Senate Debates on Free Ship and Silver Bills
The Senate discussed petitions from Knights of Labor against the Free Ship bill and noted a Kansas colored citizens association petition. Debate covered the Army Efficiency and silver coinage, with votes on amendments and adjournments. House actions included Post-office pay and foreign mail transport appropriations and the Free Ship bill timeline.
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Senate
Knights of Labor
Plumb
Colored Citizens of
Kansas
Africa
United States’ Republic
Blair
Committee On Education and Labor
House
Committee On Foreign Relations
Secretary of the Treasury
Sub-Treasury
Boston
Sawyer
Committee On Labor
Yeas
Ways ST
Hawley
Gibson
United States Army
Bland
Through car service opens Toledo to Kowees ze network
The timetable notes a new through car service connecting Toledo to Kowees ze with the Pennsylvania System for all points east and west. It specifies through connections between Toledo Cambridge and Marietta, and routes to Bowerston Akron Youngstown and Pittsburgh with general managers M. D. Woodford and James M. Hall listed.
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Toledo
Kowees'ze
Pennsylvania
Cambridge
Marietta
Bowerston
Akron
Youngstown
Pittsburgh
Chicago
M. D. Woodford
James M. Hall
Fire destroys business blocks in Conneautville
Fire on the 6th destroyed the Huff Clark and Breen blocks at Conneautville Pennsylvania along with several other businesses. Loss estimated at 25000 dollars with one third insured.
McClure & Co strike halts Everson mines and more
The McClure & Co mine workers at Everson Pennsylvania struck on the fifth after rejecting a demand for ninety cents per day per hundred bushels in mining wages. About 1,000 men walked out. Elsewhere a Halifax schooner Beta was driven ashore near Plum Island with six crew and eight passengers, two women and three children among them. A three year old girl and eight month old infant drowned. A drug clerk from Dun kirk, New York named Johnson was arrested for causing the death of McClosky’s two year old son by arsenic poisoning. Dispatches from New England report fierce gales with light snow and rising rivers risking floods. Pittsburgh miners face wage concerns as well.
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Jacobus & Brittain Manufacturing Company
New York Bar Association
Charles Donahue
Supreme Court
Thomas A. Thacher
Yale College
William McNicholl
Charles Lovell
New York City
Southwest Harbor
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Monongahela River
Suh
Thomas Gibson
Mint
New York
Juniper Street
United States
Canada
McClure
Everson
Rogers Bros
Bristol
Erie
Henry McLaughlin
William Johnson
Dunkirk
N. Y
John McClosky
Johnson
New England
Hamilton County
Michael Mullen
Columbus
Thomas Hyland
Worthington
Owensboro
Frank Abscher
Scott Lowrie
Billy Stoler
Dre Brinton H. Warner
Baltimore
Lee
Virginia
General Assembly
J. W. Sanborn
Missouri State Board of Agriculture
Sims
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Kansas
Eau Claire
Wis
Lars Crindahl
Laerdo
Tex
Brecker
St. Francis, Ark
William Ellis
Ellis
Rose Garfield Clemens
Will M. Clemens
Jamestown
Jacksonville
Fla
Katie
Alseanua
Fort Bowie
A. T
Fort Marion
Geronimo
Natiche
Missouri Pacific Railway
Hamilton County election committee closes labors with tally cert
The Hamilton County senatorial committee wraps up work on the election case by certifying the Precinct A Fourth Ward tally and questioning Michael Mullen, Police Inspector. Separate reports note Hyland’s new trial grant for manslaughter, and a lengthy list of incidents from Kentucky to Wisconsin, Arkansas, Texas, Illinois, and Florida.
Bombardment and drownings echo across distant fronts
Reports from the West Coast of Africa recount Cyclops firing on Moneybimbia, natives displaced, and marines destroying the town. A French-Russian hydrophobia case dies in Paris, and cholera clusters appear near Audierne. A dory drifts to Guion Island after eight days at sea. Elzem Law’s crew suffers. Marriage in New York to a Danish baron. an insane asylum confinement in Minnesota follows Monte Carlo losses. Riot at Lyon silk mills leaves one dead and several wounded as gendarmes clash with workers. Britain to subsidize steamers to Asia and Australia for military rail and gun transport. Fire at Aiken & Co. in Montreal causes major loss. Engineer John Gunn dies at a station alarm.
