Banking Committee prepares to urge McPherson funding bill
Washington June 1 The Banking and Currency Committee will seek a special day to discuss the McPherson funding bill and the Dingley bill for government bond investments. Other committees plan to set days for bills on commerce agriculture foreign affairs military affairs and more. The unfinished land grant railroads survey bill faces Tuesday action along with a measure to bar contract labor and the ongoing Presidential count debate.
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Committee On
Banking and Currency
House
Agriculture
Senate
National Library
Randall
Committee
Utah
Hoar
Senate Committee On Appropriations
T Office
Mississippi River flooding hurts labor amid ration controversy
The Lower Mississippi waters fall slowly as two and a half feet of high water recede. Laborers are kept at levee work with high wages but ration distributions demoralize plantations as many workers leave the fields once food relief arrives, including at the Millanden estate run by Lieutenant Governor Ames. The ration policy is blamed for undermining plantation interests and triggering political concerns.
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Mississippi
Millanden Place
Ames
Mess
Freight rate changes and other midwest notes
Changes in freight rates from Chicago to New York set for June 24 and July 21, covering eighth class and added special classifications, with higher charges for seventh and ninth classes. Also reports on the Travelers' Protective Association meeting in Detroit and a Pittsburgh mortgage suit, plus a riverside incident in Wheeling involving Italian workers and a fatal wife murder plea in Tremonp Cents Wisconsin.
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New York
Fink
Associated Press
Joint Executive Committee
Chicago
Arliclea
U. H
Fall of Berber Announced and Forces Advance to Dongola
Governor of Dongola reports Berber fallen and El Mahdi Ameer advancing on Dongola, with evacuation proposed for the city. Berber fall credited at Wady Halfa as German envoy heads to London on the Egyptian conference. The massacre narrative from Korosko claims 1,509 garrison dead and 2,000 men killed. women and children spared. General notes from the Souadam discuss expedition plans via Suakim and transport prep, with Holy See diplomacy and other assorted items.
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Tor
Caine
Dongola
Wady Halfa
Cairo
London
Lonpoy
Korosko
Berber
Dfajor Kitchener
Hussein Pacha Khaliff
Pall Mall Gazette
Tie Soudam
War Office
Admiralty
Eahartoum
Wolseley
Suakim
Massowny
Nile
Steamship Companies
Egypt
Hewitt
John
Abyssinnia
Morocco
Tangifa
Wazan
Ordega
Vatican
Belgium
Rour
Monsignor Rinaldici
Brussels
Heavy Rains Damage California Crops In June
June 14 reports from San Francisco and Sacramento describe the heaviest June rainfall in 34 years, totaling over one inch in a single day and over two inches for the month. Crop losses across fifteen localities include near destruction of hay and damage to wheat and barley, with fire losses up to ten percent. Officials warn sustained wet weather could worsen losses, while cooler, windy days might improve conditions. widespread insurance and banking discussions loom in Canada amid a gold reserve policy debate.
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Signal Service Bureau
Sacramento
Edwin J. Smith
State Board of Agriculture
Associated Press
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Old Eagle Mines
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Travelers’ Protective Association of the
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Mechanics’ and Manufacturers’ Exchange
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St. Clair
J. W. McKinstry
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Dresident
J. K. Stone
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Pittsburgh Southern Road
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Common Pleas Court
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
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Cents
Wis
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Boaz
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Yaxxros
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Com Werner
el Mahdi
Ameer
Tangier
Spain
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Iecio
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Samuel Bowles
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Staius Spinning Company
A. F. Gault
Leavenworth
Kan
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Brant
Philadelphia
Lang & King
Hood
F. D. Matteson & CO
Lion Street
Dunkirk, N. Y
M. Loeb
Third Street
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W.G. Alling & CO
Lion Street Hardware
Oakley
A. Oakley
Rach
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