Constitutional Amendments Dominate Week Across Chambers
News of the Week reports a push in both chambers for constitutional amendments on monetary tender and presidential term limits, with related bills on copyright, postal funding, and tariff debates. It notes executive ratification of a Mexican treaty, Porter relief debates, and a Kansas cattle disease appropriation. Also covered are a Bennington postmaster theft confession, a Penn Medical College graduation, and a Mansfield saloon shooting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Tiffany
Bennington
Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Charles Teornburg
Edward Sumner
Mansfield
Trade dollars and coinage bill updates observed
The seven days ended the eighth saw clearing house totals reach 1 129 028 053 dollars up 11.6 percent from last year. Treasury reports heavy discounting of trade-dollars in Eastern cities for export to emigrants. A House panel favored Bland’s bill to end manufacture of one and three dollar gold pieces the three cent nickel and the trade dollar. Senate tax votes reveal positions on Fitz John Porter relief. Attorney General Brewster urges vigilance against explosives shipments at foreign ports amid Porter restoration provisions.
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United States Senate
Fitz John Porter
Bayard
Brown
Butler
Call
Cockrell
Coke
Colquist
Fair
Farley
Garland
Gibson
Germar
Groome
Tampton
Harris
Hour
Jackson
Jonas
Jones
Manderson
Miler
Cal
Mitchell
Morrill
United States
Congress
Fitz W John Porter
Porter
Snowstorm halts trains. varied world notes
The 10th brought the heaviest snowstorm of the season in Maine and New Hampshire, halting all trains. In Boston, President Warren of Boston University argued Garden of Eden at the North Pole before the Evangelical Alliance. In Paterson, Bishop Wigger allowed a funeral at his church after years of Sunday liquor orders violation. Massachusetts Democrats plan Worcester convention April 30. Schenectady locomotive works resume after illness, employing about a thousand. Erie treasurer Jeux Boyer, missing after a $7,000 shortage, vanished on the 12th. Two Scotch newcomers reportedly carried foot and mouth germs in clothing from infected cattle. Massachusetts Legislature passes Meigs elevated railroads bill. Vermont GOP convention set for Montpelier April 30. Coal fall at Avondale shaft injures five. one died. Massachusetts House votes 144 to defeat women’s suffrage bill. Women’s Foreign Missionary Society notes growth and 7,661 auxiliary members at Philadelphia meeting.
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TrRavenour
Maine
New Hampshire
Warren
Boston University
Boston Evangelical Alliance
North Pole
Paterson
N. J
Wigger
William Hayden
Democrats
Massachusetts
Worcester
Schenectady
N. Y
Jeux Boyr
Erie
Scotland
Vermont
Montpelier
Avondale
Wilkesbarre
Massachusetts House
Hill
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
Philadelphia
Long list of 19th century disasters and crimes across states
A compilation of incidents from various states notes murders in Alabama and Tennessee, suicides in Minnesota and Nebraska, fires destroying stores in Missouri and Colorado, floods and cyclones in Kansas, Mississippi, and Arkansas, a lynching history in Nebraska, political conventions in several states, a bank teller embezzlement in Missouri, a train robbery aftermath, and multiple court cases and local disasters, reflecting a broad panorama of violence, fire, and political activity.
Snowstorm paralyses Ottawa and world markets report
Ottawa endures the heaviest snow storm in forty years with Level sleigh traffic and rail service suspended. Havana faces panic over sugar prices and banking failures. Paris Irish Nationalists vow perseverance after dynamite failures. global unrest and incidents across Vienna Pesth Dublin Suakim Glasgow and London noted.
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Ottawa
Can
Havana
Paris
England
Invincibles
McDermott
Vienna
Pesth
Moravia
Wick
Scotland
Fitt
Jones
Montreal
Cowan & Co
Glasgow
Fulham
Eng
Chile
Peru
Dublin
Osman Dicma
Graham
Suakim
Bac-Nisti
Reichstag
Bismarck
Seven-day U S and Canada business failures totaled 224
Across the United States and Canada, 224 business failures occurred in the seven days ending the 14th, down from 264 the prior week, with distributions by region including New England 27 Middle 41 Western 55 Southern 52 Pacific 13 and Canada 38.
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United States
Canada
New England States
Middle
Western
Southern
Pacific States
Martinsburg
Pointe Coupee Parish
Aspen Mountain
Colorado
Vallejo
Chicago Tribune
J. Appleton Willson
Winnetka
Ohio Valley
Matt Lewis
St. Louis
Frank Slagel
Adair
Somerset
Woodward
Faxon & Co
West Kansas City
Alicante
Spain
Senate
Kansas
Thomas Jefferson
One Hundred Fifty Die In Pocahontas Fire Damp Mine Blast
A Pocahontas telegraph reports 150 men were killed when a fire damp explosion tore through the Flint-top Mine in Tazewell County Virginia near Flat-top Mountains. The disaster left the town stunned as engines, wagons, and outbuildings burned. Rescue attempts were halted by continued blasts and flames. several bodies were recovered, with the fate of many still uncertain. The mine, operated by Southwest Virginia Improvement Company under Norfolk and Western supervision, employed hundreds from Virginia and Pennsylvania.
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Pocahontas
Var
Perensiuna
Glassee
M. L. Hampton
Pennsylvania
Pocithontas
Carlo Franchi
Asis
Themen
Flint-top
Tazewell County
Virginia
West Virginia
Southwest Virginia Improvement Company
Norfolk & Western Railroad Company
New River Division
New River
C. Lsey
Pennylvania
Improvement Company
Willian A. Lathrop
Petnranaway
Whites
Milwaukee Arrest Over St Louis Express Thief
Milwaukee detectives captured Prentiss Tiller, pacific Express Company clerk from St Louis, amid a bold theft of funds nearly $100000. Authorities recovered about $80000, plus jewelry and coins. Tiller and an accomplice confessed to a large robbery.
