Victoria grants baronetcy to Francis Cook amid novelty of titles
Mrs Hawtey expresses gratitude to a senator for his devotion as a husband. Quiern Victoria grants Francis Cook a baronetcy, husband of Miss Tennie C Caflin of Iowa. Mme Alban i favors two jewelry pieces, a bracelet from Victoria and a gypsy ring from Lord Dudley. Local NY observers note widows of ex presidents discussing funds for Mrs Hancock. Sydney Grundy and Wilson Barrett stage a drama on ancient Athens. Dr Carroll Cutler resigns Adelbert College presidency, recalling his 1872 pledge to open the school to women.
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Francis Cook
Tennie C. Caflin
Iowa
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Victoria
R. J
Lord Dudley
Carroll Cutler
Adelbert College
Western Reserve
Countess Taaffe Quotes On Dowry Plans In Austria
The Austrian premier’s wife Countess Taaffe told a friend she may be forced to sell her wardrobe to fund a marriage dowry for her eldest daughter. Some doubt whether she is deranged or merely joking. Iris predicts the duke of Connaught and Prince Christian will travel to Berlin for the German emperor’s birthday on March 22, with the prince of Wales possibly remaining in England.
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Inene Taaffe
Iris
Duke of Connaught
Prince Christian
Berlin
Prince of Wales
England
Statue of Napoleon II Prepared in Milan for Italian Unity
A fund in Italy raised to erect a statue of Napoleon II in Milan now ready for installation. Italian democrats oppose the statue arguing it would offend the French Republic and hinder the unity effort.
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Italy
Napoleon II
Milan
Prince Jerome Bonaparte Aids Cavour Correspondence
Prince Jerome Bonaparte promises aid to Sig. Chialain in arranging and editing the forthcoming Cavour correspondence. Jerome Bonaparte and Cavour were longtime correspondents, with many letters noted as prophetic in their day.
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Prince Jerome Bonaparte
Sig. Chialain
Cavour
Prince Jerome
Winans Faces Higher Assessments in London and Scotland
The American Mr. Winans, now unpopular in Scotland, owns a London house whose assessment has risen 50 percent. Labouchere predicts his fourteen or fifteen deer forests will see an even larger hike, potentially around 500 percent, over the next year or two.
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Mr. Winans
Scotland
London
Labouchere
Native Indian Woman Graduate Set To Aid Zenanas
Among the graduates of the Women's Medical college at Philadelphia is a woman of Hindoostan Mrs. Josha whose husband, late an official under the government of India, has come to this country to witness the graduating ceremonies. She will be the first native woman physician in India and her services will be greatly appreciated in the zenanas.
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Women’s Medical College
Philadelphia
Hindoostan
Josha
India
Reminiscences Recall J H Paine Critique of Jenny Lind
Mr B P Suitcaser writes to The Boston Gazette recalling the late J H Paine, a miser and musical critic, who once set Boston abuzz by audaciously claiming Jenny Lind had flatted some notes during her debut and was later proven correct.
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B. P. Suitcaser
Partington
Boston Gazette
J. H. Paine
Jenny Lind
English education inspector Matthew Arnold plans American visit
Matthew Arnold, long time inspector of schools for the English government, is traveling on the continent studying educational questions. He writes of another trip to America possibly for lectures in Boston New York and Philadelphia. He aims to arrive in May spend the summer socially and return in August.
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Matthew Arnold
Boston
America
New York
Philadelphia
The Duke of Cambridge Spree At Madrid Banquet
The old duke of Cambridge and commander-in-chief of the British army is noted for banquets and after dinner speeches. At a recent banquet honoring Spain's retiring ambassador he woke from a nap and praised King Alfonso amid chatter of cholera and earthquakes, prompting amused bewilderment among guests.
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Duke of
Cambridge
Alfonso
Madrid
Rrowitz the Paris Correspondent of The Times
The Paris correspondent Rrowitz receives a $25,000 salary, a fine house, and a $10,000 entertaining allowance. He reports interviews with kings and prime ministers, dominates conversations in those talks, and claims noble status with a “von” prefix. Satirists like Labouchere mock his claimed aristocracy and European diplomacy ties.
