Sixty one Bills Passed by Senate at One Sitting
The times report a Senate session noting sixty one bills advanced or passed including measures for a public building in New London and a treaty with tribes in Montana, while discussions touched tariff reform, taxation, and military and civil service matters. House actions included pension bills and Union Pacific funding debates, with ceremonial and memorial items also noted.
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Senate
Union Pacific
O’ferrall
Virginia
House
Committee On
Worthington Vs
United States
Oates
Alabama
Stone
Missouri
Sarmsend
Union Pacific Railroad
Outhwaite
Ohio
Committee On Pacific Railroads
Rman Sinking Fund
United
Tillman
South Carona
Holman
Indiana
House of Representatives
New London
Conn
Dawes
Philadelphia
Boston
York
Indian Affairs
Berry
Gros Ventre
Montana
Colorado
Daniel
Stockbridge
Enloe
Tennessee
Canada
Mexico
Post Office
Sowden
Pennsylvania
Reed
Randall
Ree
Knute Nelson
Icelandic Educational Society
Hear
Columbus
America
Leif Erickson
Mass
Voorhees
Anderson
Iowa
Congress
Dalzell
Blount
Georgia
Arizona
New Mexico
Blanchard
Louisiana
Committee On Rivers and Harrors
Committee of the Whole
Washington Dispatches Highlight Early 1900s Policy Positions
Notes survey potential presidential action on river and harbor funding, a Mills bill report theft, military promotion rules after 20 years, and a copyright bill’s fate in the House. Disharmonies between political factions, tariff reform efforts, and a direct votes constitutional amendment gain traction amid committee debates and foreign affairs discourse.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
House Committee On
Senate
Hose of Representatives
United States
Washington
St. Louis
District of Columbia
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
San Juan
House Committee
Vce
Marsh Joint
Congress
Goldwin Smith
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Butterworth
Commercial Union
Judge Waite’s Modest Estate Revealed After Death
Washington March 29 It is learned that Chief Justice Waite left only the house and its furniture at his death. A former estimate of $200000 fortune proved unfounded as he lived on a $10500 salary from the bench. His widow and children inherit little beyond the roof over their heads while the legal profession may rally to aid Mrs Waite.
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Tursday
Senate
Blair
Riddleberger
Dmunds
United
Ihows
Pate
United States
Treasury
Stewart
Sherman
Toledo
Allison
Evarts
Groose
Gray
J. Sherman
Hoar
Kr. Palmer
Washington
Waite
National Bar Association
Ocal
Nolan
Ken
Ireland
Hebrides
Hungary
Bulgaria
Porte
Mustapha Pacha
Mackenzie
Chamber of Deputies
Panama Canal Company
Brest
Tokio
Frederick
Berlin
Empress Victoria
Scott
American Bible Society
Baltic
Bible Societies
Ishands
New Zealand
Yarmouth
Donne
Boston
Achsah
Musselis
Clementsport
Barbadoes
Bucharest
China
Ho-Nan
Lord Salisbury
London Chamber of Commerce
Minister West
Constantinople
Legislative Council of
Nova Scotia
Quebec
New Brunswick
M. Floureng
Department of
Hautes-Alpes
Noyce Vremya
St. Petersburg
Count Schouvaldf
Germany
Europe
Russia
Austria
Ermiany
San Marzano
Ameview
King John
Italy
E. D. Gray
Irsh
Dublin
St. Stephen’s Green
Tipperary
County Carlow
Freeman’s Journal
Belfast Morning News
Posen
Cologie
Boitzenburg
Elbing
Vistula
Surroun
Western rate war drains Northwestern rail losses
MinnEapolis March 31. The Northwestern Railroader sums up the Western rate war costs. In 60 working days since the first cut, total loss to railroads reached 15 million dollars. Loss in the St Paul and Minneapolis area approached 500,600. The paper argues no adequate end was gained and condemns the strike as foolish.
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MinnEapolis
Minn
Northwestern Railroader
St. Paul
Four Children Bones Found in Old Dayton House Mystery
Workmen remodeling an old Dayton house uncover bones of four children. A local tradition says the heirs vanished years ago with no trace remaining. The find points to a possible tragic mystery behind the family fortune.
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Dayton, O
Piana
France in crisis as Boulanger rises after Tirard fall
Paris reports tension in the Chamber of Deputies amid a government collapse. General Boulanger gains influence as Floquet is urged to form a new cabinet. Carnot lingers, while Rabid radicals threaten a presidential bid. Finance plans seek higher wine duties and canal revenue to fortify fortifications.
