Cameronites Battle for Grant as Blaine Split Echoes in Pennsylvania
A fiery Pennsylvania Republican convention battle centers on Cameron and Grant with Blaine opposition. unit rule, delegates, and district selections dominate. Contests over nine delegates and a split on Grant instructions fuel tension as Lemon and Passmore contest for Auditor General. finally Lemon is adopted unanimously.
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Tim Trucs
Harrisnure
Cameron
Grant
Blaine
Philadelphia
Allegheny
Lancaster
Russell Errett
Lawrence
Olmstead
Cessna
Koontz
Bingham
Strang
Stewart
Ewing
Wolfe
Herr
Cameron Castor
Albright
Friends of
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Lemon
Passmore
Judge Green
Cameron State Committee
Mde
Cameron Programme Carried Out A Large Blaine Element
Special dispatch from Harrisburg reports Blaine supporters holding steady at the convention with about a hundred votes likely for Blaine. Delegates assembled under a band as Rosell Errett and George V. Lawrence were chosen for temporary chairman for the rival camps.
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Cameron
Times
Harrisburg
Blaine
Don
Lochiel Hotel
Quay
Colonel Hooton
State Committee
Rosell Errett
Grant
George V. Lawrence
Errett
Lawrence
Pennsylvania
Famont
Platform Endorses Steady Prosperity and Stable Tariffs
Harrispurg reports a party platform praising national prosperity since 1876 and the resumption of specie payments. It argues against new financial legislation, cites the current healthy finances, and condemns free traders seeking tariff repeal. The text notes commitment to maintain the existing financial system and tariff protections.
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Harrispurg
Finsy
Tien
Cameron Triumphs in State Convention Over Grant
Special Dispatch from HARkigBuRG reports Cameron's personal victory in the convention, with Blaine opposition frustrated by anti third term sentiment. Delegates fear disarray for the party, while Cameron maintains a united delegation for Grant despite doubts about Blaine and Washburne. Indignation at machine control grows amid tensions ahead of the Chicago rally.
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Cameron
Harkigburg
Grant
Blaine
Chicago
Maine
Washburne
Pennsylvania
J. HL
Blaine Fans Elated Over Harrisburg Convention Result
Special dispatch reports great interest in the Pennsylvania Republican Convention. Blaine supporters here express confidence in his strength surpassing Cameron or Grant, while Don Cameron fears political ruin if Harrisburg fails. Cameron pushes McManes toward Grant at Cameron's urging.
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Washington
Harrisburg
Blaine
Allison
D. C. Forney
Daugher
Cameron
Friends
Grant
Don Cameron
Leeds-McManes
McManes
Sherman
Benefit at Roller Skating Rink Aids Irish Fund
The Roller Skating Rink at Twenty third and Cheatout streets hosted a charity event yesterday afternoon to support Ireland's relief. A large crowd of young skaters and onlookers attended, and all money collected at the door was donated to the Irish relief fund, with no deduction for Manager Oppenheimer's expenses.
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Ireland
Cheatout
Irish Relief Fund
Oppenheimer
Jealous Lover Slashes Woman Then Kills Himself
Peter Nagle, a 50 year old laborer, attacked Mrs. Jane Shoxel with a hatchet as they shared a Moss Street log house. After wounding her, he inflicted a throat wound and died hours later at St. Joseph's Hospital, saying he loved her and failed to win her. The boy cried murder and neighbors aided, uncovering a brutal struggle before police and a doctor intervened.
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Tam Tots
Reaptne
Peter Nagle
Jane Shoxel
Moss Street
J. C. Bowman
Nagle
Bowman
Marks
St. Joseph's Hospital
Murder in the first degree in Moott case hangs March 19
Henry Moott was convicted of murdering his wife and a mourner in Toghkanick on September 12. Judge Osborn sentenced him to be hanged March 19. He asked to be hanged publicly and to have time to speak. The report also covers a Donnelly family murder arson, another shooting near Cincinnati, and a Santa Fe Monte robbery and killings at a dance hall.
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Donnelly
Connor
Parkersburg
West Virginia
Haquirer
William Davis
John Hazlewood
Davis
Hazlewood
Avis
Santa Fe
Grand Templar Tournois Honors St John’s Commandery
The Academy of Music hosted St John’s Commandery No 4 Knights Templar fifth Grand Tournois and reception. Uniformed knights from Pennsylvania New Jersey Wilmington Baltimore attended with Palestine Commandery No 18. A banner presentation by J P S Gobin followed a welcome by John Kelley and a drill by Sir Knights before dancing.
