News of the Week in Congress and Elections
The report covers a string of bills across the Senate and House from Moxpay and dates in April. Proposals include liquor license bans, silk culture, pensions, oleomargarine taxation, and newspaper mail rates. Major items include Navy and pension bills, Sioux rail rights, and a presidential term debate. The calendar notes conventions, assignments, and notable events such as the Bear expedition launch and Sagamore Mill fire losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moxpay
Senate
Internal Revenue
Jones
New Orleans
Lieutenant DeLong
Bureau of Navigation
Treasury Department
McDougall
Army
Wennespay
Ohio
Kansas
Wood
Peters
Week ends with large standard silver dollar totals
The week ended the 19th saw standard silver dollars reach 254 988 dollars, up markedly from 109 499 the same period last year. Clearinghouse exchanges nationwide totaled 927 53 628 dollars, versus 802 776 162 the prior week. Navy orders Greely expedition to sea. three vessels under Schley. John W. Foster arrives in Washington to negotiate a Spain treaty. Inquiry committee set for General Swarm case. May 5 in Washington with Generals Pope Augur Sackett. Internal revenue for nine months trails last year by 20 505 253. Pension Bureau notes a soldier died and wife died while papers changed. two children perished in an epidemic before application was processed. Burrows declines Treasury Solicitor post after nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Foster
United States
Spain
Washington
Lincoln
Swarm
Pope
Augur
Sackett
Pension Bureau
J. C. Burrows
Michigan
the Treasury
Vast 19th Century Patchwork News Buries Multiple Local Woes
A sprawling string of reports covers floods washing out the Delaware and Hudson line between Whitehall and Ticonderoga, prosecutions and political moves in Massachusetts and New Jersey, commercial failures in Erie and Albany, a Salem dime novel era suspect William M Gale, riverboat drownings near Sing Sing, and a string of fires and disasters across New England and Midwest towns. From Gettysburg hangings to coal-town sinkings, rains, snows, and political conventions, the item catalogs public misfortunes, political shifts, and notable crimes, offering a snapshot of a troubled period in a dense, multi-event dispatch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hicilawater
Lake Champlain
Whitehall
Ticonderoga
Massachusetts House
Mista Senate
Petroleum Exchange
Pittsburgh
Cochran & Young
Tag Merchants
Erie
Salem
Mass
Providence
William M. Gale
Watts
Hudson
Sing Sing
Jacob Keefer
George Hilliker
Nathaniel Wright
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Gettysburg
John Coyle
Emily Myers
Nicholls & Mills
Albany
Tre
New Jersey
Trenton
Long Island Woods
Washington
South Coventry
Conn
Fitchville
Hartford
Joseph K. Hawley
Francis I. Smith
Bayonne
N. J
New York
Utica
Arthur
National Conventions and Disasters Reported Across States
The article notes Tennessee Greenbackers nominating N. J. Buchanan for governor at Nashville, delegates chosen for Indianapolis and Cincinnati fire destroying the American Oak Leather Tannery with a 400000 dollar loss. Regional shocks include quakes in Rowan Stanly and Davie counties North Carolina. Dakota Republicans name Nelson and Jolly as Chicago delegates, Des Moines Iowa Democrats pick at large delegates with a reform platform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tennessee Greenbackers
N. J. Buchanan
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
American Oak
Edgecomb County
Jake Wilkins
la Grange
N. C
Rowan
Stanly
Davie
North Carolina
Dakota
Huron
N. E. Nelson
J. L. Jolly
Chicago
Blaine
Lincoln
Iowa
Des Moines
L. G. Kinne
H. H. Trimble
E. H. Thayer
D. M. Harrison
Various World News Briefs Include Concessions in Africa and Violent Events
Reports note a treaty signed by M Da Brazza placing the Congo banks under French protection, a Vienna circus roof collapse causing five deaths and a fire, and outrages against American citizens in Mexico. Other items cover seizing by New Laredo authorities, failed firms Cassils & Co. and Simpson, Stuart & Co., Cairo refugees killed near Shendy, a Belmont Castle fire in Scotland, an English earthquake, the Danish ship Twe Atha wreck, Mexican rebel casualties, Vienna executions, Dublin cartridges, and Cuba plantation losses. Authorities consider dispatching British troops to Upper Egypt after Arab quarter destruction.