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Paris
Tirard
General Boulanger
Siecle
Chamber of Deputies
Journal Des Debats
M. Floquet
M. Ribot
M. Deves
Carnot
Bouppres
Rochefort
Tirard and Company
Lirerd
Sadi
the Elysee
Lockroy
Kard
Felix Pyat
Boulanger
M. Rochefort
Ferry
M. Ferry
Bismarck
National Assembly
Ord
Voilly
Arabi Pasha
French National Party
M. Fancountrie
Floods devastate large parts of Europe on March 28
In Berum 40000 homeless as floods inundate hundreds of villages across the Elbe Nogat Vistula and Oder basins. Dozens of towns disappear and total damage tops 60000000 dollars. Soldiers die blasting an ice gorge on the Elba and regional harvests look bleak.
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Berum
Elbe
Nogat
Vistula
Oder
Elba
Varthe
Posen
Bodrog
Hungary
Innndenth
Cassell
Weser
Fulda
Schwalin
Lahn
Boitzenbers
Domitz
Damnenberg
Berlin
Rosen
Rhine
British Budget Shows Large Surplus and Debt Fight
British Chancellor Goschen unveiled a budget in the House of Commons noting a surplus of over 10 million dollars and a debt reduction of 35 million dollars for the year. Expenditure totaled 437 million dollars with savings and revenue increases reported, signaling revived trade and prosperity.
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Goschen
House of Commons
Staimpsi
Dela
Wreck of the British Princess Upsets Rescue Efforts
Reports from Caminia, Portugal detail the wreck of the bark British Princess with twenty three lives lost. Spanish customs officers allegedly fired on a Portuguese lifeboat aiding survivors, hindering rescue. Multiple international crises and disasters flood the news as famine, floods, and war concerns spread across Europe and beyond.
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Lowboy
Caminia
Portugal
Carpenter’s Hand Built Chest Exceeds Doorway Width
Imlay City Optic reports a fourth street carpenter finished a handsome tool chest in a spare time project. While moving it to another room he discovered the chest was six inches wider than the doorway, revealing remarkable craftsmanship and a humorous fit of fate.
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Imlay City
Mich
Optic
Fourth Street
Women of the International Council Charge Toward Equality
The International Council of Women opened in Washington with services led by Rev. Ada Bowles and Rev. Anna Shaw. Speeches by Stanton, Anthony, Howe, and many leaders traced suffrage history and outlined aims from education to labor rights. Sessions covered women in India, journalism, medicine, law, and ministries, ending with a Pioneers conference honoring Lucretia Mott and the Seneca Falls legacy.
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International Council of Women
Albaugh
Grand Opera House
Washington
Ada ©. Bowles
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Anna B. Shaw
Amanda Deyo
Anna Shaw
Onera House
Susan B. Anthony
Council
Jagieg
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan 8
Lucy Stone
Julia Ward Howe
Doan
Woman's College
Northwestern University
Cora A. Benneson
Michigan University
Bryn Mawr College
Bays McLellan Brown
Wesleyean College
Cincinati
Howe
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Harriette R Shattuck
National Woman Suffrage Association For
Massachusetts
Isabel C. Barrows
Laura McNeil
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
Livermore
Agraity Sion O
Anna M. Worden
Vineland Grange
the Grange
Hulda B. Lond
Knights of Labor
Lida Barney Sales
Sociological Society of
Aingrica
Laura M. Barry
Knight of Labor
Chicago
Baltimore
New York
Waterford
N. Y
Little Falls
Working Women’s National Beneficial Fund
Esther L. Warner
Rena A. Michaels
Laura C. Holloway
New York City
Sarah Hacket Stevenson
Ada M. Bittenbender
Adamy Bowles
Martha B. Field
Catherine Cole
New Orleans Picayune
Woman’s International Press Association
Amelia Hadley Moi
Nation Press Association
Matilda BR. Carse
Universal Peace Association
Universal Peace
Abby Marion Diaz
Woman's Educational and Industrial Union of
Boston
Dld
Evemai
Adam
Council of Women
Pioneers
Lucretia Mott
Stanton
Seneca Falls
John W. Hutchinson
Lynn
Mass
Lucretia Mort
Ed Douglass
Abby Kelly
Grimke
Mry B. Blackwell
Eve
Paradise
Adm
Antonette Brown Backwell
Oberlin
Samuel O Poincroy
May Wright Sewall
Shattuck
Laura M. Johns
Annie Shaw
Clara B. Colby
Rachel G. Foster
Mary A. Livermore
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Rey
May Wright Wall
Foster
E. Ace Creegwood
Worcester
Francis E. Willard
Ilinois
Ay Wright Sewall
Indiana
Mar F. Eastman
M. Louise Thomas
Helen H. Gardner
Carn Neyman
Zalel B. Gustafson
Sweden
Mad dog epidemic devastates Jackson County cattle
Hydrophobia spreads through Jackson County West Virginia as a Huffman dog goes mad killing and mauling animals on several farms. A stallion dies after attack, children bitten, and many dogs and livestock culled. Ravenswood orders dog destruction amid rising cattle deaths and fear of tainted meat.
