Railroads and Society Across Continents
A scattered set of notes reports Souta Africa's 1562 miles of operational rail, Paris detective chief Hirreryre Tayion as an Englishman, America ahead of Europe in culture, Tran's new book printing in Washington Territory, hydrophobia caution from Boston dog catcher Dr. Warrs, and the Japanese minister's wife famed as a needle woman. It also cites General Strachey's claim that Indian railways bring over £30,000,000 in benefits, a norther on the Vera Cruz coast blocking travel, and a Guatemala-Mexico boundary survey revealing ancient dense habitation now eroded.
Reverend Hawes Compares Cleveland to Lord Brougham
Rev. H. R. Hawes likens President Cleveland to Lord Brougham though without irritability and notes Cleveland can complete vast work quickly with minimal effort. The observation highlights perceived efficiency and steadiness in the president's leadership style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Hawes
Cleveland
Lord Brougham
Brougham
Princes and Pledges in Curious 19th Century Tidbits
A parade of brief notes covers a christening budget of 600 dollars for Mr. Mackay’s grandson dubbed Young Prince Colonna, Parisian polish for King Milan, abstinence talk from Arch deacon Farrar, a Texas cattleman’s overland loss to Prescott, a miner’s find of a deserted town in British Columbia, Mexico’s Catholic press spread, Paree actors honored by Theebaw, and Nevada’s concert cake token gifts to ladies in Austin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan W. Mackay
Prince Colonna
Georgia Law Targets Poison Packaging in Scarlet Wrap
A new Georgia law requires poisons to be sold in scarlet wrap with matching scarlet bottles and white printing. A wholesale druggist says scarlet paper is rare and three printers cannot print white on it, making compliance a difficult packing problem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Mysterious white fish Invading Oregon Rivers This Fall
A small white fish, new to science, appears in Oregon rivers with the fall rains. It resembles a pearl white smelt but has defined scales and can weigh over a pound. Found only in the Williamette watershed, it has appeared in the last four to five years. In horses, hydrophobia first shows 15 to 90 days after bite with water aversion, throat spasms, tremors, aggression, and paralysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Williamette
Iowa News Items Rank Many Events Across State
Muscatine carpenter J B Nyenhouse dies after falling at Hershey's mill. Madison county creameries pay farmers 125000 to 150000 yearly. Spirit Lake captures a four and a half foot otter. Spear of Tipton offers 500 reward for arson. C B Q plans double track in Iowa this year. Plymouth county reports many diphtheria deaths. Keokuk disbands baseball club. Fatal incidents include a wash tub accident near Melrose and a stair fall near Radcliffe. Public notices include Lee post office closure and rise in insanity cases from war injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Nyenhouse
Muscatine
Hershey
Madison County
Spirit Lake
Alex. Spear
Tipton
C., B. & Q. Railroad Company
Iowa
Plymouth County
Lord Hobart
le Mars
Earl of Buckingham
Keokuk
Union County
Creston
Richard Barlow
Council Bluffs
Mt. Pleasant
Multiple Disasters and Trials Reported Across United States
The record details a string of incidents from a year after O'Donovan Rossa's shooting to widespread fires, ice-damaged fleets, political trials, and sensational deaths. It notes improvements of Yseult Dudley, resumed coke workers’ talks, flooded and burned towns, suicides and possible murders, labor boycotts in San Antonio, strike actions in New Orleans, and legal actions involving Elizabeth Tilton and Theodore Tilton amid a flurry of entangled public affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yseult Dudley
O'Donovan Rossa
Middleton Insane Asylum
Coke Syndicate
St. Louis
Waterbury
Conn
James Burns
Thomas Broderick
Sing Lee
Lowell
Mass
Augusta
EU Claire County
Wis
Jesse B. Deadley
Nortonville
Kentuck
Belleville
Mary Wilkerson
Long Station
Massey
Gartside
San Antonio
Texas
Malory Steamship Company
Stetson
Mallory Line
Morran
New Orleans
Gretna
Lmits
Philadelphia
White Hall
N. Y
Fire destroys Hempstead Club stables at Meadow Brook hunt
