Word: telegraphs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...between the Northwestern railroads was brought to a close yesterday, and telegraph orders have been sent to restore today the old rates for freight and passenger traffic...
...attorney-general of New York has granted a hearing on an application made to him by Joseph P. Greaves, to bring suit in the name of the people against the Western Union Telegraph Co., to vacate its charter and remove the directors...
...Paynter, for many years Richmond manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and at the time of his death superintendent of the Southern Telegraph Company, died at his residence at Richmond, Va., yesterday, aged...
Dartmouth students have formed a Students' Union Telegraph Company. The class of '86 at Dartmouth has eighty-six members...
...letter, just received by a gentleman at Hartford from a friend in China, tells what the students, lately recalled from this country, are doing. Fifty-one have been distributed as follows: Twenty to the telegraph office, eight to the medical school, ten to the torpedo school, seven to the mining school, four to the customs department, and two to the government docks. The rest, about forty in number, are in the naval school in Tientsin. A letter from one of the students indicates that the official wrath has been somewhat appeased by the discovery that the boys have not foresworn...