Washington political shifts and bond market actions
The President removed U S Marshal Pitkin of Louisiana and named Jack Wharton to the vacancy. Clark Waggoner becomes Internal Revenue Collector in Toledo Ohio. Sherman withdraws 100 million in 414 per cent bonds and 25 million in 4 per cent bonds are offered. Public notices include bond redemptions and remonetization of silver debates.
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Marshal Pitkin
Louisiana
Jack Wharton
Clark Waggoner
Internal Revenue
Toledo
Ohio
Sherman
John A. Kasson
Iowa
Spain
Austria
James Russell Lowell
James Lewis
New Orleans
Washington
Raum
Virginia
War Department
Talbot
Treasury Department
United States
New York
Boston
Treasury
Kenneth Raynor
North Carolina
The
John A. Hyman
Hartford and Boston baseball results. multiple 19th century items
Baseball scores include Hartford 7 Boston 0 and Cincinnati 13 St Louis 2. Other notes report Evan Morris winning a single scull, a Hartford tax deficiency, Europe steamers taking gold, Manchester Savings Bank suspension, Brooklyn theater relief funds, and Auburn woolen mill fire. Additional items cover labor strikes, bank failures, mining fires, and notable executions.
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Hartford
Boston
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Evan Morris
William Scharff
Pittsburgh
John Tracy
Conn
Europe
City Savings Bank
Manchester
N. H
Brooklyn
Auburn
N. Y
Genet, Keyser and
Middle Creek
Fremont
Berlin Papers Charge Ministry Leans Toward Ultramontanes
European dispatches report Berlin newspapers accusing the French Ministry of favoring Ultramontane policy. Other items note Diaz recognized as President of Mexico by Germany and Persia seeking admission to the postal union amid unrest across the region.
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Germany
Diaz
Mexico
Persia
Constantinople
Asia
Murad
Corporation of Edinburgh
Gen. Grant
Amiens
Gambetta
France
Gortschakoff
Roumania
Turkey
Grant
Prince and Princess of Wales
MacMahon
Halifax
Gill
Paraguay
Col
Guibura
Morales
Godoy
Porte
London
Lord Derby
Marquis of Salisbury
Global tensions and local events collide in 187? news round
Reports span Japan Yokohama clash where French sailors and German seamen fought leaving one dead and two fatally hurt. France seeks pacific assurances from Germany while Grant attends Oxford services. Russia denies aims on Suez Egypt, locusts devastate Barbary, and a 75 million dollar Russian loan is underpriced in London. Also notes a forced 200 million rouble loan, Lady Sterling Maxwell’s death in London, Austria eyeing Serbia, Sitting Bull in Manitoba with 350 lodges, Acapulco seizure by Alvarez and the Lerdo government tributary officers, Gov. Jimenez Diaz killed in the attack.
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Pacific
Yokohama
Germany
France
Grant
Oxford
Russia
Suez Canal
Egypt
London
Berlin
Paris
Sterling Maxwell
Norton
Austria
Servia
Sitting Bull
Manitoba
Acapulco
Mexico
Alvarez
Lerdo
Jimenez Diaz
Desperate gambler bets on odd two men with twenty three fingers
A Kentucky bettor who lost every race offers fifty dollars on naming two men with twenty three fingers. A stranger replies with a tragic Chickamauga wound tale. Report also notes a fatal child murder in Charlestown as a Welch child strikes Fagerstrom with a brick fragment.
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Chickamauga
Nashville
Tenn
Charlestown
Mass
Charles Fagerstrom
Welch
Fagerstrom
Welches
Notable Casualties and Crimes Reported Across Regions
J C Parsons Jr was killed by lightning in Vineland New Jersey. Frank McComb died in Myers town Pennsylvania after a colt accident. Burglars stole 10000 dollars in diamonds and watches from J A Cadhfman store in New York. Charles W Moore president of the Dana coal mine in Tuscola Illinois died after a shaft fall. Frederick Bours was fatally shot at Lafayette New Jersey while resisting arrest by Constable Charles Koebler.
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Vineland
N. J
Frank McComb
Myerstown
J. A. Cadhfman
New York
Charles W. Moore
Dana
Tuscola
Ill
Frederick Bours
Lafayette
Charles Koebler
Bours
Mississippi Central Railroad
Hickory Valley
O'Hara
Hodges
William Jones
Lancaster Center
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Pittston
Dean
James Gordon
Dibble
Louisiana
Levin
Swann
Little Rock
Ark
Flourtown
Edward McCarthy
Scranton
McCarthy
Charles Stringer
Philadelphia
Patterson
Nettie Smith
Brooklyn
N. Y
Eastern War Dispatches Track Russian Advances in Asia Minor
A London summary reports Russian center and left wing joining in to push via Saghouli passes and Oli and Choruk valleys. It notes Muhhtar Pasha’s shifting lines, risks to Erzeroum, and potential large-scale land battles along the Araxes and Danube fronts.
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London
Saghouli Mountains
Oli
Choruk
Saghouli
Kiretch Ranges
Midshinea
Muhhtar Pasha
Olti
Bardez
Kopruko
Hassan Kaleh
Muhhtar
Erzeroum
Kylly
Araxes
Joranos
Mukktar
Kasber Range
Kars
Batoum
Danube
Russia
Oltenitza
Rustchuk
Sistova
Turnu Magurelli
Kalafat
Ibrail
Kustchuk
Hirzova
Tcherawada
Kusendami
Dobrudscha
Lom
Zantra
Bravest Girl in Australia Saves Shipwreck Victims
Grace Vernon Russell plunges into surf from a cliff to reach the stranded steamer Georgette off Perth rescuing women and children, then returns for a man, guiding all to shore. She rides home to arrange relief while her sister aids the survivors. Mrs Brockman dies of illness afterward.
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Australia
Grace Vernon Russell
Georgette
Perth
Brockman
Grant Receives Freedom of the City in London Guildhall
Ex President Ulysses S Grant was awarded the freedom of the city of London at Guildhall with a civic ceremony and a luncheon attended by about 800 guests including government figures American consuls merchants and trade leaders. The gold casket bears Washington Capitol and London symbols and is supported by gilded American eagles.
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London
Grant
Gildhall
City Land Committee
Pierrepont
Stafford Northcote
Washington
Guildhall
United States
City of
How to obtain Patent Office Agricultural Reports
The Cincinnati Inquirer explains the reports cost about twenty dollars per volume to the government with mills paying less than a cent a pound later. The middlemen pay nothing and readers should write to their Congressman to obtain copies. Also a Norris town Herald note warns about money for travel to the Black Hills and risks of staying long.
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Patent Office
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