Tariff Bill Someday Soon In Senate Teed Up
Washington December 19 A Democratic caucus will decide a vote date on the tariff bill with a holiday recess proposal tied to a January 16 voting deadline. Senate and House moves include amendments, conferences, and a plan to start tariff vote January 1 with reforms to election laws and consular funding.
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American Historical Association
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Teller
the Treasury
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Thief's Work: Cancelled Bank Note Reemerges at Treasury
One $20 national bank note, canceled after redemption, reappeared at the Treasury for redemption. Officials say a theft by a person handling notes after redemption caused the incident. Note was misassembled to resemble a valid bill and bypassed the macerating destruction process. No other notes of this kind are believed to exist.
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Washington
National Bank
Treasury Department
Department
Treasury
United States
Comptroller of Currency
Murder in Whitechapel Shocks London Suburb
The body of an unknown woman was found in a London suburb with a ligature mark on the neck and a ring of a cord. Coroners and doctors say there were no poisons in the stomach and the death is believed to be murder rather than self inflicted with speculation linking the Whitechapel fiend to a new method.
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Loxpon
London
White Chapel
Ayer
Two Railroad Men Die in Wrecks Near Belleville and Punxsutawney
In Belleville Illinois the Belleville and Carondelet line derailed eight miles from town. Fireman Thomas Ash was crushed and scalded to death. brother William Ash and brakeman George Sacks were fatally injured. In Pennsylvania on the Pan Handle fast line from here at 11:15 P.M. wrecked into a freight train near Idlewood. fireman W T Barker was killed. Engineer escaped by jumping. passenger coaches suffered only a severe shock.
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W. T. Barker
Epidemic Among Horses Hits Lower Yellowstone Ranches
An outbreak has appeared among major horse ranches in the Lower Yellowstone region. It began three weeks ago and, though once deemed minor, has grown dangerous and spreading rapidly. The disease affects throat glands and often causes swelling from jaw to chest, hindering breathing and eating.
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Yellowstone
Boiler Explosion Kills Mt. Vernon Worker and Wounds Several
A boiler in the Emmet & Sons spoke factory at Mt. Vernon Indiana exploded yesterday killing James Lett of Columbus and fatally wounding James Lee Joshua E. Low Andy Jones and Charles Reed. Several other employees were injured in the blast.
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Columbus
Ind
Emmet & Sons
Mt. Vernon
James Lett
James Lee
Joshua E. Low
Andy Jones
Charles Reed
Deaths Reported for Week Ending December 22
City undertakers list includes Ellen Bower 26 inflammation of bowels Adam Bolan 92 old age Mrs Mezger 30 consumption G Zschoche 12 typhoid fever William Henry 1 day exhaustion Lottie M Crutchfield 24 blood poisoning William M Hollenbacher 16 months brain fever Lydia M Grim 63 pleurisy all names and ages shown with causes of death for the period.
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Ellen Bower
Adam Bolan
Mrs. Mezger
G. Zschoche
William Henry
Lottie M. Crutchfield
William M Hollenbacher
Lydia M. Grim
Loyal Legion Sends Sixty Five Members to Indianapolis
Sixty five members of the Loyal Legion departed Cincinnati Ohio this morning bound for Indianapolis to participate in events and ceremonies.
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Cincinatti
Ohio
The
Loyal Legion
Indianapolis
Fatal Fire at Strobel's Picture Frame Factory in Cincinnati
A midnight blaze gutted L. A. Strobel & Co. factory at Elmond Canal streets causing major losses. Firefighter casualties included Captain Serry Bray and others. wall collapses injured several firemen and bystanders. Estimated damage rises to 75,000 to 100,000 with 75,000 insured. salvage crews protected paintings though much stock ruined. A separate Montana hotel fire reports missing men and a lamp explosion.
