Congress Debates Lands Bills and Tariff Plans in December
Reading of the President's message precedes a batch of bills in Congress. Measures include land grants for Idaho and Washington Territory, Indian allotments, a national bankruptcy system, education boards, and an international copyright. Senate and House actions feature tariff considerations, peace proposals, and a push for woman suffrage. Obituaries, business reports, and local incidents follow.
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Renate
New Hampshire
Congress
United States
Hoar
Edmunds
Idaho
Washington
Board of Education
Plumb
House
Reuben Elwood
Illinois
Presidential appointments and federal pay ruling compiled
The report lists C F M Niles named Register of the Land Office at Garden City Kansas and Monroe Perry appointed Assistant Superintendent at Yellowstone National Park. It notes a treasury decision denying higher pay for expert witnesses in court martial trials and outlines new international money order fees reducing rates. Further items cover Indian relief funding requests, and the American Public Health Association meeting in Washington with officers elected for the coming year.
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C. F. M. Niles
Garden City
Kan
H. C. Myton
Monroe Perry
Wyoming
Yellowstone National Park
W. R. Henderson
Treasury
Maynard
War Department
Lamar
Congress
Tongue
Rosebud
Montana
American Public Health Association
Washington
Toronto
Ont
Henry P. Walcott
Massachusetts
C. W. Coverton
Canada
G. B. Taorniwau
Tennessee
J. B. Lindsley
Charles Smart
United States Army
Henry B. Baker
Lansing, Mich
H. A. Johnson
Minois
Joseph Holt
Louisiana
C. N. Hewitt
Minnesota
Pinkney Thompson
Kentucky
Association
Inaugural Ceremonies Without Ball Foraker Ohio Governor
Various 19th century items report affairs from politics to crimes across the nation. A Baltimore & Ohio directorate reelects Robert Garrett as president. A cyclone injures inmates at Chester Illinois prison. A Milwaukee radical group asks Congress to abolish the presidency in favor of an executive council. Fire and deaths occur at gun houses and sawmills. smuggling gangs are disrupted. a murder-suicide case unfolds in San Francisco.
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Foraker
Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Robert Garrett
Southern
Chester
Ill
North American Union of Radicals
Milwaukee
Wis
Congress
E. L. Austin
Eliot's Station
Grenada
Miss
Jackson
Burnet
Texas
Ireland
Walter L. Newberry
Paris
France
Chicago
Joseph A
E. W. Kittredge
Purcell
William Hiles
Shelby, C
Hiles
Manuel Delgado
Rio Grande
Eagle Pass
Tex
Oglesby
Posse
John Atkinson
Public Lares
Nevada
San Francisco
Brown
Wyoming
Atkinson
Ohio Supreme Court
Hamilton County
Circuit Court of
Dalton
Knighted London editor and Balkan armistice updates
William Hardman of the London Morning Post is knighted becoming the first editor in service to receive the honor. In other news Morse’s Toronto soap works burned for a $60,000 loss. At Paris the Latin Monetary Conference signatories endorse the monetary convention. English election returns show 34 Liberals 43 Conservatives and 81 Nationalists with 7 seats left. In the Balkans King Milan’s peace bid ends without reply and Servian forces renew near Izvor St Nicholas and Krivafer with heavy losses. Forty Servians are executed for mutiny while Ireland’s Kelly turns out to be Joe Smith of the Invincibles. Constantinople reports Balkan powers recognize Bulgarian union and approve a military demarcation commission to maintain an armistice for a month.
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William Hardman
London Morning Post
Kingston
Thames
Surrey
Morse
Toronto
Paris
Alexander
Milan
Izvor
St. Nicholas
Krivafer
Kelly
Dublin
Joe’ Smith
Phenix Park
Constantinople
Bulgaria
Rumelia
Vanderbilt will leaves hundreds to children and charities
The will of the late W H Vanderbilt leaves ten million dollars to each of his eight children and about one million to charities. The rest is divided equally between Cornelius and William K Vanderbilt, with railroad stocks to be held in bulk for all. Chauncey M Depew and Henry H Anderson named as administrators. Also notes ex Governor Gratz Brown, a Plymouth England fire, labor strikes in Cincinnati, coke oven production in Connellsville, a broker’s death in Brooklyn, a scarlet fever outbreak in New Jersey and House actions on rules and electoral vote counting.
