Oregon Line Troubles and Northern Pacific Rumors
Report notes an investigation by G Morrison into Oregon Navigation concerns with Morrison departing west. Officials deny rumors of 4.5 million in new liabilities. Sherman says he was not tendered the Northern Pacific presidency and cannot resign his Senate seat to take it.
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Oregon Line Troubles
New York
Cooledge
The
Oregon Navigation Company
Morrison
Pacific Coast
West
Oregon Transcontinental Company
Washington
Sherman
Northern Pacific Railroad
Naval officer dies after escape from asylum blast
Lieutenant John J. Augur of the U S Navy escaped Bloomingdale asylum during a storm and was found dead in the roadway from cold. Son of General Augur in charge at Fort Leavenworth. He had served since 1870 and took part in Arctic Jeannette search missions. He had been on duty miss since last summer and was admitted December 24.
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New York
John J. Augur
United States Navy
Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum
General Augur
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
Augur
resignation of Brewster Cameron as DOJ agent to become Tucson receiver
Secretary Folger submitted an itemized DOJ expense report since 1881 March 4 in response to Senator Van Wyck s December resolution. The prose cuting of star route cases shows compensation to multiple personnel totaling 113 032 dollars with names including A M Gibson B Brewer Allan Pinkerton W W Ker H H Wells George Bliss W A Cook R T Merrick.
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Washington
Brewster Cameron
Department of Justice
Tucson
A. T
van Wycks
Folger
Senate
A. M. Gibson
B. H
Vicious Coonskill: 15 Year Old Elphonse Kell Accused of Poison Plots
In Washington Judge Snell's court a 15 year old boy named Elphonse Kell faced charges for a spree of poisoning attempts. He admits buying arsenic and damaging milk water bread and cattle while boasting of earlier poisonings in Baltimore.
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Washington
Elphonse Kell
Benjamin
Baltimore
Floreston Cologne Suggested As Lasting Fragrance
Readers are directed to consider Floreston Cologne for a perfume that stays fragrant and refreshing throughout the day. The ad emphasizes its lasting scent and appealing aroma.
Snowstorms Hit Multiple Cities Across East Coast
The blast of winter brings up to sixteen inches of snow in Huntington and Richmond, with New York area's Coney Island flooded and rails damaged. A massive coastal storm wrecked piers at Atlantic City, while Wilkesbarre suffers a violent gale and debris. Washington hears talks on cattle diseases and proposed funding to eradicate pleuro-pneumonia, with large government actions contemplated. The piece closes noting the top tobacco choice is Little Joker.
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Richmond
Kentucky
Huntington
W. Va
Atlantic City
Howard’s Pier
South Atlantic City & West Jersey
Wilkesbarre
Penn
Wyoming Valley
Buffalo
New York
Coney Island
Joss
Manhattan
Brighton Beach
Culver
Brighton
Engman
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Teething Remedy
An old advertisement offers Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup for teething children. It claims to ease night crying and teething pain, cure dysentery and diarrhea, regulate the stomach, relieve wind colic, soften gums, and energize the system. Sold by druggists worldwide at 25 cents a bottle.
Livestock Group Backs Rail Right of Way Plan
Austin January 11 the livestock association unanimously endorsed congressional efforts to obtain the right of way to the gulf for the Colorado and Santa Fe and the Texas Oklahoma railroads through Indian Territory. Resolutions urged legislature to curb lawlessness and enact protections for property and revenues from school lands while opposing the herd law at present.
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Austin
The
Livestock Association Today
Congress
Gulf
Colorado & Santa Fe
Indian Territory
Dorsey Sued by Messia Levy for 63000 in Arkansas Bond Case
Denver January 12 Messia Levy Co bankers of London sue ex Senator Stephen W Dorsey in US court for over 63000 plus interest for eleven years The suit relates to a 1871 Arkansas state and Arkansas Central railway bonds transaction of which Dorsey was then president He denies any cause of action.
