Senate Opens Smoothly Amid Contested Seat
The Senate proceeded without a deadlock as both parties accepted the oath for members. A single contested seat, West Virginia’s Faulkner, prompted procedural delay while credentials are reviewed. The House nominated Carlisle for speaker. Reed and Cox led the final steps to oath and seating, with Carlisle taking the gavel. Senate nominations followed for several cabinet and court posts, but little business was completed before adjournment.
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Senate
Faulkner
West Virginia
Surpie
Indiana
Hoar
Committee On
Kenna
Married Couple’s Tiny Tiff Ends With Hopeful Promise
A newlywed couple parts after a small quarrel over a note to the mother, with exchanges of sarcasm and emotion. The scene ends on a light note, as they foresee many future tiny spats but insist they will always reconcile and stay loving.
Fare Beating Lady Gets Busted With Nickels
Superintendent Morton of Union Railway recounts a scheme to catch a woman who rode free by handing a $20 bill for change. A driver given $20 in nickels changed it, causing the rider to be caught when she paid fare with the coin, angering her into quitting rides for a month.
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Morton
Union Railway Company
Birmingham
Mayor Sullivan Convicted in Second Riot Trial
The second trial of Mayor Sullivan for rioting in his paper reports of suppressed year of the National league ended in conviction. He is sentenced to two months in prison without labor and will be treated as a first class misdemeanant. He declines appeal and plans to endure punishment proudly. Sullivan was moved by car to Richmond prison amid large crowds and clashes between police and people.
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Yranc Ea
National League
Richmond Prison
Washington
Don M. Dickinson
Dickinson
Fargo
McConnell
Raymond
Northern Pacific Railroad
Lincoln
Neb
Henry Beers
Augusta Seiffert
Secretary of the Interior
M. A. Tipton
Laflin
Cak
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Company
Barnes
Land and Labor Club
Henry George
United Labor
St. Paul
Hat Reid
Minneapolis
Maud Compston
Kansas
Timothy Harrington
Harbor
Dublin
Edward Harrington
P. M
Tralee
County Kerry
League
Timothy H Ton
Brien
Dillon
Scotland
England
Supreme Court upholds Kansas prohibition power in Mugler case
The United States Supreme Court today rul ed Kansas may prohibit manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors for general use within its borders. It holds that banning such production for personal use or export remains constitutional if it serves public health morals and safety, and that property in brewers is not confiscated but restrained as a nuisance. The ruling affirms Mugler and remands related state suit.
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Congress
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
New York
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United States Supreme Court
Kansas
Muger
Stake of
State of
Ziebold
Justice Harlan
United
States of the Union
Barbier
Mugler
Jncements
Anpreme Court of
United States
Circuit Court of the United States
Bill of the State
Hagelin
Grave marks exact geographic center of United States
An army officer in Chicago notes the grave of Major Ogden at Fort Leavenworth marks the geographical center of the United States. Ogden died in the 1855 cholera epidemic at Fort Riley Kansas. His monument on a knoll near the fort points toward the center. Fort Riley lies near Junction City Kansas.
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Chicago Tribune
Chicago
United States
Major Ogden
Fort Riley
Kansas
Ogden
Fort Leavenworth
National Cemetery
Junction City
Kas
Virginia habeas ruling on tax suit restraining order
The decision favors the State in Ayers and Commonwealth's Attorneys Scott and McCabe habeas cases. They were jailed by Judge Bond of the U S circuit court for disobeying a restraining order against suing for taxes on tendered state bond coupons. Also notes Manitoba snow cuts and winter line arrangements.
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Ayers
Commonwealth
Scott and
McCabe
Bond
United States Circuit Court
U. S
Manitoba
Montana
Sadi Carnot Elected France President by Congress Vote
The Congress of Senators and Deputies elected Sadi Carnot on the second ballot to succeed Grevy as France’s president. The result followed the withdrawal of top candidates from two republican factions, uniting behind Carnot amid Paris rejoicing and fears of factional quarrels ahead. Carnot, born in Limoges in 1837, is famed for public works expertise, especially railroads and inland navigation. Berlin dispatches call him a cautious, pacific leader likely to govern through a ministry and avoid confrontations with Germany.
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Saadi- Carnot
Fran
Grevy
Sadi-Carnot
le Royer
Sedi Carnot
Sam
Paris
Francis Sadi-Carnot
Limoges
Polytechanic School
Government School of
Seine-Inferieur
Chamber of Deputies
M. Sadi-Carnot
Berlin
Germany
President Grevy resigns as French president in chamber
The French president Grevy addressed the chamber of deputies and resigns after public opinion and parliamentary action. He cites the duties of wisdom and patriotism and says he leaves the presidency with sadness but without regret, hoping the republic endures. France will judge his nine years rule.
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French Republic
Grevy
Republic
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
France
Europe
Leprosy cases in Minnesota and national notes
A letter from Rothsay Minnesota describes leprosy among Scandinavian immigrants, detailing a Norwegian from Bergen with severe mutilation and nerve involvement. Reports from Wilkin and Otter Tail counties discuss advanced cases, symptoms, progression, and familial status, with broader Miscellaneous Matters on politics, land office activity, pardons, and various federal appointments and legal cases.
