Comets and Clock Stars Delay New Discovery
The article notes four comets reported in three months with only one seen. a new comet, linked to the 112 comet by Prof Swift, awaits confirmation as Washington’s National Observatory crowd focuses on clock-star timings. Predictions vary. a year’s difference is common due to observation errors and perturbing forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
New York
National Observatory
Washington
United States
Swift
Enck
Scott County Teachers Institute Presented Across Davenport
The Scott County Teachers Institute conducted in Davenport features eminent instructors led by Dr. Gregory, organizer and former president of Illinois Industrial University. Over 150 teachers enrolled, including Rock Island county participants crossing the river for educational advantages. The piece urges county action by the Board of Supervisors to empower the County Superintendent and raise teaching standards.
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Davenport
Scott County
Gregory
Illinois Industrial University
Ciel
Rock Island
Board of Supervisors
Seome
Wisconsin Greenback candidate wins vote tally
Wisconsin 1877 Greenback gubernatorial candidate gathered 26 000 votes out of 10 000. Cal May also received 13 votes. The piece notes reformers and elections, rail troubles in Iowa, labor strife in Peoria, army worm outbreaks in Will county and La Salle, and a Denver to Pueblo railroad project. It mentions a St Louis firm repurposing ships and the Keokuk Northern Line sale. Also US cotton and wheat condition reports, and a New Haven hog raiser directory.
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Wisconsin
Thsny
Cal
May
Allis
Will
la Salle
Knox
Warren
Crops Shortages Reported Across Four States
Official July estimates from Ohio Illinois Michigan and Iowa boards of agriculture show big deficits versus 1880. Ohio 12,000,000 bushels Illinois 37,000,000 Michigan 145,000,000 Iowa 17,000,000 bushels total shortfall 0,500,000 bushels.
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Ohio
Boards of Agriculture of
Illinois
Michigan
Iowa
Chamberlain
Ohio Board
Desperate Criminal Hanged After Escape Attempt
Willis Reeves a 20 year old colored boy was hanged today in Van Buren for the street murder of a boy. On the gallows he declared he was no religious n**** and sang a song about his girl. A struggle toppled the Sheriff through the trap but Reeves was recaptured and the execution completed.
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Littré Rack
Willis Reeves
van Buren
Army of the Cumberland members laud Sheridan in resolutions
At a July 1 meeting at General Sheridan's residence, resident Army of the Cumberland members unanimously congratulated General Grant and President Lincoln on Sheridan's recovery. They extended sympathy and respect to his family and comrades, hoping a few weeks at a villa restore him to health and vigor. Sheridan was asked to send the resolutions to the President and family.
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Army of the Cumberland
Sheridan
Garfield
Ring of the Cumberland
Order of the District Attorney as to Guiteau
The District Attorney directs the confinement of Charles Guiteau in a secure jail cell with no contact with other prisoners or guards and no communications except those from or directed by Corkhill. The note to the warden requests strict enforcement and isolation and specifies delivery of prisoner letters to Corkhill.
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Wasiisotos
Hottles
Corkhil
J.S. Crocker
United States
Ste
Chas. Gulteau
Pétion
Geo. B. Corkhill
Guiteau
Almger
Corkhill
National Capital Miscellany Reports Cattle Quarantine and Travel Notes
A Treasury circular orders collectors of customs to quarantine neat cattle from infected countries. Dr E M Thayer is sent to Nova Scotia to probe a report of dangerous cattle disease at Jali fax. Journalists may import certain books free of duty for libraries under trade tools clause.
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Washincton
E.M .Thayer
Treasury Cattle Commission
Nova Scotia
Jalifax
Treasury Department
Summer Trotting Meet Opens at Chicago Driving Park
Splendid Racing at Chicago Driving Park on July 19 features a large crowd and fine track. So-So wins the first race in 2:19 with a $2,500 purse plus $500 time bonus. Piedmont takes the free for all stallions race in 2.174. Little Brown Jug captures the pace pacers race with a 3.124 heat as the event informs attendees of notable performances.
