Congress Week Roundup of Senate and House Actions
Senate and House reports from April cover interior lands data for the Northern Pacific and pension bills, river and harbor appropriations, and labor and railway issues. Highlights include a Plymouth monument grant, Commerce bill debates, and various executive sessions with adjournments and referrals.
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Senate
Secretary of the Interior
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
House
Storm
Committee On Civil Service Reform
Gorman
Library Committee
Hatch
Committee On Agriculture
Commissioner of Agriculture
Morrill
Kansas
Treasury calls for ten million in three per cent bonds
The Treasury issues a call for ten million dollars of three percent bonds with serial ranges listed for several denominations. The Senate rejected a treaty with Mexico 32 to 2 in executive session. House panel closed hearings on Signal Service Bureau charges and found no fraud. The Solicitor directs a suit against Sierra Lumber for about two million two hundred thirteen thousand dollars. Export and import totals for year ending March 31 1856 and 1586 are reported. Stephen D White seeks a mandamus on Secretary Bayard to pay the tenth installment of a Mexican Claims award around 150 thousand dollars.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Wth
Senate
Mexico
House Committee On War Department
Signal Service Bureau
Solicitor of the Treasury
United States District Attor
San Francisco
Cal
Sierra Lumber Company
Reney
Stephen D. White
Bayard
Mexican Claims Commission
Through car service opens Toledo to Marietta network
The notice states a new through-car service linking Toledo Cambridge and Marietta with connections to Bowerston Akron Youngstown Pittsburgh and Chicago. It lists schedule times for massillon marietta and nearby towns and names Woodford James M Hall as general manager and general passenger agent.
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Toledo
Lestees
S.n
Pennsylvania
Cambridge
Marietta
Bowerston
Akron
Youngstown
Pittsburgh
Chicago
M.D. Woodford
James M. Hall
Geni
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Arrests stir at Eatontown and talk of new labor bank plan
William Lovell a noted book maker and pool seller was arrested in Eatontown New Jersey on the 20th charged with book making at Monmouth Park last summer. Bail set at 30000 as the Law and Order League pushes a wave of similar arrests. John Jarrett and Andrew Carnegie reportedly eye a large cooperative store and bank run by labor members with stock limited to 200 per person. Forest fires red hot near Tamaqua Blue Mountains threaten huts of woodcutters. Maggie Mitchell’s father Charles Mitchell died in Troy New York aged eighty three. East bound Pennsylvanian freight derailed at Harmansville with injuries to crew. Cribtree coal mine accident near Latrobe leaves two injured critically. Jury in the Shaler trial in New York continues.
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William Lovell
Eatontown
N. J
Monmouth Park
Law and Order League
John Jarrett
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Works
Andrew Carnegie
Tamaqua
Blue Mountains
Charles Mitchell
Maggie Mitchell
Troy
N. Y
Greenwood
Pennsylvania Railroad
Harmansville
McFarland
Maley
Matthews
Wheat Leads Ohio Crop, Libby Prison Collapse Kills 1
Ohio crop report shows wheat area 101 percent and strong conditions statewide. Libby prison structure in Richmond Virginia collapses due to overburdened floors, killing one. Ohio Trades and Labor Assembly declares boycott of Champion Machine Company over alleged Knights of Labor discrimination.
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Ohio State Board of Agriculture
Richmond
Libby Prison
Southern Fertilizing Company
Ohio Trades and Labor Assembly
Champion Machine Company
Springfield
Knights of Labor
Jefferson County
W. Va
Lindenville
Ashtabula County
Minnie Jones
Sadie Strong
Jane Applegate
Mary Detrick
Missouri Pacific
Fort Worth
Tex
Flood Losses Mount in Montreal and Global Incidents
An Ottawa dispatch tallies Montreal flood damage at 1 635 000 dollars plus 200 000 to city streets. Reports from Mandalay recount Burmese New Year arson by fifty followers of Mving Rain the Prince burning hundreds of houses and treasury and post office. a third of the walled city ruined. London cites Oregon wreck inquiry favoring owners while censure of a fourth officer remains. Berlin Congo Free State talks proceed with a protocol and US absent. Symes estates offer tenants fee simple by twelve years rent value in Westport Ireland. Mexico City reports Maravillas Mining suit decided for mining company after costly litigation. Panama notes loss of life from Tumaco steamship Colombia boiler explosion. Fifty-four aboard. fifteen killed, nineteen wounded.