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Otter Tail
Wilkin
Rothsay
Minn
Norway
Fergus Falls
Otter Tail County
Bergen
Wilkin County
Powderly Letter on Knights of Labor Growth and Dissent
The Journal of United Labor prints a second Powderly letter on the Works of Knighthood. It recalls the Knights of Labor expanding from fewer than 10 000 members to more than 700 000 and defends unity, warns against secession, and argues that new orders would simply shift influence to others. The piece highlights sacrifices by early pioneers and defends the historical role of the organization in shaping labor history.
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Journal of United Labor
Powderly
Knights of Labor
Caucus Nominates House Officers in Two Parties
In Washington on the third, Democratic members nominated Carlisle for Speaker by acclamation with Clark for clerk Seedom for sergeant at arms Hurtt for doorkeeper and Dalton for postmaster Milburn as blind chaplain while adjourned. The Republicans named Reed of Maine for Speaker McPherson for sergeant at arms Fitch for doorkeeper Gray for postmaster Dakota delegate Gilford supported Gray as a compliment to territories and the press Rev Thomas Indiana Quaker for chaplain Cannon and McComas re elected as caucus chair and secretary.
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Sunset Cox
John C. Carlisle
Cannon
Thomas B. Reed
Randall
Mills
McKinley
Long
Massachusetts
Carlisle
Nichols
North Carolina
Smith
Milwaukee
Bromm
Pennsylvania
Reed
Cox
Kelley
House
Senate
Washinton
John B. Clark
Seedom
Hurtt
Innesota
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Dalton
Milburn
Rev. Thomas
Indiana
Congressman Cannon
Illinois
Representative McComas
Maryland
Treasury report cites 200 plus buildings under control
W A Freezer, supervising architect, submits annual report to Secretary Fairchild noting over two hundred completed and occupied treasury buildings and sixty three buildings under construction or repair in the past year. Total annual expenditures include sites and new construction two million eight hundred forty one thousand one hundred thirty nine dollars, repairs to completed buildings two hundred twenty nine thousand seventy two, heating apparatus repairs one hundred thirty five thousand four hundred fifty four, miscellaneous fifty five thousand seven hundred six. He urges full appropriation of projected building costs to prevent delays and material price rises that hinder contracts.
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W. A. Freezer
The
Treasury
Fairchild
Treasury Department
Interstate ruling on segregated cars for colored passengers
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled in W H Council vs Western & Atlantic that colored passengers may be assigned to separate cars on equal terms. Council, principal of the Honte ville Alabama industrial school, was moved from a regular passenger coach to the Jim Crow car. The decision states colored travelers who pay first class fare must receive equally safe and comfortable accommodation with other first class passengers.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
W. H. Council
Western & Atlantic Railroad
Council
Honteville
Ala
Morrison
Warner's Log Cabin Remedies touted as cure for common diseases
An editorial discusses Dr Holmes and generational health, praising Warner's Log Cabin Remedies. It highlights Sarsaparilla blends and products like Log Cabin Cough and Consumption Remedy, Hops and Buchu, Scalpine, Nose Cream, a plaster, and a Liver Pill. The piece urges readers to demand these remedies from druggists and trusts the formulas.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Warner
Know Thyself Likewise Thy Hoss Farmers Fable
Farmer Thistlepod sits with a phrenologist who misreads his farming nature and speech. Three weeks later the doctor buys a quiet horse, while Thistlepod unknowingly trades a fierce old horse for a $27 yard find later sold for $475, lamenting the irony that he knows men but not horses.
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Thistlepod
Histlepod
Burdette
Settlement in Indiana Ends Western Union Tax Suit by Compromise
A pending suit in Indiana between the State and Western Union Telegraph Company over 1887 property taxation ends in compromise. The firm had argued the tax intruded on interstate commerce. The settlement refunds seven years of arrears, with no taxes paid since 1880 to date.
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Indiana
Western Union Telegraph Company
Market Wheat and Grain Prices Across Cities
Markets list grain and animal product prices for Chicago Milwaukee and Minneapolis with figures for wheat corn oats rye barley flax seed timothy hay and dairy items. Included are pork lard butter eggs and poultry prices along with a Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer advertisement note.
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Minneapolis
Timothy
Paul
Milwaukee
Theatrical Costumes and Wheat Crop Figures Noted
Theatrical and masquerade costumes supplied by A. F. Smith costumer Minneapolis. Write for catalogue. Statistician Sheridan's report places the wheat crop of Dakota for the past season at fifty three million bushels.
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A. F. Smith
Minneapolis
Sheridan
Dakota
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Peaket N.Y
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Jackson St
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Washington, D.C
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Russia
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Geo. L. Lord
East Third St
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Gerrecor Walter
Harever S. Jenks
J. R. Keenpeick
F. L. Arrrar
Vassar College
Genaae
Leonard
Lyon & Healy
C. Ditson & CO
S. E. Olson & CO
Mammoth Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods House
Nicollet Avenue
WEW Mercantile Exchange
Co. C. Curtiss
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