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Academy of Music
Grand Templar
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Wilmington
Baltimore
First Regiment
Carl Lentz
St. John’s Commandery
New York
Palestine Commandery
No. 18
John ©. Kelley
Skillen
Knights of
St. John
J. P
Gobin
Kelley
Death of Dr Personnet in Essex county at Verona NJ
A Verona New Jersey report says Dr Personnet a long time Essex county physician died when his carriage fell from a bridge after his horse went runaway. He had been a prominent village figure for over thirty years and was returning from a social call at the Baldwin home. Mrs Personnet was only slightly hurt. The accident occurred at night near Butternut lane.
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New York
Verona
N. J
Personnet
Essex County
DeWitt Baldwin
Butternut Lane
Personnel
Edhureh
Move to Make Agriculture an Executive Department Debated
Washington February 4 The House agriculture committee approved a substitute bill by Rep Aiken to elevate the Department of Agriculture to an executive department under a Secretary of Agriculture. It details an assistant secretary a veterinary division and an entomology division with specified salaries and duties, plus mandatory annual agricultural statistics to Congress. A minority report against the bill was announced by Rep Covert.
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Washington
House Committee On Agriculture
Representative Aiken
South Carolina
Muldrow
Department of Agriculture
Aiken
Secretary of Agriculture
United States
Commissioner of Agriculture
Congress
Representative Covert
New York
Answer to Parnell on the Mansion Mouse relief fund
Letters from Catholic Archbishops and bishops defend the Mansionouse relief committee against Parnell's charges of discrimination in fund distribution. They praise efficiency fairness and public confidence, with Archbishop McCabe urging personal protest and expressing unbounded faith in the committee.
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Dustin
Trish Relief Fund Committee
Parnell
John MacHale
Tuam
Daniel McGettigan
Armagh
Thomas McCrake
Cashel
R. C. French
Dublin
Lawrence Gillooly
Elphin
William Fitzgerald
Ross
Nicholas Conaty
Kilmore
John Power
Water
McCabe
Een
Steele Mackaye Theatre Opens With Double Stage Feature
New York February 4 opening of Steele Mackaye's Madison Square Theatre was a triumph with full house and clear sightlines. The double stage and two-floor set impressed. audience roared as sets were changed in minutes. Cast includes Tom Whiffen Eben Plympton C W Couldock Dominic Murray Effie Elisler. ventilation and stage features noted as exceptional. Continuous ovation reported.
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New York
Steele Mackaye
New
Madison Square Theatre
Hazel Kirke
Philadelphia
Tom Whiffen
Eben Plympton
C. W. Couldock
Dominick Murray
Effie Elisler
Nelson Waldron
Callous Mother Suspected in Child's Death at 710 Spaf ford Street
In a four second-story apartment at 710 Spaf ford street yesterday morning, Henrietta Brest eight years old was found dead. Emma the mother is said to be intemperate and the father is in the penitentiary for stealing. The child had suffered from prolonged malnutrition. The mother abandoned the girl during the night and was sent to prison awaiting the coroner's inquest. Rats had gnawed holes in the child's cheek breast and foot.
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Spafford Street
Henrietta Brest
Emma
Telegraphic News Quick Summary of 19th Century Events
A railway collision at Argenteuil, seven killed and twenty wounded. Wisconsin Supreme Court limits mercantile agency disclosure. Court-martial report on Major Reno sent to the President, Sherman likely forwarded. Massachusetts GOP to hold Worcester convention April 15 for national delegates. Fort Collins fire at Welch's block caused $50,000 loss, $20,000 insured. two killed. John Morrissey dies in Brooklyn from axe injury. British iron demand boosts activity. Leith ships loading for New York. Mobile and Montgomery Railroad directors elected, signaling a management shift benefiting Louisville and Nashville interests.
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Argenteuil
Seine-et-Oise
Supreme Court of Wisconsin
Major Reno
General Sherman
Republican State Committee
Massachusetts
Worcester
Fort Collins
Col
Welch
A. F. Hopkins
Tillie Irwin
John Morrissey
Long Island College, Hospital
William Morrissey
Jay Street
Brooklyn
Pall Mall Gazette
Great Britain
Leith
New York
Mobile and Montgomery Railroad
E. H L. Green
E. D. Standiford
H. Victor Newcomb
Henry ©. Murrell
W. D. Caldwell
Louisville
General C. Clark
Henry Anthon, Jr
J. P. Girard Foster
George A. Washington
Tennessee
Louisville and Nashville
Lost In The Storm A Schooner Goes Down
A Barnegat surf story reports the schooner Daniel Harding wrecking near Highlands. Six crew aboard plus Captain Harding and wife survived. several from the schooner Newman later found washed ashore. Bodies identified include Captain James Newman, steward Rosevelt Richardson, and Halsey Stanley.
