Extra Session Notes Mexican Claims and Nominations
Senate actions cover Mexican claims treaty discussion and several confirmations. Nominations include Henry L. Muldrow for Interior Assistant Secretary, William A. J. Bearks for Land Office Commissioner General, and Daniel McConville for Treasury Post Office Auditor. Senate adjourns planned to April 2.
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Tourspay
Henry L. Muldrow
Mississippi
the Interior
William A. J. Bearks
Illinois
The
Land Office
Daniel McConville
Ohio
Treasury
Post Office Department
Veronespar
Coz
New York
Turkey
Famaur
Indian Rebellion and Violence Dominate Dispatches
Reports from the West and Midwest detail Native tensions on the Winnebago Reservation in Dakota, attacks on settlers, and clashes over land. Additional items cover court rulings, suicides, fires, murders, accidents, and economic downturns across multiple states, with notable incidents in Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky, and New York.
Political and personal notes from the era
Reports span March events across the nation. Monarchical sentiments in the Mor mons dispute Supreme Court rulings on Territories. Postmaster William Shields drowns himself after duty worries. New York financiers, election cases, and mayoral race updates. Notables include Jacob Thompson death, Nevada opera star MobiLE, Harrison for mayor, and Ed- munds anti polygamy petition. Wisconsin passes high license and suffrage measures. One hundredth birthday celebrated near Indianapolis.
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Supreme Court
Congress
William Shields
West Chester
Gonpon W. Bunnuam
New York
Hawthorn
Dartmouth College
United States Circuit Court
Chicago
Gresham
Mackin
Gallagher
Harlan
New York Senate
New York City
Jacob Thompson
Buchanan
Memphis
Tenn
Mobile
Nevada
San Francisco
The
Democracy of
Carter H. Harrison
Sidney Smith
Generaal Anson Estaceer
Indiana
Senate
Missouri
Jay GouLp
Russell Sage
Union Pacific Road
Charles Francis Adama, Jr
Wisconsin
E. D. Morgan
Edwin D. Morgan
James Husenar
Indianapo Ug
Notable 27th U.S. Political and Legal Moves Reported
On the 27th resignations and appointments surfaced with Henry 8 Nga of Washington leaving the Treasury post and Alexander McCue of Brooklyn offered the position. The Tennessee Senate criminalized polygamy, while General Grant testified in the Fish case declaring a $100,000 special partnership and a May 1 valuation of $1,000,000, with losses from the Grant & Ward collapse. Arkansas adjourned sine die as Grant’s condition showed improvement.
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Nga
The
Treasury
Washington
Alexander McCue
Brooklyn
N. Y
Tennessee Senate
GenerRaLt Grant
President Fish
Marine Bank
New York
Grant & Ward
Arkansas
Grant
British Cabinet Demands Afghan Frontier Delimitation
On the 25th the British Cabinet resolved to press Russia for swift delimitation of the Afghan frontier. Indian army officers in Europe on furlough were ordered to rejoin. War between Britain and Russia was deemed likely amid reports of British casualties near Hashven.
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Europe
Hashven
Moscow
London
England
Russia
India
House of Commons
Madagascar
Sarah Hobart
Dombrau Orran Mining Company
Trappan
Austrian Silesia
Baron Rothschild
Moravia
Lord Dufferin
Fromussia
Riel
Saskatchewan
Crozier
Grant’s illness and other 19th century dispatches
General Grant weakened by throat secretions and bedbound, while other late 19th century items report Jonx Kane’s murder suicide in San Francisco, Parliamentary notes on English Russian peace, a mine explosion in Indian Territory killing twelve, and widespread miner distress in Monongahela. The week includes a St Joseph courthouse fire, a Sydney sculling result, a missing Missouri ex-governor, and financial totals from U S clearinghouses.
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Tia
Jonx Kane
San Francisco
Abe
Cahlegram
London
England
Russia
McAlister
Indian Territory
Monongahela
Langson
Negrier
Thomas C. Fietcarn
Missouri
St. Louis
Mippleton
Quebec
Lake Superior
Fort Carlton
New York
St Joseph
W .H. McMett
Arc Department
Sydney
Hanlan
Beach
Delaware River
Trenton
N. J
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Conant
Starper's Weekly
United States
Ilinoia
Logan
Grant and Ward case reveals Grant ignorance of government contracts
Testimony in the Fish versus Marine Bank case shows James D. Fish detailing loans to Ward and Grant & Ward. Ferdinand Ward spoke of government contracts and large profits while General Grant, at trial, denied knowledge of such contracts and identified questionable letters, with cross examination clarifying his limited involvement.
