Abattoir ruling and other Illinois affairs prompt debate
Supreme Court at Ottawa upholds butcher rights against municipal abattoir inspections in Rock Island. Illinois moves to curb chattel-m mortgages while Wabash Railway enforces eighth grade exams for apprentices. Chicago debates annexation plans and investigates Cook County Insane Asylum abuses amid a flood of local notices.
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Ottawa
Rock Island
August Huesing
Glenn
Huesingg
Wabash Road
Charles F. Lape
Springfield
Schilling
Chicago
Cook County Insane Asylum
Illinois lawmakers advance broad agenda in 13th inst
The Illinois House and Senate debated and moved numerous measures on the 13th inst, including a $50,000 Chester reform appropriation, anti adulteration reforms, banking law amendments, and a large slate of judiciary and public works bills. The session featured votes on mining law revisions, asylum funding, monument to Gen John A Logan, and a reform of election law.
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Senate
Fuller
Joliet
Chester
Committee On Judiciary
John Meyer
Cook
Mooney
Will
Wisner
Dean
Merritt Trust
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Senate Judiciary Committee
Carmody
House Committee On
Committee On Corporations
McCall
Jury Commission
Judiciary Committee
Kankakee Insane Hospital
Breeden
E. M. Haines
F. P. Morris
Iroquois
Cooley
Lincoln Park Commissioners
Chicago
Humphrey
Committee On Judicial Departments
Hamer
Industrial Home For the
Burke
Gen
John A. Logan
Messrs. Farrell
O'Donnell
Padon
Walsh
Cochennour
Swift
Myer
Blair
Eye and Ear Infirmary
Reynolds
Walter Cowen
Illinois River
Henry
Hurst
Anderson
McCreery
Representative Carmody
Supreme Court
Thoughts on Wisdom and Power from Ancient Prose
A collection of aphorisms on aging, parental influence, self-restraint, and the limits of language. It contrasts how fortune guides versus how we guide it, and notes the authority of the experienced advising the young, with reflections on expression and desire.
There is nothing in a name says train born son tale
An immigrant couple on a Southern Pacific train welcomed a son with help from generous passengers who crowdfunded a purse. The donors were invited to name the baby, choosing Grover Harrison, a decision praised and critiqued as the old adage about names suggests.
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Southern Pacific
Grover Harrison
Awake today tillers of the great valley
The Chicago Herald calls on American farmers to awaken from a stale past and resist tariffications and monopolies. It criticizes protectionist policies and rail barons, urging farmers to vote for reform to end costly wastage and restore honest toil in Illinois. The piece laments neglect and urges intelligent ballots to restore prosperity.
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Daily News
Louis Napoleon
Shiloh
Illinois
Hamlet
Italy
Russia
Chicago Herald
Stand on tariff reform echoes in Kentucky committee report
The Kentucky State Democratic Convention committee on resolutions split over tariff policy. The majority endorsed the 1884 and 1888 platforms with tariff reform emphasis. the minority favored general terms without tariff mention. The majority won a near unanimous vote, signaling resolve to curb protectionist promises and critique Harrison and Morton era economic distress.
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Kentucky
Benjamin Harison
Levi P. Morton
United States
Harrison
Morton
Roosters
Kentucky Committee
Detroi Free Press
Wabash Road Foreclosure Sale Nets 15.55 Million
The Wabash Railway east of the Mississippi was sold at Chicago foreclosure for 15,550,000 to the bondholder purchasing committee led by James F. Joy. The sale unites nine divisions with their rolling stock into the Wabash Railroad Company, aiming to form a Detroit to Kansas City trunk line with O. D. Ashley as president.
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Hotel Men’s Mutual Benefit Association
Palmer House
Chicago
W. C. Snow
M. S. Gibson
Preble House
Portland
Ore
Wabash Railway
Mississippi River
Wabash Western
American Railways
Chicago Dispatch
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James F. Joy
O. D. Ashley
Thomas H. Hubbard
Edgar T. Welles
Bluford Wilson
Springfield
A. J. Ricks
Indianapolis
Wilson
Mississippi
Toledo and
Ilinois
Ohio
Toledo
Indiana State Line
Indiana
Lake Erie, Wabash and St. Louis
Johnson and Poppers
Fisher Johnson
Great Western Railroad Company
Illinois River
Meredosia
Naples
Johnson and Popper Committee
Decatur and
East St. Louis
Decatur
Quincy and
Clayton
Carthage
Wabah
Hannibal and
Hannibal
Ill
Major Wilson
Wabash Road
Michigan
Detroit
Kansas City
Wabash Railroad Company
Humphreys and Tutt
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