At Hunter's Point New York a blaze wrecked the Hempstead Club stables of the Meadow Brook hunt East Meadow. Two neighboring stables burned and twenty four valuable horses perished. Total horseflesh loss set at 30000 with 7000 for stables. Insurance coverage noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunter's Point
N. Y
Hempstead Club
Meadow Brook Hunt
East Meadow
Destructive train wrecks and mob violence across states
At Parkersburg a stolen Baltimore and Ohio locomotive tore away and wrecked a freight train, wounding all aboard while the culprit fled. In Windsor Missouri John Evans, facing eviction, set fire to his uncle’s house after a violent axe attack. Banks lay badly cut and Evans later found unconscious in a well. In Boston Irish National League in Chicago the president would not take pay yet league funds were sent as compensation. In Red Cliff Colorado a gun dispute led to a mob hanging a shooter from a water tank. a separate Illinois case found Joseph Weidisch murdered, body found with throat cut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Runnells
Wabash Road
Des Moines
Floyd O. West
Henry Furry
Mr. West
Furry
Win
West
Robert Waller
Rockdale
Dubuque
William Anderson
Radcliffe
State Board of Health
Parkersburg
West Virginia
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Bridge No. 50
John A. Ramsey
Andrews
Bradford
Array
Westbrook
Windsor
John Evans
Kella Banks
Banks
Evans
Rosa
Boston
Irish National League of America
League
Egan
Chicago
Eagan
Lincoln
Neb
J’reiley
Red Cliff
Colorado
Perry
Mike Gleason
Gleason
Ofter
Joseph Weidisch
Smithville
Ill
Weidisch
London Unemployed Reach Lord Mayor for Relief
Rumors of King Milan disbanding Servian forces spread amid unrest reports. Three hundred unemployed London workers appeal to the Lord Mayor for relief. fund for distressed poor rises to £6,000 as public aid expands. London plans mass meeting in Deptford. 600 police recruits engaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milan
London
Deptford
London News
Parnell
Galway
Healey
Biggar
Capt. O'Shea
Lynch
Vienna
Bulgaria
Servia
Austro-Hungary
Trafalgar Square
Mansion House
Edmonton
Fort Saskatchwan
Brussels
Leopold
Belgium
Herr Hahn
Landdes Bank of Vienna
Congo
Bank of England
Glynn, Mills & Courrie
Stock Exchange
Reuter
Berlin
State Legislature Debates and Bills Pass in Senate and House
The Iowa Senate and House debate bills on temperance, suffrage, and municipal laws. Measures include railway regulation, factory enforcement, and a uniform cream gauge. Passages cover bonding county debt, probate court jurisdiction, and a soldiers' home proposal with widespread petitions for public dairy protection.
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Donnan
Carr
McCoy
Scott
Bayless
State Pharmaceutical Association
Gatch
Capitol
Commissioner of Pharmacy
Schmidt
Chambers
General Assembly
Parrott
Deal
Chubb
Twentieth General Assembly
Earle
Caldwell
Berryhill
Seventeenth General Assembly
Senate
Iowa Senate Petitions Day Highlights Social and Fiscal Proposals
Petitions presented against Sunday labor and for a 3000 appropriation to the State University Pharmaceutical Department. Proposals include soldiers' home, bogus butter ban, Des Moines river lands, immigration aid, township trustee duties, tile drainage across highways, Forest City council acts, girls’ department funding, sanitary reports, and tax and jail reforms. Speeches by Hutchison Bolter Sweeney Sutton Bloom among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Pharmaceutical Department
The
State University
Donnan
Earle
Sutton
McCoy
Duncan
Stephens
Hendrie
Young
Johnson
Scott
Burdick
Weber
State of
Iowa
Glass
Common Council
Forest City
Gatch
Girls’ Department
Iowa Industrial School
Hutchison
Bolter
Sweeney
Bloom
Caldwell
Des Moines
Patriot
Waterloo
Reiniger, McCoy, Weber and Stephens
Samuel P. Rockbeck
Camp Dubuque
Dooley
Reiniger
Carson
Wolfe
Petitions and bills in the Iowa legislature rush through
A long session day sees petitions for soldiers homes and woman suffrage, bills on districts and bonds, and several measures advancing including a third reading of a bridge bill, a practice of medicine debate, and over thirty new proposals. Committees report, and impeachment material for Judge Hayes is debated as the House adjourns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Layless
