Necromancer of Egypt charms large audience in second week
The Necromancer of Egypt drew a fine house last night entering its second week of run. The Chapman sisters at Wood's were praised as burlesque stars while Harry and Mrs Chapman and their entertaining children were warmly welcomed. Eddy Locke’s comic talent is well regarded in Cincinnati.
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Egypt
Argent
Ap Wren
Sreckias
Chapman Sisters
Wood
Harry Chapman
Wood’s
Eddy Locke
Cincinnati
English Scholar at Stockwell Faces Terminal Trial Fate
The New York Sunday World reports the case of a London headmaster who after a life of study and modest fame is condemned to life imprisonment for murder. Once a colleague of Trinity and author of several biographical works, his writings earned little money. Poverty and neglect followed as his career faded, his wife’s temper worsened, and a fatal blow was struck during a quarrel. The trial portrays a gentle, simple man driven to a tragic act by years of hardship and despair.
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England
London
Prinity Gollge
Stockwell Grammar School
Hisister Longmans
Porson
Warburton
Web
Cincinnati
Gzetto
Trinity
Johnson
New York Sunday World
Vast Texas plains host cattle herds in massive range
A survey notes the plains of Texas cover 12,000,000 acres supporting 3,400,000 cattle. Reports detail fires in Lucas Ohio, political pivots in Connecticut, and various 1870s economic and diplomatic notes across the United States.
Congress Debates Reforms and Chicago Relief Bill
Senate discusses amendments to lead laws and a resolution on presidential recommendations. It votes on Tipton’s amendment, adopts Conkling’s modified resolution, then considers a Chicago relief bill with divided views on constitutionality and impact on the poor versus city interests. House debates railroad land grants and civil rights measures, but adjourns after dilatory motions without final action on a Senate reporting bill.
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Dunnell Renee Nas
St. Croix
Tke Superior
Hooper
Wood
New York
Treasury
Kelley
Senate
Globe
Congress
Beatty
Ohio
Yeas
Sudden Death of Mrs Moulton’s Mother Reported
Death occurred as Mrs Moulton mourns following the loss of her mother with funeral arrangements announced. Missouri Democrat property listed for sale in coming sale notices.
Press Island Affray Sparks Columbus Journalism Feud
The Evening Journal in Columbus suspends after a bid to crush the Dispatch. The Journal, an Associated Press paper, had started to challenge the Dispatch which uses American Press Association dispatches. Proprietors reportedly paid a high price for the experiment.
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Daily Evening Star
American Press Association
Evening Star
Columbus
Evening Journal
Associated Press
State Journal
Dispatch
naThis
American Press
Fisherman reports deadly White gun attack and fugitive dies
A Presi dent's Island fisher man says another Black man shot by White yesterday died today and two others wounded cannot recover. White reportedly killed two whites in Arkansas years ago and is an escaped convict who surrendered after threats to burn his cabin. Coastal shipping and river traffic details follow with vessels Glencoe Cleburne Belle Memphis and others arriving and departing as weather stays clear and the river rises six inches.
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McEmpuis
President’s Island
White
Arkansas
Little Rock
Glencoe
New Orleans
Cleburne
Arkansas River
Mollie,Ragon
Evansville
Mary Miller
Belle Memphis
St. Louis
Potomac
Bismarck
Alton
Belle
Explosion at Shirland lumber mill kills Belgian girl
In Green Bay Wisconsin on Friday a boiler explosion at Shirland's lumber mill near Red River killed a Belgian girl and a fireman and injured two others. Two men found in a locked freight car at Fort Howard were nearly dead from cold and hunger after a week without food. They fled Chicago seeking work and faced permanent frostbite risking crippling injuries.
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Green Bay
Wis
Shirland
Red River
Chicago & Northwestern
Fort Howard
Chicago
Widow dies after seeing son maimed in railroad accident
Mrs Kine 66 from Winona arrived in LaSalle to visit her son Thomas who was crushed by cars and had his legs amputated the day before. She swooned at the sight and died soon after. In Quxcy Mrs Moulton the cantatrice announced the death of her husband in Cambridge Mass. and left for the East with the troupe.
