Pittsburgh strike grounds freight trains on Pittsburgh Fort Wayne Chicago line
Telegraph reports the train men's strike on the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad has formed a strong organization. Passenger service continues but no freight runs between Chicago and Crestline, while one freight train was moved to the Wabash Railway. Strikers refuse to let managers move trains. no violence reported yet.
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Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad
Stelke
Warfie
Ind
Pittsburgh
Ft. Wayne
Law
Wabash
Grand Rapid
Zollenger
Remains of Schuyler Colfax Arrive Amid Storm in Chicago
The special Chicago & Northwestern train bearing Schuyler Colfax's remains reached Schuyler Colfax's remains arrived in Chicago amid a blizzard. A large crowd including Odd Fellows Grand Army men and notable Chicagoans paid tribute at the depot before the body moved to South Bend. A second arrival in South Bend saw relatives gather as a funeral date may be postponed to allow Colfax's daughter to attend.
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Schuyler Colfax
Chicago & Northwestern Road
Odd Fellows’ Lodges
Grand Army of the Republic
Veterans’ Corps
Gresham
Judge Blodgett
South Dean
Ind
Hollister
Salt Lake City
Utah
Honorary member for Jefferson Davis elected by Confederate Society
The Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States elected Jefferson Davis an honorary member and appointed a committee to deliver a certificate. A letter praised his devotion to the South and his honorable career, predicting enduring fame and a shining example of patriotism. Meanwhile in Pittsburgren the Western Iron Manufacturers' Protective Alliance voted four dollars per ton for puddling after the current season and re elected all officers. Major C Dunbar, Boston, a longtime customs clerk, died of apoplexy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Society of the Army and Navy of the
Confederate States
Barmione
Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States
Jefferson Davis
Dajlaru
Pittsnuren
Western Iron Manufacturers’ Protective Alliance
Terrible cyclone devastates Alabama counties in 19th century storm
A violent Sunday cyclone swept across Hale Perry Bibb Chiton Macon and Green counties, destroying trees fences and houses. A freight train was derailed near Calera and two residences blown away near Cahaba River with multiple injuries and three deaths reported at Camp Ground in Macon County. Flooding followed as heavy rains persisted, complicating damage assessments. The storm’s width reached about two hundred yards with widespread property loss estimated in the thousands.
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Rivera
Louise Villa de Nashville
Montgomery
Calera
Ives
Macon
Cahaba River
Raul Teeds
Greene County
Eutaw
Alabama
Cherokee
Calhoun
Military drill plans spark fears in Hocking Valley
A Shawnee relief office posted a notice seeking three hundred volunteers for a grand drill in the Hocking Valley inviting Straitsville and nearby areas to enroll in three companies. The move follows wage disputes in local mines with miners supporting reductions, while other strikes stay quiet. In Indiana, guards guard Oliver Chilled Plow works amid tense rioting as armed police review potential outbreaks. A Telegram from Forest City warns of armed men seizing Gettysburg records, with judges demanding peace. In Mississippi, Magnolia Gazette editor Captain J D Burke dies by self-inflicted gunshot amid rheumatic suffering.
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Contumpus
Miners’ Relief Committee
Shawnee
Knights of Labor
Straitsville
Hocking Valley
Neil McEachon
Thos
Phare
Sandy Creek
Ohio Central
W. P. Read
Hocking Valley Company
Rend
South Hond Omlet
South Beno
Ind
Veteran Guards
Elkhart
Passage of the original Grant retirement bill faces House vote
Washington January 15 General Slocum and Rosecrans oppose the Edmunds bill on retirement for General Grant. They favor the original House bill naming Grant for retirement and urge committee support. Also notes on electoral returns, Chief Justice Waite’s health, a pork products inquiry, patent decisions, and President Arthur recognizing Climac Calderon as U S consul in New York.
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Wasuinatox
Slocum and Rosecrans
House Committee On Military Affairs
Senate
Grant
Slocum
Fitz-John Porter
Fred” Ward
General Grant
Congress
Generala Slocum
Rosecrans
House Miliitary Committee
House
Iowa
Oregon
Post Office
Waite
Supreme Count
South
National Swine Breeders Association
Agricultural Department
D. W. Smth
Lllinois
State Department
Commissioner of Patents
Butterworth
Drawbaugh
Blake
Edson
Marble
Watt
Indian Committee of
Arthur
Climac Calderon
United States of Columbia
New York
National cattle trail plan proposed from Texas to British possessions
A proposed law would create a quarantined National Trail from Texas to British possessions with a six mile wide corridor and twelve square mile grazing grounds at intervals. Three Interior Department commissioners would map, mark, and report, with public land withdrawal for ten years and a $10000 appropriation. The trail would be open year round for livestock driving once established.