Caldwell
Wolfe
Burdick
Gatch
Chubb and Dodge
Chubb and McCoy
Woolson
Carson
Bayless
Board of Supervisors
McCoy
State Board of Examiners
Parrott
Weber
Doud
Sutton
Supreme Court
Young
Barrett
Glass
Dodge
Casey
Knight
Senate
Walker
Brown
Schee
Messrs
Wilbur, Redman and
Clark
House
Lyons
Mahaska
Montgomery
Bruce
Sac City
Anderson
Warren
Greenlee
Teale
Cole
Pattee
Chamberlin
Guthrie
Densmore
Hamilton
Judge Hayes
Keatley
Weaver
Burgess
Legislature introduces reforming bills including saloon control and courts
A flurry of bills introduced by Donnan Gault Bloom and Sutton target notary acts township organization librarian salaries and municipal penalties for saloons. Other measures seek investigatory winter terms at Agricultural College judicial reorganization and abolishing district attorneys with elected county attorneys and restructured courts. Adjournment follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donnan
B. R. Eastman
Buchanan County
Gault
Vermillion Township
Appanoose County
Bloom
Sutton
Carson
The
Agricultural College
Committee On Schools
Gatch
Glass
Scott
Robinson
Woolson
Sweeney
Reiniger
Miles
Wilkins
McCoy
Bolter
HOUSE
Taxation of Northern Pacific Lands in Senate Bill
Senator Hawley introduced a bill to tax lands granted to the Northern Pacific Railway and deeded to settlers following a recent Supreme Court ruling. Congress debated franking to Julia D Grant, and a Senate resolution sought details on special land fraud agents. House actions included tariff debates and civil service exams for consular appointments. The Fitz John Porter bill faced opposition from Fuller of Iowa before adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawley
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Supreme Court of the United States
Conger
Committee On Post Offices
Senate
Julia D. Grant
Plumb
Secretary of the Interior
Fraias
Morgan
Jackson
Committee On
Secretary of the Treasury
Morrison
Illinois
Felton
California
China
Henley
Belmont
New York
Civil Service Commission
House
Fitz John Porter
Fuller
Iowa
Education bill dominates today's session with adjournment
The day centered on debate over the education bill with remarks by Jackson, Maxey, Pugh, Blair and Coke, no action taken, and the session adjourned. In the House, Bland's free coinage of silver bill was reported adversely by the Coinage committee and placed on the calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Maxey
Pugh
Blair
Coke
HOUSE
James
Bland
Fitz John Porter
Sesson
Brown
Rowell
Perkins
Peters
Senate Rail Plan Faces Early Progress And Contests
Several bills were introduced with Morrell backing education in the states and Hoar proposing a 150000 grant for Grant Monument, later raised to 250000 upon Logan's suggestion. An Indians land allotment bill paused as the Senate met in executive session and adjourned. In the House, a money order fee cut and homesteader protection within railways passed, while the Fitz John Porter bill went to committee before adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrell
Hoar
Grant
Washington
Logan
Severalty
Senate
Senate debate on constitutional amendment and education bill
The senate discussed a Hoar sponsored petition from foreign born citizens urging Congress to submit a proposed constitutional amendment abolishing the Presidency. Plumb offered a territorial money administration amendment. Coke condemned the bill as despotism and divisive to the nation. Evarts spoke, supporting the bill in principle but paused.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Hoar
United States
Congress
Plumb
Secretary of the Interior
Coke
House of Congress
Evarts
Senate Debates and Porter's Pay Bill Passage
The Senate debated a potential vote and an adjournment followed as Evarts and Blair clashed. The House resumed consideration of the land grant forfeiture but adjourned after morning debate. In the Fitz John Porter bill Bragg spoke for it and Everhart failed to win passage on committing with altered provisos. The motion to recommit failed 112 to 173, then the bill passed 171 to 113, and the chamber adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Blair
Evarts
HOUSE
Springer
Fitz John Porter
Bragg
Everhart
Reed
Porter
Yeas
Senate Proceedings Mention Eight Hour Law and Indian Lands Bill