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Denver
Messia, Levy & Co., Bankers
London
United States
Stephen W. Dorsey
Dorsey
Arkansas State
Arkansas Central Railway Bonds
Cattlemen Complete Pleuro Pneumonia Bill Study
Washington January 12 The cattlemen sub committee finished a bill to suppress and extirpate pleuro pneumonia and other contagious cattle diseases The measure was accepted by the Chicago convention committee and will go to the house agriculture committee on Monday Representative Wilson of Iowa displayed lungs from three cattle at the capitol all showing varying disease stages and bought by Commissioner Loring for Washington market slaughter
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Washington
House Committee On Agriculture
Chicago
Capitol
Hunt
New Jersey
Congress
Law
Cattle Commission
Treasury Department
Judge Carey
Wyoming
Europe
New York
Great Britaan
Australia
New Zealand
United States
Department of Agriculture
Commissioner of Agriculture
Wilson
Iowa
Loring
Senate panel shifts on Chinese immigration bill
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee debated a Pacific coast plan to amend the Chinese immigration act of last Congress. Senator Miller of California introduced the measure, and the bill was referred to a subcommittee led by Miller with Wilson and Morgan, as members probed broader anti Chinese policy questions.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Pacific Coast
Senate
Miller
California
Wilson
Morgan
Fence Cutting Crisis Reaches Texas Counties
In Coleman and Runnels counties, settlers report widespread arson and fence destruction. All fences except one are down, with that remaining fence guarded by armed men as houses and pastures burn. Many cattle owners lack adequate land, fueling the formation of landholding companies as protection fades.
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Galveston
House Special Committee On
Coleman
Runnell
Railroad Riot at Pendleton Oregon
About 200 discharged railroad workers, broke and riotous, seized a westbound train after free rides were refused. General Miles sent infantry from Walla Walla. the mob remained aboard but allowed the mail car to pass. Hundreds more unemployed are due, though no outbreak has occurred yet.
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Pendleton
Oregon
Portland
Miles
Walla Walla
Barbarous Auction Sells Three Women In Mo
A Cape Girardeau dispatch reports Con stable Loomis of Bird township, Cape Girardeau county, hired out three female vagrants to the highest bidder at Jackson for three months under a local law. Ages ranged from 18 to 45.
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St. Louis
Cape Girardeau
Loomis
Bird Township
Cape Girardeau County
Jackson
Stage Robbers Halt San Angelo Mail Near Colorado River
Stage robbers halted a southbound San Angelo coach near the Colorado river last night. Four masked men robbed passengers and mail sacks then delayed the coach until the northbound stage arrived. a large amount of registered matter was taken. Authorities believe road agents made a heavy haul.
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Galveston
Tex
Colorado River
San Angelo
Labor Conference Supports Home Industries Principle
About forty delegates attended a Philadelphia labor conference. John A. Rooney of Brooklyn presented resolutions demanding protection of home industries as a fundamental principle, denouncing tariff changes, and pledging to oppose any candidate for national or state office not aligned with the conference’s views.
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Philadelphia
John A. Rooney
Brooklyn
Reciprocal Treaty Talk Denied by Ottawa Officials
Ottawa rejects U S reports that Canada communicates with Earl Granville on a general treaty with the United States. It says such talks are untrue and notes that some large U S interests seek a reciprocal trade for their own gain, especially over the fishery question.
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Ottawa
United States
Earl of Granville
Canada
Cable plans for Westminster cathedral and world brief notes
Cable rumors say England Catholics will start a Westminster cathedral costing over £500,000 near Victoria station with design similar to Vienna's Vollv Kirche. Also: critique of US prisons by Howard. Lotta vs Palmer theater squabble. Paris crisis reports rise. Rome art school for medieval and Renaissance study. mass for Louis XV anniversary. Egypt’s Christians risk as flight from Khar toum urged. large South African diamond cut in Boston. New York bank stats show mixed changes with reserves above requirements.
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New York
England
Westminster
Victoria Station
Vollv Kirche
Vienna
Howard
Prisoners’ Aid Association
Lotta
Minnie Palmer
Minnie
Paris Figaro
Paris
Rome
Madeline
Louisa X.V
Khartoum
Upper
Egypt
Nile
Boston
South Africa
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Il Anton
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McDonough Co
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Capital Notes
Texas
George B. Saylor
Wells, Fargo & Company
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Royal Baking Powder Co
Wall Street
Hales Honey
Gilead
C.N. Crittenton
R, N.Y
Ire
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