Tariff debates and Senate bills dominate week
In Tarispayr on January 11 12 and 15 the Senate passed the Fitz-John Porter relief bill with an anti reinstate pay clause. The House adopted a resolution seeking President’s river and harbor spending figures, while the Shipping bill’s free-ship provisions were narrowed and later passed. Ingalls proposed commissions on railroad transport, and various appropriation bills cleared the House including pensions and fortifications. Deliberations on tariffs, taxes, and immigrant small-pox measures continued with requests for Centennial Exposition funding and free mail for actual subscribers.
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Tarispayr
Senate
Fitz-John Porter
House
Committee On Commerce
Candler
Frmay
Washington News Roundup of Treasury, Ports, and Politics
Up to the 11th the total issue of gold certificates was 65 million, with 46.2 million in circulation and 19.3 million still in the Treasury. The Senate bill for Fitz-John Porter allows appointment to a U S Army rank with restrictions and no pay before appointment. Also noted are a Senate vote tally, private pairs, 262 US and Canada business failures, an Ingalls bill on presidential incapacity, sculptor Clark Mills’ death, weekly clearing-house exchanges, and Bitter Root Valley lands not subject to Northern Pacific grants.
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Dickson
Fitz-John Porter
Senate
United States Volunteers
Army
Army of the ‘United States
Yeas—Barrow
Beck
Brown
Butler
Call
Lamar
Maxey
Morgan
Pendle
Ton
Ransom
Saulsbury
Slater
Vance
West
Voorhees
Walker
Aldrich
Blair
Cameron
Wis
Chilcott
Conservis
Dawes
Edmunee
Ye Hale
Harrison
Iy SeNitan
Kogg
Logan
McDill
M Mie
Cal
Miller
N. Y
Morrill
Plumb
Rollins
Sawyer
Wintons
Allison
Negae
Grover
van Wyck
Harris
Ingalls
Johnston
Mitchell
Lapham
McPherson
Williams
Saunders
United States
Canada
Mr. Ingalls
Supreme Court of the
Clark Mills
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Bitter Root Valley
Montana
Northern Pacific Railroad
New York Trials and State News Highlights
Miss Alice Livingst on sued merchant Henry Fleming for breach of promise and was awarded 75 000 dollars. The Union Steamboat Company of Boston with capital 100000 is reported failed. A New Haven man 14M Ropantos threatened a friend with a pistol and killed him. Niagara Falls preservation group formed in New York. Maine Democratic committee plans straight party nominations. Engineer Melville’s wife testified he taught her to drink. A.S. Sleigh party struck by Montreal express near Cohoes killing a horse and fatally injuring three riders. Pittsburgh letter carrier David J. OLeary arrested for mail robbery. Ex Senator Morrill funeral held in Augusta Maine. A Canadian extradition case involved a Pittsburgh fugitive. Samuel W. Bowers man nominated for U S Senate by Maine Democrats.
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Union Steamboat Company
Boston
New Haven
Conn
Gottlieb Beck
Robanus
Beck
Niagara Falls
New York
Pitttsberrgh
David J. O'Leary
Morrill
Augusta
Pittsburgh
Canada
Samuel W. Bowersman
United States Senate
Baltimore
Des Moines
Iowa
Clapp
Wabash Road
Miami
Missouri
Kentucky
Illinois
Willliam B. Napton
Missouri Supreme Court
Louisville
North Carolina
M. W. Ransom
United States
H. Srta
Chicago
New York Associated Press
Tennessee
Denver
Col
Herrie Cumninellam
Fairmount
W. Va
Monongahela River
Byron G. Stout
Michigan
Minnesota
William Windom
Entales
Cairo
Olmstead
Lindsay
Pinacle Springs
Ark
Hubbard
Cincinnati
John B. Hoffman
Mariu T. Park
Nashville
Laredo
Tex
Henry Pierce
Elk Point
Dakota
Cherotee
Okmulkee
Spiocee
Milwaukee
Mr. Brown
Hilton, Ont
Anchorage
W. B. Bate
Newhall House
Atlanta
Kingston
Texas
Joan M. Patter
Balch Sons Die in Haystack Accident at Mansfield
The incident reports a haystack collapse at Mansfield Connecticut killing two sons of Milo Balch. No further details on cause or injuries are provided in the fragment.
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Delaware
United States
Saulsbury
Mansfield
Conn
Milo Balch
Various 1882 Disasters and Political Moves Across States
Reports from Baltimore to Milwaukee detail smallpox cases in Baltimore, fires in Des Moines and St. Louis, a deadly train wreck near Cairo, and the Newhall House catastrophe with many dead. Political shifts include Tennessee and Illinois elections and nominations, plus Creeks protection duties in Indian Territory.
