Congressional week highlights and notable incidents
The period covers senate and house actions on Naval Appropriation District of Columbia and Sundry Civil bills, tea import bans, and tax repeals. Notable events include a public printer salary increase, Irish cession purchase talk, a quorum vote, and a series of sensational local misfortunes and legal cases in New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.
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Turrsday
Senate
Dakota
District of Columbia
Utah
House
Yellowstone National Park
Secretary of War
Fower
Beaumont
Warren
House of the Sea
Townshend
Germany
Robinson
Ireland
United States
Conference Committee
Reed
Union Pacific debt figures and tariff news from Washington
Washington reports show a gap in Union Pacific debt between $10.75 million claimed by the Commissioner of Railroads and $2.78 million asserted by company officers. A Senate tariff bill promises a $41.6 million cut in internal revenue taxes, mainly preserving whisky and beer taxes.
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Union Pacific Road
Commissioner of Railroads
Chicago Tribune
Senate
United States
Canada
Joan W. Foster
Arthur
Spain
A. B. Williams
Dorsey and
Brady
G. W. Benjamin
Persia
Wickham Hoffman
Denmark
Lucius H. Foote
Corea
Dwight T. Reed
Madrid
Various Political and Legal Updates Across Cities
The document surveys multiple events: Gail Hamilton named trustee of a Massachusetts workhouse. Philadelphia Republicans win the police magistrate post and gain council majorities. Syracuse Democrats elect a mayor and six aldermen. Sing Sing prison reports another outbreak with 232 strikers on bread and water. It notes schoolhouse fire fatalities, New Jersey temperance defeats, the death of ex congressman James Gamble, Susan B Anthony’s voyage to Liverpool, a Milford sleigh accident injuring 6 children, a fraud case linked to D Peddie, a dubious freemasonry rite in Connecticut, Dartmouth faculty suspensions over chapel seating, P J Sheridan linked to Irish World, Hatch and Peters suspended for cashiers defalcation, the death of Rev Paul Chadbourne, a comet sighting by Prof Swift, Wampum Iron Co failure, the Alexandria killing case of 8 P Mirzan, and a Boston law and order convention with adopted resolutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Gail Hamilton
Philadelphia
Syracuse
N. Y
Sing Sing
New York
New Jersey
James Gamble
Williamsport
Susan B. Anthony
Liverpool
Milford
Mass
Iris
Peddie
Phildelphia
Potter's Field
Edinburgh
Scotland
Connecticut
Dartmouth College
P. J. Sheridan
Carey
Hatch & Peters
New York Stock Exchange
George W. Tompkins
Paul A. Chadbourne
Williams College
Massachusetts State Agricultural College
New York City
Prof
Swift
Rochester
Wampum Iron Company
Pittsburgh
P. Mirzan
Alexandria
Egypt
Albany
Brext
Law and Order Leagues
Boston
Noted Cleric Father St Cyr Dies in St Louis
Aged priest Father St Cyr, reputed among the world’s oldest, who celebrated Chicago’s first mass, died in St Louis. The report accompanies a flurry of other items: arrests for Murder in Missouri and California, a receiver appointed for Brown Bunnell iron works, fires, floods, and various river and weather dangers across the country.
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Father St. Cyr
Chicago
St. Louis
Yolo County
California
Frank Rahm
George
John E. Maltby
United States
Cleveland
Fayette Brown
Brown, Bunnell & Co
Morro Castle
Charleston
C. P. Huntington
Southern Pacific Road
Morgan’s
Louisiana
Texas
Morgan Steamship Lines
R. A. Packer
Pennsylvania
Jacksonville
Fla
William Bush
Corsicana
Tex
Iowa
Indiana
Cairo
Rhodes
Kentucky
Wolf Island
Cincinnati
Louisville
Mississippi
San Antonio
New York
Tucson
A.T
McLean Avenue
Elias Craft
Gibbons
Ashland
Minnesota
Dr. Carver
Bogardus
Jefferson
Banholzer
St. Paul
Minn
Mississippi River
Shawneetown
Ilinois
Spring Mills
Pittsburgh
Fort Wayne
L. Graham
Quinlan
Western Lunatic Asylum
Staunton
Leadville
Col
Arkansas
Helena
J. H. Gant
Vicksburg
Monroe
Wisconsin
Belle Cook
J. M. Paul
San Jose
Cal
Vaughan
Miss
North Park
George Scheler
Indicted for Fire at Newhall House in Milwaukee
A man was indicted in Milwaukee for setting the Newhall House hotel fire. He pleaded not guilty and bail was set at $10,000. Separate report notes St Joseph Seed Company mills at Bonne-Terre Missouri destroyed by fire with about $250,000 loss.
