22 Aug 1877
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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1877
Page
1
Reports from Maine and Virginia recount party conventions with splits and alignments. Senator Blaine leads a push for unity while addressing divergent positions on Hayes, southern policy, and civil rights amid a charged Republican scene.
A delegation of Sioux Indians will visit Washington next month to persuade the Great Father to allow them to remain at their present agencies. The article notes concurrent items including the American Dental Association convention in Chicago and government plans for a larger army and harbor defense.
Thomas Campbell once set for execution on April 10 has been reprieved to August 9 for a murder in Carbondale Pennsylvania. In New York City twelve Second Avenue horse car conductors were arrested with warrants for about fifty others on charges of beating the boll punch and pocketing proceeds from the scheme.
The report notes the collapse of the Columbia Life Insurance Company of St. Louis and Citizens' Fire Insurance of Newark, with widespread financial strain. New York City’s debt increased by 13.7 million from January to July, plus 17.7 million in new securities.
Aylmer Ontario suffered a major blaze last week destroying seven buildings. Insurance coverage was reported at 240,600 dollars with an estimated loss of 25,000 dollars. Fire investigator T. R. Lyon noted the night blaze caused extensive damage.
Osman Pasha strengthens his position at Vladino and remains master of the field after a daylong engagement with Russian forces. Gen. Gourka retreats through Shipka pass toward Tirnova as both sides rest amid Bulgaria frontline shifts.
Advices from Haiti report a renewed revolution with insurgents within about ten miles of Port au Prince where the city is under siege and a large fire rages for two days. The Canada Labor Congress at Toronto urges a protective tariff amid heavy foreign imports. Parliament prorogued with the Queen’s speech praising neutrality in Russian Turkish affairs and noting East India famine and Transvaal. Parliament to reconvene October 30.
The New York Letter notes big gains in US exports to Great Britain in the first half of 1877, with fresh mutton beef and livestock rising from about 2 million to nearly 6 million dollars. Bee figures show 5 500 tons of fresh beef and cheese and butter shipments to British ports also rising, signaling strong canal and grain trade activity.
The United States has 450 square miles of anthracite coal and the Reading Company owns at least one third of it. Bituminous coal lands total about 200000 square miles in America with 8000 square miles in Great Britain.
Accounts from Deer Lodge MT describe Gen Gibbon with 182 men engaging Nez Perces on August 9 at Big Hole river. Casualties include Capt Logan Lieut Bradley and others. Indians suffer heavy losses, horses and camp supplies captured, pursuit to follow as reinforcements move up.
An 1847 Mexican War reminiscence recalls Gen. Shields saving an English mother, daughter, and brother from guerrillas in Mexico City. Shields led 400 volunteers over the walls to free them, inspired a tense confrontation with Gen. Scott, and earned a diamond pin from grateful Britain.
London via New York Herald reports Vatican planned International Catholic League with Rome at its center to defend church rights, restore temporal power, establish a Catholic press, and run a Rome instructed general correspondent.
The British House of Commons endured a 26 hour session in Committee of the Whole on the South African Confederation bill. Opposition leaders pressed long and persistent objections, sparking numerous exciting scenes with no recent parallel in Parliament.
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