Iowa News Items Highlighting Local Developments and Tragedies
Clinton sinks an artesian well and Keokuk contracts for 500 acres of tomatoes. The next state fair is booked for Sept 29 in Des Moines. Cedar Rapids workers save $200000 in the city savings bank. A 97 year old Des Moines county pair is noted. Several fatal and legal cases, fires, wrecks, and open saloon closures are reported across Iowa towns with details on individuals and institutions involved.
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Clinton
Missouri Valley
Des Moines
Keokuk Canning Company
Carroll County
Cedar Rapids
City Savings Bank
George Sage
Harlan
John 8. Gortner
Mechanicsville
Baltimore & Ohio
Chas. McCambridge
Surrey
Garner
Charles Loop
Thomas M. Cardie
Iowa & Dakota Division
State Agricultural Society
Buena Vista County Agricultural Society
Boone Building and Loan Association
Henry Broderick
Cerro Gordo County
Mitchell
Mr. Broderick
Mitchell Road
Gast
Broderick
Herndon
Bedice
F. C. Jones
Gardner
F. M. Gardner
Anderson
Hernden
S. A. Arthur
Clarinda
Standard O.1 Co
Red Oak
Gen W B Hazen Dies in Washington Home
Gen. W. B. Hazen chief signal officer died in Washington at 8 PM after a diabetic collapse. He had recent health improvement, was at a diplomatic reception, then fell ill. Born 1830 in West Hartford Vt he served Senate campaigns and the Atlanta campaign before becoming chief signal officer in 1880. His death follows a long career marked by strict discipline and controversial moments. His wife and son are in Paris.
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WasnincTon
W. B. Hazen
P. F. Harvey
Harvey
D. L. Huntington
Lincoln
Huntington
Hazen
West Hartford
Military Academy
West Point
Fortyfirst
Ohio Regiment
Fifteenth Army Corps
Myer
Paris
Atlanta
Fortress Monroe
Evictions at Winn estates in Kerry turn violent
In Glenbeign County Kerry police battle obstinate tenants at Winn estate evictions. Barricaded house walls crumble as stones and boiling water fly. After hours of halt and resistance, 25 occupants are arrested and a dying wife is carried out. crowds mourn and threaten further violence.
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Destry
Winn
Glenbeign
County Kerry
Harrington
William Vernon Harcourt
Morley
Harcourt
Gladstone
Chamberlain
Harsart
Gladtone
Cahercontish
County Limerick
Edmond O'Grady
Gobbett States
O'Grady
Deutsch Zeitung
Francis Joseph
Vanderbilt Scrapbook Becomes Family Heirloom
The Philadelphia Times notes Cornelius Vanderbilt forgets his motto and reflects on the Vanderbilts. It praises a scrap-book as a precious family record while recalling the 5,000 obituaries and editorials published after William H. Vanderbilt’s death, with no scandals in sight for the jet era.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
William H. Vanderbilt
Phiadelphia Times
National political shifts and local onsets across the week
The week reports multiple state legislative actions electing U.S. senators including Whitthorne in Tennessee and Farwell in Illinois. It covers violent incidents in Arizona and Ireland, major fires in Ohio and Kentucky, labor unrest in Latrobe Pennsylvania, and Stanley’s expedition plans with Leopold. It notes European politics and press reactions to new bills and divorces.
Gladstone’s Health Worsens. Canada Act Prepared for North West
London dispatch notes Gladstone is much worse than publicly known with hopes of recovery faint. The Canada Gazette proclaims the northwest presentation act, signaling possible government emergency measures though not confirming an imminent election.
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London
Gladstone
Canada Gazette
Mexican Pensions Bill Advances to Presidential Approval
The bill provides a monthly pension of eight dollars to surviving officers and enlisted men of US military and naval services who served sixty days in Mexico or related theaters during that war, including mariners and volunteers, and to their surviving widows who have not remarried, with age or disability entitlements and exclusions for those who aided the late rebellion.
