Nicaraguan treaty fate hangs on Spanish ratification
Washington December 28 The Spanish treaty will be given precedence in the Senate and its fate will determine the status of the orders The Nicaragua canal issue hinges on its success or failure and party questions yet to be aired The secretary of state faced severe political odds and claims no funds were spent Frelinghuysen operated with no budget The article notes Lesseps failed to secure a Nicaraguan concession and the American company later gained the necessary rights The Hawaiian treaty faces renewal issues as amendments are eyed for the Islands California growers push for free-list inclusion and naval-service needs may shape changes to the treaty The Navy stipulates voluntary service terms for certain personnel and warns against nonappropriated duties after December 31.
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Washington
Senate
Nicaragua
Frelinghuysen
Lesseps
Panama
Merican Company
Menocal
Navy
Niccaraguan
Secretary of State
United States
House
Arthur
San Domingo
California
Foreign Relations Committee
White House Glories Preparations for New Year's Reception
Washington dispatch reports the Arthur administration plans the grandest New Year's reception yet with 30 to 50 ladies invited to assist Mrs. McIlroy. Elaborate floral decor in red blue and green parlors and upstairs rooms, palms in the main corridor, and new vases and a porcelain screen in the red room, all anticipated to outshine previous White House celebrations.
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Washington
National Capital
Arthur
McIlroy
White House
Chinese immigration policy sparks renewed U S debate
Washington dispatch reports a Supreme Court ruling and Secretary McCulloch action expanding Chinese merchant certificates allowing travel in and out of the United States. Senator Miller of California vows to press for reversal as critics warn of abuse and costs per certificate.
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Washington
Congress
Supreme Court
McCulloch
United States
San Francisco
Miller
California
Treasury
Tim Globe
China
General Hawley's Object Appropriation for London Exhibit
Senator Hawley seeks congressional allowance to send the American exhibition to London in May 1886. The plan aims to highlight U S arts sciences and manufactures to British colonists amid unemployment and surplus production, arguing the exhibit will boost commerce. The request covers removal of the New Orleans Exposition display to London and modest funding for its care abroad.
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Washington
Hawley
London
United States
Bradstreet
Congress
New Orleans
Navy to operate without appropriation after December 31 1884
A Washington dispatch reports that due to Congress not passing the naval appropriation bill, after December 31, 1884 the Navy will have no current funds for pay, contingencies, bureaus, the naval academy, Marine Corps, naval asylum or other essential expenses. Officers and sailors must continue duties. pay will be a lawful debt if government funds are later provided. Contracts and purchases for clothing and subsistence will be issued as needed. Payment remains dependent on funding appropriations.
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Washington
Conress
Navy Department
Congress
Navy
Department
Naval Academy
Marine Corps
Naval Asylum
Naval Service
Loves. Fox
Extra Session Hinge on Navy Appropriation Battle
The Senate substitute for a six month Navy appropriation would cut about 600,000 for the rest of the year and 300,000 below House expectations. If no accord, Congress may call an extra session. the House may fund only the next year. The dispute risks a wider impasse. Christmas Indemnity for China Indemnity funds restored status remains in State Department safe.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Appropriations
House
Secretary of the Navy
Appropriations
Senate
Navy
Forty-ninth Congress
China
Committee On Foreign Relations
Pendleton
United States
Treasury
State Department
Grant
Congress
Mr. Bayard's Possible Successor
Washington dispatch reports that if Senator Bayard joins the cabinet, Congressman Charles B. Lore of Wilmington would succeed to his seat. Lore, 53, a liberal Democrat with a fine presence and a ready but nervous speech, is a Dickinson College graduate who studied law in Philadelphia and has served as attorney general of his state.
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Bayard
Washington
Charles B. Lore
Wilmington
Delaware
Lore
Dickinson College
Pennsylvania
John K. Findlay
Philasachs
Distilled Spirit Regulation Considered by Attorney General
The attorney general ruled that the Treasury Department may regulate spirits remaining in a distillery warehouse after three years from entry, if the distiller or owner files a declaration of export and posts a bond to export within a set period. The decision outlines conditions for extending storage while awaiting export.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury Department
Washington Scene Covers Patronage Tactics and Speech Plans
Democratic members in Congress quietly discuss a patronage distribution system for the incoming administration to curb rush by office seekers. The Spanish minister says Spain will accept sugar and tobacco modifications that the American Senate may adopt. Horatio King reports his father Robert C. Winthrop is better but cannot attend Washington monument ceremonies. his son may be asked to read the address if considered by the commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Cleveland
Senate
Robert C. Winthrop
Horatio
King
Washington Monument
Winthrop
Monument Commission
Inauguration Ball Details Presented by Chairman
Chairman Ber ritt of the inauguration committee says plans move rapidly for a grand ball in the new pension building. He promises a fine ballroom and a magnificent entertainment by the Gees, asserting it will be unmatched in the country.
