Saloon Sentences and Iowa News Snippets
Franklin county saloon keepers receive sixty and ninety day jail terms for liquor selling. A cadetship exam for West Point will be held April 21 at the Clifton House Cedar Rapids. Iowa City expects a knee breeches revival as 40 plus students may abandon trousers this term. A Dubuque switchman Peter Larkin killed April 1 when run over by a locomotive. Waukonia depot fire March 31 destroys building contents and money. Fort Madison Hotel Athens guest A Meyers saved after gas outage. Davenport plow order from Russia. Dubuque & Sioux City railroad lease dispute leads to parallel line plan Iowa Falls to Sioux City. Illinois Central expansion noted. Regents meet at Iowa City March 29. president to be chosen by May. Grand Knights of Town Knights of Honor elected officers at Cedar Rapids. Independence hospital outbreak ends in death after clash among patients over boots. autopsy confirms brain rupture. Pleasantville Telegraph cites cures. Des Moines Supreme Court upholds sewer and street assessment authority for cities. Twelve Iowa cities noted. Dubuque teachers' salaries lowest average. Des Moines highest. Iowa leads in cattle hogs corn and railways outside Texas.
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Franklin County
West Point
Clifton House
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Crry
Peter Larkin
Ilinois Central
Dubuque
Milwaukee
Wauconia
Charles Boyie
United States Express Company
A. Meyers
Farmington
Iowa
Athens
Illinois Central
Putibuane
Liowa Falls
Iowa Falls
Sioux City
Board of Regents
Towa City
Tus Grand Lodge
Town Knights of Honor
J. M. Gilchrist
Marhalltown
Benj. Bawden
Keokuk
B. N. Eversmeyer
Muscatine
C. Pills
Grand Guide
J. E. McGee
Clinton
Grand Guardian
J. W. Cox
Logan
Sentinel
D. Hough
Red Oak
L. KE. Dean
Lyons
Grand Reporter
John Manz
Grand Treasurer
L. J. Walters
Independence Hospital
Marion Hefflen
Dubuque County
John Goose
Henry Adamson
Hamilton County
Goose
Adamson
Pleasantville
Supreme Court
Des Moines
West Des Moines
Union
Texas
Van Wyck Fears Railroads Target Inter state Law
Former Senator Van Wyck of Nebraska says railroads plan to weaken the interstate commerce law by raising commutation ticket prices and recalling thousand mile tickets. He warns the move would offend mercantile travelers and undermine support for the new statute.
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Washington
van Wyck
Nebraska
Pennsylvania Road
Baltimore & Olio
Emperors, arrests, and trials across 1886 notes
Father Ryan of Herbertstown jailed for silence on plan of campaign matters. Empress interviews the Pope's envoy in the emperor's absence. Herbert Harsha arrested in Omaha and sent to Chicago for $3,300 theft. Navy inquiries on transport amid neutral signals. 1600 congratulatory telegrams to Emperor William. New Orleans cotton trade paralyzed by weighers strike. Diller Gothard Monrad dies. Boise City bank designated for war funds. Rollie Squire to stand trial for public works corruption. Flynn to be tried separately. Thirteen anarchists convicted in Vienna plot with sentences up to twenty years. Internal Revenue notes 37 artificial butter factories in U S. 3542 oleomargarine dealers taxed in late 1886.
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Father Ryan
Herbertstown
Ireland
Germany
Herbert Harsha
Omaha
Chicago
Nelson Dunham
Clark Street
Coleman
Louisiana
Navy Department
Canada
William
New Orleans
Diller Gothard Monrad
Treasury
Tairchild
Boise City National Bank
Bose City
Idaho
War Department
Rollie M. Squire
Public Works
New York
Maurice B. Flynn
Squire
Flynna
Vienna
Imperial Palace
Schonbrunn
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
United States
Twain
Denver
Kokomo
Ind
Lia
Kansas City
Armourdale
Kan
Ashland
Hurley
Wis
Lou Eva CIA
Chippewa
US States
Notable Political Echoes and Accidents Across Nations
A wide array of items spans from honors for President Cleveland and royal wanderings to Irish coercion debates and a Detroit shoe factory fire. Notes mention Chauncey Depew as a possible candidate, Foraker's stance, Queen Victoria poems, and international moves in London plus Parisians and Napolitan visits. Fire, poison scares, and political shifts pepper the day’s record.
Illinois Legislature Adopts Ireland Policy Resolution
The Illinois legislature adopted a resolution condemning the English government policy toward Ireland. Separately Nebraska lawmakers passed similar resolutions condemning Britain. The report notes other items including naval reform calls, railroad labor changes, and a murder conviction in San Francisco.
