Mississippi Republican Rule and Black Leaders Seen in Hashed Conflicts
Editorial from Jackson, December outlines Mississippi politics under reconstruction. Highlights three Republican governors Alcorn Powers Ames and their debt, praise for black leaders Revels Bruce Lynch, and notes on violent elections and political tragedies like Chisholm and Nixon. Describes economy, cotton, and race relations in the capital.
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Revela
Bruce and Lynch
Chisholm
Nixon
Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Jefferson Davis
Virginia
Alcorn
Senate
General Ames
Ames
Powers
Ohio
Butler
William Carney reports imminent death in hallucinatory vision
Special dispatch from Erik Pa details William Carney of this city reporting an impending death at two A M after a Sunday vision. He weakened after taking to bed and made his will this morning with Bishop Mullan present. The house is crowded as observers await the outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erik
William Carney
Mullan
Gas Office Workings Under Gas Trust Audit Questioned
A special investigating committee of Councils gathered in the Select Chamber to probe the Gas Trust contracts for 1865–1876. Engineer Brown detailed coal awards and tonnage, while questions about audit timing and oath procedures dominated. The panel adjourned to January 4 after agreeing to subcommittee review of Penn and Westmoreland Company ledgers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gas ‘Trust
Councils
Mr. Switch
Cornellimen Houseman
Clay
Vanderslice
Miller
Mullen
Green
Roberts
Brown and Park
Quin
Page
Pattison
Hunter
Bardsley
Gas Trust
Penn Gas Coal Company
Westmoreland Coal Company
Shafton Coal Company
Fairmount Mine Company
Taylor County Company
Despar
T. Billmeyer
Penn Company
South Third Street
Philadelphia Gas Works
F. H. Jackson
Westmoreland Company
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Jesse W. Starr & Son
Roberta
Brown
Mr. Roberts
Mr. Bardsley
Mr. Caven
Trust
Engineer Brown
Caven
Mr. Brown
Squire McMullen
McMullen
Collins
A. C. Harmer
Alwys
West Fairmount Company
G. A. Fitch
Despard Company
Shafton Company
Youghiogheny Company
Mr. McMullen
Penn and Westmoreland Company
Miles
Yeas— Mesers
Messrs
Albright
Brooks
Reyburn
Resolutions Compliment Pennsylvania on Southern Road Handling
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company sold its controlling interest in the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company to private citizens. At a recent Richmond Virginia meeting, outside stockholders adopted resolutions praising the Pennsylvania corporation officers for their management of the Southern road.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Richmond and
Danville
Richmond
Pennsylvania Corporation
Millions Involved American Syndicate Forms for Quane Lands
A New York led syndicate of American financiers completes the formation of a multi million dollar group to purchase guano lands and fields of Peru for fifteen years, aiming to shift control of Peru’s trade from English capital to American channels. The deal includes rights to lay a cable between Lima and Callao.
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New York
Jeola
Tac Tras
Peru
William R. Garrison
Lima
Hayes
Lorin Blodgett
Philadelphia
Callao
Senator Cameron Guests at Continental Dinner Party
Senator J Donald Cameron and wife arrived in the city from Harrisburg as guests of Wayne MacVeagh. An informal afternoon chat with Secretary Quay at the Continental touched on candidates for Wallace’s seat. Quay stated he favors Henry W Oliver and is not a candidate. Cameron attended an evening dinner at Augustin’s with Judge Green and sixteen guests. he felt unwell and left early.
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J. Donald Cameron
Harrisburg
Wayne MacVeagh
Senad
Quay
Huidekoper
Norris
Wallace
Henry W. Oliver
Mr. Quay
Oliver
Cameron
MacVeagh
Augustin's
Walnut Street
Judge Green
Supreme Court
Senator Cameron
Robert Patterson
A. J. Drexel
George W. Childs
Frederick Fraley
Samuel M. Feiten
John Welsh
W. Heyward Drayton
Charles Duffy
Thomas A. Scout
Thomas H. Dudley
Judge Biddle
George Blight
Franklin A. Comly
Persecutor of Rev Dix Dies in Sing Sing Prison
Eugene Fairfax Williamson known as Gentleman Joe died in Sing Sing of stomach disease. Once a Trinity Sunday school teacher he attacked Rev Dr Morgan Dix of New York with anonymous letters and injured his life. Born 1841 Baltimore, he worked in books, served as Mason and Slidell secretary, later jailed in Baltimore. his family notes lifelong oddities.
