Debates Open as House Considers Tariff Bill
The first day of tariff debate in the house featured calm proceedings after a long reading of the 162 page bill. Dingley opened for the majority and Wheeler spoke for the opposition. four others voiced opposition and Bailey presented the Democratic minority report charging the bill protects manufacturers, raises consumer costs, and fosters trusts.
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Washington
Dingley
Ways, and Means
Wheeler
Ala
Robinson
Ind
Green
Neb
Carmack
Dem
Tenn
Buckner
Mich
Hovee
Bailey
Tex
Ways and Means Committee
United States
British Contingent Arrives at Canea Amid Blockade Proclamation
A midnigt dispatch from Canea states the Clyde has landed British troops, while a seven article blockade bans armed Greek landings without naval authority. Greek vessels may be fired on, and London rumors touch on Crete governance and possible British blockade running.
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Clyde
Canea
London
The
Chronicle
Daily Chronicle
Lord Salisbury
Greece
Prince George
Crete
Great Britain
Turkey
Civil Service Debate Surges in Senate Over Removals
In Washington on March 24 the Senate plunged into a civil service dispute sparked by Senator Allen’s resolution. Gorman and Gallinger attacked the civil service system while Allen called it a monumental humbug. The measure broadened to probe general operation of the law and removals at South Omaha Nebraska, with flood relief tents approved for 500 Mississippi River sufferers at Helena Arkansas.
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Senate
Allen
Washington
Commission
Gorman
South Omaha
Neb
Gallinger
N. H
Wilson
Rep
Wash
Civil Service Commission
Berry
Ark
Helena Ark
Turpie
Ind
United States
Dolliver
McLaurin
Ways and Means Committee
South Carolina
Cleveland
Carlisle
Jackson And Walling Hanged For Pearl Bryant Murder
Newport March 21 Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling were hanged together in a double execution after a death warrant was read at 11 32. The crowd cheered as the prisoners prayed and bade farewell. Both died in agony from strangulation with necks not broken. Walling died first and Jackson within six minutes.
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Pearl Bryant
Newport
Scott Jackson
Alonzo Walling
Walling
Jackson
Lee
Corrected list of Arlington cyclone dead and injuries
A Atlanta dispatch lists nine confirmed dead from the Arlington Ga cyclone that wrecked a school building, naming Professor W A Covington Ollie Paramore Alice Putnam and others with Willie McMurray Albert Butler Kenneth Boynton Maun Johnson Mary Wellons. Professor Walker is mortally injured and four children are dying. Reports from Blakely say no deaths occurred there.
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Arlington
LouisvilLir
Atlanta
W. A. Covington
Ollie Paramore
Alice Putnam
Chaupa Ronents
Willie McMurray
Albert. Butler
Kenneth Boyn‘ton
Maun Johnson
Mary Wellons
Walker
Cying
Blakely
Bryan to Divert Half Book Royalties to Bimetallism
Lincoln Neb March 23 Hon W J Bryan will give one half the royalties from his book The First Battle to the bimetallism cause and has appointed a committee to spend the funds. He ordered four thousand five hundred dollars sent to four named recipients from his first month’s sales.
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Lincoln
Neb
W. J. Bryan
Messrs. W. B. Conkey & Co
Chicago
Bryan
Mr. Jones
Warner
Mr. Allen
Teller
Wheat rises as crop damage reports loom
Wheat closed up 4 cents on May options after a weak start as crop damage reports colored trading. Corn oats and provisions stayed mostly unchanged with dull activity. Cash quotes show No 2 red wheat near 83 to 84 cents and No 2 corn around 23 to 24 cents.
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Chicago
Omaha Live Stock Market Report March 23
CATTLE receipts 3 500 steady to strong native beef steers 3 85 24 5 per cwt western steers 5 50 4 50 Texas steers 3 25 24 25 cows and heifers 2 00 3 70 canners 1 75 2 80 stockers and feeders 3 01 4 40 calves 3 50 7 3 5 bulls stags 2 25 0 50 HOGS receipts 5 400 10 cents lower heavy 3 99 5 mixed 3 90 3 95 light 3 99 3 95 pigs 3 94 8 95 bulk 3 99 7 5 SHEEP receipts 6 00 steady fair to choice natives 3 50 4 24 fair to choice westerns 4 90 4 00 common and stock sheep 2 50 3 50 Jamba 3 50 7 75 uu
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South Omaha
Chicago Livestock Hog Receipts Fall Amid Sluggish Trade
Carcaco March 23 hogs receipts 11 000 with a weak market down five cents. Light weights brought 3.00 to 4.15, mixed 2 50 to 4 74, heavy 3.75 to 4 38, rough 3.75 to 4 38. Cattle receipts 2 500 with Texana quoting ten cent lower. prices unclear due to garbled text.