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Telegraph and Mail
Ireland
Ilinois
Light House Board
Bartholdi
Nebraska
English Committee On Naval Reform
Southern Pacific Railroad
W. G. Raoul
Georgia Central Railway
Mexican Central Railway
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Virginia
Boston
Bell Telephone Company
United States Courts
New York District
Secretary of the Treasury
Alaska Comercial Company
Alaska
Reagan
Texas
Palestine
Tex
Startes
Arizona
Alexander Goldson
Mainie Kelly
San Francisco
Seddy Coal Company
Chattanooga
Tenn
Cincinnati
Joint Committee Moves to End Passenger Ticket Commissions
The trunk lines and Contra Traffic association meet at Commissioner Finks office to push abolishment of commissions on passenger tickets. The plan targets professional brokers and regular agents with long standing sales ties. Officials estimate railways lose over 35 million yearly to scalping practices.
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TNE
New York
Dispatch
Trunk Lines and
Contra Traffic Association
Fink
United States
Fifty-Year Pork Packing Figures From Cincinnati Dispatch
The Cincinnati price current reports its thirty-eighth annual pork packing statement. Winter packing totals 6,439,009 hogs, up from last year’s 6,298,995, with 767 pounds lighter average weight. Lard yield per hog falls 1.68 pounds, mess pork down 156,933 pounds, and meat stocks on March 15 show large reductions versus the previous year. Packing for the summer season to November 11 totals 5,644,643 hogs, 679,431 more than 1886.
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Cincinnati Dispatch
Cincinnati Price
West
Detail of Haddock murder testimony at Sioux City trial
Koschiniski alias Bismarck recounts offers to pay for whipping preacher Haddock and follows suspects Treiber Granda Leavitt and Arensdorf through the night of the killing. He describes rides to saloons, payments of 500, 125 and 100 dollars, and the sequence leading to Haddock’s shooting on Water Street.
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Koschiniski
Bismarck
Haddock
Sioux City
Treiber
Fred Folger
Granda
Trieber
R v. Haddock
Leavitt
Plath
Charlevy Eberhart
Hadlock
Eberhart
Columbia House
aAnione
Fitzsimmons
Merrill
Water Street
Bank Corner
Dineen
Fourth Street
Fourth and
Pearl Streets
Urth Street
Water and
Arensdorf
Munchrath
Paul Leader
Waterstreet
Leader
Arensd
Peterson
Milwaukee House
Fred Polzer
Folger
Junk’s
Salix
Henry Peters
Grada
Geo Treiber
George Treiber
Coming Changes Hinted in Postmaster List Inquiry
Washington special reports Postmaster General Vilas orders a compiled list of presidential postmasters from the last administration with related files. Clerks work at the department and a summer reshuffle is anticipated under the repeal of the tenure of office act. The list, when ready, will go to the president.
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Washington Special
Vilas
Post Office Department
Rock Island Robbery Case Brings First Witness Testimony
The Rock Island train murder case opens with E. Romsey as the first witness. He describes baggage car duties and a night of gunfire during the robbery. Defense objections pause expert testimony to be provided after foundation. Other employees testify. engineer Wood remains on the stand. No dramatic revelations expected before Thursday or Friday.
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Rock Island
Morris
E. Romsey
Watten
Engineer Wood
Cardinal Gibbons on Knights of Labor and Catholic duty
Corrected text of Cardinal Gibbons report on the Knights of Labor argues Catholic workers remain faithful to the church while engaging in union activity. He defends religion as a guide in labor conflicts, warns against condemning unions, and stresses social order, justice, and humanity in democratic America.
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Cardinal Gibbons
Knights of Labor
Moniteur de Rome
America
Europe
Revolution and dynamite urged against England by Irish leaders
A Boston Irish National League event reports calls for forceful action including revolution and dynamite to oppose the coercion act. John Fitzgerald urged funding for dynamite plans and warned that moderate men have been driven toward violence by continued persecution of Ireland.
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England
New York
Irish National League of Boston
John Boyle O'Reilly
Lord Frederick Cavanang
Burke
Phenix Park
John Fitzgerald
Iish National League of America
London
Otter
Brooklyn
William J. Knoud
Parnell
Teland
Pennsylvania Company Orders Sweep Passenger Rates Restored
The Pennsylvania Company issued a circular for lines west of Pittsburgh, reinstating full passenger tariffs and disallowing reduced fares. All sub-agents to be discharged. special rates for many groups abolished. local minister tickets kept at two cents per mile. The order, affecting 2,481 miles, takes effect April 1 and stresses agent liability for compliance.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Company
National Soldiers Homes
Prers
Sisters of Charity
Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg Railroad Company
Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad Company
Macdonald aide defends fisheries treaty stance in Canada US dispute
Ottawa special reports William MacDonald Dougal, veteran minister and Confederation framer, defends Bayard's position on fisheries. He argues the treaty limits only fishing rights within three miles and allows Canada to restrict trade. He predicts renewed negotiations or a new treaty, warning against US coercion and cabinet panic.
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Ottawa
William Mac- Dougal
Dominion
United States
Bayard
Canada
London
Kame
Etreus
Teun
Mne Tolay
Macdonald
Ireland Coercion Bill Sparks Lincoln Cable Exchange
Lincoln Neb John Fitzgerald reports from Charles Stewart Parnell that the British coercion bill is the ninth and most stringent in 87 years, aiming at suppressing open agitation and placing speakers writers and editors under crown control. The Liberal party condemns it and Irish sympathy in America grows as Nebraska votes unanimously for Ireland’s liberty.