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Washington
Berritt
Long Stories Briefly Told Chief Justice Waite and bill funding
Chief Justice Waite is rapidly convalescing after illness. House river and harbor committee expects an appropriation near ten million dollars this year. State Department reports a Corea massacre involving Mon Yon Ik, head of a Korean embassy group. Powell of the geological survey notes extensive recent surveys in New England Appalachian and Southwestern regions. Naval inquiry finds no cross-bureau fraud in medicine and surgery. Treasury reports November foreign trade with exports 78,776,666 and imports 45,173,792, excess 38,602,874. Comptroller rules Otoe and Missouri Confederate tribes receive 5 percent interest on removal funds. Coast defenses likely to receive several million in appropriation. Portland man Charles H. Jordan, mason, age about 60, found dead. death attributed to heart disease.
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Waite
House
State Department
Japan
Corea
Mon Yon Ik
Corean
Hepees
Powell
Geological Survey
New England
Appalachian
Naval Court of Inquiry
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Bureau of Statistics
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Lawrence
Secretary of the Interior
Tragic Wreck of brig A. S. H. off Sable Island
One of the year’s sorrowful wreck tales reports that the brig A. S. H. capt Lemiar chaud, bound for Boston with dry fish, foundered near Sable Island after a Friday night gale. Only the first mate survived, rescued by the Dominion steamer Lansdowne, after the vessel struck a sand bank and broke apart, leaving four men clinging to wreckage as darkness fell.
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Hatlifax
Sabie Island
Lemiarchaud
Omeger & Co
St. Pierre
Miquelon
Boston
Piaces
Sable Island
Dominion Government
Lansdowne
West End Light
Weekly Globe promotes Cleveland with agent cash offers
The Weekly Globe, a Democratic weekly from Boston, urges subscriptions at 1 per year or bulk rates and offers a large cash commission to agents. It promises full inauguration and Congress coverage to 100000 subscribers and invites free samples and terms.
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GLOBE
United States
Grover Cleveland
Reform
American crisis at Pernambuco aboard the Alert
The crew remained in charge as the captain his wife and boy returned home. The 1099 ton Alert was built in Boston and owned by Littefield Sons. Vernon H. Brown & Co of New York handled the arrangements.
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Pernambuco
Boston
Littefield Sons
Vernon H. Brown & Co
Bowling Green
New York
Intense Sufferings of the Crew of the Schooner Express
Portland December 24 A tale of the wrecked schooner Express and its crew led by Captain L N Ingersoll. The vessel sailed from Portland over a week earlier for Boston but stormy seas near Richmond Island forced anchorage at Riemeone Island. A night gale on the 22d wrecked the ship flooding holds as crew were damaged and ice covered the rails. Crew escaped to shore after boats were launched in a heavy snow squall and Captain Ingersoll returned to Portland for relief. The eighty ton schooner lies on the beach full of water with Eastport men aboard.
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Portland
Express
L. N. Ingersoll
Boston
Richmond's Island
Riemone's Island
Rclling
Rogersoll
Ingersoll
Eastport
Royal Yard
Terrible voyage of Isa bella crew in a gale and wreck
The Isa bella wreck off Richmonds Island near Wiscasset Maine on December 24 left Captain Brad Lewis Bion Lewis and a Wiscasset sailor adrift in zero weather. A violent gale and snow drove lumber from the deck into the stern breaking the house, flooding the hold, pumps iced over, and the crew endured extreme danger as they fought to land.
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Wiscasset
Brad Lewis
Bion Lewis
Isabella
Richmond's
From Senate to Cabinet Changes in Judiciary Committee
Washington December 24 and 26 report that Cleveland may fill cabinet posts by moving Bayard Garland from the Senate and possibly Lamar or Pendleton or Thurman into executive roles. The Senate judiciary committee, long influential on Pacific railroad matters, stands to be reorganized by these moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Garfield
Roscoe Conkling
New York
Senate
Blaine
Windom
the Treasury
Kirkwood
Interior
Cleveland
Bayard and
Gallaud
Shipwreck survivors endure brutal snow storm and freezing death
Captain Guildford reports historic gales as a storm raged with driving snow and 10 degree cold. A wrecked crew struggled toward a lighthouse three miles away while two comrades died on the sand bar and the steward was buried at sea burial near the vessel’s impact point.