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Pakkerusaune
W. Va
Jackson County
Huffman
Pefure
Wright
Ravenswood
Jesus
Dreamed He Would Die The Date in the Vision
Rawson resident A F McNeal died March 26 after a brief illness. He had a dream January 23 claiming he died and went to heaven. In the dream he met Mohlen Povenmire who said he died a week earlier. Mrs McNeal holds the manuscript of his vision.
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McNeal
Povenmiure
Land of the Unknown
Kidnapping Case In St Louis Involving Grandparents
A sensational abduction in St Louis followed a family dispute over nine year old Lyle Garrison, grandson of Commodore Garrison. Grandparents and guardians clashed at the Christian Brothers College where the boy resided, with the child seized during a nighttime getaway by carriage. The case centers on a fortune tied to the boy and his late New York lineage.
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St. Louis
Lyle Garrison
R. Garrison
Webb City
Garrisons
Christian Brothers’ College
D.K. Garrison
Isterday
Caroline
A Ierande
Ant
Romare T
Commodore Garrison
New York
Farmers and the Tariff Sparks at Minnesota Alliance
In St Paul Minnesota the Minnesota Farmers Alliance opened its session with resolutions backing President Cleveland on tariff issues. They condemn the protective tariff as a tax aiding monopolies and demand repeal on raw materials and essentials. The resolutions praise Cleveland as the people’s president and call for transmission to the Minnesota Congressional delegation.
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Nelson
Great
West
Europe
Manila
Minnesota
Democrat
Antwerp
Pittsburg
Mr. Nelson
Ir. Nelson
Sherman
Home Market Club
Boston
Funston
Rennas
St. Paul
Minn
Minnesota Farmers’ Alliance
Cleveland
Byes Cleveland
Northwest
Space Enthusiast Seeks Newsroom Role
A young woman and a young man debate journalism and space. She envisions covering astronomy while he admits not being in the paper but pursuing space work. The exchange hints at curiosity about space reporting.
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Mr. Verbose
The Great Strike Spreads Across Rail Lines
Switchmen and other train hands join a widening strike on the Burlington road with clashes between sympathizers and officials. Pinkerton guards are disarmed, fights noted, and mass walkouts reported on the Milwaukee and St. Paul line and in Chicago. Chief Arthur urges nonviolence while rail freight movement faces growing disruption as the strike extends toward Fort Wayne and Quincy Illinois.
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Burlington Road
Pinkerton
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Manu
Arthur
Chicago
Burlington Yards
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Fort Syne Road
St.aul
Quincy
FORCING OTHER ROADS FORCE STRIKES IN RAIL SECTOR
Cuarenco March 31. After Burlingtons attempt to force freight onto other lines strikes spread rapidly. Fort Wayne system first hit, with Western line Milwaukee and St Paul tied between midnight and daybreak. Burlington transferred a 15 car train to Fort Wayne and a 25 car train to Lake Shore with 40 Pinkerton guards aboard. No workers were ordered to touch a car. Engines idle and crews of 220 passenger engines halted as strikers spread to engineers and switchmen.
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Cuarenco
Burlington
Fort Wayne
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Hoge
Arthur
Thos City
Lake Shore Road
Pinkerton
Lakeshore
Sixteenth Street
Train wreckers strike at Sheeley station in Omaha area
Omana Neb March 31 a Burlington and Missouri freight car cut from the side track at Sheeley station on Twenty fourth street and derailed onto the main line after 10 PM by thieves with a switch key. The car rolled nearly 40 miles an hour toward Tenth street near the Burlington depot. A stock car train and a loaded car derailed in town about a half hour later, but a clash with a switch prevented a worse wreck. Guards posted in yards after incident.
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Omana
Neb
Burlington & Missouri
Sheeley
Twenty Fourth Street
Burlington
Tenth Street
Omaha
Q Alone Authorized to Strike in Cleveland
In Cleveland March 31 officials deny talks with Lake Shore management and say no resignation is planned. The Burlington strike is aimed to be blocked, with Brotherhood members nationwide pledging support. A Chicago audience will hear arbitration proposals as engineers and firemen meet to discuss handling the dispute.
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Cleveland
The
Brotherhood
Lake Shore Management
Arthur
Lake Shore
Chicago
Burlington Company
Brotherhood of Locomotive
Pasears
Nes ‘Ul
Wal Bis
Burton
Burlington
Night Crew Reports at Milwatker Yard
Milwatker March 31 All night crews of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul yards reported for duty at the usual time tonight with no indications of activity. Freight movements proceeded as planned though tomorrow’s actions remain uncertain. General Manager Roswell Miller avoided predicting company actions amid a delicate situation.
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Milwatker
Chicago
Milwaukee
St Paul
Roswell -Miller
Chi
It Was a Good Strong Chair
A garbled New York Sun excerpt shows dialogue between Miss Clara and her mother about Bobby’s behavior and a mention of Ma Featherly. The readable line hints at discipline and a parental exchange amid a scene describing Bobby in a distinguished setting.
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New York Sun
Clara
Bobby
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