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Cincinnati
L. A. Strobel & Co
Elmond Canal Streets
Serry Bray
Fourteenth Fire Company
George Buschkamp
Morton Anderson
Hater
L. A
Strobel
Bry
John Aherty
George Bushing
Thomas Hunt
Davis
John McGurn
John White
Anderson
McGurn
Bushing
Geo. Bushkamp
Missoula
Mon
Exchange Hotel
Henry Hawkins
George Collins
State Superintendent LaFollette Outlines School Progress
State Superintendent LaFollette prepares his annual report detailing conditions and advances in common schools and state institutions. Despite some funding gaps the school term lengthened, teacher quality rose though some towns rely on family influence, and the Teachers Reading Circle fueled 100000 new book purchases. Graded schools number about 4000, with 100 graduates eligible for freshman state university entry.
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LaFollette
Department of Public Schools
Masonic Brethren Visit Fort Wayne
The Huntington Herald reports Masonic brethren visited Fort Wayne for a commandery election and were treated warmly after the meeting. Attendees included H. F. Drover S. D. Baker J. R. Slack Robert Simonton J. S. Glenn 8. F. Day George Humbert and J. M. Bratton. Baker notes some stayed for a special car departure.
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Huntington Herald
Fort Wayne
H. F. Drover
S. D. Baker
J. R. Slack
Robert Simonton
J. S. Glenn
F. Day
George Humbert
J. M. Bratton
Baker
Explosions at Mills and Factories Across Several States
News brief reports multiple explosions in Wichita Kansas Haina and Frankfort Indiana with fatalities and injuries. A boiler blast at Bracke's stave factory in Franxfort kills the engineer Martin Nolan and mortally wounds Walter Fantemacher and Albert Frants. A hot water pipe blast on an Illinois Central coach causes panic and injuries. Arizona train construction wreck near Doke siding kills seven or eight laborers and wounds others.
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Walter Fantemacher
Albert Frants
Tuscova
Ill
Illinois Central
Ids Pierce
Arizona
St. Louis
Arizona and Southeastern Railway
Doke Siding
November Weather Sees Mild Temps and Late Snow
Indiana weather bureau reports November had mean temperatures about three degrees above normal with gradual declines. Rain totaled 1.95 inches above normal in the first half, heavy rains on the 2nd 8th and 9th, snow fell on the 16th and 18th but melted with no ground cover by month end. Thunderstorms, milder in nature, occurred on several days and hoar frost was common and sometimes heavy.
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Indiana Weather Service Bureau
Reriner, Crisley & Co
Hackathorn Case Goes To Jury In Lagrange Court
The Hackathorn case went to the jury after four hours of arguments by Mc Claskey Hannan and Lowry for the prosecution and Ferrall Morris for the defense. Citizens of Valentine Ind were charged with riot in driving Hackathorn from town. the verdict was not guilty and a rejoicing crowd greeted the decision. The trial featured a humorous exchange between witness Pat Foley and Judge Lowry over Foley’s testimony about Hackathorn’s movements near the depot and the eggs.
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Lagrange Standen
Hackathorn
Messrs. McClaskey
Hannan
Lowry
Ferrall
Morris
Valentine
Ind
Pat Foley
Foley
Valentine Depot
Pat
Plot to assassinate Harrison sparks fury in Indianapolis
A sensational telegraph from Indianapolis claims a plot to kill president elect Harrison. The Harrison household condemned the New York papers version as pure fabrication, triggering anger among Harrison's supporters.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indianapolis Dispatch
New York
Harrison
The Church Not Liable in Mannix Case
The supreme court ruled that church property is not liable for debts of the late Archbishop Purcell of Cincinnati. This decision relieves church property from paying over 300000 dollars.
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CollumsBus
Supreme Court
Mannix
Archbishop Purcell
Cincinnati
Fox Drive Near Sabina Nets Two Captured For 8 And 6
In Sapixa Ohio on December 21 a fox drive drew over 1000 hunters from Clinton Fayette and Highland counties. A ten mile circle northeast of Sabina netted nine foxes initially as the crowd closed in seven escaped while two were captured and sold at auction for eight and six dollars.
