Nomination of Teller for Interior Department Favored
Washington March 22 The drive for Teller's cabinet nomination grows with support from stalwarts and Pacific west interests. His stance against Merritt and Robertson endorsements is noted, while Belford is seen as Teller's Senate successor. Fire tallies across multiple cities reported with heavy losses.
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Arthur
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Judge Belford
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McSweeny Imprisonment Reported in British Custody
Washington reports on United States citizen David McSweeny, long resident of California, held by British authorities. Secretary Frelinghuysen and Minister Lowell exchange telegraphic notes urging prompt trial and use of coercive statutes, with London noting arrest in Ireland on June 27, 1881. Correspondence to the State Department details the limited information available and promises immediate attention.
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Flood Crevasses Worsen Mississippi River Floods
New Orleans reports slow abatement of water on the Anachita river at Trenton while crevasses from Carroll and Madison parishes swell floods in Alba levee. Water covers land between Bayou Macon and the Mississippi river and from Red river to the Arkansas line. Vicksburg notes breaks at Alsatia and Thompson's Bend with the river falling three inches in 24 hours.
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Steven Briggs
Alsatia Levee
Thompson’s Bend
Helena
Louisiana
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Railroad Racket in Dallas Ends in Resignations and Threats
Rumor says the Topeka and Santa Fe may build to Dallas Lavartoni. Gulf and Pacific route from Sabine Pass to Albuquerque was planned. The chief engineer and general passenger agent of the Chicago Texas and Mexican Central Railroad resigned last night over failure to syndicate indebtedness. Dallas civic leaders threaten resignations unless reform takes place.
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Chicago, Texas & Mexican Central Railroad
Congressional and Senate Activity in Washington March News
Washington reports detail sudden illness delaying tariff measures and the diplomatic appropriation bill taking up. House proceedings resume on the Chinese bill with debate continuing and votes by Richardson and others noted. A Good Templars petition seeks a constitutional amendment banning alcohol production in the national domain. Washington also records bills forming Washington state and a bureau of animal industry to curb diseased cattle.
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Star route case hearings postponed in Washington
United States cases against Thomas J. Brady ex Senator S W Dorsey H M Vail and others were called in criminal court. Defendants were absent and not prepared to plead. The court postponed the hearing until Saturday next as prosecutors sought arrest warrants for Stephen W Dorsey who had fled to New Mexico.
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United States
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Stephen W. Dorsey
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Nominations for U S Consular Posts Include Three Names
President nominates John Smith of North Carolina as minister resident and consul general to Liberia Emery Beaucamp of Indiana as United States consul at St Gall and James Wilson of Missouri as United States consul at Three Rivers These appointments expand diplomatic representation abroad while names and locations are confirmed for Senate review
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John Hi 3Mith
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United States
Liberia
Emery P. Beaucamp
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St. Gall
James W. Wilson
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Three Rivers
Fire devastates New England Furniture Co warerooms
Chicago report says the warerooms of the New England Furniture Company in Grand Rapids Michigan burned recently. Officials described the blaze as a major fire loss with extensive damage to stock and building.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
New England Furniture Company
Gladstone Receives Rus sell Memorial on Land Court Powers
Irish Matters in London reports Gladstone acknowledging Charles Russell's memorial urging retrospective land court decisions on rent arrears. The notice asks for loans to tenants to pay arrears and promises anxious, careful attention by officials and signatories.
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Gladston
Chas. Russell
Land Court
They Must Go The President approves anti polygamy bill
Washington reports the House passed the Chinese bill 77 to 65 with no amendments. The president has approved the anti polygamy bill. Curiously, Teller potential interior secretary appointment becomes tangled in Colorado politics and cabinet maneuvers involving Chaffee, Grant, Logan, Belford, and Pitkin.
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White House
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Hill
Small-Pox Disturbs County Jail Court in Des Moines
Small-pox outbreak in the county jail prompted urgent court actions. Twenty inmates, court and county officers faced consternation as the court adjourned in haste. The premises were quarantined and two convicts moved to the pest house while doctors debated diagnoses.
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Chicago
The
Evening Journal
Des Moines
Iowa
State reduces debt with bond purchase in 1904 terms
Texas buys $442,000 of its own bonds from the Charles Morgan estate, paying 140. The bonds mature in 1904 with 7 percent interest. This purchase lowers the state debt over the past year by more than one million dollars, leaving the debt just under four million.
