Senate and House Proceedings Amid January Debates
The record covers Senate actions from January 15 to 18 including petitions on women suffrage and cooperative colonies, resolutions on Brazil phosphate discovery rights, and debates on meat imports. House reports include Fitz-John Porter bill, navy gifts and Alexandria service queries, and Mississippi River improvements. Casualties, fires, and notable deaths are listed from U.S. and New York events.
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Cox
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Miller
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Cosgrove
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Denyieg
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van Wyck
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United States Marine Hospital
Erie
United States Soldiers’ and Sailors
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Greely
California
China
Exports and pensions notes from late 19th century session
The report covers December 1883 bread exports totaling 12 941 693 dollars versus 18 087 790 the prior year and full year 1883 172 692 180 dollars versus 182 678 865 in 1882. It notes a favorable pension bill for Mexican war Creeks Seminoles and Blackhawk survivors. It lists naval register vessels 92 in November 1883 with cost breakdown and a rejected Mexico treaty 39 26.
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Chandler
Senate
Naval Register
Mexico
West and South News Roundup From Weatherford to Chicago
A west bound Texas Pacific passenger train wreck near Weatherford Texas injures about thirty. Cowboy desperado W A Alexander is killed at Pana Texas by soldiers under Lt Eggleston. Iowa Republicans renominate Senator Allison for the US Senate. The Sunday Visitor debuts as the only Jewish children’s paper. The will of Ralph Sellow bequeaths millions to St Louis institutions. Amelia Olsen’s body found on Chicago prairie, suspected homicide. Lafayette Township Treasurer shot by burglars. two robbers escape. A Knoxville and Augusta Railroad down train stops after spotting an object on the track.
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Weatherford
Tex
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Pana
Eggleston
Alexander
Ross
Iowa
Allison
United States Senate
Brocn & Co
Cincinnati
Fim
United States
Ralph Sellow
St. Louis
Manual Training School of Washington University
St. Luke’s Hospital
Mission Free School
Missouri Theatrical Society
Episcopal Orphans’ Home
Amelia Olsen
Chicago
Lafayette
Gratiot County
Mich
Tragic House Fire in Fall River Brings Fatal Burnings
A man named Chas P Stickney and his wife were victims of a deadly blaze in Fall River Massachusetts on the night of the 16th. Stickney suffered severe burns while trying to save his wife who died from the fire. Naptha used to mothproof a carpet ignited. At Haywardville a sled accident at the same time left James O Leary dead and his brother injured. A Pittsburgh glass workers meeting saw capitalists offer land and factories for workers in exchange for stock. Other reports cite the death of Amos D Lockwood at Providence and a fire at Rueves K Ennanps yarn mill in West Greenwich RI with substantial losses.
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Monongahela River
Woods Run
Calvin Ellis
Boston
Mass
Harvard College
Davis Ellis
D. P. Hinn
High Bridge
New Jersey
Joan J. Gilmore
Maine Medical Society
Portland
William G. Weeeed
Albany
N. Y
F. M. Lockwood & Co
Exchange Court
New York
Lockwood & Co
West Shore
Union Pacific Railroad
Northern Pacific Railroad
Robert Harris
New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad
Henry Villard
Peter Voltz
Allegheny
Tenth Street Railroad
Tar Consumers Powder Company Mills
Scranton
Charles Delmonico
St. Leo’s Catholic Church
Armitage
Joshua Slocum
Northern Light
H. A. Slater
New York Assembly
J. M. Wilson
United States
Treasury Department
Amsterdam
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Sherwood
Hunter’s Point
S. 1
C. M. Shewood
Kellogg Sherwood
Vulcanite Dynamite Company
Allentown
John M. Buckenbone
Isaac Kramer
Jacob Heffner
E. Y
E. Wallace
Rochester
Edward Tappan
Chas. P. Stickney
Fall River
Stickney
James O’leary
O'Leary
Charles Hayward
Hallsback
Pittsburgh
S. Holmes
Toledo
Amos D. Lockwood
Providence
KR. L
Rueves K. Ennanps
West Greenwich
R. I
J.D. Johnson
Foreign intrigue and disasters reported from Europe and Wales
In St Petersburg officials seized a ciphered letter from a Nihilist in London linked to Irish malcontents. In Wales a cage collapse at Garnant colliery killed ten men and a boy. London burned S W Silver Co offices. loss heavy. Austrian ministers approve a Trieste to New York monthly steam line starting February 1. Sissi brigand chief shot in Sardinia. Vatican Prussia negotiations improving with expected agreement. Chamberlain vows Irish rights in Newcastle. German Reichstag president heads Lasker funeral at Berlin on the 20th. General Gordon may return to English service despite Congo. Danial Asquith, railway treasurer, has absconded. London fire damage £35,000. Baron St Suzanne of Monaco dies. Dublin farmers plow estate lands with many horses.
