Final Day in Congress Ahead of Adjournment Debate
Telegraph reports the House anxious for speedy adjournment of Congress with pension bills and clerical appropriations dominating action. Forty-one bills granting pensions pass, potentially costing millions yearly. Senate House clash over railway postal service funding. a case of a bank’s withdrawal after suspension surfaces in Canada as department considers whisky import rules and tea dust hazards.
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Earl
Washimetox
Congress
Senate
Representative Hiscock
Hiscock
House
Treasury
Cook
Stockslager
Tippecanoe
Messrs. Adams
Harr
Cannon
Adams
Northwest
Messrs. Townshend
Holman
Postage Reduction Cuts News Paper Rates nationwide
Washington reports the new law halves newspaper postage for second class matter, letting papers up to four ounces go for one cent if prepaid. The change aims to ease costs and reduce waste from underpaid mail, with future moves to raise letter weight limits under consideration.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Iit
Congress
Yesteryr
Balloon incident in Bordeaux sparks attempted assassination
June 16 reports from Bordeaux recount a French soldier firing on American Consul George W. Roosevelt and his wife during a balloon event. The bullet grazed Roosevelt, leaving him shaken. the assailant and two companions fled. An inquiry ordered. Also noted: Britain screens Egypt terms, Danish-Greek tensions, and other brief items about Greenland, St Petersburg royal wedding pomp, and crime notes in Detroit and Abroxb.
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Bordeaus
Quincane
George W. Roosevelt
United States
Roosevelt
Bordeaux
Loxpes
Dune
Chatham
Egypt
Pall Mall Gazette
England
France
The
Gazette
Gladstone
America
Uhe
Eaton Hall
Duke of Westminster
Chester
Pall’Mall Gazette
Turkey
Soudan
Detroit
Mich
Genesee
Shiawassee
John Daniels
Flint
Asa Davis
Corunna
Daniels
Pennsylvania
Quicksand Traps Two Workmen at City Waterworks
A cave-in at a city waterworks well depth forty feet buried one carpenter John Smith of Wellsville aged forty while another worker Patrick Scullen of East Liverpool escaped with serious injuries. Rescue efforts by a large crew continued for hours as the unstable quicksand repeatedly collapsed the cavity. A rain could endanger the waterworks and nearby property. no blame assigned.
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W. Vadune
John Smith
Wellsville
Patrick Scullen
East Liverpool
Smith
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Takehood
Presbyterians
Toronto
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Howe
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Rvamne Ovesere
Aknoy, O
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Verry Peck
Clit Looth
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Rendville
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Jim Clifford
Richard Hickey
Isaac Rhinehart
Lannagan
Blakely
Fuarrons
McDevitt
Pittsburgh
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Petroleum Exchange
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Fort Scott
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Steve Anderson
East Fort Scott
Big Wife
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Chase
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Hegan
Monongamela City
Lila
Easton
Williams Township
Northampton County
Glendon
Lampoon
Merworth
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Hahn
Cleveland
F. D. Matteson &C
Lion Street
Dunkirk, N. Y
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Third Street
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W.G. Alling & CO
Lion Street Hardware
Oakley
Seworth
F. Oakley
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