Weekly News Review highlights and disasters across states
Train collision at Annville Pennsylvania kills one and injures four after a halted passenger car strikes alighting passengers. Lincoln Hall collapse injures over thirty. Fires destroy Boston Journal office and other properties in Troy. Notable crimes executions and political events dominate a sprawling roundup of 1880s news across Illinois Michigan Rhode Island Texas and Washington with ship canal talks and party conventions.
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Lebanon Valley
Annville
Par
Gov. Hoyt
Pennsylvania
Old Man Raber
Thes Board of Pardons
Illinois
Greenbackers
Heve
Springfield
Greenback Party of
Michigan
Jackson
Chicago
Detroit
Rhode Island
Providence
van Zandt
Alfred H. Littlefield
Henry H. Fay
Rhode Ieland
New Hampshire
Cincinnati
Appling County
Georgia
Washington
Eastays
Tilden
Hancock
Seymour
Robinson
New York State
Divorce quest and public notices cross global events
Hon Isaac P Christiancy seeks six weeks leave to confront a divorce suit with his wife formerly Treasury clerk. Western Iron Association keeps current iron prices at their next Pittsburgh meeting. Reports cover executions in New York and Texas, fires in Virginia and Philadelphia, and various European and colonial incidents including Nihilist ties, Austro-German finance, Parole in a Liverpool race, Abyssinian victories, and a Mecca sheikh murder.
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Isaac P. Christiancy
United States
Peru
Michigan
Washington
Treasury Department
Christiancy
Paris
Western Iron Associaton
Pittsburgh
Association
Merv
England
Herat
Bishop Logue
Donegal
Hartmann
France
Russia
America
Germany
Vatican
Parole
Massowah
Khedive
John
Abyssinia
St. Petersburg
Ministry of Ways and Communication
Odessa Raya
London
Panama Canal
Parnell
Queenstown
Irelad
Saxony
River Thames
Oxford
Grand Shereef
Mecca
Empero
Afghanistan
Queen Victoria
Prince Imperial
Theodore Martin
Prince Albert
St Petersburg
Cape Town
South Africa
Dratz
Removal of Political Disabilities Passes in Senate
The Senate on the 17th transacted first business by passing a bill to remove the political disabilities of Roger A. Pryor, Mr. Hampton, from the Military Committee.
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Senate
Roger A. Pryor
Hampton
Military Committee
Deficiency and funding bills move through Congress
Debate dominated the sessions as the Deficiency Appropriation bill and related measures were discussed. The Senate advanced a Hot Springs titles bill, nominations were debated and rejected in executive session, and multiple committees introduced actions on printing funding, pensions, and foreign appointments. Regulatory and tariff discussions continued with party-political exchanges and a sharp journal correction dispute in the House.
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Gettysburg Battlefeld
Matthias C. Osborn
Alabama
United States Marslal
Mid- Gle
Bonn
Taylor
United States
Senate
Senate Committee On Public Lands
House
McDonald
University of Notre Dame
St. Joseph County
Ind
Anthony
Susan B. Anthony
Misa Anthony
Samuel H. Anthony
Plumb
United Peoria
Indian Territory
Thomas Simmons
Georgia
Charles Adams
Colorado
Bolivia
Bret Harte
California
Glasgow
George L. Catlin
New Jersey
Stuttgart
P. Lange
Iowa
la Rochelle
W.P. Mangum
Fort Carina
Tiensin
Alex. C. Jones
West Virginia
Nagasaki
Harry 4. Conant
Michigan
Naples
William L. Scruges
Canton
Victor Thompson
Mississippi
St. Thomas
Henry C. Marston
Illinois
Malaga
John A. Holderman
Kansas
Bangkok
Henry C. Snowden
Pennsylvania
Carlisle
Kelley
Frye
Republican Party
Felton
Orth
Wabash River
Lake Erie
Dunnell
Sherman
Davia
Alison
Davenport
Yene Ray
Oree
Kirkwood
Commissioner of Agriculture
Pembina
Hill
Elections Committee
Kellogg
Puffing
Spofford
Hoar
George W. Lee
Mackinac Agency
Claflin
Boston
Messrs. Ellis, Young and Bayne
Panama Canal
Mr. Phelps
Constellation
Price
W National Bank
Gibson
King
Mississippi Valley
Atherton
Mr. Scales
Senate Bill Authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture
Philadelphia
Singleton
Committee On Appropriations
Converse
National Educational Association
Messrs
Cockrell
Hereford
Ingalls
Congress
Messia
Bailey
Dakota Territory
Garland
Dawes
Ways and Means
Townshend
Messrs. Garfield
Speaker
Ohio
Garfield
Negro Physicians Form State Medical Society in Tennessee
The text notes that Black doctors in Tennessee have organized a state medical society, marking a formal professional body for African American physicians within the state. It highlights the emergence of Black medical leadership and organized professional association.