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Bodlew
Lone Branett
Daniel Harding
Highlands
Harding
William Ray, Jr
Kate Newman
Newman
Long Branch
Ray
Baltimore
Danversport
Mass
James Newnan
Southwest Harbor
Warren Stanley
Halsey Stanley
Rosevelt Richardson
Tremont
James Hue
William H. Ray, Jr
Scotland
Hook
Station No. 2
James Newman
Belleview
Ellsworth
Cedar Keys
Florida
New York
Sandy Hook
Horseshoe
East Beacon Light
Seabright
Shrewsbury River
Cedar Point
Point Pleasant
Ellis
Ennis
D. Ellis
George Torry
Hampton Roads
Toms River
N. J
Barnegat Beach
Cou
New Point Comfort
Wasumeron
Signal Corps
Delaware Breakwater
William Wilson
Ward
Brandywine Shoals
North America
Pioneer
House committee backs Bicknell joint presidential amendment
The house select committee on the state of the law has accepted the sub committee report favoring Representative Bicknell's joint resolution to amend the constitution to elect President and Vice President by the people. It stripped out a provision that contests in any state be decided by its highest court and will report the measure favorably to the House.
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Congress
Maine
Ekourth
Voetil
Sreventu
Washington
State Committee
Hoyt
House Select Committee
Vicw
Representative Bicknell
House
Parnell and the Bankers Face Policy Change
Special Dispatch to The Times New York February 4 reports that Drexel Morgan Co bankers shifted from free relief fund contributions after Par nell's arrival. The London Morgan house cites displeasure from aristocratic clients, framing the decision as a business policy change rather than charity.
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New York
Parnell
Messrs
Drexel, Morgan & Co
London
J. 5. Morgan & Co
Grant's Visit to Havana at Vice Regal Palace
The February 4 Havana reception for General Grant drew Havana society leaders and many Americans. The palace glowed with flowers and lights. the Captain General's guards lined the staircase as Grant and Callejas with wives greeted guests. Dancing continued to 4 AM, and Grant called the affair highly satisfactory.
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Havana
General Grant
Vice Regal Palace
Grant
Callejas
Western Man for Mayt's Successor Urged by Western Senators
Western Senators press for an Indian Commissioner from the West. Illinois backs Inspector J. W. Pollock while Nebraska supports Clinton Briggs of Omaha. A Western appointee is preferred though few Western men are deemed suitable, and a New Englander reportedly declined the offer.
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Washington
J. W. Pollock
Nebraska
Clinton Briggs
French Aid for Ireland Appealed by Paris Bishop
The Standard's Paris dispatch reports the Bishop of Angiers appealing to parish priests to collect subscriptions for aid to distressed Ireland.
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London
the Standard
Paris
Angiers
Ireland
Ocean Steamship Arrivals From New York At European Ports
Ocean steamship arrivals list ships calling at Glasgow Italy Hamburg Lessing Moville Antwerp from New York. Names and routes show traffic from the United States to European ports with multiple origin points all dated from the transatlantic route.
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Glasgow
Italy
New York
Hamburg
Lessing
Moville
Anchoria
Antwerp—Rheinland
Weather outlook for the day hints at clear to fair skies
The forecast notes clear or fair weather with a slowly rising temperature. A slight rise precedes a falling barometer and winds shifting from westerly to southerly.
City Notes Civil Dinner Guests and Distressing Local News
City officials and guests attended the annual dinner at the St. George Hotel with Mayor Stokley and Judge Peirce among them. Fireman William H. Woolston died from brain compression after a ladder fall at the Edward street fire. A five year old, George Lewis, was committed to St. John's Orphan Asylum through the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Ogden Brothers woolen mill shed a fire destroying the picker room with a loss of 1000 dollars, fully insured. Applications by American Union Tele Company and Knickerbocker Lee Co to place wires on police and fire alarm telegraph poles were postponed due to lack of quorum in Harrsburg council.
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St. George Hotel
Stokley
Judge Peirce
William H. Woolston
Edward Street
St. Mary's Hospital
St. John Street
George Lewis
Alaska Street
Pennypack
Society For Prevention of Cruelty
St. John’s Orphan Asylum
Picker Room
Ogden Brothers
Cobb's Creek
Island Road
Seventh Ward
Passmore
American Union Tele- Company
Knickerbocker Lee Comy
Harrigburg
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