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Sapixa
Ohio
Clinton
Fayette
Highland
Sabina
Martinsburg Relative Weds Heiress at Rocktrorp Church
Payton R. Harrison of Martinsburg West Virginia, a distant relative of the president-elect, married Lilly Gorham heiress daughter of the inventor of the Gorham cultivator at the Second Congregational Church in Rocktrorp Illinois.
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Rocktrorp
Ill
Second Congregational Church
Payton R. Harrison
Martinsburg
W. Va
Lilly Gorham
Gorham
Jury awards Mrs Preble in stock brokers case for 34772
In Boston on December 20 the jury found for Mrs. Preble against Bates and Walley stock brokers. The verdict awards her 34,772 dollars for alleged losses by her son in speculative trading.
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Boston
Panic in Oil Prices Shocks Pittssura Market
A sharp drop and panic swept the Pittssura oil exchange this morning as prices broke unexpectedly from a firm open of 92 3/4. Traders scrambled amid the rapid decline, reflecting tense market conditions and anxious speculation.
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Pittssura
Oil Exchange
Battle in Samoa Report on Matania Victory and British Losses
A dispatch from Auckland reports Samoa raider Matania captured most of Atm after a long fight with Tamasese. British losses include four killed and two wounded in cavalry charge. Egyptian and black regiments suffered two dead and thirty wounded. Rebel losses estimated at £00. British 4,000 men engaged with trenches and enbankments. rebels retreated toward Hasheen and Tamar.
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Aucklind
Samoa
Simoas
Matania
Atm
Tamasese
Inter
Saakim
Starling
Handoub
Blackridge
Arts
Black
Hasheen
Tamar
Grenfell
Siuckin
Hussars
Strange disease hits Amish man in New Wilmington
Solomon Zook, a merged member of the Amish colony now living in New Wilmington, suffers a mysterious ailment that causes a continual walking circle. He experiences excruciating pain, exhaustion, and loss of control as his legs carry him around his home, requiring family aid to halt the movements.
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New Caston
Solomon Zook
New Wilmington
Walker Snyder
Zook
Insane Patient Reoffender Taken To Jail After Slipper Swap
Emil DeGrattery, once discharged from an asylum after insanity findings, returned to a Calhoun street shoe store where he wore Christmas slippers over his shoes. He ramblingly offered a swap, was restrained by clerks, and police, then sent to jail pending asylum commitment.
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Emil DeGrattery
Rosenthal
Judge O'Rourke
DeGrattery
Calhoun Street
Franke
Brave Girl Carries Heroic Hotel Fire Save
Miss Carrie Hill known as Marie Carlyle of Gib son Ryan's Absurdity company prevented a hotel fire in New Haven Connecticut. She jerked down curtains trampled the blaze and subdued flames before help arrived, though she sustained slight burns on her hands.
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Carrie Hill
C. L. Hill
Marie Carrie
New York
Change of Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday Debated in Hebrew Circles
A strong sentiment for shifting the Jewish Sabbath to Sunday grows among Hebrew communities. Business demands push workers on Saturdays, leading to unofficial Sabbath transfers that threaten Judaism. The piece notes no official move exists, but European cities face similar issues and leaders may act. Rochester Jewish Tidings concurs the change seems inevitable.
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Guinot
Europe
Israel
Rochester
Supreme Court Affirms State School Fund Rule
The Indiana Supreme Court upholds that counties must bear costs of managing school funds. The case The State ex rel, the attorney general vs. the commissioners of Bartholomew county held that deducting county expenses from rents collected for school lands violated the law that the school fund may be increased but not diminished.
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Supreme Court
Bartholomew County
United States
Stpremme
Attorney General
Gas Territory Bought by Lafayette Firm for 25000
Lafayette Indiana December 20 The Citizens Lafayette Natural Gas company completed purchase of 4600 acres of gas territory at Kempton from Indiana Natural Gas and Fuel company for 25000 dollars. The deal brings three strong wells online and boosts capital stock from 100000 to 300000 before work starts. Father and son killed in Covington mine accident when slate roof collapsed harming Monroe Hawkens but leaving him alive with severe scalp wound.
