
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el Mahdi
Khartoum
Pu Mamdl Dupirm
Treland
Speed el Mandi
Sinkat Nor
Gordon
Baker Pasha
Cairo
Late news items from 19th century regions and events
A sweeping batch of late news items reports on deaths and donations in Indiana New Jersey and Tennessee, church dedications in Chattanooga, a New York exercise-law case, a British premier honored by a genealogical society, a New York funeral, a fatal railroad accident near Lancaster Ontario, and a Pennsylvania Grand Army session. Other items note labor unrest and strikes in Atlantic mills, a Troy law and order league, Ontario legislative votes, doctors opposing a code, Brooklyn’s reception plan for Jeannette expedition victims, a Port Gibson construction accident, West Shore workers bridged by Italians, and Buffalo unrest over unpaid labor.
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de. W. If
Tumphreys
Lea Ge
Tontanel
Ind
Alrs
Louisa
Vaught
Freehold
N. J
University Methodist Church
Chattanooga
Tenn
Billy McGlory
New York
New Engilaini Historical Genealogical Society
Glatalong
Generalpiras
Lancaster
Ont
Alexander Richardson
Willian Agnes
Grand Amy of the Republic
Department of Pennsylvania
New England Ship Owners’ Association
Grand Lodge of the
American Protestant Association
Reading
Mary Lewis
Bridgeport
Troy
N.Y
Union
Makders
Malleable Iron Works
Ontario
State Medical Association
Albany
N. Y
State Medical Society
Atlantic Mills
Lawrence
Mass
Common Council of
Brooklyn
Grand Army of the Republic
Louisiana, Northernn Texas
Port Gibson
Miss
West Shore Road
East Buffalo
Reserve
Buffalo
Fire sweeps Crossman and Eleander factory in Allentown
A massive blaze destroyed the Crossman and Eleander furniture factory in Allentown Pa. Firemen entered the fireproof building as a brick arched roof collapsed. An explosion sent a curtain of flame across the scene burying several workers, with Harvey Kurtz among the injured and multiple deaths reported by nightfall.
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Ruina
Allenrow
Crossman & Eleanter
Harvey Kurtz
Allentown
W. W Kurtz
Philadelphia
L. Lei
William Jayson
Henry E. Lehr
Charles Miller
David
Resere Hook and Ladder Company
Clauss
Injaret
Harry Kurtz
Emanuel Kennet
America Hose
Peter Mayer
American Hose
Charles Bohllinger
The
Liberty
Frank Saenger
America Liese
Peter Beisel
Rescue Hook and Ladder Company
Edward Martin
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Telegraph
Telegraphic
Lafayette
Amerian Shropshire Downs Association
Quick
Columbus
Mortimer Levering
States
Canada
Indianapolis
Haxrnrtsnuna
Lear
Commonwealth
Solar
Freeport
Illinois Central
Caboose
West Shore
Weehawkens
New Jersey
Weehawken
Law
Treasury
Mill
Louis
St. Joseph
DeLalb
Columbus Spratt
James Mitchell
Mitchell
Spratt
Frank Brown
Foreign Intelligence
Major Wasson
W. A. Smith
Dix
Corrickh & Co
Beath
Rashville
Pirrsnunren
National Executive Board
Kanawha
Monongahela
St. Taul
Jesse James
Minneapolis
John Nolan
Waasmweton
J. B. Bruillet
Catholic Bureau of Indian Missionaries
Providence Hospital
Northwest
Oregon
Vannouvers Laland
Venra
Hood
Oakley
Collara
Walt Robes
A. Oakley
Palace Drug Store
Central Avenue
Lyon Brothers
JI. A. Staph
W. C. Zimmermann, Jr
Hamburg
Gidley & Bloss
Dunkirk
Wirtner & Alling
Etardware
Monroe
ST. James
RED Cross
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