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Austin
Texas
Charles Morgan
New York
Postmaster General Howe Hints Faster Mails West
Postmaster General Howe spoke on reducing transit time from New York to San Francisco and other western points. He expressed hope that if Congress funds Senate proposals for special trunk-line facilities, a schedule enabling faster mail delivery may be arranged.
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Howe
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Faster mail delivery by rail between New York and West
The article proposes shortening mail transit to about three days from New York to the West by creating a fast dedicated train or expediting passenger services. Mails now take thirteen days. current delays stem from slow transfer Points in Chicago Omaha and Kansas City. Railroads and unions would be consulted to decide chartering a fast train or accelerating all trains to the Pacific coast.
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San Francisco
West
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Omaha
Kansas City
Denver
Union Pacific
Pacific Coast
Inland railroad bill drives Commons debate in Victoria
In Victoria on March 23 a private bill for inland railroad construction faces the house of commons tomorrow. A California syndicate aims to secure a coal belt and build to Nanamamo in three years with an eight year extension to Seymour narrows. Promoters claim $25 000 deposited as security. In St Louis the Texas attorney general sued the New Orleans and Texas Pacific Ry for charter forfeiture after noncompliance.
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Seymour Narrows
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Atttorney General of Texas
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Texas Pacific Ry
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Tug Henry C Spratt Explodes Killing Four In Philadelphia
The tugboat Henry C Spratt exploded its boiler this morning in Philadelphia, killing four men including captain Geo Scully. Firemen B McCann Patrick Flanagan and worker Maloney are dead, engineer John Lyons and two others are missing as pier No 8 station burns. Loss estimated at 50 000 with the tug Ella burned and sunk.
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Geo. Scully
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Patrick Flanagan
Maloney
John Lyons
Philadelphia & Atlantic City Railway
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Admiral Spotts dies in Falklands apoplexy
Secretary Hunt reports a cable from Martevides saying Admiral Spotts died March 9 at Stanley Falkland Islands of apoplexy and was buried there. He was appointed to the navy from Kentucky.
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Hunt
Martevides
Rhode Island Democrats Announce State Ticket
The Democratic state convention in Providence on March 22 nominated Horace A. Kimball for governor J G Perry for lieutenant governor Jonathan M Wheeler for secretary of state L Oriella for attorney general Arnold L Burdick for treasurer and other officers.
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J. G. Perry
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Arnold L. Burdick
Senate confirms Blatchford for U S Supreme Court
Washington March 22 Senate confirms Samus Blatchford of New York as associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Washington March 28 Senate confirms A L Morrison of Illinois as United States marshal for New Mexico.
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Senate
Samus Blatchford
New York
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Longfellow Dead After Illness at Boston Home
Boston March 24 Longfellow the poet is dead after peritonitis following a sudden illness. He was born February 27 1807 in Portland Maine and educated at Bowdoin College after which his distinguished literary career in exile and at home began. All the family witnessed his last hours.
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Mother Earth
Explosion damages detective house in Dublin
A canister of powder was dropped into a house housing detectives causing extensive property damage but no injuries. Smythe, a home rule MP for Tipperary, says he will back the Cloture resolution and urges independent Irish members to follow. In London, Rourke, partner of Egan, has been moved from Naas jail to Dublin to handle business.
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Parisian Marriage Seals Royalist Tie in March
Paris reports the marriage of Mlle Jeanne Bon apart e daughter of Prince Pierre Bon apart e who shot Victor Noir to Marquis de Ville neuve Pergemont a legitimist. The ceremony linked prominent Paris figures in a high society event.
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Jeanne Bonaparte
Pierre Bonaparte
Victor Noir
Marquis de Villeneuve Pergemont
Balloon attempt for France by Col Burnaby in March
London dispatch reports Col Burnaby author of My Ride to Khiva left Dover alone in a balloon today in a bid to reach France. The daring endeavor follows his recent publication and marks another stunt by the noted traveler.
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Army General McDonald Nearing Retirement Rumor
Army circles report Gen. McDonald likely to retire soon. General Skobeloff praised Britain and cordial England Russia ties at a St. Petersburg banquet. Illinois probate courts ruled legally constituted after a rehearing reversing a prior demoralizing decision. The czar rejected Jewish rural expulsions citing agricultural harm and punitive intent.
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