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Guildford
Landsdowne
Sable Island
Fearful sea disaster ends in rescue by steamer Comte d Eto
Captain Jerri Park and his wife and son survived a fire on the American clipper Alert after October voyage from New York to Shanghai with 40,000 cases of oil. The foremast struck by lightning, a hatch explosion, and a spreading blaze forced abandon ship. A steamer, Comte d Eto of Havre, under Captain August Viel, rescued them near Pernambuco.
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York
Tansfer
Laura M. Stalin
Jerri Park
Pernambuto
Para
Perun
Park
Alert
Shanghai
China
Bis
Night Storm Drives Crew to Escape Vessel Near Lynne Surf
In a Maine voyage, crew faced threats of death as they abandoned ship. They launched a yawl amid horrific waves and blinding snow, nearly capsizing several times before reaching Richmond's Island and then a lone house. Captain Lewis notes it was the stormiest night of his Maine winters. Nathan Lincolp of Wiscasset owned the craft.
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Richmond
Borbe
Lewis
Maine
Craw
Nathan Lincolp
Wiscasset
Crew of the St Peter Rescued by Fellow Fishermen
The ship St Peter, owned and captained by Cantillion, wrecked off Portsmouth New Hampshire after striking rocks near Whale Back light. Eight men endured freezing conditions as the vessel sank in four fathoms. They were saved by Lizzie Ruby of Gloucester and later transferred to Clara B Grimes, arriving in Rockport. Cantillion faces about $8000 loss with $6000 insured.
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Gloucester
St. Peter
Clara B. Grimes
Cantillion
Portsmouth
N. H
Lizzie Ruby
Portsmouth Harbor
Rockport
Mass
Clara B, Grimes
Fire and Flood Aboard Belle off Cape Cod Coast
The British brig Belle captained by French, sailing from Glace Bay to New York with coal, caught fire in the hold sixty miles off Cape Henlopen on December 19. A New York pilot boarded, and the crew of five seamen, mostly from Newfoundland with one Philadelphian, faced a frozen sea as flames grew. The schooner David Clarkson spotted distress signals, rescued the captain, his wife, and three others, and safely transferred them to the Clarkson. Crew frostbitten, the Belle later drifted ashore in the gulf stream where spontaneous combustion was blamed for the fire.
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Lewes
Del
French
Glace Bay
C. B
New York
Nearfoundland
George B. Hanran
Capes
Schoener
David Clarkson
Boston
Clarkson
Gulf Stream
Indianapolis Cotton Mills Burned
Indianapolis December 27 A fire tonight destroyed the Indian apolis cotton mills formerly operated by Prower and Love Brothers. Loss estimated at 10000 dollars with insurance coverage around 89000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Prower & Love Brothers
President nominee urged to name Thurman for cabinet
The text argues the president-elect should consult the House of Representatives and that nearly all members would support Thurman. It claims Cleveland must honor Obie with a cabinet post to satisfy the Democratic Party in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Representatives
Thurman
Cleveland
Obie
Senator Pendleton Seen as Likely Cabinet Candidate
Washington dispatch notes a senior Democratic politician comments on Cleveland’s future cabinet. It highlights Senator Pendleton’s wealth and looming March 4 term end, suggesting he could be secretary of state or another top post, with Garland as a potential attorney general and McDonald eyed for interior or postmaster general.
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Washington
Cleveland
Bayard
Garland
McDonald
Interior
George Pendleton
Senate
What the Governor Does Not Say About His Cabinet
Colonel John R. McLean reports on Governor Cleveland in Albany. He says Cleveland will be in line with the Democratic party and act for the public good, not to advance any cabinet ambitions. McLean notes Cleveland did not promise a cabinet role and would avoid Ohio in cabinet talks.
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Washington
John R. McLean
The
Cincinnati Inquirer
City
Capitol
Cleveland
Albany
McLean
Executive
Nyone
New York
Democratic Party
Colonel McLean
Eeeee
Qohio
Ohio
Otto
Union
Garland
Bayard
Mr. Vilas
Wisconsin
Mr. Whitney
Mr. Clevelana
Disastrous Floods Ravage Illinois Farmlands
Heavy rains in Illinois after deep snowmelt cause floods across Hillsboro and surrounding areas. Thousands of acres of bottom land inundated. Fences bridges grain and livestock swept away. Water continues to rise as rains persist.
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Hillsboro
Ill
Verdict for defendant in Crandall et al. vs Goodrich Transport
Milwaukee dispatch reports a verdict for the defendant in the Crandall et al. versus Goodrich Transportation Company case involving about 200050 dollars. It was a test suit and a plaintiffs win would have triggered many sales against the Goodrich firm in 1980. Crandall, one of the plaintiffs, had a continued stake in the action.
