Congress Extends Cable Laying Period and Funds Public Works
Senate and House actions span extending the August 1882 cable act deadline to August 1886, funding a Detroit public building site cap at 900000, and passing agriculture measures including silk culture support and artesian well projects. Debates over contested Indiana seat and various public works continued.
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Senate
Detroit
Houst
Messrs
Ellis
Holman
Ryan
House
Indiana
Representative Locum Favored for Civil Office Appointments
Representative Locum reports favorably a bill to give preference in civil appointments to honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who possess the required business capacity. Treasury redeeming over half a million of 3 percent bonds from Savings Bank of Baltimore. Martin Luther statue unveiled at Memorial Lutheran Church Washington. Monitor and Cumberland relief bill advances with $400,000 appropriation. Grant mortgaged property in Washington for $150,000 loan. Randall predicts adjournment around June 20. Ways and Means considers Hewitt tariff bill. reduced tariff portion not to be considered. George H. Levis absconds with $100,000 to $200,000. Original numbers of 3 percent bonds called on the 22d listed for June 30 maturity total $10,000,000. Railway Mail Bureau completes Mexico service schedule. six days twenty three hours New York to Mexico City, seven days one hour return. Cities on line include Pittsburgh, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Sedalia, Kansas City, La Junta, Albuquerque, Rincon, El Paso.
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Connecticut
Washington
South Coventry
Providence Company
Fitchville
Ferdinand Ward
Grant & Ward
New York
Nelson J. Tappah
Ward
Frank Jones
Henry O. Kent
Frank A. McKean
Alvay Sullivan
Newark
N. J
Penn Bank
Pittsburgh
Brooklyn
N. Y
Sunday School Union
St. Louis Express
New York Central
East Brighton
Auburn Road
St. Louis
Prince Yamashina
Japan
Alonnzo Smith
M. E
Philadelphia
William Taylor
India
Africa
B. F. Crary
California Christian Advocate
Parker & Karns City
Karns City
Thompson
Cook
Fisk & Hatch
Charles A. Hinckley
West Side Bank
George Lear
Pennsylvania
Doylestown
United States
Canada
Slocum
House Military Committee
Treasury Department
Savings Bank of Baltimore
Martin Luther
Memorial Lutheran Church
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Monitor
Cumberland
Randall
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Hewitt
George H. Levis
Tax Railway Mail Bureau
United States and the City of Mexico
City of Mexico
Mexico
Columbus
Indianapolis
Sedalia
Kansas City
Secretary predicts Wall Street loss reaches five million
The Russell Sage secretary says Sage’s loss from the Wall Street panic will be five million dollars. In two days ending the 20th he paid out five million, enough to wreck a bank. Evizapsru Kinsela dies in Brooklyn at her son in law's home on the 19th. Dudley will in New York leaves twenty two thousand to Presbyterian groups. Whitney Marble Works boilers explode at Gouverneur on the 3d, five killed and two fatally wounded. Wooprusy’s mill in Buffalo affected.
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Russell Sage
Sage
Wall Street
Evizapsru Kinsela
Thomas Kinsella
Brooklyn
N. Y
Joseph Dudley
New York
Whitney Marble Works
Gouverneur
Wooprusy
Buffalo
Murder at Kansas City Hospital Ended by Guard’s Shot
Durrus Weaver, a colored insane patient at the Kansas City City Hospital, attacked two patients with a knife, set fire to bedding, and was fatally shot by Steward Winfrey to save his life. The incident follows other regional disasters and political notes from the era.
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Durrus Weaver
Kansas City
Mo.) City Hospital
Steward Winfrey
Weaver
Caro
Tuscalo County
Mich
Court House
Louisiana
James B. Eust
United States
Jonas
Tishomingo
Indian Territory
Wolf
Congress
Chickasaw Nation
Washington
Cincinnati Dramatic Festival Association
Oscar Clark
St. Paul
Minn
Scioto River
Portsmouth O
Fulweiler
Texas
Prince Yamashina
Imperial Families of
Japan
Chicago
Industrial Congress
L. Bush
Nebraska
Tilden
James C. Boyd
J. Sterling
W. H. Munger
Tobias Castor
Isaac M. Verren
St. Louis
Supreme Grand Lodge of the World
Missouri Grand Lodge
Henry Hays
Davies County
Hays
Edwin C. Maxwell
J. T. Burt
Spencer W. Surm
J. N. Kendall
London News highlights 10 million pound loan aid for bonds
The London News reports a Canadian loan of £10,000,000 imminent to support conversion of five per cent bonds. Also noted are a major earthquake in Asia Minor with casualties, fires in Aberdeen, shipwrecks near Fiji and Saint Pierre, Irish laborers act debate, a French brig sinking near Newfoundland, and Bank of Montreal gold exports during the panic.
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London News
Cyzens
Asia Minor
Milne
Aberdeen
Scotland
London
Syria
Fiji Islands
House of Commons
Parnell
Trevelyan
Ireland
St. Johns
N. F
Great Bank
St. Malo
France
Saint Pierre
Bank of Montreal
New York
Multiple Disasters and Legal Moves Highlight Late January News
A Dubuque sash and door factory boiler explosion kills four and injures others, with the mill spared by a concrete wall. Other items note New York bank suspension tied to a defalcation, a Nebraska prize fight sentence, an Atlantic Oil Works fire at $400,000 loss, and arrests in bank misappropriation cases. Senate bills cover animal industry funding and decorum awards, with adjournment noted.
