Butler's Colored Cadet and Soldiers' Reunion
The article notes Charles Sumner Wilson a seventeen year old mulatto from Batem Massachusetts chosen as a cadet with West Point precedent ignored. It also reports Des Moines meeting of the Soldiers' Reunion Executive Committee and Geneva Committee setting plans for a county organization to attend the reunion and arrange railroad access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler
Wyoming
Arizonia
West Point
Ben Sutter
Charles Sumner Wilson
Batem
Massachusetts
55Th Regiment
Maes. Infantry
Salem High School
Des Moines
Geneva Committee
Ireeting & County
Row
Haven
Giehty
Ber
Iowa Senate and House Proceedings March 14 19
Legislative items detail bills and resolutions across Senate and House from March 14 to March 19. Topics include taxation of railroad property, state institutions funding, abolition of the General Term Court, deaf and dumb asylums, state normal school, reform school location, and public notices. Late news items cover political appointments, immigration waves, and national events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Twelfth Assembly
Congress
House
Washington County
A. Conner
Lowa County
Iowa
Iwelfth Assembly
State University
G. W. Edwards
J. J. Smart
Martin Heisey
Hovsk
B. Critchfield
Henry C. Anderson
13Th Iowa Infantry
County of
Cedar
State Town
Alma Parr
Sylvia Parr
James Vanorn
Wm. Parr
Tondney Parr
James van Horn
Cedar County
Tipton
John D. Shearer
Equine Remedies and Political Curiosities Dominate Iowa Dispatch
A Davenport insurance liquidation report estimates liquidation payout near seventy five cents on the dollar. The Muscatine Journal notes F B Magill plans a weekly temperance paper. Debating society at Lyons ponders a biting joke about meals. A Burlington hip injury from a somersault stirs voting rots. A Muscatine doctor captures a tapeworm六0 feet long. Gillmore sells plow patent for six thousand dollars. A drop letter in Pella references affectionate rebuke. A habeas corpus conflict over distiller subsidies plays out in North Carolina and Iowa circuit. Hog cholera cure recipe circulates in Winterset. Breckenridge recalls Kentucky rail totals versus Iowa. A Mississippi Senator encounter with Democrats closes this miscellany.
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Davenport
Iowa
National Fire Insurance Company
Muscatine Journal
F. B. Magill
Good Templars
Muscatine
Lyons
Joseph Barrick
Gillmore
Pella
Marion County
Forger tricks and court case tied to California mob threats
Broad roundup notes alarming forgery methods threatening brokers and bankers. A Mississippi jail escapee Verger returns to surrender after writing to the Governor. A California mob threat against Chinese workers looms, while a Keokuk county notary loses office for forged bounty receipts. A quirky marriage notice from Salt Lake City mentions Brigham Young and multiple English spouses.
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Iowa
Keokuk County
Merrill
Young—Martin
Salt Lake City
Saints
Brigham Young
J. R. Martin
L. M. Pendergrest
R. M. Jenickson
Susie P. Cleveland
Emily P. Martin
Berks
England
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L. Longley
Ben Butler
General Assembly
Sigel
Portugal
Pope
Rome
Sam Lynch
Dubuque
Rock Island
Arkansas
Ohio Senate
Daniel K. Sickles
Spain
Dhays
Kansas
Kansas Pacific Road
Liverpool
Boston
Queenstown
London
New York
Albans
Conkling
Committee On Judicary
Gen. Ames
Senate of the
United States
Esipiel
Pennesseee
Bradley
New Jersey
United States Supreme Court
Iown City
the Tribune
Burlington
Cole
Supreme Court
United States Court of North Carolina
S. H. Loring
W. T. Bennett
Atlantic
Bennett
Internal Revenue Department
Raleigh
N.C
Mr. Loring
U.S
Clark
Gen. Clark
Capt. Clark
Winterset
Madisonian
Proceess
Vhn C. Breckenridge
1oWa
Staten
Kentucky
Revers
Mississippi
Verger
Missisippian
Colonel Crane
Jackson
Miss
Johnny
Minnie
Johnson
California
San Francisco
Lyman
James Vick
W. H. Lyman
Seedsman
Amherst
vLeaeeret Ass
F. Methodist
E. H. Pound
Circuit Court
Sarah J. Frank
Hiram Frank
Adm
Sam
Wirick
Boot & Shoe Shop
Cedar St
Virgin Block
Wirick'’S
VICK
Va Kentest N.Y
M. Beach
Tipton, Iowa
St. Louis
Messrs
Crane, Breed & Co
Oasis
James Phelps
Circuit Court of Cedar
Peounty
Town
Martha J. Pickering
William Pickering
Martha J. Pick
Mort
New Brunswick
E. Bacon
Wilton
Snatp & McMillen
Clarence
Clarence Road
Price
H. C. Pratt
Tipon
Red Oak Cove
Wm. H. Tuthill
Tipton, Cook & Drury
Nenport
Auf
John W. Brown
Sugar Creek Township
John Munn, JR
Wilter
S. E. Dearborn’s
ART Gallery
West
Dearborn & Eaton's
Beeba
Wolf & Landt
Free Lands
New West
H. C. Wendling
Sulkeies
Tured
Court Square
New
Fred Herschfields
Ladies Gentlemen's & Phim
Dutch Fred's
South Side Court House Square
Ton, Towa
Sitarp & McMillen
Mechanics- Vvile
A. R. Starrett
Wm. Lichtenwalter
Springfield Township
WM. Elliott
Otice
Girdle
Y Reed
Rosalor RN
Piatt & Carr
Sprague
Rberp Hoover
Whitions
Atv
Pennsylva
Etar County
Chas
Funk
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