Senate Debates and Bills From May 13 16 1884
Senate discussions cover Grant’s retirement, Alaska government, Wyoming and Dakota changes, and treasury appeals. House debates mint in St. Louis, silk bureau, and minister to Great Britain abolition. News notes report fires, bank failures, miner strikes, and local tragedies with several deaths and civic notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Sherman
Fremont
Logan
Committee On Military Affairs
General Grant
United States
Grant
Frye, Miller
New York
West
Pues
Horuse
Alaska
Justices of the Peace
Wyoming
Dakota
House
Call
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury Department
Judiciary Committee
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Blair
Woman's Silk Culture Association
Bland
Committee On Coinage, Weights and Measures
St. Louis
Robinson
Great Britain
Morgan
Committee On Finance
McCullum
National Banking Association
New Orleans
Cannon
House panel backs retired officers in pension office service
Chairman Rosecrans may insert a clause in the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill to have retired army officers perform duties now by special examiners in the Pension office with pay raised to full grade. Senate Finance may not favor another bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosecrans
House Committee On Military Affairs
Committee On Appropriations
Senate Finance Committee
Comptroller of the Currency
Walter S. Johnson
Marine National Bank
New York
Johnson
National Bank
Missouri
St. Louis
House Committee On Elections
English Vs. Peele
Indiana
English
Morris
Vermont
Congress
Washington
New Mexico
Secretary of the Treasury
Department
House Judiciary Committee
New Orleans, Baton Rouge
Notable Deaths and Disturbing Accidents Chronicle New England News
Charles O Conor, distinguished attorney, died at Nantucket on the 12th aged eighty. Bishop Hillery deposed by the African Methodist Conference in New York on the 13th. National Temperance Society reports a prosperous year with receipts 71000 and expenses 74000. over 10000 spent on freedmen missions. A tunnel roof collapse at Dexter s Gap near Somerset Pa, on the 13th killed two men and injured three including Superintendent White. Medicines errors by Allegheny City drug clerks blamed for deaths of a child and an elderly woman. A Pennsylvania Railroad machine shops boiler explosion at Altoona on the 14th! Hayden OHara fireman blown to atoms.
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John Brown
Thomas B. Brapshaw
Walter
Cambridgeport
Mass
New Jersey
Trenton
McPherson
Tilden
Hendricks
Falls Creek
St. Mary’s
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
James Tash
William Fortune
Tash
Fortune
Fash
John F. Slater
Norwich
Conn
Francis Bartlett
Mr. Bartlett
W. A. Slater
Worcester
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Reading
Newark
N. J
Fisk & Hutch
New York
Bartholdi
Taylor
W. X. Ninor
J. M. Walden
W. F. Mallalieu
C. H. Fowler
Philadelphia
Scrina
Washington
Pennsylvania Steel Works
Harrisburg
George Murry
Charles Pierce
Charles O’conor
Nantucket
Bishop Hillery
National Temperance Society
Allegheny Mountains
Dexter’s Gap
Somerset
Superintendent White
Allegheny City
F F. B. Ward
Ann Gallagher
Pennsylvania Railroad
Altoona
Hayden O’hara
Pitrspur Guh
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Connellsville
Speer Sand Works
Pittsburgh Southern Road
Ohio Pyle Falls
Cassiday
Dermott
J. T. O'Shea
Patrick Cassiday
Cumberland
Scott Dermott
Ursina
Dennis Ward
Sueabey Neuman
Owen Conley
John Perry
Johnstown
Thomas Whittle
Eli Sloan
Joseph Desmond
Patrick Kelly
Dol Hughes
Joan Conley
Timothy Shay
Staunton
J.T. O'Shea
Lhe
James Smith
Samuel Clay
William McNulty
Daniel Albright
W. J. Burns
Thomas McCabe
West Pennsylvania
Britton
Gilbert Lewis
Ohio Pyle
Cochran
Lewis
Baton Rouge gnats devastate Franklin parish cattle losses
News from Baton Rouge reports cattle deaths in Franklin parish from gnats, with over three thousand horses cattle and hogs lost in two wards after partial census. Farmers seek Congress aid as crops fail and gnats allegedly affect humans causing blood poisoning.
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Baton Rouge
Franklin Parish
Congress
Belinda Galloway
Common Pleas Court
Dayton
Cooper Female Academy
Joan Forsyth
Little Rock
Arkansas
Sabin
Northwestern Car Company
Hershy Music Hall
Chicago
John F. Henry
Benjamin F. Butler
Charles Sisco
Robert Campbell
Baltimore
Sisco
Campbell
Christopher Kramer
James Johnson
Ballentine
Ohio
John C. Riley
Cincinnati
John L. Flynn
Springfield
Jacob Kohn
Toledo
John Blyth
Galion
F. W. Green
S. C. Reiber
E. J. Carrigan
Cleveland
J. R. Percival
E. J. Beard
Youngstown
Steubenville
Marietta
Charles Quinn
Columbus
Wheat exports and rail accident dominate SA 1884 news
The report notes South Australia expects eleven million bushels of wheat to be exported in 1884 and praises widespread rains. A Paris dispatch recounts a fatal freight collision near Sandy Depot on the Plain of St Denis due to a points error, killing an engine driver and injuring thirty-one.
