House approves large civil appropriation bill for river and harbor
The House appropriations committee completed a sun dry civil appropriation bill totaling 59,703,084 dollars, about 5.7 million below the prior year. It funds river and harbor projects, public buildings, and includes provisions for the Hawaii debt, military post enhancements, and civil employee transport costs.
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Washington
House Committee On Appropriations
Hawaii
Chicago
Cleveland
Clinton
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Kan
Los Angeles
Cal
New York Custom House
Allegheny River
Bayou Plaquer Ming
Buffalo
Delaware Bay Harbor of Refuge
Duluth
Minn
Superior
Wis
Grays Harbor
Wash
Minois and Mississippi Canal
Kentucky River
Kentucky
Ke~tenaw Point
San Petro
Yazoo River
Mississippi
Black Warrior River
Alabama
Big Sandy River
West Virginia
Calumet Harbor
Llinois
Detroit River
Everett Harbor
Mississippi River
Ohio River
Minneapolis
Warrior
Tombirbee
Commissioner General of Immigration
United States
Nation Seeks Wrecking of Topeka Restaurant
Mrs Nation with six followers armed with hatchets started to wreck an East Sixth Street saloon and restaurant in Topeka Kansas. Police disarmed her before any damage occurred and a free for all erupted, leaving many injured and Nation hauled to police on disturbing the peace charges. She declared the defeat not her Waterloo and vowed to retry the act.
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Mra
Army appropriation bill estimates released this year
The house committee on military affairs completed and reported the army appropriation bill under the reorganization act. It provides 118 million dollars, below war department estimates of about 130 million, while last year's total army appropriations, general and deficiency, reached 115 million.
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Washington
Army
Honse Committee On
Hull
War Department
Army orders end sale of alcohol on reservations
The War Department issues the first general orders under the Army Reorganization Act directing the discontinuance of beer wine and intoxicating liquors sales on all military reservations and army transports. The order is issued today and is terse and concise in its terms.
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Washington
War Department
Burt on the Union Pacific Southern Pacific deal amid rail ties
In New York on February 6 President Horace Burt of Union Pacific comments on the rumored control transfer to Southern Pacific. He says the Union Pacific focuses on physical rail assets, expects no disruption to through service on Central Pacific tracks or Oregon Short Line traffic, and predicts benefits from agency eliminations and improved roadbed investment. He assures western farmers miners and cattle interests that relations with Union Pacific remain cordial and transportation rates will adjust more fairly.
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New York
Horace
Burt
Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Wall Street
Speyer-Huntington
Harriman
Pacific
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Central Pacific
Oregon
Queen Victoria Interment At Windsor Forest
Hundreds gathered in Windsor for the funeral of Queen Victoria with crowds lining the streets, the royal family present including King Edward Queen Alexandra and Emperor William. The coffin lay in state as wreaths faded and shops closed for the interment under bright sun.
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Vietoria
Windsor
Queen Victoria
Fondon
Windsor Castle
Old Town
Edward
Alexandria
William
Royal Familly
Honors the Great Jurist Centennial Honor for Chief Justice Marshall
Washington observe the 100th anniversary of John Marshall’s swearing in as chief justice with ceremonies in the hall of representatives at the capitol. The program, by congress joint committee and William Wirt How of New Orleans, drew the president, cabinet, Supreme Court, Senate and House members, diplomatic corps, and district lawyers among the attendees.
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Marshall
National Capital
Washington
Tohn Marshall
Virginia
United States
Hall of Representatives
Capitol
Joint Committee of Congress
William Wirt Hows
New
Oriocans
Themnerican Bar Association
Supreme Court
Senate
House
Diplomatic Corpu
District Bar Association
Mystery over army bill clauses on staff appointments
Washington February 5 officials at the War department say they do not know how two clauses were inserted in the army reorganization bill. The change restricts appointments to volunteer officers and blocks transfers to subsistence and quartermasters’ branches, thwarting many officers’ plans.
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Washington
War Department
Senate
House
President to Visit Coast for UC Berkeley Address
President McKinley will accept invitation to address University of California Berkeley students on commencement day May 15. Wheeler of UC notes telegram confirming the plan, suggesting the Pacific coast trip proceeds despite earlier contrary reports.
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University of California
Iowa supreme court rules Titus amendment void on proper adoption
DES MOINES Feb 5 The Iowa supreme court held the Titus amendment for biennial elections invalid as not properly placed before voters. The ruling, aligned with the Koehler prohibitory amendment decision, voids the measure and returns the state to the pre amendment status, triggering a full slate of elections this year. The case Bailey v Brookhart from Washington county centered on who holds office, but the court declared the amendment void in total.
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Des Moines
Iowa Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Dewey
Washington County
Iowa
Marsh W. Bailey
J. 5. Brookhart
Cherokee County
Hutchinson
Koehler
House of the Twenty-seventh General Assembly
Prohibitionists Deny Carrie Nation Visit Plans
Des Moines leaders deny inviting Carrie Nation to the city as temperance groups organize by school districts to gauge voter support for prohibition. Meanwhile in Dubuque Carnegie's gift to Upper Iowa University is discussed with potential library naming for Speaker Henderson. In Clear Lake Charles Grimm, a famed wing shot, breaks his ankle when a hay fork fails and falls from a barn roof.
