Germany Declares War Over Samoa Crisis
Reports from Auckland and Washington reveal Germany has begun warlike actions in Samoa against Mataafa and his followers, with German officials confirming a declaration of war. The U S Senate debates consular funds for Samoa and a Nipstock protection plan as Grover Cleveland and Prince Bismarck communicate on the crisis.
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Auckland
Samoa
Matsafa Itis
Mataafa
T&e
Berlin
Arcknaxp
Fed
Samoa Times
Wainui
Apia
London
Senate
Inspector Williams Orders Shoot to Kill in Street Car Strike
New York city February 1 eyewitness accounts describe Inspector Williams telling his men to shoot to kill if crowds use clubs during the street car strike. Authorities warn of organized gangs and broad disruption as cars resume along Broadway. The stoppage has cost strikers 420,000 and stockholders about 300,000.
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Inspector Williams
New York
Williams
Broadway
Murray
International Labor Congress to Convene in Paris in August
The Great Gathering will bring 300 delegates from America and 200 each from England France and Germany with many others. Knights of Labor trades unions and Socialists will be represented. The aims are to form a permanent International Association of American and European Workmen and to set a fixed policy for organized labor worldwide.
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Paris
America
England
France
Germany
Knights of Labor
Trades Unions
International Association of
Illinois Legislature Debates Varied Bills in Senate and House
In Spaincrimp Illinois the Senate favors a bill diverting real estate taxes to city treasurers. New measures include repealing pharmacy practice laws, amending sheriff duties, reforming the Dram Shop Act to a uniform 300 yearly malt liquor license, and a House discussion on woman suffrage lecture courtesy. The House failed to suspend rules to address MaGougar matter. Other items target insurance value limits, abolition of the State Board of Health, fox bounty authorizations, and landlord tenant law revisions.
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Spaincrimp
Senate
Sellar
Belenongar
MaGougar
State Board of Health
Water Power Association Formed in Hillnois Dams
Dam owners on the Rock Fox and Kankakee rivers established The Water-Power Association of Hillnois for mutual protection and to safeguard sanitary water power interests. Chicagoans support a girls school at Halida, later plans for a seminary near Fort Madison with buildings costing £40,000 on ten acres donated by three farmers.
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Cuicano
Rock, Fox
Kankakee
Hillnois
Halida
Chicago
Young Ladies’ ‘Seminary
Fort Madison
Cost 'et the Great Tail Spree Tickets Sold At Five Dollars
Fragment voice notes a price of five dollars for tickets to a grand event. The readable text references a spectacle with admission details and possible opening remarks.
Claytonis assassination shocks nation and Arkansas scene
Reports from Clayton murder in Plummerville Arkansas describe a gruesome head wound from buckshot and bullets. The case draws Democratic and Republican leaders together as Governor Eagle and the State Senate propose rewards, while Washington figures weigh political implications.
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Clayton
Ark
Womack
Alnutt
Plummeerville
Lattite Rock
Feb
Eagle
John M. Clayton
State Senate
Granapolis
Ind
Louis Alzheimer
Plummerville
Powell Clayton
Arkansas
Hemminway, Austin & Clayton
Pine Bluff
Puipit
Clifton R Breckinridge
John C. Breckinridge
Aithemer
Harrison
Washixcton
South
Washington
Breckinridge
Congress
Mr. Clayton
United States
Kansas
Plisntaion
Little Rock
Vaughn
Senator Jones
Indiana Govey Nomination Faces Senate Battle
Governor Govey sent Robert Chisholm for State Mine Inspector to the Senate. Republicans failed to confirm, sending the nomination to the Executive Appointments Committee. The session also debated night schools, political purity laws, and child adoption for orphans. House approved bills on legal adoption from public charities and minor access to saloons.
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Hovey
Indianapolis
Ind
Govey
Senate
Fay
Robert Chisholm
Thompson
Beals
Fields
Indicted in Indiana election fraud case arrest sweep
Federal grand jury adds eighty eight indictments bringing total to one hundred sixty five. Dudley reportedly not indicted. Deputy Marshal Ward makes five arrests in Fountain and surrounding counties amid a conspiracy as James Bingham and G W Simmerman, both prominent locals, face charges for election law violations and vote buying gestures.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Federal Grand Jury
Dudley
Marshal Ward
Thiacunty
Hollingsworth
New Augusta
James Bingham
B. Osborne
G. W. Simmerman
Fountain County
Bingham
Bimmerman
Osborne
Oklahoma House adopts Payson Soldiers Homestead amendment
In the Oklahoma House Mr. Springer steered the Soldiers Homestead bill through committee and adoption of Payson’s amendment to protect homestead rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers. The amendment limits entries to actual settlers, authorizes a 64 acre town site reserve for school fund support, and transfers unsold lots to the municipality after incorporation. Other changes protect Indian titles and grant terms while removing tax-on-purchase clauses. The bill was reported back and the amendment agreed, then the House adjourned.
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Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
Canadian River
Payson
Wisconsin lawmakers flood the legislature with bills
Maples Wis Feb 1 In the Assembly many bills were introduced including funding for swamp lands and hospitals and taxation measures for express companies and local insurers A large number of petitions on the dive question were presented plus requests to create Mills County In the Senate dive petitions were referred and key appropriations were outlined for the State Hospital Northern Hospital School for the Deaf Blind Industrial School at Waukesha State Prison Sparta School and a one fifth mill tax for old soldiers An Assembly resolution to cut off new business was amended to February 20.
