Missing Iowa postmaster sparks search in Correctionville
M. E. Crowther, postmaster and attorney at Correctionville Woodbury County Iowa, disappeared after borrowing 300 dollars March 15 to handle court matters in Sioux City. Friends investigated his whereabouts amid rumors his private business is failing with no confirmed post office shortage.
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M. E. Crowther
Correctionville
Woodbury County
Sioux City
O. J. Blodgett
Red Oak City
James Wiliams
Germania
New York
Osage
Winona & Southwestern
Story City
Santa Fe strike ends engineers and firemen return to work
Kansas City reports the Santa Fe strike is off after J. D. Conroe ordered engineers and firemen to resume duties with no conditions. General Manager Goddard confirms the return to work and trains begin departing on time. Albuquerque notes widespread relief as lines run on schedule.
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Kansas City
Chicago
J. D. Conroe
Conroe
Topeka
Kansas
Goddard
Santa Fe Road
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Santa Fe
Weeklong Senate action on railway bill dominates General Assembly
Des Moines reports a week of Senate debate over the railroad bill with no final action. The House passed numerous measures including taxes for bonds, nursing pay parity for female teachers, and a monument appropriation for colored soldiers. Senate sessions also advanced many public and infrastructure bills and introduced new measures.
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Panama
Snelby County
General Assembly
16Th General Assembly
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Scott County
3Rd General Assembly
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Cherokee County
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Wyoming
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Crawford County
Robeson
Cummins
Fifteenth General Assembly
Custer
Conference Committee
Berryhill
Weidman
Red Oak
State University
Doings in Congress Brief Synopsis of the Week
Iowa congressman Weaver introduces a plan to issue legal tender notes for lost or destroyed notes. the week covers bills on Indian schools lumber use on Menominee reservation water works costs, eight hour law extensions, labor department setup, and various public building appropriations. multiple Senate and House actions include pension provisions, meat inspection, Sioux reservation division, and a large urgent deficiency bill.
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Iowa
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Brazil
Sioux City
Post Office Committee
Indian Territory
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Burned Theater Tragedy Claims Dozens in Portugal
A theater fire in Oporto last night killed many and wounded others. Eighty bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the Banquet theater, with families found crushed in the galleries. Workmen continue digging as the death toll rises and victims are identified.
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London
Oporto
House Defers Jurisdiction Bill After Committee Discussion
The House continues debate on a bill to define and regulate the jurisdiction of United States Courts after a Committee of the Whole session. Debates focus on the bill’s implications for congressional workload and ongoing complaints about court authority.
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Congress
House
United States
Chief Justice Morrison R Waite Dies Suddenly
The United States Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite died at 6 10 AM from acute pneumonia in the presence of a nurse. He had contracted a light cold after visiting Senator Hearst's home on Saturday night and attending court Monday. His death ends a long service at the Supreme Court with arrangements for interment in Toledo, Ohio, to follow.
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Supreme Court of the United States
Hearst
Justice Blatchford
Miss Waite
C. C. Waite
Cincinnati
Burgeon Ruth
Dr. Gardner
State Republican Delegates to National Convention Chosen
Iowa Republicans held a Des Moines convention on March 21 to select delegates for the National Convention. J. P. Dolliver chaired the session with officers chosen, and delegates were named by district with alternates listed. At large delegates were elected by ballot including J. Clarkson and J. P. Dolliver.
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Des Moines
Beardsley
Dr. Ames
M. E. Church
State Central Committee
J. P. Dolliver
Fort Dodge
P. H. Bristow
Polk County
D. D. Frye
Jackson County
Wm. M. Walker
Wi. Buren County
R.cs
E. R. Hutchins
Distr
Creditt Als
F. A. Kessell
Ed. C. Brown
A. R. Molyneux
H. J. Lendernink
Gov
Larrabee
William Walker
van Buren County
Reading
J. M. Buchanan
Iowa County
Julien Richards
Black Hawk County
Emmettsburg
Johnson Brigham
Cedar Rapids
S. C. McFarland
Marehall County
O. M. Ladd
Ottumwa
Switchmen Strike Grips Burlington Freight Traffic
Chicago March 25 Freight traffic on the Burlington Railroad is at a standstill due to a switchmen strike by about 200 workers in Chicago yards and a related stoppage at Aurora Indiana. Passenger trains run. live stock trains in transit move. No formal union notice or grievances have been presented.
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Mt. Pleasent
Dinwiddie
Sioux City
Nebraska
Supreme Court
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Iowa
Law and Order League
Crrcaco
Burlington
Aurora
Switchmen
Bessler
Suffrage Session and Railroad Tragedies Across States
At a State Women’s Suffrage meeting in New York on March 22 Mrs Scatcherd urged tax resistance until suffrage is won while Mrs Ashton Dilke lauded reformers including Gladstone and Stanton. Elsewhere Bailard Bronston killed a deputy sheriff in Kentucky and a Lehigh Valley derailment in New Jersey killed three engineers and a conductor with nine injured. An 80 year old farmer died in a Long Island snowbound vigil, and Utica merchant G O Cowles was found dead with a self-inflicted wound in Michigan after ill health concerns.
