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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1874
Page
2
A digest of post election and wartime dispatches covers the Reunion of the Army of the Tennessee at Springfield Illinois, the Chattanooga convention of Southern Republicans, Carlist uprisings in Spain, French council elections, and imperial moves in Europe. Reports include Osage killings inquiry, Texas and Indian Territory clashes, New Orleans election intimidation, and budgetary notes on currency and mint operations.
Dr. Linderman reports to the Secretary of the Treasury on the mint and assay offices for the year ending June 30. Gold deposits reached 63,861,505 and silver deposits 15,125,151 prior to deductions. After re deposits, gold stood at 40,142,511 and silver at 11,485,078. Gold and silver transfers from New York to Philadelphia totaled 21,817,787. Compared to the prior year gold operations rose by 8,924,105 with 2,680,761 more silver. Gold coinage advanced 15,108,852 and silver 8,087,085 while bars produced totaled 10,815,086.
A series of terse urban mishaps includes an assassination attempt on oil operator David Gray of Titusville Pennsylvania. He was wounded when a pistol shot pierced his breast as he walked with a lantern. Also injured, Westhampton Deacon William Edwards suffered a broken nose when a cant-hook iron shattered during log rolling. Mrs Theodore Read of New Haven fainted after a street scare from horse car wheels. In Mendon Michigan a young girl died after a stove fire started by a younger sister. Pittsburgh police stopped a four boy ambush of a barrel prisoner on the Monongahela wharf as they planned to light a fire around him.
A column of brief vignettes describes a grieving mother clinging to memories after a river disaster, a factory engineer's wife recounting a fatal cat strangling incident, a newspaper office incident over obituary charges, and a man claiming to smoke a cigar without emitting smoke.
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