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Lasalle
Kine
Winona
Thomas
Quxcy
Missouri Democrat estate sale ordered in St. Louis
The Circuit Court ordered a private sale of the Missouri Democrat to settle a partnership estate. The bid will be restricted to the three partners, with McKee named receiver and bonds set at $115,000. Political anxiety surrounds the estate.
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St. Louis
Missoséuri Democrat
McKee
Commissioners Plan Bridge Constructions Across Local Creeks
The Commissioners announced plans to build bridges on several routes: Muddy creek between Green and Delhi townships. Paddy's run at Toney's hill in Crosby township. west branch of Mill creek on Robert Cary road in Colerain. Wolff run in Delhi township. Rapid run on Foley's road in Delhi. and a Mill creek super structure about half a mile south of Sharon in Sycamore township.
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Delhi
Paddy’s Run
Toney’s Hill
Crosby Township
West Branch
Mill Creek
Robert Cary Road
Colerain
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Delhi Township
Rapid Run
Foley's Road
Delhi Oc
Sharon
Sycamore Township
Eaton sues city officers for false arrest in Covington
L. E. Eaton has hired Col. We den O Nea l to sue John K. Daily and Clint Butts in circuit court for 100 dollars for false arrest and imprisonment. Eaton claims he was accused of posing as a government detective and arrested two months ago.
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Weden O'Neal
John K. Daily
Clint
Butts
Eaton
Daily
Wm. H. Rowe
Second Street
Greenup
Suspension Bridge
Short Line
Cincinnati
Strader
C. H. Fethers
Franklin Library
Young Men’s Christian Association
Newport City Council Special Session This Afternoon
A special session of the Newport City Council will convene this afternoon at 214 o'clock to discuss purchasing the Newport to Cincinnati bridge footways and making them free of travel. A Second Presbyterian Church concert follows tonight with Capt. Horn and his band and the Cincinnati Harmonic Society offering a vocal and orchestral program led by Professor Mees.
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Cincinnati
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York and
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Cincinnati Harmonic Society
Dayton City Councils Elect Officers at Two Halls
In Dayton Kentucky last evening the Chadwick council met at Ehmer's Hall while McArthur council convened at Templars Hall. The Ehmer body swore in a full slate of officers including four councilmen from each ward except the Third. The Templars body fixed bonds for officers elect and handled miscellaneous business with First Ward representatives present and none from the Third Ward in Ehmer's Hall.
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Chadwick
Ehmer’s Hall
McArthur
Templar’s Hall
Packing Salmon on the Columbia River
Describes salmon packing at the Columbia River fishery with Chinese workers beheading and gutting fish, brine curing, barrel packing, and screw-pressing to force out oil. Notes barreling and cannery practices, including a West establishment that combines barreling and canning and markets a spiced or pickled product.
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West
Outhenear
Bismarck's New Luxury Railway Car Delights Adoring Public
Prince Bismarck unveils a lavish carriage described as unprecedented in design. The blue bodied car features plate-glass windows, bronzed axle-tree boxes, velvet-lined steps, four interior compartments including saloons for the Prince and Princess, a dressing room, and a rear reception space. It houses a wine cellar, ice provisions, heating, fireplaces, and luxurious fittings with laurel and oak motifs.
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Prince Bismarck
France
Pio Nono
Bismarck
Dome of the Capitol Towers Over Washington
The Capitol dome in Washington rises 108 feet above the Washington Monument and 68 feet above Bunker Hill, rivaling Trinity Church in New York. It is an iron hollow sphere weighing about 8,000,000 pounds with a bronze statue of America weighing 14,982 pounds overhead. The structure, planned by Thos U Walter, would cost about $3,200,000 for renovations and enlarging the central part.
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Washington
America
Washington Monument
Baltimore
Bunker Hill
Boston
Trinity Church
New York
St. Ete Seeasan
St. Genevieve
Paris
Unclear fragment on food and endurance event
Partial OCR text references horses and endurance, mentioning the United States or Europe. No identifiable people, organizations, or locations are readable to form a proper summary card.