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Milwaukee
St. Joseph Seed Company
Bonne-Terre
International Turmoil and Personal Tragedies Across Five Continents
A digest of global unrest and personal calamity reports: Irish affairs in Britain and Dublin violence linked to Land League amid questions about Parnell. In Tripoli an Italian insult apology is demanded. McAdams denies graft in Paria. In Mexico a double suicide follows a forbidden marriage. in the Bosphorus a shipwreck kills twenty-two. Parnell defends Irish policy in Parliament amid unrest and arrests loom. Congo-like plots, Russia threats, Spanish and Belgian concerns, and a million-dollar church fire in Quebec loom over a world rattled by conflict and crime.
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Dublin
United States
Carey
Forster
House of Commons
Land League
Ireland
Parnell
Porte
Tripoli
McAdams
Paria
Cavendish
Burke
Matamoros
Mex
Louis Fernandez
Carmen Lira
Yara
Bosphorus
Turkey
Grand Trunk Railroad
New Castle
Newtonville
Ont
Kremlin
Moscow
Glamorgan
Liverpool
Boston
Republic
New York
Andalusia
Spain
Riviere du Loup
Quebec
Earl Spencer
Ballydehob
Hillestad
Sweden
Bripgeet Bullen
Port Hope
Panama
Albany
St. Peterburgh
Golos
St. Petersburg
Bombs Thrown at Rome Austrian Embassy and Quirinal Palace
Reports say three paper bombs were hurled on the 27th at the Quirinal palace in Rome and the Austrian Embassy to the Vatican, and into the Austrian Ambassador’s courtyard. No injuries.
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Quirinal Palace
Rome
Vatican
Hawley
Delaware and Hudson Canal
Barrerk Brothers
Lyons
France
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Dakota
Lowell
Mass
Ontario
Mowat Reform Administration
John Flemming
Chicago
Toronto
Canada
Montreal
Bixleer
Zoar
Myers Bros
Lynchburg
Norfolk
Nogwien
Conn
Nebraska
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
United States
Senate
David Davis
House
Tariff bill as passed by the Senate summarized
Washington report outlines Senate tariff bill changes with broad reductions across schedules. Free lists expand and rates drop on chemicals earth en ware glassware and metals while sugar tobacco and liquor schedules show major adjustments with champagne duty up and cigars unchanged.
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Senate
Washington
Chicago Tribune
Tariff Commission
Eyers
Triff Commissio
Bny
Finance Committee
Tarif Commission
Ad Valorem
Lare Commission
Russia
Adgulorem
Bessemer
Treasury Department
New York
Treasury
United States Court
Suit Over Forty Seven Years Board at BrookzigN House
A BrookzigN boarding-house keeper sues for thirteen thousand dollars for board furnished to a bachelor who died leaving a 270000 fortune. He left her five thousand dollars and asked that eight dollars weekly be charged for his time spent boarding, plus eight dollars monthly for house rent. He planned to marry her but delayed, deciding to pay for his own board instead of hers.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Eagle
Willetts Estate Leaves 54000 for Education and Charity
The late Samuel Willetts of New York left an estate valued at 5 million dollars. He bequeathed 54000 dollars for educational and charitable purposes.
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Samuel Willetts
New York
Roller-skate accident claims four Louisville girls
An incident on roller-skates in Louisville has killed four young girls. Investigators say the tragedy involves an over-excise device and led to multiple fatalities, prompting officials to examine safety measures.
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Louisville
Shawneetown Sinks Under Record Ohio Flood Destroys Homes
Evansville reports Shawneetown Ill is overwhelmed as the Ohio River surges six miles wide and up to twenty five feet deep in places. One hundred forty houses wrecked or carried away while residents seek shelter in upper floors and public buildings. Aid sought from Springfield and donations arrive from Indianapolis with hundreds of volunteers and funds pledged.
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Shawneetown
Ill
Evansville
Ind
Ohio
Chicago
Marshall Field & Co
Swofford Bros
Allen & Harrington
M. M. Pool
Tuos
Ridgeway
J. W. Mullspaugh
Pool
Wisehart
Binckely and
Fais
Ohio & Mississippi
Louisville & Nashville
Cairo
Wabash
Caseyville
Bald Peak
Indiana
Round Pond Hill
Ilinois
Uniontown
Cairo Illinois Under Flood Marks Record Stage
Flood warnings report the gauge at fifty two feet one inch in Cairo Illinois with the levees in good shape and little new damage. Wabash River levels fall near Grayville while Paducah shows a stand and Col umbus Kentucky reports ten feet of inundation. Mound City continues to brace against the gale.
