Nation's Capital Busy Week for Congress
By Telegraph. Very busy week ahead in both Senate and House as they clash over the Postal Telegraph scheme and organize a National Protective League. The House aims to suspend rules on several measures while the Senate faces long-standing orders and a heavy schedule of bills including naval and educational items. A mass meeting is planned in Washington on the 6th to promote a National Protective League under temperance and religious banners.
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National Protective League
Wasmisatox
House of Representatives
Metoid
Keokuk
Converse
Dist
House
Keifer
Congress
United States
Springer
Springfield
Matson
Oregon Central Railroad Company
Genral Boynton
Morrison
Randall
Pennsylvania
Allentown
Ways and Means Committee
National Library
Thomas I. Herndon
Senate
Washington
Jnst
Ufder
Question of National Aid to Public Schools in Congress
In Washington on April 5 discussion grows over three bills for national aid to public schools. Blair proposes 305,092,009 first year, declining yearly. Willis 35,000,000 with yearly reductions. Taylor's bill, praised by Kicknell, would fund 50,800,000 over twelve years based on illiteracy. A trustee board would oversee disbursement with state and territory distribution to illiterates aged ten to twenty, including segregated white and colored schools, and territories receive special treatment due to low local revenue.
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Willis Bil
D. Taylor
Congress
Thomas W. Kicknell
Boston
Tional Educational Association
Inter-State Educational Committee
District of Columbia
Territories
United States
Secretary of the Interior
Commissioner of Education
Senate
House of Representatives
House
States
Forest fires devastate multiple North Carolina counties
Reports from Raleigh and Columbia note widespread forest fires across Johnston Moore Robeson Cumberland Pender Richmond and Berkeley counties. Homes mills and churches burn while turpentine orchards of thousands of trees are destroyed. Fire hampers rail lines and commerce with many left homeless as crews battle blazes along the Carolina Central line and in surrounding towns.
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Raleigh
N. C
Johnston County
Carolina Central
Moore
Robeson
Johnston
Cumberland
Pender
Richmond
Columbis
8. C
Killian’s Station
Columbi
Dones &' Killian
Charleston
Aiken County
Chesterfield County
Berkley
Cerdeaville
Egyptian politics and Cambridge Oxford boat race report
Among scattered items General Graham arrived at a city and will review troops as Major Hunter tours Somali coast amid reports of tensions with natives. Nubar Pasha resigns as Egyptian president amid friction with Under Secretary Lloyd. Cambridge defeats Oxford in a foggy Thames race. Other items note French plans, dynamite rumors, an anarchist arrest, a poet shot, and multiple fires across the U.S. including Pensacola and New York.
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Namam
Caino
Graham
Stephenson
Lotmorrow
Hunter
Adan
Berber
Marrara
Zeila
Gulf of Aden
Brytin
Altough
General Order Reduces Railway Wages Across Systems
An executive committee of the Gould and Wabash systems orders a ten percent wage cut for all officers and employees earning 10 per month and above, including engineers and trainmen. The reduction lasts three months, May through August, or longer if needed. A Philadelphia embezzlement case is noted with ex convict Brace returning funds, plus stray fragments from unrelated regional notes.
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St. Louis
Gould and Wabash Systems
Delaney Brother Vindication Tale In Bisbee Case
In Tamissones Pa on April 8 a strange tale surrounds the execution of William B E Delaney a Liberian of the Pennsylvania State Senate. Captain John Delaney says his brother stayed away from the Bisbee murders in Mexico and argues a key witness lied. He notes copper claims and a deed to his brother, plus alleged plots by revenge seekers connected to the case.
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Jeanian
Tamissones
William BE. Delaney
Pennnsylvania State Senate
Delaney
Lombstone
Bisbee
John
Mexico
Daniels
Father Meliride
Tombstone
A.T
P. J. Gallagher
Marcel
Father Gallagher
Captain Delaney
Arthur
Uvelaney
Arizona
Dartne Lis
Committee demands Orrin Carpenter leave Logan County
A mass meeting committee delivered resolutions to Orrin A Carpenter at his Logan County home demanding his departure. Carpenter rejected the authority, stating he is a lawfully abiding citizen and will choose his own course, while the group dispersed without violence amid community tension. Reports suggest possible suits against committee members. A separate note mentions a grain train delivering aid to Ohio flood sufferers from Kansas.
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Carpenter
Carpener
Etporapo
Kas
St. Louis
Ft. Scott & Wichita
Missouri Pacific
Ohio & Mississippi Railways
Cincinnati
Luter County
Ohio
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Cairo
Nobar Pasha
Cambridge
Oxtford
Cambrings
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Thames
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Mortlake
Pekin
Marquis Tseng
Gaoninh
Pan
Tonguin
Aung Hoa
Doaux
Lepress
Mount Joy
Viesya
Liffon
Trip
Pensacola
Fla
Merchants’ Bank
New York
St. George’s
Packing Company
Henry May & Co
Vincesyes
Ind
Tall Brothers
Weisert
Minneapolis
Bassett
Fie
Cuncase
S. W. Brace
Gutrana & Rexamer
Philadelphia
Rogers
I Womat
Northeast
Orrin A. Carpenter
Lincoln
Jamengtown N.Y
F. D. Matteson & CO
Lion Street
Dunkirk, N. Y
Cary & Matteson Isell
Cary & Matteson
Center Street
Louis Heyl’s
Wirtner & Alling’s
General Hardware
Jones
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