Posey and Gibson Counties News Digest Highlights
Local notes from Posey and Gibson counties report western Kentucky stock scouting by county clerk George W. Curtis, large wheat yields in Mt. Vernon area, a big barn built by Val Fisher, and a Wabash Station disguise arrest. Other items cover wind damage in Cynthiana, temperance canvassing, county conventions and delegate races, plus railway and farm statistics across nearby townships and towns.
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Wadesville
George W. Curtis
Kentucky
Mt. Vernon
Henry Buckhanan
Auretta Hoyt
The
State Temperance Association
Posey County
Val Fisher
Marrs Township
Charles Sheldon
Wabash Station
United States
Cynthiana
Point Township
John Fisher
Marrs
Dr. Cross
Stewartaville
Griffin
Robb Township
Philo Hutchison
Anna Jest
Gotham Gossip on crime and politics in New York
A July 14 1882 city column recounts inventive thefts by an elderly former sailor turned bank janitor, barroom upheavals, and a burglar alarm misadventure. It notes gambling moves to Long Island City, editor assaults, police actions, and a hungry burglar who ate a mosquito net. It also describes burglaries at Hon Hugh Hastings’s home, electric bell alarms, and wartime mood amid labor strife and potential strikes plus a garish Garfield assassination cuckoo clock from Vermont. The piece touches on foreign politics, stock and produce markets, militia drills, and Kansas land schemes, ending with political results from Tennessee and Arkansas.
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Beecherville
Hudson
The
Times
Kansas
Indiana Prohibition Fight Splits State Parties
Indiana politics feel the anti prohibition wave as leaders clash over a prohibition plank. Democrats aim to place anti prohibition wording in the state platform while rural counties resist. Will English's anti prohibition bid affect Indy and German votes and shape the fall campaign as both parties struggle with platform choices.
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New York Sun
Inpranapolis
Inv
Indiana
Hendricks
McDonald
Voorhees
English
Will E. English
Congress
Indianapolis
Sullivan
Jackson
Martin
Daviess
Washington
Knox
Sullivan V 8 Wilson Box Match at Madison Square Garden
Sullivan of Boston defeated England’s Tug Wilson at Madison Square Garden in a 4 round bout before about sixteen thousand spectators. Wilson showed pluck, was knocked down twenty seven times but rose each round, while Sullivan pressed the attack and aimed to end it before time.
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New Years
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Tug” Wilson
England
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Wilson
Bob Ingersoll
Long Branch
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Mississippi
Georgia
Representative Humphreys
Wisconsin
Conover
Florida
Guiteau
Army Medical Museum
Stonewall Jackson
Rockbridge Alum
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Maine
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Logan
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Lady
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Blaine
Harrison
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Connecticut
New York
Tennessee
Union
United States
Bill Morrison
Illinois Statesman
Kellogg
Atlanta
Ben Hill
Lincoln
Springfield
Keifer
Arthur
Hampton
West
Voting age census shows US electors in 1880
Washington reports on June 1 1880 census figures: total voting age 12 830 349 with 1 487 844 negroes and 8 270 518 native born whites plus 3 072 487 foreign born. Foreign born 15 percent of population yields 24 percent of the national vote.
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D. C
United States
Union For
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Gibson County
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