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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1876
Page
2
A long compiled dispatch notes battles, disasters, and political shifts across Europe, the Americas, and Africa. It mentions leaders, deaths, volcanic eruptions, naval exploits, fires, and parliamentary debates, with references to Mount Vesuvius, Queen Victoria, and various ministers and places.
Reports state conventions in Ohio, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania. Gov race margins in New Hampshire. Senate majorities in South Carolina. Roscoe Conkling named as New York Republican choice. calls for honest government, specie payments, and currency reform. general election coalitions and platforms outlined.
A Providence lawyer William B. Beach is named on the Rhode Island Democratic ticket for Governor replacing Gen Cooke who declined. The Rhode Island Republican convention selected delegates to the National Convention in Cincinnati. Bills in California and Congress address whipping, military supply contracts, currency questions and election integrity. Debate and committee actions focus on prohibition, civil service ethics, Indian affairs and counting votes for President and Vice President.
The measure endorses yearly steps to restore specie payments, requiring Treasury coin reserves equal to at least three percent of outstanding legal tender notes and a resumption fund not under thirty percent of note circulation. It also mandates coin reserves by national banks and repeals conflicting prior provisions, with a Santa Clara notice about planting 600 coffee trees this spring.
A patchwork of crime notes fires and accidents across Illinois and neighboring states details indictments for fraud arson and vice alongside train wrecks boat incidents and devastating weather. Names include Charles Barker Paes Mayer and John Christoper with events spanning Chicago Rock Island Springfield Cairo and Decatur.
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