Senate tariff debate moves through pulp and coal schedules
Washington notes the senate on Monday advanced Schedule M covering pulp paper and books and Schedule N on sundries. By 5:15 pm the group reached the free list for coal with a forty cent duty questioned by Senator Hill and opposed by most Republicans and Democrats in a party platform dispute.
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Washinday
Senate
Finance Committee
Mr. Hill
Chicago
Senator Hill
Messrs
Irby
N. C
Allen
Neb
Peffer
Kan
Kyle
S. D
Faulkner
W. Va
New York
Jill
Hoar
Massachusetts
West Virginia
New England
New Theory Denies Gravity Link to Ether and Orbits
San Francisco June 18 Robert Stevenson of the academy of sciences argued in a lecture that Newtonian centripetal force is a delusion and that force can pass through a vacuum. He claimed weight would not fall if horizontal velocity near the earth reached 1 036 feet per second and that a freely spinning disc could lose weight, making flying machines an engineering matter.
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Newton
Scientiat Stevenson
San Francisco
Robert Stevenson
Academy of Sciences
Lord Kelvin
Royal Society
Ile
Chicago Plans Free Text Books For Children
Chicago common council adopts resolutions to provide free text books to every child and to invite bids from all publishers to foster competition if a monopoly appears the board may establish its own printing plant to publish all city school books.
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Chicago
Chicaco
Common Council of
Board of Education
Congress Urges Fast Mail Link from Cincinnati to South
A Cincinnati chamber of commerce resolution presented to Congress urges increased post office funding to establish a rapid mail service from Cincinnati to the growing southern states. The report lists other nationwide items from Washington and across the country dated June 19.
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Washington
Congressman Storer
House
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Cincinnati
South
Sugar Trust Hearings Highlight Senator Denials
Half a dozen senators testified before the sugar trust investigating committee with none admitting sugar stock speculation. Senators Gorman and Camden defended conduct, rejected Mills of Havemeyer ties, and denied any Democratic Party obligations from sugar interests. The panel later voted to seek grand jury certification of Havemeyer and Searles.
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Havemeyer and Searles
Washineton
Sugar Trust
Gorman
Camden
Senate
Finance Committee
Jones
Democratic Party
Havemeyer
Washington
Congress
Davis
Terrell
H. C. Havemeyer
Ways and Means
House
Allen
Capitol
Edwards
Searles
Senator Gorman
Democratic Committee
Stephen B. Elkins
Elkins
Irby
Cameron
Walsh
Washburn
Messrs. Allen
Lodge
Messrs. Gray and Lindsay
Miners Hold Mass Meeting at Adamsville
A mass meeting near Adamsville Alabama drew over two thousand striking miners who voted to continue the strike, plan another gathering on July 4 and back a full Populist ticket. Special trains were readied to move troops, though not used. The Tennessee firm offered free transport to Ohio and Pennsylvania fields for strikers and families.
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Ebrrurmenamm
Ala
Adamsville
Here
Tennessee
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Invitation to Gladstone to Visit America
A long planned project seeks to invite England's aging leader Mr Gladstone to America. Prominent signers include Chauncey M. Depew Charles Stewart Smith Seth Low Thomas Edison and university presidents. A circular with seven invitation forms will be sent to secure backing and preferred wording.
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New York
England
America
Addison Brown
Gladstone
Mr. Gladstone
United States
Chauncey M. Depew
Lafayette
Kossuth
Charles Stewart Smith
Seth Low
Thomas Edison
McCosh
Princeton
Dwight
Yale
Eliot
Harvard
Nicaragua Canal Co Losses Question Probed by House Panel
A House commerce committee subcommittee seeks a definite statement on how much the Nicaragua Canal Co has sunk into construction. The company claims around seven million dollars while Morgan's bill proposed eleven million. Engineer Lieut Menocal promised a detailed statement within ten days, but none was received, prompting renewed reminders. Accurate figures are required to decide stock issuance and concessions.
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Wasindox
House Committee’ On Commerce
Nicaragua
Morgan
Menocal
Geary
Naval Academy Changes Reported For Six Year Course
Annapolis June 19 The board of visitors to the United States Naval academy will recommend major revisions to academy laws including a six year program with a two year sea service and four month practice cruises. Elementary subjects to be taught earlier and admission age set at fifteen to seventeen with May entrance. The Peary Relief expedition sails from Brooklyn Portia Wednesday with members from Princeton Chicago University Sweden Philadelphia and Brooklyn and Port Royal officials.