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Pritrspurg
Eugene Fairfax Williamson
Gentleman Joe
Sing Sing
N. Y
Morgan Dix
New York
Trinity Sunday School
Dix
Joe
Williamson
Baltimore
William and Mary College
Mason and Slidell
T. F. Bailey
Allegheny
Jonathan Moyer Convicted of Murder in Pa Case
Special Dispatch to Tax Times from Middleburg Pa reports Judge Bucher charged the jury in the murder of Mrs Gretchen Kintzler. A verdict of first degree murder was returned about noon. Counsel promptly moved for a new trial. The county has three murder verdicts likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court with possible commutation appeals to the Board of Pardons.
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Middleburg
Bucher
Jonathan Moyer
Gretchen Kintzler
Supreme Court
Board of Pardons
Beaver Meadow Explosion Kills Kerry and Injures Three
In Maucy Cuunk Pennsylvania on December 23 a blast of giant powder cartridges during the burning of a work shanty on the Beaver Meadow division of the Lehigh Valley Railroad killed Richard Kerry, fatally injured Jasper Taylor, and badly injured William Conner and Lawrence McGinley.
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Maucy Cuunk
Beaver Meadow
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Richard Kerry
Jasper Taylor
William Conner
Lawrence McGinley
Fires and sentences from 19th century brief items
Pith of the minor news itemizes several incidents: a Corsicana Texas fire costing 50 000 dollars. Clebanse Illinois church burns. Ashton England coal strike for higher wages. James Newton in Georgia sentenced to be hanged for a murder. Fire at Dyer Land Co block Providence Rhode Island causes 30 000 dollars loss. Patsy Devine convicted of murder in Clinton Illinois and sentenced to death. Long Island snowstorm disrupts railway travel with passengers seeking shelter. Licorice extractor explosion injures James Harrington at Buchanan Lyall Brooklyn factory. 500 dollars damage. Edison Company asserts exclusive patent rights against British Postmaster General. J W Brockway sues for libel against Socialistic Publishing Co for 30 000 dollars. New music hall opened by Leiderkranz Singing Society in St Louis. costs 50 000 dollars. U S Government printing bill totals 2 084 750 dollars for year to June 30. details on paper, lithographing, binding. Public Printer Defrees notes building inadequacies.
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Corsicana
Texas
Baptist
Clebanse
Illinois
Ashton
England
James Newton
Georgia
Dyer Land Company
Providence
R. I
Clinton, Ill
Patsy Devine
Aaron Goodfellow
Long Island
Buchanan & Lyall
Brooklyn
James Harrington
Edison Telephone Company
London
Postmaster General
J. W. Brockway
Superior Court
Chicago
Socialistic Publishing Company
Arbeiter Zeitung
Brookway
United States
Defrees
Tis
Flood of street-cleaning bids tests city plan reforms
The Board of Health and the Finance Committee spent over three hours reviewing bids for street cleaning and garbage removal for the coming year. Sixty six street-cleaning bids and forty five garbage bids were opened, with Porter Black & Co proposing a monopoly bid of 155000 for all districts, while individual bids totaled 156668. The panel debated honoring lower nonconforming bids, then scheduled compliant bids for today’s formal award while noting the monopoly bid and separate district arrangements.
