Senate and House actions and exports data from 1883
Senate debates urge treasury vouchers for attorneys and detectives since 1881 and amended debt-reduction reports. House considers a proclamation for Washington’s surrender centennial and public holiday, plus bills on navigation and test path repeal. Nominations to federal posts listed and multiple 1883 events noted including oil exports, rail land grants, trials, and significant local incidents regionswide.
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Wil- 6011
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Washington State
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Secretary of the Interior
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Union Pacific
Department of Justice
Committee On Rules
House
Washington
Danville
Robinson
Massachusetts
Mob Hangs Acquitted Man After West Union Murder Trial
A man known as Big Bill Kinney, acquitted of murder at West Union on the 10th, was taken from jail by a mob and hanged that night. Other items report Ferdinand Wortmann dying from a burned sleeping car in Castleton, a Monongahela coal mine shutdown due to weak trade, the schooner Mary Ann sinking near Bodkin Point with nine dead, five bodies found at Kent Island, a suit against the New York Graphic Company to wind up affairs with $779,500 liabilities and $40,000 assets.
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Worcester
Lynn
Newburyport
Salem
Martin
Citizens
O’brien
Boston
John Eckert
Braddock
New York
Locust Gap Spring
Mt. Carmel
Barrett
James Kirby
Fall River
Mass
Michael McCaffrey
Rochester
N. Y
Christianey
Brooklyn
Joseph Hilton
Earl H. Potter
Protestor
Fannie H. Loring
Philadelphia
National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Garden City
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Jersey City
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Salvation Army
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Conn
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Harris
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Standard Theater
Sixth Avenue
Thirty-second Street
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W. Va
Ferdinand Wortmann
Castleton
Pittsburgh
Bodkin Point
Kent Island
New York Graphic Company
Multiple incidents reported from across the United States
The column records a series of incidents and developments including a fatal shaft accident at Woods Starch Factory in Columbus Ohio, livestock disease clearance in Kansas, the death of General Pretory’s widow in North Carolina, a post office robbery in Tabor Iowa, a fatal shooting at Caskie Station Kentucky, Irish organization meetings in Wisconsin, a Detroit schoolgirl killed near Detroit, Pallium ceremony in Cincinnati, a Delaware Governor commuting a murder suspect, arrests in Michigan and Jackson, Missouri bail for Frank James, Kentucky whisky production cuts, a Detroit pension forgery sentence, and embezzlement charges against Percy Jacobs in San Francisco.
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F. Kuhlman
Detroit
Rome
Elder
Purcell
Cincinnati
Jeremiah Harrigan
Dennis Shea
Delaware
Grorce Bouars
Julia Reese
Jacob Crouch
Jackson
Mich
Crouch
Gallatin
Frank James
Kentucky
Lexington
R. E. Dovenass
Stoney Creek
House of Correction
Percy Jacobs
Eureka Consolidated Mining Company
San Francisco
Violent British Storm Claims Many Lives and Property
A brutal storm struck Great Britain on the 12th causing extensive land and sea damage and many fatalities. Widespread disruption followed in Canada with 8,000 railway workers walking out after engineers failed to get wage increases, forcing a shutdown of shops and suspending all trains. In Tonquin, Admiral Courbet reportedly plans to pressure China for renewed negotiations and may seize key ports if talks fail. Ottawa reports a major gold find in the Rocky Mountains near Podmore, copper overlaid by gold. Mexico’s New Laredo mayor faces arrest over a railroad robbery. The Auk wrecks off Britain during a gale with 21 crew lost. Madrid hosts a move to ease U S Spain trade barriers affecting Cuba. The State Department orders fumigation for all shipment tags from Egypt.
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Canada Pacific Railroad
France
Courhbet
China
Tonquin
Bacninh
Sontay
Hung Hoa
Shanghai
Canton
Ottawa
Canada
Rocky Mountains
Podmore
New Laredo
Mexico
Mexican National Railroad
Auk
Liverpool
Rotterdam
Mth
Madrid
Spain
Figuerola
United States
Cuba
Tank
State Department
Mary Ann Hulbert Founders in Lake Michigan Storm
The Tz schooner Mary Ann Hulbert foundered off St Ignace Island on the 15th while towed by the steamer Kincardine loaded with rail road supplies for Michipicton. All seventeen aboard—five crew and twelve laborers—perished in a sudden lurch amid a terrible storm. Fire also destroyed the American House in DuBois Pennsylvania along with the post office and several other buildings.