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General Grant
New York
James D. Fish
Marine Bank
Fish
Grant & Ward
Ferdinand Ward
Ward
Greenice
Produce Exchange
U. S. Grant, Jr
Grant
Washington
Smith
Fist
Ork
United States
Chicago
Vanderbilt
Buffalo Fire Visibly Destroys Music Hall and Church
A disastrous blaze in Burrato New York destroys the Music Hall and St Louis Church. The fire starts when a gas burner ignites a stage drop and rapidly spreads to the adjoining church. A worker named George Smith dies after a dangerous climb to the roof. The hall had hosted major musical events in 1884 and 148%.
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Dakota
Chappelle Creek
Superior Court of Georgia
J A. Smith
Marietta Railway
Oklahoma
White
New Corner
Ind
Richard Brown
Joam Gray
Chicago
Hannibal
Rpvicgs
New York Assembly
Niagara Falls
Leavenworth
Kan
Peteer Curty
Locust Gap
Orro Senxuler
Louisville
Grannis & Co
Utica
N. Y
Faeperick Ball
Chambersburg
Bewichley
Andrew Pearce
Pine Level
Fla
John ‘Bchamndtal
Finx
Buffalo
Music Hall
St. Louis
John ‘Grimm
AL CuapMan
Hot Springs
Ark
Charles Lorne
Lincoln County
Afmer
James KR. Ware
Cincinnati
Mars Dixon
Chanute
Athin Wirt
Gilmer
Roane
West Virginia
Macksburg (Co
Onto Stein
George Fredericks
Kansas City
Burrato
McCaull Opera Company
Falka
St Louis
George Smith
Joseph Green
Smith
Green
Yon
TKR
Theodore Thomas
Dr. Damiesch
Nine-Year-Old Confesses to Child Murder Near Scottsville
Mary Cooper, nine, confessed to killing seven-year-old Melville Barrett in Albemarle County near Scottsville. Authorities suspected uncle David Cooper, but the elder girl stated the murder was planned to frighten him and involved a chair, rope, and blows with a shovel.
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Ricamonno
Scottsville
Mary Cooper
Melville Barrett
Albemarle County
David Cooper
General Anson Stager Dies in Detroit at 75
General Anson Stager died at his residence 1785 Michigan Avenue in Detroit this morning after a two week illness marked by Brights disease and other complications. Born in 1825 in Ontario County New York, he helped organize telegraph lines with the Mississippi Valley Company and Western Union, served as General Superintendent, worked with General Butler on the Civil War field telegraph system, was brevetted Brigadier General, established his Detroit headquarters in 1890, and founded the Electric Manufacturing Company remaining its president until his death.
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Marion
Wyoming
Colorado
Nebraska
Cheyenne
SoLouon Shipley
New Holland
Bradstreet’s
Mark Twain
Memphis
Tenn
Mound City
Ark
Supreme Court of New York
Becky Jones
Ludlow Street
Hammersley Will
Windsor
Randolph
Mass
Oakland City
Ind
Michigan Carbon Works
Detroit
John Sexton
Barboursville
William Neal
Ashland
Grayson
United States
Canada
Middle States
New England
Western
Southern
Pacific States and Territories
Anson Stager
Michigan Avenue
Bright
General Stager
Ontario County
N. Y
Mississippi Valley Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
Secretary of War
The Bakers Have a Falling Out
The Western Cracker Bakers Association executive committee dissolved the group by unanimous agreement at a Grand Pacific meeting. Formed four years ago, the union covered 115 bakeries from Pittsburgh to the Missouri River and St Paul to New Orleans. Price cutting by Southern members sparked a special meeting and the dissolution aims to curb crowding the trade and restore prices.
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Western Cracker Bakers’ Association
Grand Pacific
Pittsburgh
Missouri River
St .Paul
New Orleans
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