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M. da Brazza
Africa
Congo
France
Vienna
1Sta
Mexico
Jay Gould
New Laredo
National Railway
of Cassils, Stimson & Co
Montreal
Can
Simpson, Stuart & Co., Grocers
Hamilton
Ont
Cairo
Shendy
Belmont Castle
Dundee
Scotland
England
Chelmsford
Ipswich
Malden
Colchester
Twe Atha
Philadelphia
Greenland
Shetland Islands
Taipehe
Hugo Schenck
Karl Schlossarek
Dublin
Ireland
Puerto Francipe
Cuba
Upper
Egypt
Arie
Port Said
Greenbackers Convention backs Butler and tax reform
Massachusetts Greenbackers held a state convention at a gym on the Sith endorsing General Butler for President and naming delegates to Indianapolis. A platform urged banning bank note issuance by banks, regulating monopolies, limiting child labor, taxing property fairly, making liquor policy a personal choice, instituting an income tax, and prohibiting aliens from owning land. Also notes a series of executions, accidents, shipwrecks, and political nominations, with brief U.S. and global updates.
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Chicago
John H. Deane
New York
Tom National Party of
New Jersey
Trenton
Benjamin F. Butler
National Mechanics & Traders’ Bank of New York
Maine
Greenbackers
Lewiston
H. GB. Eaton
General Butler
Fine
Sagamore Mill
Fall River
Mass
United States
Bear
Brooklyn Navy Yard
William H. Emory, Jr
Massachusetts
The
Sith
Indianapolis
Maicus L. Warp
Newark
Henni ¥ Curry
Monroe
Charles Wright
Center Point
Ark
Howard County
Thomas Wyatt
Calcutta
Bombay
Jupge Perris
Oswego
Kan
Daniel Steinmann
Nova Scotia
Smithsonian Institute
Joseph Newman
Earthquake Disturbs England Waves Hit Essex and Suffolk
A violent earthquake was felt across eastern England about 9 30 yesterday morning with a deep rumble and shaking city churches spires fell walls cracked and bricks toppled in Colchester where a child died and a woman was injured. Damage in or near Colchester billed around 20000 with reports of further destruction in Wivenhoe Coggeshall Southend Ipswich and Malden. Streets emptied as debris fell and telegraph lines shook.
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Lonpox
England
Essex
Suffolk
Colchester
Langanhoe
Wivenhoe
Coggleshall
Southend
Ipswich
Malden
Cheapside
Fleet Street
Jingland
Killed Jis Wife
Boston April 23 James Nicholson longtime head of a north end boating club killed his wife Ellen Nicholson after a domestic dispute inside her father’s house. He shot the wife twice as she tried to protect their child and then fled. The child survived the attack amid a chaotic scene described by witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
James Nicholson
North End
Ellen
Nicholson
Fatal duel in Maryland ends with Brown mortally wounded
A deadly duel occurred Monday in Cockeysville Baltimore County between brothers in law Chutes Brown and Joshua Gill. The two exchanged two shots at close range with Gill arresting after Brown was fatally wounded. The quarrel stemmed from an old property dispute and intensified by family feuds. both men were prominent local citizens.
