Foreign Notes From Europe Report Quarries of News
The Alabama Commission adjourns until June 16 1872 in Geneva. James Brooks and daughter visit Paris at Hotel de lAffi raut. Finance minister Pouyer Quertier reports a 14 000 000 franc surplus. Americans in Paris crave the emperor return while ladies complain of a dull season. In Constantinople a new tramway company bars omnibus space for women. Washington club in Paris admits only Americans with credentials. A Paris restaurant serves home style Johnny cakes and pies. Americans in Europe plan winter travel to the south or Italy. Czarowitz rumor denied. Swiss Assembly bans Jesuit teaching. General Reed of Paris receives Anthropological Institute honor. Mrs Warren of Cincinnati travels with daughter Lucy to the south of France and Spain. The memorandum with Germany on the northwestern boundary is submitted to the emperor. Bismarck threatens retaliation over alleged French outrages. The French Academy debates sun extinction and possible world explosion. Bois de Boulogne to be replanted with fifteen year trees. Persia unpopular. Disorder and famine noted. Japan progresses politically with Buddhist reforms and schooling for twenty Japanese women in America. Russia builds a railway with gauge different from neighbors. Bishop Ketteler of Mainz opposes Bismarck. Diamond mining in South Africa yields unpredictable profits. A Dowager Empress treasures unwearied gems. a perfect necklace is found after twenty-five years. Physician Paillon offers ammonia cold cure inhalation. Sandringham House, near Bruges origins and royal connections, passes between owners and is now a grand estate.
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Czarowitz
St. Petersburg
Switzerland
J. Meredith Reed, Jr
Paris
The
Anthropological Institute of Great Britain
Cincinnati
Ohio
Lucy
Warren
France
Spain
Germany
Disbursements by Treasury Warrants In December
The Washington dispatch lists December Treasury disbursements: Civil and Miscellaneous 4418000, War 3572616, Navy 1358528, Interior Pension and Indian 3664061, total 13047157. Attorney General Williams backs Akerman’s anti Ku Klux prosecutions while Congress reshapes civil service patronage rules. Navy actions include Congress heading to Havana and protective orders for Americans. Tweed bond case proceeds with bail considerations.
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Treasury
War Department
Navy Department
Interior, Pension and Indian Departments
Abo
Williams
Pool
Akerman
Ku Klux
Willers
South
Last
General Sickles
Fish
Senate memorials allege fraud in Fourth District election
In Albany on January 4 a memorial from O Donovan Rossa claims aliens voted for Tweed and that 6 000 votes were counted illegally. It asks an investigation. votes for Tweed allegedly counted for Rossa. The Executive Committee of Seventy seeks Tweed’s expulsion. Tweed has not appeared. The memorials were sent to Privileges and Elections and Elections committees.
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Albany
Senate
O'Donovan Rossa
Tweed
Rossa
Ryiylleges
Ee Memorial
Committee of Seventy
Wm. M. Tweed
John J. Davenport
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Trouble on the Osage Reservation sparks deportation fears
A Fort Smith letter warns of trouble as Osage settlers and families, numbering over a thousand, are ordered off their land. Major Upham and a company are sent to enforce the order, while The New Era notes armed frontier resistance and questions feasibility.
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Little Rock
Ark
Fort Smith
Upham
Bribery Probe Transcripts and Prisoner Escapes Highlight Chicago Court Day
Grand jury in Criminal Court examines bribery charges against public officers as witnesses are summoned. A wealthy landowner Samuel Walker evades custody after long illness. Three men sentenced to penitentiary. one escapes after railway accident. Insurance suits seek payouts from Etna Hartford Hartford Fire Liverpool & London. Alexis arrives from Milwaukee and plans a six to eight day buffalo hunt with General Sheridan departing via North Platte.
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Chicago
Criminal Court
Samuel ‘Walker
Fulton
Coul
Etna
Hartford
Hartford Fire Insurance Co
Liverpool & London & Globe
Phonix Co
Alexis
Milwaukee
Tremont
St. Louis
Omaha
General Sheridan
North Platte Station
Boston General Court Opens as Coolidge Heads Senate
The elligible General Court assembled with large Senate and House memberships. Horace A. Coolidge of Boston chosen President, Stephen N. Gifford re elected Clerk, John E. Sanford Speaker, Benjamin Robinson Clerk, John Morrissey Sergeant-at-Arms. Boston and Lowell Railroad stockholders meet approving capital increase to 3,330,000 and bonds up to 1,000,000.
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General Court Assembly
Senate
Horace A. Coolidge
Stephen N. Gifford
Danbury
House of Representatives
John E. Sanford
Benjamin Robinson
John Morrissey
Boston and Lowell Railroad
Close Memphis election eyed as tightest in years
Memphis voters prepare for a heated contest with leading supporters of Mr. Johnson predicting victory while opponents of the League back the same result. The rivalry is sharp with significant division among black voters and wagering on the outcome.
