Senate and House actions and arrests of the week
The week reports Senate bills for Alaska civil government and DC time standard, and a Senate bill to regulate interstate railroad commerce. House recesses are set, Skinner sworn in from South Carolina, and committees formed on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic. Arrests include railway postal clerk Charles Williams for mail robbery in Cleveland and other crime notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Harrison
Alaska
Hoar
Anson G. McCook
Charles W. Johnson
James R. Young
Rev. E. D. Huntlay
W. P. Canaday
House
District of Columbia
Cullom
United States
Ilinois & Michigan Canal
Ilinois
Ingalls
van Wyck
Calkins
Secretary of State
Patrick O'Donnell
Callom
Board of
Railroad Commissioners
Secretary of the Interior
Texas Pacific Railroad Company
Southern Pacific Railway Company
Arizona
New Mexico
California
Department
Washington
Patriot Forces of America
Committee On
Kei
Multiple Disasters and Crises Reported Across the Nation
Four men drown in St Andrew's Bay Maine after a boat capsizes. Henry Hagedorn's Cleveland family suffocated by coal gas. Northumberland County Pa mines shut for a week idleing 12000 workers. Brainerd Minn records 36 degrees below zero. Baltimore warehouses burn killing and injuring firemen. River navigation halted at St Louis due to ice. Indianapolis packing firm fires 100 workers amid high hog prices. Pratt & Whitney Hartford cuts 200 jobs. Willimantic Thread lets go workers. Utah snow slide kills two. New York silk firms fail $150000. Clinton La house shooting leaves two dead. James Dyer indicted for arson murder in Indiana. Lackawanna Hospital patients dead from gas. Winchester Ill school poll clash ends in killings. Major business failures list. Guilford Soon hanged in North Carolina. Niagara River cantilever bridge opens with tests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Andrew’s Bay
Maine
Henry Hagedorn
Cleveland
Brainerd
Minn
Mercury
Baltimore Warehouse Company
Union Dock
Baltimore
St. Louis
Indianapolis
Connecticut
Pratt & Whitney Company
Hartford
Willimantic Thread Company
Peterson
Utah
Boman & von Bermarutna
New York City
Jim George
Clinton
Ed Eli
James Dyer
Middletown
Owen County
Ind
Joan Wasi
Hiram Ehrgott
Lackawanna Hospital
Scranton
Winchester
Adam Hill
George Snyder
Sutton Brothers
Willett Bronson
Daniel Gordon
Rochester
N. Y
J. Woolfolk
Columbus
Guilford Soon
Kingston
N. C
Niagara River
Multifaceted 1884 Trials and Political Moves Across Cities
The report covers Emma Bond case proceedings in Hillsboro Illinois with testimony from Chester Penitentiary convicts. a Grand Jury member alleges a bribe offer for Bond’s statement. It notes national anti secret society actions in Philadelphia and Washington, tariff and defamation issues, and a San Francisco court ruling on Chinese laborers as merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Bond
Hillsboro
Ill
Chester Penitentiary
J. T. Ferguson
John Montgomery
O’donnell
Washington
Robinson
Calkins
Finnerty
Belford
Philadelphia
Masonic Lodge
Grand Army of the Republic
Michigan Merino Sheep Breeders’ Association
Lansing
A. D. Taylor
Arthur
Senate
T. Y D. Anderson
Boston
Lawrence
Kan
Baton Rouge
M@eEnery
Burke
Louisville
Richmond
United States
Organi“ee
JupGe Herrman
San Francisco
America
Vast World Turmoil and Local Crimes Reported
International incidents include the Beaver Lumber Co failure in Quebec and a Lisbon fire destroying a dockyard and training brig. Other items note BAKER PASHA gaining supreme command in Egypt, heat and yellow fever in Rio, and Glasgow granting Lord Lorne city freedom. An Irish informer Kerrigan was shot in Cong, and a Spanish steamer St Augustine burned in the Bay of Biscay with many missing. A Chinese battle near Sontay and a Galway farmer murder are also cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaver Lumber Company
Yamachiche
Quebec
Cameocus
Lisbon
Spain
Baker Pasha
Soudan
Egypt
Rio Janeiro
Glasgow
Scotland
Lord Lorne
Canada
Canada Southern
Rodney
Constantinople
Black Sea
Servia
Skuptchina
Kerrigan
Admiral Courbet
John Moylan
America
Clonbar
Galway
Ireland
Sim_Joan GLover
Asuante
Newfoundland
London
Marriage Announced of Weiworth and Bramlette
Our marriage is announced of Frank M. Weiworth of Saratoga New York who killed his father in a New York hotel and Miss Corinne B Bramlette of Louisville Kentucky. Reverend Joan B Wright the oldest Unitarian clergyman in the United States died on the 20th at Wayland Massachusetts aged ninety three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank M. Weiworth
Saratoga, N. Y
New York
Corinne B. Bramlette
Louisville, Ky
Joan B. Wright
United States
Wayland
Mass
World and Local News Roundup of January 21
The week seen 315 business failures across the U S and Canada with regional tallies. Prohibitionists in Ohio called a State Convention in Columbus to seek statewide referendum on prohibition. Executions occurred in Georgetown D C and Rolling Fork Mississippi. Jeannette expedition remains reached Irkutsk. New York Europe third class tickets drop to twenty dollars. Counterfeiters captured in Vincennes Indiana. Abyssinian threats and clashes near Massourah. French Sontay capture with casualties. A Grafton barber killed a man with scissors. Stewartsville fires wipe out major houses. Edinburgh dynamiters sentenced. West Shore Railroad layoffs in Utica due to snow. Mexico City riot over nickel coinage ends in deaths and injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
New England
Middle
Western
Southern
Pacific States
Columbus
Jerry Cox
Georgetown
D. C
H. H. Rembert
Silas Lane
Rolling Fork
Miss
DeLong
Jeannette
Irkutsk
Siberia
New York
Europe
Vincennes
Ind
Kine Joan
Abyssinia
Massourah
Hone Kona
China
Sontay
Grafton
W. Va
Carter Smith
George McDaniel
City of
Mexico
Sara Bernhardt Fights Marie Colombier in Paris Whipping Duel
In Paris a libel memoir sparks a violent clash as Sara Bernhardt confronts Marie Colombier. The incident ends with a horsewhip attack and a dramatic chase through rooms and halls, followed by a public note from Bernhardt denying insult and claiming betrayal.