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Ind
Lafayette Natural Gas Company
Kempton
Indiana Natural Gas and Fuel Company
Shinwater
Minn
Rbert Whitmore
Omaha Road
Ashe
Whitmore
Washington
Secret Service Division
Treasury Department
Partapetputa
Workman Powderly
Knights of Labor
T. Ring
Christian Church
Christ
Wixchester
Rock Oil Company
Hartford Crry
Hartford Pulp Company
Educator Acquitted in Indiana Child-Libel Case at Libery
Ernest F. Perkins Liberty township teacher was acquitted after county officials found no guilty evidence of impropriety with his young students. The verdict ends the prosecution and Perkins will remain in charge of the school amid public interest.
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Wasasu
Ind
Ernest F. Perkins
Liberty Township
Myers
Perkins
Beri
Emin Pasha
Henry M. Stanley
Stanley
Lado
Wadelai
Omdurman
Osman Digna
Suakim
Wanasa
Ernest L. Perkins
Benjamin K. Badger
Ethel
Badger
John Myers
Inpranapolis
Senator Quay
John C. New
General Williams
Brittan
Harrison
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Britton
Quay
Col. New
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Senate
Leon O. Bailey
Indiana
Department of Justice
Indianapolis
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District of Indiana
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Alexander McPheeters
Henry Rice
Charles Watson
Detroit
Michigan
Topiawa Pours
Thornton
Hovey
General Hovey
Cincinnati
American Turf Congress
Brewster
Nashville
Memphis
Young men arrested for alleged stolen horse and buggy
Two youths driving a gray horse and buggy into Brownstown offered the stolen property for sale. They gave names as Frank and Charles Smith. The horse and buggy matched Edinburg theft descriptions and are held as evidence. Owners notified of the recovery.
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Ind
Frank
Charles Smith
Brownstown
Edinburg
Navy invites bids for armored coast defense vessel
Washtington December 20 proposals are invited by the secretary of the navy for constructing an armored coast defense vessel about 4000 tons displacement complete exclusive of armament under the act of Congress approved March 3 1887 for naval structures to be used in coast and harbor defense
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Secretary of the Navy
Congress
Paul Estate sues Senator Cullom for damages
Amara C G Paul administrator of Prof Edward C Paul estate files suit against United States Senator Cullom of Illinois for 10000 dollars. The action stems from the death of Prof Paul who was fatally injured after being run down by Joseph Chase a negro coachman employed by the Senator.
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Wasamatos
D. C
Carver and Erb to duel live pigeon shooting in 1889
Dr. W. P. Carver challenges Fred Erb to a live bird shooting match for 1000 a side. The event will involve 100 pigeons per participant and be held at the Lafayette gun club park on February 22 1889 with both men aiming to defend national reputations.
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Lafayette
Ind
W. P. Carver
Fred Erb
Two Dead Men Found Near Mortyr Vernox Indiana
Two townsmen were found dead a few miles from Mortyr Vernox Indiana after a cold night. No wounds were found on the bodies and empty whisky bottles were nearby, suggesting death by exposure to severe cold.
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Mortyr Vernox
Ind
Waintown
A Serious Charge in Columbia City
Charles Gaff, a young married man and son of a prosperous farmer, was arrested on an affidavit by Mrs. James Coulter charging him with attempted criminal assault. He posted bond for February court. Also noted, Eli Shortridge, a brakeman for L N A Co, was killed while coupling cars at Rossville, leaving him unmarried and respected.
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Columbia City
Ind
Charles Gaff
James Coulter
Eli Shortridge
Rossville
Meredith Pleads to Assault in First Degree
Edward Meredith pleaded to assault in the first degree in the New York court of general sessions this morning. He was sentenced to eight years and eleven months. The case of the women remains pending.
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New York
Edward Meredith
Phil Daly
Court of General Sessions
Meredith
White Caps Attack Rawson Saloon in Hancock County
Yesterday the White Caps raided John Messmore’s Rawson saloon in Hancock County tearing open the door and pouring liquor into the gutter. They left a warning for the saloon keeper not to resume business.
