Bill to curb C O D liquor shipments debated in Congress
Mississippi Congressman J Sharpe Williams urged a judiciary committee hearing to stop C O D liquor shipments into prohibition districts arguing they aid illicit trade. He backed interstate regulation not state police power, while opponents from the National Brewers Association warned of unconstitutionality. The German American Alliance and temperance groups attended.
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Washington
J. Sharpe Williams
Mississippi
House Committee On Judiciary
Williams
United States
Robert Crain
Baltimore
National Brewers’ Association
German American Alliance
Anti-Saloon League
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Prominent man dies in New Orleans Civil War era leader
Colonel Edwin I. Kursheedt, former assistant postmaster and adjutant of the Washington Artillery, died at age sixty eight in New Orleans. Born in Kingston Jamaica, he served as a notable military figure during the Civil War era.
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New Orleans
Edwin I. Kursheedt
Washington Artillery
Kingston
Jamaica
Death of Rev. Father J. F. Leahy G A R chaplain
Rev. Father J. F. Leahy aged sixty one and born in Ogdensburg New York died in Chapman Kansas after a long illness. He served as chaplain in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic and passed away Wednesday.
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Chapman
Kan
J. F. Leahy
Grand Army of the Republic
Ogdensburg
Singer plans forty story tower over Manhattan Broad Street
The Singer Manufacturing company plans a central tower rising 593 feet 102-3 inches atop an enlarged building at Broadway and Liberty Street. A thirty six story square base will support a dome of ten further stories, with a cupola and flagstaff, topping the project costing about 1.5 million dollars and aiming to surpass all skyscrapers except the Eiffel Tower and Cologne cathedral.
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New York
Singer Manufacturing Company
Murphy
Washington Monument
Broadway
Liberty Street
Eiffel Tower
Philadelphia City Hall
Park Row
New York Times
Europe
Cologne Cathedral
Confederate Reunion Dates Unchanged in New Orleans
The New Orleans Confederate reunion remains set for April 25 to 27. A local committee split with Memorial Day date conflicts and referred the issue to General Stephen D. Lee, noting it would be impractical to reschedule. Adjutant General Mickle confirms no date change announcement.
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New Orleans
Stephen D. Lee
Mickle
Drumhead Courtmartial After Riga Rising Suppressed
The Riga area crackdown reports five shot by drumhead court martial and thirty flogged with knouts amid mass arrests in Waden district. Seventy rifles seized. Two Reval leaders, Vice President Paetz and attorney Tamant, sentenced to death for revolutionary involvement.
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Riga
Livonia
Waden
Reval
Paetz
Tamant
Hardwood prices rise from joint meet in Cincinnati
Cincinnati February 22 A rise in hardwood dimension material prices follows a meeting of the Hardwood Dimension branch of the Hardwood Manufacturers Association. The increase affects wagons furniture interior finish and agricultural implements with regional variation up to fifty percent in some areas.
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Cincinnati
Hardwood Dimension Branch
Hardwood Manufacturers’ Association of the
United States
Joke Triggers Fatal Duel Between Firemen in Jackson
In Jackson Tennessee on February 22 a desperate duel between BE A Rogers and W A McCanne, both local firemen, left McCanne mortally wounded after four shots and Rogers badly wounded through the right breast. The dispute stemmed from a joke about a woman.
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Jackson
Tenn
BE. A. Rogers
W. A. McCanne
McCanne
Rogers
Crazy Snake Leads Powwow at Old Hickory Grounds
Crazy Snake and his band hold a powwow at the Old Hickory grounds in Henryetta I T. The leader rejects deeds or patents from the Dawes commission.
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Henryetta
I. T
Crazy Snake
Old Hickory Grounds
Dawes Commission
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