U S Senate and House action on treaties and education bills
April sessions report briefed Senate and House actions including a request to Spain for umpire reference over the 1819 treaty, land office and coinage bills, and a $100,000 levee protection appropriation. Grant attended the House, and education bills faced long debate with adjournments in both chambers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morril
Secretary of the Treasury
John P. Walworth
General Banks
Louisiana Bank
New Orleans
Senate
Houst
Dorsheimer
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Committee On Public Lands
Congress
House
Mississippi River
Senatou
Hoar
National League
Wilson
Iowa
Committee On Library
Lewis
United States
Washington
Secretary of War
Richmond
George
Committee On
Indian Affairs
Secretary of the Interior
Marcus Whitmore
Oregon
Logan
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago Trades and Labor Assembly
Mississippi
Advices on Apaches and Congress News From Washington
Advices from Matamoros say Apache talks confirm Charley McComas was killed by captors. Also reports the Washington monument may reach 500 feet by August. Civil Service exam in Memphis set for April 29. Commander Coffin leaves San Francisco for Washington to take command of the Alert. Congress debates adjournment and suffrage amendment, with Maybury tasked to draft adverse report. House committee on Post Offices opposes government telegraph plans. Grover Briss testifies his star route fees total 59532, leaving about 8000 unreceived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Matamoros
Mexico
Charley McComas
Washington Monument
Civil Service Commission
Memphis
Coffin
United States Navy
San Francisco
Alert
Greeley
Congress
House Committee On Judiciary
Maybury
House Committee On Post Offices and Postroads
Col. Grovar Briss
Springer Investigating Committee
House
Porch collapse injures three near Laporte Pa
At James Brooks residence near Laporte on the 31st alt three young ladies Ida Brooks Carrie Mitchell and Mary Haskins were hurled from a porch twenty two feet. Miss Mitchell died of injuries while Miss Brooks and Miss Haskins suffered broken limbs and fractures. Miss Brooks life is despaired of.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Brooks
Laporte
Ida Brooks
Carrie Mitchell
Mary Haskins
Miss Mitchell
Misses Brooks
Haskins
Gloucester
Mass
New York
United States Fish Commission
Michigan
Loughrea
Ireland
McCloud River
Cal
France
Multiple 19th Century News Bits From Across the Nation
A wide ranging update reports on legal, political, and social events: George Krovusker of Richland Center Wisconsin faces assigned liabilities. Hon Cahakies D Hoppes dies in Carrollton Illinois. a Key West dispatch notes the schooner Shoters and General Agnew sailing for Cuba. Joan Parrott a California banker dies in San Francisco. J F Randall in Newcastle Kentucky absconds for $800. a mob hangs Frank Elviett in York County North Carolina and Edward McCullogh in Dallas Texas is also lynched after a murder. a wreck occurs on the Alabama and Great Southern near Chattanooga with fatal fireman’s death. colored youth industrial school planned near Jacksonville Florida. Cornell Alumni Trustees deems Vandwater Foraker and Halsey. ten laborers injured in a Lebanon Valley Road incident. Tennessee Supreme Court limits jurors by kinship. Livingston Montana organizes Mining Bureau. John W Gibson in Fairview Kentucky faces possible lynching. National Wool Growers Convention date moved to May. Cincinnati riot death toll reaches fifty-one. Rebecca Everingham steamer burns with fourteen lives lost. Ohio liquor tax passes. barbed wire price up in Chicago. steel wire price rise in St Louis. boiler incident at a New marine dry-dock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Krovusker
Tichland Center
Wis
Cahakies
D. Hoppes
Carrollton
Ill
Congress
Key West
Fla
Shoters
General Agnew
Cuba
Dix
Joan Parrott
California
San Francisco
Virginia
J. F. Randall
Newcastle
Frank Elviett
York County
N. C
Dallas
Texas
Edward McCullogh
Thomas Wilson
Chattanooga
Brown
Hampton
Jacksonville
Cornell University
George R. Vandwater
Brooklyn
N. Y
J.B. Foraker
Cincinnati
F. W Halsey
New York
Lebanon Valley
Wernersville
Supreme Court of Tennessee
Livingston
Montana
Fairview
John W. Gibson
John McCoy
Gibson
National Wool Growers
Chicago
National Industrial Congress
Rebecca Everingham
Columbus
Appalachicola
Chattahoochie River
Fitzgerald
St. Louis
Marine Dry-Dock
New
International and regional news highlights from the era
London editor EomMouND Yates is jailed four months for libel. Madrid comic editor gets eight years for an offensive image of King Alfonso. Mexico forms political clubs for Porfirio Diaz. Neptune sails to St John’s with 41 500 seats valued 125000. Reape returns to London ill. Paternoster Row fire damages 2 million. St Paul’s saved. Turkish ban on Russian likenesses. Kazan famine. Dominion orders on Chinese immigration to British Columbia. Toronto to Montreal night express derails. one dead, several injured. Five Italian lumber workers frozen to death near Pembroke. Herr Scheffler admits at Pesth to attending Vienna anarchist meeting plotting Blosch and Klubeck murders.
