Chicago Public and Tile Strike Commentary
The piece critiques public sympathy for strikers in Chicago and argues carriers must win public support to restore order. It links public opinion to effective governance, noting if the West Division Gas Co had public favor, Mayor Harrison could have quelled unrest quickly. The London and London-Turkey stories follow with foreign policy rumors on a Russia England clash and potential alliances, plus a note on the Egyptian question settlement plan.
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Strickers
West Division Car Company
Harrison
Chicago West Division Gas Company
New York Tribune
Busy 1881 News Snippets From Washington and Broadway
A collection of 19th century notes recounts President Garfield years after his assassination, Broadway bosses replaced by streetcars, and a praise for sleep and a cold wave device. It cites a Toyama fire destroying 5917 homes May 20, Grant’s quiet Fourth, Nellie Grant Sartoris and Ulysses, a Washington post office record, and debt reductions of 9 million in June and 63 million for the year, with future hopes to simplify telephone mysteries.
Vast Mormon conflict and book demand amid public notices
A telegraph from Salt Lake reports a great insult to the government by Mormon church leadership. Flags at half mast marked the Fourth amid near clashes between loyalists and polygamists. G A R and ex Confederates raised some flags, many stayed half-mast all day. Francis Murphy tours Mansfield borough with meetings drawing over two thousand. his speeches to workers sparked strong responses with over two hundred signers. Miss Cleveland's new book created a rush, publishers unable to meet demand, author herself lacking a copy. By week’s end publishers expect full supply to agents nationwide.
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Salt Lake
Miss Cleveland
Cleveland
Francis Murphy
Mansfield
Republican delegates meet in Harrisburg to decide State Treasurer nominee
Delegates gather in Harrisburg to select a State Treasurer candidate with no plan for multiple nominations. Malcolm Hay resigns as first Assistant Postmaster General, prompting a swap as Stevenson of Abnois appears to fill the vacancy. Pennsylvania loses a key post. Jenks appointment in the Interior cuts the state out.
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Malcom Hay
Etevenson
Abnois
Dpennsylvania
Jenks
General McCook on Indian lands and private leases
Gen McCook writes to Secretary Lamar accusing private parties of illegally occupying lands rented from Indians. He notes 3,832,520 acres held by a few men and firms and argues leases or sales require federal government authorization. Frogs swarm Eagle Pass Texas area, alarming locals.
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Gen. McCook
Lamar
Cabinet debate on treasurer authority to probe frauds
At a cabinet meeting last Tuesday the Secretary of the Treasury questioned his power to launch a wide ranging inquiry into houses sub-treasuries and related offices to stop frauds at the New Orleans sub-treasury. No conclusion was reached. President Cleveland told sulfige seekers that many applicants come from distant regions and waste time seeking offices while those who stay home and work get appointed.
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New Orleans
Cleveland
Imperial tastes and curious notices from distant shores
A compilation of notes on Maghind's national flower on a royal seal, coastal rainless zones from Tera to Chilian desert, Veringat marble output, a Blair Nebraska meteorite event, German immigration to an unnamed country, a Civil War letter delivery, Baltimore liquor piracy tactics, Cuban sign taxation tricks, a Brooklyn watch explosion from chlorate tablets, Princess Beatrice wedding cake description, Niagara Falls excursion by the Warren Hose Company, and New York side admission policy at the falls.
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Baltimore
Georgia
Cuba
Brooklyn
Niagara Hose Company, No. 2
Warren
Niagara Falls
State of
New York
Mrs. GilkinsonSues for Divorce Over Dead Son Box Allegation
Mrs. Elizabeth Gilkinson of Mansfield Ohio files divorce on peculiar grounds claiming her husband Gilkinson kept the remains of their dead son in a box beneath a bed and forced her to occupy that bed nightly for twenty years under threats to her life. She says noxious odors harmed her health and he refused medical aid during illness. Gilkinson is jailed on an assault charge from a recent incident.
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Elizabeth Gilkinson
Mansfield
Ohio
Gilkinson
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