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Summary of the Week's News
April 20, 1882 issue

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The article presents news items as published in this issue of this periodical. A committee representing the National Land League Association waited upon the U.S. president on Friday afternoon and submitted a resolution offered by legislator Boyle O'Reilly and adopted by the Convention, regarding the imprisonment of citizens in the United States. A mass meeting of 6,000 to 8,000 workmen, representing all trades, was held in Philadelphia to express indignation at the veto of the anti-Chinese immigration bill. The Senate passed the Omnibus Claim Bill. The jury in the South Carolina election cases have rendered their verdict.

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LABOR; MEETINGS; BILLS, Legislative; EMIGRATION & immigration; CRIMINAL justice, Administration of; UNITED States
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