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Eommound Yates
London World
Earl Louisdale
Madrid
Alfonso
Mexico
Porfirio Diaz
Neptune
St. Johns
N. F
Cuar
Les Reape
Cannes
France
London
Paternoster Row
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Turkey
Russia
Kazan
British Columbia
Toronto
Montreal
Wales Station
Pembroke
Ont
Herr Scheffler
The
Radical
Pesth
Vienna
Blosch
Klubeck
Tug Peter Smith Explodes Off Vermillion Killing Three
A boiler blast on the tug Peter Smith near Vermillion Qc on the morning of the 6th killed Captain Smith of Buffalo and engineers Perew and Rancore both of Cleveland. Seven aboard, four survivors reached lighters as the wreckage vanished, and a search found only splinters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Smith
Cleveland
Vermillion, Q
Captain Smith
Buffalo
John Perew
James Rancore
Toledo
Berry & Co
Shamokin
William Yocum
Emperor William
Jabez W. Fice
Carl Schultz
Harrisville
Alcona County
Mich
J. Kemple
St. Louis
Senate
United States
California State Board of Silk Culture
Congress
Bureau of Silk Culture
Cullom
Allison
House
Committee On Naval Affairs
the Navy and War
Atlantic
Gulf Seaboard
Ocean Horror As Steamer Daniel Steinmann Sinks Off Sambro
Halifax April 5 reports reveal the steamer Daniel Steinmann from Antwerp to this port sank off Sambro about twenty miles away. Only nine of 140 aboard reached land. the captain and five crew plus three passengers are among the saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hauifax
N.S
Daniel Steinmann
Antwerp
Sambro
Daniel Steinman
New York
Consignees, French, Edge & Co
Schoonhoven
Halifax
Khedive
White Cross Line
Sambro Light Island
Newfield
Herring Cone
White Horse Shoal
Steinmann
First Sentencing After Riot in Johnston Court
In Cincinnati on April 5 Judge Johnston sentenced Belle Osborne colored to seven years for shooting with intent to kill after protest from the prosecutor. John Murrah pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ciincinnati
John Murrah
Ottawa orders halt on Chinese immigrants in British Columbia
The Dominion Government acted to stop landing of any more Chinese following Ottawa orders. The move affects Pacific states as smuggling of Chinese across the border has surged since a U.S. prohibition law. Thousands have already been landed in British Columbia and moved into the United States through various routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Ont
British Columbia
Dominion
Ottawa
Pacific
United States
Tragic train tragedy kills four Hungarians in Dunmore
A party of seven Hungarians walking along the Delaware Lackawanna & Western line at Dunmore were struck by a train. Four were killed and two seriously injured when they stepped between tracks to avoid a coal train, failing to hear an approaching train. One man lost an arm, and the injured were torn apart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Dunmore
Ohio Senate and House Work Nonstop Amid Quorum Gaps
Ohio lawmakers repeatedly adjourned without a quorum as both chambers introduced and passed a mix of bills. Highlights include amendments to penitentiary and militia laws, mining and marital contract measures, school text book funding, cemetery and ditches provisions, liquor tax changes, and a series of appointments and rewards related to Cincinnati riot casualties.
Damon and Pythias Friendship Ends With Double Death
Two men who worked on the Waddell House in Cleveland, Thomas Potter and James Henry, were lifelong friends since a near fatal fall when one saved the other. They swore one would die after the other, and both died within five weeks of each other, ending the remarkable bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waddell
Cleveland
Thomas Potter
James Henry
Damon and
Pythias
Population death rates in Fort Ross and Cedar Keys highlighted
Fort Ross California with a small population averages fifty to one hundred and has had no death in thirty years. Cedar Keys Florida, population about three thousand, recorded only three deaths last year per San Francisco Chronicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Ross
Cal
Cedar Keys
Fla
San Francisco
Nine Circuses Tour Nation This Coming Season
The Hartford Post notes nine great American circuses will tour the country next season. It argues nine shows can rival fifty in fun and mischief for the small boy, reflecting on circus spectacle and public curiosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartyord Post
Destructive Cyclone Wipes Oakville and Surrounding Areas
April reports detail a cyclone that obliterated Oakville Indiana near Fort Wayne, killing several residents including Anna Dearborn and James Sander, with many injured. The Monongahela Valley storm in Pittsburgh injured twenty-one and damaged Oliver & Roberts' wire mill, and Homestead saw multiple buildings destroyed.
