Senate Dispatches on Ribello Extradition and Garf ield Medal Plan
The Senate debated Vincenzo Ribello extradition papers and the President's role, adopted Kellogg's paper request to the President, and approved a journal honoring Garfield. Other actions included naming a pro tem, appointing committees, and confirming nominees. The session noted large bond redemptions and a hot Yorktown heat spell affecting NJ guard members.
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Ketona
Secretary of State
Vicenzo Ribello
New Orleans
James Mooney
Vicenzo Ribeiro
Edmunds
Mr. Edmunds
Senate
Garland
Ith
Davis Dil
Mahone
Davis
Jones
Fin
Edmunda
Bayard
Vincenzo Ribello
Garfield
Committee On Library
Voorhees
Cincinnati Post-office
Lamar
Judiciary Committee
Morgan
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury Department
Noah C. McFarland
Kansas
General Land Office
W. Silver
Indiana
United States
Cape Town
Fire claims and injuries at Philadelphia factory collapse
Fire in a Philadelphia manufacturing plant on the night of the 12th cut off upper-floor egress forcing many workers to jump from windows. Many were seriously hurt and some perished, mostly women, with the death list around twenty as of the 11th and more bodies still in ruins.
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Philadelphia
Rock
John W. Hu
St. Louis
John McDougal
Montreal
A. H. Francisco
Miles Sells
St. Louisa
Kokomo
Col
Chicago Board of Trade
New York
London
Chicago Times
Ith
West
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Edward J. Keen
Joseph H. Kain
Washington Butcher’s Sons
United States
Garfield Monument Committee
Cleveland
Unknown airship sighting over Wisconsin noted
The airship’s location remained unknown as of the morning of the 17th, though reports indicated it was seen flying over Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin
Waves of turmoil sweep Ireland and Britain in unrest reports
Dispatches describe the wheat deficit forcing U S supplies to France while Algeria suffers. In Ireland Land League figures including Joan Dillon and William O Brien are arrested as pro boycott protests rise. Across Britain storms kill dozens and wreck ships while Irish clashes and a Dublin church raid provoke troop deployments and a general duty call.
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Department of State
Washington
France
United States
Algeria
Josefh P. Quinn
Land League
Ireland
Dublin
St. Petersburg
Siberia
England
London
Thames
Scotland
Cyprian
Limerick
Scots Guards
George Street
Denmark Street
Relief fund grows with Garfield aid and bond swap
The relief fund for Mrs. Garfield totals 360345, with 348068 in counter with 100000 in four percent bonds at United States Trust Co of New York. Also notes snow depth in Quebec and New Orleans bond bids and a fatal kerosene fire in Cincinnati.
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Garfield
United States Trust Company of
New York
Quebec
New Orleans
Marion O’donohue
Cincinnati
Yorktown
Virginia
Lafayette Hall
George Washington
Lafayette
Nelson
Patrick Henry
Commodore Perry
Cornwallis
Guiteau
King
Signal Service
Chicago
Dakota
William A. Hammond
Marion Sims
Scoville
President Garfeld
Sims
Ireland
Limerick
Dublin
Sexton
Fifty-second Regiment
Forster
Dublin Castle
The
Land League
America
Sarah Parnell
Lime
Indiana Freight Yard Disaster And City News Blasts
Heavy bed plate collapse at the Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati depot in Indianapolis traps four men with serious injuries James Kennedy crushed under the arch Fred Weber ripped flesh from knee down August Ott leg smashed John Connors knee broken 250 chickens released at Union Depot as boxes hit archway Several brutal accidents and crimes reported across Marion and surrounding counties including a boy's death a mill scalding a college revolt at Butler University and fires losses across Indianapolis Fort Wayne and Bedford plus court actions and labor unrest.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
James Kennedy
Fred Weber
Ott
John Connors
Weber
Union Depot
Carl Gossow
Adams Station
Fort Wayne
Cincinnati, Richmond
Delaware Street
Ohio
Holmes & Claypool
J., M. & I. Railroad
John Hensey
Goodland
State Line
Pan- Handle
George Whitney
Hamlet Station
David H. Olive
Indiana Senate
Lebanon
Vanderburgh
State Land Office Abuse of Swamp Lands Revealed
An Indianapolis Journal report cites a State Land Office clerk saying the state abused swamp land grants after federal cession. Patents were issued for lands not belonging to the state and some duplicates caused litigation while records were poorly kept. An effort to straighten the records is under way.