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Milwaukee
Crandall Et al
Goodrich Transportation Company
Goodrich Company
Crandall
Southern Democrats Seek Fair Recognition From Cleveland
Washington December 25. Northern mugwumps and Republicans speak of how Southern loyalties will be handled by the incoming administration. Senators Butler Jones and Lamar express confidence in Cleveland to fairly recognize the South, while others warn against overreaching or neglect. The South seeks an equitable share of national offices without demanding special treatment.
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Washington
Republican
Mugwump
South
Cleveland
United States
GLOBE
Senate
Monse
Huller
South Carolina
Congress
Butler
Kael
North
Jones
Florida
Supreme Court
McPherson
New Jersey
Lamar
Mississippi
Policy of acquisition urged by New Orleans in 19th century pledge
New Orleans editors call for government pursuit of territorial expansion to the south, arguing the Nicaragua treaty opens a wedge for a canal and a ten million dollar investment to drive annexation of Central America from a southern base line. They claim sectional harmony and national growth will follow, with prosperity and stability at home.
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New Orleans
Picayune
North America
Central America
Terrible Winter Tragedy in Colorado Snowstorm
A weeklong storm traps two Dotsero men loading wood at Coffee Pot Springs. Forsyth is found nearly dead and Smith dead in a snow bank. Forsyth writes a last message to his wife while frostbitten feet threaten lifelong disability.
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Denver
Col
N. K. Smith
Elbridge Forsyth
Dotsera
Coffee Pot Springs
Dotsero
Forsyth
Smith
Willow Springs
Independent Republicans in Brooklyn reject permanent organization
The committee of 100 of the Independent Republicans met in New York to consider a plan for a permanent organization. They recommended no sub committee and decided it was not advisable to form a permanent body, though the sub-committee’s principles were approved. The committee would reconvene only during political crises requiring independent action.
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New York
Brooklyn
Marriage Cards For 4 and 6 Year Olds Shock Readers
GORDONSVILLE Virginia December 28 local papers announce cards for the marriage of two children Master Willie Scott of Gordonsville aged 4 years and Miss Jennie Perry of Charles Town West Virginia aged 6 years prompting local debate over the notice in the press.
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Gordonsville
Willie Scott
Jennie Perry
Charleswwo
W. Va
Comfort for Colored Men. Hendricks on Negro Rights Policy
T A Hendricks responds to Edwin F Horn on the incoming administration’s policy toward colored people. He cites the Democratic platform’s call for equal justice and constitutional provisions prohibiting slavery. He argues liberty and citizenship of the colored man are inviolable and urges self-reliance and duty to earn political power, with white support but not dependence.
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Indianapol
Edwin F. Horn
The
Colored World
Flow
T. A. Hendricks
National Democratic
Chasell”’ Lam
Cleveland as a Deer Slayer and the Great Presidential Game
A Rochester interview recounts Governor Cleveland hunting with hounds in Woodbull Lake’s Northwoods last fall. The account claims he nearly shot a large buck at six rods but missed, describing his excitement, the deer’s stance, and a friend’s report of the near-miss.
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Seth Green
Rochester
Cleveland
Northwoods
Woodbull Lake
Bill Bowman
Bob Roosevelt
R. A. Sherman
Blmin
Weill
Woodhull
Randall in Kentucky visits Louisville crowds and clubs
In Louisville on December 29 Mr. H. J. Randall Mrs. Randall and Congressman McAdoo arrived amid crowds along the route. He is hosted by Hon. Oscar Turner and will greet merchants at the Board of Trade, dine at the Pendennis Club, and speak at Liederkranz Hall before leaving for Nashville in charge of a Nashville committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
J. Randall
Randall
McAdoo
Oscar Turner
Change
Board of Trade
Pendennis Club
Liederkranz Hall
Nashville
Carlisle on Randall Visit and Tariff Reform Debate
Speaker Carlisle in Covington downplays the South visit by Mr Randall as overstated by the press. He asserts Randall’s trip is his right and could further tariff reform discussion nationwide. Carlisle adds that cabinet knowledge is broadly reported and no one has more insight than others.
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Cincinnaty
Carlisle
Covington
Randall
South
Captain Eads Driving a Civil Engineers Scheme
Reports from Louis indicate civil and government engineers seek equal footing in federal work with same pay and rank. Captain James B. Eads is named as the prime mover, alleged to push for him to become chief of the Mississippi River Commission during the current session.
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Eads
Louis
Congress
James &. Eads
Mississippi River Commission
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Charles H. Jordan
Estbrook
Weekly
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Comte d’Etu
Havre
August Viel
Viel
Senator Pendleton
Illinois
Green Bay
Phoenix Insurance Company
Transportation Company
Oconto
Istration
Colorado
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