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Berlin
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Congo
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Monaco
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Parnell
City of Columbus death toll rises to ninety seven
Corrected passenger list for the steamer City of Columbus shows eighty one passengers plus forty five crew and staff. The total death list reaches ninety seven with no chance of more survivors changing the figures.
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New York
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John D. Lee
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Tex
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Col
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Colorado
City of Columbus wreck on Devils Bridge claims many lives
Boston dispatch details the steamer City of Columbus ashore at Devils Bridge Gayhead and breaking up. About 100 deaths reported with 23 saved including crew and passengers. Cutter Dexter to assist. survivors endured a brutal night as reports describe lifesaving efforts and the perilous Devil's Bridge ledge.
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Portland
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Lawrence
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Alias McCarthy
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Tena. Mn
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Chester
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Murder Case Shocks Ouray Over Foster Deaths
Ouray, Jan 18 This town reels after the murder of Mary Matthews a child adopted from the Denver Catholic Orphans Home and killed by foster parents Mike Cuddike and his wife and her brother John Carroll. The coroner exhumed the body revealing fractured skull multiple wounds and freezing extremities as neighbors fear lynching. The trio were jailed as authorities seek justice.
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Denver
Ouray
Little Mary Matthews
Mike Cuddike
John Carroll
Little Mary
Hydrophobia case in Reading ends with self harm
Cyrus Grow, about forty, showed hydrophobia symptoms after a dog bite eighteen years earlier. He fought four men, barked, drank water, and jumped from a second story window, cutting throat and wrists, before police subdued him and took him to the alms house. A Virginia bill seeks to repeal political disability for duel fighters.
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Grow
New Germany Corea Treaties Concluded in 1883
The North German Gazette reports that new treaties between Germany and Corea were concluded on November 26 1883. They grant Germany broader terms and mirror the commerce and navigation rights Germany enjoys with China and Japan.
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Corea
China
Japan
Legislature Sets Committees In Jan Session Filing
Senate Jan 10 reports thirteen introduced bills and announces standing committees across Judiciary Finance Public Works Roads and Highways Railroads and Telegraphs Common Schools and School Lands Universities Colleges and Academies Military Affairs Agriculture Manufactures and Commerce Corporations Mines Ditches and Drains Insurance Benevolent Institutions Reform Schools and Prisons State Building Fees and Salaries Public Printing Federal Relations Unfinished Business Privileges and Elections Enrollment. Senate Jan 14 swears in Lieutenant Governor Wick and votes a bill to protect civil rights. House names standing committees for Agriculture Asylums Blind Deaf and Dumb Enrollment Fees Federal Relations Finance Fish Culture and Game Insurance Imbecile Asylum Judiciary Manufactures Military Affairs Municipal Corporations New Counties Penitentiary Privileges Public Buildings Public Works Railroads Retrenchment Revision Reform School Public Ways Schools Temperance Turnpikes Universities.
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Oneill
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Thorp
Wilson
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Stevenson
Stanbach
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Woman who buckled Houston sword dies in Bryan
Mrs. Anna Irion, once a girl in Bucks County Pennsylvania, tied General Houston’s sword to the veteran before the San Jacinto battle. Her death occurred recently in Bryan Texas.
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Bucks County
General Houston
San Jacinto
Bryan
Tex
Young Landell Dies in Hunger and Exposure
The young man Landell, son of the president of the Keaumntin National Bank of Philadelphia, died of hunger and exposure near Lexington Kentucky after a reckless venture for adventure.
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Landell
Lexington
Keaumntin National Bank
Philadelphia
Andover Man Hangs Self After Gale Destroys Pines
Jonathan Ab bott of Andover Massachusetts owned a large pine grove. A recent gale toppled the trees and he took the loss to heart, ending his life by hanging, according to the Boston Post.
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Andover
Mass
Jonathan Abbott
Boston Post
Insane Population Double in US Asylums in a Decade
Published reports from various asylums indicate the number of insane persons has nearly doubled in the last ten years across the United States.
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United States
Wealth of Mr. Tennyson Cited Between One and Fifteen Million
Report notes Mr. Tennyson's property holdings range from 1 million to 1.5 million dollars. The figures are presented as part of a property assessment and reflect substantial holdings across multiple estates and investments.
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Mr. Tennyson
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