Maine conspiracy defeat boosts Republican cause and liberty
The Maine settlement ends a bold fraud aimed at denying voters their victory, with Republicans credited for timely action and public-liberty protection. The piece argues the outcome discourages future conspiracies, cites Democratic party reactions, and notes broader national impacts on trust in government.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Epithets of the Week Span Vatican, Congo, and Rome Edicts
A compilation notes the Aurora not Vatican but Jesuit linked. Stanley's expedition sets up a Belgian Congo trading station near Tallula. Pope McCloskey reception in New York. famine in Mosul drives children to sell by 22nd. Further items include Ireland relief, Ute negotiations, and U S railroad consolidation forming Union Pacific Railway Company with Sidney Dillon as president.
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Congress
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Geddes Myers
McMillan
Harmer
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Thomas
Horr
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Cox
Ongoing international tensions and domestic unrest reported
Dispatches describe Afghanistans rising threat from Mohommed Jan and a 40000 strong native assembly aimed at British expulsion. Nihilist activity undermines Odessa with subterranean probes. US politics note President withdraws Census Supervisor nomination. Maine fusion turmoil prompts militia deployment as Maine Senate probes finances. Parnell addresses Buffalo on Irish nationhood.
Arctic Cold Brings Distress in Ireland and Diplomatic Moves
A Dosw telegram notes an Arctic wave across Ireland with severe west coast destitution and widespread suffering. The Duke of Marlborough refused Dublin’s Lord Mayor banquet invitation on February 8 after Home Rule talks, with the event canceled and 500 pounds redirected to relief. A Turkish British accord seeks to curb the slave trade, and Senate nominations were confirmed for Lowell, Foster, Fairfield, and Morgan as ministers to England, Russia, Spain and Mexico.
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Dublin
Austen Layard
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John W. Foster
Lucius Faifrchild
Phillip H. Morgan
United States
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Russia
Spain
Mexico
Morrill
Fusion and Education Bills Stir Senate Action
The Senate discussed a bill to form a National Education Association to study any educational topic when called by the government and report without compensation, with the measure placed on the calendar. House actions included proposals by Valentine Springer Manning on commissions, election law amendments, and a plan to raise Supreme Court staffing to twenty one justices. A steamboat Charmer on the Mississippi River, loaded with cotton, burned, killing several crew members.
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National Educatonal Association
House
Valentine
Springer
Manning
United States Supreme Court
Norume
Maine
Supreme Court
Bangor
Davis
Missivnippi
Loursiana
Senate and Iowa news items from January meetings
January events cover Senate debates on free article imports for exhibition in Cincinnati, the animal cruelty in transport bill, and committee re committals. Also House actions on banking, Ireland aid, woman suffrage language, and Porter's relief. Iowa census supervisors named, local tragedies, and early 1880s finance, temperance, and newspaper moves.
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Cincinnati
Committee On Commerce
Paddoce
Washington Territory
Messra
Jacob V. Ademeyer
George 'K'. Anthony
Ingalls
Lyon
Culberson
Texas
Bills
Ireland
Me. Loring
United States
Warner
Ohio
Committee On
Electric Stove Scares Valley View Station Natives
A Far West Valley View Station tale recalls a kitchen shock as a windmill powered current reportedly travels via a stove pipe. Mrs Curtis and others suffer minor surprises while wood fumes and wind influence spark energy readings. The scene ends with safe removal of cookware after gloves are worn.
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Charley Palmer
Condense
Curtis
Mr. Curtis
Tribune
State Legislature Debates Bills on Taxes and Officials
The Senate and House discuss bills to curb gambling, modify school fund interest, create a state entomologist, reduce county officer duties, cap home stand values, regulate medicines, mortgage provisions, property assessments, and public works funding. Committees announced. various measures pass or fail including tax relief, jail and courthouse costs, and infrastructure protections.
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Hewadpore
Ces
Sammy and Tommy Adorn a Storied Political Tale
A reflective column compares Sammy Tilden and Tommy Hendricks as rising Democrats who aspired to the presidency and faced defeat. The piece envisions future historians framing their careers with dramatic scenes including a New York mob and a Shelbyville background as symbolic contrasts.
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Tommy Hendricks
Macaulay
Sammy
New York
Tommy
Shelbyville
Sammy and Tommy ruined by bad associations in Hendricks plot
The Indianapolis Journal recounts how Sammy Tilden and Tommy Hendricks failed in their aims, blamed on bad advisers and a destructive Hendricks Club. It portrays Sammy as guileless and selfless, victim to others, while Tommy is shown as balanced yet undone by circumstances and the club.
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Sammy
Inn
White House
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Tommy Hendricks
Frank
Tommy Poss
Quinliiga
Tommy
Air Ounstances
Jnelfanapolis Journal
Exoduses of Colored Laborers From the South Probed
The article discusses mass movements of Black workers from Mississippi and Louisiana to Kansas and the West. It notes governors report six thousand refugees absorbed in Kansas, claims on emancipation and rights, and contrasts Republican Kansas with Democratic Mississippi. It cites the push factors of freedom and legal equality driving emigration.
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R. L. Gibson
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South
Jackson
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Population contrasts Kansas and Mississippi in MFL Times
The article contrasts Kansas population growth and wealth with Mississippi decline, blaming Mississippi's people and leadership for repulsion of immigration and social decay. It argues reforms will restore prosperity and curb outmigration, urging improved rights, labor, and religious life.
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Production of precious metals and population notes in old report
A lengthy 19th century compilation cites West Varainia with 442,014 population and $1,490 in value per person, alongside estimates of regional metal production and iron ore output. It discusses factory furnaces in France and Italy, labor statistics, and utilities data, including water flow metrics and mining terms such as miners inch and tailings.
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