Iowa News Notes and Early Spring Developments
A widow of Rev. Swinden dies suddenly in Manchester. Stone City quarries fill with water after a siphon drain. Iowa mining rates set across districts. A girl crushed to death while saving a team. a jail escapee recaptured and sentenced. Des Moines to Cainesville railroad sale at $750,000. gauge conversion planned. Mad dog treatment across Council Bluffs and Savannah. February state insurance fees top prior records. Brooklyn cries of near suffocation. Sioux City man’s self-inflicted gunshot. Rainbow trout release to Anamosa hatchways. Jessup postmaster resigns. Notorious Nickerson returned to Iowa for term completion. Ottumwa approves right of way for a six-rail depot. Quips and political commentary wrap the column.
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Stone City
Tr State
Iowa
Boonsboro
Fort Dodge
Kale
Lehigh
Jennie Whent
Miller’s Creek
Monroe County
Turman
Johnson County
Iowa City
Bloomington
Des Moines
St. Joe
Kansas City
Council Bluffs
Shefferle
Savannah
Anderson
Omaha
Council
Insurance Department
State Auditor's Office
Brooklyn Dispatch
Thomas Scott
Brooklyn
Scott
Wm. Freck
Sioux City
Fleck
George Treiber
Haddock
Treiber
A. E. Aldrich
Washington
Anamosa
Aldrich
Joliet
Townsend
Ft. Madison
Nickerson
Dan
Mt. Pleasant
Ottumwa
Union Depot
Congress Debates Pension, Lottery Curb and River Projects
In Washington and Wasmsdon the Senate and House clash over post office subsidies and river and harbor funding. Debates on a lottery ad ban, Canadian relations, and bridge constructions mix with vetoes and confirmations as Congress adjourns.
Senate and House pass multiple river and rail bills in March session
Reports from Washington show amendments concurred on bridge projects at Omaha and Winona, naval reserve plans, and Pacific railroad inquiry. Deficiency and appropriation bills advance, with several private and public building measures enacted or deferred as adjournment nears.
Congress Passes Right of Way For Crow Reservation
Cook city Railroad Co. secured a right of way through the Crow reservation in Montana as the bill passed. A fortification bill disagreement was reported and the bill died. Burns of Missouri presented a conference report on the general deficiency bill, which was agreed to. It includes four steel cruisers but omits payments for Central Pacific and Choctaw claims. A presidential message said no further communication to Congress. The speaker gave a short speech thanking members for their resolutions and then declared the House adjourned.
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Willis
Senate
Bragg
Wis
Rocky Mountains
Blanchard
Henderson
Illinois
House
Holman
Townsend
Payson
Bie
Clouse
East River
New York
Long Island
Missouri
Kansas City
Omaha
Mississippi
Keokuk
Washixeton
Missouri River
Council Bluffs
Wilson
Committee On Naval Affairs
Committee On Commerce
Winona
Minn
Cockrell
Plumb
District of Columbia
Hoar
Pacific Railroad
Washington
Count Pulaski
Treasury
War
Hale
Allison
Beck
Committee On Appropriations
Iowa
United States
National Bank
Washimeton
Ft. Madison
Pierre City
Dak
Yankton
Minneapolis
Sherman
Salisbury
Cook City Railroad Co
Crow
Montana
Burns
Central Pacific
Congress
Various News Bits From 19th Century United States
Nellie Moonlight secretary to the Wyoming governor is noted. Judge John M. Scott of the Illinois supreme court set to retire next year. Reverend Shuttleworth lectures on dancing in London. Ruby Stone at 85 retains faculties and silk cultivation begun in 1830. An anarchist scheme to share funds with workers. Divorce petition by Wm Perzel for infidelity. Actor Elwyn Barron arrested as vagrant in New York. Debates on coast defenses critique national naivety. C P Huntington buys a Corot at Graves sale for 10000. Major Gordon cashes out Texas ranch for 800. Edmund Rogers will leaves estate to six drunkard-husbands wives. Rogers’ will noted as unique. New York mass meeting on high license. Mayor Hewitt backs strict excise law while favoring limited Sunday alcohol sales. Public supports high license and restricting saloons to one per 500 inhabitants.
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Nellie Moonlight
Wyoming Territory
John M. Scott
Illinois Supreme Court
C. Shuttleworth
Ruby Stone
Williamsburg
Wm. Perzel
Marie Prescott
Elwyn Barron
New York
C. P. Huntington
Edmund Rogers
Randolph Rogers
Quincy
Rogers
New York Ciy
Hewitt
New York City
Steamer W. H. Gardner Burns On Tombigbee River
Mobile dispatch reports the steamer W. H. Gardner burned below Gainesville in Sumter Alabama. The boat is a total loss with 464 bales of cotton. Numerous deaths include C. Blackman Jule Rembert and several others. Owners are F S Stone Sid C Coleman and W T Rembert. Value 25000 dollars. cotton insured for 25000.
