Senate Rules Clash as Republicans Delay Election Bill Debate
A Republican caucus heatedly debated limiting Senate debate on the federal election bill with conservatives seeking stricter rules while moderates urged caution. Senators Spooner Ingalls and others resisted drastic measures, predicting the bill won’t pass this session. The panel suggested a three day debate limit, later revised to a reasonable time, with leaves for a future vote.
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Annual Summer Sale of Suits for Men at Discounts
A local advertises a summer sale of men’s suits for young and middle aged buyers. The shop notes many sizes are depleted and prices have ranged to 15, 20, 22, or 25 dollars. The store plans to clear remaining odd lots and remnants during the sale.
Fashion sale features Tweeds and Cheviots in varied designs
The sale presents home and foreign factory productions including Trish and Scotch Tweeds and Cheviots in variegated figures stripes checks and plaids. Garments are made up in sacks and frocks to fit different figures. Outfits suit business or provisional gentlemen for balance of season or next season at lower prices.
Shoes for waiters in Boston sale closes this week
The ad promotes a Boston shoe sale with ten lots of under fifty pairs each totaling under five hundred pairs. It highlights the shoes as the best value and notes the sale will close this week.
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Wreck of the Sea Wing on Lake Pepin Claims Many Lives
A devastating Lake Pepin storm sinks the excursion steamer Sea Wing near Maiden Rock. About 200 passengers from Red Wing were aboard with at least sixty five and possibly over a hundred feared dead. Rescue efforts by Corporal L la Verry and others save eighteen and over sixty. bodies recovered and identified later in Red Wing amid ongoing searches aided by ambulances and dynamite for salvage.
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Longwood cricket match opens as two days begin
In the city the two days of cricket start at Longwood with a match reported. The piece notes William V. Burt remarks and mentions the Perkins Street Church property dispute. Also referenced are Eastern Yacht Club notes and E P Barry’s standing with the New England Amateur Owing Association.
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Shipping arrivals and departures list July 14 ports
A compiled maritime column notes vessels sailing and docking on July 12 to July 18 at major ports. Ships include Florida destinations such as Boston Philadelphia London Glasgow New York Montreal and Liverpool with crews from Colon Kavre St Ann's Bay Baltimore and Philadelphia among others.
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Weather forecast for New England and eastern New York
Forecast issued for New England and eastern New York describes fair weather with warmer temperatures and southwest winds. Vermont and western Massachusetts may see stationary temperatures while Wednesday night cools. Wednesday and Thursday are expected fair with cooler conditions by night.
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Conservatives Too Late for Scottish Police Vote
In the House of Commons Bannerman Robertson moved to appoint a 21 member committee on the Scottish police bill. Robertson proposed a 72 member committee including all Scotch MPs, but lost 188 to 130. Forty Conservative MPs rushed from a garden party but arrived too late to vote.
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Cholera Reports and Outbreaks Across Valencia Province
Madrid dispatches deny cholera in Valencia city with no cases or panic. Valencia province shows new cases and deaths, while Castello de Rugat is accused of concealing outbreaks. A suspicious case reaches Madrid hospital. Separately, 44 Ghoorkas die of cholera in Dharrugala Punjab battalion.
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Sheffield Protest Demands Protective Tariff Measures
London July 14 Sheffield's mayor led a meeting of about 12 000 protesters opposing the McKinley tariff bill. The crowd urged the government to enact protective measures to shield Sheffield’s manufacturing interests from the alleged threat to trade with America.
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Widow Hlatchard Convicted of Stealing Spoons at Stanley Wedding
A wealthy widow named Hlatchard attended Mr. Stanley's wedding reception in London on Saturday and stole several spoons from the gifts room. A duty detective observed her, she was arrested, arraigned, found guilty, and sentenced to two weeks in prison.
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Snow Covers Central Alps and Floods Reach Trent
Snow blankets the central Alps and continues to fall in Vienna reports. In Salz-Kammergut and nearby areas everything looks wintry. Rivers in southern Tyrol overflow, the Adige floods from Bozen downstream, submerging half of Trent on its left bank.
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Lord Wolseley to Command Forces in Ireland in October
London July 14 Lord Wolseley to take command of forces in Ireland in October next. An official report notes potato crops in generally good condition with blight signs in Limerick Cork and Kerry. Oats and barley show promising crops while wheat and corn growth is slowed. Duby July 14 The Freeman's Journal states O Donovan Roses outlawry ends next winter and he plans a Cork visit in January.
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El Senoussi Defeats Mahdists and Seizes Obeid
London reports that El Senoussi forces defeated the Mahdists in a clash near Kordofan and captured Obeid, the capital of Kordofan. The Tunisian holy man led the victory, signaling a turning moment in African warfare.
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Field Opens Universal Peace Congress in London Address
David Dudley Field of New York opened the Universal Peace Congress in London. He argued arbitration benefits and a gradual disarmament by the world powers to promote peaceful relations.
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England vows to uphold Tunisian rights despite Italian concerns
The Opinione reports England has assured Italy she will not abandon rights in Tunis. In Vienna authorities prolong iron price agreement three years from Jan 1. Mayener warns wine growers of strong American competition, notably California. Paris notes France may gain French shore rights if no bounties, but will not concede otherwise.
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Worcester Chooses John Green Wight Principal
The High School committee elected John Green Wight Ph.D. of Cooperstown New York as Worcester High School principal. Wight has served twenty years as principal of Cooperstown Union School and is Bowdoin College graduate class of 1864.
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Proclamation Declares Siege War Likely With Guatemala
The government issued a proclamation of siege and announced passport requirements for inter town travel. War with Guatemala is imminent as nearly 20,000 troops hold the frontier front. Great enthusiasm follows the move and mobilization.
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Daly Sworn In As Nova Scotia Lieutenant Governor
The Hon. M. B. Daly was sworn in by Chief Justice McDonald in Halifax this morning as the new Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. Attendees included government members, legislators, judges, and leading citizens. Daly, the first Roman Catholic in the post, saluted Archbishop O'Brien after the ceremony.
Blaine urges tariff reciprocity to aid farmers in Cuban trade
James G Blaine writes Senator Frye arguing Spain tariff barriers hurt American flour and sugar exports to Cuba and Porto Rico. He warns that free sugar would close markets, urges a Republican push for reciprocal trade with Latin America, and cites the need to expand breadstuffs and provisions sales south of the United States.
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Murder by an American in Mexico shocks capital
J Neil Adams an American killed Carlos Largue a waiter at the National Theatre restaurant with a pistol shot to head and heart in front of about fifty Americans. Adams drunk and enraged because the waiter would not serve him. He is employed by a photograph firm in City of Mexico. The American colony is indignant.
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Boston and Providence figures plan New Bedford theatre
B. F. Keith of Boston and William E. White of Providence are reported to build a theatre in New Bedford. Several locations have been considered.
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