Senate Te 9th and 10th actions on appropriation and tariff
Memorials urged state school support. Senate passed the Presidential Succession bill 40 to 13. Conference committees named on Military Academy and Consular bills. Shipping bill debated. tariff and land grants discussed. Porter relief bill advanced 33 to 27. House actions on railroads, star-route fees, and shipping bill amendments followed. Niagara Falls preservation group formed. Niagara, fires, storms and crimes noted.
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Senate
Military Academy
Lapham
New York Board of Trade & Transportation
Lowell
Crapo
Judiciary Committee
Union
Senate Amonitiments
Mes
Alario
Bisbee
Martin
Jax
John Bailey
Fitz-John Porter
Committee On Commerce
Caudren
Plumb
Kansas
Ingalls
United States
Tapiff
House
Butterworth
Pacific Railroads
Southern Pacific
Atlantic
Pacific
Mississippi
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
Disasters and progress noted in early 1900s columns
The item reports Camden mills halting due to low river water, Milwaukee fire at Newhall House with about sixty dead and thirty injured, a large Contractors' Association formed in New York, a Boston deputy sheriff incident, heavy snow in Virginia and North Carolina causing rail delays, the Columbus Chicago Indiana Central Railroad sale to Pennsylvania Railway for 13.5 million, timber lands commission ruling on timber culture acts, Jersey City Bank suspension, Tennessee defaulter's sum, two thousand smallpox cases in Baltimore, Des Moines fire destroying a block, Miss Alice Livingston awarded 75000 breach of promise, gold certificate totals, Cleveland census 193300, Wabash derailment near Miami Missouri, and a large Missouri Kentucky Illinois earthquake shock.
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New York
Niagara Falls
Cairo
Olmstead
United States
Canada
Chicago
Denver
Col
Herrig Cunnixnauim
Fairmount
W. Va
Monongahela River
New Haven
Conn
William Robanus
Gottlieb Beck
Robanus
Beck
Dan Taylor
St. Louis
Union Steamboat Company
Boston
Lindsay
Pinacle ‘Springs
Ark
Hubbard
Joan B. Herrman
Cincinnati
Camden
Milwaukee
Newhall
Contractors’ Association of the
Charles L. Brown
Virginia
North Carolina
Sandy Hook Road
Columbus, Chicago & Indiana Central Railroad
Indianapolis
Fishback
Pennsylvania Railway Company
Comptroller of the Treasury
City Bank
Jersey City
Tennessee
Baltimore
Ciarp
Des Moines
Iowa
Citzens’ National Bank
Western Union Telegraph Office
Masonic Hall
Allice Livinceston
Henry Fleming
Cleveland
Wabash Road
Miami
Missouri
Kentucky
Illinois
Political and personal notices span Indiana to Tennessee
Republican C. T. Dowry won election to Congress in the Ninth Indiana District succeeding Godlove St Orth. Maine’s Lot Morrings dies in Portland. New Jersey, Wisconsin legislatures organize. Porters and political figures named, votes cast, and appointments debated across states including Kentucky, Maine, Tennessee, and Illinois with connections to Grant era events.
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C. T. Dowry
Indiana
Godlove
St. Orth
Lot M. Morrings
Maine
United States
Secretary
the Treasury
Portland
New Jersey
J. J. Gardner
Senate
Thomas O’connor
Garfield
Wisconsin
George W. Ryland
Earl P. Finch
House
Ransom
North Carolina
Turgentucky
Louisville
Henry M. Staney
Congo
Dickson
Springfield
Ill
Shelby M. Cullom
Fitz John Porter
Yeas
Barrow
Beck
Brown
Buler
Call
Camden
Cameron
Cockrell
Coke
Davis W
Farley
Garland
George
Gorman
Groome
Hampton
Hoar
Jackson
Jonas
Jones
Fla
Lamar
Maxey
Morgan
Pendleton
Pugh
Lauisbury
Sewell
Slater
Vance
West
Voorhees
Walker
Aldrich
Anthony
Blair
Wis
Chilcott
Conger
Davis
Dawes
Edmunds
Frye
Hale
Harrison
Hawley
Hill
Ingalls
Kellogg
Logan
McDill
Michigan
Byron G. Stout
Democratic State Committee
Pennsylvania
Melville
Samuel A. Mupp
John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln
Bryanstown
Tennessee
Atha Thomas
Franklin C Lang Mies
Washington
Pouk
United States Senate
Iugalis
Presidential Disability and Succession Provision
The text describes a constitutional provision where two executive department heads certify in writing to the Chief Justice that the President cannot discharge duties. The Chief Justice then presents the matter to the Supreme Court for a decision. If the court finds inability, the Vice President assumes the presidency.
