Congress Stirs Over Land Grants and River Bills
A Cincinnati mass meeting urged a quarter-section of land for every Union service member. In Senate and House actions, river and harbor measures progressed, consular funds debated, and a copyright treaty was rejected. Adjournment set for June with many bills passed at night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressional
Eiln
Logan
Senate
Cincinnati
Voorhoos
Butler
New York
Hennepin Canal
Corgin
House
Violent Crime and Disasters Across the Nation
Reports detail lynching in Castlewood Virginia, train wrecks near Paint Rock Alabama, beer brewery explosion in Newburgh New York killing James Quinlan, and multiple bank failures and robberies. Also noted are cargo imports, cyclones in Corsicana Texas, and a large timber accident in Gilmore County West Virginia.
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Willie Osborne
Castlewood
Chicago
Harlan
Judge Blodgett
Fred Erby
Newburgh
N. Y
James Quinlan
O Amaniac
Cincinnati
Washington
Baltimore
William Scott
Acloud Nurit
Allegheny Valley
Brookville
Alfred
United States
Diaz
Cortinas
New Albany
Mias
J. J.reeves
Lloyd Ford
Ford
Doxing
Minneapolis
New York
Street & Smith
New York Weekly
Waitz
Wheeling
W. Va
Cushing, Thomas & Co
Boston
Maria Buckland
Urbana
Lake Charles
John Powell
Otto Berwald
Herman Sigler
Pittsburgh
Riddle
Reiber
Thomas J. Watson
Penn Bank
Esaignee
Gzorczh Wilson
Detroit
Political Nominations And Abolition Of Government Contributions
Republican and Democratic activities across states include Grosvenor named for Congress in Ohio's fourteenth district at Brooklyn NY, Grant elected president, California Democrats nominating multiple candidates, Tilden declining presidency, and a Washington vote making government service political contributions a misdemeanor with up to 5000 fine or three years’ imprisonment. Other items note Michigan delegates, a tariff debate, Texas tariff reform stance, Cuban revolutionary arrest, and railroad land forfeiture bills.
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Ohio
Charles H. Grosvenor
Brooklyn
N. Y
Society of the Army of the Potomac
Grant
California
Barclay Henley
J. H. Budd
F. J. Sullivan
R. F. Delvalle
Samuel J. Tilden
Michigan Democratic State Committee
Jackson
Ilth
Tilden
Hendricks
Geerce Worrgington
Detroit
Nebraska
Episcopal Convention
Texas Democrats
Fort Worth
Congress
Maresso
Cuban Revolutionary Committee
Key West
Fla
Ilinoia
F. E. Albright
Murphysboro
Margon Jarep A. Buiin
United States Corps of Engineers
O. E. Babcock
Herster Clymen
Reading
State Senate
Texas
Austin
House
Oregon
Arizona
New Mexco
Indian Territory
Missouri
Arkansas
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana
Joper Edgerton
Dakota
Ordway
Massachusetts Independents condemn Republican nominations in Boston
A meeting led by Charles W. Cadman in Boston on the 13th condemned the Republican Presidential nominations. The group urged Democrats to back candidates aligned with their views and await suitable nominees. A St Louis telegram asked Samuel J. Tilden to endorse a interpreted letter of declination.
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Wa. H. Vanverbilt
New York
Europe
Massachusetts
Charles W. Cadman
Boston
Tax
St. Louis Evening Chronicle
Samuel J. Tilden
Missouri Republican
Tilden
Chronicle Disputch
Democratic State Committee of New York
Row. Scripps
Wrecks and disasters flood early reports abroad
The 10th reports wrecks off Newfoundland with the captain and thirteen drowned. A seal brig loss follows with twenty nine dead and forty five saved. Other items note severed Servia Bulgaria relations, mass killings near Cairo, executions in Pictou, a Winnipeg fire, a cave-in in Austria, Cuban sugar collapse, Monaco crisis reports, and drownings in Toronto Bay.
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Newfoundland
Servia
Bulgaria
Cairo
Berber
Josepph Thompson
George Lowder
Pictou
N. S
Winnipeg
Madrid
Monaco
EN Guisa
Suakin
Soliery
Mehdi
Aboull
Awalsig
Rusia Turkestan
Richardd Howard
Toronto Bay
Tilden declines to seek another term for the Presidency
The Sage of Gramercy Park Samuel J. Tilden announces he will not run again. He explains age and strength limit a campaign and pledges to withdraw from public life after years of reform efforts in New York and national administration.
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Grammercy Park
New York
Samuel J. Tilden
Associated Press
Daniel Manning
Democratic State Committee of
United States
Cincinnati
Wovernmental Institu- Hons
Otmy Country Ag
Lfo
Republic
City of
State of
Nowice
theDemocratice Party
Savage
J. Tipper
Two Fatal Accidents At Darton Involving Locomotive and Quarry
James Manning, sixty, a section band, was struck by a locomotive and killed instantly. Michael Miskostal, working on a stone quarry at a deep bank, was crushed by fifteen tons of earth, with fatal chest injuries.
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Darton
James Manning
Michael Miskostal
Fatal Camden & Atlantic wreck near Ashland New Jersey
A collision between an excursion train carrying women and children from Camden and an Atlantic City accommodation train near Ashland results in eight dead and nine wounded. Witnesses describe a sudden impact as both locomotives and cars are severely damaged.
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Camden Road
Ashland
Butler
Oil Well No. 13
Richard Walker
Post- Free Department
Washington
Alex Fiddler
Sturges
D.T
Orangemen
Belfast
Ireland
New England
Jerez
Spain
Black Hand Society
Calais
James Chester
Dennis Casey
Grotzre, Day & Co
New Orleans
Joan Flemming
Chicago
Dakota
Green Point
L. I
Arizona
Liverpool
Philadelphia
Utah
United States Senate
House
Senate
N. J
Camden & Atlantic
Camden
Lakeside Park
Second Presbyterian Church
Tobe
Albert Smith
Gustavus Edwards
Trun
Kinsth
Fenton
Haddonfield
Vaughn
Numiber Nine
Seven Communists Executed in Spain
Seven Communists were executed at Juarez after a failed rescue attempt by Socialists and the Black Hand Society. Government forces, warned in advance, armed soldiers and repelled the mob as contingents of terrorists were wounded or captured. The executions followed participation in the Mano negro outrages.
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Maprio
Jarez
Black Hand Society
Juarez
Mano Negro
Goulddenotes notes and joint indorsements amid woes
New York June 16 Jay Gould denied rumors of a protest note. He clarified that he redeemed Wabash Company notes totaling 65000 dollars with the joint indorsement of Gould Sage Humphreys and Dillon. About two million notes remain outstanding and may be converted to receiver's certificates bearing six percent interest.
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New York
Jay Gould
Wabash Company
Gould, Sage
Humphreys
Dillon
Russell Sage
Gould
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Telegraph and Mail
Lewellen Ropinson
Beale
Ala
Troy Adams
Loomis’ Mill
Little Rock
Ark
Salt Lake
Fred Hoyt
Lewis Stanger
Marion Deems
Cincinnati & Newport Iron and Pipe Works
Newport
van Ansdal
Corsicana
Tex
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Clearfield County
Gilmore County
William and
John Haddock
Recta
Key Weat
Canada
Casurer Shepard
New York Central
Buffalo
Michigan
Middleton & Co
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