Senate Week in Review Sees Bills Passed and Flood Aid
The Senate and House consider measures on political contributions and a duty to fund flood relief. Legislation includes a $4,500 settlement for Lisa Boddy of Oregon related to a 1872 Modoc incident, a silver dollar coinage pause, and notes on National banking circulation. Debates cover the Ohio floods, the Louisiana Bank relief, and Nation wide postal routes.
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Senate
Voorhees
Judie Committee
Lisa Boddy
Oregon
Congressional Library
Bland
Committee On Banking and Currency
Committee On Coinage, Weights and Measures
Department of Labor Statistics
House
Vorhees
Secretary of the Treasury
Northern Pacific Railroad
Pendleton
Grant
William H. Lytle
Ohio
McPherson
Warner
Andersonville
Mississippi
Chalmers
Manning
Hill
Louisiana State Bank
Court of Claims
United States
Hovass
McKinley
Cleveland
Ohio Valley
Congress
Messrs. Pendleton
Indiana
Committee On Appropriations
Ohio River
Holman
Chalmers-Manning
Committee On Elections
Committee On
Washington News Briefs From The Nation’s Capital
The Congressional Committee for Mississippi political murders departs for New Orleans for testimony. The Proteus court of inquiry criticizes General Hazen’s actions. A Washington crematory society organizes a $20 000 furnace. JaMES S NEGley calls a National Council for March 6. President Arthur promotes Lieutenant Rhodes for the City of Columbus wreck. February breadstuffs exports total 12 284 781 dollars. seven months to Jan 31 1884 total 100 256 207 dollars. Colonel Edward Simpson, defender of 1814 Capital, dies aged ninety. The President accepts John C New’s Treasury post resignation. Nominees Coburn and Lord sent to Senate. Mellon argues for free labor and against unions coercing workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressional Committee
Mississippi
New Orleans
Proteus Court of Inquiry
Senate
Hazen
Washington
D. C
James S. Negley
National Union League
National Council
Arthur
Rhodes
Dexter
City of
Columbus
Epward Smron
John C. New
the Treasury
John Coburn
Indiana
Supreme Court of
Montana
F. C. Lord
Internal Revenue
District of
Nevada
Thomas Mellon
Pittsburgh
House Committee On Labor
Free
Prominent English Botanist Joan Hutton Batrovur Dies at 76
News wires report the death of Joan Hutton Batrovur, famed English botanist and physician, aged seventy six. Other items note Quran Victoria's new book on domestic affairs, Mexico’s smuggling arrests, and British actions in Egypt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Hutton Batrovur
Quran Victoria
Tut Khedive
Sinkat
Mexico
New Orleans
Matamoras
Major Palacios
Egypt
Suakim
McKay’s
Canada Pacific
Lake Superior
Minister of Marine and Fisheries
Canada
M. la Guerre
M. Chanveane
Chamber of Deputies
la Guerre
Patriotic Society
Guild Hall
London
Central
Africa
River at Cincinnati Falls as Waters Recede
News notes a 64 foot river level at Cincinnati with slow recession. Other items report rising smallpox in Khartoum, mass deaths of 200 children at Sin Kat, a jail escape in Queens County, and a memorial service at Diamond Mine for 77 miners lost in 1882. George William Curtis to deliver Wendell Phillips eulogy.
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Diamond
Braidwood
George William Curtis
Wendell Phillips
Wallace Brockman
Richard Craig
Ashland House
Lexington
Brockman
Midway
Craig
John Schneider
Newark
N. J
Ware
Mass
Supreme Court of Illinois
Gatewood
House of Refuge
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Minn
Albert Hammerling
Mary Miller
New Orleans
River of Rain Drives Relief Efforts Across Ohio Valley
Flooded cities from Portsmouth to Pomeroy report widespread devastation with thousands homeless. Charities mobilize, relief boats sail, and the Army orders four officers to lead rescue work as rivers rise and towns struggle for food, fuel, and communication amid a long, costly disaster.