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Supreme Court of the United States
Ireland Farm Beating and Global Disasters Reported
A farmer Cunane was killed at Swineford Mayo amid land agitation opposition. In Canada a seven year old Samuel Miles froze to death after leaving home. Hungary Austria floods and casualties spike. 6009 flee Raab. Immigrant totals show 175 418 to Canada with 76 728 entering the US in the year. Gambetta body moved to Nice. Russia’s czar dissolves secret societies. Other items note Vera Cruz storm damage and Oliver Wolcott’s request to quell Indigenous unrest in Fort Simpson.
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Cunane
Swineford
County Mayo
Ireland
Toronto
Canada
Samuel Miles
Hungary
Raab
Comora
United States
Gambetta
Nice
Chamber of Deputies
Russia
Michael Davidr
Birkenhead
Austria
Grau
Ratahaza
Rhine
Vera Cruz
Mex
Edwin Boots
Berlin
Prince Frederick William
Hamlet
Oliver Wolcott
Victoria
British Columbia
Fort Simpson
Folger
Celte
France
Across Borders Robberies Fires and Disasters Hit News
A slowing stream of brief items reports a sleigh wreck in Cohoes with three deaths and a killed horse, postal robbery arrests in Pittsburgh, border killings near Laredo, a snow avalanche on Mosquito Mountain, German flood losses, a St Louis hotel fire with three deaths, smallpox decline in Baltimore, Native American militia actions in Oklahoma, a deadly circus fire in Berditchell, a Memphis church fire, a Oak Harbor jail blaze with one death, Davitt mob attack in Ireland, Milwaukee Newhall House deaths, a Hamilton Ont. fire, a Senate inquiry on railroad transportation, and recent wariness on pension and fortifications funding.
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Montreal Express
Cohoes
N. Y
David J. O'Leary
Pittsburgh
Laredo
Tex
Mosquito Mountain
Sealville
Germany
Planter’s
St. Louis
Baltimore
Cuerover
Newhall House
Milwaukee
Brown
Iamilton
Ont
United States Senate
Ingalls
Eaker
Fire Devastates Newhall House in Milwaukee Tragedy
Milwaukee January 10 The Newhall House six story brick hotel burned rapidly after 4am trapping guests on upper floors. Dozens jumped to their deaths as flames and smoke roared through the building. Firemen battled the blaze as casualties rose, with nearly one hundred feared dead.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Newhall
Michigan Street
Broadway
Fast Water Street
Ben Hall
Water Street
Chamber of Commerce
Bank
Edward Riemeri
Herman Strauss
Trues
John Bornlesser
A. A. Worth
E. Nadine
Garrett Green
Senate Presidential Succession Bill Described in Early Draft
The bill passed by the Senate details who acts as President if both the President and Vice President are unavailable. It sets Cabinet officers in order of precedence to discharge duties, requires a presidential proclamation for Congress to convene, and repeals a section of the Revised Statues.
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Wasttmoton
Senate
United States
Dicas
Navy
Interior
House of Representatives
Congress
Narrow Escape From Fire In FiveStory Tenement
New York residents recount a perilous dawn escape from a five story Essex Street tenement fire. Flames trapped families on upper floors as men carried women and children across a makeshift plank bridge to No 20 Essex Street, then ferried four trips to rescue the children.
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New York
Noster Street
Marks
Herk Ski
Salskowski
Elway
Essex Street
Frightful Bethlehem Boiler Explosion Kills Five
A blast at Bethlehem Iron No 1 blast furnace in Bethlehem Pennsylvania today killed four men and a woman and critically injured several others. Ten boilers located over the engine house exploded demolishing the engine house and part of a pattern shop. Engineers George Gready and Jesse Bright were found dead. boiler tender Samuel McCandless also died. A pivotal worker crewmate and a mill worker’s wife were among those killed or seriously hurt.
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Bethleenemy
Bethlehem Iron Company
George Gready
Jesse Bright
Samuel McCand
Snake Fight Ends in Death of Rattler Near Water Tanks
Report from Fort Worth Texas describes a clash between a rattlesnake and a blacksnake near Santa Fe water tanks. The blacksnake pressed the fight, winding the rattler in folds until it died from a spine fracture. The rattlesnake measured five feet three inches.
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Santa Fe
Fort Worth
Lexas
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Edward Pollock
Lancaster
Broadway Front
Pollock
Sentémel Atd
Civil
Miwaukee
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Condee
Manufacturers Bank
American Express
Allen Johnson
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