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St. Ignace
Island
Lake Michigan
Kincardine
Michipicton
DuBois
Ford & Co
Duphrty C. Haskert
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Second
Kansas
Washington
Lawrence
Kan
Patrick O'Donnell
Carey
Newgate Jail
London
German Pork Import Ban Sparks U S Protest
The text reports U S Consul Mason in Basle confirms Germany bans importing American hog products and even transit through Germany says the goal is to shield German dealers from American competition. It includes a Townshend joint resolution authorizing his veto on health grounds and a note on Converse's wool tariff bill.
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Converse
Washington
Frank H. Mason
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Basle
Switzerland
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America
Mason
German Empire
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House of Representatives
Conveser
Committee On
State of Pennsylvania debt report shows yearend balances
The Pennsylvania State Treasurer reports total debt at 19,718,783.28 with 9,533,700 bearing interest. Debt reduction for the year totals 506,300. Receipts reach 677,543.19 while disbursements amount to 36,708,690.22. Expenses for the regular legislative session run 293,800.41. extra session costs about 530,000 are not in past year totals. Allocations include 600,773.71 to charities, 351,001.18 to orphans schools, 223,107.25 to penitentiaries, and 215,224.83 to National Guards.
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Harrispouren
Pennsylvania
Criminal Witchcraft Mob Massacre Report In Yeaiche
The steamer City of Dallas reports a mob in Santa Clara Yeaiche hacked an old Indian woman to pieces with machetes after accusing her of witchcraft. No trial or police intervention occurred and authorities gave no official response.
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Dallas
Baliza
Honduras
Yeaiche
Santa Clara
Reports dismiss Kansas cattle disease as unfounded
Telegraph reports from Kansas say cattle losses in Douglass and Jefferson counties stem from damaged food, not a contagious illness. Live Stock Indicator notes there is no epidemic, with only isolated deaths from poor rations. vets and stockmen see no contagion risk.
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Kansas City
Douglass
Jefferson
Kansas
Emperor of China's top spinning pastime
The article notes the favorite amusement of the Chinese emperor as spinning a top and mentions poet Tennyson earning about $20 000 annually.
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Emperor of
China
Remarkable Career of a Chicago Doctor
A Chicago surgeon recounts the life of Robert Hall Babcock born 1851 in Watertown New York and blinded from childhood. He studied in Michigan Ohio New York and Berlin earning medical honors and becoming a respected physician in Chicago after 1879.
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Chicago
Robert Hall Babcock
Watertown
N. Y
Kalamazoo
Mich
Philadelphia
Olivet
Frehman
Western Reserve College
Hudson, O
Ann Arbor
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Chicago Medical College
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New York City
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University of Berlin
Munich
von Ziemssen
Michigan Avenue
Inter Ocean
The Clever Old Slave and the Charge of Theft
A Binghamton gentleman recalls a long conversation with an older enslaved man. When asked if all colored people stole, the reply denies the stereotype and offers a paradoxical defense about property and theft. The dialogue highlights perceptions of race and morality with sharp logic.
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Brehange
Notable figures and fortunes across the nation
A survey of wealth and industry notes women outnumbering men in New York retail posts, Dr. David Ward owning 2.2 billion feet of standing pine in Michigan and Wisconsin, and the late Moses Taylor’s estate at 70.9 million with each child and grandchild set to receive 8.5 million. Also cited: London gas firms’ dominance with 65 million capitalization, a poverty ending Philadelphia affair, King County Texas pasture plans, and crop and potato yields projections.
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N. Y. Herald
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Michigan
Wisconsin
Detroit Post
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Great Corporation
London
William Frey
Philadelphia
Captain King
Coleman County
Tex
Chicago Herald
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Liverpool
Canada
M. O. Wilcox
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Lumkin
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Wit and Wisdom and Curious Observations
A collection of quips and wisecracks from varied voices including Sir William Temple and the Philadelphia Call. The passage features playful aphorisms on politeness, restraint, and wit, with snippets about manners and humor across different locales and voices.
Doctor's Strangest Practice in Stapleton Coroner Keeps Skeleton
Dr Isaac Lea of Stapleton Staten Island serves as coroner for Middletown and keeps the disassembled remains of Reinhardt the wife killer in his office. The skeleton hangs suspended exactly where the hangman’s rope was and is accessible by a concealed button for unwanted visitors.
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