Insane Asylum Debate Spreads in Press and Legislature
The Press and forthcoming Legislature debate how to care for the insane at the least cost. A proposal would use Bowers Mansion in Washoe Valley to house patients at the current four-year rate of Doctors Langdon and Clark, with inspectors and visiting rights for friends, arguing it is healthier and cheaper than Stockon care or a new $250,000 asylum.
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Bowers
Washoe Valley
Brown
Stockton
Bowers’ Mansion
Plurality President Emerges From Early Returns
The Chicago Tribune reports preliminary presidential totals: Garfield 4,439,415 Hancock 4,436,614 Weaver 305,729 Dow 644, scattered 1,790. The total 9,190,195 shows a popular vote margin of 381,37 for Garfield and notes votes may shift slightly with official returns. It argues the elected president did not win a majority and discusses proposals to elect by popular vote and the current Electoral College provision.
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The
Chicago Tribune
Garfield
Hancock
Weaver
Dow
Scattering
United States
Mystery in North Egremont Murders and a Tragic Suicide
Circumstantial evidence tied John Shufelt to the disappearance of his wife in North Egremont Massachusetts. A dragged body path and an hidden boat spurred hopes of a murder but later proof showed Mrs Shufelt eloped and remained alive. A separate notice reports Carrie Hines, twenty, killed leaping in front of a train near Vaarmunut.
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John Shufelt
North Egremont
Mass
Shufelt
Telegraphic items recount fundraising for ex Presidents and political notes
The New York Times fund to pension needy ex Presidents has raised over half the $250000 goal with donors including John M Forbes Jay Gould William A Vanderbilt and John W Mackay. Other items cover the Garfield Arthur electoral strategy a Colorado mine shooting Ireland unrest silver dollar proposals and legal cases in California and Oregon.
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New York Times
John M. Forbes
Boston
Jay Gould
Wm. A. Vanderbilt
John W. Mackay
Nevada
Morgan
L. P. Morton
W. B. Dinsmore
Adams Express Company
New York
W. B. Astor
John Hoel
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Lizzie F. Ralston
William Sharon
W. €. Ralston
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G. L Eames
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Winnessucca
George Berk
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