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States
Europe
How to Make Moss Baskets from Woodland Moss
Instructions describe gathering green moss, forming a pasteboard frame, cutting fabric shapes, gluing edges, covering a straw strip with chenille cord, and assembling a decorative moss basket with red satin and decorative braiding. The steps include attaching moss to the outside, finishing seams, and tying the basket with chenille cord for a neat look.
Man Clings to Train Pilot After Snowbound Run
Rufus Kilgore of Oldtown narrowly escaped death when a slow moving train dragged him along the cowcatcher for about a mile in a blinding snow. He broke a leg but clung to the pilot until Oldtown and aid arrived. doctors expect his recovery. The tale aims to deter pedestrians from walking on rails.
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Bangor Whig
Rufus Kilgore
Oldtown
Wolf Kills Dog. Farmer Misfires, Smokes Cow
A wolf in La Salle County Illinois killed a farmer's dog. The owner fired an antique musket recalling his Revolutionary War lineage, aiming at the wolf but fatally striking a cow valued at sixty dollars.
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la Salle County
Ill
New York Stock Market Report and St Patrick’s Day Parade
The New York stock market opened up three percent on Erie with one hour of trading totaling forty thousand shares. Cotton markets showed quiet activity with low middlings at 2211 2 c and middlings at 223 V. A St Patrick’s procession drew over fifty thousand spectators along a route from Second Avenue to City Hall park, with signal guns fired after one o’clock for the parade reviewed by the Mayor and officials. At Bardall's Island House of Refuge, keeper Samuel Calvert died from a stab wound after youth inmate Justis Dunn drew a shoe-knife and attacked him. Dunn was committed.
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Erie
Second Avenue
St. Patrick's
Bowery
Chatham Street
City Hall Park
Samuel Calvert
House of Refuge
Bardall’s Island
Justis Dunn
Dunn
Calvert
Congressional Proceedings and Bills in House and Senate
In Washington on March 15 the House focused on bill and joint resolution introductions, with a St. Croix and Bayfield railroad measure referred to Public Lands. The Supplemental Civil Rights bill advanced briefly before adjourning morning hour. In the Senate, Louisiana voters petitioned to extend the 1870 election law for statewide fair elections. Logan planned Abbott of North Carolina action Thursday for a Friday vote. Bellose introduced the Mississippi Valley Levee Company charter. Conkling pressed an inquiry resolution on senior office recommendations.
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House
St. Croix and Bayfield
Committee On Public Lands
Senate
Louisiana
Committee On Elections
Logan
Abbott
North Carolina
Bellose
Mississippi
Long-Serving Auburn Prisoner Faces Unused Gallows
A prisoner in Auburn State prison has waited near a decade on death row after a 1862 murder conviction. Under the old law the Governor could order execution at any time, yet no commutation has been issued. He remains confined but lives under the constant threat of being taken out for the gallows, nightly praying for deliverance.
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Auburn
Devilish plot to drop performers at English pantomime
In a London theater during a pantomime, about twenty performers including young women and children were hoisted above the stage when a rope broke. Investigators found four of five strands cut on each rope. The partial cuts prevented disaster as the falls would have been forty feet, risking instant death or severe injury.
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Vilainy
Wedding Mixup in Springfield Ends in Laughter
A Springfield ceremony turned comic when the unaware minister began to wed the wrong couple the groomsman and bridesmaid. The intended couple spoke up before the vows, saving the moment and leaving all parties amused by the faux pas.
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Springfield
Mass
Moe Spaulding Biographical Notice Highlights Reserved Views
The notice recalls Spaulding’s cautious stance on public questions, noting his loyalty to land and ancestry while keeping sentiments private. It cites his belief that church must avoid day to day entanglements and details a wartime controversy over a pastoral on public issues.
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Moe | Spaulding
Rth
Kenrick
Spaulding
Cheese exports from the United States in 1871 total 67 pounds
The record notes that exports of cheese from the United States in 1871, excluding the last week, amounted to 67 pounds. This compact statistic highlights a small annual figure with no additional context on destinations or values.
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United States
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