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Annapolis
United States Naval Academy
Peary Relief
Brooklyn
Peary
Henry G. Bryant
Portia
Wm. Libbey, Jr
Princeton
T. C. Chamberlain
Chicago University
Axel Ohlin
Sweden
H. E. Wetherill
Philadelphia
H. L. Bridgman
Brooklyn Standard Union
Emil Diebitsch
Port Royal
S. C
Cyclone Devastates County with Fierce Winds and Hail
A June cyclone near Doylesville in Richmond Kentucky caused extensive damage. It uprooted large old sycamore trees, lifted fences from creeks to hills, and dropped goose egg sized hail that ruined corn and other crops across the area.
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Ricmond
Doylesville
New Money Order Blanks Go To US Post Offices
Washington June 19 The post office department is shipping new money order blanks to about 20 000 offices at a rate of 1 000 daily The program will continue about a week and 700 new money order offices will be set up nationwide at the start of next month.
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Washington
United States
Post Office Department
Nationwide briefs of floods, fires and blows in 1900
Eleven train robbers jailed in Omaha for theft of a railway car. An elderly man Jonathan D P Rogers fatally mangled by hay forks near Oxford Ohio. A man killed and four slashed at a Negro festival near Mt Sterling Kentucky. Norman Clark and Jennie Riley struck by lightning near Lyons Kansas. Typhoid outbreak halts Liegnitz summer maneuvers in Silesia. Sam Meade drowns after slipping from a board at Malden West Virginia. Forest Melrose shot near Chesterville West Virginia. assailant James Watson 13. Juan Moreno matador killed in Mexico City bullfight revival. Fremont County Colorado miners delay work until Pueblo convention. Mississippi penitentiary mutiny. convicts clash. Brooks Story leads, George Nial killed. Logan West Virginia jail fight gravely wounds Charles Bragg. Pittsburgh steel workers face 45 percent wage cut from July 1. Freight train wreck on Big Four near Batesville Indiana. several killed and injured.
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Omaha
Jonathan DP. Rogers
Hays
Oxford
Mt. Sterling
Norman Clark
Jennie Riley
Lyons
Liegnitz
Pruasian Silesia
Mexico
Juan Moreno
Fremont County
Col
Pueblo
Mississippi
Geo. Nial
Brooks
Logan C. H
W. Va
George Winston
Charles Bragg
Bragg
Winston
Amalgamated Association
Jones & Laughlin
American Iron Works
Pittsburgh
Batesville
Ind
Tommy Haley
Wheeling
Michael Cunningham
Plymouth
H. A. Smith
Warrisburg
Jim Brady
Philadelphia
Harry Ward
Cincinnati
Market summaries from Cincinnati to Chicago and beyond
Markets across Cincinnati New York Baltimore and Pittsburgh show mixed grain and livestock quotes. Wheat corn oats and rye prices are listed with bid and offer ranges while cattle hogs and sheep prices vary by grade and region.
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St. Louis
Boston
Cincinnati
Baltimore
Cleveland
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Washington
Louisville
Brooklyn
New York
Philadelphia
Brooklyn Ors
Eeewe
Baltimone
Jane
Northern
Gats
Chisago
Toledo
Pittsshurgh
Buffalo
N. Y
Indianapolis
Gold in Georgia Could Unleash Rich New Ore Sources
A Georgia gold boom claim argues the state holds a vast, easily reached belt across Cherokee Lumpkin White and Dawson counties. Proponents cite rail access, shallow depths, cheap labor, and historic Cherokee traditions as evidence of immense, soon to be developed mineral wealth.
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Georgia
California
Black Hills
North
Cherokee
Lumpkin, White
Dawson
Atlanta
Atlanta Constitution
Red Hills
Cheynagowsh
de Soto
Eorgia
Mississippi
Spain
Etowah
Pasco
Strickland
Little Blanket Creek
Georgia Hills
A Mild Speaking Man Abner Jennings Expressed Disapproval
A story portrays Abner Jennings as a mild speaker who shuns harsh or exaggerated remarks. In spring mud on Blueville roads a traveling peddler stalled near Jennings house. Jennings brought out his oxen to aid, while the irate peddler vented his rage and Jennings calmly returned home after attempting to help.
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Abner Jennings
Blueville
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Sam Collett
Ottawa
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Devlin
Santa Fe Road
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Schuetzen
U.S
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Tenn
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Meral
Noiec John Ki Raddy
Tracy
Free School Books
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Russell
Scranton
Galton
William 4. Sleffner
Choyinski-Fitzsimmons
Bob Fitzsimmons
Joe Choyinski
Loean
Haydenville
Haydenville Mining and Manufacturing Co
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Vandam Street
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Peixoto
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Antioch College
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Georgia & Pacific Railroad
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Berwind-White & Co
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Secretary of the Interior
New York Museum of Natural History
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Nicaragua Canal Co
Naval Academy
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Adamaro
Cammack
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Laffin
WaAshmpton
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