Through Pullman Sleepers and Fast Mail Lines Charted
Rail service details list Washington to New York, New Orleans, Memphis, Atlanta and Birmingham routes with through Pullman sleepers. Includes Exposition Flyer, dining car, and Tuesday Thursday connections via Richmond and Atlanta. Officials listed: W A Ture, S H Hardwick, etc., at Washington and Atlanta offices.
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Southwestern
Pullman
New York
New Orleans
Atlanta
Montgomery
Memphis
Birmingham
United States
Pullan
Nokta
Richmond
Atlanteadichmond
Danville
Greensboro
Jefferson Davis Monument Design Committee Seeks Report
At a Richmond meeting the Jefferson Davis Monument Association board asked the design committee to review submitted designs and report back for board action. A Davis monument committee of the United Confederate Veterans will meet in Richmond at noon on June 10 to pass the report. The cornerstone lays July 2 with Bishop John Granberry presiding. guests include Mrs Davis Miss Winnie Davis and Mr and Mrs Hayes. The Virginia Grand Lodge of Masons will perform the ceremony.
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Jefferson Davis Monument Association
Richmond
Davis Monument Committee of the United Confederate Veterans
John Granberry
Davis
Winnie Davis
Hayes
Virginia Grand Lodge of Masons
Floridians Appeal to Olney on Weyler Tobacco Order
Florida delegation met Secretary Olney to protest General Weyler s ban on Cuban tobacco exports to the United States. Olney said he awaited Spain s reply to his note on the matter. Washington dismisses Madrid s denial as diplomatic opacity aimed at keeping relations calm.
Dallas relief effort lifts cyclone aid total
The citizens relief committee of Dallas Texas has raised nearly 1300 for cyclone sufferers at Sherman and other northern Texas points. Efforts will be made to raise 5000 in cash in Dallas. Liberal donations of clothing and general supplies are being made.
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Texas
Citizens’ Relief Committee of
Dallas
Sherman
Congress Debates Bills and Impeachment Motions
The 54th Congress reports passage of the McCall educational test bill and the Corliss bill with a 121 to 45 and 195 to 26 votes respectively, rejects the consular inspection bill 75 to 131, and faces a tense clash over private bill days. A proposed impeachment inquiry against President Cleveland is narrowly blocked as House leadership limits debate. Senate stalls on bond legislation amid filibusters and approves river and harbor actions after lengthy exchanges between Hill and Allen.
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Corliss
Stone
Pennsylvania
Committee On Rules
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Iowa
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Labor
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Massachusetts
Pickler
South Dakota
Mahon
Kansas
Cleveland
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Committee On Public Lands
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Delaware
Kerman
Ohio
George Paula
Wilmington Harbor
Colfax
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Altgeld
Illinois
Carlisle
League
District of Columbia
New Colored Bishops Ordained at Willington NY Conference
At the Wilmington New York conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church four men Reys William Benjamin Derrick Josiah Haynes Armstrong and James Crawford Embry were ordained bishops. Derrick is noted as a leading African American orator with 34 years in the church Armstrong previously served as financial secretary and Embry headed the book and publication arm. Newly elected officers include Henderson Johnson Kealing Hawkins Parks Shaffer Moora Cheeks Smith and more. Bishop Abram Grant will oversee the New England New York New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania. Southern press praised for opposing lynching last year.
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Armstrong
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General Conference
Embry
Ray. TI. W. Henderson
Indianapolis
Ind
Book Concern and Publication House
H. T. Johnson
Philadelphia
Penn
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Christian Recorder
H. T. Kealing
A. M
African Methodist Episcopal Church Review
John KR. Hawkins
Kittrell
N. O
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M. B. Parks
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Kansas City
O. T. Shaffer
Maryland
Church Extension Department
M. M. Moora
Orlando
Fla
RR. M. Cheeks
Rome
Southern Christian Recorder
Smith
Sunday School Union
Nashville
Hampton Instillic Celebrates Twenty-Ninth Anniversary
Hampton Institute and its 1000 students and teachers celebrated its 29th anniversary at Fort Monroe Virginia with trustees and guests from the north and south. Graduating exercises awarded 29 diplomas and fifteen trade certificates as hundreds listened to speeches and plantation melodies. Booker T. Washington delivered a well received address to both races.
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Great Colored School
Hampton Institute
S’ort Monroe
Great
Industrial Institute
Transvaal
Indiana
Booker T. Washington
Hampton
Olney Denied Sending Letter on Cuban Tobacco Edict
Madrid foreign office officials deny that United States Secretary of State Olney sent a note to Spain regarding Captain General Weyler's edict prohibiting tobacco exports from Cuba.
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Olney
Foreign Office
Madrid
United States
State Olney
General Weyler
Cuba
Immigration, Cuba, and Senate Clash Across Washington
Washington news reviews battles over immigration measures in the Senate led by Mr. Lodge. It notes Mr. Hannis Taylor’s Madrid to New Orleans travel, Senator Bacon’s win on the Brunswick harbor appropriation, and the president’s refusal to share Cuba related information. It also covers Morgan Cuban resolutions, appropriations status, Weyler tobacco order impact, and import data highlighting Cuba’s effect on tobacco markets and possible retaliation debates.
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Massachusetts
Senate
United States
Hannis Taylor
Madrid
Conde Wifredo
New Orleans
Taylor
Legation
Bacon
Brunswick Harbor
Brunswick
Col. Goodyear
Cuba
State Department
Caleb Cushing
Senor Collantes
Morgan
Committee On Foreign Relations
Congress
Weekly business conditions report notes mixed signals
Pitan Arm Bradstreet reports a mixed week with falling business failures and lower railroad earnings, but improved conditions in Kansas City and the Pacific coast. Weather boosts crop outlook, boot and shoe demand rises, while iron and steel raw material demand grows modestly. Southern Savannah shows volume gains, crops suffer from drought in Georgia and the Carolinas. Central west prices slip on staples, pork coffee cotton and print cloths quoted largely unchanged.
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United States
Kansas City
Pacific Coast
South
Savannah
Georgia
South Carolina
Galveston
Central West
OKLAHOMA CYCLONE SWEPT KILLING FIVE AT CUSHING
Five persons died as a cyclone and water spout struck parts of Oklahoma last Wednesday night with damage across Guthrie Edmond Black Bear and White Eagle areas. At Cushing five were killed while Edmond saw two deaths and broader losses included shattered houses in Osage country and cattle losses. property damage tallies reach thousands with scattered injuries and long lasting grief.
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Guthrie
Okla
Edmond
Harvey Rich
Black Bear
John Rodgers
White
White Eagle
Osage Country
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