Davitt declares Irish resolve at Birkenhead speech
In Birkenhead on the 11th Michael Davitt announced that Ireland will end futile agitation and fight as needed. Floods cause damage in Austria with Grau and Ratahaza wiped out and refugees arriving in Raab. the Rhine valley is frozen. Hungary faces potential famine without swift aid. Vera Cruz storm wrecked ships and harbor works. 175,418 immigrants arrived in Canada last year, 76,728 moving to the United States.
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Birkenhead
Michael Davitt
Ireland
Austria
Grau
Ratahaza
Raab
Rhine
Hungary
Vera Cruz
Mex
Canada
United States
Across the World A Flurry of Late 19th Century News
Reports on Henry M Staney reaching Congo with 3000 tons of tin body of Gambetta taken to Nice. Russian czar dissolves secret societies. Ireland faces massive crop losses in 1882, and a fatal Berdicheff circus fire claims 300 lives. Also strikes, arrests, executions, and a London train collision leave many injured.
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Henry M. Staney
Congo
Tne
Gambetta
Nice
Chamber of Deputies
Russia
Ireland
Celte
France
Tae Oliver Wolcott
Victoria
British Columbia
Fort Sipson
Folger
Germany
New York
London
Dublin
Michael Davitt
Oldham
Davitt
Berdicheff
Russian Poland
St. Petersburg
Berd‘cheff
Gnilopyat
Jitomar
Kieff
Rome
Overdank
Camerlata
Italy
Mussulmans
Rumelia
Patrick Hinkins
Galway
Caledonian Railway
England
Scotland
Sitka State
Alaska
Panama
United States
Pacific
Sub-Treasury
Panama Railroad Company
Constantinople
Kohler & Co
Stranager
Tus
Hungary
Mohaecs
Earthquakes Fires, Elections and Bills Highlight Late News
News notes report eleven shakes in Arcena Spain and major city fires in Spencerville Ohio Lawrence Kansas Plainville Connecticut with losses over 200000 dollars. Political shifts include Kenna named for Senate West Virginia and Frys reelected Maine senator. Civil Service bill signed and posts on postal orders tariff debate and federal court removals advance.
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Arcena
Spain
Spencerville
Lawrence
Kan
George Scheller
Newhall House
Milwaukee
Wis
William Linehan
Joun FE
Kenna
United States Senate
West Virginia
Berlin
Bismarck
United States
W. P. Frys
Maine
Plainville
Conn
Arthur
Dorsey
Republican National Committee
Mary W. Ransom
North Carolina
Reeder Moore
Waterford
London
England
Stillwell
Ohio
Senate
Washington
House
Massachusetts
Joseph E. Taylor
Milwaukee Newhall House Fire Horrors Claim Dozens
Milwaukee January 10 The six story Newhall House burned to the ground in hours killing many guests and staff and sending others leaping from windows to escape. Firemen saved several, but the death toll rose as the blaze consumed the building and surrounding offices.
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Newhall
Milwaukee
Wis
Michigan Street
Broadway
East Water Street
Narrow Escape as Tenement Fire Traps Family on Roof
A January fire at No 36 Hester Street in New York trapped eighteen families on a five story brick tenement. Four men, five women, and fifteen children fled to the roof as flames blocked stairways and a fire-escape bridge was improvised from planks. They rescued the ill elderly woman and carried children to safety before help arrived.
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Chamber of Commerce
Bank
Edward Riemer
Herman Strauss
John Bornlesser
A. A. Worth
E. Nadine
Garrett Green
New York
Hester Street
Marks
Lewis Salskowski
Salskowski
Essex Street
Uicka
Senate Bill Sets Succession Line for Presidency
The Senate passed a bill detailing who acts as President if both the President and Vice President are removed or unable to serve. It lists Cabinet officers in order of precedence from Secretary of State to Secretary of the Interior and requires Congress be convened if needed. The measure also specifies eligibility and repeal of Section 146 of the Revised Statutes.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Secretary of the Interior
House of Representatives
Congress
Frightful Boiler Explosion at Bethlehem Iron Plant
A boiler explosion at Bethlehem Iron Company No 1 blast furnace in Bethlehem Pa kills four men and a woman and injures several others. Ten boilers near the engine-house collapsed. two largest boilers exploded with force, wrecking the engine-house and adjacent pattern-shop. One boiler burst through roof of the old mill and fell 800 feet away among workers. Bodies of George Gready and Jesse Bright found. Samuel McCandless a tender scalded to death. another man rescued from ruins. Graft’s wife killed. William Burch and P Clewell pattern-makers badly injured.
