Electric disturbance on Mount Portends Grant funeral
Morning papers declare Riverside park land cession for General Grant’s grave legal. Details recount Judge Macomber ruling city owns land in fee simple, affecting legislative action and the burial plan. Civic procession plans and memorial fund efforts unfold as funeral arrangements proceed with cabinet invitations and donor campaigns.
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Riverside Park
Capt Twomey
Common Council
Macomber
Supreme Court
Forty-second Streah
Orlando‘b. Potter
Grant's Medical Review and Funeral Pallbearers
Dr. George F Shrady will publish an extended Medical Record review of General Grant's case examining surgical and pathological aspects. The piece traces June 1884 to his death and presents two new theories. President Cleveland named pallbearers including Sherman Sheridan Porter Johnston Buckner Fish Boutwell Childs Logan Hoyt. Hayes and Arthur excluded. Ministers to attend in a body.
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Cleveland
Washington City
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Sheridan
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Rowan
Joseph B. Johnston
S. B. Buckner
Hamilton Fish
George S&s. Boutwall
George W. Childs
John A. Logan
George Jones
Oliver Hoyt
Hayes
Arthur
The Generals Sword and Uniform Relics
Washington notes that Secretary Endicott said the Grant family has no sword or uniform for the funeral. The relics in his care belong to Mrs. Grant, and he has received no indication the family wishes any relics, but would place them at her disposal if she does.
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Grant
Joseph Johnson
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Philadelphia
Fenseless
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Grant Cottage
Col Grant
Boston
Washington
The
Advertiser
Endicott
Sham battle injures nearly twenty at Connenut Lake
From Puiuad al Pain Pa Aug. 1 during a mock battle at Connenut Lake between Fifteenth regiment and Battery B Pittsburg under Capt Hunt, infantry assault repulsed but excited troops. Corporal Baker injured. Gideon Kimmel shot in the face. Adit Braden and Lieut Campbell and twelve infantrymen burned. Governor's Guard Erie provided relief. battery prizes included.
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Erie
Governor Martin denounces presidents cattle policy in Kansas
Kansas City Mo Aug 1 Governor John A Martin bitterly denounces the president's order to cattlemen as unjust and harmful to Indian lands. He argues leases benefit Indians and the public by beef supply, while Sheridan cites grass leases as root of trouble and warns cattle must be moved. Reports note Indian farms and small fields near Cheyenne Arapahoe country as a point of contention.
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Fitzhugh Lee
John E. Massey
John S. Hurt
Massey
Rufus A. Ayres
National Democratic
Cleveland
Maud 8 Sets New Track Record At Cleveland
Maud 8 lowered her own record on the Cleveland track to 2.0834 in a brilliant exhibition driven by Bair. After a fast first quarter and steady home stretch, the mare finished amid wild enthusiasm as officials announced the time and crowd acclaimed the performance with floral honors for the horse and rider.
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Execution at Ohio Penitentiary
Valentine Wagner, 57, was hanged at the Ohio penitentiary at 2:40 AM. He proclaimed innocence as the trap sprung at 7:58, dying without a quiver. Wagner killed Daniel Shohan in 1882 after liquor-fueled dispute over property. his body was shipped to Edison Station, Morrow county.
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Yquor
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Blood In His Eye and Wall Street Wrath in 19th Century Shakeup
The Sun reports Jay Gould losing about 1.5 million amid a stock rise in Vanderbilt and Granger shares. He sold large blocks of Union Pacific and Western Union and Missouri Pacific, planning to oppose a Morgan Vanderbilt coalition. West Shore, New York Central, and Pennsylvania rail debates loom as Drexel Morgan comment on bondholder assets and delivery of South Pennsylvania to Pennsylvania.
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Pennsylvania
Revolutionary train dispatching tested in baggage car
Milwaukee July 8. At West Milwaukee car-shops a baggage car is prepared for a practical test of an invention to revolutionize dispatching. An insulated tin roof and copper wire connect a pocket telegraph key to the roof, with induction to the track wires and a ground circuit via chains and axles. Messages travel from roof to wire, and are received aboard the train. Railway men await the test with interest.
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West Milwaukee Car-Shops
Detroit Boat Race Ends With Han lan Defeating Ime
A Detroit boat race Thursday saw Han lan easily defeat Ime. The report notes various other items including Turkey signing a $3.5 million heavy artillery contract, Moody ill at Newport, and multiple regional happenings from across the country.
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