Two Houses Open Congress With Crowds At Capitol
Senate and House inaugurations drew packed galleries and street crowds as new senators were sworn in. John G. Carlisle secured the speakership after a contested vote, while Keifer and Robinson also received votes. Carlisle urged careful policy and fiscal restraint as Congress prepared to receive the president's message.
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Capitol
Congress
Tinchover
Tom Scott
Edwin McPherson
Mississippi
J. R Chalmers
J. R. Chambliss
J. R. Chalmers
Geides
John G. Carlisle
Kentucky
Cannon
J. Warren Keifer
Ohio
Warren Keifer
George D. Robinson
William T. Lacey
Michigan
John T. Wise
Virginia
J. W. Wadsworth
Indiana
Messrs. James
New York
Lyman
Massachusetts
Robinson
Texas
Wadsworth
Messrs
Randall and
Keifer
Carlisle
House
Kelley
Pennsylvania
Springer
Illinois
Peters
Kansas
Senate officers in limbo as Anthony delays action
Republican senators plan a caucus to reorganize committees while delaying action on new Senate officers until Senator Anthony arrives from New York sick. House officers assume duties immediately as old officers hand over accounts. W. P. Canady is backed for sergeant at arms by Logan and Sherman, Col. Hooker campaigns hard. Pool Will Hang. Dantsk, Dec. 4 Fenian Joseph Poole, recently convicted of murder, denied a new trial and faces hanging December 18 unless intervention from Sir William Vernon Harcourt occurs.
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Anthony
New York
House
W. P. Canady
North Carolina
Wilmington
N. C
Logan
Sherman
Col
Hooker
Vermont
Pool
Dantsk
Joseph Poole
William Vernon Harcourt
Home Secretary
Morgaln
East Seco
Chicago Favored for Two National Conventions
Reporter quotes Warren G. Leland in Circano on December 4 as saying Chicago has excellent chances to host both national party conventions. Leland notes broad favorable sentiment from leading party figures, central location, and sufficient facilities, with announcements expected within the coming week.
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Warren G. Leland
Chicago
John B. Jeffery
Washington
Two Men Mortally Wounded In Arizona Trial Fight
In Prescott Arizona during a trial between C W Beach and P McAter a clash erupted when District Attorney Charles Rush and Attorney General Church argued. Beach was stabbed by McAter, Beach shot McAter, and McAter wounded James Moore who also was mortally hurt. Beach expected to recover. no bailiffs present.
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Ark
C. W. Beach
P. McAter
Church
Charles Rush
Rush
Beach
McAter
James Moore
Moore
The
Arizona Miner
Patti and Nicolini and the Patti fame saga
New York gossip outlines Patti's rumored earnings of five thousand dollars per night and a vast yearly income. It describes her Welsh castle, Nicolini as her attentive accompanist, and a fraught liaison with a former husband Marquis de Caux. It notes Minnie Hauck, Miss Josephine Yorke, and Miss Pappenheim, plus legal shifts on whether a singer’s income can be claimed by a separated spouse.
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Patti
Wales
London
Nicolini
Hai
van Zandt
Europe
Marquis de Caux
Shim
Cams
de Caux
Theo
Plegan
Nicolai
Mobey
F . Courts
Carmen
Ty Nilsson
Nilsson
South
Josephine Yorke
Cincinnati
Belvedere Hotel
Pappenheim
Yorke
Havig
Four Drown In Virginia Creek Crossing
A small boat capsized while four of six attempted to cross a creek between Duckington and Keddall Grove in Ricamonp county Virginia. Shouisa Vaughn Betty Spady Join Bristow and George Danton drowned. Two others were saved.
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Nartuismptas County
Duckington
Keddall Grove
Shouisa Vaughn
Betty Spady
Bristow
George Danton
Judge Gresham's Report on Post Office Receipts and Expenditures
The annual statement shows 1880 revenue at 45.51 million with 42.82 million expenditures, 47,786 post offices, and 1.8247 billion mail pieces handled. It urges one ounce first class weighting, bans lottery ads in newspapers, and discusses postal telegraph plans and Congress’s powers to build or contract lines.
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Washington Orry
Gresham
Department
Pacific Railway
Congress
Hour of Death Follows Pastor and Sexton in Church Tragedy
In East Boston the Rev. Cudworth’s death on Thanksgiving Day leads to the demise of his longtime sexton Lewis G. Smith as grief overwhelms him during funeral preparations. Smith, 63, collapsed after declaring, My hour has come, too, and died in the vestry as mourners gather. Other items note an attempted abduction in Odessa, a schooner-steamer collision off Cove Point, and updates on Senator Anthony and Charles A. Dennir.
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Samuel Hill
Hill
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Alice
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