Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Champion a magnificent majority. But though the Democracy was defeated, it still "claimed everything." Charges were made that three colored chambermaids had been colonized near the polls in the east corridor, and that they had voted as a unit for the Republicans. A Democratic deputy-inspectress, while attempting to arrest a repeatoress, was in turn arrested by a Republican marshallette. Turbulent scenes were for a time in prospect, but the arrival of the supper hour happily averted the threatened collision...
...alluded to the new inter-collegiate athletic rules as the outcome of a desire of the Harvard faculty to protect their students from the beatings received at foot-ball from Yale, and, becoming serious, said in a national sense there were only two colleges whose intellectual and physical contests arrest the attention and arouse the enthusiasm of the American people-Harvard and Yale. He hoped they would never come nearer together, but go on each endeavoring to show its own system to be the best, for that meant progress in education...
...between ourselves and the students of more favored institutions of learning, both here and in other countries, it is particularly gratifying to be able to point out some peculiarities in which we have a decided advantage over the students of many European colleges. But recently we heard of the arrest of many Russian students for implication in Nihilis plots. This, however, is no new occurrence. For years the universities and higher colleges of Russia have been infected with spirit of disloyalty towards the government, which has often been the cause of collisions with the local authorities and in some cases...
...rumors as to the immediate arrest of Sheridan on extradition proceedings at the instance of the British government seem to have no foundation...
Perrin H. Sumner, a lawyer, is under arrest in New York on a charge of swindling Mr. D. M. Davidson out of $15,000 in a bogus mining speculation...