Various Global and Local Notables and Observations
A sweeping list of items notes 5 000 armed soldiers in Cork Ireland and 90 000 000 silver dollars in the U S Treasury. It cites Jesuit priests leaving Nicaragua, immigration to San Francisco, and a Paris land bill debate. It mentions Wade Park gift, a California fire, a wrecked New Zealand steamer with 130 lives lost, and grasshopper damage in St Joseph County.
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County of
Cork
Ireland
New Zealand
First Woman Named Notary Public by President
A student of law has been appointed as a notary public for the District of Columbia by the President. She is the first woman to receive such an appointment from a President.
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Ington
District of Columbia
German University Plan Moves Toward Western States
A Berlin correspondent reports plans to found a German university in a Western state of the United States. Several banking houses have shown sympathy and offered cooperation to leaders in Frankfort for the project.
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Berlin
America
Frankfort
Duke of Sutherland travels through Indiana to New York
Report notes his grace's transit via Terre Haute and Indianapolis. a reporter was kept from the interview as a palace couch was shown. A Conkling speech said to be delivered to a caucus is declared a forgery by a New York newspaper, with no caucus speech given.
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Duke of Sutherland
Terre Haute
Indianapolis
New York
Conkling
Antony
Shelbyville
Tennessee
Cornell
Brooklyn Board of Assessors
Buffalo
Michigan
Grest Lakes
Miller
Gould
Vanderbilt
Garfield
General Grant
Grand Trunk Railroad Company
Montreal
Decatur
Rich English nobleman seeks one percent land value return
A wealthy English nobleman commented on the depreciation of funded property and said he would be glad to see a one percent return on the estimated value of his land.
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England
Dingley Nominated for U.S. House Seat in Maine
Ex Governor Dingley of Lewiston Maine nominated by Republicans to fill the House seat vacated by A W Frye's Senate promotion. He is described as a stalwart one legged veteran and editor of the Lewiston Journal. The piece also covers debates on asylum management and other topics of the era.
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Dingley
Lewiston
Republicans
House of Representatives
A W.P. Frye
Senate
Lewiston Journal
Religious congress to unite Methodists worldwide
A September land gathering will bring 400 delegates from all Methodist branches, with 200 traveling each way, facing a historic chance for organic union. The report notes other political and social items including Ireland’s Land Bill progress, emigration, and assorted incidents across the United States and Europe.
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Land
America
Foreign notes and international concerns across continents
The San Diego Tichborne case sparks local talk labeling him a fraud. The Mexican government considers a National bank. Parnell plans another U S tour next month. Nail-makers strike in Staffordshire seeking 30 percent higher wages. Poor English harvest prospects raise worries. Journal de St. Petersburg denies Russia will act belligerently toward China. France and England trade talks likely to fail. Swedish emigration to America to reach 70 000 this year. In Alegian insurgent attack on the Spanish at Saida, 100 killed and 400 wounded or captured.
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San Diego
England
Sweden
America
Saida
State prison population declines as various local events noted
The State prison south houses 523 convicts and shows a decreasing count. A cornerstone for a new library at St Wayne arrived from Ireland, weighing two tons. Alen County's superintendent faces conviction for criminal libel and a $25 fine. Ohio Falls Car Co in Jeffersonville employs 1,460 workers. contractors bring 147 new members to Second Presbyterian in Indianapolis. A large stone was quarried near Bedford. Corner stone for Lutheran church south of Wabash was removed and four dollars stolen. A runaway horse on a moving train near Cambridge was captured unharmed. Dogs disturb graves at Northern burying ground in New Albany. Howard shipyard at Jeffersonville employs 300, building two 3800-foot boats for Anchor Line. James Barclay of Butler township aided a tramp last week.
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St. Wayne
Ireland
Alen County
Ohio Falls Car Company
Jeffersonville
Second Presbyterian Church
Indianapolis
Bedford
Cambridge
New Albany
S . James Barclay
Butler Township
DeKalb County
Bald Headed Swindle Over Salt and Water Drug Sale
A Milwaukee Sun item recounts a bald headed man who seeks a cure for hair loss from a doctor and a druggist. The prescription is mocked as salt and water with Peru Chile talk, the man pays $1, then demands a refund after learning the truth. The druggist pacifies him with cigars.
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Milwaukee
Peru
Chile
Cabinet Meets to Seek Weekday Concession for Land Bill
To pass the Irish land bill through the House of Commons by the 16th prox. the Cabinet met Saturday and decided to ask the House to concede Tuesdays Wednesdays and Fridays each week to the bill.
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House of Commons
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The
Sullivan Union
J. A. Axe
Indiana
James N. Tyner
Durin
Mr. Conkilingc
Washington
National Treasury
San Francisco
Nicaragua
Russia
State of
Dawes
Virginia
Hat
Denver
Sid
Pensions
Siam
Washington Monument
Legislature
Nebraska
Tus Trades’ Union of
Albany
N. Y
Klein
Kentucky
Irig
MacVeagh
Wiliam EB. Chandler
William Hernden
Abraham Tincoln
Springfield
St. Louis
J. H.waps
Cleveland
Wade
Merced
Cal
Victoria
London
Ontario
St. Joseph County
Kingdom of
Great Britain
Scotland
Wales
Peter Litchfield
Hamilton College
Utica
N.Y
M. M. GiubErt
Wisconsin
Wash
Evarts
Cincinnati
Toronto
Sanitary Commission of
Switzerland
Professor Swift
Rochester
Donati
Professor Draper
South America
Professor Stone
Bureau of Statistics
United States
Standard Oil Company
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Standard Company
Ecumenical Methodist Conference
Eng
House of Lords
Parnell
Morton
Electoral Commission
Henry S. Lane
Philadelphia
Demosthenes
Germany
Prussia
Bavaria
Seerijing
the News
New Orleans
Board of Agriculture
Jay Gould
Mississippi
Pottsville
Bear Run
Lehigh (Pa.) County
Frani Fritz
Columbus
George Williams
St. Paul
Glaspaw
Thomas Garfield
Arnold
Ather O’conner
Archbishop Croke
Amierica
Brady
Minaier
Thuysday
Criminal Court of
Fraucy
Dudes Cox
Aroady
Alice
Dexter L. Aloudy
Evangelist
Irs
D. Sankey
Moody
Sankey
O. A. Lochrane
Atlanta
Georgia
Abe Lincoln
Chicago
Bob Lincoln
William Whitney
Myra Clark Gaines
James Y. Christmas
Spain
Siemens and Halske
Yokomiya
Tunis
Great Eastern Steamship Company
Leviathan
Winter Palace
St. Petersburg
Montenegro
Marseilles
Turin
Messina
Milan
Tvo
Joan
Czar
Petersburg
Melikoff
Derby
Edmund Yates
Arti- Ans
Italy
Lirica
Joan Wiltoi
Paris
Anal
Marseddes el Minese
Sir John MacDonald
Lonaton
Scamp
Ecgm Peg- WN Fe
Fort Wayne
Paul Neaskutski
Oliver Chilled Plow
South Bend
Warsaw
Inskip
Wm. Mc. Donald
J. A. Wood
New Albany Forge Works
Gompany
Doc, Eagan
Attica
Charlestown
Mary A McCoy
Wilow
John White
Lace Township
Spencer County
Jas
Parker
Richland
Joe Col
Charles Denby
George
Noe Shanklin
Theroansville Courier
TB Law Suit
Friends of
Hanover Collége
Comedious Hgici
Hanover
Ang Aga
Thevcollege
Charles Waite
Caus
Dent
Theodore Pfeaster
Lafayette
Misa
Bryansvile
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