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Porter, Black & Co
Board of Health
Hnance Committee of Councils
John McCoy
Joseph
David France, Jr
Robert Campbell
Joseph Schofield
Edward Gannon
James White
William Faby
Owens & Holstein
Albert Rementer
George Brook
Fred
G. Schissler
Robert J. Peoples
R. Campbell
Robert J. Peopson
Joseph Maier
James Donahue
James McLaughlin
Ninth District
Thomas Brown
Brown
Mr. Vanderslice
Eleventh District
William F. Miskey
Frederick G. Schissler
The
Health Board
Colonel Gray
Finance Committee
Thomas Parker & Co
John B. White
David McMahon
Owen & Miller
Miskey
McMahan
Porter & Black
Ireland's Overhanging Clouds and Irish Tensions
Lompox reports buckshot still produced for the Irish constabulary with Ireland's military supply in view. An Army Service Corps unit and engineers head to Ireland, while customs seize powder and shot shipped to Galway. A Norwegian ship Juno carrying arms is captured near Clare, brought to Limerick, and guarded. Boycott arrests and Orange Lodge actions unfold as protection is sought. Rome urges Irish bishops toward pacification.
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Lompox
Irish Constabulary
Army Service Corps
Commissariat
Ireland
Aldershot
Runcorn-on-the-Mersey
Galway
Dvsalix
Clare
Juno
Cork
Baltimore
Limerick
Queen's
Grand Orange Lodge
Land League
Renee Jones
Rome
Terrific explosion kills four on Reading Railroad engine
Special dispatch from Portsville reports Engine No. 252 blew up near Old Belmont Station at 7:28 P.M. killing engineer Patrick Donohue conductor Thomas Kenvin and brakemen John Maher and William Ash. Four widows left, inquest ordered, boiler experts summoned. town of Palo Alto mourns.
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Reading
Tex Times
Portsville
Palo Alto
Patrick Donohue
Thomas Kenyin
John Maher
William Ash
Round House
Eagle Hill
Neighborhood
Schuylkill Valley Railroad
Old Belmont
Thomas Kenvin
Ash
Kenvin
Donohue
Asl
Maher
Three Captains and a Bark Drowned Near Jamaica Reef
The Fantabella, Capt Nixon, and the bark Edith Goddard report a disaster near Falmouth Jamaica as strong seas drove the ship onto a reef. Captains Nixon Hopewell Wooley and crew perished, Mrs Nixon and some were saved. two seamen Canton Dixon and Aubrey Murphy died, bodies recovered and buried in Falmouth Cemetery.
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New York
Edith Goddard
Smith
Montego Bay
Fantabella
Nixon
Falmouth
Jamaica
London
Hopewell
Medina
Wooley
Dundee
Defres
Man fatally struck by mule-drawn train near Market and Twentieth
At about 10 am a freight mule train struck a 35 year old man as he alighted near Market street. The victim Robert Curley a bricklayer of 2219 Pennsylvania avenue died after being removed to the Twentieth district police station. Driver J M Miller was arrested pending coroner's inquiry.
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Market Street
Twentieth
J. M. Miller
Twentieth District
Fifteenth
Filbert Streets
Robert Curley
Pennsylvania Avenue
Miller
Bishop criticizes Adrienne Lecouvreur play in Montreal
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal publishes a letter in the leading French paper urging Catholics to abstain from attending Bernhardt's Adrienne Lecouvreur at the Academy of Music, with a formal critique by a appointed assessor.
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Montreal
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Mlle. Bernhardt
Academy of Music
Four Drowned Men in River On Steamboat Clara Eight
New Orleans officials report four colored roustabouts aboard the Clara Eight were on the wing stage during a landing when it tilted and threw them into the river. Despite rescue efforts none were recovered.
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New Orleans
Action Reported Near Middleburg With Boer Forces
Telegram from Durban dated today reports an engagement with the Boers near Middleburg resulting in two hundred soldiers killed and fifty prisoners. Messrs. Donald Currie & Co received the dispatch in London on December 23.
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London
Messrs. Donald, Currie & Co
Durban
Middleburg
Monaco gaming tables face suppression drive
Paris December 23. An influential international committee is formed to suppress the gaming tables at Monaco as authorities seek tighter curbs on gambling.
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Paris
Monaco
Stokley Rivalry Shapes Philadelphia Mayoral Nominations
The piece reports on a defiant shift by Republican insiders led by Edwin N. Benson to front a boss-averse slate, with West as City Solicitor and Phipps as Receiver of Taxes. It notes internal splits over backing Stokley or a separate citizens ticket, and says Democrats plan a straight ticket to curb reform efforts. McMullen opposes any citizen bid.