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Mobile
Ala
W. H. Gardner
Tombigbee River
Gainsville
Sumter County
F.S. Stone
Epes
C. Blackman
Jule Rembert
W. T. Rembert
Theo. L. Graham
G. Bates
John Bryant
Green Jenkins
Henry Ford
Hayward Hudson
L. Lindsay
Virgil Jones
Amos Harris
Rembert
Moile
Tombigbee
Garder
F. 8. Stone
Sid C. Coleman
Nature's icy fingers grip world, Albany Argus notes
The Albany Argus quotes a line about nature chilling the globe. A New York Mail and Express aphorism states money moves the world and funds many who lack other merits.
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Albany Argus
New York Mail and Express
Convict Labor Report Details Four Employment Systems
Commissioner Carroll D. Wright reports 64,609 inmates in U S convict labor programs with 45,277 in productive work. Four systems exist contract, public account, piece price and lease. total goods value $24,753,999.13. He notes nationwide competition from one convict per 1,000 population and argues broader national impact is limited.
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Washington Dispatch
Carroll D. Wright
Secretary of the Interior
United States
Wright
Howe
Murderess dies on the gallows in Onondaga jail
Hersmer New York dispatch reports Mrs. Druse hanged for the December 1884 murder of her husband. She confessed that Charles Gates influenced and aided the crime, admitted dismembering the body, and said Gates burned it. Her daughter Mary is a life prisoner.
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Hersmer
N. Y
Irving Terry
Onondaga Penitentiary
Mary
Gates
Druse
Bismarck’s Victory Strengthens German Government in Reichstag
London dispatch reports a steady stock market amid Bismarck’s win in the German election. The new Reichstag appears to support the septennate, with 217 allies and 180 opponents, as National Liberals and conservatives back the chancellor while the opposition remains diverse.
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London
Stock Exchange
Bismarck
Reichstag
Berlin
Prince Bismarck
Prince Biswarck
Junkers
Six Boys Killed In Lehigh Valley Train Accident
Six Easton youths aged 12 to 15 were killed when a coal train hit them while walking on the tracks about two miles from Easton during a blinding snowstorm. The victims were Walter Moon Walter Heath William Pearce John Gregg Charles Bonstein and Manning Grams. Harry Pearce survived uninjured after being knocked from the track by his brother. The inquest cleared railroad workers of blame.
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Easton
Lehigh Valley
Walter Moon
Walter Heath
Wm. Pearce
John Gregg
Charles Bonstein
Manning Grams
Harry Pearce
Monroe Music
Bethlehem
Farmers' Review crops outlook favorable in several states
Chicago dispatch notes the weekly crop summary shows winter wheat in most states with variable weather. Ohio Indiana Michigan Wisconsin Missouri report the best outlooks. Illinois is fair, Kansas poor. Illinois has 16 good 7 fair 3 short of 26 counties. Indiana reports two fine. Corn movement is light in Iowa and other western states. half of Iowa counties import corn at 5 to 40 cents per bushel, with scattered counties in Minnesota Wisconsin and Illinois.
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Chicago Dispatch
Michigan
Wisconsin
Kansas
Ohio
Indiana
Missouri
Ilinois
Kansan
Illinois
Tiivis
Ilingis
Iowa
Minnesota
Labor Troubles Prompt Bill to Regulate Strikes in Albany
Albany dispatch reports a proposed bill by a legislative committee in the New York legislature. The bill empowers civil courts to enforce duties of public nature by corporations, restricts production restraint agreements, and permits state arbitrators to accept written submissions with prima facie validity in disputes between employers and workers.
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New York
Albany Dispatch
Legislative Committee
State Board of Arbitrators
Washington Dispatch on House Closing Days and Delays
The Star describes the last days of the current session with morning sessions filled by disappointed lawmakers waiting for bills. Members shout for the speaker as documents pass, until the speaker dispenses with the morning hour and only Holman or Randall can gain attention for an appropriation bill.
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Washington Dispatch
the Star
House of Representatives
House
Mr. Speaker
Indiana
Capitol on Fire in the House Wing
Smoke poured into the corridors of the capitol shortly after six as the lower document room burned. Workers fought the flames but retreated as dense smoke filled halls and committee rooms. Firefighters extinguished the blaze with water damaging several public documents stored for congressmen.
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Capitol
Washington Dispatch
Boiler Explosion and Nearby Quake Hit Midwestern City
On February 26 a boiler at Robinson & Co. foundry in Waterloo exploded wrecking the boiler house but causing little damage elsewhere. A fireman nearby reported only thirty six pounds of steam. A slight earthquake shock was felt in Sioux City recently. In Clinton the artesian well reached about six hundred feet with water found but at low flow. drilling will continue deeper.
