EXTRA SESSION OPENS AS HOUSE TACKLES TARIFF BILL
Washington March 15 extraordinary session opens with work focused on passing a tariff bill. House leaders push for swift action using committees and special orders to route appropriation bills. New members flood the chamber with 448 newcomers and 206 Republicans 122 Democrats 29 fusion reps. Hobart conducts senate to start Fifty fifth congress with arbitration treaty looming executive session anticipated.
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Shooting Scrape in Alabama Sparks Race Riot
In Bimuinanaw Alabama on a Sunday afternoon two people were killed and a policeman shot during a fight that broke out after a burglary by Will Hunter. Officer William Perdue pursued, fired, and was wounded in the jaw. Hunter was fatally shot as he fled. A bystander Myrtle Boland, 56, was killed by a Perdue shot. A mob formed, whites clashed with blacks, and about a dozen people were injured. A second item reports a 15 year old, Tom Burgess, smothered in a corn bin near Gibbon Nebraska.
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Grant monument parade billed as greatest ever in country
New York on March 15 reports preparations for the Grant monument inaugural parade set for April 27. Attending will be the president cabinet supreme court foreign representatives governors of 20 states and the national guard. General Dodge as grand marshal flags a strong navy and army display with state guards cadets. Military and veterans leaders urge wide participation across factions.
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Free Whisky or Death as Man Kills Self in Missouri Barroom
A 20 year old Frank Lewis died after drinking carbolic acid in a St Joser saloon quarrel over payment for drinks. The incident occurred March 15 and the drinker collapsed at the police station. His father is a King City, Missouri business man. Other brief items note Ex Governor Horace Boies on monetary policy, a potential extradition in New York, a large timber cut in Maine, the death of Kentucky State Senator John P Salyers, and Colonel Alexander E Drake’s death in Philadelphia.
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Gage Delays Nominations To Treasury Posts In Washington
Washington March 15. Secretary Gage will not send nominations to the Senate for key treasury positions for some time. He has chosen two assistant secretary candidates and accepted Hamlin’s offer to resign in a few weeks. Leading contenders are W. B. Howell and Spaulding for assistant secretary and Wallace Hills or Major Brackett for chief clerk. President McKinley and family attended church service with Secretary Porter. Easter lilies from the White House were placed on the reading desk. Later, the president visited General Hastings at Garfield hospital, who is recovering from an accident. Ex-Governor Thayer was taken ill, doctors summoned, and he was moved to Providence hospital with bronchial fever. recovery expected.
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Chicago Unemployed Form League Declares Independence
Chicago unemployed men and women in the hundreds met to form the Unemployed Workmen's League and issue a Declaration of Independence against King Plutocracy. They endorsed rent refusal at tenant option, called for debt collection repeal, and debated work plans and salvation army farming ideas. The group estimates up to 100000 unemployed in the city and aims to spotlight their plight to authorities.
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