Navy Promotions Debate Shifts to Senate Session
The Senate spent the entire executive session discussing promotions of Admirals Sampson and Schley and other Santiago campaign officers over superiors. A 20 day postponement was approved to obtain Navy records. debate highlighted merit versus favoritism and divided lines among Senators.
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Hale
Senate
Sampson
Schley
Wellington and
Gorman
Navy Department
Lindy
Eightseers' Narrow Escape on Niagara Ice Bridge
Niagara Falls January 24. A massive ice bridge in the Niagara gorge broke loose with nearly 100 people on it. Sightseers crowded the banks and parks as the ice moved toward the American side. Most reached shore safely while a few, including two on the Canadian side, escaped dramatic moments before the mass collapsed. A man leaped to reach the arch as it rose. Three others were left on safety duty as panic spread among onlookers.
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Niagara
St. Niagara Falls
Niagara River
Steelarch
New York
Venezuelan arbitrators to hold session this week
Telegrams terse report that Venezuelan arbitrators will meet in a preliminary session Wednesday then adjourn until April. Other items note the New York House opposition to seating Utah’s Congressman Roberts and Depew denying plans for a transcontinental line by New York Central.
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New York House of Representatives
Roberts
Utah
Chauncy M. Depew
New York Central
Port Victor
Old Point
Mexico City
Diaz
Manuel Aspiroz
United States
Almida
Shields
New York
Barber and Castleman
Cornell
J. G. Shurman
Philippine Commission
Cornell University
Philadelphia
George W. BE
Ayres
John J. Wilson
Massilia
Havana
Cadiz
Azore Islands
James Paul Jones
T. M. Rickard
Boca Ratone
Stockmen in Session Eastern delegates chosen
The National Livestock Association executive committee met with 11 states and territories represented. President Springer presided. 46 associations totaling about 5,000 members and 8,000,000 head of stock were listed. Denver and Dallas Fort Worth San Antonio were named as future sites.
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Denver
National Livestock Association
John W. Springer
Charles F. Martin
George L. Goulding
Dallas
Fort Worth
San Antonio
Chicago
Colorado State Cattle Growers’ Association
National Bureau of Animal Industry
Furious Stock Market Rally and Sharp Declines Across Markets
Stock trading surged to a record 1,620,000 shares with bond sales at 9,046,000 as gains of 6 to 10 points sparked a fierce opening. Profit taking followed, then renewed strength in coal and Gould issues with the bank report cited as fueling the rally, before a later downturn.
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Wall Street
New York
Gould
Allen Arrives Onscene Fusion Caucus In Lincoln
Lincoln Jan 24 Allen from Washington stirs fusion support as a closed caucus weighs backing a Republican candidate. Hayward gains two votes while Dittmar’s absence leaves him at 41. Hayward shifts support among several legislators and Hinshaw exits. The group contemplates voting for Allen until further canvassing, with a split likely this week.
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Lincoln
Hayward
Dittmar
Hainer
Barton
Field
Beisner
Hinshaw
Tucker
Hibbert
Weston
Isreal
Adams
Reese
W. V. Allen
B. Weston
M. L. Hayward
F. J. Foss
John L. Webster
C. Be, Adams
D. E. Thompson
J. Cornish
G. M. Lambertson
J. H. van Dusen
Allen W. Field
M. B. Reese
Cese B.H. Hinshaw
Senator Allen
Washington
Alien
W. J. Bryan
E. Rosewater
The
Omaha Bee
Lorenzo Crounse
A. R. Talbot
Bryan
Hogs and cattle market reports in Chicago and St Louis
Market updates show hog receipts 32 000 with mix price 3 55 to 3 85 and heavy hogs at 3 65. cattle receipts 3 400 with steady market around 4 00. Also includes political dispatches from West Virginia Nevada California and Dakota with senatorial contests and legal notices from Atlantic Iowa.
Appointment of Executor for Almeida Jones Estate
Notice is hereby given that J B Jones has been appointed and qualified as Executor of the estate of Almeida Jones of Cass county Iowa, deceased. All persons indebted to the estate must pay immediately and those with claims should present them authenticated to the undersigned for allowance dated January 19, 1899. February 1899.
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District Court
Cass County
Iowa
Henery Bell
Plains
Geo. W Franklin Et al
Geof Franklin
Elizabeth Franklin
Shaw & Crombie
Carrie T Graham
Alice L Graham
Atlantic
P Huu, Hariff
Said
Almeida Jones
J B Jones
Conveyances records recap of January property transfers
A sweep of January conveyances lists Mary Isabel Blakeslee and others transferring parcels to Mary Mitchell and others, with multiple swaths of land described by section and township, values ranging from 700 to 96 but much of the text is garbled. A closing note notes a traveler returning from a world tour delivering 140 addresses in India, Japan and beyond.
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Gillett Paper Center
Kansas City
Jan
Grant Gillett
Gillett
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San Francisco Mint
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Pierre
Les
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Lixcotx
Havre
Baielle
Curiaco
Montague & Co
L. T. Spangler
Atlantic Iowa
Creamery Ag
Mary Isabel Blakeslee
William Collinan
Peter Andersen
M Baxter
Park Disbrow
D.s
Lewis
E Perkins
Lillian V Connor
Swd
Massenz
Briggs
NK Lair
James G Whitney
Ella
Thomas H Whitney
W P Laartz
Qed
Funk Et Ux
Charles C Dolan
Martha J Hufford
Nicholas Cullen
James Glascoe
Robert Chapman
Massena
Julia Ann Haworth
Martha Haworth
John Henry Barrows
India
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