Mysterious Mine Death Near Georgetown
In Douglass Mountain near Georgetown, John C. Emmerson was found in a tunnel with a cut throat and crushed leg after being wedged by falling rocks. Coroner's inquest supports self-inflicted death. he had worked alone in the unbraced mine drift for about two days before discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denvrer
Douglass Mountain
Georgetown
G. A. Dilley
John C. Emmerson
Emmerson
Great Cantalever Bridge Test In Niagara Falls
The Michigan Southern cantalever bridge underwent a rigorous hour long trial with two heavy trains of twenty engines and twenty four flat cars loaded with gravel filling the span. About ten thousand spectators observed as sections were removed at each end and officials crossed the bridge later in a pony engine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara Fallus
N. Y
Michigan Southern Cantalever Bridge
Canada
Toucey
New York
Rutter
New York Central
Burrows
Buffalo
Canada Southern
Chicago
Michigan Central
Monteagie
Charges of Corruption in Texas Pacific Land Grants In Senate Documents
A Senate document reproduces J. J. Newell diary claims of wholesale corruption in the Southern Pacific bill passage. The narrative alleges payments to multiple senators including Kellogg and McDonald, with a network of brokers and agents, and notes Kellogg’s denouncement and a contested motive to withdraw the paper. Newell cites 1870 events through 1871 lobbying, with figures named and amounts stated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Pacific
Mr. Newell
Senate
Washington
Southern Pacific
Teller
van Wyck
J. J. Newell
Newell
McDonald
Arkansas
Kellogg
Louisiana
E. W. Rice
G. H Giddings
Fremont
Rice
New York
J. D. Defrees
Newell, Rice
Giddings
Defrees
R. C. Parsons
M. C. Roberts
Roberts
Parsons
J. W. Forney
Texas & Pacific Company
Interior Department
Den of Infamy Torn Down by Rail Engineer
Brockwayville report says Dominic Morillo operated a house of ill repute and illicit liquor on Ridgway & Clearfield Railroad property. Engineer A J Cooper used a locomotive to pull the building from its foundation, fire was set, and the structure burned as onlookers watched a chaotic crowd attempt to intervene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockwayville
Dominic Morillo
Ridgway & Clearfield Railroad
A. J. Cooper
Business Failures Across United States Decline and Rise in Regions
Bradstreet reports 280 United States business failures in the past week, 31 more than the prior week and 44 more than 1882. About 75 percent involved small traders with capital under $5,000. Regional tallies show increases in the Middle, New England, Southern, Western, Pacific, and Canada provinces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Bradstreet’s
Middle States
New England
Southern States
Pacific States
Canada
Provinces
R. G. Dun & Co
Mercantile Agency
Bold Masked Highwaymen Hold Up Kansas City Merchant
Lawrence Kan Dec 22 G W Brodhurst a Kansas City grain merchant was held up and robbed of 2600 in cash about ten oclock Thursday morning at De Soto village twelve miles from the city He was traveling to buy wheat when two masked men approached on a bridge and demanded money They jerked away his gold watch and chain but returned it after seeing the monogram on the watchcase No arrests have been made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Williams
Cleveland
J. L. Clark
Waterbury
Conn
Virginia
Great Bend
Kan
Dunkards
Nathan Massengale
White River
Stone County
Hiram Loomis
Massengale
General Grant
Cable
Bartholdi
Hillsboro
Haynes
Montgomery
Charles Masters
Emma Bond
Emanuel Clementi
Miss Bond
Lawrence
G. W. Brodhurst
Kansas City
de Soto
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Dixon Sun
W. M. Kennedy
News OF the
Telegraph and Mail
Congressional
Sara Bernhardt
Marie Colombier
Pants
Sara Barnum
Molle
Sara
Octave Mirabeau
M. Paul Bonnetain
M. Bonnetain
Prince Karageorgevitch
Marquis de Talleyrand
Antonine
Mines
Jean Ruchepin
Kerbernhardt
Rue Thann
Defresnes
M. Jean Rachein
M. Soudan
Colombier
M. Maurice Bernhardt
M. Kerbernhardt
Marie
Sara Berhardt
Canrobert
Mdlle Colombier
Porte Saint Martin
Nana
Dona Sol
Wu Cara
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