Minority Report on Silver Causes Senate Debate and House Action
The piece reports on Senate deliberations including Washburne's 2.5 hour anti option bill speech and a 3 hour debate over Sunday opening for the World’s Fair. It notes ex Senator Palmer attending, intent to open art galleries on Sundays while barring machinery, and no vote reached. House actions include fundingPrints for Eleventh census, a bridge at Omaha, Tenn hospital use of Jackson church, and a new conference on the army appropriation bill. It also covers the minority report on Stewart free coinage by M W C Stone, warning of gold’s collapse under free silver and broader economic harm. The text ends with a poem excerpt from Burton Egbert Stevenson in the New York Sun.
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Burton Egbert Stevenson
New York Sun
Meeting of silver men debates repeal of 1890 act
About seventy five attendees led by Mr. Dockery of Missouri discuss amending the senate bill on the repeal of the 1890 act. Proposals aim to preserve legal tender status of 1890 certificates and their redemption while adjusting provisions. A parliamentary procedure committee is formed with Mr. Bland as chair for absentees.
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Senator Dolph Reports Land Law Bill Actions
Senator Dolph reported adversely from the committee on several land law bills and favorably on Pettigrew's measure to repeal the timber culture laws and related reforms. He also favored a bill requiring patents for land actually settled under the armed occupation act of the peninsula of Florida.
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Treasury buys 671000 ounces of silver in July
The treasury department purchased 671000 ounces of silver at three prices 8751? cents 8765? cents and 8770? cents totaling 1990600 ounces for the month.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Tragic Hammock Fire Claims 14 Year Old Girl in Iowa City
In Iowa City on July 1 a 14 year old girl named Mary died from burns after her dress caught fire from a spark from a chimney while she swung in a hammock. She was described as having a weak mind and unable to protect herself. The report also notes other weather and regional items including a separate incident in Memphis where Mrs Chas Osborn was wounded by an accidental rifle discharge during target practice and weather updates for Nebraska and Iowa.
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The Fatal Card Gambler On the Mississippi Steamer
A New Orleans Vicksburg steamer tale recalls Daniel Sturdivant a famed swindler and killer who ruled a river casino. A quiet stranger challenges him with a $10,000 stake and a calm face, wins all, and shoots the gambler after exposing a deadly ace of hearts. The stranger reveals a decade-long quest for justice and vanishes at the landing as the boat nears shore.
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New York News
August Flower Restores Appleton Man’s Stomach Health
Mr. Lorenzo F. Sleeper, a well known Appleton resident, testifies eight years of severe dyspepsia vanished after using August Flower. He recounts constant distress after eating and vomiting, then relief after starting the remedy, claiming no further signs of dyspepsia and a return to eating freely.
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