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South Australia
Wallace
United States
Constantinople
America
Paris
Sandy Depot
Plain of
St. Denis
Boulogne
Berlin
London Times
Grand Duke
Louis
Hesse-Darmstadt
Madame Kalambe
New Brunswick Railway
Coombe’s Brook
Medawask County
New Brunswick
Illyran
Liverpool
Boston
Cape Clearlight
Ireland
William
Bismarck
Boetticher
Berlin Tagleblatt
Richard Muckle
The
Philadelphia Ledger
Sargent
Bertin
Muckle
Wall Street calm returns after period of panic and big bets
A week of high activity on American stocks by English investors ended with a calm market. Reports note a fatal rail collision near Chittenango, a fire in New York repair shops, and public whippings in New Castle. Memorial services were held in Wellington for the State of Florida victims. Banking figures show loans down, deposits down, and a large transfer of legal tender.
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Wall Street
William H. Doane
Grand River
Painesville
New York Central Railroad
Chittenango
N. Y
George S. Perley
New York & Hudson Railway
New York
New Castle
Del
Disciple
Wellington
Harry Wood
Florida
F. H. Moore
M. E. General Conference
Philadelphia
Lancaster County
FoLtowina
New York Associated Banks
United States
Court of Commissioners of
Alabama Claims
Texas
Supreme Court of Dakota
Senate
Missouri
House
Metropolitan Bank suspension triggers wall street panic
The Metropolitan Bank of New York has suspended and closed its doors. Secretary Folger and major financiers confront a crisis as Hatch Foote and Bogart & Co fail, triggering widespread suspensions and fears of a broader panic amid a crowded Stock Exchange and heavy market turbulence.
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Metropolitan Bank
New York
George S. Seney
O. M. Bogardt & Co
John Wheeler
Nelson, Robinson & Co
George L Seney
Seney
Maverick Bank
Boston
First National Bank
First National Bank of
Utica
First National
Secretary of the Treasury
Folger
Washington
Hatch & Foote
Phoenix Bank
Second National Bank
Stock Exchange
Metropolitan National Bank
Bogart & Co
Exchange
Treasury
National Bank
Schriba
Supreme Court
Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia Railway
U. S. Grant
Drexel, Morgan & Co
Philadelphia
Holmes & Son
Pittsburgh
Bank of America
Flour City Bank of
Rochester
Marshall, Field & Co
Chicago
Bank of Commerce
Bank of Attica
Buffalo
Hanover Bank
Clearing House Association
United States
KF. D. Tappen
George S. Coe
J. D. Vermi
Wall Street
Bears
Michigan Central
St. Paul
Missouri Pacific
Northwest
Central Pacific
Western Union
Omaha
Union Pacific
Northwestern
Lackawanna
Manitoba
Louisville & Nashville
Bankers’ & Merchants’ Telegraph
A. W. Dimick & Co
American Telegraph & Cable
Fish & Hatch
Lake Shore
Henry L. Jacques
Bank Clearing House Association
Chaffee
Grant & Ward
Colorado
Buck Grant
Ward
Associated Press
Bitten by a Mad Dog In Terre Haute
Charles Brado and his son George of St Marys four miles west were bitten by a dog exhibiting hydrophobia yesterday. The animal was killed and Mrs Mary J Taylor mad stone treated the boys arm with disease material drainage described. The father will receive treatment as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Ind
Charles Brado
George
St. Mary’s
Vigilance on dynamiters amid Canada safety fund
The Globe reports investigations support the precautions taken over several months on dynamiter movements. A January vote of 2500 dollars funded an emergency fund. Three men aimed to destroy public buildings. one is dying at Troy, the others likely remain in Canada. The Welland Canal tunnel has been guarded, access restricted to essential workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
the Globe
Canada
Troy
Welland Canal
Fatal Accident Near Saline County Funeral Procession
John Forsythe and his wife were killed when a gum tree fell on their buggy in a lane near Salem Church during a funeral procession for Mrs Forsythe’s brother Silverton Russell. Both occupants died at the scene and will be buried with Russell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
John Forsythe
Silverton Russell
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W. H. Kipp
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Waterloo
Alabama River
Selma
Ala
Washington Territory
Louisiana
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Chattanooga
Riley Anderson
James
Alfred McCullough
Methodist Church
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Albert Lyons
Justus Kurzer
Cleveland (O.) Waechter Am Erie
Mt. Sterling
Richard Reid
Kentucky
A. A. Shaw
Clare County
Mich
Harrison
W. B. Cain
Marshal Richards
South Carolina
Cheraw
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National Association
Detroit
Jamess. Neary
National Union League
National Council
Palmer House
Reuben Floy
Madison County
Metropolitan Bank of New York
Folger Lending Gover
Germany
Mabel
Mr. Nicefellow
Nicefelow
Nicefellow
Rhode Island
Chicago News
Henry M. Stanley
Risers
the Dynamiters
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