Senate passes investigation push amid varied late 19th century bills
Senate adopts Sherman resolution for full investigation of recent Virginia and Mississippi election troubles. House approves aid to Crow Reservation at 100000, and tobacco rebate funding. Measures-on timber culture repeal and North Dakota Territory creation-get introduced. Prohibitory liquor petitions flow in. several bills target tariffs, currency stability, and government employee wages. Adjourned to February 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Virginia
Mississippi
Senate
Committee On Public Lands
Cameron
Wis
North Dakota
Indiana
Crow Reservation
Keifer
H. V. Boynton
McGarrahan
Wood
Bennett
District of Columbia
Warner
Greely
Washington
Dakota
Idaho
Tncr
Bureau of Animal Industry
Congress
E. W. M. Mackey
Dra. Huntley
Shippon
Territories
House
Texas & Pacific Railroad
K. Barr
Germany
France
Fitz John Porter
Domestic and local disasters fill busy news reel
A collision near Plainsboro New Jersey killed three workers. A rise in accidents included Eagle Hill Colliery injuries, a Philadelphia mint January coinage total of 1 361 023 dollars, and a fatal boiler blast in Michigan. Other items note executions and embezzlement, court cases, and floods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainsboro
N. J
Eagle Hill
Pottsville
Batavia
N. Y
Newton Rowell
Johnston L. Lynch
Palmer
Tax
White River
Grand Ripple
Ind
Mint
Philadelphia
Linden Steel Works
Pittsburgh
John Butler
Thomas Liney
John Roach
Joan T. Warren & Co
Cincinnati
Charles Joyce
St. Louis
Merchants’ & Mechanics’ Bank of
Leadville
Col
Fort Lincoln
15Th Infantry
Clinton
Norwich
Crooked Hill
Reading
Prohibition State Convention to Nominate Officers at Columbus
A notice indicates the Ohio Prohibitionist party will hold a state convention in Columbus on March 6 to nominate state officers and delegates to the national convention. The dispatch also lists various political and legal items from New York, Illinois, Kansas, and Arizona, including court rulings, bills, and nominations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tue
Ohio
Prohibitionista
Columbus
Tur
New Orleans
New York Assembly
Jupez Barnet
Brooklyn Supreme Court
New York State
Second
Kansas
Edward P. Funston
D. C. Haskell
Illinois State Central Committee of Colored Men
Chicago
Eirstern
Pittsburgh
Cotonin
A. W. Sheldon
Arizona
San Francisco
J. E. Seneken
Virginia
Cabin Hill
Shenandoah
House of Representatives
Washington
H. E. Packer
Lehigh
Notable Deaths and Legal Court Rulings From Early 1900s
Valley Road resident dies suddenly in Mauch Chunk Pa at age 33. Mrs Groner A Evans who died at Des Moines Ia is credited with starting Decoration Day flowers on Arlington Heights graves. Tomas Satucn a liquor seller from Wo burn Mass jailed for Temperance law violation. while appealing he is elected to Legislature. Supreme Court rules he must serve term. BerTaa CLEAR who married a living skeleton in Philadelphia then deserted him tests court saying she is free to return home with her father.
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Supreme Court
BerTaa Clear
Philadelphia
World Wheat Surplus and Global News Briefs
Wheat export surplus 18 000 000 bushels forecast for South Australia and a US supply estimate of 175 000 000 bushels plus 5 000 000 in flour. John Bright denounces Henry George in Birmingham. Toronto elevators burned costing 253 000 dollars. Bear sealing steamer purchased for Greely search. London brokers fail for 825 000 pounds. Snow damage in Hamilton injures Mrs Burns and child. Austrian martial law in Vienna. Sinkat Egypt residents eat dogs as siege continues. British Nile steamers asked to move troops and refugees from Khartoum. Budapest police offer rewards for stolen iron chest. Pere la Chapelle burn leaves 100 families homeless.
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South Australia
Cincinnati Journal
United States
Birmingham
Eng
John Bright
Henry George
England
Chapman & Son’s
Adamson
Toronto
Ont
St. John
N. F
London
P W. Thomas’ Sons & Co
Hamilton
Can
Burns
Vienna
Sinkat
Egypt
Nile
Upper
Khartoum
Buda-Pesth
Hungary
Ist
Pere la Chaise Cemetery
Paris
Notable deaths and crimes across U S towns including abolitionist leader
Eugene Purumps dies in Boston after a brief illness at seventy three. he led abolitionist causes and headed the Anti Bravery Society. Nelson & Co St. Louis suffers $100000 fire with three firefighters hurt. England Ireland and Jersey suffer storm damage. Lancashire Tex murder of JoAn Hasn by a maniac brother. Colliers in Long Island City poisonings tied to $25000 inheritance. Sandy Romse a deputy sheriff killer hanged at Crockett. Bona partist leader E Lef died. Fergus Falls warehouse fire costs 70000. Texas legislature allocates 50000 to catch fence cutters. Egyptian marchers flee as El Mahdi supporters pursued. Albany Mo farmer William Brapsaw murdered. Whitesboro Gainesville robbery nets 500. Chicago thief Schultz embezzlement case. Cronson arrested. valuables recovered.
