National Board of Trade agreed at Boston convention
Reports from Boston indicate the National Commercial Convention agrees to establish a National Board of Trade. Other items note judiciary charges against Justice Field and the American Skating Convention at Pittsburg with Frank Swift winning the championship medal. A Montreal coal yard accident buries a man, and Quebec parishes contribute thirty thousand dollars to Canadian Zouages.
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Boston
National Board of Trade
House Committee On Judiciary
Justice Field
Tittsburg
Frank Swift
New York
Montreal
Quebec
Senate and House Pass Bills in Early February Session
The Senate addressed sundry petitions and advanced bills including pre emptions on Great Miami river lands and a uniform bankruptcy act. Amendments to the tenure of office bill were made and then passed, with Sherman signaling a funding bill next Thursday. The Senate adjourned to Monday. The House approved a bridge and post route for the Southern Minnesota Railroad, and Price reported bills restoring lands to market and funding Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Jamb. Pension bills for soldiers and widows moved forward amid committee activity and seating drawings. The House began committee of the whole on the state of the Union and the appropriation bill for public moneys.
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Great Miami River
Patterson
Sherman
Southern Minnesota Railroad Company
Mississippi River
Housr
Price
Pacific Railroad
Butler
Washington
Cleveland
New York
Michigan
Northern Pacific Railroad
Meerd
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Miami River
Ferry
Judiciary Committee
New Hampshire
Cameron
Secretary of State
Stuart
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Henderson
Howard
Harlan
Iowa
Dakota
Montana
Hendricks
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Indian Affairs
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Stanton
Buckalew
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Globe
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Garfield
Warren
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McClurg
Southern Railroads
Chanay
Society of the Army of the Cumberland Meets in Cincinnati
The Cincinnati gathering of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland included a morning chamber of commerce visit and an open Mozart Hall meeting with Major General R. W. Johnson delivering an/history of the army while Generals Sherman and Thomas spoke briefly. The organization was completed with O O Howard named vice president and John L. Martin as Kansas representative. The Burnet House banquet was praised and the next meeting set for Chicago on December 15.
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Army of the Cumberland
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Thomas
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Pacific Railroad survey fight with Indians near Bull Springs
San Francisco reports a clash during the Pacific Railroad survey near Bull Springs where the Indian chief was wounded and sixteen Indians were killed as troops were repulsed. Colonel Price sent reinforcements but Indians retreated or killed their stock. Over one hundred men are lost in the mines near Williams Ford amid rich lodes.
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Bull Springs
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London Standard Compliments Minister Adams and Abyssinian Reports
The London Standard says US Minister Adams will resign and notes editorials regretting his departure. Reports from Abyssinia are discouraging, indicating no safe progress this season. Berlin announces start of negotiations for a US North German commercial treaty with prospects of swift conclusion. Financial, cotton, and commodity markets in London, Liverpool, Paris, and Antwerp show mixed activity and firmer tones.
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Antwerp
Petroleum
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Englaba
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AntTwerp
Bitter debate over penitentiary bill minority report
LitTle Rock on Friday February 7 witnessed a long bitter discussion on the minority report of yesterday's penitentiary bill. Mr White and Mr Mason colored spoke as Mr Brooks contended the report unjust and Mr Watte denied it. Gault warned of an attempt to squash it. two respectable colored members could reveal truths not in the majority. The report was made the special order for next Tuesday.
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White
Mason
Brooks
Watte
Gault
Convention adopts executive term and residence rules
In Atlans Friday session the executive department report was adopted as is, setting a four year term and ten years state residence. The franchise committee proposal to require twelve months residence was amended to thirty days in the county, and a death notice for C C Richardson was approved. First females departed for Maine this evening.
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C.C. Richardson
Maine
Convention approves report on removal of disabilities policy
Friday February 7 Rawereen notes the convention adopting a report to apply to Congress for removing disabilities of supporters of the reconstruction policy. Resolutions by Mr Durham to bar illiterate persons from Governor or other executive offices were defeated.
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Rawereen
Congress
Durham
Richmond Convention Debates Ballot for State Offices
In Richmond on Friday February 7 the substitute to require popular vote for Secretary of State Treasurer and Auditor failed. A section allowing Legislature to fill those offices was adopted. In Circuit Court the judge ruled the attachments of Claflin & Co. of New York against Steinberk & Co. not made on sufficient cause and should be abated. The Republican State Convention set for February 15.
