Henry Wilson Denounces Sumner Assault In Senate
An 1852 incident shows Senator Charles Sumner being attacked in the Senate chamber by P L Brooks after a speech on slavery and crime. Henry Wilson learned of the assault, rushed to Sumner, and drafted a dueling-rejecting response to Brooks while condemning the violence as brutal and cowardly. The episode drew broad North-South reaction amid fears of further conflict.
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Phelps
Henry Wilson
Arkansas
Wilson
Capitol
Speaker Banks
Sumner
Senate
Washington
Foot
Nordensen
Panner
Brooks
General Lane
Father Burke on Catholic Expansion in America
A correspondent interviews Dominican friar Thomas Burke in the United States. He asserts the Roman Catholic Church will swallow all denominations soon and predicts monasteries and religious houses in nearly every American town, citing reliance on God and priestly purity to convert Protestants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Burke
Waite Bay
Fray Over Jesuits Expulsion Sparks Church War Fears
A friar criticizes the expulsion of Jesuits from Germany calling it a cowardly act of the nineteenth century. He warns it could trigger a bloody European war with church triumph and Protestant self-implication, before an interruption for Father Burke's stage appearance ends the interview.
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Germany
Europe
Father Burke
Trains Wrecked and Fatalities Reported Near Scranton
A Delaware Lackawanna and Western construction train derailed after striking a fallen boulder near Hampton crossing two miles from Scranton, plunging a caboose 190 feet into a creek. Several laborers died and many injured, with four possibly fatally hurt. A second accident on the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre line near the city caused one death and numerous injuries. Also included are unrelated items from New York and miscellaneous notes.
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Scranton
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Hampton Crossing
New ‘Hampton Crossing
John Clark
John McNally
Michael Kelly
James Hughes
John Hughes
James Garraghan
Thaimas Philbin
Debigh and Susquehanna
Scranton and
Wilkesbarre
Evans
Springbrook
James Reiley
Plymouth
Miss Grifith
Westchester County
Texas
Traverse City
Michigan
Pall Mall
London
Philadelphia
Plum Creek
Nebraska
Causes Set for Trial in December Term (1872 list)
A long list of cases set for trial in the December term includes Peck v Stadtmiller and numerous others across multiple dockets. The document enumerates cases like Hood et al v Lowman, Adams v Hood & Co, Reed v Cunningham, and many more, with a note of a second week and further names including McNeal v Ressler, Snyder’s Administrators v Smith, and Watterson v Hugh Gallaher among others, reflecting a broad civil docket.
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Adams
Adm
Hood & Co
Smith
Shields
Kerr
Watson
Campbell
Henderson
Potts
Wyncoop
Martin
Same
Wiley
Berlin
Miller
McAdoo
Foley
Green
Thompson
Buchanan
Patterson
Mitchell
Cunningham
Beckamire
Simpson
Reed
Fatewart
Conner
Earhart
Sweeney
Thoras
Downey
Richey
Riddale
Smitten
Penna. Insurance Co
Lowry
Nixon
Ramey
Sink
Wing
Oberlin
Warren
McGregor
Dotser
Bush
Lytle
McFarland
Conemaugh Jp
Ewing
Widdowson
Hank
Turner
Burns
Cupp
Burton
Lee
Hall
Keener
Benson
St. Clair
Buterbaugh
Johnston
Montgomery
Dixon
Gamble
Palmer
Carson
Va. Lang
Weamers
Weamer
Bracken
Herron
Stewart
Sutton
Bence
Henzley
Moorheau
George
Elkins
Travis
Connor
McCallister
Collins
Twp
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Indiana’ Progress
Gornem
Clymor Streets
Ndiana
Indiana County
R MM. Bireman
Eichter and Proprietor
Samuel A. Douglass
Indiana House
Ihetuna Pu
E Annibal KE. Sugan
South Crymer Street
Two Dogs
Public Buildings
Indiana
A. Wilson Taylor
Everett M. Moohhead
Taylor & Moorhead
Jodisns
Ofice
Detwile
Stewart & Clark
SS Inuaca
Offce
New Law
Cstradelpoie Street
McQuaide
Tasumpers & Co
GHN N. Banks
Aillce
TM. H. Allison
Oviama
Gwe
Court House
W.weja
J. K. Wilson
Weir & Wilson
Attorneys At Law
Crimed
Wilann
Waglern
Pice
South Sixth St
Abby White
A.C. Moyle
Hildebrand
Drug Store
Indiana, PA
Etiam
Inebarne
Wileon Sorris
Attorney At Law
South Third Street
Philadelphal
H.W. Weir
Gteson
Elliorneys
SIE Avends
Fettsbergh
Itylician
Kinter’s Bitel
Stew Ant
BB. KL. Aamison & CO
B. R. Jamtron
Philadelphta
Hr. Hargrave
Philadelpia Street
PENNA
iTunie
I. Hargrave
Chiron
Orphans’ Court of Indiana
Thomas Sharp
Alexander Scott
Hts
G. W. Hood
Prviara Ce
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Herlit
Jiang
Greening
Wm. T. Cochran
Marcel
Cochran
Sarah Jane Cochran
Court of Common Pleas
Indigny
T. Cochran
James A. Logan
John Lowey
Sarah Jang Cucuran
Wilson _and Brooks
the Tribune
New York
the Tribune To-Morrow
The
Tribune
Honack Greeley
Sap
Lake Mobopac
Stadtmiller
McCoy Stewart
Hood Et al
Lowman
Macon
Surreney
John B. Gordon
Alex H. Stephens
Georgia
First National Bank of
Béixter
Kansas
Kentucky
France
August Belmont
Prince Leopold
Indianapolis
Italy
England
Ann Arbor
Athens
Persia
Great Britain
Nebraska City
Missouri River
London Spectator
Portland
Salisbury
Sherman
Lochiel Rolling Mill Company
Harrisburg
St. Louis Times
M. Joigneray
Paris
New Orleans Picayune
Corcoran
Brazon
the Home Journal of
Fred. D. Grant
Grant
Misa Wright
General Wright
United State Army
Springfield
San Francisco
Alaska
Franklin B. Evans
Northwood
N. H
Georgiapna Lovering
Norway
Lucy Filmer
Nashville
Tenn
A. J. Duniway
New Northwest
Legislative Hall
Sslemn
Oregon
Sallie Shannon
Grand Duke
Alexis
St. Louis
Islington
Boston
Marseilles
Irma Gras
Rochester
Hester Petherick
Bristol
George Washington
Abe
Hersie Eart
Chatham
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