Civil Service Reform Faces Rough Reception in Congress
Washington reports show most lawmakers dismiss civil service reform as a sham while the House committee lingers, preparing repeal moves as the commission pursues its high road of virtue amid hostility. River and Harbor proposals cap at 10 million, while southern war claims swell with hundreds of cases awaiting action.
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Wasmmerox
Janes G. Smith
Leeasary
Washington
CIV
Congress
Civil Service
House
Commission
Tu Nmber
Riiver and Warrior Committee
House Committee On
Representative Geddes
Ohio
South
the Treasury
A Connecticut Tragedy Jealous Husband Fires
A jealous husband, F Coraant, fatally shoots Alfred McClellan after a dispute on a drive in Norwich Connecticut. Conant confronts his wife at First Baptist Church, surrenders, and is arrested. McClellan, a 27 year old professional athlete who had performed with Rice Brothers and Tony Pastor, dies from gunshot wounds. rumors link a past affair and possible repeated confrontations.
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Ins
Norwich
Cony
Alfred McClellan
Button
Conant
Elizabeth Street
McClellan
deClellan
Munter
First Baptist Church
Ife
al McCieron
Clellan
Butten
Cenner
Dry Gooda House
Hissop
Porteus & Mitchell
Edorah Rice
New York
Rice Brothers
Tony Pastor
Dern
Barnum
King of Kinjabs Faces Snow Storms and War News
Feb 11 dispatches report El Mahdi's forces capturing Sankeit near Kasesis and Ravine north of Suakim. an English gunboat to shell Ravina. West Africa cites the King of Kinjabo assembling to resist the Anglo-French boundary commission while a French squadron lands troops at Assinee. Riots in Semona and Roma. smallpox in Coomassie. Scotland and North Wales endure severe snow and gales. Clyde shipbuilding shows improving activity.
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Figaro
Tat el Mahdi
Sankeit
Kasesis
Assinee
Thompson
Orvbty
Assinees
Roma
Quitta
Coomassie
Ashantes
Galea
Low Stondg
Scotland
North Wales
Clyde Shep
Clyde
Vienna
Hutzenberger
the Heichsrath
Roman Sévices
Politmhe
Vaican
Prussia
BUMO
RED
Christiana
Lendor
Tonquin
Pan
le Monde
England
Lonpox
Clipington Waste Works
Dundee
Dunny
Fimes
Stafford Northcote
Rome
France
Gordon
Berber
Camp
Murderers At FrRanmont: Tramp Hired By Pennington
Eyewitness evidence points to a tramp hired by John Pennington as the killer of both Pennington and his wife. Bodies found in a barn and a nearby cow shed reveal brutal violence. the man shot the husband, then bludgeoned the wife as she tried to intervene. Over 500 men are at the scene. hunts continue across the countryside. A reward of 1,560 is offered by state, county, and citizens of Frankfort.
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FrRanmont
Kan
John Pennington
Pennington
Het
Frankfort
Late News Items From The Nation And States
A compilation of scattered items notes claims on health research and a San Bernardino accident, legal judgments in Ottawa against a Canadian steel company, and a five year penitentiary sentence for a minister in Missouri. It cites political, abolitionist, and labor movements, census percentages for western states, police and court actions in Constantinople, a Peter Cooper note, and cattle industry protests against a proposed bureau of animal industry.
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Valent Union
Russia
Bacheqte Court
Ottawa
Steel Company of
Canades
Raila Iy
Silas Smith
Edward Beecher
International Working People’s Association of New York
Block and
Klubeth
Vienna
Stallmacher
National Committee of Sons of Veterans
New York
Nebraska
Hino
Indiana
Iowa
Dakota
Arizona
Colorado
Idaho
Kansas
Washington
Constantinople
Peter Cooper
Ali Cooper
Chicago
War in Texas Texans Brace for Mexican Raid at Eagle Pass
Reports from Eagle Pass and San Antonio indicate authorities fear a Mexican raid on Maverick County as two alleged train robbers held in Eagle Pass spark calls for reinforcements. Texas Rangers captain Sheely and U S Marshal Gosling are coordinating a defensive response with troops and local posses. The case ties to Manuel Rodeguez a slain pioneer. conflicting versions place the murder near Eagle Pass or Piedras Negras with suspects Tom Lackey Alonzo Peres and others. A Galveston News correspondent notes the tension and cross border lines. Separately at Fall River, Massachusetts, Weavers strike King Phillips mill after a ten percent wage cut, with a concession offered but rejected by workers.
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Tex
Eagle Pass
Leland
Maverick County
Rio Grande
Captan Sheely
Texas Rangers
United States
Gosling
Frelinghuysen
Manuel Redegrez
Saragosa
Mexico
Piedras Negras
Texas
Rodeguez
Marshal Goslingeaves
Buck
Galveston News
Relief Corps
Redegues
Tom Lackey
del Rio
Peres
Alvino Peres
Redeguez
Lackey
Rodegues
al Roberts
L Flowers
Kinney County
Roberts
Flowers
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Suitilie
Saltillo
Milway Appli
Frank James
Charles Ford
Rry
Criminal
Wallace
Attornney
Crittenden
Pick Liddell
Gallatin
James
Missouri
Keckel
United States Court
Mussel Shoals
Alabama
Payne
OF Via
Senate
Pendleton
Henry B. Payne
the Post
Vanderbilt
Rock Island
Gould
Azapexe
Pottstown [Ton Company
Trenton
N. J
New Jersey Steel and Iron Works
Chain Department
St. Joser
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Ie Bear
Hawthorne
Cummings
Ensineer
Kenpely
Hood
Garveparilia
el Mehdi
Sankett and
Ravina
Buakin
Wales
Green
North River Construction Company
New Jersey
Osher
Oswerco
WN. Y
Walcot
Hurderera
Michael Buckley Land
James Sheehan
James Young
San Bernandiiun
Vitoria
Gener
Failiver
Mass
King Phillips Mill
Oaklews
Lancedale
Levin
Aresery Department
Lyon Bros. Palace Drug Store
Dunkirk
Center Street
J. A. Staph
W. C. Zimmermann, Jr
Gidley & Bloss
Hamburg
Hove
Wirtner & Alling
Rt. P
Tleaig Guter
Monroe
St. James
RED Cross
Ree Tinware
Everett
Ake
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