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Rrowitz
Paris
London Times
Europe
Labouchere
Iowa News Items Show Riots on Gambling and Saloons
Police raid Cedar Rapids gambling houses while Council Bluffs burglars chop in doors. Waterloo mayor closes saloons by proclamation. Keokuk saloons shut for first time. Towns in Cass and Kossuth counties report liquor bans and boycott actions. A series of criminal cases includes butter ticket fraud, embezzlement charges, and a fatal railroad yard accident.
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Cedar Rapids
Council Bluffs
Moyor
Waterloo
Keokuk
Wreck on Union Pacific Line Near Barneston Kills and Injures
A Beatrice special reports the worst county wreck on the Union Pacific near Barneston twenty miles below the city at 7 AM. Train No. 42 derailed after a road bed slide, two passenger coaches plunged into Blue River, a child died, a bridge foreman likely died, and several passengers were injured while rescuers pulled survivors from the water.
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Beatrice
Omaha Herald
Union Pacific Railway
Barnston
Blue River
Jason Moreledge
Cleveland
John Brady
J. H. Groscup
Freeport
Ill
Rogers
Walden
Emissary Peace Bid from El Mahdi’s Heir and British Political Turmoil
An emissary leaves Kar toum for Cairo with a peace proposal from El Mahdi’s successor. In London an Earl’s suicide shocks, while a Loyal Orange manifesto and Whig Liberal conference hint at opposition to Gladstone’s Irish measures and home rule.
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el Mahdi
Landtag
Kopp
Fulda
Orange Institution of England
Gladstone
Lord Hartington
House of Commons
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House of Lords
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Powderly urged swift circular to promote anti Gould campaign
Powderly wrote to Turner of the Knights of Labor urging an immediate circular to mobilize funds for the southwest anti Gould effort. The furniture trade in Pittsburg seeks a 20 percent rise on piece work and an eight hour day after May 1 as a nationwide movement gains momentum.
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Turner
Knights of Labor
Southwest
Pittsburg
Butte
Montana
Montana Copper Company
Liquidator Mining Company
Chicago
Republican Valley Railroad
Omaha
Marysville
Kas
Oketo
Beatrice
Neb
Blue River
Foreign Mail Appropriation Amendment Reported
The commerce committee favorably reports an amendment to the post office appropriation bill raising the foreign mails transport to 1 million dollars including Panama transit. It requires contracts with American built and registered steamships after bidding with rates not to exceed fifty cents per nautical mile and places a 600 thousand dollar cap on such contracts.
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Committee On Commerce
Post Office
Panama
Strikers Sentenced by Federal Judge in El Paso
Judge Turner of the federal court in El Paso Texas sentenced eight strikers for unlawful conduct during the recent disturbances. He aimed to set an example for society and the government. Ed Wales J Hughes Joseph Smith Robert Wren James Welden J Scarborough Fred Giroux each got ninety days in jail Charles Mott thirty days.
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Turner
FE Paso
Texas
Ed Wales
J. Hughes
Joseph Smith
Robert Wren
James Welden
J. Scarborough
Fred Giroux
Charles Mott
Impeachment Admitted for Auditor Brown in Senate Action
Senate session reports impeachment articles adopted against Auditor Brown with the majority supporting the action by 28 to 15 and 7 not voting. Other measures include railroad fencing losing passage and an omnibus $15,000 appropriation bill. House adjournment timing set and resignations/to fill vacancies noted along with several committee and budget items.
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Johnson
Senate Today
Reiniger
Duncan
Miles
Gatch
Board of Supervisors
Polk County
E. W. Stier
Iowa
Yeas
Donnan
Senate
House
Farmers’ Protective Association
Weaver
Board of Managers
Brown
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Riley
Schee
Messrs. Weaver
Craig
House of Representatives
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Hayes
M. Weaver
F. P. Greenlee
G. L. Finn
J. A. Lyons
E. C. Roach
Judiciary Committee
Walker
Walter I. Hayes
Impeachment actions lead Iowa Senate toward adjournment
Senate sessions reveal multiple bills and resolutions including pensions for public officials and fire department funding. The house impeached State Auditor John L. Brown after presenting sixty pages of articles, with the senate arraignment and defense proceedings conducted. The body adjourned sine die after approving key measures and hearing governor communications.
