Congress Debates Funding Bill and Pensions in Senate and House
The Senate considers a broad funding and pension appropriations package while discussions in the House focus on the Funding bill and election issues. Debates include taxation repeal proposals, an assay office at Deadwood, New Mexico statehood, and the counting of electoral votes, with adjournment set for January 6.
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Congress
Senate
Deok
United States
Bankera
Saunders
Deadwood
Ingalls
New Mexico
Whyte
Supreme Court of the United States
Secretary of the Interior
Commissioner of Pensions
PSSIH
Dawes
Civil Service Committee
Hobeson
Fernando Wood
Messra
Weaver
Sparka
Tuy Benaté
Mr. Morgan
Senato
Bowman
Messia
Sparks
McLane
Clymer
Appropriations Committee
F. Woodt
Endjoton
Ominous Mix of Disasters and Scandals Abroad and Home
A roundup of midwestern and eastern incidents includesสน Shocking incidents: fourteen Chinese lepers reshipped to Hong Kong, a Bristol PA train collision fatally injures four, and a disease-linked amputation in Massachusetts. Robberies in New York and Ohio, hotel fire in Toledo, stock exchange arrests, and massive infrastructure failures follow. Buffalo water main bursts damage warehouses. Caldwell Kansas logistics, railroad accidents near Lincolnton and Belmont claim lives. Mormon indictments yield no cases. Sitting Bull warriors approach Pine Ridge. and beaver meadow explosion kills one, injures several.
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San Francisco
Jong Kong
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bristol
Porson
John C. Allen
North Reading
Mass
Erie
Cheater
N. Y
Waile
Cincinnati
Ohio
Tux Moburo
Toledo
Henry Seaman
New York Stock Exchange
Mutual Stock Operating Company
Buffalo
Welch & Bacon
Albany
Caldwell, Kun
Payuve
Carolina Central Road
Lincolnton
David Bloom
J. W. Goodson
Strong
Grevaland
John Berry
Miram Winchester
Grand Jury
Salt Lake
Idaho
Wyoming
Arizona
Montana
Washington
Maky Fenerson
Brooklyn
Beaver Meadow
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Sitting Bull
Pine Ridge Agency
Caldwell
N.C
Bélmont
Reading
Connecticut General Assembly Presents Portrait to House
A portrait of Speaker Jonathan Trumbull was presented to the National House of Representatives by the Connecticut General Assembly. The New England Society of Brooklyn hosted its first annual festival with guests including General Grant and Professor Silliman presiding.
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Jonathan ‘Trumbull
General Assembly of Connecticut
New England Society of Brooklyn
Lhote
Notable Judicial Nominee and City Election Sparks
The piece notes the firing of Judge Woods to fill Justice Strong’s seat during Grant’s first term, and reports Austin electing Ben Thompson as City Marshal. It also mentions Lamay Joz’s death at Sing Sing, the arrival of Bjornson in Chicago with a reception, and Mr Arn Thomas Hespers’s English wedding to Flora Sharon at Belmont California with a grand reception.
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Lone Star
Gkxt
Lamay Joz
Morgan Dix
New York
Sng Sing
Bioxyatzernas Bjornson
Chicago
Arn Thomas Hespers
England
Flora
Sharon
Belmont
Cal
California
International incidents and reforms ripple through Europe and colonies
Reports from across the world cover Ireland's unrest affecting royal hunts in Austria, a six month suspension of a Prestbury priest, Canada’s rising public debt, a deadly Leeds rail collision, Irish soldiers facing hunger, and 80 000 British troops to Ireland. weitere items include arrests in Berlin, bank failures in Constantinople, Greek arbitration stance, Saint Gothard tunnel progress, a seized Norwegian ship, Argentina plans to move Cuban conspirators, Natal Boers, a Chinese telegraph project, and criminal indictments in Mexico.
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Austria
Ireland
Denanene
Prestbury
Eng
British
Tae
Canada
Leeds
Twe
Milltown
Micuaxtory
Berlin
Stanson & Co
Constantinople
London
Europe
St Gothard Ling
Switzerland
Juno
Clare River
Tuy
Hayang
Josefina
Santiago de Cuba
Fernando Po
Tux
Natal
Tur
Emperor of
China
Bhanghae
Tientein
Italy
Grover Extor
J. W. Cross
Tax Supreme Court of Mexico
Teran
Vera Cruz
Falas
Various 1890s Briefs From New York City Area
Reports recount a Brooklyn fatal kerosene blaze involving Patrick Winne and his wife, U S petrol product totals for October 1890 and October 1879, a Boston banking firm gifting clerks over 20 000 in Christmas gifts, the Swiss President M Anderweet shooting himself in Berne, and a Kirkwood New Jersey woodcutter dying after mad dog exposure. Other items include a freight and passenger train collision near Atlanta with two fatalities, three men struck and killed crossing tracks near Natick, a New York press figure Et Usulion dying, Boer attacks near Pretoria, four Loyalists murdered in Transvaal, a Bridgewater New Hampshire house fire killing two children, and Oklahoma colonists opposing federal land moves.
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Patrick Winne
Brooklyn
Boston
M. Anderweet
Aufelde
Berne
Exetu Foster
Kirkwood
N.J
Atlanta
Peter Keys
John Collins
Freman
John Shea
Chester Morse
Brace
Boston & Albany
Natick
Mass
Jznome B. Etsulion
New York
Losvon
Pretoria
Transvaal
Aris
Bridgewater
Foir
Wilson
Oklahoma
Seak
Indian Territory
Idad
Congress
Greenpoint Doctor Dies Saving Diphtheria Patient
In Greenpoint, Dr Banford died of diphtheria after a daring windpipe operation to save a child. Colleagues note he previously saved a patient, sacrificing his life. The piece details treatment efforts and reflections by Dr Van Giesen and Dr Vanieson on diphtheria and its varying severity.