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New York Chamber of Commerce
Secretary of the Treasury
John Langdon Sibley
Harvard University
Cambridge
Mass
New York
Hill
Davenport
Bascom
Jones
New England Tobacco Growers Association
Hartford
Conn
Congress
United States
Canada
Lancaster
Dick McNally
Israel Northeimer
Elwood Kurtz
Welsh Mountain Gang
Edward Luevall
McNally
Kurtz
Northeimer
Stanford C. Cleveland
Yates County
N. Y
Fort Meyers
Fla
Yates County Chronicle
That
James Parks
Altoona
West Shore Railroad
Ulster County
Cassidy
J. Pierrepont Morgan
A. Green
Chauncey M. Depew
Morgan
Union Trust Company
George Laurie
Amsterdam
New York Central Railroad
Luke Coovert
Lawrence County
New Castle
Harlem Commons
Colvert
Commons
James H. Darrow
Brooklyn
Landanum
Ballston
Saratoga
Charles H. Fisher
Thomas Hall
Olean
Taxic
W. H. Vanderbilt
Cornelius
William K. Vanderbilt
Henry H. Anderson
Goveirmnor B. Gratz Brown
Missouri
Kirkwood
St. Louis
Greeley
Trenement
Plymouth
Eng
Cincinnati
Knights of Labor
Connelsville
Samar W. Parcuen
Parchen Brothers
New York City
Brooklyn Club
Vanderbilt
Jersey City
N.J
East Hampton
L. L
House
Reed
Maine
Mr. Rusk
Connecticut
Ith
Benno
Circe
John Morley
Thomas Carlyle
House of Commons
Deep Emeson
Mr. Gladstone
Charles Buxton
Gladstone
Cobden
Bright
Joseph Livesey
Preston
England
Europe
Russia
Switzerland
Fderal Council
Council
Canton
Berne
Vaud
Vanderbilt Funeral Follows Private Rites Then Vault Burial
The late William W. Vanderbilt lies in state at his New York residence before a private service by Rev. Dr. Samuel Cooke. Mourners escort the body by Fifth Avenue to St Bartholomew’s Church and then to the Staten Island ferry for interment in the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp.
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New York
William W. Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Samuel J. Burgess
J. Vierrepont Morgan
C. C. Clarke
A. Rapallo
John R. Brady
William Turnbull
William L. Scott
William Bliss
D. O. Mills
George J. Magee
Stephen N. Cadwell
Fifth Avenue
Vanderbilt Mansion
Fifty-third
Fifty-second Street
Captain Mount
Forty-fourth Street
Forty-fourth
Madison Avenue
St. Bartholomews Church
Dr. Cooke
F. W. Clapp
Grace Church
F. Campbell
Chapin
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Potter
Pell
Charles Walter
Forty-second Street
North River
Staten Island
Southfield
Clifton, S. 1
New Dorp
Wim. Nf. Veegier
Cooke
Brooklyn Man Shoots Wife Then Kills Self
James Murray of 246 Lodmis Street Brooklyn came home intoxicated and attacked his wife. He fired three shots two to the left temple and one through the throat. Afterward he shot himself behind the ear and fled, later collapsing. Both victims were taken to St Catherine Hospital.
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New York
James Murray
Lodmis Street
Brooklyn
Murray
St. Catherine Hospital
University reinstates suspended students after compromise
In Madison on December 12 a compromise ends the wholesale suspension of University students. Reinstatement followed President Bascom’s offer if Lieutenant Lomia, the Military Tactics professor, agreed. After consulting suspended students, Lomia consented and they will resume studies. A rumor noted several female students petitioned for subsidized meal plans at their hall.
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Madison
Wis
Bascom
Lomia
Bhottoy
Temperance poem warns of ruin from drink and city temptations
A poem contrasts merriment in taverns with danger and death from alcohol. It urges Jonathan to flee the lures of wine and gaming, warning that vice leads to crime and ruin while praising temperance and virtue. The piece cites English anti slavery memorials and ends with a sermon-like call to fight for humanity.
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Westminster Abbey
Wilberforce
America
England
Baptist Weekly
Temperance Address Urges Reform Across Nations
Archdeacon Farrar speaks at National Temperance Society event urging abstinence. He cites English historians and poets to condemn drink, notes slow progress, and welcomes reforms in Russia and Switzerland reducing alcohol use and related social harms.
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National Temperance Society
Church Temperance Society
Archdeacon Farrar
Mr. Trevelyin
Charles James Fox
Sir John Kay
Mr. Kinglake
India
Crimea
Lecky
England
Shakespeare
Milton
Domestic wines and beers linked to alcohol dangers
A discussion on the risks of domestic wines and beers emphasizes that fermentation inevitably produces alcohol. It argues that even weak drinks raise appetite and lead to higher consumption, with experts noting degeneration of organs and increased fatal disease risk for regular beer drinkers.
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Scientific American
Hanaford
Women of England I charge you to resist alcohol
A historical plea urges English women to refuse daily alcohol use to prevent forthcoming social harm, invoking divine judgment and accountability. The fragment references Jas. A. Capps and a call to moral action against drink.
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England
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OK National
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Offce
Cosgrave
Main Street
W. D. Craic
Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public
Washington, Guernsey County
B. Taylor
R. T. Scott
Taylor & Scott, Attorneys-At-Law
New Taylor Block
Aplo
Physicians and Surgeons
L. C. Wells, M. D
Biomeceopathist
Taylor Block
Wi. T. Ramsey, M. D
Providence Tos
National Medical Dispensary
Washington, D. c
Hutchinson Block
J. M. McGill
City Drug Store
Adams Building
Muli
Joseph Morton
Beagle Hotel
W. A. Gill
Marit Tf
Arcade Hotel
Cambridge, Ohio
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Prop
Clisaders
Exchange Hotel
Caldwell
Oslo
John W. Robinson
Zire Eooovush
Sernor Market
WM. Kirk
Mar
Zanzsville, Ohio
Thompson
Crow
Farmers Hotel
Mill Street
Rainey & Son
J. W. Lippincott
Beecher
Col. Broadway
South Streets
Quaker City
Washington, Ohio
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Globe House
Cumberland
James Canady, Prop’r
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Main ST
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Cambridee
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the Temperance Cause
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