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Carr, Ryder & Wheeler
Dubuque
West Side Savings Bank
New York
Hinckley
Moore
Hanter
Saunders County
Nebraska
Wool Interests Convene for Tariff Restoration
At CuicaGco Illinois on May 20 the National Wool Growers Convention outlines aims to restore the 1867 wool tariff. Ohio delegates shape policy urging no politics and broad protection to support sheep husbandry and wool production.
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CuicaGco
Ill
Ohio
Committee On Resolutions
United States
Australia
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
United
Cleveland
Pasteur Claims Cure for Hydrophobia by Inoculation
Paris May 19. Louis Pasteur, famed French chemist, reports a complete antidote for hydrophobia. In a Figaro interview he describes a multi-step inoculation method that renders a bite victim insusceptible to rabies, demonstrated in trials on dogs and animals. He asserts the treatment depois successful results and urges patients to seek his laboratory for inoculations.
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Paris
M. Louis Pasteur
Figaro
M. Pasteur
Ecole Normle
Scurvy Ravages Manitoba Indians Prompted Troop Move
Winnipeg May 20 Scurvy kills many Indians at Qu Appelle and Indian Head. Fifty three mounted police with two cannons under Colonel Herchmer sent to Qu Appelle to preempt outbreak. Chiefs Little Mountain Pinpet and Yellow Calf blame overcrowded reserves for lack of fresh food and rising deaths. Piapet summons Indians to sun dance and war council as armed youths gather in town.
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Winnipeg
Man
Qu’Appelle
Indian Head
Regina
Herchmer
Qu’ Appelle
Little Mountain
Pinpet
Yellow Calf
Piapet
Canadian Northwest
Lands Along the Northern Pacific Forfeiture Bill
Washington May 20 The bill by Mr Dolph would restore 214 miles of Northern Pacific lands between Wallula Junction and Portland to public domain and land laws The plan sets five years for forfeiture of adjacent unbuilt Cascade lands and allows possession buyers of up to 320 acres while the railroad must assent to conditions to avoid title disputes
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Washington
Dolph
Wallula Junction
Portland
Cascade Grant
Cascade
Will the Hens Cackle
Fort Scott Kansas May 20 the post office has received many letters addressed to L L Johnson claiming a letter from Johnson promoting an egg incubator The Postmaster says there has never been any L L Johnson in the city and such letters are fictitious and fraudulent
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Fort Scott
Kan
L. L
Johnson
Fort ‘Scott
L. L. Johnson
Wholesale Hemlock Poisoning Hits Eighteen Boys in Kentucky
In Harrodsburg Kentucky eighteen boys after a baseball game ate wild parsnips that proved hemlock. Two died instantly five in critical condition others ill. Names not released. Separate note from Perry Barr near Birmingham reports rediscovery of two copper plates bearing 1811 Bank of England note images at Booth's farm with William Booth history.
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Harrodsburg
Perry Barr
Birmingham
Booth
William Booth
Bank of England Notes
Stafford
National Industrial Congress Opens in Chicago With Protective Agenda
The first session of the National Industrial Congress met at the Grand Pacific Chicago May 22 with delegates from cane and beet sugar sorghum rice cotton linseed oil wool salt jute ramie and other industries plus commercial interests railroads and inventors. Resolutions favored protection for domestic industries and a stronger tariff while planning next session in New Orleans for December during the Industrial and Centennial Cotton Exposition.
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ChicaGo
National Industrial Congress
Grand Pacific
Inventor’s Association
Boards of Trade
S. 8
Boyce
T. D. Curtis
Syracuse
Curtis
Congress of the
United States
F. D. Goode
John Hymond
E. EH. Dyer
A. S. Scoville
C. H. Swetser
John Foos
C. Delano
J. C. Blue
L. F. Parker
S. A. Jennings
D. J. Fred Knapp
I. A. L. B. Smith
Hon
C. M. Hawley
Edward Hine
Alexander
Siearsa
M. F. Bigney
General Industries
New Orleans Exposition
S. Sonia
Committee
Judge Atwater
Minneapolis
Mississippi
Congress
Mexico
Sandwich Islands
New Orleans
Messrs
Ohio
C. T. Brown
Ilinois
New York
J. D. Bushnell
Iowa
John Diamond
Louisiana
J. A. Smith
Colorado
Missouri
Thomas Williams
Pennsylvania
Columbus Delano
Bush
Hawley
Bigney
Shackle from 1843 Bangor Oldtown Milford RR found in car-house
In Portland Maine an imported shackle from England used on the Bangor Oldtown Milford Railroad in 1843 was found during cleanup after the line’s sale to European & North American Railroad on December 1 1869. The leather device shows heavy wear and riveted copper fittings. The article also notes a Salt Lake City revelation urging polygamy and a Georgia court judgment left with seventy five dollars after lawyers’ fees.
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Portland
England
Bangor, Oldtown
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