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Springfield Springfield Leader

Location

Springfield, Missouri, United States of America

Date

Dec 14, 1876

Page

2

Burning of Brooklyn theatre mourned as year's greatest disaster

Weekly Leader reports the Brooklyn theatre fire as the year's direst tragedy with 350 lives lost. It notes political intrigue as Secretary of State M. K. McGrath testifies before a Senate committee about the late election. The piece cites election voting tallies in Missouri, electoral messengers' pay, and reactions from St. Louis papers. It mentions Hayes Wheeler support and party debates as Congress adjourns.

Brooklyn M. K. McGrath Senate Committee

The Political Muddle and Missouri Election Notes

A fragmentary Leaver column surveys post election tensions with Grant and Hayes, praising Col Mitchell for Adjutant General, and presents Missouri official returns for President Samuel Tilden and Gov Phelps, plus legislators and local notices. It covers campaign rhetoric, railroad sale details, court records, and local incidents amid 1876 politics.

Missouri Samuel J. Thi Mayes Veter Cooper John 5 Phelps Finklensburg Lieutenane TG Brockmeyer MK McGrath Eugene F Weigel Thomas Holladay Smith JL Smith AW Mullins Gebak Scrrene Cocet John W McHenry David Wagner J Mehenry Richard Dr Erastus Wells Nathan Cole Bistmier L Davis RP Bland J L Thompson Aed C. cc Ila Debolt HM Pollard Blark ML DeMotte JM Glover JM London Buckner TB

County Court Special Term Adjourns To Next Regular Session

The special term of the act convened on the 4th instant adjourned last Saturday to the next regular term. Additional proceedings published in Tur Leaver note townspay state tax assessed against H Spencer for 1878, indexed as 8 cents then 26 cents due to an error. Cotton Mfg company relieved from personal tax on $25,000, same as an duplicate assessment.

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