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United States
Mexico
Congress
Gladstone Declines Memorial Committee Participation
The New York Commercial Adverser notes Gladstone refuses to have his name on the committee planning a memorial church for Queen Victoria's fifty years on the throne. The article cites past tensions between Gladstone and the queen and portrays his withdrawal as a mild public rebuke after enduring numerous perceived slights.
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New York
Gladstone
Queen Victria
Hin
Victoria
Salisbury
C-born
House Passes Agriculture Department Measure and Public Building Fund
The House approved a bill creating a Department of Agriculture and another authorizing $200000 for a Charleston public building. Debates touched Pacific railroads scrutiny, river and harbor plans, and a pleuro-pneumonic bill. The Senate centennial resolution for the Constitution was reported as expedient for April observances.
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HOUSE
Department OF Agriculture
Jim
Congress Debates Exhibition Plan and Land Bill Passage
The centennial committee reports a joint resolution to form a five senator eight representative panel to study an international exhibition of industries. The New Orleans Baton Rouge and Vicksburg railway land grant bill faces amendments and passes after votes. Evarts seeks repeal of internal revenue laws. The Pacific road status inquiry advances. Postoffice and army appropriation items move toward committee stages as the House adjourns.
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Hawley
New Orleans Baton Rouge
Eustis
Gibson Wa
Evarts
New York
Senate
Senate and House Actions on Bills and Debates of the Session
Edmunds reports on foreign relations bill to protect American fishermen and vessels. Mitchell reports favorably relief bill for dependent parents and disabled veterans. Senate passes bridge project at Mississippi River and Charleston jetty funding bill. Nebraska City public building bill advances. House debates Interstate Commerce conference report. Weaver opposes. no night session. Executive session adjourns.
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Edmunds
Committee On Foreign Relations
United States
Mitchell
Pennsylvania
Committee On Pensions
West
Senate
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Eads
Hampton
Messrs
Hoar
Conger
Charleston
Worthington
Ilinois
Committee On Public Buildings
Nebraska City
House
Weaver
Iowa
Dunham
Crisp
Sessson
Senate Deliberates Electoral Bill Then Secret Session
Senate after a morning roll call approved the conference report on the electoral bill and adjourned after a secret session. In the House, a resolution to inform the Treasury about sums owed by Pacific railroads as of January 1, 1887 was passed, with progress on the Interstate Commerce bill and a compromise ceded for delay.
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House
United States
Crisp
Hatch
Yeas
Moxie
Hepburn
Iowa
Mississippi
Louse
Senate
Wastmetron
Hoar
Secretary of the Treasury
Sons of Money
House Debates Railroad Bill Before Evening Adjournment
After a recess the House resumed debate on a railroad bill. Hepburn of Iowa argued no statute limits railroad greed and urged a remedy. The discussion continued and the House adjourned for the night.
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Hepburn
Iowa
Washington Senate Debates Oleomargarine and Mexico Papers
In Washleton on January 21 the Senate referred a liquor traffic petition to the District Committee and sent many oleomargarine and internal revenue amendments to Finance. Brown's resolution sought Mexico correspondence on the Rebecca seizure at Tampico and Jackson's resignation letter. The Senate met in secret, then adjourned to Monday. The House adopted the interstate commerce conference report 219 to 41 after debate, passing twenty private pension bills including Meagher widow’s at 350 dollars monthly, and adjourned at 10:20 p.m.
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Washleton
Senate
District of Columbia
Committee On the District
Committee On Finance
Brown
Mexico
Rebecca
Tampico
State Department
Jackson
Yeas
Allen
Mass
Anderson
Ohio
Bliss
Boutelle
Boyle
Bragg
Brumm
Campbell
Caswell
Dibble
Ely
Evans
Felton
Findlay
Frederick
Gilfillan
Grosvenor
Hayden
Hill
Johann
New York
Kelley
Ketchum
Libby
Long
Markham
Martin
McKenna
Miller
Morrow
Oates
O'Neill
Ranney
Reed
Maine
Rice
Seymour
Wadsworth
Wait
Weaver
Iowa
White
Thomas Francis Meagher
Presidential dining and manners at Jackson era
Lipincott's Magazine recounts Jackson's table habits with two forks and a turncob pipe. It describes lavish inaugural entertainments, orange punch wrecking the East Room, a monster cheese served with knives, and crowds clamoring for waiters. It notes Van Buren successors changing etiquette due to mess and outsized social demands.
