Corcaco Thieves and Political Echoes across Regions
The piece notes Corcaco overrun with thieves amid three card monte cases, while the Zimes urges ongoing reporting until Chicago is made infamous or thieves flee. It also surveys the Indiana Republican Convention at Indianapolis, praising decorum, reflecting on Illinois inflation debates, Bluford Wilson’s nomination for Solicitor, and New York Tribune views on railroad charters and state resolutions.
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Corcaco
Zimes
Chicago
Bluford Wilson
Southern
Illinois
United States Treasury
Blaford ‘Wvilson
Springfield
Ridgway
The
Treasury
Senate
Jews Fight Over Governor Moses Remarks in Times Debate
The letter argues the governor’s Jewish background means little to his actions, noting that the Times separates religion from misconduct. It accuses Democratic organs of unjustly blaming Christianity while supporting Republican placement of the governor. It claims the Jewish claim to responsibility is misplaced since the so called Jew Moses is not truly Jewish.
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Tar Jewish Times
South Carolina
South
The
Times
Moses
the Times
Republican Party
Illinois Republicans Gather at Springfield State Convention
The Republican State Convention at Springfield drew large, orderly attendance of influential delegates from across districts. Ridgway won the Treasurer nomination after a tight race, Powell narrowly edged Wells for Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the platform backed cautious anti inflation stances while rejecting immediate contraction. The overall result promised strong party unity for November election success.
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Springfield
Illinois
K. K. Jones
Ridgway
Gallatin County
Sanders
Northwestern University
Evanston
Republican Party of
Republican Party
Senator Logan Endorsement Misstated by Springfield Journal
Springfield Journal claims Logan sought a personal endorsement and opposed endorsing the President’s policy. The Journal asserts he arrived ready to attack, then refrained, while the correspondent’s account is disputed by Illinois Republican leaders who say Logan was content with the broad support for the measures he backed.
Logan’s Springfield visit sparks clash over endorsements
A heated dispute surrounds Senator Logan and a state convention’s endorsement of financial action. The Journal is accused of inflation, while supporters argue Logan sought only to mingle with constituents. Questions linger about his role with the Committee on Resolutions and the true origin of the endorsement claim.
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Republican State Convention
Committee On Resolutions
Jnter Ocean
Springfield
St. Louis
Grant
Springfield Journal
Login
Committee On
Logan
Republican Party of
Illinois
Senator Logan
Washington
Ue T
Congress
Robbins
Ecuator
Cook County
Senate
Dr. Robbins
Geo. Atkins
Freeport
Colton
Galesburg
Ulinois
Inter- Ocean
Tay
Inflation accusations against Illinois Republicans at 1876 convention
The Inter Ocean pressed inflation claims against the Republican State Convention, alleging a pro inflation bias and support for greenbacks. It argues the convention avoided decisive language, while noting internal disputes over immediate cancellation and currency reform, and asserts the plan misrepresented by the Inter Ocean.
Dying with her Boots On in Helena Arkansas
A historical note narrates Robert Reed a Southern gentleman who kept a wharf-boat at White River then moved to Helena Arkansas. After killing several residents he tried to kill a partner who shot him first ending Reed’s life on the pavement in front of Ehrman’s cigar store. The piece laments Southern gentlemen dying with boots on.
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Robert Reed
Helena
Arkansas
White River
Helens
Ehrman
Iate
Salt in Sickness Emphasizes Salt in Diet for Ill Patients
Dr. Scadder argues that lack of common salt harms patients during protracted illness. He notes salt in boiled milk diets and even in drinks when needed, citing improved tongue condition, secretions, and circulation. He warns surgical patients with open wounds show pale, puffy tongue and poor healing without salt.
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Scadder
Pope Addresses Cardinals Renews Protests Against Italian Actions
The Pope’s address to the Cardinals condemns usurpation of the Papal States and abolition of religious corporations. He rejects peace with Church enemies, noting recent reconciliation overtures, and urges Cardinals to imitate foreign bishops, notably in Germany and Brazil.
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Papal States
God of Peace
Germany
Brazil
Banker's downfall sparks Omro town budget dispute
Defalcation by A. E. Howard triggers an imbroglio in Omro Wisconsin. Town treasurer George S. Kaime faced a 1400 dollar loss and sought release of funds but town voters refused by 51 to 336. Supervisors removed Kaime and appointed M. C. Bushnell. Esim barred county treasurer and Bushnell from paying funds, leaving the town with no prospect of recovery.