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Montreal
Can
London
Mandalay
Mvingrain
Prince
Oregon
Liverpool
Count Herbert Bismarck
Berlin
Congo Free State
United States
Congo
Symes
Westport
Ireland
Mexico
Maravillas Mining Company
Paconse
Andres Tello
Marayilias
Supreme Court
Panama
Tumaco
Colombia
Sudden collapses, fires, and crimes sweep the nation
A Mt Alton lodging house housing thirty Italian railway laborers collapsed with five or six men burned to death and others injured. At Port Huron Henry J Smith was shot dead after being mistaken for a burglar during a rainstorm. A Dayton glucose factory cattle sheds fire killed 126 cattle and caused $12,000 loss. A tramp on the Cincinnati Southern track halted a night express with a torch reward. Kregler killed Thomas Bowman after Bowman had him arrested for fence destruction. Mrs Lye and child drowned saving a falling child in Dresden Ontario. A coal oil can explosion in Tay lor Texas burned or killed children. Arch bishop Purcell debts prompt likely synod. A child died in Philadelphia from ammonia dose administered by mother. Dennison arrested for forged notes in Baltimore. The New York banks weekly statement shows mixed changes in loans, deposits, and reserves.
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New York Assembly
Merchant Bar
Pennsylvania Steel Works
Harrisburg
Priscilla B. McClure
Labrador
New York
Havre
France
Wiggan’s
Shenandoah
John Shamousky
Shamousky
Brooklyn
N. Y
Freeland
N.J
Florence Hodgson
Jesse
Jared Darlington
Westchester
Ralph P. Barber
H. O. Barnard Manufacturing Company
New York City
Barber
West Newton
Albert Neff
E. Remington & Sons
Lhion
Edward T. Shaw
Beverly
Mass
Havemeyer’s
Bedloe’s Island
Bartholdi
Liberty
England
Spain
United States
Paris
Canada
Philadelphia
George Rafferty
Arthur
J. M. Smith
Keyport
N. J
Edna
Jessie
Rufus
Higbee
Pennsylvania
Pattison
Connellsville
Coke Syndicate
Sianty
Mt. Alton
Erie Railroad
Port Huron
Mich
Henry J. Smith
G. (. Heisel
Heisel
Tuer
Dayton (O
Cincinnati Southern Railroad
Chattanooga
Tenn
Night Express
Thomas Bowman
Middleboro
Henry Kregler
Kregler
Bowman
Dresden
Ont
Taylor
Tex
John Anderson
Cincinnati
Purcell Tur
Habisreitinger
Cotonie
E. W. Dennison
Tremont House
Washington
Baltimore
New York Associated Banks
Ohio Tax Commission proposed by legislature
The Ohio General Assembly discusses creating a Tax Commission to study tax assessment and collection laws for fairness. The three-member panel would hire a clerk, cost up to 1000 dollars, and report by early 1887 for possible action by the next session.
Snake Kills Cow at Leary Ranch in Jackson Valley
The Tone Valley Echo reports a cow on Mrs. Leary's Jackson Valley ranch died after a live snake crawled from a hay fork into the animal's throat. The cow began to thrash and run before collapsing, strangled by the serpent.
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Tone Valley
Cal
Echo Ree
Inventor Carl Beck’s velocipede like carriage in Würtemberg
Ebingen civil engineer Carl Beck of Ebingen Würtemberg has devised a velocipede like carriage for use where rail access is absent. It features a covered single seat ahead and a rear baggage receptacle. Beck claims speeds of 10 to 13 mph depending on road conditions.
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Carl Beck
Ebingen
Wurtemberg
NYC Labor Unions Count 300 With 100000 Members
The city hosts about three hundred labor unions in New York with a combined membership of around one hundred thousand men and women.
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New York City
The Morning Gardeners Endure A Sunlit Struggle
In a rustic verse, dawn awakens workers who rise at six to till soil with barrow and rake. They sweat through breakfast, finish dirtied, rush to the jetty trains, and blame noisy neighbors for failed crops, concluding that effort yields only weeds. The poem credits H.C. Dodge from Goodall's Sun.
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H.C. Dodge
Goodall
That Fatal Diamond and the Pickpocket’s Downfall
A confessed thief recalls his downfall after a Paris lark. He plots theft with a boy, seizes a diamond ring and cash box, then loses it all when a London officer reveals the ring was found in another man’s pocket. He laments lost prestige, self respect, and a life of crime.
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Bureau de Police
London
Monsieur
N. Y
Fire Customs in China Reported By Pekin Letter
A Chicago Inter Ocean note from Pekin describes a recent fire near brick and tile buildings where several stores burned and three men died. It also mentions a local practice of beating the building owner at the fire and forcing nearby shops to discount goods for days in gratitude that they were not burned.
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Pekin
China
Chicago
Inter-Ocean
Parson Smith of South Carolina Attacked by Rattlesnake
Parson Smith riding a bridal path was startled by a rattlesnake. His horse reared and kicked, unseating him. The snake struck the horse’s tail hair, then died after being kicked. The horse fled, was later found ten miles away, and remained terrified.
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Parson Smith
South Carolina
Philadelphia directory shows tree-name tally
The Philadelphia Press lists counts in the new city directory: sixty three Ashs, four Elms, five Walnuts, eleven Pines, fifteen Cherrys, thirteen Oaks, one Poplar, four Chestnuts, and one Spruce.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Press
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