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Chicago
Carcaco
Happenings From Home and Abroad March 18
A long column of brief items reports on deaths suicides accidents and crimes across multiple states. Highlights include an 8-year-old killed in Chicago a Chicago glove maker dead and various duels hangings robberies and court actions. Also noted are labor disputes strikes and political shifts with numerous named places and people.
Meridian man kills wife with stove poker in jealousy
A Meridian Mississippi man named Philip Ferguson killed his wife with a stove poker amid jealousy. The report notes a Kansas law promoting uniform state text books and test criteria as part of a broader educational policy discussion.
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Philip Ferguson
Meridian
Miss
Kansas
Multiple Crises and Crimes Reported Across States
Tuesday items include Henry Albers's personal crisis ending in suicide near East St. Louis County treasurer Bolds's conviction for stealing $20 000 at Decatur Illinois. Other reports cover bank wrecking trial in Perry Texas, a Perry murder case from 21 years prior, a Rainwater family shooting suicide near Orrick Missouri, inventor George Kirchner's steamless motor model sent to Washington, Missouri critics of legislature over trust measures, a Birmingham arrest incident, 1200 bills considered by Missouri lawmakers, New York unions seeking tax on whiskers, the death of James M. Hager in Richmond Maine, a San Antonio saloon killing, a fatal accidental shooting near Mount Auburn Iowa, Elder Z I Sweeney resigning and traveling, and a knife killing in Dodd City Texas.
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William Darnell
Clarksville
Tenn
Atlanta
Arthur McGrew
Guthrie
O. T
Orville McPherson
Marshal Finley
Wapello
McPherson
John Brown
John Cordingly
Bluefield
W. Va
Carson
Bennie West
Smithshire
Ellan Russell
New York City
Harry Guenhoff
Texas
Charles Robbins
Kansas City
Rt. J. Day
Huntington
Ind
Joseph Kirmish
Pittsburg
Henry Hayes
Cairo
Engineer Shippman
Monroe
Asa Godding
Syracuse
Neh
Leo Kennedy
Greensburg
Hanna Spitzer
Sockalexis
Notre Dame
Henry Albers
East St. Louis
Bolds
Decatur
Nrs
Chicago
Charles L. Berry
Perry
Orrick
Rainwater
George Kirchner
Valparaiso
Washington
Farmers Industrial Club of
Missouri
Marshall Tethrow
Birmingham
Ala
New York
James M. Hager
Richmond
San Antonio
Tex
Dave Adkins
Tom Harding
Willam Schnoor
Mount Auburn
Sweeney
Tabernacle Christian Church
Columbus
Harrison
Constantinople
Dodd City
Rafe Wells
Will Farris
Milwaukee preachers lead crusade against dance halls
A sequence of brief notices reports Milwaukee ministers asserting crime and virtue in the city. Other items note Arbor Day in Wisconsin and Illinois fire damage with injuries. Also recorded are legal, political, and social incidents across states including robberies, stabbings, poisoning, and a smallpox incident in Oaxaca.
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Milwaukee
Tanner
Evanston
Ill
Lawrence
Kan
Andrew Scott
Indianapolis
Flag Rock
W. Va
Fred Hoschar
James Sayer
T. H. Caldwell
Galena
M. F. Gallagher
University of Chicago
Ann Arbor
Mich
Willian Humphrey
Alexandria
Edna Hill
Pearl Keller
Defiance
Noodesha
Minneapolis
Anson
Hot Springs
Fowell Clayton
Mexico
St. Louis
Cuban Debt Row Signals Delicate U S Cuba Policy
Washington reports a brewing issue over Cuban debt collection as Spain resumes legal remedies after a decree shielded planters. American creditors fear losses while U S protest risks undermining prior claims. Archbishop Ireland denounces pugilism and backs W C T U on banning kinetoscope fights.
