Monument to Washington Shaft Construction Details Revealed
Describes the 78.5 acre government site near the Potomac where a monument shaft to Washington stands. Colonel Thomas Ties Casey and a joint engineers committee oversaw the foundation expansion and shaft construction, including a 500 ft 6 in height shaft, iron stairway, steam elevator, and costly use of 14,000 barrels of Portland cement. congress appropriated funds for the project in 1834.
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Thomas Ties Casey
Girls OF Engineers
Potomac River
Major L Enfant
Washington City
Washington
Confinental Congress
Congress
Thomas Lincoln Casey
Corps of Engineers
Maine
Potomac
Atlantic
Lindy Leck
Jene ST
Failure of the Grant Retirement Bill in the House
The House refused to suspend the rules and pass a bill placing General Grant on the retired list. Support and opposition split along party lines with Republicans wary of forcing a presidential veto. Slocum backs the stronger named Grant bill, while Edmunds’ unnamed version gains less backing. Prospects for action this session look dim.
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House
Grant
Slocumb
Slocum
Cver
Deer Killed by Train on Oregon Lines
Two hundred black-tailed deer sheltered in a deep cut on the Oregon Short Line near Bedford were struck by a westbound passenger train. Twenty-three died instantly, about twenty more were wounded, and many were loaded aboard after the incident. Similar killings occurred on the Itall Northern and Word liver branches as heavy snow drove deer into cuts. More than one hundred deer have been killed by trains in two months.
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Geneseo
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United States
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Chicaco
Unemployed Workers in New York City Reach 75 000
The city faces an estimated 75 000 unemployed men and women. The breakdown lists women 80 909 and workers by trade, including longshoremen, Italians, tailors, furniture workers, ironworkers, printers and others. Weekly wage losses exceed 1 000 000 dollars. Immigrant arrivals at Castle Garden swell the ranks of idlers, with at least half unable to support themselves.
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New York
New York City
Castle Garden
Seat of the Soudan War Khartoum described as key Nile frontier
A detailed map description of Khartoum on the Blue and White Nile, its strategic value as the upper Nile’s military center, its history under Mehemet Ali, and its urban layout, population, and health concerns. Distances from Cairo to Dongola and other routes are noted.
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Chicago Standard
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Khartoum
Balw-el- Aaiak
Blue Nile
Bali-el- Abind
Winte Nile
White Nile
Dongola
Geeral Hick
Upper Nile
Egypt
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Shendy
Nifty
Mehemet Ali
Pacha
Nile
Ibrahim
Ismail
Tiastern Soudan
Khartoumn
General Gordon
Marlorough Ibease Landon
Dr &Euwelnfurth
Terrible Alta Snow Slide Kills and Endangers Fortunes
A Salt Lake City dispatch reports that as many as thirty people may have died in Alta Utah from last Friday's snow slides. Twelve bodies were recovered, with four survivors. The disaster struck Alta and Superior gulch areas, where ongoing slides threaten residents, and a relief party returns with victims.
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Alta
Trey
Andrew Waite
Jimuced
Culham
Afrhorst
Mr. Jord
Boudies
Batton
Mrs. Ford
Baby
Alte
Superior
Superior Gulch
Not Alms but Work Delegation Presses Harcourt
Not Alms but Work in Loxpon Feb 19. William Vernon Harcourt Home Secretary received a deputation of unemployed workmen who said they did not want alms but work. They rejected socialist propaganda. Harcourt was impressed, said the government would study the matter, and consider boosting local philanthropic relief and possible emigration via British colonial authorities.
Riots in Virginia Coal Fields Spark Townwide Tension
Riots reported at Paralonutas in Tazewell County follow widespread miner layoffs amid poor business. The mayor and other townsfolk have been fired upon, a Black policeman killed, and residents ordered to leave under threat. A mass meeting condemned the outrages and funds were pledged to bolster the police force.
Scramble for Land as Northeastern National Park Lands Open
Private intelligence from Washington to Gardiner reveals the bill restoring the park's northeastern public lands became law within hours, triggering a night stampede and inundating the area with location notices on valuable coal and mineral lands.
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Livexestos
M. T
Washington
Gardiner
National Park
Merrill and Clark Lead Ticket Agents in Army Service
Fragmentary note lists Merrill A.V. as manager and A.G. Gezors Carpenter with Gen. Pass and Ticket Agent roles. ClarkGen A. and Waeford as superintendent and assistant ticket agent appear in the same line. Indicates organizational roles in a military or transportation office.
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A.V
Carpenter
Gezors
Gen
Pass
Tkt Agt
Clark
GEN A
Weafford
GePaas
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