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Stokley
Ellis P. Phipps
Almshouse
Rowan
W. Nelson West
Citizens
Caven
Hunter
West
Phipps
Edwin H. Fitler
G. de B. Keim
Edwin T. Steel
Edwin N. Benson
Epwin N. Benson
W. Nelson Weer
P. Purpis
Benson
Union League
Alexander Benson
Henry W. Oliver
United States
Democrats
Citzens
Reform
Squire McMullen
Elegant Dinner party at Major Benson home hosts fifty guests
Major Edwin N. Benson gave an elegant dinner at 2107 Walnut street last evening attended by about fifty gentlemen. The mansion was festively decorated with evergreens and flowers, the table spread with a renowned caterer’s repast, and the gathering lasted until midnight. Notable attendees included George H. Baker James L. Claghorn Thomas Cochran William R. Leeds William E. Littleton Henry M. Phillips Rufus EB. Shapley Ex-Mayor Richard Vaux Ex-Sheriff Henry Howell John Price Wetherill General Robert Patterson Colonel Theodore Wieder sheim Henry 8 Field and Colonel Allen.
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Edwin N. Benson
Walnut Street
George H. Baker
Union League
James L. Claghorn
Prizes Listed for First Regiment Fair Company E Drawing
The First Regiment Fair Prize list shows high value items won by named individuals such as T Hill Martin, Charles Lynch, Mrs Vickers, Thomas Boyle, Mrs Allman, and A Binder. Donations included two hundred shares of Girard Mining stock from Huey & Co and others for the fair fund. A diamond studded badge will be awarded to the company turning in the most money.
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T. Hill Martin
Pine Street
Charles Lynch
South Fifteenth
Vickers
Lancaster
Thomas Boyle
Vine
Allman
North Thirteenth Street
A. Binder
North Seventeenth
John Campbell
Messrs. Huey & Co
A. R. Parsons
W. Hi. Wright
Hamilton Disston
Girard Mining
House of Correction managers vacate moral instructor post
The board moved to declare the moral instructor position vacant after January 1 1881 and Rev R F Lee was elected to fill it. Casper W Titus was elected blacksmith. Roberts noted thirteen insane inmates were moved to Norristown hospital, with three more ordered transferred by court.
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House of Correction
Dunn
Isaac Martin
House
Roberts
R. F. Lee
Casper W. Titus
Blacksmith
Samuel Baxter
Norristown Insane Hospital
Explosion sinks steamer Isabella killing four at sea
New Orleans dispatch recalls Panama intelligence that one boiler exploded on the steamer Isabella, killing four and seriously wounding several, two later dying. Separately, on the 11th the French bark Siam, from Cardiff with coal, struck the bar at the Madelena river mouth. the captain, mate and three sailors drowned, vessel and cargo total losses.
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New Orleans
Panama
Baranquilar
Isabella
Siam
Cardiff
Bar
Madelena River
Iron manufacturers fix price on merchant bar in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh on December 23 the iron manufacturers passed a resolution to stop selling merchant bar below 24 cents per pound. Although the nominal rate is 24 cents, many sales have occurred at 21 1 2 cents, and the move aims to raise sales to the nominal price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Weather Bulletin Indications for Today
Generally cloudy weather with occasional light snow and a falling barometer. Winds shift from northeast to southeast, with no decided change in temperature observed.
Man Identified in Hotel Suicide Case and Local Court Move
Temperature records show yesterday’s high 39 and low 20 with a mean of 28.7 at the Signal Office. Edward Meenan, charged with throwing his wife down stairs weeks ago, was released by Magistrate Smith after Mrs. Meenan left the hospital cured and declined to prosecute. The suicide victim at a Chestnut Street hotel was identified as Simon Hamburger. H. T. Coates says an interview printed Tuesday misrepresented him, noting his remarks about not forcing nominations were private.
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Edward Meenan
Magist Smith
H. T. Coates
Coates
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