Epitome of the Week and Executive Nominations
The article outlines executive actions and nominations including the confirmation of Stamey Matthews as a Supreme Court justice and other executive appointments. It notes debates over clerks demographics, printing resolutions, and a postponed information request. The Senate recorded various confirmations and adjourned for recess.
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Stanley Matthews
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Stank
Arepointe
Supreme Court
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Zude Woote
Georgia
Henate
Indictments Hit European Steamship Captains and Other News
U S Grand Jury in New York indicts Foumtaxx Catains of European steamships for carrying passengers beyond legal limits. Various items follow including a suit by Tau City of New York against Seventh Avenue Railroad for a $3 per car license fee, and a 46 000 judgment. Reports cover a Native American scout pursuit near the Pecos River in Texas, a Catholic Young Men's Union convening in Chicago, a Broadway stage-driver's trunk discovery, a diamond reward incident, and multiple political and public notices across states and nations with deaths, weather highs, and legislative actions.
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United States Grand Jury
New York
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Seventh Avenue Raitroad
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Pecos River
Texas
Tien Catholic Young Men's National Union
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Broadway
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Wade Hampton
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Telledosa
Ala
Armaio
South Carolina
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Louis
Erie
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New York City
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Philadelphia
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Nashvile
Tenn
Chicago
Catholic Young Man’s National Union
Kpane
Richmond
Patrick Taafe
John Hall
Mow Yok
Dn Nobe
D. R. Noyes
St Paul
Axsiz Mintie
Racine
Wis
James W. Power
Owlngarius
Early American Meeting House and Bond Debates
A damaged fragmentary note recalls an 1789 meeting-house in We onsucket destroyed by a fre, the town’s public worship site for a century. It mentions a call for 12 003 dollars in five per cent bonds, treasuries, and interest terms, with broader references to tax, pardons, and bond redemption rules. The text also notes crimes, escapes, a burning death, a varioloid case at Trinity College, and an Arkansas jail escape.
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Wawnox
Sasi
Sanstroke
Chi‘Sago
Tharmoneter
Minnesota
Jarge
Department
Anwar Jane Paricks
Mowitain Home
Ark
London Scene and global unrest reported in brief
The report notes Mr. Braynavan barred from entering the British House of Commons after he refused to withdraw, and Mr. Bradlaugh removed. It cites arrest of German journalist Alexander Jonas in Dresden on suspected socialist activity, and US protest for redress. Also mentions Czar’s manifesto to Russia, sugar refinery failure in Amsterdam, Macedonian uprisings, Jewish tax refunds in Russia, wage boost at Grand Trunk Railway, Austrian Emperor's pardon for poverty related offenses, a Petersburg murder case, clergymen in Wiltshire, Austrian consul warning merchants of Southern Russia danger.
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House of Commons
Bradlaugh
Streeanta+ Arms
Alexander Jonas
New York
Dresden
United States
Berlin
Caar
Tax International Sugar
Amsterdam
Schroder & Co
Koritecha
Macedonia
Elizabethgrad
Russia
Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
Austria
Petersburg
Tembletrove News Summary of 1881 Reports
Timm received 323 820 400 of five percent bonds at three and a half percent to continue. In Chicago, Harriman led a six day pedestrian contest with 630 miles. Navajo tensions rose on the frontier. London announced a revised Scripture to be presented to Queen Victoria. U.S. petroleum exports valued March 1881 at 3 230 116. a Dayton tornado damaged areas. a boat capsized at Newark drowning three. Memphis honored Confederate dead with flowers. City of Rome launched at Cleveland. liquor saloons closed in Springfield Illinois. broker Lincery failed with liabilities up to 780 000. Newcastle Washington public whipped for petty offenses. four deaths from heat stroke in New York. London small-pox toll rose to 1 247. President Gener Figio improving. U.S. mint estimates gold in circulation about 520 million. Tax Minister resigns in Chicago. crop reports favorable across the West. Yale workers wreck warehouse in British Columbia.
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Treasury Department
Washington
Chicago
Harriman
Tracey
Krobne
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Faber
Campana
London
United States
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Ohio
Licking Reservoir
Newark
Brice Stowe
John Lasch
Memphis
Tonn
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Rome
Cleveland
Isles
Springfield
I. J. B. Lincery
Boston
Hag
Newcastle
Del
New York City
GenrFigio
Tix
United States Mint
Tax Kallan
Chicago 7
Illinois Legislature Amid Quorum Gaps and Busy Bills
A Chicago styled session report details House and Senate actions with many bills, adjournment delays, and committee moves. Notable items include appropriations for the Deaf and Dumb Institute, levee repair funds, and a suppression of measures on butter grading and temperance.
Somnambulism Leads Clinton Girl to Nighttime Escape
A sixteen year old Clinton Mo girl named Somnambulism perils recounts a dramatic episode after a late night wandering. She slipped from her mother, crossed near a Bangor Pullman train and narrowly escaped injury. Found hours later asleep beside an ox cart, she was guided home with no harm.
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Clinton
Auguste
Bion
Bog
Charles Baker
Stout
Desperate Struggle With Mad Dog Attacks In City
A raging rabid dog attacked multiple victims in the northern city area. James N Supply owned two dogs kept in a rear yard. The animal bit a girl, then lunged at William Thompson who fired at it. Thompson fought the dog, was bitten in the neck and chest. The dog then mauled Eddie Simm and a boy Richmond Franklin before being killed by police gunfire.
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Willam Thompson
Mr. Thompson
Mary-land Avenue
Mia
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Biia
Sevcrety
Richand Franklin
Baltimore
Chicago Tribune
Clairvoyant Dream Leads to False Silver Mine Inquiries
Months ago a man at Indiantown Gap dreamed of silver ore at a mountain spot. A clairvoyant backed the tale, a midnight dig yielded gravel and a rock with mineral traces, and ten backwoodsmen formed a company to shaft the site. One miner, Kreser, died, and after deepening to eighty feet no valuable ore was found.
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Geance
Joe Ftaber
Fis Ife
Kreser
Thomas Job
Lebanon
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Sun
Official Etiquette and a Prince’s Tragic End in St Petersburg
A garbled account describes a wealthy prince who hanged himself in his study after a costly marriage. A servant and mistress reacted slowly while authorities were alerted, and the tale contrasts court etiquette with the prince’s fatal act. Walt Whitman is being dined and lionized in Boston.
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Prine
Queen Anne
Walt Whitman
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