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Dee
John Messmore
Rawson
Hancock County
American flint glass schedule unchanged for year
Prrrsnure reports the American flint glass schedule will stay the same as this year. An advertisement promotes Ayer's Hair Vigor claiming to restore youthfulness to faded hair, color, and prevent dandruff and hair loss.
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Ayer
Fatal attack in Kingman County sparks lynch fears
In Kansas, a 16 year old girl in Bress is tortured by a domestic worker described as a former slave. The assailant bound the girl, beat and painted her, leaving her to die after being locked in a room. The killer is at large as locals vow lynching if found.
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Wicira
Kas
Bress
Kingman County
Bartlett
Axworthy settles three actions with ex City Treasurer
In London the queen's bench settled three suits against ex city treasurer Axworthy of Cleveland Ohio. He agreed to pay 37000 pounds and surrender American property to settle the actions.
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Axworthy
Cleveland
Ohio
Court of the Queen's Bench
America
Baltimore
Charles F. Mayer
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Garretts
Staten Islind
Wanatak
Miss
Montreal
Quebec
Electric Belts Offered as Cure by Brooklyn Agency
A Brooklyn firm promotes $5 German electric belts claimed to cure nervous debility rheumatism and loss of power. Prof Van der Wende, president of the New York Electrical Society, is cited with U S Pat 357647. Readers are urged to write to Electric Agency Box 178 Brooklyn today.
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van der Wende
N. Y
Stanley Alive Report Reaches London on African Trek
A Zanzibar dispatch dated August 29 reports Henry M. Stanley and Emin Pasha traveling along the Arwhumi river with Stanley in good health. They left Emin Pasha eighty-two days prior at Bonyala after reaching Stanley Falls on August 28. The West African Telegraph confirms Stanley’s arrival and promises further details.
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Zanzibar
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Tippoo Tib
Henry M. Stanley
Stanley
Bonyala
Arwhumi
Emin Pasha
West African Telegraph Company
St. Thomas
Arunhumi
Parsons
Old East Main Street Bridge in Maumee Burns in Fire
A wooden bridge across the Maumee River at East Main Street near the fort site burned Friday after a fire started from an unknown cause. The east half was badly damaged, making travel unsafe. repair may cost $1,000 or more. Built in 1862 by the county for $3,500, the landmark bridge’s destruction prompted concern for the Maumee east of the Berghoff brewery.
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St. Joe
St. Mary Rivers
Old Fort
East Main Street
City Carriage Works
Maumee
Berghoff Brewery
Glassworkers Scale of Wages for 1889
The American Flint Glassworkers union has prepared its 1889 wage scale for presentation to the manufacturers committee. With minor classification changes the new scale matches 1888, and it is believed manufacturers will sign it.
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Prrissuna
American Flint’ Glassworkers’ Union
White Caps Open Correspondence Bureau in Aurora
The White Caps of the coal branch have established a correspondence bureau in Aurora. Alderman J. Ingles received a letter ordering him to stop giving short weight on coal, under penalty of a visit from the White Caps.
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Aurora, Ill
White Caps
Aurora
J. Ingles
Coal
Kentucky Quarrel Ends in Fatal Bludgeon and Shooting
In Berutown Kentucky near here Riley and John Spencer quarreled. Spencer struck Henderson on the head with a bludgeon. Henderson then shot Spencer dead and surrendered to authorities.
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Extra Berutown
Here
Riley
John Spencer
Spencer
Henderson
Wash Henderson
Governor weighs militia to aid four Democratic congressmen
Wacetina West Virginia December 20 rumor that Governor Wilson may call out the militia to back certificates for four Democratic congressmen. The move would give Democrats a house majority while two Republicans still appear elected on the returns.
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Wacetina
W. Va
Wilson
Body found near Oxmore unidentified then and now
Coroner retrieved a male body from the woods four miles from Brainerd, Ala near Oxmore. The corpse has not been identified. A bulletin warns readers about fake Ponp's Extract and advises genuine Ponp's Extract in buff-wrapped bottles.
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Brraine Ham
Ala
Oxmore
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