Receivers Bonds Questioned Over Land Office Handling
Secretary Noble faces a West Coast land office issue regarding the bonds of receivers. A Washington state case shows a receiver accepted a homesteader Neff’s final payment but did not record it, depriving the settler of a patent. If bondsmen are not liable, the interior may revise bond terms to better protect settlers.
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Washington
Noble
West
Neff
Land Office
Land’ Office
Tucson
Ariz
Secretary of the Interior
Christmas Bargains In Practical Holiday Articles
Thoughtful shoppers seek useful gifts as the Christmas season nears. The list highlights carving sets and cases, Rogers knives and forks, spoons, granite and pearl tea pots, pocket cutlery, garland stoves, nut crackers, Henkel razors, wringers, Potts irons, and tea pot stands.
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Rogers
Garland
Henkel
Potts
Canadian annexation debated at New York session
The State Committee on commercial relations with Canada heard testimony from Erastus Wiman and other prominent figures in New York on December 31. Wiman, a Canadian union advocate, argued closer U S relation would benefit Canada, while Senator Pugh contended commercial union would yield no benefit and annexation could not occur for fifty years. Testimony covered Canadian debt, the impact of railway exemptions, raw materials from Canada, and calls for reciprocity and federation ideas.
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New York
Canada
Tession
Erastus Wiman
Commercial ‘Union
Pessmans
United States
England
Bearden
Pugh
Wiman
Canadians Railways
Whiderstood
Hoar
Thomas L. Greene
Francis W. Glenn
Dominion
Senate committee in New York to probe meat trade.
In New York on December 31 the senate committee appointed to inquire into transportation and sale of United States meat products met at the Hoffman House. Attendees included Senators West Henderson Plumb and Farwell, with cattle exporters testifying on rail rates and shipment practices to England.
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Senate
New York
Senate Committee
United States
Hoffman House
West
Henderson
Plumb
Farwell
T. C. Eastman
East
Delaware,Lackawanna and Western Road
England
Gladstone Birthday Celebrations Across England
A nationwide wave of meetings and banquets marked Mr. Gladstone’s 80th birthday on December in 1881. Liberal-leaning papers praised him while a single hostile article in The St James Gazette accused him of Jacobin and Irish disloyalty, drawing little attention amid the tributes.
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England
London
Mr. Gladstone
St. James
Kemmiler Case Decided by New York Courts
New York courts affirm the dismissal of a habeas corpus writ in the Kemmiler case, condemning him to death by electricity under the new capital punishment law. An opinion by Judge Dwight concludes the mode is constitutional and reviews the evidence. Sing Sing prison electrical execution machines fail a state committee test, showing dynamos delivering over 1,000 volts and pulses around 2,000 volts at high speed.
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Kemmiler
New York
Rochesten
N. Y
Kemmier
Dwight
New Yorks
Sing Sing Prison
Carlos F. Macdonald
A. D. Rockwell
P. H. Landy
Triumph Leads Southern Fisheries Sealing Fleet
Victoria, B. C. December 31 The sealing schooner Triumph sailed Saturday with an experienced crew as the first to depart for the Southern cruise. The Triumph was previously boarded last year by the revenue cutter Rush and reported the seizure of the Black Diamond. The fleet will follow in a few days and sealers show renewed activity despite last season's seizures and unresolved Behring Sea dispute. Several new schooners have been bought in Nova Scotia and are being brought around Cape Horn to catch seals, with more vessels departing for Behring Sea than ever before.
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Victoria
B. C
Triumph
Nova Scotia
Cape Horn
Behring Sea
Czar Influenza From Sudden Lights Out In St Petersburg
St Petersburg reports the czar’s illness traced to the shock of the electric lights going out at the Gatchina palace. He suffered a rush of blood to the lungs and congestion. Also in brief notes, a Mexican jail break at New Laredo sends twelve to the American side, and composer Henry Mollenhauser dies in Brooklyn after a heart illness.
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St. Petersburg
Gatchina Palace
New Orleans
Times- Democrat
Laredo
Tex
New Laredo
Mex
Mexico
Brooklyn
Henry Mollen- Hauser
Livingston’ Street
Erfurt
Germany
Weimar
Europe
Attempt to Establish 8 Town on the Mile Square Grows
Feverish efforts by boomers to found a town on the mile square across the river from this city spark fear of a possible armed clash. Secret meetings and claims of a large arms supply create tension as leaders J. W. Shinn and Dr. Brown push the plan, with halfbreeds and squaw men said to back the move amid escalating excitement.
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Preeze
Mile Square
J. W. Shinn
Ohi
Dr. Brown
Jesse James
Turner’s Rascality Claims Million in Policies
Sioux Falls reports are that Dexter G. Turner, once general agent for Citizen's Life Association in South Dakota, is accused of writing about 1 million dollars in void policies without state permission. Detectives seek Turner as a major local insurance rascal, with notes sold to banks and cash pocketed. Nellie Bly in Hong Kong and other tidbits follow.
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South Dakota
Sioux Farls
Dexter G. Turner
Taylor
Ner
Citizen's Life Association
Cherokee
Towa
Turner
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Opera House
Flrst
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Lord Paintleroy
T. H. French
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Broadway Theater
Salutor Vic ‘Ord Fauntleray
Goddog
Willop
Dhaire
Tee
Sherwood
ITV
Wos
Genter St
Booead & Muiris
Alfred Dolge
Arctics
Alaskas
Tomers
Doud & Muir
Hardivore
Bissell
Landers, Frary & Clarke
Vienna
Jewett’s Brass
Third Street
A.C. Jones
Boliday Goods
Haley Gals
Bilas
Sditate
Randall
Sai Inied
Sean Rowe Pagdam
cEdward Hanlon Tee
Jake Gaudaur
Srow
Suaieus
EfiaBo
Salistuiy Ideau Epider
T Éoutein Pala
Gladstone
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Mollenhauser
Berlin
Elberfeld
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Grillenherer
Harm
Sam
Labor League
United’ States
Greathage
Frederick R. Coudert
Erhardt
Edward Kemp
Lanman & Kemp
John E
iGardness
Aix
Crossey
Ocean
Migration Board
Attem
Barniyee
Uta Ra
Preece & Latsch CO
Holesale Grocers
East Second Stree
Florida
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A. Ted’ Ovaters
IY 3D
FURS
Jin Our
Mufs
Boas
Minnxigold & CO
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Rascality
Nellie Bly
Hong Kong
China Sea
Oceanic
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Slavin
Sullivan
John L. Sullivan
Frank B. Slavin
Sportsman Office
Australia
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Elysian Fields
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Electric Light
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Saokaon
Peter Jackson
California Athletic Club
Longstreet
Atlanta, Ga
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Gho. EE. Hlmer
Wheeler & Allen
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Fine Club
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Hood
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