Iowa 21st General Assembly Acts Summary
A list of acts from Iowa's 21st General Assembly covering education on physiology and hygiene, county and city governance, infrastructure, taxation, court reforms, public health, soldiers' homes, and state institutions. Includes provisions for highways, sewers, bonds, licensing, and appropriations for universities and hospitals.
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Iowa
Nineteenth General Assembly
17Th
General Assembly
2Th General Assembly
Anc
20Th General Assembly
Supreme Court of
Circuit Court
Code of Iowa
Iowa Hospital For
Mt. Pleasant
Supreme Court
Iowa State Agricultural College
State University of Iowa
College of the Blind
Vinton
Savings Banks
Clarinda
Board of Supervisors
Twentieth General Assembly
General Revenue Fund
Anamosa
Chicago, Iowa & Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Eighteenth
State of
Hospital For the Insane
Independence
Board of Capitol Commissioners
Iowa Hospital
General appropriation bill passes with amendments in Senate
The general appropriation bill and house amendments were taken up and most adopted except the witness fee clause for John Mahin in the Hayes investigation, amended from 69 to 34. A railroad regulation bill, S.oF. 280. Weber, faced debate and failed with 27 to 38. Motion by Senator Gatch on H. F. 629 gly.
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John Mahin
Hayes
Weber
Gatch
Soldiers to receive full veteran bounty for re enlistments
The house committee on military affairs reports favorably Representative Laird's bill to pay all installments of the veteran bounty with interest to late war soldiers who re enlisted as veteran volunteers and received commissions. Discharged soldiers and sailors honorably discharged for illness claim the same bounty as if in service or wounded. The report condemns the justice gap between valor and ignominy.
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House Committee On Military Affairs
Laird
Strike of Schoolboys at Green Point School
About one hundred schoolboys demanded longer recess at Green Point L J from fifteen to thirty minutes. When denied, they picketed the entrance and refused to return. Police arrived, led by a sergeant. The ringleader’s mother arrived and forced him back, after which the rest followed into class.
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Green Point
L. J
Workingmen at the Capital Demand Eight Hour Law Enforcement
A large Washington mass meeting adopted resolutions urging eight hour law enforcement in government workshops. It pledges sympathy with workers seeking shorter days and denounces violence while condemning the murder of unarmed civilians in the southwest railroad strike.
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Washington
Southwest
T. V. Powderly Lifelong Labor Leader and Engineer
T V Powderly born January 28 1838 in Carbondale Pennsylvania. He trained as a machinist and became a skilled civil engineer. He served as mayor of Scranton for two years and led the Knights of Labor for six years.
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T. V. Powderly
The
Knights of Labor
Carbondale
Scranton
Great Labor Organization
Tribune Job Printing Office Ad Copy Fragment
Readable fragments from a Tribune ad note job printing services offered for every office need. The item emphasizes neatness prompt service and mentions the Tribune job rooms.
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the Tribune
Tribune
Two Cyclones Sweep Iowa Towns and Kill Notable Injuries
Dispatches from Taylor Adams and Carroll counties describe twin cyclones moving northeast on April 14. Victims include a 14 year old boy severely hurt near Bedford and a 11 year old girl badly injured, with no confirmed deaths. Narratives detail farm damage in Prescott Corning Grove City Story City Coon Rapids and heavy losses at Bodkin Chapman and other properties.
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Taylor County
Adams County
Prescott
Geo. Briles
Oakey Farm
Mr. Drach
Vinton Hatfield
Bodkins & Chapman
Mark Noble
Bodkin & Chapman
Corning
Noble
Mercer
Grove Township
Story City
Mr. Walsburg
Frederick Anderson
Toliff Erickson
C. P. Christians
Iowa
Coon Rapids
Carroll County
Coon River
Milwaukee
Sawyer
George Nettles
California
Ellington tragedy shocks Hancock county residents
A fatal double tragedy unfolds near Ellington in Hancock county as Joseph White knives his neighbor Dr. Northrup then fatally shoots himself. Both men were longtime, respected residents.Whiteis’s wife is related to local settler Jacob Ward.
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Hancock County
Joseph White
Dr. Northrup
Whiteis
Jacob Ward
Whiters
G. W. Gillett
Northrup
Cerro Gordo County
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