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Mrs. Nation
Des Moines
Carrie Nation
Kansas
Aneney
Carnegle
Sperker Handerann
Dubuque
Henderson
Carnegie
Upper Iowa University
Jaws Markémoon
Clear ‘Lakh
Hey
Charles M. Grimm
Mr. Grimm
Grandma Wheeler Reaches Hundred and Six in Scotia
Creston South Dakota February 5 Grandma Wheeler of Scotia is 100 years and six months old born July 24 1800 at Watertown Can father a Revolutionary soldier and she had two brothers in the war of 1812 13 She started school at four and rode on one of the first Hudson steamboats Her husband lived in Montgomery County Iowa since 1870 She is small in stature and never weighed more than 105 pounds.
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Grandwn Wheeler
Creston
Grandma Wheeler
Scotia
Watertown
Cann
Hudson
Wheeler
Montgomery County
Lowe
Pension Tax Question Raised by Pensioner Guardianship
In Ottumwa Iowa a case questions whether pension funds are taxable. John Schwabbey, an insane Civil War veteran drawing 72 dollars monthly, seeks immunity from levies on back and accrued pensions totaling over eleven thousand dollars. County Treasurer Spry levied 2101.83 for 1895 to 1900, with the suit citing section 4747 of the 1878 Revised Statutes. The plaintiff argues pension moneys are exempt and the matter may reach the U S Supreme Court.
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Ottumwa
Calvin Manning
United States
John H. Spry
Wapello County
John Schwabbey
Towa
Supreme Court of the United States
Sisters Reunited After Twenty Five Years In Sioux City
Two separated families unite after a mail clerk’s discovery on a package linked a Sioux City, Iowa family to relatives in Port Augusta, South Australia. Mrs Julia Symons’s inquiry confirmed Pack kinship, prompting the aunt’s planned visit to Sioux City in coming weeks.
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Sioux City
United States
South Australia
Pack
Julia Symons
Port Augusta
Symons
Postmaster Ole Vagle Killed In Wagon Accident In Saude
NEW HAMPTON I A Feb 4 Ole Vagle postmaster of Saude killed when his lumber wagon toppled as he returned from Lawler. His son and ex–board of supervisors member was with him. he was injured but survived. Washington D C Feb 4 Cephag Hatfield named postmaster at Brecht s Ferry and George M Trumby Iowa City appointed railway mail clerk. Postmaster appointments listed for Glendon Guthrie Minso Teatervills Winslow and others as resignations trigger new vice appointments.
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Saya
Sioux City
John Riley
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company
Riley
Laurens
Northwestern
New Hampton
Ole Vagle
Af Saude
Lawler
Ale Ole
Board of Supervisors
Woshington
Washington
Cephag B' Hatfield
Brecht's Ferry
George M. Trumby
Iowa City
Glendon
Guthrie
George A. Rucker
Marion Booth
Minsoin
Mills County
L. W. Bichel
J. F. Bichel
Teatervills
Mitchell County
Henry Toaster
William Bykeson
Winslow
Black Hawk County
B.J. Courtright
Eugene Hook
Man Keeps Fresh Bouquets for Fiancee Aboard Ship
A fiancé traveled by sea to Bu rope and promised daily bouquets. He arranged boxes labeled for the journey, having a steward open one each morning in cold storage. Upon arrival in Liverpool, the recipient wrote that the flowers remained as fresh as if newly gathered.
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Burope
Abelshbwie
Liverpool
Vast New York City Real Estate Valuation Figures
The city’s total assessed realty value tops 33,000,000,600 with major single properties including the Emittable Life Building at 6,000,000 and the Waldorf Astoria Hotel at 5,000,000. Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice James P. Sterling dies in Philadelphia at 73 from a carbuncle.
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New York City
James P. Sterling
Supreme Court of Parneylovania
Philadelphia
Mary E Poole Named President of Grand Army Ladies
The Presidents of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic elect Mary E Poole of Whiting Indiana as head of the Presidents Association. The notice praises her long service to veterans and mentions endorsements for Dodd’s Kidney Pills and other products. It also notes urbanization statistics from 1800 to present.
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Indsad
Mary E. Poole
Whiting
Ind
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
G.A. R
Poole
Sha
Dodd
Bright
Dodds Medicine Co
Buffalo
Uncle Sam and a mix of ads and slogans in print
A fragmentary page caption contains political rhetoric and a collage of ads. Mentions Carter I nk DHNANCD STARCH a 16 oz package for 10 cents, a 148 dollar upright piano on easy payments, and a cold cure claim. Includes assorted стиlical lines about wealth, servants, and thrift.
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BE. G. Woodrow
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Olice
McCluskey
South Side
L. B. Bacon
Pacific Junction
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Malvery
Mitte County
A. Utterback
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Farmer’s Insurance Company of
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Clark
Barber
Sam’ Clark
David Elson
Norany Public
Malvern
Fred K. Meyers
E. C. Dewitt Aca
Tobbs & Culs
Prise Mountain Tea
Toure
Omaha
Brnte
Cannes Instant
Alapello County
Mullun
LA Porth
Vnt
Lewis Kirby
Whistler
Mason City
Maud Simenger
Topeka
Mias
Joliet
Kirby
UNAM
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Schmolier & Mueller
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