Global storm and economic tremors dominate week
A fierce gale raged across Ireland and Britain on the 8th, toppling telegraph lines and injuring many as fires and floods damaged towns. In Paris Gaudard was named Interior Minister with Say Finance and Fourtin Public Works as crisis wanes. London gas stokers were convicted, and bankers Jacobs Freres of Brussels suspended after Bowles Brothers collapse. A Hamburg emigrant ship Franklin wrecked off Iceland with eighty dead. Anticosti lightouse and keeper’s family perished in hurricane.
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Enland
London
Wales
Ireland
Paris
Sth. Saya
Gaudard
Leon Say
Fourtin
Colmont
Seine
Bowles Brothers
Jacobs Freres
Brussels
Franklin
Hamburg
San Francisco
Iceland
Netherlands
Northea
Anticost
Quebec
Baxter
Reversed ruling on hotel refuse to colored patrons and Indian reports
Judge McArthur in Washington reverses a restaurant ruling over denying service to colored patrons. The Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners lauds progress under the peace policy, noting increased civilization, reduced fraud, and broader religious evangelism among tribes. The Southern Claims Commission reports 45 million claimed with 1.1 million awarded as 1872 close approaches. A fire disaster strikes Fifth Avenue Hotel and a blizzard hits Little Rock with snow. Personal news covers deaths of Thos A. Johnson and Edwin Forrest, will contests over Greeley estate, and broader political and legal developments from Boston to St. Louis.
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New York
McArthur
Criminal Court
Washington
Board of Indian Commissioners
United Statcs
Southern Claims Commission
Commission
St. Louis
Scandinavian National Bank
Chiccago
Sylem
Little Rock
Ark
Fifth Avenue
Oelock
Thos. A. Johnson
Supreme Court of New York
Corning
Colfax
de Horatio Seymour
National Prison Reform
Baltimore
N. Pike
Pike's Opera House
Cincinnati
Boston
Leavitt Alley
Abijah Ellis
Charles River
Stanley
Livingstone
Horace Greeley
Munn & Scott
Greeley Monument Association
Tweed
Ingraham
Edwin Forrest
Philadelphia
Major Powell
Salt Lake City
Arizona
Louisiana and national politics reel in 1870s turmoil
The report outlines Warmoth Warmoth Louisiana politics with clashes over election returns and impeachments. It notes Federal troops seizing the State House, Kentucky and Alabama Senate shifts, and Daniel Grant era electoral actions amid injunctions against Warmoth and Pinchbeck.
Congressional notes reflect Senate and House actions and adjournments
Senate and House debate committees and bills on military affairs and finance. Measures include refunds on war expenditures, bridges on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, public buildings, currency reform, liquor prohibitions, pensions, and civil service issues. Adjournments occur through December and into January.
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Senate
Wilson
Massachusetts
United States
Covington
Committee On Finance
Arkansas
Committee On
Committee of Conference
Ohio
Secretary of War
Mississippi
Gulf of
Gallacors
Morton
Kansas
New Mexico
Ohio River
Sumner
Judiciary Committee
Lizzie Ulimer
Pittefield
Kansas, Topeka & Santa Fe
Congress
Boston
James River
Kanawha Canal
Missouri River
Southern Claims Commission
Miwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company
North LaCrosat
Wis
Firemen’s Fund
Remen
Vermont
Rome
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Sandy Hook
Audienees
Mobile & Mentgomery Railroad Company
Mobile River
Mobil Bay
Méears
Kelley
Pennsylvania
Dawes
Maynard
Tennessee
Sargent California
Hawley
Connecticut
Havens
Missouri
Cox
New York
Maral
Alvide
Hancock
Texas
Minnesota
Southern ‘Methodist' Association of
Tennnessee
Paymert
Finance Committee
District of Columbia
Judiciary “Committee
Billaware
Secretary of the Treasury
Japan
House Bil
Foster
Ats Sutehrry
Crocker
Masyachusetts
Dodds
Esty
Internal Revenue
Boston Fire
House
National Bank of Lyons
Mich
Army of the United States
Remembered Tragedies and Court Losses Highlight Year
The text notes eleven hotel deaths from fire and smoke, a hotel blaze in New York claiming twelve servant girls and two men, plus U S Supreme Court rulings against Milwaukee agencies. It also mentions pension figures with War of 1812 veterans and a heavy snow event in Augusta Georgia.
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Supreme’ Court of the United States
Milwaukee ‘& Beloit
Milwaukee’ ‘& Superior
Milwaukee
Augusta
Credit-Mobiliéry Committee
Garfield
New York Fifth Avenue
Canvass of Marengo County Votes and Louisiana Impeachment Ruling
Acting Governor Pinchbeck issued a New Orleans proclamation on the 12th with a dispatch from Attorney General Williams stating the President recognizes him as the lawful Louisiana executive. The Eighth District Court declares Warmoth's impeachment null and void and that the Kellogg Legislature has no legal standing, with Pinchbeck sentenced to ten days for contempt.
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Warmoth
Louisiana
Eighth District Court
Custom-House Returning Board
Governor's Returning Board
Dutell
United States
Decklins
State House
House
Senate
Republican Electoral College of
Grant
Wilton
Custom-House Legislature
New Orleans
Pinchbeck
Gaston
Boston
H. B. Pierce
People
Labor
Common Council
Michigan
Greeley
South Carolina
John J. Patterson_ag
Patterson
T. W. 8Ykes
Capitol
Alabama
8Ykes
Eighth District Court of Louisiana
Congress
Kellogg
A. P. Field
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Secretary of State of
Arkansas
Johnson, Green, Scott and Poinsett
Reform
Columbia
8. C
W. A. Elmore
General Assembly
Williams
Washington
Pennsylvania State Temperance Convention
Marengo County
Open letter praises Grant for Greeley funeral respect
An open letter from Sixdam Tousey in New York dated December 6 1872 honors President Grant for attending William H Greeleys funeral and for showing respect to his character. It credits Grant with uniting opponents and tempering partisan tensions through his actions. The piece ends with a moral anecdote about time questions.
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New York
Grant
Hening Post
The
United States
Greeley
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Utah
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Tevengon
Kentucky
Seangonian Institute
Garrett Davis
Hecathy
Toledo
Owensburg
Admiral Dahlgren
Agsay
Helena
Ontina
L. _' CGamar
Nebraska
States
Internal Revenue Bureau
Mr. Greeley
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