Reciprocity Pays Regular Gold Mine for Uncle Sam
Washington dispatch reports letters urging renewed reciprocity laws as a business model for trade. Theodore C Search of the National Association of Manufacturers argues reciprocity boosts American exports, reduces duties, and benefits Cuba trade, urging nonpartisan adoption to protect domestic industries and expand access to world markets.
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Minch
Caoba
Cleveland
Civil Service
Indian Bureau—Bank
Washington
Ways and Means
National Association of Manufacturers
Theodore C. Search
Philadelphia
Search
Brazil
Cuba
President Search
United States
West India
Spain
Civil Service Extended to Indian Service by Order
President Cleveland extends the civil service to most of the Indian service including clerical and school positions with appointments based on fitness tests and without civil service certification. Indians may be appointed but cannot transfer to department service. Also notes Census Bureau fire at Marinis Hall and bank condition reports for Illinois and Wisconsin as of Feb 28.
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Washington
United States
Secretary of the Interior
Interior Department
Indian Service
Civil Service Commission
Department Service
Grover Cleveland
Marinis Hall
United States Census Bureau
Census Office
Big corn purchase winds down in Manhattan
C P Dewey, a wealthy ranch owner, has completed buying 200000 bushels of corn to feed cattle in Manhattan Kansas. He hosted farmers with a long dinner at the Opera House as payment and festivities followed. A rattlesnake bite suffered in Pratt county decades ago is reported to be killing Mrs. Robert Grist in Indiana.
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Manhattan
Kan
C. P. Dewey
Opera
Topeka
Robert Grist
Pratt County
Indiana
Dimmick
Indianapolis
John Colin Forbes
Harrison
Forbes
New York
General Harrison
Sobans’ Art Gallery
Riots and Fatal Shooting in Indianapolis Iron Strike
A West Washington Street riot pits unionists against non union iron molders from Chandler Taylor foundry. Three men are shot and injured, with fatalities feared for Wallace Davis and others. Police and detectives guard the scene as crowds disperse amid lingering hostilities between union and non union factions. Governor Matthews faces a prolonged illness during the unrest.
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Indianapolis
Washington Street
Wallace Davis
Hooker Lee
George Watkins
Chandler & Taylor Foundry
West Washington Street
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Cotn
West Street
Davis
Watkins
Lee
Roddy Moore
West
Washington
Moore
Union
Mon-Bachy Hart
Misa Harlan of Brazil Becomes Centenarian at Five Generations
Brazil report notes Misa Harlan who lives near Coxville turns 100 on Friday. She is mother of ex Senator HaIawa and grandmother of Roboln, with oldest daughter 78 and oldest grandchild 60. She has lived under every US president and remains fully lucid.
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Brazil
Misa
Mary Harlan
Coxville
Here
United States
Ha Iawa
Roboln
Rouder
Kansas
Manufacturers' Club Seeks Public Stand on Free Silver
Philadelphia leaders of the Manufacturers' club deny any tilt toward free silver after Washington talks. In a letter to president Dornan they urge a club meeting to publicly state the group's position on free silver coinage and new protection.
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New
Ita
Washington
Philadelphia
Protectives Plan Push Into National Politics
The American Protective Association announces a move into national politics with a Washington meeting of its supreme advisory board on March 24. The program calls for reasserting 1876 party planks against sectarian appropriations and moneys from public property and seeks removal of the Marquette statue from Statuary Hall.
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American Protective Association
The
Supreme Advisory Board
Washington
Statuary Hall
Marquette
America
Gathering at New York for Republican state convention
Politicians from across New York gather in New York City for the Republican state convention opening tomorrow at Grand Central Palace. Chairman Odell will preside. temporary chair Senator Cornelius Parsons named. Delegates at large may include Platt Depew Miller and Lauterbach. alternates listed.
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New York
Grand Central Palace
Odell
State Committee
Cornelius Parsons
Rochester
Morton
Thomas C. Platt
Chauncey M. Depew
Warner Miller
Edward Lauterbach
Hamilton Fish
Charles W. Hackett
James A. Roberts
D. C. Babcock
Monroe
George W. Aldridge
That City
Fragmentary Telegrams Highlight Tragedies and Trials
Combined brief items report a fatal fire explosion at a coal mine near Wear Newton PA killing Alexander McDonald and 15 year old Willie Davis. Other notes mention curfew effort against youths after 9 PM, union convention dates, and a murder suicide in Washington. A head suspected to be Pearl Bryan’s was misidentified then reclassified by a Columbus medical college. The South Kansas Methodist conference votes to admit women to general conferences. Wanamaker leads Pennsylvania US Senate race returns. Omaha man John Hartman kills wife then dies.
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Willie Davis
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Cake
Wear New Newton
Omaha
Amalgamated Association of Iran and Steel Workers
United States
Canada
Detroit
Hennepin
Minnesota
Andrews
Benjamin H. Milliken
Washington
Columbus, O
Pearl Bryan
Columbus Medical College
Choynski
McCoy
Kansas
Methodist Episcopal Conference
Don Cameron
John Wanamaker
John Hartman
Cefuse
Ballaa
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