News of the Week from Washington and Pittsburgh
The Senate Rules Committee forms a nine member panel on rivers harbors and related measures, and a seven member committee on public money expenditures. Reports include ex Senator Srexcen bail in Texas, college protests over a colored student, arbitration council progress in Philadelphia, and an array of local incidents from Pittsburgh to Boston and New York.
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Senate
Srexcen
Texas
Washington
Presipext Bicelow
National College of Pharmacy
United States
Paris
Frelinghuysen
France
Washmncrox
General Rosecrans
House
Gantixcrox
Greeley
Mississippi River convention call for Washington in February
A meeting of the Mississippi River Improvement Committee at St. Louis adopted a call for a convention on river and navigable tributaries to be held in Washington on February 5. The call targets Mississippi Valley residents and sympathetic communities.
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St. Louis
Mississippi River
Washington
Mississippi Valley
Albany
Greene County
Wis
Scioto
Bushnell
McMulligan
Philosophical Transactions
Royal Society of England
Rose Polytechnic Institute of
Cincinnati
Irun
Bethesda
Ohio
William Clay
Michael McCormick
St. Paris
Petersboro
Ind
O. W. Hill
A. C. Weaver
George Wells
S. A. Seleh
Wolf River
Memphis
Tenn
Stephenson
West Virginia
A. Bullard
George Wilson
Wilson
Cano Monte
Nathaniel Lee
Madison
Fires and political notes mark late 19th century city headlines
Reports detail a string of disasters and political shifts including a London murder conviction death sentence, a Democratic caucus selecting Carlisle for Speaker with 104 votes, Seedom for Sergeant-at-Arms, and Keifer praised by Republicans. Fire devastations hit the Masonic Temple in New York with $100,000 loss and Farwell Block in Chicago causing seven deaths, two women Felled from fire escapes. Evening Journal building also damaged with $140,000 loss. Financials show November debt totals. A Baltimore shotgun accident injures a boy. Til den intends to donate Gramercy Park to New York as a public library. steam vessel safety records report thirty-four lives lost and 475,000 carried.
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Pittsburgh
Reed
Wilbert
Grover H. Anderson
Coke Syndicate
James Haggerty
New Haven
Conn
Oliver Brothers & Phillips
International Arbitration Council
Philadelphia
Simpson
United States
Congress of Nations
Great Britain
Haymaker
Murraysville
Bowser
Mason
Winthrop
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Butler
Henry B. Anthony
Rhode Island
Bright
Washington
Fifth Avenue Hotel
New York
North Worcester Station
Mass
Blaine
Warren H. Cupworth
Church of Our Savior
Maverick Church
Finz
Windsor
Watertown
N. J
Gloucester
Ware
William Loveland
Corry
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Baltimore
Perry Shafer
James Houston
Shafer
Mas. Ria
Canada
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Lawrence Feeney
Sing Sing
N. Y
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
Bankers’ and Merchants’ Telegraph Company
Recorder's Office
Lancaster
Samvgt K. Hesuovr
Indiana
Indianapolis
Frank Trainor
Georgia Supreme Court
Theresa Starlata
Charles Stiles
Chicago
Richmond
Richard Turney
James Buck
Bodkin
N.C
Buck
Turney
Ocala
Fla
Louisville
O'Vonnell
Carey
London
Carlisle
Randall
Cox
Seedom
Ohio
Keifer
Ist
Farwell Block
Metzler Brothers
Nation
Beak & Bucher
Sevnty
Kitty Hilgert
Frances Fairweather
Farwell
Evening Journal
J. B. Jeffries Printing Company
Peter Garvey
Peter Hollahan
Samuel J. Tilden
Gramercy Park
City of New York
Henry Watterson
Manton Marble
John Bizelow
GeneRal Dumont
Evacuation Day Parade Washington Statue Dedication
New York marks Evacuation Day with the unveiling of George Washington at the sub treasury after a civic pageant amid rain. President Arthur, Governor Cleveland, and state governors attend as a crowd lines Fifth Avenue and Broadway for the battery review and river procession.
