Dominican Purchase Bid Shifts in Samana Bay Talks
Washington reports a first class European power offers 27 million dollars for Samana Bay if the U S Senate does not ratify the Dominican treaty. The President signed a bill enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment and proposed amendments to the San Domingo treaty with a July 1 ratification deadline. National holidays plan and Decoration Day observances noted as Confederate and Union graves were decorated. Municipal election preparations in Washington stir excitement with large turnout anticipated and naturalization cases increasing.
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Washington
Bay of Samana
United States
Senate
San Domingo
Alexandria
Arlington
General Registration Office
Sunday School Celebration in Brooklyn Draws Tens of Thousands
Thirty thousand children are expected to celebrate the forty first anniversary of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union. The day also reports a $500 subscription in Brooklyn to aid Fenian raiders. Rhode Island General Assembly convened at Newport with H B Anthony named for reelection to the US Senate. Democratic delegates flood Columbus ahead of the Staats Convention with repudiation plank urged. Philadelphia Presbyterians condemn excluding religious instruction from public schools and name New York as the consolidated Board office site. The French Cable Company moves its New York office to the Western Union building. The elevated railway passes a full length test and will open this week. Two Liverpool steamers bring 2397 emigrants. New York Freemasons plan a grand cornerstone ceremony for the Masonic Temple on June 7.
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New York
Brooklyn Sunday School Union
Brooklyn
Rhode Island
Providence
General Assembly
Newport
H. B. Anthony
United States
Senate
Philadelphia
Presbyterian General Assembly
Ew York
New Consolidated Board
French Cable Company
Western Union Telegraph
Liverpool
Fraternity of
Free Masons
Masonic Temple
Snow Storm Hits Virginia City and Death of Bishop Kemper
Snow began in Virginia City on May 30 with four inches on the ground by Sunday and cold, continued freezing conditions expected through the night. In Nashotah on May 31 the funeral of Bishop Jackson Kemper of Wisconsin drew over two thousand attendees, with visiting bishops from Kentucky Virginia Illinois Missouri and Nebraska leading services.
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Kemper
NasHattan
Wis
Jackson Remper
Wisconsin
Smith
Kentucky
United States
Lee
Jaws
Whitehouse
Bail
Kangas
Roberton
Missouri
Clarkson
Nebraska
Courts and elections blamed as precincts barred
The report notes Conservatives refusing certificates pending legal probe into whether election results hinged on excluding a precinct where the ballot box was stolen. The May 31 dispatches recount other items from Memphis crop prospects in Arkansas Mississippi and Alabama to Wheeling prison escape in which twelve inmates freed themselves with a false key, and Magnolia cemetery veterans' graves decorated amid calls for North South reconciliation.
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CEOP
Memphis
Arkansas
Mississippi
Alabama
Good. Press. Association
Louisville
Western
Associated and
Kentucky Press
Perigoners
Wheeling
Graves
Charleston
8. C
Magnolia Cemetery
Escape of Meany and Fenian threats rise in New York
A Malone dispatch reports Edward J. Meany Fenian leader escaped custody provoking extra guard precautions. Captain Horton warns any march beyond sentry lines will be shot. U S troops and Marshal efforts to recapture Meany fail. Marshal vows arrests. Albany Gov Hoffman authorizes transport of strangers home. Tweed funds supported return. St Albans reports Boyle O Reilly discharge and disinterment of Rowe and O'Brien bodies. Donnelly moved under arrest. Murphy held in jail awaiting liberty.
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New. York
A. Malone
Escana
Edward J. Meany
Horton
United States
J. Meany
Albany
Rowe
Richard Farm
O'Brien
Donnelly
Franklin
St. Albans
Murphy
Sweeta‘burg
Paris envoy to Vienna ill. liberian unrest and Cuban news
Prince De La Tour Auvergne accepts French Ambassador to Vienna but falls ill with smallpox delaying departure. Reports cite arrests and releases of International Workmen's Society members in Lyons and Paris. Liberia troubles loom as Good's appointment sparks local resistance. Missionaries Ramsey Koohe captured. Yellow fever fears rise in Cuba with Cuban successes. Upton ship landing reported amid confusion.
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Paris
Prince de la Tour Auvergne
Vienna
International Workmen’s Society
Lyons
London
Africa
Liberia
Walter
Palmas
Ramsey
Koohe
Senate Executive Session and Bills in May
Washington May 31 Congress debated a Pacific telegraph company bill and foreign trade shipbuilding. Senate reserved on the reciprocity treaty with the Sandwich Islands. House passed a land grant bill after amendments, rejected a navigation revival bill, and reconsidered a tax measure amid tariff debate.
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D. C
Chandler
Sumner
Committee On Foreign Relations
Cyrus W. Field
United States
Asia
Memorialist
Pacific Submarine Telegraph Company
Tee Ee Mry Harlan
Committee On Indian Affairs
Miami
Senate
Harlan
Sandwich Islands
House of Representatives
Rolin White
Southern Pacific Railway of California
House
Select Committee
Marshal
Gallot
Sehenck
Lawa
Boutia
Boiler explosion at Columbia mill injures workers
The Columbia rolling mill boiler exploded forenoon causing severe scalds to several employees, one later dying. In San Francisco near Knight's Landing a residence fire killed four children and a sister in law.
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Columbia, Pa
Columbia Rolling Mill
San Francisco
Hughes
Knight’s Landing
Brutal murder at Cumberland county McLead house
Three men killed Daniel and Neill McLead and severely wounded Neill family members in Western Cumberland, while the McLeads were respected residents. In St. Louis, J L Myers reported a burglary at Planters House during absence, robbers taking diamonds and valuables worth up to five thousand dollars. no clues.
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Raleieh
N. G
Daniel
Neill McLead
Cumberland County
McLeads
St. Louis
J. L. Myers
Boston
Planters House
Known as the Pint Bes Ragsist Church Property
Notice advertises Tauren 2 property known as Pint Bes Ragsist Church Property on Fourth Street Ketersaire and Fermont Streets lot 582100 Meet with a 40 by 80 feet building. Describes suitable for warehouse or livery stable. Inquiries to A. Penfield Quincy June 18 1870 Herald.
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Ketersaire
Fermont
A. &. Penfield
Quincy
Dlm Herald
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