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Robinson & Co
Waterloo
Sioux City
Clinton
Senate panel boosts naval bill with heavy warship funds
Washington dispatch reports the senate appropriations committee raises the naval budget to between 20 and 32 million for the year with a 6 million next year estimate. They replace house cash for two steel cruisers with 9 million for six protected cruisers plus 1.2 million for speed premiums, plus 2.85 million for armament. Additional allocations cover battleships, gunboats, torpedoes, destroyer care, and wharf rebuilding at Boston yard.
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Washington Dispatch
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Senate
House
Proving Grounds
Boston Navy Yard
Bureau of Provisions and Clothing
Disastrous Fishermen's Plight Reported Across Island Districts
A Channel correspondent reports widespread distress in western and northern Newfoundland districts with no fish and little food. At Rose Blanche forty able bodied people sought relief in a few days, while in Seal Cove every house was a hospital and deaths occurred as winter fishing failed.
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Tralifax
Channel
Little May
Cape Ray
Rose Blanche
Seal Cove
Site Selected by Mrs Logan for Logan Monument
Chicago dispatch reports a legislature appointed monument commission met to honor Gen John A Logan. Mrs Logan announced Chicago as the final interment site and Jackson Park as the monument location with remains to be placed in the base. She described her ideas as crude and sought a lasting monument. The commission will ask for park authorization.
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Chicago
John A. Logan
Frozen to Death on the Ice
Buffalo dispatch reports a terrible storm left forty fishermen missing as two bodies were found two miles from Hamburg and others survived with narrow escapes. Thomas Cody and John Leary perished on the ice while efforts to rescue continued.
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Buffalo Dispatch
Thomas Cavanaugh
Thomas Cody
John Leary
Hamburg
John
Patrick Bodlin
Mike P. Brennan
The Grant-Hancock Quarrel Denial by General Fry
General J. B. Fry refutes a long standing Grant Hancock feud tale. He says the feud began in 1868 over a military dispute in New Orleans and worsened through 1880 with unkind remarks during Hancock's presidential run, ending when both men died.
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Grant-Hancock
New York
J. B. Fry
Grant
Hancock
St. Louis
Miss Russell
Miss Dent
Fry
General Hancock
New Orleans
Congress Faces Possible Extra Session Over Appropriations
Washington dispatch reports debate over a possible extra session if all appropriation bills are not completed within four days. Senate and House committees show split views with Chairman Randall favoring delaying bills to avoid rushed passagin and others doubtful on timely adjournment.
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Washington Dispatch
Congress
Allison
Senate Appropriations Committee
Beck
Representative Lefevre
House Appropriation Committee
Randall
House Committee
Tribune Job Printing Ad Offers Prompt, Reasonable Rates
An advertisement from The Tribune promotes job printing of every description, stating neat, prompt execution at reasonable rates from The Tribune job rooms.
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Tribune
Remarkable Brooklyn case lives with broken neck for months
Joseph Somers, a laborer in Brooklyn, has survived over three months with a fractured neck at the Homeopathic Hospital on Cumberland Street. Doctors describe his condition as unique and not immediately fatal, noting paralysis below the neck yet preserved brain function and digestion.
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Brooklyn
New York
Joseph Somers
Cumberland Street
Somers
Homeopathic
Persifor M. Cooke
Lewis
Willis
John G. Johnson
Brooklyn Eagle
Germanys Trained War Dogs and a Bite Power Debate
The piece notes a German battalion of trained dogs drilled by chasseurs at Lubben as a new fighting power. Petit Journal suggests a reciprocal “tooth for tooth” idea and jokes about enlisting cats if dog education continues, citing historic feline warfare references.
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Germany
Lubben
Petit Journal
Boulanger
The
Cambyses
Cradle of Liberty Split as New Orleans News Muses
The New Orleans Tipayune comments on a divided cradle of liberty era themes and the city’s cultural rifts. The piece reflects on political tensions echoed in local discourse and historical memory.
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New Orleans
Tipayune
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John B. Alley
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Ingalls
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Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Co
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Yeas
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Oak
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Bureau of Animal Industry
Commissioner of Agriculture
Blount
Georgia
Bingham
Nelson
Gen. Hazen
Blaine
Austin Corbin
Florida
Manning
Edwin Arnold
Mike Kelley
Boston
Foraker
Manatoru Sato
Polytechnic School
George A. Gates
Iowa College
Grinnell
George F. Magoun
Magoun
David B. Hill
Elmira
Maurice J. Power
Cleveland
Our Democracy
Gittin
Saii the Heeler
Elbridge T. Gerry
Reformatory Society
Jersey
Stephen V. White
George Francis Train
Maj. Gordon
Custer
Commissioner of Labor
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