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New York
Fifth
Sixty-fourth Avenues
Broadway
France
Germany
Manhattan
Long Islands
Arthur
Cleveland
Fifth Avenue Hotel
George Washington
Harlem River
Thirteen Colonies
Bowery Lane
Bowery
George Clinton
Guy Carleton
City
General Knox
Massachusetts
White Hall
Fort George
Washington
Fraunce’s
Clinton
John H. Stalin
North River
New Jersey
Sixty-fifth Street
East River
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Bay Ridge
Tennessee
Cooper
United States
Fifth Avenue
Grant
Varnum
John Cochrane
Philadelphia City Cavalry
E. B. Grubb
Richard H. Jackson
United States Artillery
Army
Navy
States
sub-Treasury
Tragedy as Burglars Kill Officers in Shelby Chase
A gang of four burglars blew a safe at New Washington and fled to Vernon Junction arriving near Shelby. Marshal Sutter was shot four times while detaining them, fatally wounding Longacre and triggering a mass pursuit. One burglar was captured, another killed, and the town faced lynching fears as the manhunt continued with widespread vigilante mood.
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New Washington
Vernon Junction
Marshal Sutter
Sutter
John Longacre
M.A. Cunningham
Longacre
Shelby
Will May
May
Mansfield
Plymouth
Here
Shesterday
Robert Johnson
Opium Raid at Crosby Street Ends in 30 Arrests
Police raided the opium joint at 97 Crosby Street and arrested Jim Doe the Chinese proprietor and twenty six inmates including four women who were smoking or waiting for a pipe. Inmates gave false names. women named Alice Wilkins Ethel Carson Lizzie Dixon and Bella Ellis with her brother William came to the city to smoke.
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New York
Crosby Street
Jim Doe
Alice Wilkins
Ethel Carson
Lizzie Dixon
Bella Ellis
Greenville
N. J
William
The Utah Question in National debate
New York reports Governor Murray weighing Utah issues beyond polygamy. He argues the Mormon influence is a secret empire overshadowing federal and police courts, making public schools church schools and urging government by a commission to avert trouble. Thirty Mormon converts departed Kentucky for Utah last week.
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New York
Murray
Utah
Mormon Secret Tribunal
Washington's Statue Unveiled on Sub Treasury Steps in Wall Street
The Washington statue by John Q. A. Ward stands about thirteen feet six inches tall and weighs 6,500 pounds. Designed with a central pedestal by Richard M. Hunt, the bronze figure depicts Washington in period dress taking an oath, with a Bible on a fasces column to the right, and a military cloak draped over the left shoulder. The project, initiated by the Chamber of Commerce in 1880, cost about $25,000 with 90 percent funded by chamber members.
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Sub-Treasury
New York City
New York
Washington
sub-Treasury Building
Wall Street
John Q. A. Ward
Richard M. Hunt
Stuart
Houdon
Chamber of Commerce
George Washington
Chamber
Elliott C. Cowdin
Nbcer of Commerce
Mittee
William E. Dodge
A. A. Low
Royal Phelps
Benjamin, Arnold
Levi P. Morton
David Dows
James Talcott
Francis B. Thurber
Henry Hentz
Abram’ S. Hewitt
Joseph S. Lowery
Edwin D. Morgan
Morris K. Jesup
John D. Jones
George Kemp
Charles Lax Nier
J. Pierpont Morgan
Percy R. Pyne
Joseph Seligman
Benjamin B. Sherman
Samuel Shethar
Henry F. Spaulding
Olver Hoyt
Charles L. Tiffany
George Wilson
S. B. Chittenden
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Phelps
Ward
No Faith in the Promises of the Apaches
The Interior Department distrusts the Apache returnees from Mexico via General Crook and fears a spring outbreak as they mingle with peaceful tribes and invite war dancers. Crook remains confident despite official alarm over the dangerous faction within the group.
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Wasixerox
Interior Department
Mexico
General Crook
Department
Crook
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