Tragic Grand Trunk wreck leaves many injured
A Grand Trunk Railroad disaster near Belleville in Canada on the night of the 21st kills at least six on the spot and injures many more. Eyewitness accounts describe intense steam, locked cars, and heroic efforts to reach the wounded. later reports raise the death toll to twenty three with ongoing fatalities. The incident prompts coroner findings that the accident was purely accidental and the track and engineer were deemed in good condition.
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Yorkville
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Earl Granville
Commons
Gladstone
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Geneva Board of Arbitration
United State
Great Britain
Lord Tenterden
Britain
Count Scropis
Jubilee musical success despite crowd size and heavy costs
A Boston dispatch to the Chicago Tribune reports the Jubilee has been a musical success despite uneven attendance. Week receipts reach about 60 thousand dollars against an outlay near four hundred thousand, with payments to orchestra foreign bands, soloists, and American players straining the guaranty fund.
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Boston
Chicago Tribune
Europe
Politicat notes bolster party actions in multiple states
Reports from Boston Des Moines St. Louis Philadelphia and other centers recount ratification meetings endorsements and conventions. Governors Geary Harvey and Brown appear along with Senators Wilson Carpenter and Henderson among others. The Vermont New Jersey New Hampshire and Iowa parties update platforms nominations and legislative moves.
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Political Convention Notes Across States on Presidential Nominations
Reports from Kansas Illinois Georgia Missouri and Ohio detail state party conventions endorsing the Cincinnati platform and Baltimore rally. Leaders or candidates include Groesbeck Korner Black Weldon Lanphier Smith Davis Hurlbut Wiley Greene and delegates urged to back Greeley and Brown.
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Champaign
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Peoria
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Cook
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Sangamon
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McLean
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Illinois
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Senate
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J. F. Farnsworth
Cleveland
General Wiley
Worcester
J. L. Greene
Franklin Co
Board of Public Works
J.B Riley
Licking Co
Greeley and Brown
Demsperai
New Postal Law Enables One Cent Postal Cards
The new law authorizes one cent postal cards for correspondence and circulars, with open cards preferred by the Postmaster General. Cards will bear a one cent stamp, have address lines on the front, a ruled back for letters, and may be ready in three to four weeks. Circulars and newspapers under two ounces drop from two to one cent, aiding business advertising. The law takes effect immediately though postmasters await nationwide promulgation.
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Great Britain
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Senate
Chicago Post
Morton Speech in Indianapolis Addresses Republican Triumphs
Senator Morton began in Indianapolis on June 23 noting decades of meetings since 1861 and praising Republican triumphs. He avoided argument and used a combative aside about aging politicians, suggesting critics seek a new issue and a new party name amid shipwreck claims, while asserting the Administration’s Republican policy remains vindicated.
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Senator Morton
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Ct Reis
Campaign speech defends Grant and GOP policy gains
The speaker lauds Republican gains under General Grant, rejects Horace Greeley’s speculation as ruinous, and argues the party is the reform force. He attacks Democrats for changing principles, praises tax cuts and debt reduction, and urges patriotic support to keep the country on a prosperous course.
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Teeley
Horace Greeley
Theepublican Party
Republican National Convention
General Grant
Oon
Republican Party
Reform Party
Mr. Hendricks
Democratic Party
Cincinnati Platform
Touching Snowstorm Tragedy In Newfoundland
A severe blizzard drives a widow to search for her sixteen year old son during a morning wood cut. The pair perish beneath a cliff, found frozen in each other’s arms after days of fruitless rescue attempts. An unnamed Evening Post source notes their sacrifice and closeness.
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Doric
Newfoundland
Cleveland Bug-Buster Invention Aims to Purge Vermin
A Cleveland inventor has created a patent bug-buster using an air pump. The device seals most room apertures except one and exhausts air to draw vermin toward a hopper. There they are subjected to chloroform before being stabbed with a switchfork.
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Te Raya
Cleveland
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