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Ford
Greenpoint
Middistown
Dr. Banford
Dr. Sanford
Dr. Senford
Rutchinson
Brooklyn
Sanford
van Giesen
Banford
Columbia Law School
Vanieson
Sun
Educational bill funds public lands for school endowment
The bill seeds an education fund from public land and patent proceeds. Treasury apportions to states territories and D C by population for ages five to twenty, with four percent interest and endowment stipulations. Funds support colleges and teacher training, plus public schools for six to sixteen, with penalties for misuse and limits on prior land laws. Colleges may offer technical education for women under 1862 act.
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Burnside
United States Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
District of Columbia
Treasury
Aaid
Staten, Territories
Secretary of the
Eec
Congress
Magelar Malady Strikes East Springfield Resident Again
William B. Fancunow of East Springfield endures annual severe spasms tied to a mysterious illness that has baffled doctors for twenty years. The fits begin at seven each evening, last about three hours, then subside for a year, leaving him exhausted. Despite spending large sums on cures, no effective treatment exists as experts in Cleveland failed to diagnose the case. Mr. Kerne reportedly bought a full stock farm in Virginia.
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Wilttam B. Fancunow
East Spring
Eld
Mr. Ferguson
Maddy
Ferguson
Cleveland
Erie
Dispatch
Chidamen
Boards of Health
Nee
Virginia
Local misdeeds and civic issues ripple through Rock Island era
Reports detail a con man in Springfield selling boxes with false prizes, county treasurers cited for missing funds, a fatal well accident in Blue Mound Township, a brakeman killed near Morrisonville, and varied population counts by county. Also noted are political contests, militia inauguration plans, railroad grain deliveries, and a Paris performance tragedy.
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Rocksland
Oxz Frank Artslen
Costa
Tux
Rock Island County
Tug
Charles Byer
Blue Mound Township
McLean County
Byer
James Carey
St. Louis & Pacific Railway
Danville
Morrisonville
St. Louis
Jacksonville
Jupez Joan Moses
Scott County
Illinoia Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Hamilton
Martin Fritzogs
Warren
SartMet Bond
MelDonough
Buono Ecess Dlostimchenry
Brown Vow McLean
Macon
Calhoun
Tat Macoupin
Carroll
Madison
Marton
Champaign
Marshall
Christian
Mason
Clark
Clay
Wonard
Chinton
Mercer
Cole
Monroe
Cook
Montygomery
Crawford
Morgan
de Wirt
Peoria
S Btn
Douglas
Phats
Folgur
Pike
Eawaards
Pope
Ingham
Kom Pulaski
Fulton
Gallatin
St. Clair
Greece
Saline
Grundy
Sangamon
Bebuyler
Alanouck
Borlendoraon
Starkoom
Henry Wow Stephenson
Lroquois
Hapmaen Clatwall
Jo Daviess County
Woodbine
Claywell
Galena
Freeport
Decatur
William T. Elkin
Ilinois
Vandalla
Springfield
Hintrarp
Ilnois
Garflaid
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Chicago
Vermilion County
Wisconsin
John Forbes
Prairies
Kankakes County
Bwigert
W W Todd
Over
The Small Boy Faces Waxination Fears in Vaccination Tale
In a Virginia Enterprise piece from November, a child witnesses and endures the dread of vaccination. The narrative captures fear, communal awe, and the doctor’s sharp needle as a rite of passage for youth amid smallpox anxiety.
Whittier's First Published Poem Heard By Garrison
The article recounts Whittier's 1826 first published poem in Newburyport's Free Press under William Lloyd. It describes his parents and Uncle Moses, the long wait for notice, and Garrison's later meeting with the young poet in Haverhill that launched a lifelong friendship.
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Portland
Fontes
Young Whittier
Haverhill
Free Press
Moses
Garrison
Whittier
Fontaine locomotive and new milk water test described
The article notes Fontaine locomotive plans from Dergoir featuring a two wheel drive with a single side rod and an upper drive wheel of equal diameter, plus no dead centers. It also cites a Grecian chemist offering a plaster based test to gauge milk water content, with timing depending on water percentage and specific gravity, without heating.
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Gous
New Orleans
Dergoir
PITH AND POINT. AFOOT-NOTE And Oddities From The Times
The page compiles snippets and quips from various papers. Items reference Ireland landlords, a trunked pig from Michigan, mustard plasters for heat, literary justifications, railroad car humor, a New Hampshire cider offer with a yellow dog, and Dr Knox teaching pigs to play euchre.
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Ireland
Mark
Tower of Babel
Michigan
Philadelphia Chronicle
Harry
Expresson
Boston Transcript
Calenta Gottipav
Pyutra
Snckry
UO. Picayune
Knox
New York State
Scientific Explorations in the Southwest
Stevenson brings back ethnology notes from Northern New Mexico with J W Powell. The party studied Taos Pueblo and nearby ruins along the Rio Grande, photographing dozens of sites including Santa Clara and Jemez. They collected artifacts and mapped cliff ruins, with Powell to publish a full report.
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Cart
Stevenson
J. W Powell
New Mexico
Fueblo
Taos
Rio Grande
Tasos
Picoris
San Juan
Santa Clara
Mississippi
Zaos
San Delfonso
Namba
Zesuque
Cochiti
Jemez
Silla
Santa Anas
Santa Domingo
Sandia
San Felipi
Powell
Washington
Uor&j. Louis Globes Democrat
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Henry Republican
GEO. Bart. IB
Rota A
Eer
Toa Jarences
Ei Taterest
Kerne
Virginita
Paris
Pirates de la Savane
M. Martigrues
Yonex Florist
Science and Industry
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