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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Nov 20, 1879

Page

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Numerous Global Dispatches Mention Shifting Powers

The year saw 553 Post Office offenders arrested. The Faraday landed the French cable at North Eastham. Cuban unrest provokes appeals for troops. Forty nine Afghans hanged for legation massacre. Archduchess Marie Christine renounces Austrian succession. Grant to visit Harrisburg on December 15. Constan tinople press ban ordered against England. France fortifies Belgian frontier provoking Brussels unease. Evarts offers John Hay as First Assistant Secretary of State. New York port arrivals reach 820 ships in a week. Venezuela joins Universal Postal Union effective January 1. St Louis sails from Liverpool to New Orleans with Texas bound passengers. Sultan reforms agreed for Europe and Asia Minor and Dardanelles forts reequipped. Czar honors Count Schouynlolf. Beaman declines US Senate appointment. Baldwin named. Irish Local Government Board notes crop distress and rising pauperism. DC school board debate on women serving. New York telegraph results favor Republicans. Cornell leads in governor race. Grant hosts Army of the Tennessee banquet with notable speakers. St Petersburg editors briefed on Imperial policy. Army of the Tennessee elects officers. Army of the Potomac forms permanent society.

Postmaster Kay Orders Crackdown On Lottery Frauds

Washington dispatch notes Kay concludes lottery firms commit fraud and issues special postmaster orders to block payments and deliveries to named lottery figures. Mail to known detitive names goes to the Dead Letter Office. In Chicago Grant reception draws vast crowds as Sheridan and Sherman speak at Tav erly's Theater and Palmer House celebration.

Washington Kay Chicago General Grant Ollock P Galena Sheridan Palmer House Harrison Grant Society of the Army of the Tennessee Taverly Cullom Sherman Gresham Oglesby Mark Twain

Ecclesiastical authority limits in excommunication dispute

A Springfield Superior Court case involved Joseph Parker of Holyoke suing a French Catholic priest for 10000 dollars, claiming excommunication damaged his livery business. The judge ruled ecclesiastical power cannot bar a business beyond excommunication. the jury awarded Parker 3438 dollars for undue interference.

Springfield Mass Joseph Parker Holyoke Parker Memphis Tenn Margaret Myers James Adame Lancaster County D. C Candelaria Mountain el Paso Texas Chihuahua Mexico Cariza N. M New Orleans Edward GC. Palmer Louisiana Savings Bank Grand Bucharest Moldavia Bosnia Boston Cincinnati Ireland Lord Beaconsfield Great Britain Vienna Austria Zagbian Balkan Novi-Bazar Sergia Montenegro Bulgaria Servia Paterson N.dj United States Charles H. Voorhis Congress New Jersey First National Bank of Hackensack Bower de Groat Constantinople Porte Russia Turkey Shortheath Wolverhampton Eng General Hatch Indian Peace Commission Los Pinos Agency Adams Jack

Surrender Refusals, Executions, and World News Highlights

Reports state Jack refused Agency meetings and was accused of aiding hostiles in the Thornburgh fleet. Prince Alamyn of Abyssinia died in Leeda England after a life of exile and education in Britain. Irish National Convention committes plan to rebuild the Irish House of Commons. Fatal fire in New York injures Mary Babiski. a family perishes. Executions occur in Lebanon and Cooperstown.

Jack Thornburgh Ouray Ttth Prince Alamyn Theodore Abyssinia England Magdala Leeda Hth Irish National Convention Dublin Ivish House of Commonion O'Connells Canon Street New York City Mary Babiski Joseph Botarkie Aiso Chilldren Charles Drews Franklin Stishler Lebanon Joseph Raber Indiantown Gap Myron A. Buall Cooperstown May Richards Buell Floudiah Criine Porte Constantinople Turkey London Iia C. G. Broad Lake Fiie Saginaw Mich Afghanistan Viemma White River Agency Douglass Dobson Albert Gilbert New York Custom House Washinton Frederick Snyder Hungary Montenegro Bresovitan

Dead Letter Office reports large year totals and envelopes with return request

The Dead Letter Office records 2 996 518 letters received in the last fiscal year a drop from the prior year. Envelopes printed to return if not called for aid the decline. Test in May shows 354 696 letters mailed with 193 879 bearing return requests. Substantial sums and items found in dead letters include money drafts stamps photographs and various papers. A lamp fire accident near St. Louis injures Lewis Kline. Whittier replies to an Ireland tenant farmers invite with support for the laboring poor.

Washington K W. Dallas Post Office Department Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Whittier Ireland

Thanksgiving Proclamation and Iowa Senate List Published

The document prints a Thanksgiving Proclamation by Governor Joan Th. Chan praising gratitude and urging public thanks on November 27. It also lists a large roster of Representatives elect to the General Assembly with district assignments and local names across Iowa counties and cities.

Wouldn't Bet On a Sure Thing

At Randolph street a saloon keeper serves a stranger who claims con founded scruples prevent him from deceit. The visitor riffs on luck and honesty, recounting a bluff about six panes per window at the Board of Trade as the tale unfolds in a small town setting.

Detroit Ree Press Randolph Street Apollo Board of Trade

Mint Director reports US bullion and coinage for year

Horatio C. Burchard, Director of the Mint, submits to the Secretary of the Treasury the year ending June 30 1870 figures. Gold and silver deposits total 71,179,664 with 58,640,706 gold and 26,934,728 silver domestically produced. coinage includes 2,759,421 gold pieces and 27,228,850 silver pieces. notes a shift toward smaller gold coins and a silver dollar predominance in silver coinage. The report closes with a policy claim favoring balanced metal values and national strength through production and commerce.

Wannington Horatio C. Burchard Secretary of the Treasury United States Wold New York San Francisco

Terrible Death of a Farmer Near O Fallon

Emile Haury of a farm near O Fallon and west of Troy died after a mule kick and dragging incident while he unhooked from a plow and rode the animal. He suffered severe injuries and died about an hour after being found and brought to his house by relatives and a helper. The report is from the St. Louis Republican. There is a note that three hundred young Americans study art in Paris.

Emile Haury O'Fallon Troy Haury Harry Mr. Haury St. Louis

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