Senate Appropriation Committee Attaches Three Per Cent Emergency Certificates
The Senate Appropriations Committee votes to attach three percent emergency certificates to the Sundry Civil Bill to cover deficits with a 100 million issue for three years. President and Treasury heads are barred from private contracts with brokers, and no more bonds may be sold without authority. News of the decision sparks strong reaction in the House.
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Senate
House
Washingcton
Carisle
Congress
Treasury
Carlisle
Secretary of the Treasury
Senate Appropriation Committee
Bank of Lexington Cashier Embezzles Large Sum
C M Figgett the Lexington Bank cashier stole about 150000 dollars over a 25 year period leaving only 6000 in cash. He took 80000 in capital stock and nearly 70000 of depositors money. Accomplices suspected, bondholders and high standing individuals implicated. Depositors angry at directors. VMI held 20000 on deposit. Figgett fled west with two large suitcases after leaving a note denying taking nothing though authorities dispute that claim.
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Ricamont
C. M. Figgett
Bank of Lexington
Tiggett
Lexington
Rockbridge
Virginia Military Institute
Figgett
Skaters Rescued From Floating Ice On Lake Michigan
Seven youths and several bystanders faced death as a large ice floe broke away near the government breakwater on Lake Michigan. Capt. Frank Fountain of the United States Life Saving Station directed rescues, pulling skaters to safety one by one as the ice split and drifted rapidly.
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Lake Michigan
Carcago
Fet
Frank Fountain
United States Life Saving Station
Capt. Fountain
Fountain
Mob Hangs Black Suspect in Sheriff’s Absence
Erneston Missouri February 19 A masked mob seized the sheriff’s house and jail aimed at removing George Tracy a black man held for the January 30 murder of his wife in Hamilton County Tracy hid in a steel cell but was shot six times through the cell door and killed instantly.
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Erneston
Hamilton
Goldsworthy
George Tracy
Tracy
Auton
Ill
George A. McMillen
Columbus
Sherman Cox
Patriot
Gallia County
Cincinnati
James Cain
Lockland
Funeral arrangements for Minister Gray completed
In Indianapolis on February 19 arrangements are set for Minister Gray's funeral. The body will be met at the station by city and state officials and militia, lie in state at the state house until 9 a.m. Friday, then be taken to Union City for burial. Mex City reports acclaim for the dead minister from officials and citizens. Buffalo Music Hall in Burrato suffers $75,000 loss from fire, with gas escape blamed for the blaze.
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Gray
Indianapolis
Ind
Union City
Mexico City
Buffalo Music Hall
Burrato
Music Hall
Saengerbund Society
German Young Men’s Association
Five Week Delaware Senate Deadlock Remains
The 55th Senate ballot in Delaware yielded Higgins 8 votes Addicks 5 Massey 4 Wolcott 7 and Erie W. Tunnell 4 with no break in the five week deadlock. Also reports of a tourist killed near Tepic and a man severely beaten over a wife's kiss to a dog. Archduke Albert dies in Vienna at 70. George Peabody’s hundredth birthday observed in several southern states. Winnie Smith denied a new trial in Indianapolis with appeal to follow.
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Dover
Del
United States
Delaware
Higgins
Addicks
Massey
Wolcott
Erie W. Tunnell
Fem
Gruapalajara
Mex
Geo. Martin
Frank Gardner
Mazatlan
Gardner
Tepic
New York
Winnie Smith
Indiaanapolls
Ind
Winnie’ Smith
Weston B. Thomas
Supreme Court
Smith
Senate lets free coinage bill take priority on rare day
In Washington on February 19 the Senate voted 30 to 27 to sideline all appropriation bills and set Jones of Arkansas’s free coinage bill as the Senate’s order of business, with a direct vote to follow. Filibuster unlikely to stop it, risking an extra session if no compromise is reached.
