FIGHTING MYRICK Nomination Delays in Washington Power Play
Washington dispatch reports President Cleveland delaying Bascom Myrick’s nomination as consul general to Berlin amid Georgia opposition, with Georgia figures optimistic of eventual approval. General P. M. B. Young to Guatemala is likely sworn in. a New York anti-snappers theory and various Georgia posts and consular appointments are noted along with departmental staff counts and recent resignations.
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Washington
Bascom Myrick
Berlin
Senate
Smith
Georgia
Myrick
President House
E Americas
Cleveland
P. M. B. Young
Guatemala
Young
New
Kenami
Evening Star of Today
Interior Department
Land Service
Trolian Service
Pension Service
Census Service
Geological Survey
Patent Office
District of
Colynthia
John Temple Gravey
Btr
Bascom Myulick
Jhowas R. Gibson
Edinburgh
F., H. Richardson
Atlanta
B W. H. Richardson
Columbus
Lindsey Johnson
Rome
Antwerp
Sam Tanhouser
Aire
Paso del Norte
New York
Tonshi
Blaine
Morton
Robert G. Blaine
Agricultural Department
James G. Blaine
Farrow Named Auditor and Wills Deputy at Treasury
A wrongly transcribed report notes Farrow of South Carolina named auditor of the treasury and James J. Wills of Florida appointed deputy fifth auditor. The document includes a Myrick response to charges against Cleveland, recounting Georgia delegates at the Chicago convention and a disputed claim of bitterness toward Cleveland’s nomination. The message closes with the assertion “He Sends BASCOM MYRICK.”
Hoar Attacks Popular Election of Senators in Debate
Washington April 7 senate session shows thinning attendance with forty seven present. A commerce committee trip to the Pacific coast was agreed to to study deep water harbor sites at San Pedro and Santa Monica. Hoar closed his lengthy speech opposing the constitutional amendment for direct senatorial elections, contrasting Palmer’s support and recalling Tompkins era senators.
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Tacdey
Senate
Committee On Commerce
Pacific Coast
San Pedro
Santa Monica
Vodrichevs
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Toledo
Hoar
United States
Horn
Palmer
Tilgoiahad
Douglasa
Shields
Davis
Logan
Oullom
Poralar
Limsel
Unu
Tlinois
Winois
Nominations Sent To Senate From Washington
The president submitted nominations including Caleb W. West of Utah for governor of the Montana territory and Dominick J. Murphy of Washington to be first deputy commissioner of pensions. A. W. Lyon of Montana was named collector of internal revenue for Montana and David G. Browne of Montana to be collector of customs for Montana and Idaho. West, a former governor, is praised for statehood efforts. Murphy is noted as a longtime pensions official and brother to the Senate stenographer.
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Wuotmnectas
Washington
Lhe
Interior
Caleb W._West
Utah
Dowiaick
Blarrity
Murphy
Gsenate
SUDD'S COMMISSION SIGNED AND AUSTRIA REACTION EXPECTED
Washington April 7 The president signed the commission of Mr Max Judd of St Louis as United States consul general at Vienna. No Austrian objections have been communicated. Judd to Vienna to assume duties unless refused. Cabinet met three hours focusing on the upcoming presidential vigil and cabinet trip to New York for the naval review and to Chicago for a related event.
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Austria
Washington
Max Judd
St. Louis
United States
Vienus
State Department
Judd
Vienna
New York
Chicago
Alen
Turks Burn Female Seminary and US Rights Demanded
Washington reports a Turkish incident at Marsovan where a girls seminary burned amid seditious placards blamed on American students. The United States seeks prompt reparation and punishment for those found guilty, with Consul Jewett protected and officials pressed to secure Americans' rights in Turkey.
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Marsovan
Cassarea
Asia Minor
Anatolia College
Marsovun
Girls’ Seminary
United States
Mito A. Jewete
Sivex
Thompson
Jewett
Sublime Porte
Gresham
Constantinople
Hompson
Turkey
Sanitary council meeting divides on national policy
Delegates at the sanitary council of the Mississippi Valley meet at the 1ufih Avenue hotel to debate broader national aims. Resolutions urge thorough inquiry into cholera in Russia, push sanitary trade inspection across fifteen states, and seek migratory controls under quarantine laws. Twenty-two delegates visit New York quarantine facilities.
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New York
State Boards of Health
Sanitary Council of
Mississippi Valley
Caina
2Sippi Valley
Minnesota
Louisiana
Towa
Pennsylvania
Conference of State Boards
Russia
Marine Hospital Service
Washington
Fifty-Four Lost In Collision With Sultan’s Palace Steamer
A Constantinople dispatch reports the sultan's palace steamer sunk after a collision with the admiralty steamer Teach soie amid a northerly gale. Fifty four souls drowned, most of them servants. An inquiry has been ordered into the accident.
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Vienna
Constantinople
Admiralty
Mystery Murder Confession From 1865 Grave
Clarksville Indiana April 7 A written confession by Dr Francois Fontenay reveals he murdered Rev A M Feltner in 1865 to steal his wife s body for an autopsy. Feltner blocked the vandalism and was killed. Fontenay buried the body and later autopsied Feltner s widow s remains were found in a cellar grave. Fontenay adopted Feltner s children and left a fortune to them. The widow Feltner was reinterred beside her husband.
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Clarksville, Venn
Francois Fountenay
Burien
Pountenay
Feuntenay
Murder of a Young One-Armed Man Near Chester
A young one-armed white man, unnamed, was murdered this morning and his body dumped in Ashland branch near Chester, twelve miles from Richmond. A tramp seen with the deceased Thursday is suspected. The killer used a long oak stick, delivering a heavy blow above the left ear, with the body thrown into the stream. No identification found. initials TB on the shirt and I on the handkerchief. hat missing. The deceased wore Browning, King & Co. clothes and had a $2 bill and a pipe.