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Claflin & Co
New York
Steinberk & Co
Destitution Relief and Tax Poll Action At Jackson
A committee in Jackson on February 7 presented a headquarters response declining a request to general sales prohibition by officers and trustees except wages on plantations and labor. A supplementary report on destitution adopted a poll tax appropriation of 1467 for temporary relief and a resolution set per diem payments for members after a forty five day session.
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Jackson
Gillem
Florida Convention Session Sees Majority Defy Minority
In Tallahassee on Friday February 7 the convention votes split with the majority, including four Negroes and twenty-one whites, resisting admission of British subjects or new residents. The minority, twenty-one, includes foreigners and non residents. the President and eligibility chair are in the minority and insist foreigners and non residents are eligible.
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Convention
Committee On
Major Fire Destroys Norfolk Buildings
From Fortress Monroe reports a large afternoon fire in Norfolk destroyed eight brick and one frame building. The Journal office telegraph office eight business rooms including a liquor store merchants exchange reading rooms and multiple offices burned. Loss exceeds 100000 with partial insurance coverage.
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Fortress
Mayror
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J. T. Jones
R. Smith
F. F. Ferguson
W. G. Wells
Feat in Telegraphing Reported by Milwaukegsg Office
E M Sharp of the Western Union Telegraph office sent twenty six hundred thirty one words to sixty minutes which was legibly copied by Edward Curry of St Paul Minnesota and handed to the printers.
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Western Union Telegraph Office
Edward Curry
St. Paul
Minnesota
Congress Deliberates Land Settlements and Seat Draws
The House discusses a Pacific Railroad bill restoring even number sections to homesteads and offers Interior restoration. departures include Wisconsin harbor funds and pensions. A privileged seat-drawing dispute prompts debate, while Judiciary Committee clarifications address a Times article and testimony. House then debates congressional employe pay and packing funds.
New British Minister Presented Public Debt Statement
Washington reports the arrival of Mr. Thornton, a new British minister, who met the President as the public debt statement for February 1 was released. Debt totals show 2.45 billion, with cash in treasury and warrants issued for January. Also noted are debates in the Supreme Court over the McArdle case, a push for a National Convention representing U.S. production interests, and postal route changes due to mall failures along Lynchburg and Knoxville.
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Inmai MeVennee
Meardie Catien
United
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Sullivan Washington
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United States
Sharkey
Supreme Court of the United States
McArdle
Trumbull
Cincinnati
National
Chear Freight Railway League
Department
Battle Fought at Merida Revolutionists Defeated
Havana reports a battle on the instant at Merida where government troops defeated revolutionaries. Rebel leader Vala Fany was killed, many adherents surrendered, others escaped to mountains. some officers fled by steamer Oriental. Mexican expedition commander Alatone holds Sisal and Merida.
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Jaurez
Yucatan
Federico
Ostensidley
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Train wreck on Erie line kills man in Brooklyn
An accident on the Erie Railway stock express on Wednesday night tipped the train from the track and set it on fire. Thomas Reardon of Brooklyn was burnt to death andThomas Fitzgibbons sustained severe burns. The incident occurred Friday in Binghampton area.
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Erie Rillway
Bou
Thomas Reardon
Brooklyn
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Remains Found in Cotton Bale Near Bluff City Shed
Memphis witnesses a grisly discovery as portions of a deceased negro woman are found in a cotton bale stored for two years at Bluff City shed. A coroner’s verdict cites death by exposure and want. In a separate incident, a three year old girl is abducted by a negro woman on Jefferson street with police clues lacking.
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Virginia
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Raleigh
Wolf’s River
Bluff City
John Alston
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Riot at Fayetteville Leaves Man Dead in Street Clash
A riot erupted in Fayetteville on Monday when a drunken man rode into a crowd and challenged any taker. A young man named Pamphlan was killed and several others were wounded in the violence reported from Nashville with Friday notes.
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Nashville
Pamphlan
Prentice Proposes Workhouse Vagrancy for Southern Delegates
Prentice urges that the imprudent members of the Southern conventions be sent to the workhouse as vagrants without visible means of support, signaling a harsh stance on perceived disorder among attendees.
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