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A. E. Howard
St Omro
Wiz
George S. Kaime
Howard
Kaime
Town &Pervisora
M. C. Bushnell
Esim
Bushnell
Episcopalian Council elects Rev Edward Welles Wisconsin bishop
Mil waukee notes the Episcopalian Council elected Rev Edward R Welles D D of Red Wing Minnesota as successor to the late Bishop Armitage after tense ballots. Welles, about 46, Hobart College alum, ordained 1856, praised for energy and missionary success in Minnesota, faces task uniting high and low church factions in Wisconsin. The council also planned a new Fond du Lac diocese of about twenty parishes.
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MilwauKeg
Episcopal Council
Edward R. Welles
Red Wing
Minnesota
Armitage
DeKoven Rom
Kemper
J. H. Brown
Cohoes
Afr
Welles
New York
Hobart College
Geneva
Wisconsin
Fond du Lac
DeKoven
Bay
Waukesha
Lake Shore
W G. Roberts
The
Sentinel
He Pasion
Roberts
Jane
John Nazro
Milwaukee
Northwest
Nazro
Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce
Chicago
Aemali Fortone
Embalming and the Egyptian Mummification Process
A Condon journal argues that heat applied to bitumen filled bodies is key to mummification. Creosote formed from bitumen and bandages may preserve tissues, with many mummies showing resinous impregnation and charred or ashlike remains. Inner bandages resemble tinder, supporting heat induced creosote impregnation.
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Condon
Slow Fighter From Virginia City Arrives In Boots Of Canvas
Immigrant narrative tells of a hardy figure who traveled on foot from Virginia City to San Francisco. He learned his trade there and, in idle hours, pursued strength and language, earning a reputation as a formidable, disciplined man with a distinctive style and past prosperity.
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Bareka
Cal
Capel
Jaze
Virginia City
San Francisco
Morocco
Virginian’s journey ends in a rough town scuffle
A Virginia man, entering town in ragged dress, endures taunts in saloons. After a request for a fight, he submits to several blows, enduring the jolting exchange with stoic calm before the crowd separates. The incident leaves him less teased since that Sunday night.
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Hegira
East
Virginia
Alister
Sunday School Memoir by Alexander H. Stephens in Crawfordville
Alexander H. Stephens recalls his first awakening to reading in a Powder Creek Sunday-school near Crawfordville Georgia. He describes entering as a boy, doing farm chores by pine knot light, and studying lessons late into the night, crediting the Sunday school with shaping his future.
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A. H. Stephens
Alexander H. Stephens
Crawfordville
Powder Creek
Tom
Eighty-Year-Old Wealthy Landowner Convicted of Manslaughter
Paria co correspondence from London reports Wattl aux a rich landowner aged eighty was found guilty of manslaughter in the Aisne Assize Court for killing his own son. The father claimed avarice and threatened behavior during a dispute over food and shelter. The jury rejected premeditation, sentencing the octogenarian to four years in prison.
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Paria Co
Respondence
London Daily News
Wattlaux
Assize Court
Aisne
Moliere
Harpigon
Deserved Compliment for Cullom at State Republican Convention
The Chicago Inter Ocean commends Hon. S. M. Cullom for presiding with ability and discretion at the Republican State Convention. He ensured speakers were heard, maintained order, avoided minority prejudice, and applied parliamentary rules leniently to foster harmonious deliberation and efficient business.
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Chicago Inter-Ocean
M. Cullom
Cullom
Princess de la Tour d Auvergne in Jerusalem Convent Plan
A visitor notes Princess de la Tour d Auvergne owning Mount of Olives for Catholics at 100000 and gifting it to France. She builds a convent at Christ’s prayer site with a 32 language inscription. The Countess, in her Oriental cottage, tends a tortoise shell cat and a dog and speaks English well.
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Princess de la Tour
Mameluke
Honey
The Newspaper Train on the Pennsylvania Central Line
The eight passenger coach train runs from Jersey City to West Philadelphia, leaving at 4 10 a m and arriving 6 57 a m. Between New Brunswick and Trenton it travels at about a mile per minute. In a year of operation it suffered one fatal accident when it struck a carriage. Initially operated by volunteers who signed liability waivers, the line added a passenger car to improve safety and opened to the public.
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Pennsylvania Central Railroad
Jersey CH
West Philadelphia
New Brunswick
Trenton
Isston
Overstudy Causes Nevada Girl to Collapse at School
The Carson Appeal reports Miss Laura Berry fainted during a public school examination, blamed on overtaxed mind from memorizing two hundred pages of history and natural philosophy in three weeks. She studied through the night with a classmate, leaving her nerves strained and near collapse.