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Cairo
Ill
Golconda
Paducah
Grayville
Harrisburg
Ohio
Columbus
Mound City
Wabash River Falls. Rail Lines Damage and Coal Mines Idle
Vincennes Indiana February 25 The Wabash River has fallen to about twenty feet in the channel yet floods border lands. Ohio and Mississippi Railroad passable at night. Wabash Railroad damaged but repairable. Palestine bridge saved by ropes. Two hundred miners at Washington Coal Mines idle due to water in mines. Local relief group raised about $800. legislators' relief fund brought $1,000. more aid expected. Distribution of food and clothing to the poor will start immediately.
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Shawneetown
Gallatin County
Mississippi
Millspaugh
M. M. Pool
Ridgeway
First National Bank
Springfield
Indianapolis Board of Trade
George T. Branham
Indianapolis
Vincennes
Ind
Ohio & Mississippi Railroad
Palestine
Washington
Relief Association
T. T. Reily
R. G. Evans
Searight
Indianpolis
Legislative Relief Fund
Caseyville Flood Engulfs Town with Wide Spread Destruction
Caseyville Kentucky is submerged as the Ohio river floods the town of 1006 inhabitants. Residences on a southern bluff survive while all businesses are under water and stocks ruined. Uniontown is also waterlogged with forty houses afloat and residents seek aid. People shelter in churches schools and hotels with twenty families on the wharfboat.
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Caseyville
Ohio
Uniontown
Death of the Chairman of the National Republican Committee
Ex Governor Marshall Jewell longtime chairman of the National Republican Committee died at his Hartford home on the afternoon of the 10th from acute pneumonia. He was fifty five and leaves a widow and two daughters. Jewell had a varied career in business and politics including posts as Governor of Connecticut and U S Minister to Russia. He later served as Postmaster General under Grant and led reform efforts before returning to private life.
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United States
F. F. Elmendorf
Chicago
J. C. Schaffer
Illinois
Samuel Merrill
Iowa
Dennis Hennessy
Staten Island
N. Y
Augustinian Savings Institution
Lawrence
Mass
Bernheimer
New York
First National Batk
Union City
P. J. Sheridan
New York City
Carey
Dublin
Phenix Park
Sherida
Irish World
Esther Jewell
Marshall Jewell
Arthur M. Dodge
Gilbert L. Crowell
Tallman
Honolulu
Philadelphia
Salmi Morse
Jewell
National Republican Committee
Hartford
Conn
New England
Winchester
N. H
Tanyard
Boston
Rochester
Akron
Columbia
Tenn
Jackson
Miss
Louisville
New Orleans
M. Jewell & Co
Europe
England
France
Asia
Africa
Grant
Russia
St. Petersburg
America
A. J. Creswell
Post Office Department
Texas
Alabama
Senate
Department
New York Chamber of Commerce
General Grant
Republican National Committee
Tribune
Chivalrous Thief Vincent Puts Alabama in Debt
A New York Times led op-ed denounces Alabama Treasurer Vincent as a noble thief who vanished with a large deficit and missing bonds. It mocks carpet bagger era motives, blames market losses in cotton futures, and urges reconciliation over punishment, calling him a favored son deserving return.
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Fepunape
Vincent
Alabama
Polk
Tennessee
N. Y
Isolated pillar near Dead Sea likened to Lot’s wife statue
An American traveler writing from Arabia describes a tall isolated pillar on a mountain slope near the Dead Sea. Locals say it is the pillar to which Lot’s wife was turned for disobeying the command not to look back. From afar it resembles a woman with a child but up close it looks like other rock formations.
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Arabia
Dead Sea
Lot
Ungallant Note Replied With Tit for Tat Mail Prank
A Baltimore man claims a young man wrote a girl asking her to be hisn and she declined by postal card. He then placed a one cent stamp and her address on the back of her photograph and sent it back by mail. The author calls the prank shocking yet tit for tat.
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Baltimore
Chicago Herald
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Defiance County
Frank C. Culley
Defiance
Foreign Intelligence
Irkutsk
Frooklyn
Brooklyn Eagle
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