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Negro Physicians
Tennessee
Lincoln and the smallpox ruse that fooled a suitor
A Philadelphia Times excerpt recounts how Lincoln joked about having varioloid to deter a persistent office seeker. The president feigned contagion to test the visitor, then laughed at his fear as the doctor verified the mild illness and warned against contact. Wade later disputed the tale as telegraphed nationwide.
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Uncle Abe
Fade
Wade
White House
Lincoln
Old George Deflates a Dandy with Peacock Finery
The tale recalls Pitman George known as Old George and Mr George Stephenson. Stephenson mocks his secretary for his showy dress as they stroll London fashion streets. A crowd gathers when Old George publicly calls the youth an American jackadaw, prompting the man to shed his flamboyant style.
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George
George Stephenson
Old George
London
A Rich Man on Riches and Ridgway’s Fortune
The tale centers on Jacob Ridgway a Philadelphia tycoon who died rich with a fortune likely five to six million dollars A young man asks why the rich man is envied Ridgway replies that wealth yields only sustenance clothing and a single life lived in one house He notes rental income buys more goods but cannot be enjoyed by the owner and cannot improve the lot of others beyond enabling housing for others
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Joseph Fields
James Padgett
Winchester
Ill
Johannes de Boer
Minmk
Lil
Ella Martin
Martin Power
Chicago
Illinois
Michigan
Ottawa
Gov
Cullom
Harrison
Great Lakes
Mississippi River
Congress
Deadwood
San Francisco
Gannon
Kearney
California
United States Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Ben Butler
W. J. Porter
Thomas Carmody
Jacob Ridgway
Philadelphia
Mr.Ridgway
Forests defend health by cooling and rainfall effects
The article argues forests improve public health by reducing heat via evapotranspiration, promoting rain, and lowering soil dryness that fuels epidemics. It cites examples from India showing cholera concentrated in barren plains and in tea barracks with fewer trees, urging governments to plant and protect forests.
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India
Allahabad
Fearful address targets Chinese and city leaders in San Francisco
Denis Kearney denounces a council he says incites violence against Chinese in San Francisco. He accuses 200 Chinese supporters and a 223-strong list of lawbreakers, vows to publish names, and warns of armed confrontation if silenced. He calls for Chinese expulsion and continues his campaign to rally workers.
Agricultural Department reports 1879 crop values and prices
The Agricultural Department published a comparison of crops produced in 1879 with prices to producers. The note highlights a $415,000,000 rise in one year and suggests total increases in other values, including real estate and mining, may reach at least $1,000,000,000.
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Agricultural Department
Washington
Committee of Ways and Means
Fernando Wood
Fort
Ouray
White River
Meeker
Greenbackers
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Chicago
Hendrick B. Wricht
St. Louis
Minnesota
the Agricultural Department
How the Quaker Put It
A humorous take on duel challenges contrasts a classic dare with a Quaker reply. The quip reimagines risk by proposing each would eat twelve unripe apples before bed to see who survives, highlighting pacifist wit over violence.
Factual World Figures and Religious Demographics Cited
A compilation of 19th century statistics including Catholic population in Scotland 309,430. English egg imports 12,500,000 dollars. Pacific railroad passenger and cargo figures. American wine imports. Virginia Tennessee and North Carolina peanut crop 1,835,000 bushels. cheese production by England and the Americas. European population figures under Louis XIV and Napoleon I. patent data for 1880 with receipts and surpluses. births and deaths in 1879. city sanitation gains. early piano origins. Sadlier Almanac estimates of U S Catholic population 6,143,222 with counts of archbishops bishops priests churches and parochial schools.
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Scotland
England
Pacific Railroad
San Fracisco
America
Europe
Virginia
Tennessee
North Carolina
Canada
United States
Germany
Louis XIV
France
Napoleon I
Republique Francaise
Sadlier
Seeagly
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Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana Bank
Edward
Palmer
H. F. Lewis
Marshall
Grant
Sheridan
Galveston
Mexico
Pittsburg
Tax Democrats
Horace M. Kimball
National Greenback Party of Tennessee
Nashville
Tammany
Burnett House
Generale
William Pierson
Genesee
N. Y
T. Myers
Dallas
John Quinn
Buffalo
Chatham
Thompson Street
Philace Hia
Minn
North Hb Pacific Junction
Poplar Plains
Parkersburg
W. Va
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National Congress
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Imate
Philadelphia Times
Mr. Lincoln
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Denis Kearney
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