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Africa
Moneybimbia
Wolfbitten
Paris
M. Pasteur
Brittany
Audierne
Finistere
Dory
Guion Island
Gabarus
Cape Breton
Elzem Law
Grand Bank
Nina Moulton
New York
Baron von Raaben
Denmark
St. Paul’s
Suh
Jane Whitcomb
Minnesota
Monte Carlo
Giraud
Lyons
France
London
British Columbia
Hong Kong
Australia
Aiken & Co
Montreal
Can
John Gunn
No. 5
Drowning and theft news from the era fragments
Three surveying party members drown on the New River at Sunnyside West Virginia when their boat capsizes. Five thieves loot a magazine at Colon Cuba causing a deadly explosion and several deaths. An ex Minister Weiss dies in Philadelphia from pneumonia after a week of illness. Nineteen Italian banana vendors arrested in Cincinnati for passing counterfeit coin. Virginia local option elections see both dry and anti dry victories in Floyd Court House and Wytheville. A man near Reading Pennsylvania dies after cat handling wounds lead to blood poisoning. Pulitzer resigns from Congress. Albany pond drowning incident. Holyoke paper shop fire with a death. Ohio Senate and House enact health, tax, and road bills. various bills passed and introduced. Senate confirms pension, drought and road related measures. new state boards charged. Various other notes on elections, legal changes, and local incidents.
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New River
Sunnyside
W. Va
C. J
William Hood
Sam Quimby
W. V. Haynes
C.J. Hood
Quimby Brothers
Colon
Cuba
Hex
Jons Weiss
England
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
United States Secret Service
Virginia
Floyd Court House
Wytheville
The
New York World
New York
Richard Rowson
John Hummel
Andrew Hill
Monroe
Albany
N. Y
Robson
Hummel
Hill
Holyoke
Mass
Thomas Howard
Senate
Washington Territory
Ohio River
Mississippi River
Green Bay
Lake Huron
San Louis Abispo
Cal
Point Sur
Seul Choix
Mich
Atlantic
Gulf Coasts
Entrekin
Virginia Military District
Auditor of State
Clement
Quartermaster Sun
GA. R. Senate
House
Mr. Cole
Boards of Equalization
Yeas
Board of Equalization
Wilson
Dow
State Board of Health
Ohio
Wilberforce University
D. M. Kinsman
Board of Live Stock Commissioners
Terrell
Matthews
Boards of Education
Brown
Warren
Foraker
Ohio State Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Ohio Humane Society
Darky preacher in Waco lines hymn from memory
In Waco a darky preacher improvised a hymn recitation saying plunged in a gulf of dark despair Ye wretched sinners come out of dar Captain Cannon sued the Baltimore American for libel seeking twenty thousand dollars and was awarded one cent.
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Waco
Dar
Cannon
Baltimore American
Temperance tale from a prisoner in Des Moines
A first person recollection traces a life from a troubled childhood to college missteps, liquor in the home, and saloon-fueled descent. The speaker cites family failure, peer pressure, and bitter irony of licenses feeding confinement, ending with a note that prohibition arrives too late for him.
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CO. P. B
Des Moines, Id
Chicago
Inerior
Instructive Comments on Labor Bureaus and Liquor Curbing
A Newark journal summary praises state Bureaus of Statistics of Labor and Industries, noting Massachusetts led with 1869 establishment and urging others to follow. It highlights the New Jersey report’s wage-earner condition chapter, emphasizing alcohol as a major social and economic obstacle and proposing prohibition or local option as remedies with quotes from workers.
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Massachusetts
Carroll D. Wright
Bureau of Statistics of Labor and Industry
New Jersey Bureau of Statistics of Labor and Industries
Newark
Temperance items and liquor cost comparisons
A collection of temperance notes highlighting the high price of liquor to drinkers, denials of wine at Miss Cleveland’s lunches, and local efforts in St. Louis and schools to teach alcohol effects. It includes cautions about gin use in nursing mothers and warnings from various papers.
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New York
Miss Cleveland
Central Baptist
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Cambridge Herald
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Mathews
W.S. Heade
Attorneys-At-Law
Hutchison Block
C. Steele
Mays
Fred. L. Rosemond
Steele & Rosemond
Attorneys-At
Ola National Bank
W. A. Carpenter
Notary Public
Unsrider, Ohto
Davis Block
Sam’l C. Ludcock
Cosgrave
Main Street
V. D. Craic
Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public
Washington
Guernsey County
Jebitt
J. B. Taylor
R. T. Scott
Taylor & Scott, Attorneys-At-Law
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WH. T. Ramsey, M. B
Providence Desert
National Medical Dispensary
Washington, DC
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Court House
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Dels
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B.S. Herring
Aupluss
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Cambridge, Ohio
William Weaver
Prop
Exchange Hotel
Caldwell
Ohlo
John W. Robinson
Corner Market
Fourth Streets
WM. Kirk
Zanesville, Ohio
Thompson
Crow
Parmers
Mill Street
Wm. Rainey & Son
J. W. Lippincott
Beecher House
Broadway
South Streets
Quaker City
Washington, Ohio
James Smith, Prop
Brown House
Kyle
Mards
Central Hotel
L. J. Cutter
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Carnes
Pine Street
Main
Cambridge, Q
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Cameridlee
Cumberland Tannery
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John Moss
City Hall
Steubenville Street
William Ogier
Public Square
Ovier's Drug Store
H. H. Veitch
Ek. McCollum
South End Mill Street
T. C. Stanley
Paper Etlanger
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Robert Garrett
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Court of Appeals
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