Government telegraph proposals seek five year contracts
The bill invites telegraph companies to submit proposals for supplying transmission of postal telegraph messages. It outlines a five year contract with the best offer and four years to build necessary lines to connect post offices. Rates cap at 20 to 25 cents for standard telegrams and 35 to 75 cents for press dispatches with various night and per word adjustments. The postmaster general would solicit sealed proposals to sell existing lines and franchises to the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uveescnet
Newspaper and Commercial News Association
Postmaster General
Congress
Destructive cyclones sweep Indiana and neighboring states
Reports from Indiana Ohio and surrounding states describe a string of violent storms. Oakville Indiana is reported wiped from the map by a cyclone along the Fort Wayne Cincinnati Louisville line with heavy property and likely lives lost. Other towns including Collinsia and Mundiz report tornadoes and damaging winds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muncie
Ind
This
Oakville
Here
Fort Wayns, Cincinnati & Louisville
Crxer
Indiana
Ohio
Pittssure
Co_lumsia
8. C
Palmetto Monument
Lexington County
CuattanooGa
Tenn
North
Alabama
Georgia
Mundiz
Baltimore
Capes
Fire destroys multiple Ludgate area buildings in Loxpoon
A blaze at 13 and 14 Paternoster row owned by printer John Charles Foulger spread to Pardon & Sons and Willams & Co music publishers and Dollys restaurant in Lovells court. All buildings were destroyed with others damaged. overhead wires hampered firefighting. Loss estimated at £1,000,000. Wind spared St Pauls cathedral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loxpoon
Paternoster Row
John Charles Foulger
Pardon & Sons
Lovells Court
William Willams & Co
Dolly’s
Dolley's
Newgate Market
St. Paul's Cathedral
Apaches in Northern Mexico Believed Responsible for Charley McComas’s Death
Information from the United States consul general at Matamoras reached army headquarters about Apaches operating in northern Mexico. The report strengthens the belief that Charley McComas was killed by his captors during the confrontation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasp Indion City
United States
Matamoras
Mexico
Charley McComas
Mass meeting seeks Logan County official removal over crime
A Lincoln committee of fifty delivered resolutions to Orrin A. Carpenter demanding his departure from Logan County. Carpenter refused to accept them and questioned the committee’s authority, pledging to act on his own judgment. The scene sparked excitement but no violence, with lawsuits threatened against committee members and an uncertain future. Separately, St. Louis reports on a new barbed wire monopoly formed in Illinois with $2 million capital to control pricing and production via Washburn & Moon licenses.
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House
Committee On Public Health
Congress
Nichols
Sherman Committee
Senate
Cincinnati
Indian Territory
Oaklans
Cal
Mississippi
Robert Smalls
South Carolina
Bland
Washington City
William Webster
New Zealand
Idaho
Alaska
Coke
Grant
Beale
House of Representatives
Keifer
H. V. Boynton
Gen. Banks
New Orleans
House of Representives
Northern Pacific Road
Public Lands Committee
Gen. Grant
Carlisle
Wilson
Iowa
Sacramento
Cumberland
Nashville
Missouri
White Cloud
Library
Lewis
Washington
Pendleton
Beck
Illiams
Hoar
Harrison
Richmond
Secretary of the Interior
Marcus Whitmore
Oregon
Washindton City
Texas
Logan
Chicago Board of Trade
Lapham
Jonas
Bayard
St. Croix River
Lincoln, Ills
Court House
Orrin A. Carpenter
Carpenter
Logan County
H.L. Pierce
St. Louis
Age of Steel
United States
Illinois
Washburn & Moon Company
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Brainerd Dispatch
Ures
Chattanooga
Opelousas
Portland
Kansas
K. Platt
Patent Office
David J. Brewer
the Postal Telegraph
Senate Committee On Post Offices
Hill
Cosbly
London
Charlie McComas
Lincoln
U. 8
Lamp Office
St. Cloud
Minn
Charles R. Reed
Wgge
Madsen
Sargeonne
Miron
John M. Ross
Arthur Bradsley
The
General Land Office
D. H. Freeman
Register
W. B. Mitchell
Wadham
Wadham’s
Shiloh
McFadden & Johnson
Geo. H. Thayer
Bourbon, Ind
Mcadden & Johnson
cFadden & Jhonson
W.M. Dresskell
Marshmaker and
Jerreler
McFadden & Johnson’s
Warre
F.w.earle
Bulletin
Chanced Weekly
Sixth Street
F. W. Earle
Postoffice
Broadway South
Opera House
New High-School
F. W. Barre
Ninth
Grove
Track
F. Earle
Ninth Street
Holly Street
Broadway
Polasa
Tenth
Holly Streets
Broadway North
F. W. Zaiie
Fourth Street
Villard Hotel
Depot
Seventh Street
W. Earle
Brainerd and Villard
Pang F. W. Earle
Main
Lota
I. A. Waite
White & White, Contractors & Builders
Frank H
Elvidce Coal i
WOOD
Lfices
Noomis” Crocery Store
Tas ‘Lo Sre Heotrshiscskat Snconnections
John J. Stephenson
Boston
West Door
Garden Theatre
Sth Street
Emma E. French
Esifth Street
Leland
Laurel Street
E. R
Board of Trustees
Linnemann & Koop
Front Street
Brainerd
J. CG. Huber
FF. A. B. King & CO
Caver & Mohle
E. E. M. Smith
Cutain
Wall Paper, Etcc
E. Smith & Co
SW Merchant Tailoring
J.5. Logan
Sixth St
Bet
Front & Laurel
Metzger Bros
Micfadden & Johnson
Fioneer Drugeiss
Front St
6Th
6Th Sts
Fiome Treatmentat
Rochester Publishing Co
Osburn
Rochester, N. Y
Fife & Onstine
Minneapolis
Cor
Front & 7Th Sts
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