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New York
Scatcherd
England
Ashton Dilke
Gladstone
Elizabeth Stanton
Clara Neyman
Germany
Bessie Starefer
The
Toronto Globe
Richmond, Ky
Bailard Bronston
Bronston
Dudley
Flemington
N. J
Lehigh
Theodore Apgar
Derr
John Pullman
Samuel Ranfall
Yappank
Long Island
G. O. Cowles
Utica
N. Y
Bancroft House
East Saginaw, Mich
G. A. Rockwell & Co
Tariff talk on wool dress goods wars and costs
In a U S Senate exchange dated Feb 2 1888 Senator Platt challenges tariff critics by examining woolen dress goods imported from Europe. He argues that despite duties the average cost still leaves American women paying more at wholesale prices, while many yards remain cheaper. He notes vast import volumes and questions who benefits from tariffs and who wears affordable cloth.
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H. J. Philpott
United States
Senate
Platt
New York
England
America
Tariff Trusts
Europe
Tariff Bill Nye Gets Off Truths Behind Wit
The Des Moines Herald argues the government is rich but the men who built it and fought wars face hard times. They note war debts pensions and a seven billion mortgage on farms earned and saved by hard work.
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Bill Nye
Union
Republican Party
Des Moines Herald
Free tobacco to ease the taxed poor
The Cresco Times imagines tobacco becoming free, claiming relief for poor children shivering for lack of blankets due to high tariffs and a mother with only a thin dress, noting how a free cigar would be a small comfort for the household under tax burdens.
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Cresco Times
Iowa Republicans Nominate William B. Allison for President
Hon. Sam Clark of Keokuk reads the Iowa committee report urging William B. Allison as the Republican nominee for President. The tribute praises Allison’s long service, integrity, and statesmanship, noting the convention's enthusiasm and speeches by Dolliver and Col. Hepburn before adjournment.
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Sam Clark
Keokuk
Committee On Resolutions
Iowa
William B. Allison
United States
Congress
Republic
Dolliver
Col. Hepburn
Wm. B. Allison
Republicans of
Coal Regions Idle Yet Wyoming Output Surges in 1888
The Philadelphia Record reports January 1888 saw idle Schuylkill and Lehigh regions while Wyoming produced enough coal to lift total output above January 1887 by 12 000 tons. Wyoming capacity rivals Lehigh and Schuylkill combined, and if fully developed the anthracite fields could yield 60 million tons annually though demand is about 35 million. The industry claims cooperative relations keep mines idle for five months, pushing costs onto consumers.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Schuylkill
Lehigh
Wyoming
Minnesota Republicans split over free trade and tariffs
Reports to the Philadelphia Times from Republican county chairmen and politicians in Minnesota show fifteen percent are staunch free traders, twenty percent staunch protectionists, and sixty-five percent tariff reformers. The Times notes that the fifteen percent free traders could defeat the party, while Pennsylvania miners say the protection plea is played out.
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Philadelphia Times
Minnesota
The
Times
Pennsylvania
Brooklyn Pioneer John T. Howard Dies at 80
John T. Howard a founder of Plymouth church father of several journalists and father in law of Gen Horatio King died March 22 from apoplexy at eighty.
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John T. Howard
Plymouth Church
Gen
Horatio King
Brooklyn
Free trade and liberty echo in Iowa debate, 1838
The Des Moines Leader notes a heated stance on free trade and tariffs in Iowa, citing Senator James Grimes’ 1867-68 remarks against protectionist schemes and his support for a revenue tariff as a true free trader. The piece laments the loss of Republican backbone in Iowa.
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Evansville
Ind
Courier
Iowa
United States
James W. Grimes
Senate
Northwest
New York
Congress
Des Moines
Tribune Job Printing Ad
An old newspaper advertisement announces Tribune job printing services offering neat prompt work at reasonable rates with pamphlets essays and general printing. It notes service from any part of the state and specialty in stationery.
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the Tribune
Free Raw Materials Move Providence Toward Tariff Debate
The Providence Journal argues for free raw materials to aid New England manufacturing, noting cotton hides and wool could boost industry and employment. It contrasts this with Senator Platts harsh critique of free materials, highlighting farmers and other nonmanufacturers as harmed by tariffs and calling the tariff policy a long failed experiment.
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Des Moines
Providence
R. I
New England
Rhodesian
Massachusetts
Platt
Ingalls Defamed Soldiers. Loyal Legion Rebuffs Senator
Philadelphia Times condemns Senator Ingalls for an attack on President Cleveland and Generals Hancock and McClellan. It states his Loyal Legion admission was rejected for lack of military qualification and predicts future rejection if he seeks civilian class entry for conspicuous war service, labeling his speech as defaming leading soldiers.
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Philadelphia Times
Ingalls
Cleveland
Hancock
McClellan
Loyal Legion
Legion
Kansas
Washington
Senator Blackburn Tops Ingalls In Impromptu Speech
In Atlanta the impromptu address by Senator Blackburn overshadowed Senator Ingalls after weeks of prep. The episode sparks a sober note on Senate fragility as the chamber adjusts to sudden orations.
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Atlanta Constitution
Ingalls
Blackburn
A Man Hangs Himself in Snow After Hourlong Struggle
In Macclesfield an inquest heard Samuel Stubbs, aged woolen mill owner, left home during a snowstorm and became entangled on a fence. He hung head down in a snow ditch for eighteen hours, tore away earth and brush, and was found alive but died hours later despite resuscitation. Doctors note unusual vitality linked to cold preservation. The report also mentions Senator Palmer of Michigan as a linguist in Congress.
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London Dispatch
Macclesfield
Samuel Stubbs
Medical History
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