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Memphis
Johnson
Friends of League
New Orleans Faces Turmoil as Legislature Towns in Fear
In New Orleans a legislative clash grows tense as the Senate lacks a quorum while the House remains in session amid a massive police presence. Deputies threaten, Speaker Carter risks attack, and vigilante threats loom as partisan access is challenged.
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New Orleans
Senate
State House
Warmouth
Carter
Ers
Prussian Circulars and Paris Design Plans Across Europe
Reports from Bertry indicate copies of a threatening Prussian circular to France are sent to German ministers abroad. Berlin invites international architects to design new Houses of Parliament with a $4,220 prize, while Paris considers steamship rail transport proposals and the resignation of Cassinier Perier from the French Ministry.
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Bertry
Prince Bismarck
France
Bismarck
Thiers
Berlin
Smallpox Rages in Sheffield and Ireland Court Collapse
Lonxpow reports violent smallpox in Sheffield and surrounding areas with about 4000 cases. A Ireland court floor collapsed injuring about 300, with fears of deaths. London notes plans for thanksgiving for the Prince of Wales and a gale in Sheffield with a slight earthquake tremor.
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Lonxpow
Sheffield
Londonderry
Kellydogher
Ireland
London
Prince of Wales
St. Paul’s
Paris
England
Persia
Markets by Telegraph fro New York January trade report
Cotton middling 9d per pound, flour steady, wheat quoted at 166 dollars per bushel, corn hogs dull and lower at 0.1, mess pork at 13 dollars 19 cents 12 1/2 for old, 149 dollars 14 cents for Steenon.
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New York
Double homicide reported along Finshing Avenue in Brooklyn
Police found a man's body on a Sunday morning near Finshing Avenue and Adelphia Street with a fractured skull. Investigators are examining the scene and pursuing leads tied to local businesses in the area.
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Brooklyx
New York
City church women form association aid sewing for poor girls
The young ladies of city churches form an association to aid poor girls. They offer sewing lessons at 2 W Canal street over Wilson and Eggleston's park house and plan telegraphy and bookkeeping classes. The home at 100 Broadway boards unbefriended girls for 2 dollars weekly and helps them find positions. Officers include Mrs F P Anderson president and Miss M Minor treasurer. Interested girls may contact Mrs Cole at 260 West 8th street for information.
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Wilsom & Eggleston
Broadway
F. P. Anderson
Cole
Hubbs
F. Wilson
Fox
George Bowlew
Scarborough
L. Fay
M. Williams
M. Minor
Romantic note from Iowa soldier crops up in stray cloth lore
A Moulton Iowa Independent fragment tells of a soldier in camp who found a gray woolen shirt bearing a woman’s name sewn inside. The note recalls a romance and a wedding plan, ending with a curious aside on magnetic iron ore and loadstone found in Sweden and Norway.
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Moulton
Iowa
St. Louis
Gallan
Sweden
Norway
State Agricultural Convention debates permanent Columbus fair
The State Agricultural Convention discussed locating the state fair in Columbus with permanent buildings. After morning and evening sessions, a vote to place the fair at Columbus failed 28 to 25, with strong opposition from border counties and calls for rotating sites.
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State Board
Hickal
Richland
L. G. Delano
Ross
J. B. Jamison
Harrison
B. W. Carlisle
Fairfield
R. P. Cannon
Portage
Columbus
W.H. Gibson
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Ohio
Northwest
Thajor
Border Counties
Stevens
Hardin
McCune
Agricultural College
New Newport Developments Include Bank Building and Bridge Work
The Taylor and Sons banking house at Monmouth and Bellevue is praised as a handsome state edifice. Bridge work on the Net and Cincinnati bridge resumes. Caveats warn of accidents and a Newport ferry may move to the foot of Columbia street once the bridge finishes. The German American Protection Association plans a pane meeting at Michelfelder's Hall as membership grows. Fifty colored soldiers depart the Newport Barracks this evening for San Antonio Texas en route to New Orleans via Thompson Dean.
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Taylor & Sons
Monmouth
Bellevue Streets
Cincinnati Bridge
Newport Ferry
Columbia Street
German-American Protection Association
Michelfelder’s Hall
Newport Barracks
San An Texas
Thompson Dean
New Orans
Dayton Meeting Sparks Citizen Response on Coal Plan
A movement forms as residents consider a coal proposal. Leaders call for public input while a marshal and community figures discuss actions. The gathering aims to organize a prelude to further public avenues and policy decisions.
Miners, metals found across several states and regions
Reports note coal near Peabody Kansas and a shaft sunk by a local company. Cedar County Missouri hosts discoveries of copper silver nickel and zinc. Other items include Vermont bear hunting, Pensacola taverns outnumbering churches, and large production in Boston building activity.
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Cedar County
Vermont
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