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Lincoln
Neb
John Fitzgerald
Charles Stewart Parnell
Novse of Commons
London
House of Commons
Ireland
Kerry
Old Bailey
Liberal Party
Gladstone
House of Common
Parneln
Fitzerald
Mr. Parnell
Charles S. Parnell
M. P
League
Nebraska
Free Country
Ireband
United States
Sygned
Joan Frrzceravp
Knights of Labor ban on political funding affirmed
Chicago dispatch reports a ruling by the Knights of Labor general secretary that no money may be voted from any assembly district or local for political purposes. The decision, affecting district assembly 24 and master workman Robert Nelson, sets a precedent governing KO L funding across the organization.
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Chicago Dispatch
Knights of Labor
Robert Nelson
Labor Party
United Labor Party
General Land
Philadelphia
Chicago
Local Assembly
General Executive Board
Bailey
Barry
Aylesworth
Hayes
Carlton
Worthy Por
Nelson
Saoo Ters
Too Friendly to American Interests in Mexican Rail Policy
A Mexican press section attacks the administration for favoring U S railroad links and not pursuing inter oceanic lines. Critics argue tariff cuts on cotton cloth harm Mexican manufacturing while others see gains in cheaper goods and competition. The government remains committed to current policy, aiming for closer U S trade and harbor improvements at Vera Cruz.
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City of
Mexico
United States
Vera Cruz
Europe
Washington Special on Navy Yard Reconstruction Plans
Active movements in Washington focus on equipping the navy yard and ordnance foundry for ship building and heavy guns. Secretary of the Navy and naval ordnance officer hold daily consultations. plans and changes to be decided in days. The yard may see reduced expenditures with reuse of existing buildings and a phased build, with two years to complete a plant capable of heavy ordnance, while initial output targets guns up to six inches in calibre.
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Washington
Washington Navy Yard
Ordnance Foundry
Secretary of the Navy
Naval Ordnance Officer
Board of Naval Offices
West Seeks Civil Service Reform Growth
Secretary John T. Doyle of the civil service commission toured Pittsburg Willamsport Rochester Buffalo Detroit Lansing Grand Rapids Toledo Cleveland and Ft Wayne to gauge reform sentiment. He found stronger civil service boards in New York and Massachusetts but noted growing reform in the west with associations forming and moves to establish state boards under statutes.
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Washington
John T. Doyle
Civil Service Commission
Pittsburg
Willamsport
Rochester
Buffalo N.Y
Detroit
Lansing
Grand Rapids
Mich
Toledo
Cleveland
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Doyle
Civil Service
New York
Massachusetts
Western States
Postmaster General Clarifies Interstate Commerce Act Reach
Circular to railway mail service division superintendents and inspectors asks how the act affects postal workers travel. Railroads seek guidance on free travel practices while the attorney general states the act regulates commerce, not postal service.
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Washington
Attorney General
Grand jury may reveal more indictments in Chicago case
Morning reports say the grand jury has another batch of indictments ready but timing depends on the state’s attorney. Investigations into the county hospital management, the artesian well project at Jefferson, and the county building preserving paint scheme continue with witnesses expected and serious developments anticipated.
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Chicago
Grand
Revady
States Attorney's Office
Jefferson
Pennsylvan ia Railroad Transfers Clerks in Pittsburg
The transfer station clerks in Pittsburg were informed that after this month their jobs will end. About one hundred workers earning 50 to 125 dollars monthly will lose employment as the station closes. The move follows the interstate commerce bill and ends interline transfers between main lines in the city.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Road
Pennsylvania Company
Charles Fairchild Named Treasury Secretary in Manning Resignation
Washington report notes Manning resigns effective tomorrow and Fairchild, already running the treasury, will become secretary. Possible shifts include Mayard as assistant secretary and debate over treasurership successor for Jordan Me. Pacific roads inquiry details also touch on commission makeup and timing.
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Washington Special
Manning
Fairchild
Treasury Department
Department
Mayard
Jordan Me
Jordan
Europe
Pres Dent
Theodore Cok
C Neinnati
Cook
Graves
Whelpley
Sioux City Mur der Trial Shocks With State Resting Case
The trial nears a pivotal moment as the state rests on existing evidence. Minnie Mosnitski, 12, testifies as a key state witness while defense seeks adjournment to prepare. Arensdorf stands accused as mob leader. witnesses link him to the fatal shot and imply his involvement in the escape of Bismarck.
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Sioux City
Minnie Mosnitski
Bismarck
Arensdorf
Leavitt
Plans for Grant Monument Designs in Riverside Park
The Grant Monument Association has not yet chosen a design for General Grant’s statue in Riverside Park. About 125000 of a 1000000 cost has been raised and placed with a trust company. European and American designs are under consideration, including a colossal W W Story study in Rome featuring a mausoleum base, dome, and victory statue.
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New York
Grant Monument Association
General Grant
Riverside Park
Europe
America
W. W. Story
Rome
Grant
Victory
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