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Jackson
Andrew Jackson
Jackon
van Buren
New York
Culative
White House
Bacourt
Ami
Lipincort
Federal Justices in Society on Washington’s Avenues
Washington cor Lincoln Sun reports on the Supreme Court justices social life in the capital. It describes Justice Bradley Wait Harlan Gray Miller Blatchford Matthews and others as constant, well known presences who walk the avenues, host elaborate dinners, and balance judicial duty with heavy social obligations.
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Justice Bradley
I Street
Capitol
Bull
Washington
Grant
Siernan
Wait
Justice Harlan
Rockville
Justice Gray
Harlan
Judge Gray
Justice Miller
Cii Frathe
Supreme Coat
United States
Noswell
Supreme Court
Blatchford
Manson
Matthews
Reason
Interment of Republic disaster victims held in town hall
This afternoon at 2 o'clock the interment of four charred remains from the Republic disaster took place in Republic cemetery. A large crowd filled the town hall for services with addresses by ministers from Tiffin Norwalk and Bloomville. Masons from Tiffin Attica assisted, and four hearses conveyed bodies to the prepared graves as four named individuals were laid to rest.
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Tiffin
Republic
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
D. D. Bigger
Presbyterian Echurch
Samuel Schwarm
M. D. Long
Bloomvlle
J. D. Gard
Mitchell
Methodist Episcopal Church
Norwalk
Masonic Fraternity
Attica
Republic Cemetery
Baltimore & Ohio Company
David Ober
Oberlin
John 8. Gardner
Mechanicsville
Thomas O'Dell
New Hotel Opens in Pakistan Run by American Method
A recently established Pakistan hotel is operated on the American method. In Chihuahua Mexico the state offers $2000 for each Apache scalp delivered. A Boston dentist faced $150 in damages after pulling the wrong tooth from a patient.
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Pakistan
Chihuaha
Mexico
Boston
Woman’s 320000 Gift Funds Aged Women Home in Somerville
In Somerville Maass a woman contributed 320 000 to establish a home for aged women. The donation aims to secure housing care and support for elderly residents in the area.
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Somerville, Maass
Capitalists consider beef canning plant in New Orleans
A group of southern capitalists discusses establishing a beef canning factory in New Orleans Louisiana. They weigh costs, location, and market demand as they plan a possible corporate venture in the steel era industrial expansion.
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New Orleans
Louisville Colored Fair Noted as Success Amid Tensions
Report cites strong white support for the fair while noting racial tensions with Ethiopans. Cincinnati industry highlights lead production at fifteen million pounds annually. Sunset Cox receives a Turkish order from the sultan. Harvard College reports 1,077 students this year vs 1,068 last. University 1,688 vs 1,662. Thompson H. Murch, former Maine greenback congressman, is recalled as a sailor and later a stonecutter.
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Harvvard College
University
New Coloration Noted as Boggan Complexion
A new natural tint described as the boggan complexion appears, with deep red on the cheeks and carmine on the ears and nose, noted by observers.
English statesman Jno. Bricut valued fair wages
Jno. Bricut, an English statesman and manufacturer, recently wrote that he found more pleasure in paying good wages than in reducing them.
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Jno. Bricut
Women Should Vote for Streets Superintendent Says Miss Howe
Miss Maup Howe argues women deserve voting rights for the office of superintendent of streets to guard their skirts from mud and snow while avoiding indecorous lifting.
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Maup Howe
Conerism Man Lect C. E. Hogg Wins U S House Seat
Conerism Man Lect C. E. Hogg of the Fourth West Virginia district will be the youngest member of the next house. He is a lawyer, son of a farmer, and a man of five literary attainments. He favors Carlisle for speaker.