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State Land Office
Journal
Land Department of the State
Indianapolis Journal
Harvest Time and Fields of Labor Across Lands
A poetic call to harvest laborers and charitable work echoes across Greencastle Indiana and nationwide. The piece urges faithful workers to gather harvests, aid the poor, and guide the erring, while noting a looming deadline before night and trumpet calls. A plaster incident at Marquis' music store in Greencastle is briefly reported, and IA Lowrey's Industrial School of Colored Ringers plans a concert at the Opera House next Monday. A Kansas item notes Kerr and McCarty enter a real estate and abstract partnership in Garnett with a new office over Purcell and Seber’s harness shop.
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Ia Lowrey
Industrial School of Colored Ringers
Garnett Kan
W. J. Kerr
I.T. McCarty
Purcell & Seber
Kerr
McCarty
Commissioner’s Land Sale by Putnam Court Commissioner
A Putnam Circuit Court appointed commissioner will publically auction three parcels of Indiana land on November 12 1881 at 10 o’clock. The sale includes 40 acres in section 15 township 16 north range 5 west and 17 and 12 acre portions in sections 11 and 14, with two parcels to be sold separately and payment terms set as half cash and the balance in nine months.
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Putnam Circuit Court
Lucretia Landes
Mary F. Landes
Georgie A. Landes
Samuel Landes
Dora B. Landes
James M. Brothers
Martha A. Brothers
Christie B. Brothers
Herusband
Harmon M. Brothers
County of
Putnam
Indiana
Raccoon Creek
Section Fourteen
Joan Fosher
Peddlers Ordinance Amended by Greencastle Council
An amended ordinance restricts street peddlers hawkers and itinerant dealers in Greencastle Indiana. It requires a license valid for one day one week or one month issued by the City Clerk. Farmers and horticulturists are exempted. Effective upon two consecutive weeks of publication. Attest Mayor Miller. City Clerk Milligan.
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Greencastle
Putnam County
Ind
Indiana
John R. Miller
Wyan McK. Milligan
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U. S. Senate
Windom
International Conference of the
Women’s Christian Association
Boston
Boston Association
C. R. Springer
St. Louis Association
Baltimore & Ohio Road
Zanesville
New Jersey Battalion
Arthur
W. W. Dudley
United States Commissioner of Pensions
Charles H. Howard
Ilinois
J. G. Holland
New England
Scribner’s Monthly
Century
Democratic State Committee
Daniel Manning
Albany
Cooper
James W. Wadsworth
Senator Lapham
Congress
Industrial League of America
Massachusetts
John Blackmer
Vee Earl
Hannibal Hamlin
Spain
Walker Blaine
Mark 8. Brewer
Michigan
Berlin
Hamlin
Raleigh
N. C
Lorillard
Gurteau
District Court
Sith
Bradford
Ltch
George H. Bethar
Bethar
John G. Walker
Bureau of Navigation
Navy Department
Nebraska State Democratic Convention
Omaha
W. H. Munger
Alexander Bear
T. S. Brass
Marquis de la Fayette
Baron von Steuben
T. P. O'Connor
M. P
Irish Land League
Fremont
Arizona
Columbus
Foster
Stanforr Manonr
Jubal A. Early
Snell
Louisiana
Samuel D. McEnery
Indiana State News
Stella Palmer
J. W. Palmer
Bedford
Colonel Knight
Salem
Marion County
Mollie Miller
New Providence
Clark County
Charles Ruddle
Charlestown
Margaret A. Nicholson
David Nicholson
David Fentress
Rochester
Fentress
Butler University
Burgesa
First Christian Church
Ovid Butler
Hay
Dr. Burgess
John Wilson
Louis Reese
Muncie
Gustav Bouke
Lawrence
Bouke
Vincennes
Hice Garing
William Lister
John Baher
Sand Ridge Cave
Allen County
Charles Hoffman
Hoffman
Toffman
John F. Redabaugh
Ofrs
John
Willie Kepler
Mount Vernon
Floyd County
John Hanna
Europe
Samuel Dalzell
Indianapolis Criminal Court Grand Jury
New Carlisle
Frank Wade
Eli Wade
C. B. Mason
Toledo
Wade
Perdyke & Marmon
Johnson Malleable Iron Works
Erastus Morris
Johnson
John Thomas Jackson
Margaret Leslir
Earth
Marquis
Mathias & Lewis, Attorneys
Isao
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