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Milwaukee
Milwausee
Wis
Prentiss Tiller
Pacific Express Company
St Louis
Carpeles & Co
East Water Street
Detroit
Third Ward
Asprey
Merchants’ Exchange Bank
Express Company
Viller
G. N. ‘Shiel
British Triumph and Tariff Debates Across Suakim and Morrison
March 14 dispatch from Suakim details General Graham leading a night assault against Osman Digma’s rebels near Siuim, with heavy casualties on both sides and a large rebel death toll. Concurrently, Morrison Tariff bill debates unfold in Washington. majority cite modest revenue relief while minority warns of harms to industry and wages under a broad reduction.
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Suaxim
Graham
Osman Digma
Gardiner
Stewart
Sixty-fifth
Black Watch
Graham Andils
Teb
Suakim
Chicago Packing Throughput Report From Howard White Co
Howard White & Co publishes its Chicago packing circular for the past year. Summer hog packing reached 1,900,408 head with average net weight 2003 6 pounds and lard yield 36.44 pounds per hog. Winter hog packing totaled 2,011,384 head at 202.37 pounds net weight and 34.53 pounds lard yield. Full year hogs 3,071,792 and cattle killed 1,182,905.
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Chcago
Howard, White & Co
Chicago
Fireclaims two men at Grand Rarms carpet factory
In a morning blaze in Grand Rarms Michigan Ferdinand Schnefer and William Denooyer perished on the sixth floor of a carpet sweeper factory. Fire and smoke trapped them. remains likely buried in debris. In Omaha, all principal business places closed for Bishop Clarkson funeral with seven bishops in attendance.
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Grand Rarms
Mich
Ferdinand Schnefer
William Denooyer
Schaeffter
Omaha
Clarkson
Fast Mail Train Sets 207 Mile Run Time Record
Burrwindon March 12. The fast mail from Chicago to Burlington over the Chicago Burlington and Quincy line completed the 207 mile trip in four hours and forty minutes arriving Burlington at 7 40. The journey included five stops and reached moments a mile a minute. Citizens welcomed the papers and officials including Postmaster General Gresham and Vice President Potter joined breakfast with President Perkins before a noon departure.
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Burrwindon
Chicago
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Burlington
Gresham
Hatton
Thompson
Potter
C. F E. Perkins
General Gresham
Adams
The Lasker Resolution Refused by German Chancellor
Official correspondence from March 11 details Herr Von Eisendecker presenting Prince Bismarck’s dispatch returning the Lasker resolution. Frelinghuysen’s notes show Sargent’s disappointment at being ignored and explain that Bismarck did not endorse Lasker’s political views. The exchange includes a March 7 memo and a March 11 president’s note on the matter.
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Wasmycrox
Herr von Eisendecker
Department of State
Frelinghuysen
Lisker
Prince Hismarck
Sargent
Bismarck
Edouard“usker
House of’ Representatives
Reichstag
Lasker
House of Representatives
United States
Heichstag
Indorec
von Bismarck
Western fast mail extension signals new Chicago to Omaha link
The inaugural western fast mail train departed Chicago Union depot for Omaha at 3 am, with Postmaster General Gresham and railway officials coordinating at Grand Pacific Hotel. The new route via Burlington connections cuts total Boston to Omaha time to about 44 hours, enabling earlier Chicago editions in Western states.
Grain Statistics and Economic Notes
Grain data show sixty seven percent consumed, three percent less on hand than last year, with Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota totaling 9 006 000 bushels versus 24 000 000 last March. Illinois Ohio and others produce 558 000 000 yet only 152 000 000 on hand, sixty percent of total crop marketable. Wheat on hand 119 000 000 this year vs 143 000 000 last year. Drive Well cases: Supreme Court refused to advance. case delayed a year or more, delaying farmer suits in Western states. Educational measures: about fifteen bills before Congress. Blair proposes 120 million for common schools over fifteen years. Willis seeks 55 million in ten years. Logan 50 million annually from internal revenue. Perkins 30 million similar. Trade dollars: foreign brokers buy silver dollars at ten percent discount to ship to emigrants, coins worth face value. Hamilton College secessionists denied admission to Union College. Union says it cannot graduate uneducated men.
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St. Vincent
Waits
Nashville
Tenn
William Spence
Mojave
Los Angeles
South Carolina
Robert Smalls
Congress
Woodstock
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Neb
Father Puslan
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Orrin A. Carpenter
Zora Burns
Forrest
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Lewis F. List
Wilmington
Edward H. Turner
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Secause
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Ore
Insane Hospital
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Iowa
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Journal and Tribune
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Chicago & Atlantic Express
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Prentiss Tiller
Pacific Express
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Sherman
Tiller
Pocahontas
Surnace
Ways and Means
House
Wasurxerox
Ways and Means Committee
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Senate
United States
Tarif Commission
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Sinys
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Shera
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Stugsell
Tiscock
Waves Ane & Committee
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Minnesota
Supreme Court
Blair
Representative Willis
Logan
Internal Revenue
Perkins
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Herr Lasker
Hiscock
Germany
Eduard Lasker
Allison
Dakota
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Harwell
Hughes
Peter Schmitz
Cleburne
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Frederick J. ‘Diebesicus
Teller
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Hs .B. Hess
John Tidmore
Frank Farmer
Twe Packers
Bsorbinr
New Orléans
Mississippi
Foreign Intelligence
Jersey City
Italy
Francisco St. Angelo
Peesant
Y. Granhic
Detroit Post
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Siuim
Zaria
Biwarck
Pfade
Cmcaco
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W. K. Thompson
Railway Mail Service
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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rillroad
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Boston Herald
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