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C. E. Hogg
West Virginia
Carlisle
Speiaker
Capitol insult spurs outburst from drunken Tennessee congressman
Jupee Kettey reported an insult at Washington's Capitol as a Tennessee congressman allegedly threatened with violence against a 16 year old, saying he would sic the boy on the target. The incident drew attention to disorderly conduct in Congress.
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Jupee Kettey
Washington
Tennessee
Sister Catherine Dies First Female Educator of the South
Sister Catherine the superior of the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Atlanta died aged decades after a long career as a celebrated teacher. Born Alice Gordon in Dublin she earned wide acclaim across the region for her successful and versatile work with young women.
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Catherine
Convent of the Sacred Heart
Atlanta
South
Dublin
Alice Gordon
Verdi Agrees to London Transfer If La Scala Otello Proves Successful
Mr Mapirson proposes transferring all Otello paraphernalia to London for use in the La Scala production. Sig Verdi consents conditionally, requiring a successful January La Scala performance. If the work fails, he plans to destroy it.
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Mapirson
Sig. Verdi
London
la Scala
S G. Verdi
la Sala
Paris Fans Pack Cabaret For Coquelin Farewell
Parisians paid high prices to see Coquelin in his final appearance at the Come de Francaise. An Enel shiman bid 200 for a ticket but failed. In the provinces, all seats sold immediately when the box office opened, eliminating the need for extensive advertising.
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Paris
Coquelin
Enel Shiman
Empress Eugenie in Rome Onward Journey to England
The Empress Eugenie travels direct to Rome from Farnborough with a short stay in Turin. She is expected to return to England on January 7 and will likely spend a month at the Isle of Wight, Osborne Cottage available from the Queen for her visits.
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Eugenie
Rome
Havig
Farnborough
Galveston
Tex
Gainesville
Fla
Lord Hartington
London
Mathews
Quen Victoria
Lord Salisbury
Empress Augusta’s long trusted masseuse at court
London Life notes a Silesian peasant woman of over 70 acts as the German Empress Augusta’s personal masseuse. She travels with the entourage and attends court ceremonies from a quiet corner, even bringing her daughter to the palace. her brisk wit and lively humor make her a valued companion despite rustic origins.
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London
Augusta
Rich Fauquier Man Plans Scottish Noble Marriage
Mr. Hat Devaney of Fauquier County Virginia, reputedly the South’s wealthiest man, travels to Scotland next month to wed a Scotch noblewoman. He earns over 200000 dollars yearly from Virginia England and Scotland lands, owns about fifteen thousand acres in Loudoun and Fauquier, and inherits wealth with estates abroad. The bride is said to be a descendant of the Argyles and a cousin of the current duke. The match draws broad interest in Virginia.
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Hat Devaney
Fauquier County
Virginia
Scotland
Delaney
Mason and Dixon
Viginia
England
Loudoun
Fauquier Countes
Dulaney
Argyls
Old Dominion
Job Printing and Stationery Services Advertised
The ad offers job printing of every description with neat prompt service and reasonable rates. Estimates provided for pamphlets and work, solicited from any part of the state, with a specialty in mercial stationer supplies.
Toston chess player owns a set of chess men
Mullard ducks are selling at Opelousas La at 10 cents and teal at 4 cents a pair. There are 2,200 representatives of New York city in the penitentiary of York state. In Philadelphia a man named Crime was sent up for petty larceny. Tennessee's peanut crop is worth 700000 dollars with an average yield of 42 bushels per acre.
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Toston
Opelousas
New York City
York State
Philadelphia
Tennessee
United States Senate
New York “Society
Douglas County
Oregon
Croton Aqueduct
Buffalo Courier
Tyendinaga
Canada
Washington
Oakland
Cal
New York
Alaska
British North America
Washington Territory
H. P. Forwood
Louisville
Oncg Jord
Liverpool
Cincinnati
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