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Jones
Washington
Senate
Arkansas
House
Sherman
Yeas
Allen
Bate
Berry
Blackburn
Butler
Call
Cameron
Clark
Daniel
Dubois
Hansbrough
Harris
Hunton
Ark
Kyle
McLaurin
Mantle
Morgan
Peiffer
Perkins
Pettigrew
Pugh
Squire
Stewart
Teller
Turpie
Voorhees
Walsh
White
Allison
Roach
Gorman
Berry and Merrill
Cockrell
Cullom
Blanchard
Burrows
Lodge
Martin
Wasuineton
Treasury
Olney
Storer
Wasuington
Bellamy Storer
Rhode Island Avenue
Columbus
McKinley
Fred Brackett
Baltimore Centennial Association
Ohio
Indiana Senate and House consider key measures in session
In Indianapolis on February 19 the Senate advanced the Remy bill taxing greenbacks under federal law. A committee recommends removing Dr. Rogers from the Southern hospital for the insane for incapacity, amid liquor‑overindulgence accusations. The House passed a narcotics education bill and a fireman pension plan. Senate Bill 1 proposing a soldiers home seeks a $75,000 appropriation. A rights debate on a fee and salary bill follows adjournment. English resigns from the monument commission. The state benevolent institutions caucus loss is framed as a spoils victory. In Alabama, the House refused to pass the alien railroad bill over the governor’s veto, sending the matter to court amid a heated dispute between Southern and Cincinnati lines. The veto dispute ends with the bill rejected.
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Senate
House
Indianapolis
Southern Hospital For the Insane
Rogers
Soldiers’ Home
van Arsdel
William H. English
Monument Commission
Montcomery
Ala
House of Representatives
Alabama Great Southern
Southern
Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton
Alabama
Destitute Miners Near Nelsonville Push for Immediate Aid
Dispatches from Buckingham and Columbus recount urgent pleas for relief as destitute miners near Nelsonville press Governor McKinley for immediate aid. Messages from Columpus and Cincinnati outline relief plans, with supplies promised and a carload likely to depart.
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Nelsonville
W.I. Perkins
Cincinnati Relief Committee
Sorg
In Favor of Annexation gains Assembly support
Sacramento February 19 assembly of the state legislature votes unanimously to adopt resolutions endorsing the annexation proposal. The action marks strong legislative backing for joining the Basie Dassen district, signaling broad political support for the plan.
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Sacramento
Cal
Mine Gas Explosion Kills Six at Manory Plane Colliery
Six miners die and five are burned after a gas explosion at Reading Coal and Iron Co. West Bear Ridge colliery in Manory Plane Pennsylvania. Five bodies recovered by afternoon. four injured miners are fatally burned. origin suspected to be a naked lamp igniting accumulated gas. Rescue efforts continue as flames rage in the gangway.
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Pottsville
West Bear Ridge
Reading Coal and Iron Co
Manory Plane
Peter Greenback
St. Clair
Joseph Glibe
Cresent Hill
Thomas Curren
Girardville
Benjamin Reader
Mahanoy
Peter Kieine
Anthony Myers
Ashland
Death by Self Destruction On Cunard Steamer
The Cunard liner Aurania reported a stormy Atlantic crossing from New York on February 10 to Liverpool. A steerage passenger, Hamilton Patterson, reportedly jumped overboard and died, as the ship neared Queenstown. The blast of hurricanes marked the voyage.
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Queenstown
Cunard Line
Aurania
New York
Liverpool
Hamilton Patterson
Widely Reported Deaths and Criminal Incidents Across Nation
Telegraphic summaries note sudden death of Charles M. Hughes in New York, suicides by George H. Wilkinson in Denver and Cline W. Cameron in St. Louis, a fatally shot wife by a man in St. Louis, and a bank robbery near Youngstown. Also reported are papal protest over Polish priest arrests, severe snow storms on the Russo Austrian frontier, British interest in Formosa, unemployment in London, probate of Judge Handley’s will, and a series of legal cases in Indiana and ongoing coverage of the Ging murder trial.
