Senate Floor Notes Civil Government for Alaska
Senate reports civil government for Alaska and election procedures for President and Vice President, with committees and calendar actions. A resolution seeks Interior copies of Texas Pacific Railroad mortgages and land claims, while officers are elected along party lines. Senate debates rule details and adjourns after executive session.
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Secretary of the Interior
Texas Pacific Railroad
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House Rules Committee Recommends Split of Education and Labor
The Rules Committee on the 18th proposed dividing the old Education and Labor panel into two distinct committees Education and Labor and creating a Rivers and Harbors panel. It also urged keeping all select committees except those on personal subjects and dropping the Census and Library accommodation panels. Also, a nine member woman suffrage committee was not recommended for adoption. Senate confirmations on the 18th included Weldon Tanner Banks Gresner Tooker Scott Holabird, Lock, and others. Postal service expanded over 5,000 miles of railroads mainly in the South and West. A pork disease inquiry was postponed to January with a full commission to study swine diseases. The Colored National Convention executive committee met and prepared an address on Virginia killings of African Americans. A further wave of recess appointments, mostly postmasters, were confirmed by the Senate on the 19th.
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Michigan
Montana
Robinson Lock
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Cecil Clay
Department of Justice
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West
Louisville
Virginia
Boiler explosion wounds six at Pittsburgh refinery
Six men were injured when two boilers exploded at D. P. Perghard's oil refinery in Pittsburgh on the 18th. Two workers Samuel Henderson and West Roup were fatally hurt. The boiler-house was demolished and a boiler section was thrown over 100 yards. In Baltimore on the 19th a warehouse fire at Union docks housed by Baltimore Warehouse Co. and Manley & Co. burned near 100,000 in goods. Two firemen died from a collapsing wall. A laborer, James Weaver, 64, was seen at Howe & Co.'s steel works on the 15th.
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Federal court overrules motion in Brown Bonnell receivership case
In Toledo on the 18th Judges John Baxter and Martin Welker heard the motion to dismiss Fayette Brown from the Brown Bonnell & Co. receivership. The court upheld US jurisdiction and held the property in trust for all creditors pro rata. The ruling sustains continued proceedings and preserves creditor equality.
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Louisiana Democrats Back Constitutional Lottery Ban
Resolutions at the state Democratic convention on the 21st urged a constitutional amendment prohibiting lotteries in Louisiana. Reports from across the nation note fires at Stewartsville Missouri injuring businesses including the Independent office, and other items such as Frank James allegedly at large after release, plus various trials, embezzlement cases, counterfeit arrests, and disaster notes from Pennsylvania to New York.
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Ward Island
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Lackawaxen
Manitoba and Northwest Farmers Union Push Demands at Winnipeg
In Winnipeg the Manitoba and Northwest Farmers Union renewed its rights-focused program. It calls for provincial power to charter railways and control public lands, abolishing certain duties, expanding municipal powers for grain infrastructure, and endorsing the Hudson Bay route while open to seeking Dominion action. Secession talk surfaced with proposals to appeal to the Crown for a new confederacy from Lake Superior to the Pacific, reflecting broad discontent with Ottawa and CPR influence.
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Report on Swine Diseases Finds Western Hogs Healthier
Washington reports Curtis, a member of the President's Commission on swine diseases, says Western hogs show less disease and feeding is healthy. He urges two inspectors per packing house and notes Western and foreign markets demand pork inspection to prevent trichinosis. Loring proposes injecting quality blood to improve Western hogs. a full commission will convene by mid January to issue a report.
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Complaints Grow Over New Mexican Customhouse Exactions
A Laredo dispatch reports persistent protests against the New Laredo custom-house collector. He requires unloading Texas goods at the depot and hauling to the agency, and applies the same rule to coal shipments from Hunt mines. Drayage fees raise coal costs, forcing the railroad to switch to scarce mesquite wood along the line.
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Democratic State Convention Nominates Slate in Louisiana
Baron Rovnar reports the Democratic State Convention met at ten, adopted the Credentials report, elected John S. Young of Caddo as permanent chairman 2221 to 1761 for Snyder, and renominated Governor McEnery on the first ballot. The ticket includes Clay Noblock for Lieutenant Governor Major F E A Burke for State Treasurer J M Cunningham for Attorney General Oscar Arroy for Secretary of State and O B Steele for Auditor.
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Clay Noblock
F E. A Burke
J. M. Cunningham
Oscar Arroy
O. B. Steele
Cantilever Bridge in New York Opens After Tests
The Cantilever bridge in New York opened successfully after strength tests. Twenty locomotives and twenty four gravel cars ran across both tracks with no deflection. Officials surveyed levels from three hundred engineers as ten thousand spectators looked on and a banquet followed.
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Ohio schoolable children and census trends cited
The enumeration shows Ohio has 1,043,340 schoolable children. Public schools in South Carolina enrolled 74,157 white and 98,938 colored pupils, with a large year over year increase and high attendance relative to census figures. The Michigan Seventh-Day Adventists plan to raise 75,000 for college and ministerial education, plus publishing and publishing-related funds. The Bishop of Liverpool urged fair treatment for bishops amid Romanizing tensions.
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England
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South Carolina
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Detroit Post
Liverpool
Gourko the Russian Balkans victor and stern governor
General Gourko, famed for Balkans campaigns and the siege of Constantinople, praised for unflinching severity and rare kindness to the innocent. His quiet, disciplined style contrasts with Skobeleff while earning broad respect as a military leader and administrator.
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Mali Gazette
Mammoth ledge yields rich silver ore near Santa Barbara
A Mammoth ledge near Santa Barbara, found by S A Clark, hosts six mines over 1,500 feet with rich ore. Specimens show 1,000–1,100 per ton in silver at Mammoth Chief and 800 per ton at Morning Star, which has been sold for $10,000. Ore also carries $6–$143 gold per ton and significant lead in galena.
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Calico
S A. Clark
Santa Barbara
Witty Fragments From Old Newspapers On Humor And Oddities
A collage of quips and light satire from various papers recounts jokes on marriage, Irish identity, and pranks. Anecdotes involve a Toronto bachelor at eighty three, a remark about steam heating, a school animal riddle, a girl with false teeth, and Charlemagne era pistols, reflecting playful period humor and local color.
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Detrott Post
Joseph
Steam
Scientific American
England
Ptuta
Sylvia
Lever
Charlemagne
Petmecky
Charlie
Another St Louis Girl Ends In Fearful Disguise
A Chicago visitor and a St Louis girl swap life musings while teaching and leisure mingle. The Chicago girl balks at becoming the headline of a disappearance story, fearing notoriety.
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