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Mapnes
Wis
Assembly
Juneau County
Mills County
Senate
State Hospital
Northern Hospital
School For the
Industrial School
Waukesha
State Prison
Sparta School
Canada Opens Parliament Under Governor General Stanley
Ottawa January 31 The Canadian Parliament opened with Governor General Stanley presiding. The speech from the throne outlines failures in fisheries and negotiations, notes discontent over treaties, and asserts Canada’s rights under the 1818 treaty.
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Stanley
Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Print and Pere Marquette system consolidates roads
A miscellaneous late 19th century dispatch lists multiple local and national items. It notes consolidation of the Print and Pere Marquette railroad systems, a damaged Masonic building in Mount Sterling Illinois with about 3000 in losses, a three mile adult race planned on the Big Sioux river near Bronx City Iowa, a fatal boiler expiring event on a C B Q railroad engine, a New Mexico Supreme Court action dismissing a federal patent case, a Pennsylvania House bill favoring legalizing pool selling on race tracks, gold and silver discoveries in Iowa County Wisconsin, the death of Albert Nuckols of Davenport aged 74, and a confession by Ollie Trowell in Indiana of arson for payment.
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Pere Marquette
Oliver ‘Wendell Holmes
Boston Medical
Age of Steel
Masonic
Mount Sterling
Homer
Gaussur
Teemer
Big Sioux
Bronx City
Planc
W. E. Rankin
Galesburg
Supreme Court of New
Pennsylvania House
State Board of Agriculture
Iowa County
Wis
Albert Nuckols
Davenport
New York & Long Island Railroad Company
Kant River
Acroas
Ollie Trowell
Henry Crowell
Prison Garb Refusal Lands O'Brien In Jail Cell
William O'Brien, jailed in Clonmel for four months on Crimes act offenses, resisted removal of civilian clothes for prison garb. Warders stripped him, shaved his beard, and his collapse prompted a priest to be summoned for comfort.
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O'Brien
Buch
William O'Brien
Clonmel
Carrick-on-Buir
O’brien
Mr. O’brien
Minister Phelps Farewell From London To New York
The American Minister Mr Phelps and his wife sailed from Southampton aboard the Lahn to New York. A hearty farewell was given by Americana and diplomatic corps at the London railway station. Baroness Burdette-Coutts presented Mrs Phelps with a bouquet. Southampton officials accompanied the couple to the tender.
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Phelps
England
Loxprox
Mr. Phelps
Southampton
New York
London
Burdette-Coutts
Mrs. Phelps
Failure of a Ble Lumber Firm
Williamsport Pennsylvania February 1 The lumber firm of C B Burt Co composed of C B and H T Burt has suspended and appointed F Colemay as trustee for preferred creditors representing claims amounting to nearly 323 000 The total liabilities are not yet known but understood to be considerably over 100 000 The assets are not expected to pay over 40 cents on the dollar The failure is largely due to the suspension of Philadelphia lumber concerns.
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Williamsport
C. B. Burt & Co
C. B
H.T. Burt
F. Colemay
Philadelphia
San Domingo Sugar Crop Ruined by Storm
The ele Malving captain reports a rain storm from San Domingo that lasted thirty days, destroying the sugar crop. In Wisconsin Maminos residents note legislature members sign a petition seeking the appointment of ex-Governor General as War Secretary.
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San Domingo
New York
Ele
San Domigo
Maminos
Wis
Wisconsin
Death of Crown Prince Rudolph in Vienna Remembered
Reuters style report notes the death of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria Hungary. The Official Gazette mourns the heir, detailing his birth in 1858, his status as son of the Emperor and Empress, and the nation’s sorrow. Remains arrived in Vienna at 12:20 am with a cortege and state mourning across newspapers and courts.
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Pparest
Vienna
Aust
Hungary
Gisela
Valeria
Wilhdeap
Vizewna
Mayer
Prince Hoheniohe
Count
Orsini Rosenvurg
Giessmore
Hofburg
Fremdenblatt
Meierling
Johans
Uis
Count Hovoc
Philip
Coburg
Hooves
Smperist
Count Bovos
Hofoure
Stephanie
Baden
Imperial
AnitIna
Wademi
Franns
Joseph
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Mittee On Foreign Relations
Pango Pango
Hale
Wassineton
Congres
Samoan Islands
Nipstoc
Prince von Bismarck
Tate
von Arco Valley
Chauncellor
Great Britain
Wnthl
Grover Cleveland
Sewarck
Count von Arco
Seft
Ats
Msteafe
Iis
Gertan Solders
Tamasese
Bayard
Ft. Bismarck
International Labor Congress
Illinois
Fatasr
Bisiea
Jeawicn
Mass
Jobs Guill
Antenca
Hoste
Maine
Horce
Indiana
Oklahoma
Wisconsin Law-Makers
Tex
Charles ML. Balch
Balch
Milon
la Ports
Wadsworth
George Zinn
Zinn
Our County
O'Connor
Gandaur
San Francisco
Jake. Gandaur
William O'Connor
San Francisco Bay
Rudolpi
Vienne
Hily Parenta
Prince Rudolfa
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