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Bethlehem
Bethlehem Iron Company
George Gready
Jesse Bright
Samuel McCandless
Snake Fight Ends in Death Near Fort Worth
A rattlesnake and a blacksnake tangled near Santa Fe water tanks with the rattler on a journey. The blacksnake pressed forward, the rattlesnake coilled, and after a swift move the blacksnake seized the rattler by the throat. The two rolled and the rattlesnake died from a spine fracture. The dead rattler measured five feet three inches.
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Santa Fe
Fort Worth
Texas
Democrat
Tragic Coal Oil Explosion Burns Boy and Mother
In San Bernardino California nine year old Burton Hummer poured coal oil into a stove causing an explosion that enveloped him in flames. His mother rushed to help both were badly burned and the house and its contents burned. Firefighters and bystanders applied various methods before the flames were extinguished but the boy died a few hours later.
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San Bernardino
Cal
Burton Hummer
The Kootenai River’s Course Across Borders
The Kootenai River rises in British Columbia then flows into the United States, watering a vast region before returning to its birthplace and emptying into the Columbia in British territory. Its curved path runs within a mile of the Columbia, and a canal a mile wide would shorten its route by about five hundred miles.
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Kootenai River
British Columbia
United States
Columbia
British Territory
Widow Custer Holds Last War Flag of Truce
Mrs Evizapeth C Custer widow of General Custer possesses the last flag of truce used in the War of the Rebellion carried by Colonel R M Sims from Confederate General John B Gordon to General Sheridan it was merely a white towel It takes about 550 bushels of Irish varieties to make a ton of starch.
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Evizapeth C. Custer
General Custer
R. M. Sims
John B. Gordon
Sheridan
General Grant Army Narrative at Appomattox Surrender
General J L Chamberlain recalls the final days of the Appomattox Campaign in a Bowdoin College lecture. He details Sheridan's pursuit of Lee, the clash around Appomattox Court House, the cease fire and surrender ceremonies, and the mixed emotions as Confederate troops marched out with flags lowered and arms laid down while Union troops stood in quiet, dignified contrast.
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J. L. Chamberlain
Maine
Grant
Lee
Memorial Hall
Bowdoin College
Brunswick
Appomattox
Sheridan
Chet
Séax
Appomattox Station
Confederacy
Mesaige
Cali
Stonewall
Ackson Corps
Longstreet
Leé
Northern
Virginia
Old
Massachusetts
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Gregory
New York
Gordon
Stonewall Jackson
Hill
Heath
Louisville Courier-Journal Attacks Whig Party Memory
The Courier-Journal argues the Whig party faded because the people could not trust it and accuses the paper of misrepresenting history. It notes Whig presidents Adams Harrison and Taylor and cites Prentice's Louisville Journal as a famed Whig voice, questioning the current paper's motives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier-Journal
Courier- Journal
Whig Party
John Quincy Adams
William Henry Harrison
Zachary Taylor
Adams
Harrison
Taylor
Tyler
Fillmore
Clay
Polk
United States
George D. Prentice
Louisville Journal
Political Choirs on Democracy and Republicans in 1884
The writer debates party trust and fate, arguing against Courier-Journal claims of a dying Republican party and predicting future Republican resilience. They criticize Democratic disloyalty, warn about misread electorate results, and contrast with Civil War victories to urge vigilance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courier- Journal
Democratic Party
Courier-Journal
Republcan Party
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Appomatto
Chicago Journal
Democrats Face Shift on Civil Service Reform in 1884
The Chicago Tribune excerpt attacks Democratic leaders for abandoning Civil Service Reform, arguing they push a spoils system to win votes. It warns voters that Democrats aim to revert to old practices, citing Swartwout, Van Buren, and party loyalty as corrupt foundations, with November 1884 looming.
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Swartwout
New York
Voorhees
Indiana
Brown
Georgia
George
Mississippi
Congress
Chicago Tribune
Deranged McDonald Presidency Plan Falls Apart
A Washington letter reveals Senator MacDonald’s self styled plan to seize the Presidency in five steps collapsing after Hendricks repudiates his role and vows not to run for Governor as a stepping stone. The piece laments the failed rapid ascent and notes McDonald no longer holds the office or a Cabinet.
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MacDonald
Cleveland
New York
McDonald
Indiana
Thomas A. Hendricks
United States
Hendricks
Tribune
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Alice Livingston
Henry Fleming
Foreign Intelligence
Ben Hall
Water Street
Edward Pollock
Lancaster
Pollock
The
Sentinel
Cadee
Manufacturers’ Bank
American Express
Allen Johnson
Alen Johnson
D. G. Powers
J. H. Hough
Peoria
John Gilbert
Minnie Palmer
Miss_ Libbie Chellis
Huff
Kelly
Miss O' Neil
Bessie Brown
Thomas E
Catharine Monahan
Bridget O'Donnell
Sun Prairie
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