Senator Edmunds introduced a bill toward the eight hour law. Allison asked treasury questions on United States notes redeemed from 1879 to 1885. Eustis sought details on New Orleans sub treasurer’s silver dollar refusal. Teller expanded inquiry into a defalcation, and Dawes’ land allotment bill was discussed with Chace delivering his maiden speech. The educational bill and judicial reform measures were debated and related pension bills passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmunds
Allison
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Eustis
New Orleans
Teller
Dawes
Chace
Committee On Judiciary
Alexander P. Stewart
Mississippi
Thomas L. Rosser
Virginia
Edward G. W. Butler
Missouri
Embezzlement Charge and Murky Crimes Hit Windsor and Iowa
John B. Mannix faces embezzlement and perjury counts in Cincinnati related to Archbishop Purcell estate. Windsor area reports a mysterious assault on Georgie Aldridge and a lynching incident near Monroe involving George Robinson. The column notes political rhetoric on London disorder, hog losses, a railroad depot fire, and local pensions plus multiple small-town misfortunes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Mannix
Cincinnati
Archbishop Purcell
Windsor
Georgie Aldridge
George Robinson
Willard Parker
Monroe
Robinson
Parker
Bolivar County
Miss
Lord Randolph Churchill
London
Ireland
Childers
Home Secretary
Home Office
Lord Randolph
Gladstone
Parnell
Herbert Gladstone
Two Council Bluffs Men Attacked by Bandits in Mexico
J J Preston and Captain H Hawser from Council Bluffs Iowa traveling from Sinslon to El Paso were attacked near Parrol Mexico by two Mexican bandits. Hawser was killed and Preston wounded in the arm. Preston's defense mail forced the bandits to flee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Texas
Tombigbee River
Choctaw
Marengo
Sumpter
Alabama
Moscow
Beckley
Palasia
Rine Bluff
Ark
Gray
Stony Vincent
Vincent
Nelson Dewey
Wisconsin
Grant County
Cleveland
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio
Woodland Hills Avenue
Flag Staff
Arizona
J. T. Preston
G. H. Howser
Sinslow
Mexico
el Paso
J.J. Preston
H. Hawser
Sinslon
Parrol
Hawser
Preston
Council Bluffs
Iowa
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D. M. McElroy
Onereer
Aera
Souta Africa
Hirreryre Tayion
Lorra
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George Francis Tran
Washington Territory
At. Warrs
General Strachey
India
Vera Cruz Coast
Alvarado
Vera Cruz
Guatemala
Milan of
France
Alexander
Cyrus W. Freip
Archdeacon Farrar
Prescott
Columbia River
British Columbia
Republic of Mexico
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Merida
Puebla
Chalchicomula
Morelia
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Monterey
San Luis Potosi
Culiacan
Oaxaca
Orizaba
Irapuato
San Christobal Las Casas
Theebaw
Burmah
Sweet Sage Sinner
Nevada
Austin
Oliver Masness
Ft. Dodge
Edward Clark
Burlington
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Kansas City
Louis Geise
Dixon
Scott County
Greene County
Searsboro
Poweshick County
Davenport
Sioux City
Ackley
Viroqua
Morley
Joseph Bradshaw
Volga
A. B. Arnold
Gladbrook
Diptheria
Remsen
Coosick
Decorah
Marshal Ireland
George Cannon
Winnemucca
Cannon
Salt Lake
Zane
Nevada Shell
Arnold
Abram H. Cannon
Elizabeth Tilton
Theodore Titon
Morse
Brooklyn
Alice
Mr. Tilton
Foreign News
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Bogg
Bradley
Holbrook
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Speaker
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Harris
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Kline
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Redhead
Spencer
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Rice
Échee
Pauline
O'Brien
Storey
Wilson
Cass
Keatly
Earle and
Cassatt
Fees
Tous
Kent
Natchway
Boggs
Nelson
Stiger
Agnew
Converse
Hazlett
Dobson
Roberts
Roach
Overholtzer
Lars N
Hammond
Wilbur
Independence
Tiouse
Mayo
Calhoun County
Rock Island
Floris
Davis County
Iowa Press Association
M. Shepard
Bremer County
Robert Lincoln
Crawford County
Herman Kessick
Margaret Duffey
Dudley
Jon Duffey
Co. E
36Th Iowa Infantry
Griswold
Theodore Rykert
Pomeroy
J. H. Lozier
Bud Means
Pottawattamie County
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