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State Department
Cuba
Ireland
Young Spreckles a Winner in Million Dollar Property Case
Rudolph Spreckles won ownership of one million dollars in property from his parents Claus and Anna Spreckles. The supreme court denied Claus and Anna's appeal, upholding the lower court's judgment that the property belongs to Rudolph. The case traced disputes over lands and Hawaii sugar stock given to Rudolph years ago and contested as community property requiring Mrs. Spreckles consent.
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San Francisco
Rudolph Spreckles
Claus Spreckles
Supreme Court
Claus
Anna Spreckles
Rudolph
Sugar King
Hawaii
Spreckles
Jury Acquits Kinker and Atwoop in Gilmore Case
A Nebraska jury acquitted Reuben Kinker of Bertrand of the attempted assassination of Ranchman George W. Gilmore. The Dec 22 shooting through a window left Gilmore badly disfigured, with evidence described as circumstantial and an alibi offered by Kinker. Suspicions tied Kinker to Gilmore’s wife, amid a life of intrigue involving women.
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Kinker
Atwoop
Kan
Reuben Kinker
Bertrand
Neb
George W. Gilmore
Gilmore
Rinker
To Head Off Special Session
The Kansas lines, meeting after news of the U S supreme court ruling on the Transmissouri Freight case, were reconvened to seek a rate schedule to avert a special legislative session on a maximum freight rate bill. The aim is to finalize an agreement that avoids further legislative action.
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Chcaco
Kansas Lines
United States Supreme Court
Transmissouri Freight Association
Kansas
Ice Gorge Threatens Flood at Haggin Bend
Missouri River ice remains blocked in Haggin's Bend opposite St Helena raising flood fears as warm weather looms. Elsewhere six dead bodies found aboard a boat from the Ville de St Nazaire after it sank off Hatteras. Marie Storey, first wife of Wilbur F. Storey, dies in Florence Italy. Harrison mine ore shipment of 75 tons reported from Deadwood.
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Yangton
Missouri River
Haggin’s Bend
St. Helena
Elbow Bend
New York
Cromwell Line
Crewle
Gager
New Orleans
Mia. Storey
Detroit
Mich
Charles 8. Isham
Florence
Italy
Marie P. Storey
Wilbur F. Storey
Chicago Times
Harrison
Deadwood
S.D
Kansas City
Harrrison
Omestake
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Omaha
Allen M. Smith
Tip
Elephant
Earnest Caesar
Brenham
H. Belnk
C. H
Pine Bluff
Ella Burden
Pokin
Brazil
Johnson
Emily Slauson
Goodrich Transportation Company
Racine
Wis
Hartville
W. K. Need
Hanover
van Hall
Waco
S. A. Brown
Emporia
John B. Clements
John Arnold
Neosho
George Smith
D. D. Bronson
Hoxie
Sherman
L’ex
Stevens
Doc Brewer
Missouri Penitentiary
Mascoutah
Ills
Galveston
Sedalia
Territorial
Centralia
Lenihan
Fort Dodge
Dubuque
Davenport
Linehan
Worrell
M. Z. Millington
Baptist Church
Newark
N. Y
I. Dornberg
Spokane
Minnesota
Potter
Stephens
Dallas
Willam Alexander
Marshall
L Ignatius Donnelly
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Metzler
Eau Claire
Edward Roussin
Ludington
Louis 5
Tremaine
Cheyenne
Indiana
William Kennison
Henry
Casper
Nebraska
Mary Ellen Lease
Jesus Christ
Cevelon
BF. Drake
Pp. Loomis
Towa
Drake
Miss Westerfield
Tipton
Atchison, Kan
Jarrett Watkins
W. L. Benbrook
Fayetteville
Chiago
John Smith
Huntsville
Jane Burke
Wabash
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McKinley
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St. Paul
Q Carson
Young Spreckles
Helena
Butte
Tacoma
Seattle
Portland
Duluth
Fargo
Grand Forks
Winnipeg
NX. P
Pony
Norris
W. M. Tuchy
E. Broadway
Montana
Charlhees
Fee
Paul
Minn
Poindeater & Orr
Oillon
Beaverhead Co
M. T. Brand
Warcktal
Deer Creek Valley
Ely
Draggiats
ELY Brothers
Warren Street
St. Mary's Academy
Salt Lake City
Utah
Sisters OF the Holy Cross
State Age
L.L. May & CO
Seedismen
St. Paul, Minn
Washington, D. C
Dillon
Tripene Pusuisaine Co
Trisune Pustserxa Co
Weddersuen
Joe Ashington
D. C
Salt Lake
Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune
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