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Chicago Driving Park
Piedmont
Little Brown Jug
Talbotts to be Hanged in Nodaway County
Sheriff Tod reports Governor Crittenden has ordered execution of the Talbott brothers in Nodaway County. The sentence, postponed from June, will be carried out Friday with no further intervention expected.
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Talbotts
Council Burra
Maryville, Mo
Tod
Nodaway County
Crittenden
Talbott
Gato
Texas Dispatch Summary Reflects Public Condemnation
A fragmented telegram to Governor Foster notes broad citizen and press condemnation of an unnamed action by Roberts. The message discusses observance of a day in many states and calls for recovery, signed by numerous citizens.
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CoL_uMBus
Foster
Daas
Mapuly
Aepiol Roberts
Wound Healing Progress Report of Stationary Patient
Doctors note gradual improvement in a patient confined to bed with a severe wound. Suppuration remains, but discharge is healthy and the wound shows granulation tissue. Lacerated tissues are nearly gone and fever subsides as recovery nears.
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Stacey
President to plan August trip with family aboard
A July bulletin notes a force at work building a U S trip for the President once he is well. By early August the President and his family are expected to embark, with plans for a swinging bank to allow resting independently of vessel pitch.
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U. S
Further Evidence of South Carolina Obedience to Law
Telegram from Washington cites Green Raum report. Deputy Brayton and four men moved to destroy an illicit distillery near Central Pickens county. Brayton and two others were shot at. Brayton killed. A desultory fire followed with McDow and a heavily armed Negro resisting arrest near Central along the Ath Line road.
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Washingon
Treasury Department
Greenvile
S. C
Green J. Raum
Internal Revenue
Washington
Bray Fon
Central
Pickens County
Brayton
John McDow
McDow
Bratton
y.McDow
Great Central Now
Ath Line
Fatal Boiler Explosion Near Mallaretty
A portable saw mill boiler exploded near Watertown Ohio due to water shortage. Victims include lerm Brockway Eugene Barclay who were instantly killed Isaac Johnson who died later and Robert Alexander along with William Coons seriously injured awaiting further reports.
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Cincinnati
Watertown
Mallaretty
Lerm Brockway
Eugene Barclay
Isaac Johnson
Robert Alexander
William Coons
The President's Condition Satisfactory in July Dispatches
Special to the Dispatch reports from Constantinople that Midhat Pasha cannot see his family before execution. New York notes labor demand by the Labor Bureau far exceeds supply amid heavy immigration. London reports a banquet to honor Gladstone and his cabinet at Crystal Palace. Washington dispatches say the President improves rapidly and remains satisfactorily well.
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Constantinople
Midhat Pasha
the Dispatch
New York
Labor Bureau
Gladstone
Lonpos
Cristal Palace
Poly
Jing
Ces Ndree
Cutavo
Washington
School of Whales Reported Off Pimlico
The Captain of the bark from Pensacola reports passing a school of 700 sperm whales on Sunday last off Pimlico during a voyage from Pensacola to New York.
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Dispatch
New York
Bis
Pensacola
Fla
Pimlico
Joint convention in session at ALMANY on ballot for successors
The ALMANY convention met for a short fifteen minutes to ballot for successors to Conkling. The ballot showed no change and three heats in the pacing race were won by Little Brown at Chicago Driving Park. Timberlake of Missouri returned empty handed from a search for bandits who captured the Rocky Island train amid ongoing railroad rate debates between New York and Chicago. The New York bill on vacancies in Congress appears likely to pass with Senate approval anticipated.
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Almany
Conkling
Little Brown
Chicago Driving Park
Sugrirf Timberlake
Clay County
Missouri
Rocky Island
Des Moines
Iowa
Levi P. Mlorton
France
New York
Potter Plow Co
Monmouth
Atlanta
Squitt
Amon
John Eaton
Stanton
Phillips
Butler
Ship Island
New Orleans
Strike Ends as 40000 Nail Factory Workers Win Wage Rise
Tax strike of Staffgrdehité England nail factories ends with employers granting 30 percent wage increases. Cleveland England furnace-men strike also ends. Grand Jury in District of Columbia discharged, all Star route cases adjourned to October. This opens chance to build testimony for alleged wrongdoers.