Double Lynching in the South Reported in Two Towns
In CunArworre North Carolina Frank Elliott, a Black man, was hanged near York jail after a reported assault. Nearby in Dallas Gaston County, Edwin McCullogh, also Black, was lynched by a mob of about fifty after shooting Thomas Wilson during a reprimand incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CunArworre
N. C
Frank Elliott
York County
Rock Hill
Justice’s Court
York Jail
Elliott
Dallas
Gaston County
Edwin McCullogh
McCullogh
Thomas Wilson
Gaston
Wilson
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the Cambridge Gerald
Cambridge, Guernsey CO
Ohio
Mahaffey & Ogier
J. C. Steele
Cambridge
Hutchison Block
W. A. Carpenter
Davis Block
Sam’l C. Ludcock, Attorney-at
Cosgraveuilding
Main Street
Wv. D. Craic
Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public
Guernsey County
Physicians and Surgeons
C. A. Moore
Cambridge, Ohio
Postoffice
Jets
L. C. Wells, M.D
Taylor Block
ET. Blair, M.D
Cambridge, Cheo
Herald Fice
J.C. Warne, M. D
Wall's Drug Store
WH. T. Ramsey, M. D
Providence Hosital
National Medical Dispensary
Washington, D
Hutchinson Block
Carnes
Pine Street
Main
Cambridge, O
D. K. Kyle
Lambert Thomas. E. Harper Jefferies
Lambert Thomas & Co
Produce and Wool Commission
Earth Water St
N. Wharves
Philadelphia
Boots and Shoes
West Main St
John Ross
City Hall
Steubenville Street
William Ogier
Public Square
Davis Zock
Stinson & CO
Portland, Maine
J. R. Downar
Cumberland Tannery
Geo. E. Meendree
Cumberland
Hotels
Eagleie Hotel
B.S. Hering
Hi. M. Close
Court House
Antrim
William Smith
Exchange Hotel
Caldwell
John W. Robinson
Xire& Elouse
Corner Market
Fourth Streets
WM. Kirk
Mar
Zanesville, Ohio
Thompson
Crow
Farmers’ Hotel
Mill Street
Rainey & Son’s Dry Goods St
J. W. Lippincott
Beecher House
Broadway
South Streets
Quaker City
Washington, Ohio
James Smith
Prop
Globe House
Cumberland, Ohio
James Canady, Prop
Gyoitch
Sevger
Ogier’s Drug Store
H. H. Veitch
Sue
True & Co
Augusta
Maine
E. McCollum
Americ
Hallett Book Co
Portland
T. C. Stanley
Ogier
H. Hallbert & Co
Port
Blue Bell
C. & M. Junction
Point Pleasant
Hartford, Seneccaville
Morgan
Atkinson
Menger
Pittsburgh
Giannaati
St. Louis Ry
New Comerstown
Cincinnati Express
Express Mail Express
Limited
Eastern Express
Dennison
Indianapolis
Pullman Palace
Central Standard Time
W. N. Kipr
James McCrea
Anager
M & A. Ford
Gen’! Pass
Agt
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Congressional
William Webster
New Zealand
Lovan
Hale
New Hampshire
Manchester
Rhode Island
Charton & Co., Book Publishers
Bourne
Segar
Scattering
Partridge
Spain
Anthony O’donnell
Guion Steamship Line
Douglass Furnace
Prince, Kelly & Co
Spearman Iron Company
Mabel Furnace
Parkins & Co
Sharpsville
Middlesex
Galle
Loyal Hanna
Peter Vigne
Waterville
Willliam A. Hall
Newark
N. J
Lorenzo Dimick
Theodore C. Eppelin
Finnal
Eagle and Banner Cotton Mills
Madison
Ind
A.M. Harper
Canada
Brodhead
United States Army
Boston
Tucson
Orleans
Robert Matthews
East Saginaw
Missouri State Board of Agriculture
Lookout Mountain
Tenn
Charles Gower
Chrish Schmitzer
Prearl Clayton
Green
Casey
Kentucky
Alf. Burnett
William Proctor
Proctor & Gamble, Soap and Candle Manufacturers
Port Clinton
George Saal
Vicksburg
Ohio Legislature
Reed
Jonathan Krukanbrod
State Board of Pharmacy
F. T. Bower
Lucas
Edgar L. Hatton
Muskingum
P. H. Bruck
Franklin
J. A. Nissgen
Rose
E.S. Wayne
Hamilton
Justices of the Peace
General Assembly
John Desmond
Yeas
Supreme Court
John J. Desmond
Oren
Scho
Henry Farrell
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Home
Ocal
Oakville
Monongahela Valley
Monioo
Here
Ft. W
Lewis Cochan
James Sanders
Anna Dearborn
Colonel Johnson
James Sander
Christian Swart
Cochran
L. Hale
Reynoldsburgh
Indiana
Greenville
Oliver & Roberts
Ninth Street
William Lacy
James Donahue
Lacy
Twenty-eighth Street
Robinson
George Jones
Petrolia
Homestead
Pittsburgh, Virginia & Charleston
Patrick O'Neil
Robert Irwin
John Randolph
Monongahela River
Evan Jones
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