News of the Week: Congress Passes Key Bills
Senate enacts forty measures including enlarging penny postage weight to four ounces. House passes Legislative Appropriation with distillery exemptions and seeks 26000 for Southern Exposition aid. Senate actions include pensions for Kilpatrick widow and Dakota Legislature size. land grant forfeitures move forward. No Senate session on the 8th.
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Louisville
Judson Kilpatrick
Port Hayes
Kansas
Iron Mountain
Pilot
Holona
Domestic notices and disasters span May with fires debts and crimes
Public debt shows total 1 848 689 120 including 10 328 993 interest. Read ing Railway receivers named by Philadelphia court. Texas rain floods crops and tracks. Bank closures and robberies unfold across states. Fires destroy properties, murders and executions reported.
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Treasury
United States Circuit Court
Philadelphia
Stephen N. Caldwell
Edwin M. Lewis
George de B. Keim
Reading Railway Company
Ware River
South Barr
Bmass
Bankston
Coats
Arkansas City
Illinois
Indiana
George Sheldon
Sheldon & Co
Sherman
Chautauqua County
N. Y
Jessz Carter
Pittsburgh
Pao
Petersburg Ind
Charles Applegate
John P. Hayne
Annapolis
Naval Academy
Democrats nominate Beriah Wilkins in Sixteenth Ohio race
The Democrats of the Sixteenth Ohio District nominate Beriah Wilkins of Newark for Congress. Other items note union and Democratic conventions across Alabama Montana Vermont Connecticut Maryland with delegates to Chicago and tariff talks. James Rousset Lowett, American Minister to England, signaled resignation soon.
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Ohio
Beriah Wilkins
Newark
Tag International Typographical Union
New Orleans
Martin R. H. Whitter
St Louis Globe-Democrat
O. E. Banecogh
Levi P. Lucky
Benjamin lV. Suter
Washington
Atlantic
Lijsht House
Kabroek
Fly
Grant
Democrats
Alabama
Montgomery
O'Neal
Phelan
Smith
Montana
Democratic Territorial
Deer Lodge
Tilden
Hendricks
Pennsylvania
Paris Haldeman
National Democratic Committee
Chicago
Oregon
United States
Wilkins
Vermont
Montpelier
I. W. Redington
James Rousset Lowett
England
Notable 19th Century Trials and Political Edicts
Reported items include Cotoxex Burorp's return to an asylum in a dying state after killing Judge El- Hot, tax committee recommendations on contested seats with sums from 3500 to 1000 dollars, the death of inventor Axnonzo Hiremcock famed for the Ryan revolving fort, Governor Cleveland signing a bill banning illustrated police papers to minors, a Louisiana measure proposing 189 acres of land for disabled Confederate soldiers, the indictment of John C. Eso for forgery in New York with possible extradition from Canada.
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Burorp
Judge el- Hot
Kentucky Central
Benatic Asylum
Apm
Tax House
Washington
Axnonzo Hiremcock
New York
Canada
Multiple international incidents reported from ocasión
A collage of events includes a Vienna death by self immolation following election unrest in Clausenburg Austria. Newfoundland dam break on the New Bay log drive. A London wedding in March. A Downton England train disaster with fatalities and injuries. A Varanda Hungary woman confesses to poisoning husbands and many others. A Liverpool cotton warehouse fire and a Bishop's Gate aquarium blaze. Ottawa police find dynamite near Government House. Paris claimed London bombers fled to safety. William envisions a German social policy and colonial plan for his son. British Masons express regret over papal anti Masonic statement.
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Austria
Vienna
New Bay
Notre Dame Bay
Newfoundland
Oscar Witpe
London
Zerega
Bishop’s Gate
Government House
Ottawa
Can
Paris
England
Emmrnor William
Germany
Grand Lodge of Masons
Lord Carnarvon
Boston Meeting For NR C Committee Nominees Blaine Logan
NR C panel appointed to notify Blaine and Logan of their nomination to meet in Boston on June W and travel to Augusta. Also reports of wrecks fires murders and political notes from across North America including a fishing schooner wreck in Trinity Bay and a fatal train accident near Akron.
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Logan
Boston
Augusta
Trinity Bay
N. F
Akron
Thom
Henry G. Venxson
Montreal
Can
Sigitsixa
Alexander Carroll
Ottawa
Dunia
Liverpool
Morris Bayer
James Weiss
James Hegan
Winslow & Rogers
Salem
Mase
Freon the Sun
Catro Adocos
General Gordon
Khartoum
Nile
DiRrixu
Baltimore
Augustus
Thomas Harper
Fanny Fern
Gloucester
Masys
Carista Rem
Joseph Costermer
Haven
Octave Hope
Sherbrooke
Quebec
James Watson Welch
Courier and Inquirer
New York
Ganaiz
Liz Greenery
Horace Greeley
Chappaqua
N. Y
States
Senate
Chosen Leaders of the Republicans At Chicago
Maine figure Blaine wins on the fourth ballot while Illinois son Logan secures a nomination by acclamation amid tumultuous scenes. The report offers a full four days of proceedings at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
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Maine
Tlinois
Chicago
Convention Opens in Chicago For Eighth Republican Nominating
The Eighth Republican National Convention met at the Exposition Building in Chicago with 820 delegates. John B. Lynch was elected temporary chairman over Powell Clayton amid heated debate, and Lynch pledged unity and loyal support for the party’s candidates. The session featured speeches for and against the Clayton bid, calls for roll calls, and committee appointments as preparations continued for a full platform and nominations.
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Exposition Building
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Sabin
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Katin
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Masten Buxetts
John R. Lynch
California
Clayton
George W. Curtis
New York
John Stewart
Pennsylvania
National Committee
Stewart
Horr
Michigan
Staten
Ushi
Prentiss
Missouri
Dayton
Roosevelt
Lynch
Ciim
E. Carr
Ditnole
Taft
South Carolina
Winston
Mmississipp
Senator Hour
Massachusetts
Megan
Wiliam G Green
Maryland
Thurston
Nebraska
Clay
Arkansaa
Blaine
Amercan
Ppiauies Lam
Perce
Conan
Iowa
Republican Party
Women's Christian Temperance Union of the
United States
America
Russell
Irish National League
Petunias
Khhu
Washburne
Questa
J.H. Burroughs
American ‘Temperance Alliance
State Temperance Alliance of
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Mnaseey
Delawar
Pimmle
Kansas
Hawking
Tennesee
Delecat
Hawkins
Tennessee
George A Knight
Californa
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Mr Curtus
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John H. Anderson
Pleasanton
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Paola
Kansas City
Palisade Mountain
Hudson
Penn
Bank of Pittsburgh
Dakota
Columbus
Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railroad
Fairview
Miss Wrotsos
Hammonton
N. J
John Anderson
Kan
Gunper J. Hamer
Madison County
Neb
Madison
Allegheny
D. Lutz & Son
South Pennsylvania Railroad
Somerset
Mexico
Rice
New York City
Eperr
William Freesrant
Canton
Orangeburg
B. C
Refugio Garmaz
San Diego
Estifino Dumas
Indianapolis
John Bridges
James Barnet
Bridges
Lebanon
William Shotwell
Harrison, Ark
Schuylkill
Reading
Acent McGrilicuppy
Kennesaw Manufacturing Company
Memphis
Blaine and
James G. Blaine
Joan A. Logan
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