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Texas
Secretary of the Interior
McCready Brothers suspend payments creditors meet
McCready Brothers paper manufacturers suspend payments and call a creditors meeting for tomorrow. They refuse to comment and list mills at Catawissa Pennsylvania Elliott City AKL and Lambertville New Jersey. Also noted are a boot and shoe firm assignment in Newark with over 100000 in preferences and several fire losses reported in Georgia Wisconsin and Pennsylvania with varying insured amounts. Presidents elect Cleveland attends a drill hall opening and reception with Sixty-fifth Regiment events in Buffalo including a ball at Music Hall.
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Phlapyipnia
McCready Brothers
Catawissa
Elliott City
Akl
Lambertville
N. J. Binanampton
N. J
D. B. Gregg & Son
Grant on the retired army list and Colfax death noted
The Senate debates Grant's pension level and the General's status, praising his Civil War service and Lincoln era decisions, while news comes of ex Vice President Colfax's death and Senate adjournment for the day. The House discusses electors certificates and a missing Oregon Town copy, with orders for special messengers.
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Pines
Cotfar
Ste
House Frocerdings
Wassinarom
Senarnoa Dill
Town
Oregon
Edmunds
Cockrell
Grant
Edinu
Missouri
Jockreil
General Grant
Maver
Appomaley
Maxey
Grant de Ward
Messrs
Gibson
Jonas
Lousiana
Georgy
Mississippi
Florida
Voorhees
Mrockrell
Edwin McStanton
General Lenard
Friz-John Porter
Mesere Heck
Uockreli
Coke
Starris
Tendleton
Smuisbury
Stator
Vance
Walker
Hate
House
Senate
Nebraska
Kansas
Slater
Athan
van Wyck
Meesie Hoar
Alliaon
Jackson
Camden
McPherson
Mr. van Wyck
Hartigan
Colfax
Randall
Secretary of State
Mille
Standall
Secretary of War
Craighill
Yorktown
Cox
N.C
Senate French Spollation Bil
Court of Claims
Pierce
Warner
Committee On
Treasury
United States
Charles E. Hutt
France plans Tonquin occupation and war fears rise
January 15 dispatches report Premier Ferry in the Chamber of Deputies asserting France will occupy Tonquin to the Chinese frontier, with General Sowal defending mobilization as necessary for army discipline. The speech shocks observers, German Ambassador present, and rumors of a Franco German accord surface.
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Tonquin
Pants
Chamber of Deputies
Ferry
Sowal
France
Prince Hohenlohe
Gallois
Germany
Lospos
Legation
Cairo
Lord Wolseley
Hig
Korti
Shendy
Beleset
el Béahdi
Khartoum
Warminster
Wiltshire
Daily Telegraph
England
Glyn, Mills, Currie & Co
Lombard, Street
Bern
Downie Rumpls
Niederwala
Rumpff
Rumpffl
Reichstag
Gazelle
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Dunkirk
Dunkirk Printing Company
Ogr
East Second St
Chautauqua Farmer and Dunkirk Journal
Commercial Book
Job Pristers
Dupkirk N
Tod
Geo
E. Blackham
Buffalo Street
Stanley
Beaver Treete
Boindery
James Irving
Journal Building
Center Street
Denkark
S.Y
W. Krafft
Deer St
Cor
JaMes East
Robbin Streats
Carca
P.O
N.Y
N. P
TAOR
Leopard
J.T. Hoole & CO
Cor Central Ave
4Th ST
Wilkes-Barre Coal
Wyoming
Agency
Westfield
Ani
Weatfield
Central Avenue
Journal
Inaletyles
Tris
Iee
Erie
Moxroe River
Telegraph
South Bend
Boston
C. Dunbar
Custom House
Qaricky
New Badford
Dakota
Timor, Dak
Seward Smith
Potter County
Forest City
Gettysburg
Jackson, Miss
J.D. Burke
Magnolia Gazette
Magnolia
Eveninea
Pesectans
the National Trail
Byaetheas Falicros
Aucasta
J. A. Myers
Kamaula
Wis
Iwin City
Lincasum
Samuel Kafroth
Milfort
Cleveland Ded Hall
Buffalo
Barminiber
Calhoun County
Joe Shuman
Thomas Ginn
Ginn
Shuman
Gina
Wm. Gifford
Mayville
Counzel Rumpff
Laipskoy
Iowa Hall
Earl of Aleynford
Eve Springs
Eark O
Aleysford
Lad Blandford
Teras
Wasmixaroy
Yeaterda
Unite States
Vinotsea
Nev
Jones
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Keating
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