Treasury and Pension Office Reforms Spread Across Agencies
A Wisnincroy telegram notes resignations for twenty eight employees with a month’s pay. MorriLy revokes Becy J) Brie tow’s order placing Special Agenda under the Treasury Solicitor. A K Singer will oversee as Supervising Agent. Sixty five dismissals occur in the United States Treasurer’s office in Washington with expected department reductions within a week. The August public debt statement reports outstanding coins at 1,097,820,100 and total debt at 2,201,240,702 with cash in Treasury 106,068,762 and debt-less cash 2,095,181,040. a $3,119 decrease. Also, 124 clerks of 800 in the War Department and other Washington bureaus are discharged on the 2d.
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Buo'y
Tuxay
United States
Washington
Treasury
Mobs to Hang: Tamaqua Policeman Killers Sentenced
In Tamaqua Pa five prisoners Mol ly Mundy McGeheon Carroll Roarity and Boyle were sentenced to be hanged for the murder of a local policeman. The report also notes labor and political developments from New York and Connecticut, including party conventions and a brutal prize fight in Philadelphia with multiple arrests.
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Fivz
Molly
Maguiré
Mundy
McGeheon
Carrol
Roarity
Boyle
Tamaqua
Sprague Mills
Maine
Connecticut
Whch
New York Republican State Committee
Alonzo B Corne
New York City
Pennsylvania
Berks County
Ben Heister Clymor
Congress
Henry
Robinson
Artford
Leutenant
F. J. Kingsbury
F. A. Walker
Jeremiah Olney
El-Curtin
New York
Saratoga
Tilden and
Hendricks
St. Louis
Seymour
Horatio Seymour
Mesars
Cooper and Cary
Apeeches
Joss Pomeroy
Boston
Executive Council
Ma. Barorer
Frank Moulton
Beymour
Dorsheimer
Robert O. Earle
Court of Appeals
Darius A. Ogden
Robert H. Anderson
Utica
Pennsville
N.d
Philadelphia
James Weeden
Phillip Walker
Koster
Weeden
Walker
Weedon
Goodwin
New Jersey
Phiidelphia
Heaviest hat manufacturer in the United States fails
Yonkers based Jon Tv. Wanrxo and Cox, once the nation’s largest hat makers, faced heavy losses of about 400000. The firm employed 700 workers but closed operations in New York on the 8th. Cash figures and other market quotes follow, including Chicago wheat and pork prices, and Atlantic region cattle and hog rates.
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Jon Tv
Wanrxo & Cox
Yonkers
N. x
United States
Sasers
New York
Élos
Chicago
Milwaukee
Liberty
Bheep
Ito Quality
National Sportsmen's Association chooses officers in Chicago
The National Sportsmen's Association met in Chicago on the 20th to elect officers. Greant Smith of Peterboro New York was named president with John A Nichala of Syracuse recording secretary and T C Banks of New York City corresponding secretary.
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Ars
Chicago
National ‘Sportsmen's Association
Greant Smith
Peterboro
N. Y
John A. Nichala
Syracuse
T. C. ‘Banks
New York City
Lake Michigan
Frolic
Ing
Toronto
Canada
Thela
Frolfo
Des Moines
St. Louis
John Brubernuch
Wesley Jones
Wm. Grosneweg
Dayton
Cincinnati
Minton Sayuer
National House of Representatives
Ohio
New Orleans
David Faulk
Isaac Garrett
Monroe
Enamay Faulk
Garrett
Wimberley
Decatur
Tex
Clark's
Pony Express
Deadwood City
Sidney
Custer
Deadwood
Weaton Smith
Ike Brown
Polling
Mason
Custer City
James Kidd
Samuel Wallace
Jacob Wellly
Thompson
Jones
Standing Rock incident and market roundup of grains and livestock
Reports note a surreptitious removal of an agent at Standing Rock and a new appointee to replace Burke with orders to limit Indian communications. Market data show spring wheat No. 2 at 95 and rye No. 2 at 58 to 59 cents, cash pork about 15.55 to 15.60, hogs 5.40 to 6.15, cattle 2.75 to 3.25, sheep 3.85 to 4.50.
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Standing Rock
Sherman
Sheridan
Chauaior
Burke
Serape Pt Sees
Turbulent Foreign News and Turkish Crisis Deepens
Belgrade dispatches report agents pressed to halt hostilities as Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid is proclaimed in Constantinople amid mediation talks. Russian volunteers flood Servia while Danube navigation debated. London and Manchester trade failures ripple, with fires in Canada and bank collapses in England.
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Belgrade
Mth
Ars Granc Council of ‘Ministers
Abdul Hamid
Lorp-Brasexsparx
Karl Rusdell
Switzerland
Turkey
Bultan
Washington
Orinctay
Morava
Sevenaz
Cleveland
England
Bistult
Lyason
Portugal
ConstanTiNors
Tcheregan
Constantinople
Porte
Servia
Danube
Alexnatz
Tcheruay
St. Hyatinthe
Canada
Tax Manchester
Eng
Megera
Strabigg
Moscow
Russia
Englund
Fall Bonnet Trends From Harper's Bazar Fashion
Fabric shifts favor velvet and plush with capote crowns and high pointed tops. Cream green shades mix with myrtle and cardinal red in ribbons, feathers, and velvets. French bosquets use natural foliage for long lasting bonnets with bold feather crowns and beaded crown trims.
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France
Paris
Harper's Bazar
Tin Pan Prank Echoes Through Longmeadow House
A Longmeadow youth who stayed late on a Sunday evening faced a prank by cousins and neighbors. They rigged tin milk pans on stair stairs with a string trap to wake him, causing a dawn rattle as the pans fell from attic to cellar, earning him the nickname Tin Pan.
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Longmeadow
Mass
Avas
Goting
Garret
Illinois News: Postal Changes and Local Incidents in 1876
The week ending August 26, 1876 notes postmasters appointed at Blue Point Crab Orchard Long Creek Ridgeway Trumbull and other offices. It records a killing by poison then dagger in Jackson County Liprox Addie Dulinger’s death Bowman’s arrest, and a tax roll detailing personal property values and industrial classifications. It also reports miners seeking higher wages at Gartside and Mt Carbon, with coal orders and suspensions, plus internal revenue figures by district and a death in Moline by suicide.
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Dlinois
Ryar
Anderson Long Creek
Macon
Joseph B. Myers
Ridgeway
Gallatin
William T. Willig
Trumbull
White County
Liprox
Addie Dulinger
Bowman
Jackson County
Pian Aces
Bankera
National Bank
Seoeer
Gintis Horr
Moline
Charles H. Durham
Congress
Trg
Gartside
Murphysboro
Mt. Carbon
Carbondale Coal and Coke Company
Carterville
Briden
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Henry Republigan
War Department
Chicago Typographical Union
Morblng
Crook
Sitting Bull
Democrats
Colorado
Bela M. Hughes
Denver
Dr. Beshear
T. M. Patterson
Brigham Young
Ann Elisza
Sueridan
Col. Carlin
Llinois
Milneis
Bete Ate 'Senth
State Board of Equalization
Pereanal
Waukegan
Joux R. Willar
Jall
Minnie Young
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