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Batrimony
Cockeysville
Baltimore County
Chutes Brown
Joshua Gill
Gill
Brown
Old Man Fatally Wounds Wife in Illinois
Wavaknecas Illinois April 23 An aged German man Charles Frike 68 in frail health killed his wife in a bedroom quarrel. He awoke at midnight struck her head multiple times with a crub while intending to kill himself but failed to walk to the lake. Mrs. Frike lies unconscious since Sunday night. Frike confessed the crime and is in custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solomon Horn
Newcastle
Salineville
Louisville
Kansas
Union Pacific
Art Habursam
Henry Ellard
Ellard
Law
Cornell
N. Y.) University
Neosho Falls
Kan
William Larkem Makern
Canisto
Mann
Jackson
Chicago
Arthur
Green C. Chandler
J. R. Smith
Pueblo
Col
Louisiana
McEnery
Stevenson
Nebraska
Quinn Bohannan
Nebraska City
Flinn
Hale
Irving
Birmingham
O'Neal
Richmond
Cleveland
Blaine
Sherman
William Austin
Allen County
Writs Gunn
Jesse
Monroe
Toroughport
Texas
Bloomington
Pittsburgh
Roztxson
W. W. Johnson
Marcus Hanna
Judge West
William McKinley
Judge Foraker
Congress
Grand Rapids
R. G. How
W. F. Swift
S. C. Watson
J. Burrows
West
Salem
Meridian
Miss
Wavaknecas
Edward Clark
Charles Frike
Stunday
Ife
Loss of Danish Bark Alba Wreck Near Shetland Island
News from Parapetrata reports the Danish bark Alba wrecked on a Shetland island on the 4th, ending a three year Greenland trade voyage. Fifteen passengers and crew died including Rev. L. Washbeck, linked to Nordenskjold’s North Pole expedition. The mate, two seamen, and one passenger were rescued exhausted.
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Alba
Greenland
Shetland Islands
Scotland
Rev. L. Washbeck
Nordenskjold
North Pole
Senate Bankruptcy Bill Synopsis Highlights Provisions
The bill creates federal bankruptcy courts in all districts and Washington DC, with open jurisdictions over claims, assets, exemptions, compositions and discharges. Circuit Court assigns commissioners and a supervisor to oversee proceedings, with specified pay and duties, plus filing and per cent fees. The act defines acts of bankruptcy, exemptions for apparel, and support provisions. it notes education funding allocations pending passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washineton
Senate
District Courts
United States and Territories
Supreme Courts of
District of Columbia
United States Circuit Court
Supreme Court of the Uniten Rates
Circuit Court
Congress
Snell
Treasury
United States
Petion
United States of State
Agam
TI Educational
Lair Educational
Pranks by Maine Boys Endangered a Child
In Pontnayp Maine six youths aged nine to eighteen bound a younger boy to a track near the Portland and Ogdensburg line and set a train approaching. A passerby freed the boy. Later four masked teens armed with revolvers robbed a Portland plaster mill worker, then fled. one was arrested in Hallowell and another in Augusta.
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Amos Chambers
Benjamin DeWolf
Edwin W. Doyle
John Stadley
James Doherty
Hightevatelman
Portland
Hallowell
Augusta
Two Men Suffocated in a Well at Charenton West Virginia
CHARLESTON W Va April 2 Sam Turner and Jackson Norman went into a well to clean it yesterday morning. After about thirty minutes an alarm was raised and the men were brought out, dead.
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Charteston
W. Va
Sam Turner
Jackson Norman
Diamonds Restored From Ashes In Brooklyn Stove Mishap
A Brooklyn woman left diamond earrings worth 200 dollars each on a mantel, a neat housekeeper burned the note with them in ashes. The ashes were sieved and two diamonds emerged undamaged, later reset by a New York jeweler. The era also notes that 1883 postage stamps required eleven thousand two hundred one dollars in ink to cancel.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
New York
Black Jack's Boom and the Black Prince of Minois
A vivid period portrait extols John Alexander Cogan as a dominating orator whose booming voice and fierce rhetoric intimidate opponents and rally supporters across states from Cairo to Alaska. The piece likens his impact to a hurricane, naming political foes and party loyalties while praising his influence, aggression, and stalwart stance for the Stalwarts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tate
Cogan
Cairo
Chicazo
Black Jack
Mahai Logan
Cruel scrutiny of Blaine lit life sparks editorials
The Detroit Free Press condemns cruel attention to James Blaine's youth while noting he is not a candidate for Chicago. It likens the character assassination to Roman gladiator sport and argues such probing harms his sensitive nature, urging focus on his literary retirement and present qualities rather than past foibles.
