Washington and New York News Roundup of 1869 Events
Reports from Washington detail L Lippinicott as Chief Clerk to the General Land Office and a fraud case. Treasury buys bullion for coinage, Lincoln statue unveiled in Washington with Frederick Douglass as orator. indictments in bank and land schemes. New York and Philadelphia market quotes, rail and political notes, and a fire at the Greeley mansion.
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Caroline Ray
New York
Frederick Douglass
Grex. Bancoux
Richard Harrington
Hiram C. Whitely
Ichabod ‘Nettleship
J. P. Somerville
Geo. E. Miles
Walter Brown
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Massive Chicago meeting calls for resignations and Hoyne bid
A large Chicago mass meeting on the 11th denounces allegedly fraudulent county elections on the South Side and urges resignations from officers. Colvin is asked to abdicate the mayoral post, with Hort Hoyne nominated for mayor. Comittees will notify officials of the action. A separate Creston Iowa windstorm wrecked homes but caused no fatalities. The Teroblo Legislature adjourned to Jan 2 1877 after 101 days. A Wyoming telegram reports an attack by Indians near the Cheyenne River with one killed and another wounded, and widespread stock theft.
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Foreign Intelligence From Across Europe and Near East
Vienna dispatches report the Turkish Envoy told Count Andrassy it is impossible for the Porte to concede demanded terms. Papal and Greek authorities face political bribes and legal cases. A Constantinople telegram notes insurgent defeats near Kyevacs with heavy casualties. Snow disrupts France, and Abyssinia seeks indemnity. Antwerp banker commits suicide amid European tensions. A Greek dispatch says a Russian corvette sank at Piraeus with all hands lost.
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Hinister of Justice
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France
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Egypt
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Congressional actions and bills in Senate and House excerpts
The report covers a range of 19th century congressional measures including a freight transport bill for Atlantic tidewater to the Ohio Mississippi valleys, a House bill on foreign goods for the Centennial Exhibition, and various motions on witnesses, river bridge construction, steam navigation, and bond transport. It notes the Deficiency bill at 682 480 dollars, a currency elasticity proposal, postal rate changes, and Senate House actions on Silver coin, Minnesota election case, and judiciary resolutions.
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Congressional Proceedings Reported By Ailing Session Debates
The record notes House and Senate actions including a Deficiency Appropriation bill passage and recommitments. Debates cover oaths in impeachment trials and a Habeas Corpus writ related to Kilbourne with orders for the Sergeant at Arms to keep the witness detained pending further order. Adjournments noted with no final votes on the resolution.
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Mechanism of Washington Resurrection at Centennial Exhibit
A Detroit inventor, Andrew Gaudron of 235 St Aubin Avenue, demonstrates a cabinet diorama representing Washington's tomb. The device, nine feet high, features a clocklike mechanism, a miniature cannon, bells, rising curtain, and an eagle delivering a laurel wreath to a resurrected Washington amid French and American soldiers. The scene repeats every three minutes with accurate uniforms and scale. The piece is praised for ingenuity and workmanship.
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Detroit Safe Works
Pullman Car Works
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Illinois News Items Across State Ledger Of 1870s Era
Ill informed notes cover river appropriations in Illinois and neighboring states, election outcomes in Springfield including Beveridge governor support and city offices, prison inmate counts, and inspector reports. Also described are mine floods near Canton, a Canton mining accident, a Marion mule incident, and a Rock Island distiller convicted of conspiracy to defraud the revenue.
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Carbondale
James L. Kelly
Marion
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Marshall T. Crain
Freginger
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Chicago
The Emperor Dom Pedro II and Brazil’s Centennial Era
Chronicle recounts the Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II as a learned ruler whose reign brought progress, civil improvement, and national unity. It notes his long life, marriages, children, and the 1841 coronation, plus Brazil’s centennial commemoration and the arrival of the Brazilian corvette Niderotry in New York before July Fourth.
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A Tiger Hunt Tale From India in Youth’s Companion
An English hunter in Betul country recounts stalking two tigers near a ravine. Monkeys on a pool reveal their proximity, a tiger appears, both flee, and a later shot with a shell kills one tiger instantly while the other remains unseen. The account ends noting the hunter’s surprise at the tiger’s sudden death.
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Norwich paper magnate charged with forgery in $50000 case
Charles Fuller, president of the Chapa Paper Company in Norwich, is arrested on a $50,000 forgery charge. He claims destitution after leaving in June with only two dollars, wandering Pennsylvania and Delaware, working as a peach picker and carpenter, and forming a tramp partnership with a Southern man who later betrayed him for a reward. Fuller expects imprisonment soon.
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