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Wexpdgll Puruips
Boston
Mass
United States
E. P. Lovejoy
Anti- Bravery Society
Nelson & Co
St. Louis
England
Isle of Man
Island of
Jersey
Joan Hasn
Lancaster
Tex
Thom Mass Coullier
Long Island City
L.L
Collier
Sandy Rormse
Crockett
DurRine
Baker Pasha
Trinkitat
Egypt
el Mahdi
William Brapshaw
Albany
Gentry County
Whitesboro
Gainesville
Chicago
B. Schultz
Pittsburgh
Leon Cronson
Goldsmith & Kuhn
New York
Deadly gasoline blast destroys Alliance business block
An explosion in Alliance on Main Street leveled the Orr block and damaged adjacent buildings. The blast from leaking gasoline killed F M Orr and family members, injured seven, and left two blocks wrecked with estimated property loss around 50 000. Fire crews, aided by others, fought flames as bystanders mourned victims.
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Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
Denis Kearney
Dunne
United States
Canada
New England
Middle
Western
Southern
Pacific States
Isaac Kennedy
Wheeling
W. Va
Taylor
Mayfield
Denver
Henry B. Holmes
B. H. Lanier
New Orleans
South America
Treasury
South Carolina
Searcy
Ark
R. A. Ward
Lay
J. H. Redmond
California
San Pablo
Ist
Alvarado
Manquis DE Morsis
Montana
Iowa
Wisconsin
Philadelphia
Allegheny
Pittsburgh
Youghiogheny
Alliance
Nise
Main Street
F. M. Orr
Elmer Orr
Homer Highland
Frank Evans
Mr. Orr
McConnell
Orr
John Curry
Charles H. Hayden
Duprez & Benedict's Minstrels
Orr’s
Vote on the Fitz John Porter bill in the House
Detailed tally shows Democrats with 164 votes to 18 Republicans and 2 Independents approving the Fitz John Porter bill with several paired members noted as abstaining or unavailable. The report includes a separate payees note that James B. David was awarded 28000 dollars after paralysis from a Boston and Albany railroad accident.
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Washington
Llouse
Fitz John Porter
Yeas
Clements
Cobb
Collins
Qoandly
Cook
Cosgrove
Cox
Chap
Culberson
Tex
Curtin
Dargan
Davidson
Davis
Deuster
Dibrell
Dockery
Dorsheimer
Dowd
Duncan
Eldredge
Evins
8. C
Ferrell
Fiedter
Finley
Ark
Jones
Ala
Jordan
King
Kleiner
Laird
Lamb
Lanham
la Fevre
Lewis
Long
Love
Lovering
Lowry
Lyman
McAdoo
McMillan Mutson
Mayberry
Miller
Mitchi i
Morgan
Morrison
Morse
Moulton
Muldrow
Murphy
Murray
Mittehler
Neece
Nichols Oates
O'Hara
Atkinson
Barr
Bingham
Boutelle
Hrainerd
Breitung
Brewer
N. Y
Browne
Ind
Brumm
Calkins
Campbell
Cannon
Converse
Culbertson
Cullen
Cutcheon
Mass
Dingley
Dunham
Ellwood
Evans
Goff
Guenther
Brown
Ermontrout
Howey
Hitt
Eaton
Wait
Budd
George
Kasson
Talbott
Kelley
Kendall
Miller Pad
Ketcham
Warn- Byson Lake
Vington
Holton
Valentine
Hardy
Ellis
James B. David
Boston & Albany
Wendell Phillips Dies in Boston Aged Anti Slavery Orator
Wendell Phillips, noted anti slavery and reform orator, died in Boston at 6 15 PM after angina pectoris. He was born in 1811 and rose to lead the Anti Slavery Society succeeding Garrison. Funeral planned in Boston with ministers Bartel and Clarke.
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Boston
Wendell Phillips
Mass
Wendell Philips
Bartel
James Freeman Clarke
Phillips
Miner
Burnham Wardwell
Harvard
Faneuil Hall
E. P. Lovejoy
Alton
Ill
James T. Austin
Massachusetts
Anti-Slavery Society
Cincinnati
William Lloyd Garrison
Louisiana
General Grant
Ireland
United States
Great Britain
Double Tragedy in Racine Woman and Suicided Lover Kill Each Other
Andrew Johnson, a discarded lover, killed Bertha Brassman, sixteen, at Lepage's restaurant in Racine and then shot himself. Johnson had threatened Bertha and had been drinking heavily, blaming a rival named Charlie Brinckmann in a notebook found afterward.
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Racink
Wis
Andrew Johnson
Bertha Brassman
Lepage
Johnson
Gulbranson
Bertha
Miss Brassman
Bertha Brassnan
Charlie
J. L Case & Co
Charles Brinckmann
French Economist Arrives to Prevent Pork Retaliation
M. Leon Chatteau, noted French political economist, arrived in New York seeking to avert retaliatory U S measures over France's pork embargo. He urged a commercial treaty and criticized French consular influence and deputies who opposed the pork proposal without proper evidence.
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New York
M. Leon Chatteau
United States
France
Chamber of Deputies
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