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Richmond
Ashland Branch
Chester
Richmond and Petersburg
Atiganil
Browning, King & Co
New York
Douglas County Records First Death by Own Action
A tramp was found dead two miles north of Douglasville Georgia after hanging himself by a strap to a tree. The body was spotted by the seven year old daughter of Mr Will Johnson on her way to school. The case is reported as a death by own action with the body in a fitting posture.
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Douglasville
Here
Will Johnson
Death by own action in Douglas county case
A man of German nationality was found dead after an inquest in Douglas county. A frightened child raised the alarm as a crowd gathered around the body. The only lead was a card for Dr Leachlin at the House of Relief in New York dated September 23, 1802, with the inquest ruling the death a suicide.
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Leachlin
House of Relief
New York
Douglas County
Free Love Doctrine Report From Wayne County Ohio
The report by Mrs Ella Olmstead a Wooster area preacher reveals a free love doctrine among local believers in Madisonburg and nearby Smithville. She disclosed that many female parishioners had embraced the doctrine and that a former pastor connected to the Madisonburg church facilitated confessions after a sermon. The disclosure implicates several local families including married and single women across the farming community.
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Bailthville
Cleveland
Wooster
Wayne County
Ella Olmstead
Land Confession Ties Others in Oliver Delaney Tragedy
Lewis Land, once a quiet pallbearer and observer at the Oliver family tragedy in Sturgis Kentucky, confessed to authorities implicating the arrested suspects including Alexander Thomason and Will Holt. George P. Henry is not named in the confession as implicated. Mob violence was anticipated following the confession.
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Lewis Land
Sturgis
Oliver- Delaney
Oliver
Berry
George P. Henry
Alexander Thomason
Will Holt
Suicides and Crimes Plague Early April News
Snappyle Tenn April 7 Snecla Eps Jones a white man thirty seven years old suicided with morphine tonight. He married recently and squandered money, had been with his wife’s funds, and was arrested for walking with a prostitute. He left a letter saying he could not stop drinking and chose death. Burglars on Broughton Street stole about $200 from Gray & O'Brien and Collattrow stores. Graves will likely not be tried over Mrs. Winaby’s alleged killing. A Norfolk council member was stabbed by a burglar and died. A Georgia murder case resulted in acquittal. In California a mob injured a Spanish killer who murdered a woman and an elderly German bystanders.
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Jones
Bavsonah
Savannah
Broughton Street
Gray & O'Brien
Collattrow
Muttanee Wee
Graves
Providence
R. E. Agit
Winaby
Denver
Norfolk
John Dolard
Davidson Green Freen
Wayerosa
Dave Dwerdeon
Murdeor
Williamsem
Wareshore
Chicago river pollution report alarms British visitors
The Lancet commissioners report Chicago river water heavily polluted by animal refuse and sewage. At the mouth and near stockyards the condition worsens. temperatures range from 33F to 41F, air 24F, with the smell vile. Domestic supply should be filtered as sediment remains in lake water. A later call discusses Irish Home Rule and Gladstone. A St Louis verdict finds Charles Wisdom guilty of murder with sentencing deferred.
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Lancet
Chicago
Chicago River
Stock
Pooping Station
Igaan
National Federation
Cape T
National Federation of America
Gladstone
House of Commons
Rliament
Academy of Music
New York
Friends of Ireland
Seeaniee
Wuilty
Pineder
St. Louis
Charles Wisdom
Joboard
Bath Colored
BE. A.ler
Wild Weather Report From Chicago To Boston
A dramatic array of weather events reported April 7 across major cities. Chicago saw a record warm day at 82 degrees followed by a damaging hailstorm and ferocious winds that shattered windows on Cottage Grove Avenue and toppled structures near the fairgrounds. Reports from Charleston Augusta and Lincolnton note earthquakes and tremors without major damage. Snow fell in New York and Boston with several inches in parts. Tennessee storms brought lightning and injuries including a woman fatally struck in Sparanaya.
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Chicago
Cottage Grove Avenue
Indiana Hotel
Lookout Mountain
South Carolina
Charleston
S.C
Curt Make
Bagefield
Georgia
Augusta
Zaucolaton
New York
Catekins
Trey
Rage
Boston
Tennessee
Nine Men Killed As Drainage Machine Slams Engine House
A drainage channel accident near Joliet injures about a dozen workers. nine men die and five are wounded when a 280 ton cantilever machine collapses the engine house after a gale and gear failure. Foreman Samuel Korns from Joliet survived.
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Joliet
Tumeo
Samuel Korns
Whisky Warehouses Burn at Owensboro Kentucky Blaze
Fire destroyed four Glenmore Distilling Company warehouses in Owensboro Kentucky causing the loss of about 18 995 barrels of whisky with four hundred taxed barrels. The total estimated loss is 250 000 dollars with three nearby cottages destroyed. Insurance fully covers the losses.
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Owensbor
Owensboro
Glenmore Distilling Company
Glenmere Distilling Company
Monarch
W. Va
Pomeroy
Ravenswood Narrowly Escapes Gas Asphyxiation Incident
Chicago reports that Ravenswood residents narrowly escaped asphyxiation when gas lights failed then leaked back into homes after opening windows. Several people, including Mrs Agnes Roeg and others, suffered severe gas effects despite a prompt relief effort awakening neighbors. The incident followed a brief townwide gas outage late at night on April 7.
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Ravenswood
Severix
Gan
Agnes Roeg
Commercial Avenue
Marr Grifin
H.W Anderman
Paul
Na Street
Wileos
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