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Blaine
Chicago
Jim
Ruading
Detroit
Legacy of John A. Logan A Republican stalwart's past revealed
A Harrisburg Patriot commentary recalls John A. Logan as a pro slavery advocate before the Civil War and notes his later strong Republican stance. It discusses shifts in party orthodoxy and Illinois leaders once seeking to bar colored people, contrasting with his present views on race. The piece also mentions a 1884 presidential context and a social trend of sealing letters with thumbprint wax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Logan
Illinois
Harrisburg
Reform Needed in Democratic Craft of Nomination
In this critique from the Columbus Ga Sun the author denounces the current presidential canvass as a money and availability race rather than merit. The piece urges the Democratic Party to return to broad, inclusive principles and rejects sectionalism, calling for national unity and honest leadership that serves all people. It notes South marginalization at national conventions and presses for merit over factional advantage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Republic
National Democratic Party
Commbus
Sun
Demand for tax cuts fuels Democratic pledge in Congress
The Washington Post argues the new Democratic House must fulfill its vow to reduce taxes, contending current revenues burden the working class and excess spending proves the need for economical governance, urging immediate action before the next presidential election. A child in New York died after choking on a crumb of bread, linked in brief to Joseph Glattseein.
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Congress
Democratic Party
Keller-Robson
Republican Congress
Popular Branch
Republican Party
Washington Post
Joseph Glatt Seein
New York
Noted Figures in Letters and Politics Across Years
A collage of brief items notes Mrs. Fremont penning recollections of famous people known through her father’s Congress years, Lord Kingsborough’s Mexico as the costliest book, Mary Jane Baldwin’s midnight wedding after a rejected admirer’s suicide, and veteran reporters and authors like D F Murphy and Mrs. Oliphant. It surveys publishers, wealth, marriages, and shifts in literary and political circles with short remarks from various papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Fremont
Congress
N. J. Limes
Lord Kingsborough
Mexico
Mary Jane Baldwin
Long Island
Brooklyn Eagle
D. F. Murphy
United States Senate
Jeff Davis
Hannibal Hamlin
Brennan Smith
Washington State
Harriet Beecher
Stowe
Henry W. Shaw
Josh Billings
Michigan
Eli Perkins
Mr. Shaw
Mr. Perkins
Chicago
C. P. Huntington
Mark Hopkins
Stanford
Central Pacific
Italy
Indianapolis Journal
Oliphant
Anthony Trollope
E. Alse
Boston
Moncure D. Conway
Conway
America
Washington
Humor and gossip snippets from scattered columns
A collage of snatches from 19th century papers delivering light humor and social chatter. Quips about bed clothes, clever drollery, a Toronto laugh episode, a weary editor’s jest with a toothpick, and a child’s pancake tally tease the reader with playful observations of daily life and manners.
A Fine Paper From the Editorial Room
The Philadelphia paper jokes about a busy issue with praise for the leader and local stories. The editor notes strong content in the day’s print, despite many ads paying the bills. The city editor mentions a cock-fight and a runaway accident likely to be published exclusively.
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Forse
Philadelphia
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Jis
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Caroline
Delaware
Carolus
Virighiet
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Nevada
Jackson County
John Alexander Cogan
Black Prince
Minois
Fitz John Porter
Golden Gate
Alabama
Alaska
James Gillespie Blaine
X Sents
Humorwogs
N. VY
James
Frankford Herald
Toronto
Cvns
Muufied
Chicago Hercule
Somerville Journal
Mr. Smith
Jimmy White
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