Senate and House proceed on many measures this week
In the Senate on the 2d the bill to give twelve condemned cannon to the Morton Monument Association of Indiana passed. The House debated the Tariff Commission bill in Committee of the Whole. Various Senate amendments were concurred, and reports on retirements, a Court of Appeals, and the sale of Miami Indian lands were noted. Other items include investigations into whisky bonds, forest preservation, and a Fort Niobrara land restoration bill.
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Senate
Morton Monumental Association
Indiana
Judiciary Committee
Davis
Lapham
House
Tariff Commission
Hewitt
Ala
Messrs
Ingalls and Hawley
Butler
Hampton and Voorhees
Court of Appeals
Kansas
Washington
Newburgh
N. Y
Committee On Military Affairs
Voorhees
Windom
Sherman
Anthony
Windham
Garland
Frye
Fort Niobrara
Randall
Domestic economic and crime items from 1881 brief
Summary of assorted 1881 US news items including merchandise trade excesses, gold and silver bullion balances, weather damage to fruit buds in Michigan, arsenic poisoning in Pittsburgh, Prescott proclamations on Arizona cowboys, emigrant train robbery on the Santa Fe Road, a St Paul schoolboy shooting, Indian conflicts near Lorospure New Mexico, Newark fire loss, Oberlin post office burglary, railroad earnings, and various political, legal, and crime notes with multiple named individuals and places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Michigan
Melvin Frey
Pittsburgh
Watkins
Arthur
Arizona
Santa Fe
Glorieta
Newark
N. J
Oberlin
O.C
Chicago, Milwaukee &St. Paul
Ohio Board of Agriculture
Ohio
Frost
Crook
Fort Washakie
Pok Wetts
Iowa State Penitentiary
Fort Mad- Tue
Malley Boys
Douglass
New Haven
Conn
Jennie Cramer
Cramer
Malleys
Multinational and domestic upheavals reported abroad
Reports detail embezzlers degraded in St Petersburg and executions in Jalisco. A Leeds mine explosion kills seven while a pirate raid plunders a French cutter off Africa. A Bilboa factory blast injures many. Jews begin mass exodus from Russia. Alaska breaks speed records. British policy shifts. Canadian rail trip speeds. and Arctic search ship Rodgers loses thirty lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Government Land Office
Victoria
Leeds
England
Africa
Bilboa
Spain
Russia
Jalisco
Mexico
Amatillan
Tus
Alaska
New York
Queenstown
House of Commons
Mr. Harcourt
Michael Davitt
Great Britain
Fort Rae
London
Frederick Cavendish
W. E. Forster
Canada Southern Road
William H. Vanderbilt
Tupper
Cloverdale
Alexandria
Egypt
Soudan
Mandi
Sennaar
Madir
Forster
Ireland
Land League
St. Petersnree
Rodgers
Arctic
Bodies of De Long and ten men found together
A dispatch from Fortiness records that a Cossack estafette arrived with news that Captain De Long and ten men were found dead in one spot. The telegram from Jackson mentions sealed dispatches to be delivered, as reported by Herald correspondents traveling toward the Lena mouth.
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Jackson
Senate Adjourns as Tariff Bill Passes House in Vote
The 6th saw no Senate session while the Tariff Commission bill passed the House 151 to 83 after amendments. A leave to withdraw papers was granted in the Alabama contested election case. Cavendish and Burke were assassinated in Dublin's Phenix Park by unknowns. A Pittsburgh courthouse fire killed a worker. Montague lumberyard blaze ruined millions of feet of timber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Senate
House
Tariff Commission
Matson
Alabama
Hubbell
Racine
Wis
Boston
Phenix Park
Dublin
Frederick Cavendish
Ireland
Thomas Henry Burke
Cavendish
Burker
Pittsburgh
Harry McDermott
Frey
Covell
Montague
Mich
Blair
Penuvida
Washington
South America
Shipherd
Chile
Peru
Ireland's government eases crisis with releases and policy shift
In Lords and Commons Earl Granville announces Forster's resignation and government plan to release three imprisoned MPs. Gladstone says many suspects will be freed and proposes reforms to Irish justice while retaining some Coercion act principles. Dublin reports celebrate Parnell Dillon and O Kelly release amid jubilant crowds. London notes Davitt released and Parnell treason charges withdrawn.
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Earl Granville
W. E. Forster
Prelaid
Granville
Earl Cowper
Lord Carlingford
Earl Spencer
Ireand
Michael Davitt
Gladstone
Commons
House of Lords
Ireland
Forster
Davitt
Lord Northcote
Sexton
England
the Times
Dublin
Parnell
Dillon
O’ Kelly
Kilmainham
Wicklow
Limerick
God
Waterford
London
Joseph Cowen
Home Secretary
League
Do’kelly
William Harcourt
O’ Connor Power
Mitchell Henry
O'Donnell
Gibson
Dublin University
Cest
Avery Ermal
Assassination of Ireland's Chief Secretary Cavendish and Burke
A Dublin cable reports the killings of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under Secretary Thomas Burke as they walked near the Phoenix Park. Four attackers fled via a car, with rapid police response and hospital transport. The event triggers widespread shock in Ireland and London. A Land League manifesto condemns the act and urges unity against terrorism.
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Ireland
Dublin
England
New York
The
Herald
Lord Frederick Cavendish
Thomas Henry Burke
Burke
Frederick Cavendish
Lord Spenger
Gaiety Theater
Carl Spencer
Dublin Castle
Jacob
Chapelizod
Maguire
Mr. Burke
Pce
Frederick
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Telegraph and Mail
Congressional
Ark
St. Lawrence
Ogdensburg
Edward
Dick Swiveller
Crow Don
Spotted Tail
First National Bank of
Don Sweeney
Cedarville
Coldwald
LeDuc
Overland Stage Road
Laramie City
Sprague
Rhode Island
Greenville
Miss
Preston E. Buckner
W. J. Wentworth
Cincinnati
H. R. Plumer
International Music
Meadville
Alexander H. Stephens
Atlanta Constitution
Georgia
Jupgee Wyte
North Carolina
Democrats
Raleigh
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Horace Maynard
Tennessee
Congress
Hayes
Knoxville
Tenn
Jupee McCulloves
Supreme Court
Fifth Supreme Court
Illinois
Iris
Oscar Wilde
Garfield Monument Committee
G. W. Jones
Greenbacker
Wash Jones
Texas
George Bliss
Mr. Ingersoll
J. W. Dorsey
Joan L. Clem
Chickamauga
Missouri
J. B. Steedman
Toledo
D. B. Henderson
Dubuque
Iowa
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Charleston
John Ropeberts
Naval Observatory
Senator Blair
Blaine
Scrip
Perry
Grant
Amatron
Fitz John
Porter
Mr. Gladstone
Westminster Palace
Cavendish and
Birke
Asy Sy Pannell
John Dillon
Mrenaern
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