Congress Bills and Debates Highlight Civil and Financial Matters
In a sweeping session the Senate and House advanced bills on pensions for totally disabled soldiers, Indian affairs, and currency reform. Debates covered National Bank notes, silver and gold coinage, and payments of back pensions while petitions urged liquor inquiry and women’s suffrage. Also reported were rail and financial policy discussions, a Cincinnati exhibition bill, and a fatal Chicago cash theft amid a day of broad legislative activity.
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Renato
Paddock
United States
Senate
Military Academy
Ohio
Shelman
Indian Bureau
War Department
Davis
Clymor
Gunter
State Department
Hong Kong
Duston
Treasury
Morrintrod
Committee On Finance
Timk
Cincinnati
Baulsbury
Dicknell
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
Benato
Ith
Bayard
Board of Commissioners of Interstate Commerce
Buckner
Wirener
Committee On Banking and Currency
Sogo
Yack
Secretary of the Treasury
United States Treasury
New York Clearing House
Jane
Committee On Financia
Dayard
Messia
Kernan
Wallace
Morrill
Morgan
Také 'Pryor
Houston
Pryor
J Wth
Kindalle
Vor
Colina
Unitatis
Price Cowa
Sesalon
House
Secretary of War
Lee Oqarmys
Asdodladon
Indiana
Charles Clinton
United Arena
Cpresoon
Chiaily
Enro
Mth
Union Mick-Yards Strike Near End in Packinghouse Labor Dispute
Domestic tax and strike activity at Union Mick Yards Chicago nears resolution as workers abandon efforts to exclude non members of the Butchers and Packinghouse Men’s Protective Union. Also reports a seven day starvation case in Marlboro Mass and port passenger statistics for New York with immigrant share, plus congressional notes on lottery and fraud probes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mick-Yards
Chicago
Butchers and Packinghouse Men's Protective Union
Miss Brigham
Marlboro
Mass
Aliss Brigham
Port of
New York
Congress
Texas
Delve Land Company
Kansas “and Company
Baltimore
Liberty
Governor Foster's Inauguration and Elections Across States
Ohio Governor Foster inaugurated on the 12th with a large procession including Nehonal Guards. Garfield elected U S Senator by Republican vote in the Ohio Senate 20 to 18. Iowa Wisconsin Fusion legislatures organized. Maine Supreme Court rules Fusion Legislature valid but lacking quorum, and tempers the legitimacy of recent state acts.
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Foster
Ohio
Fran Lesiiz
New York
Menty
Lenlin
Tuerx
Garfield
United States
Thurman
House
Senate
New Orleans
Twitchell
Pierre Magliere
Louisiana
Kellogg
Iowa
Wisconsin
Maing
Josephb Smith
General Chamberlain
Tax Supreme Court of
Maine
Wasnicron
House Committees On Education and Labor
Goode
Toore
Whlliam M. Keens
Indian Bureau of
White River
Huatt
Supreme Court
Secretary of State
Daniel F. Davis
Alon Bradbury
Chadbourne
J. W. Folger
Cleaves
J. Gallaghan
Governor Davis
Davis
Garcelon
Council
The
Home-Rule League
Dublin
Ittha
America
Ireland
Court Rules Election Formalities Do Not Invalidate Seat
Dated reports discuss a court ruling upholding the right of the elected governor and board officers to take seats despite technicalities in the electoral process. The piece references governing law, rolls, and the legitimacy of the election amid contested validity questions. It notes international and domestic dispatches on political events and public disturbances.
No Paper in the Home Reflects a Distant Society
The piece laments many families, especially rural ones, subscribing to no newspaper. It argues this leaves vast numbers ignorant of world events and daily happenings, highlighting the growing gap between society and current affairs.
Voice of a Nation Warns Against Generations of Unknown Future
A fragmentary editorial voice urges parents to guard youth from ignorance created by sanctions and neglect. It stresses responsibility of every family head to foster knowledge of the moving world and the present and past’s lessons for the next generation.
A Plain Duty of Wemesis in Face of Costly Living
The piece argues extravagant daily spending fuels financial ruin, urging American women to return to frugal, prudent domestic management like grandmothers. It cites storms of debt, warns against waste, and champions steady savings to safeguard families and the wider business world.
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England
Richard
Sterne
Editors and wealth in the moneyed world a strange portrait
A narrator describes editors as masters of money language and power, linking them to finance, war plans, and courtly circles. A Ches terfield man’s will splits $8000 to Tom and $1000 to Jack, with a twist that Jack can win all of Tom’s wealth.
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America
Ad- Sera
Alls
Mph
Congress
Buirlington Hawkeyt
Chesterfield, Va
Tom
Jack
Paper Funnies and City Gossip Across Many Tales
A collage of humorous snippets from Boston to New Orleans includes quips on money and marriage, office humor, etiquette, and travel mishaps. Vignettes cover a careless husband, a clergyman’s quick wit at a wedding, a brakeman’s stove lock, and a peasant’s hat on a train, reflecting light, urban life and social quirks of the era.
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Jones
Beara
Russia
N. Y. Herald
The
New Orléans Picayune
Providence
Haven Register
Popular Science
Doston’ Post
de Gray
Stephenson
Hayden
New Mexico
Boston
Troy Times
Hymenens
Mary
Simpkins
Simkins
Lndy
Simpkina
Oil City
Finn
Berrytown
Ithaca
Keokuk Canal Traffic Figures Show River Trade Scale
The record notes 977 steam boats 622 barges and 104 rafts carrying 14511 passengers 79262 tons of merchandise 2500000 bushels of plain 193000000 feet of lumber 16600000 feet of logs 33000000 shingles and 1000000 dollars. It adds the canal is used by river craft only when rapids cannot be crossed due to low water. These figures reflect only part of Upper Mississippi River commerce.
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Tere
Keokuk Canal
Mississippi River
California olives may surpass European varieties in yield and oil quality
An intelligent Italian with long experience in olive culture asserts California will produce olives larger and of finer flavor than France or Spain. He says California oil equals the imported article and may become the most valuable in the region.
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California
France
Spain
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Bart
Sam
Henry Whitte
Oregon
Portland
Dallas
J. H. Rheer
Pershaw
Victoria
Tax Post Office Department
House Committee On Indian Affairs
General Adams
Miss Meeker
Menlo Park
Edison
Mr. Edison
Mississippi
North Carolina
Petersburg
Washington
Ouray
Schurz
Colorado
Mercarftile
R. G. Dun & Co
South-Side
Coke Gampiny
Groveral Gordon
Alexandria
Europe
Duke of
Schleswig-Holstein
Pesth
London
Roberts
Cabul
County Kerry
Galway
Tuam
Killarney
Southport
Mapnip
Alcola del Jucur
Murcia
Poraia
Paris
Nlinojster
Coke Company
Sree
Thomas B. Wells
Dearborn Street
Cologne
Deering Streets
Mr. Wells
Cologne Street
McCarthy
Patrick Conden
Wells
Thomas Ockerly
Deering Street
Robery
Chicago Inter-Ocean
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