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Eng
Cleveland
England
District of Columbia
Death of Dean Stanley at age sixty six noted
The Dispatch reports the death of the late Dean Stanley aged 66. He was among the most eminent scholars and theologians of the Church of England.
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Dean Stanley
Telegraph
Church of England
Vast World News Buzzes From London to Ohio
The dispatches report heat waves in London and Paris halting street sprinkling. a German cable line to the United States via Valencia. Iron Workers in Cleveland face 24 percent wage cuts putting 4000 men out of work. New York to Chicago tickets drop to 10 dollars. sailors, trains, and disasters across the nation include deaths by lightning, fires, drownings, and a gun violence incident in Dubuque. rail and telegraph rate cuts ripple through.
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London
Paris
Germany
Unite States
Valencia
Cleveland
England
New York
Chicago
Weaver
Boss Greenbacker
Lincoln
Neb
Great West
Brooklyn
Great Britain
France
Newark
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Bismarck
Glendivé
Montana Territory
St. Paul
Missouri
Adilina Patti
America
Dodge & Son
Lancaster
Penn
Iowa State Penitentiary
Anamosa
Pierre Lorillard
Pittston
Clark
Forepaugh
Dubuque
Russia
Hungary
Cincinnati
Rome
Prohibitionists
Ohio
A. R. Lidlew
J. McVeigh
Levi Mills
Illinois Press Association
Pennsylvania
Garfield Memorial Fund
Reland
Various World News Notes and Market Items
A collage of brief items reports European weather and politics, an American minister’s travel, a marriage tied to a former secretary, a Russia Russia case on a condemned girl, Berlin palace candles, Garibaldi pension, comet astronomy, railway fare cuts, July Fourth events for Grant’s family, and a quip about patents versus comets.
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Hessy Helfmann
Russia
Imperial Palace
Berlin
Garibaldi
Humbert
Caprera
Swift
Brazil
Europe
Don Pedro
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Teacher’s Institute
E. P. Allis
R&th
Peoria
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Atchison, Tooka and Sante Fe
Keokuk Northern Ling Packet Co
United States Bureau of Agriculte
Ubtry
H. P. Huspagn
New Haven
E.world
Jou W. Bookwaurer
Springfield
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Guitean
N. Dentut
Minn
Texas
South Carolina
Albany
New York York
Madrid
General Grant
Nellie
Sartoris
Fred
Dr. Warner
Warner
Geo. R. Hill
Otce Witt
Onworthy’& Beardsley
Rock Inland
Ilinois
Morcan Park Military Academy
Seasion
ED N. Kirk Talcott
Mores Hark
Cook County
Racine
Collece
Stevens Parker
Racine College
Racine, Wis
Dixon
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A. M. Hubbard
St Ee
Cian Anteed
Beymer & Co
Reimer Reimers
Lynde
Base
Motine
McGraw Ivery
Armory Building
Lynde Street
Wm. H. Gaylord
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Abid
Henry [Larwood
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Oline
E. L. Cook
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Bellateeta
Geult
Levi F. Cralle
Madison Street
C. RB. I & P Railroad
Harwood's
A. A. Frelendor
Henry Street
Jacob Altz
Ae Dresser
T. Keen Razor
Motine National K
John C. Moore & Co. Ells
Ceaters
Halliday
Cemetery Road
Moline
John O'Neill
Henry Qoun Coal Mines
Teer Briar Bluff
Lake Forest University
Preei D
Grecorr
Lake Forest
Feve
Moline Savings Bank
Moline, Ill
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da Atod
H W Wheflock
Joln Good
John Good
Porter Hkimer
Nelson Cheater
H W. Candee
Wright
Moline National Bank
Rodman Avenue
Rock Inland County
N. P. Bergstrom
City Undertaker
New
Meline
W. H. Devore
Banbrer
Port Byron, Illinois
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Mitchell & Lynde
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Wie
National Bank of Commerce
Union Bank of Philadelphia
P. Allen
Copp & Nesbit
Louls
H. L. Franing
Milan
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