Lawrence Current Comment Highlights Mixed Globe News
General Sheridan sets Society of the Army of the Cumberland meeting for October 24 and 25 in Cincinnati. Barnum acquitted of cruelty to children. he offers $200 weekly to Jenkins to tour the country. James Rosinsoy, 76, marries in Buffalo then flees to Canada with a bogus $100,000 check. Robinson arrested in Hamilton. Bigelow scandal with Mason case mocked at War Department. Hawaiian Chinese labor import plans unfold with Oceania carrying nearly 1,000 workers from Hong Kong. Wheat crop prospects vary: Ohio near 90 percent, Illinois damaged by frost and fly, Kentucky 20 percent below last year, and California counties amid rains show mixed results.
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Barnum
Elliott
Jenkins
The
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
James Rosinsoy
Buffalo
N. Y
Toronto
Canada
Dr. Stratton
Robinson
Hamilton
Ohio
Illinois
Kentucky
Inter County
California
Chicago
Carter H. Harrison
Toledo
Romeiri
Cincinnati
Superior Court
Board of Public Works
Board of Education
Cleveland
Farley
Dayton
Kansas City
Routt
Denver
Netion
Conger
Supreme Court of the
Territory of
Montana
Secretary of the Interior
Peter Cooper
New York
Cooper Institute
Abram &. Hewitt
Cooper
Walter O. Gresham
Indiana
Thurman
Columbus
Randall
Willard’s
Carlisle
Riggs
Cox
Riggs House
Swaim
Mason
Rhode Island
Bourn
Sprague
Fusion
Cutler
A. W. Sheldon
Maryland
Territory of Arizona
W. W. Hoover
A. d. Crawford
United States
Georgia
Longstreet
Nathan
Morse
Buei
New York Daily News
Jacksonville
Fla
Dublin
Parnell
Osborn
Rio de Janeiro
Margaret Shannon
Hartford
Conn
New York City
Secretary of State
Treasury Department
R. M. Daggett
Honolua
Honolulu
General Land Office
Surveyor General of
New Mexico
San Miguel
Bernalillo
SN. M
Cielnnati Cooperage Works
George Latt
William Huber
Wilam Carver
D. N. Cargill
Sparta
Wis
Ihis
Cooper County
Boonville
George Stevena
George Hillery
Controversy Over Fence Divides Calvary Cemetery in Memphis
Kerr estate representatives fence off forty of eighty acres at Calvary Cemetery over seven thousand dollar dispute dating to 1866. The fenced section holds twenty one Catholic priests who died in yellow fever periods and several prominent Memphis citizens. Fence lines split graves without consult. Bishop Feehan, now in Chicago, had sold the land.
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Memphis
Tenn
Kerr
Calvary Cemetery
Feehan
Chicago
Pirrasenee
Butler County
Ims
Willian Purvianeea
D. A. Renfrew
Forest’ Oil Company
Miss Dot Purviance
Board of Property At
Harrisburg
Forest Ol
Renfrew
Dyer
Oi! Company
Donaghy
Miss. Purviance
Butler
Renfrews
Miss Purviance
Miss Dot
Forest City Oil Company
Diamonds bypriests hoax at Vanderbilt masquerade
After a Vanderbilt mansion ball, workers hunted for supposed lost jewels. A man found a glittering object in the dining room but revealed only a glass piece tied to a walnut. A detective and informant chased a false treasure and vanished.
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Vanderbilt
New York
World Doings Local Elections and Public Affairs
The item surveys charter election results across cities including Chicago Toledo Cincinnati Cleveland and Dayton with Democrats winning mayoralties and several offices while Republicans pick others. It notes presidential decisions on judicial suspensions appointments and a mix of international and domestic political happenings along with notable incidents and incidents.
Irish Dynamite Policy Questioned by Davitt
Michael Davitt writes to the young Irish Society of Glasgow arguing that dynamite tricks only inflame English democracy and that patience for twenty years is wiser than actions that aid Ireland’s enemies.
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Michael Davitt
Young Irish Society of Glasgow
Ireland
San Francisco
Hotela
Barney Doye
West Union
W. Va
Dove
Jennie Patton
Edna Murphy
Lulu Hewett
Valatia
N. Y
Ohio
Conference Committee
Janes White
New York
Tennessee
England
South
Bristol
Salt Lake
White
Utah
Greeley
Cole
R. W. Hale & Co
H. B. Jackson
Union Bank
Masonic and
Odd Fellows
Sale of Otoe lands to proceed despite House inaction
Senator Van Wyck presses the Interior Department to order an immediate sale of the Otoe lands in Kansas and Nebraska, with appraisals ranging from four to ten dollars per acre. The May 1 sale date is anticipated as Secretary Teller seeks to protect all interests and enforce the land law.
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van Wyck
Interior Department
Kansas
Nebraska
House of Representatives
Senate
Telleris
General Land Ofice
Merrick
Department of Justice
C. B. Lawrence
Milnoise
Decatur
Tenn
Florida
Griswold Milla
Darby
James McGaher
McGahey’s
Washington
Henry Tobias
New York City
Europe
Hlm
Carr
Louisville
Hot Springs
Ark
Lincoln
Neb
Dalton
New Orleans
Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Philadelphia
Kansas State News Highlights Civil and Local Affairs
The report covers Kansas legislative changes on school fund interest rates, rail and land office data, county homestead land figures, and election results. It notes Arbor Day proclamation, post office changes, a school fire incident, historical society relics, and appointments to state commissions amid a broad update on regional conditions and infrastructure.
Terrorism in England sparks police raids and arrests
April 6 reports describe a Fenian nitroglycerine factory uncovered in Ledsam Street Ladywood with an apparatus for making explosives. Whitehead Irish American captured. authorities warn central explosives depot. Dynamite plotters arrested after a letter threat to government offices. Dozens of officials fortified, Lambeth and Birmingham raids yield multiple arrests and seized explosives.
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Ledsam Street
Ladywood
Ledlam Street
Whitehead
Whitehean
The
City Press
Irish Secret Service
Manchester
Fleet Street
Bow Street
Woolwich
America
Ministry
Windsor Case
Trish
Lambeth
Comnetion
London
Soutlamyptod Street
Sound
Ormund
Norman
Norma
Street Manor
Wilson
Nenu
Birmingham
Lausheth
Ditton
Westminster
Peter Cooper dies after long illness at 82
Peter Cooper of New York dies in his sleep at 3 a m aged 82 after a period of illness including a cold. Notables such as Samuel J. Tilden and General Webb attend, flags at half mast, and Cooper Union is praised as his lasting gift. Cooper's life covers early trades, glue and glass goods, Canton Iron Works, the Trenton Iron Works, and his public philanthropy.
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New York
Peter Cooper
Cooper
Abram
Hewitt
Alexander 5. Webb
Andrew J. Green
Mr. Cooper
Cooper Institute
Pennsylvania
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
Hancock
del Inonico
City of
Continental Army
New York City
Newburgh
N. Y
Kempstead
Long Island
Baltimore
Maryland
Canton Iron Works
America
Trenton
Atlantic Telegraph
Cooper Union
Stock Growers Association closes tenth annual session
Western Cheyenne April 11 stock growers report winter losses light and anticipate a strong next season with cattle shipments set to exceed prior years. Leaders estimate regional wealth at 100 million dollars and project assessments of 500 to 600 thousand within five years. Sessions focused on routine business and hopeful communication among top stockmen.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
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State Historical Society
David R. Atchison
Missouri
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Rawlins
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Manhattan
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Hanover
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