Congressreadies as Democrats weigh election bill
Washington Oct 9 The tenth week of the extra session marks a turning point with party caucuses to decide whether the Tucker or Fitch election bill passes while the silver repeal and related measures loom. Barrett Bryan returns to Capitol amid talk of party shifts as lenders plan to close World’s Fair arrangements in Chicago.
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Fitch
Bryan
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Martin (Kan
Cockrell
Yourhges
Mr. Voorhees
McCreary
Geary
Committees On Rules
Representative Geary
Oates
Geaty
Caccus
Vesuvius
New York and
New Jersey Bridge Company
Hudson
New York
Committee On Commerce
The
United States
Great Rock Island
Englewood
Canada
Mexico
JNO
Sebastian
Pass
Chicago
Joum
Finest Polish Known Near Bay View Wisconsin
Milwaukee citizen John M. Farmer finds a rich pocket of Tripoli polish near Bay View inside Milwaukee city limits exposed by Lake Michigan erosion. It is valued for scouring, largely composed of shell fragments, and wholesales at 10 dollars per barrel with plans for a local plant.
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Tripoli
Senate Debates on Silver Policy and Blackburn Amend
Washington reports detail a treasury cost estimate for deporting Chinese and a Blackburn amendment to the free coinage bill. Senate debate covers silver policy, seignorage, and the treasury's monthly coinage plans, followed by House discussions on the federal election bill and nominations.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Gorman
Dem
Baltimore
Senate
Stewart
Treasury Department
Edmunds
Chamber
Yeas
McPherson
Blackburn
United States
Call
Fla
Butler
Andrew Jackson
Dolph
Rep
Teller
Cleveland
Carlisle
Erie Boat Charged With Wreck Attempt In Rail Case
In Cleveland on October 7 the New York Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad sues the New York Lake Erie and Western railway receivers John King and John G McCullough. Allegations claim deliberate wreck attempts, lease violations, unpaid rent totaling 216150.28, and demanded liens on receivers' property. Also notes Idaho miners strike Canon Creek, Butte loaned funds, and broader labor tensions.
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Erie
Cleveland
United States
Ricka and Lurton
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad Company
New York, Lake Erie and Western Railway
John King
John G. McCuollough
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
Erie Road
Idaho
Wattnor
Ida
Canon Creek
Carmen
Butte
Northwest fair and other 1894 notices from the era
The itemized notices report Tacoma planning a northwest fair for August to October 1894, a Nineteenth Iowa Infantry reunion at Fort Madison October 18–19, a schooner ashore at Kodiak in heavy gale with all hands saved, and the death of Martha Bland a 100 year old War of 1812 pensioner in Seneos County Ohio. Also listed are an auction of Dr Thadher Graven’s effects in Providence, a wreck near Taylor Texas, the ICC fifth annual report for year to June 30 1893, large potato bake at Monument Colorado, record crop on the divide, pension fraud sentencing of James Foney, thousands at Missouri WCTU convention, 20,000 visitors to southern Illinois reunion at Centralia, two escaped Georgia convicts captured near Rome, an ex-assistant postmaster in Birmingham charged with $1370 theft, a fatal decapitation of Gottfried Greutze near Goffs Kane, Nebraska corn exports to Europe, hay shipments via gulf, 500 car contracts, Oklahoma cattle theft gang arrests, George Byram recognized in Washington after a year, Josep Chamberlain arriving from abroad, and Capt D F P Stiles to be court-martialed at Fort Reno for alleged land favoring actions in 1892.
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Tacoma
Nineteenth
Iowa Infantry
Fort Madison
Albert Walter
Kodiak
Alaska
Martha Bland
Seneos County
Ohio
Thadher Graven
Providence
RB I
International
Great Northern
Taylor
Tex
Interstate Commerce Commission
Monument
Colo
James Foney
McIntosh
Chattanooga
Tenn
Sedalia
Centralia
Georgia Penitentiary
Rome
Birmingham
Ala
Gottfried Greutze
Goffs
Kane
Nebraska
Europe
Gulf
J.B. Freeman
George Ricker
Edward Cheney
Oklahoma
Stiles
Fort Reno
Oklahoma City
Confidence Lacking Slows Economic Activity Across Sectors
A G Dun & Co weekly review reports subdued demand and idle labor despite some factory expansion. Business is below last year, railroad earnings down 10.6 percent, outside clearinghouse payments off 20 percent. Confidence wanes due to monetary uncertainty from Senate delays. money supply up but confidence stagnant.
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New York
A. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Senate
Pittsburg
United States
Canada
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Lacey
Waasamnaron
Manderson
Democratic Party
Wassington
Hamlin
New
Orleans
New Orleans
Chenierea
Bayou Cook
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Mississippi Sound
Pawnee
Pawnen
O.T
May Blake
Cherokee Strip
James Dunn
Dunn
Torrxa
Kans
Walter Cannon
Eugene Kennedy
Cannon
Kennedy
Kansas
Campen
Ark
Union County
Daisy Saunders
Emporia
Kan
Fred E. White
Mason City
Thompson
Disney, & C
Minnesota
Theodore Petrick
Ferris
O’brien
Ottumwa
Manhattan
Oldham
Fort Smith
Fred Crafton
Mabel Swartz
Sioux City
Supreme Court
Richmond
Mary
George Washington
Beyler, Mo
Quincy
Ill
David Quarles
Roger Quarles Milla
Texas
Bell Station
Elexia A. Yot
Plains
Fremont
Kit Carson
Pike's Peak
Rutland
Boies
Anamona
Hugh Chamberlin
Yale
Edward Hicka Hume
Bombay
India
Woyse—Hather
Burrows
Mich
Hainer
Neb
Messrs. Hick
Pay
N.Y
Brookshire
Ind
Baker
N. M
Tawney
Rep. Minn
Stephen Podsat
Maryland
Peking
Madrid
Charles Denby, Jr
Indiana
China
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Iowa
Melley
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Lawrance
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Madamme Devoe
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Holton
Topeka
Satta
George Morgan
Prinaperpsra
Philadelphia
Australians
Denver
Colorado Springs
Wilbur & Co
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Carolinas
Willington
N. C
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Rio Grande
Jeffries
Salida
Haley
Rebbard
Dupoeur
Robbard
Alcott
Frith
Anamusa Penitentiary
Dennis Downing
Waterbury
John E. Pearson
Whatcom
A. F. Gramm
Mr. Horeb
Wis
Samuel J. Keeler
Fairmount Ave
Price
OurrovRa
Soar
Rasolvent
Porter Dave
Porter Dave and Quem. Corp
Boston
Pointy
Town
Council Bluffs
Fiscoo
Anrincipal
Jad Chair Corsa
Ghivea. Cie
Beeen
Omaha
Portland
Chica
San Francisco
Chicago & North- Western
R’y
Chicago Lithograph Co
Fifth Ave
Rock Island
Peoria
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Watertown
Sioux Falls
Dackota
Iowa and
Des Moines
Davenport
Lincoln
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