NEW TARIFF BILL SHAPES UP AS REVENUE AND PROTECTION
Washington outlines a plan to raise about 190 million in the first year by specific duties aimed at boosting U S industry. The measure restores reciprocity with sugar tea coffee and hides and adds new targets such as champagne brandy wines and silk laces. Committee chairman Dingley says the bill seeks revenue and stronger domestic production with a projected second year revenue near 190 million and a potential first year loss if delayed past May.
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Washington
House
Dingley
United States
Havana
Cuba
Ean
Wits
Denny Meses
Lowe
Ways and Means Committee
Farmers’ Institute
Iowa
Regent
Uul
Ton
CG. Cole
Nde
Supreme Court of Law
Forceolty
Almain
Des Moines
Laws
Dun Gowale
G. W. Franklin
O. Bist
A New Champion Firemans Wing the Mutle at Carvon City
Robert Fitzsimmons defeated James J. Corbett in Carson Nevada to claim the world heavyweight title. The knockout came in the fourteenth round after a single left hand blow under Corbett’s heart, in a bout attended by about 5 000 fans with a $15 000 purse and a $5 000 side stake. Postfight, Corbett apologized. the crowd praised the fighters. Fitzsimmons plans retirement to Gotham as his wife supports the move.
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Bob Firesimmons
Carvon City
Carson
Robert Fiesimmons
James d. Corbett
Kaves
Ior
Carbett
John JL. Sullivan
Joe Goddard
Tom Sharkey
Corbett
Nev
Fitzsimmons
Gotham
Ring
Witzsimmons
Raging Waters Threaten Southward West
Telegraphic reports from the Mississippi Ohio and Missouri valleys describe continuing flood devastation. Dams and levees are breached lives lost crops swept away stock drowned shelters inundated and bridges submerged. Wisconsin towns and Iowa cities including Sioux City Fond du Lac Rock Valley Charles City Dubuque and Keokuk face extreme damage and worsening conditions.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Ohio
Missouri
Wisconsin
Wales
Found du Lac
Ripon
Sheboygan
Beloit
Racine
Plainfield
Fond du Lac
Sioux City
Floyd River
Big Sioux
Hawarden
Rock Valley
Charles City
Dubuque
Keokuk
Pingree Loses as Michigan Court Vacates Detroit Mayoralty
Michigan Supreme Court rules the Detroit mayoral office becomes vacant when Hazen Pingree left as governor on January 1. A special election is ordered for April 5 to fill the vacancy. The ruling, unanimous, holds the mayoralty as a state office incompatible with gubernatorial tenure.
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Michigan Supreme Court
Lansing
Mich
Supreme Court of Michigan
Detroit
Hazen v. Pingree
Michigan
Snake Controls An Island Off Florida Coast
Walter Ralston of the Smithsonian snake department seeks to capture a reported giant serpent on Snake Key near Florida, where guides and locals fear the creature after disappearances and killings blamed on it. Ralston plans a large canvas lure to attract and trap the monster, asserting expertise with serpents.
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Mack Pont
Florida
Weld
Black Point Key
Miami
Fla
Walter Ralston
Smithsonian Institution
Snake Department
East Coast Railway Company
Ralston
Want Annexation by Cuban League of United States
A Cuban League of the United States report cites covert pro annexation sentiment among property owners in Cuba and among Spanish and American interests. It accuses Weyler of genocide against the Cuban race, destruction of poorer classes’ property, forced relocation, and mass disease and famine in gile sheds.
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Cuban League of the
United States
Cuba
Cuban League
Weyler
preacher kills cats in pulpit to illustrate tobacco harm
In Cadillac Michigan Rev W L Laufman with Dr C J Miller staged a sermon to show tobacco’s danger by killing two cats in the Methodist church. The cats received nicotine and died within minutes, warnings followed about alcohol and a drunkard's stomach to be shown next Sunday.
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W. la Laufman
C. J. Miller
Cadillac
Mich
Laufman
Mwler
Vermont Denizen Seeks Answers On Rochester Electric Light
A Vermont resident, curious about electric illumination in Rochester, North Carolina, wrote the Rochester postmaster with questions about how the light is produced and displayed. He asks how it works, its height, operating times, power source, candle power, visibility range, and duration of experimentation.
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Vermont
Gull Feathers and Butter Prices Reported
Gull shooting is popular at Eastport Maine where feathers fetch about 30 cents per pound. In Nebraska butter markets show prices around ten cents per pound, with Ogallala noted for good quality butter.
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Eastport
Nebraska
Ogkdsle
Neb
Viennese Mother Sets Record With Thirty Two Children
A Viennese linen weaver's wife, aged about forty, is described by Dr. Alois Valenta as having given birth to 32 children, 26 boys and 6 girls, the most in the empire. She nursed them all. the births occurred in sequence from four to three children per birth. She suffered epileptic fits from age fifteen, not inherited by the offspring.
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Vienna
Annina
Alois Valenta
Wiener Medivinische Wochenschift
Neuerdenfeld
A Fish Memory Question Sparks Outlandish Debate
In brief notes from London, German professor Ludwig Edinger seeks data on whether wave fish have memory, inviting Lancet readers to share observations. The column muses on fish behavior, angler etiquette, and the humorous notion that memory could influence fishing gear choices.
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Westminster Gazette
Ludwig Edinger
Lancet
Izaak Warltor
Fleet Street
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Los Angeles
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Sinaloa
Mes
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway
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Edward B. Smith
U Town
Ottumwa
Ill
Cullen & Co
Nelson Dingley, JR
Pingree
Philadelphia
Edward Gibbons
Jack Perry
Manner Club
Perry
Gibbons
Springfield
William M. Glenn
Glenn
Associated Press
Capital
New York
Minnesota
Xas
Buttar Creamery
Orr
ESD Snes
Milwauker
Greers
Snake
SAA
Special Institute
Homestead CO
Deve
Kingdom of
Denmark
Goverment
Sanday
Transvaal
Rand
South Africa
Trangvaal Volksraed
The
Algona Deposit & Loan Assn
Algona Strate Bunt
Jen Th Bell
Waterloo Tent and Awning Co
East 4Th St
Waterloo, Iowa
L.L. May & GO
Nurserymen and Leadsman
St. Paul, Minn
Wrisley’s
Bancroft Insurance Agency
J. A. Frech
Kossuth
Kossuth County
Eee LC
Inter Ocean
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