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Parta
Charles M. Hughes
American News Co
New York City
George H. Wilkinson
Cleveland
Denver
Cal
Cline W. Cameron
St. Louis
Rome
Poland
London Standard
Odessa
A. W. Porter
Yougstown
Porter
First National Bank of
Youngstown
Mercury
Hong Kong
Formosa
London
Judge Handley
Scranton
Winchester
Mary Mayberry
Grand Rapids
Mich
Vincennes
Ind
Nicholas
Joseph Slauterback
S. L. Niblach & Son
Wheatland
Young Niblach
Maggie Wachter
Hayward
Adry
Markets Report From Cincinnati and Other Cities
A detailed late February market recap lists wheat and rye flour prices, carload sales, cattle, hogs, and sheep values across Cincinnati, Baltimore, New York, Toledo, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo. Notable figures include No 2 red wheat at 56 to 57 cents, cattle ranges from 3.50 to 4.90 per hundredweight, hogs around 4.00 to 4.50, and lambs and wool prices varying by grade.
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Cincinnati
F.lour
de City
Cosgn
Coarae
Toledo
Prrrsburgh
Chinese officers to be beheaded over Wei Hai defense
A dispatch reports that Wei Hai defense officials face execution by order of the emperor. Com. Lia and Gen. Chang died by self-inflicted actions as did Adm. Ting. A Formosa fort magazine exploded, killing about fifty soldiers and injuring many, with damage to nearby houses. Col. Von Henneken seeks repayment of military expenses via the German minister.
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Lendon
Central News
Wang
Yunnan
Li-Hung Chang
Pe- Chi-Li
Japan
Shantung
Wei-Hai-Wei
London
Pall Mall Gazette
Liu
Chang
Adm
Ting
Shanghai
Takao
Formosa
Pekin
Col. von. Henneken
Pacific cable project costs eight route options
Ottawa reports Sanford Fleming places the Pacific cable cost at about £2,000,000 including three years maintenance. Offers detail eight routes from Vancouver via islands to New Zealand Australia or Queensland with varied prices from £1,068,000 to £1,517,000.
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Ottawa
Sanford Fleming
Telegraphs
Vancouver
Fanning Island
Fiji
Norfolk Island
New Zealand
Australia
Neckar Island
Gilbert Group
Solomon Islands
Queensland
Gilbert and
Honolulu
Gilbert and Solomon Islands
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Walter Schull
English
Dungeness
Kent
Mr. Schull
Shanklin
Missouri
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Bowman
George Peabody
New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
South
Archduke Albert
Vrenna
Army of Austria
Arco
Tanga
Washinetton
Washingtoa
Hawaiian Islands
Waiuinaroa
State Department
Gresham
Maj. Seward
Willis
Louisville
Griffith & Semple’s
West Main Street
Indiana Legislature
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Epo. O
Nellie Holland
Marshal Bohl
CoLympBus
Henry Bohl
Prudential Life Insurance Co
W. E. Mason
Marietta
J. C. Kirkpatrick
I. N. Howard
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Kirkpatrick
Howard
Mantin's Ferry
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Manory Plane, Pa
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Lovuisville
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Taylor
Seach
Beth Brothers
Jeffersonville
Cementville
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Thomas Drains
Walter Dickinson
Thomas Draiis
Dickinson
Dupugve
George W. Burton
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Monroe
Giolitti
Bern
Sig. Giolitti
Interior
Italy
St. Augustine
Maritime Exchange
City of St. Augustine
Jacksonville
Fla
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Gott- Heb Suspendo
Baltimore
Cork
Chicago
Buffalo
Cattl
Foreign News
China
Lia
Gen. Chang
Canadian Pacific Cable
Czarewitch
St. Petersburg
Satururday
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George
Alexander III
Livadia
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Fairfield
H. C. Cowgill
Frank Hill
A. H. Baker
Mull Men
Carthage
Troy
N. Y
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Parsons Public Schools
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William Harma
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