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Carson
Nevada
Laura Berry
Court rules on Illinois vs Chicago and Alton case cites state control
In sparsely concise terms the federal court, with Judges Drum mond Davis and Treat concurring, remanded a Sangamon county case against the Chicago and Alton railroad to state court. The opinion holds the federal government lacks jurisdiction under the 1871 act to transfer the action from state court and quashes the writ of certiorari.
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Sparsarexp
Ill
Drummond
David Davis
Treat
Chicago & Alton
State of
Ilinois
Chicago & Alton Railroad Company
Circuit Court of the United States
Congress
Oho Te TS Oe Itia
Railroad“ Company
United States
Sangamon ‘County
Ita
Circuit
District and
Circuit Court of
Sangamon
Perfection in a Miss Turveydrop School Display
A York Tribune critique of a Select School of Mrs. presents a playful portrait of pupils and teachers. The writer praises exemplary deportment and flawless performances from piano to geography while lampooning minor flaws and celebrating Miss Turveydrop as a model of dignified restraint and charm.
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York Tribune
Czerny
Butler
Miss
Alias
Misa Turveydrop
Minerva
Perfect Lessons and Propriety in a Village School
A satirical portrait contrasts a village school, its perfect lady pupils, and the grandiose vanity of teachers. It muses on future marriages to local dignitaries and the fading glow of early learning as girls mature through generations of lessons.
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Cornelia Blimber
Europe
Aliss
Telegraphic links severed and rail work halted amid war currents
A telegraphic break between France and Spain and a halt to the Sabula Ackley and Dakota Railroad work follow the Wisconsin railroad war. Minor quake felt in Salt Lake City. Two men arrested in St Louis over Hartman’s store burglary in Alton. Frank Peters jailed for bigamy in Ottawa. County Republicans back Van Valkenburg for Congress in Lee County Iowa. Chicago bank clearings total 20,197,035.39 with balances 2,146,201.01. yearago figures were 23,021,410.82 and 1,893,589.73 respectively.
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France
Spain
Sabula, Ackley and Dakota
Wisconsin
Salt Lake City
Utah
St. Louis
Hartman
Alton
Frank Peters
Montgomery
Ottawa
Lee County
Iowa
John van Valkenburg
Chicago
Chicago Custom House
Drummond
United States Circuit Court
Springfield,ly
A. Smith
Harper
Ft. Madison
Burlington
Monmouth
Cedar Rapids
West Point
Jaws
Grady
Pall Mall Gazette
Congress On International Law
Brussels
England
Austria
Switzerland
Kendall County
Texas
Haverhills
Pennsylvania Central
Wilmore
Bnnel
Pittsburgh
Castle Shoonon
Saguenay
Canada
J. 8
Hunt
Carrollton
Dexter Clary
American Home Missionary Society
First Congregational Church
Beloit
G. Hardwick
McDonald
West Poin
Ilinois
Fairbury
John J. Perkins
Detroit
Peoria
Tony Roching
Roching
New York
United States
Diplomatic Congress On
International Rights
Michigan Central directors elected at annual meeting
Twenty six thousand two hundred and nine shares were represented. Directors chosen include James F. Joy, Detroit. Joe W Brooks. Nathaniel Thayer. H Hanrewell. Sidney Bartlett Boston. George F Talman. Moses Taylor. John Jacob Astor New York. Erastus Corning Albany. They will meet in Boston or New York to elect officers. In Brussels a duel ending fatal shocks public instruction officials. A teacher’s suicide duel followed a marriage elopement and a fatal wound. Byron Wright, a Coralville teacher, whipped a 14 year old girl. brain injury earlier blamed for insanity.
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Prince Gortschakoff
Michigan Central
James F. Joy
Detroit
Joe. W. Brooks
Nathaniel Thayer
H. Hanrewell
Sidney Bartlett
Boston
George F. Talman
Moses Taylor
John Jacob Astor
New York
Erastus Corning
Albany
Brussels
Echevin of Public Instruction
Poison Cheese Sickness Strikes Winn Family in Kansas City
Last Tuesday three members of Mr Winns family on McGee between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets narrowly escaped death from poison after eating cheese. A child grew ill first, then the young man helping the child fell ill, followed by the third family member. A physician declared the sickness poison related and gave emetics. The doctor suspected a poisonous coloring in the cheese and urged analysis and public notice to warn cheese buyers.
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The
Kansas City Journal
Mr. Winn
McGee
Fourteenth
Fifteenth
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