Water's woeful work on the 1884 Ohio flood voyage
The Katie Stockdale made the first upriver run from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh during the Great Flood of 1884. The Ohio Valley lake-like flood submerged towns from California to Belpre and beyond, with hundreds of floating houses, wrecked farms, and displaced residents signaling through the night as the boat carried relief supplies and news upriver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Hazen
Pearl Street
Ohio
Lawrenceburg
Ind
New Richmond
Beckwith
St. Louis
United States
Columbus
Pomeroy, O
Pomeroy
Second Street
Front Street
Monkey Run
Conrad Steif
Nic Reuter
Ravenswood
W. Va
Portsmouth
Slocum
Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore Railroad
McFarland
Lewis
Davidson
Cochransville
Marietta
Secretary of War
Wheeling
Parkersburg
Camden
Standard
Pittsburgh
Pittspurnen
la Belle Rivere
Katie Stockdale
Point Bridge
Wood Street
Stockdale
Porkopolis
Calhoun
Gulf of Mexico
Cincinnati Levee
California
Moscow
Maysville
Kentucky
Ohio Valley
Manchester
Greenup
Ironton
Cattlettsburg
Big Sandy
Huntington
West Virginia
Charlestown
Gallipolis
Blennerhassett Island
Belpre
Aaron Burr
Harry Clain
Spence Sandford
Sandford
Vienna Island
Newport
Bull Creek
Wade
Martinsville
C. Barringer
Dan Kane
New Martinsville
Proctor
Moundsville
Stout
Ten Die as Two Buildings Collapse in Cincinnati Fire Tragedy
Fire fighters and police rescued survivors after the rear brick section of two buildings on Pearl near Ludlow collapsed at 3:40 am. Ten people are known dead, with names including Mary E. Colter Maud Ellis James Ogden Barney Winkler and Thomas Burke. Residents warned of structural weakness and many tenants fled to safety after the disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Ludlow
Pearl Streets
Pearl
Burk
Coulter
Maud Ellis
Lydia Ellis
Willie Kyle
Robert Kyle
George Oyster
John W. Kyle
Mary E. Colter
James Ogden
Barney Winkler
Mary Colter
Mary
Canada Not a Military Nation Says Lord Lansdowne
At the Dominion Artillery Association meeting Lord Lansdowne said Canada should not be a military nation like European powers. He emphasized peaceful pursuits, development of resources, friendly ties with the United States, and trust in a modest national defense funded at a moderate cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Dominion Artillery Association
Lord Lansdowne
Canada
National Insurance
Pilot of the Scioto Convicted of Manslaughter
In Parkersburg West Virginia on February 15 the jury found David C Keller pilot of the Scioto guilty of manslaughter for the July 4 collision with the John Lomas at Mingo Junction in which fifty four people died. The sentence will be heard tomorrow amid national interest and mercy recommended by the jury.
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Leutz
Hedges
Benton
Plymouth Congregational Church
Kalamazoo
Mich
Ft. Scully
D. T
Jupp Crouch
Jackson
Brown
Nemadji River
Wisconsin
Great Music Hall
Cincinnati
Congress
J. S. Zerbe
West Fifth Street
Grand Lodge of
Missouri
Nebraska
Ancient Order of United Workmen
St. Louis
New Jersey
Nevada
Halleck
Bluff City
Council Bluffs
Emma Neisin
Brown Point
Ind
Expressen’s Aid Association
Jacksonville
Fla
Vermillion
Board of Trade
Terre Haute
Jerry Hanly
Mary
Des Moines
Mississippi
Rock Island
Davenport
Western Nail Association
Grovor Gordon
Winnetka
Chicago
J. L. Wilson
Parkersburg
W. Va
David C. Keller
Keller
John Lomas
Mingo Junction
Mississippi Senate
Oxford
H. C. Brainard
Cleveland
Louisville
Tur
John Brewster
New Orleans
Michael 8. Fortier
Brewster
Scioto-Lomas
United States
Court House
David C. KeHer
Scioto
Tariff of 1883 Debate Touches Treaty Concepts
Washington hearing on tariff legislation of 1883 features Secretary Hayes arguing the 1883 tariff as a future treaty with National Industries and merit of honoring it with the same faith as a foreign treaty. Arlington Mills advocate favors duties cuts to avoid depressing the industry. couple of horse-riding bets end with a knife scene and a pending lawsuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Committee of Ways and Means
Hayes
National Woolen Manufacturers’ Association
Boston
Whitman
Arlington Mills
Boy Apprentices Theft Skills Then Returned Home
Louis Gabriel a New York policeman's son at sixteen sought training in pocket picking from a noted thief. The crook handed him to a police officer who returned him to his father. The boy had been influenced by dime novels and police gazettes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Murray
Pittsburgh
Joyce
Grorce H. Marshall
Mary Anderson
United States
Franklin
C. W. Gilfillan
Southern Sentral
Weedsport
N. Y
Burr Ridgeway
John Straight
Timothy K. Dahahey
New York Central Road
Hudson
Philadelphia
Barbara Miner
Louisa
Louis Gabriel
New York
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Martin Riley
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Amasa Pratt
H. A. Sherwin
H. P. Lloyd
John Dodds
Indianapolis
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Henry C. Pratt
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