Political and cabinet actions across Senate and House
News of the Week reports Senate passage of Deficiency and Fortification bills and action on Indian Appropriation River and Harbor bills. House conferees named. Pension bill conference report adopted. $20,000,000 appropriated. Grant nominated and confirmed. Hendricks sworn in and new Senate convened. Cabinet nominees presented and debated.
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Sesston
Tuxspay
Senate
House
Arthur
Ulysses i S. Grant
Hendricks
Edmunds
Banate
Mortyuinoth Congress
General Grant
Yeas
Cardisle
Escaped Convicts Break Out Through 40 Foot Tunnel at Jackson Penitentiary
A group of six inmates abandoned the Michigan Penitentiary in Jackson by tunneling forty feet, cutting through twelve feet of masonry. Reports note a wave of violent incidents and various regional calamities, including a lynching, a farmer abandonment, and numerous deaths.
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Michigan
Jackson
Baltiaore
Jackson Daniels
Wyoming County
W. Va
Daniels
Steruza
Silex
Lincoln
Lex Slattrer
Monroe
N.C
Albert F. Goensten
Philadelphia
Tompkinsville
Staten Island
Joseph Judge
Pittsburgh
Abphat GanpNner
Massachusetts Biazo
August Schafer
Burnet
Tex
Dakota Council
Bismarck
Pierre
Wave
Wilmington
N. C
Naval Observatory At
Washington
Pacife
Ae Cleveland
Train robberies and fires in early June report
Reports from June 6 describe robberies in Washington involving Hon. John H. Reagan of Texas and Hon. Charles J. Lore of Delaware. fatalities occur in Boone County Missouri in a dog dispute, a lamp explosion burns two at Bradford Pa, a train collision near Grenada Mississippi kills firemen and an unknown man, and a jail inmate in Reading Pa dies after refusing food. Global business failures total 260 in the week ending June 6, with regional breakdowns.
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Pennsylvania Railway
Washington
John H. Reagan
Texas
Charles,j. Lore
Delaware
Willuiam Corsin
John Garnes
Boone County
Sprcran
Fradstreet's
Bismarck
D. T
Dunkirk
Bradford
Grenada
Miss
E.R. Burr
Reading
Buzz
Minneapolis
Jacob Snyder
Akron
United States
Canada
Chatnal
Middle States
New England
Western
Southern
In Chicago Court Mackin and Gallagher Trial Postponed
Motion for a new trial for Joseph C Mackin and William J Gallagher on election fraud charges was postponed to March 12 in the United States District Court at Chicago. President Arthur Cleveland and Hendricks were sworn in, with inaugural ceremonies and fireworks.
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United States
Chicago
Joseph C. Mackin
William J. Gallagher
Benjamin. Buttenworth
Patents
Toller
Antour
W.B. Hazen
House
Indiana Senate
Exira Buainz Walter
James G. Blaine
Baltimore
Grover Cleveland
Washington
Arthur
Cleveland
Hendricks
Senate
Capitol
Waite
White House
Tux
Arkansas
Dorney County
Illinois
Haines
Morrison
Richard Bishop
Hate
New Hampshire
Henry W. Blair
Blair
Autuun
Supreme Courts
William M. Evarts
New York
John C. Spooner
Wisconsin
Leland Stafford
California
Joseph C
Blackburn
Kentucky
James B. Eustis
Louisiana
James K. Jones
Henry B. Payne
Ohio
Ephraim E. Wilson
Maryland
Tu Ohio College of Dental Surgery
Lloyd
Dakota Council On the
Sth
Jostan Loose
Indianapolis
Los Angeles
Cal
General Logan
Washburne
New York Chamber of Commerce
O. L. Prupyn
Congress
Grant
Nebraska
E. Wils Winson
West Virginia
Wheeling
National Greenback picks Nixon's party line and military acts
General Buack of Illinois has accepted the nomination for United States National Committee of the National Greenback party. The party issues an address opposing hard money and urging silver coinage and legal tender notes. It also blames Congress for stalled bills and condemns Oklahoma settler expulsions as a crime. The President signs Grant's retirement to the army list. Minnesota Legislature adjourns sine die.
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Henry Stout
Batavia
Lundy’s Lane
Chippewa
J. C. Buack
Tlinois
United States
National Committee
National Greenback Party
Congress
Oklahoma
A. 8. Grant
Minnesota
Sine Dle
Unsettled Global Tensions and Local Incidents Reported
Reports indicate a series of international concerns including a Newfoundland voyage in peril after 159 days at sea, Ottawa parliament security over dynamite fears, Cuba’s economic stagnation with unrest, Ireland dynamite attack on a Protestant church, and garrison defeats near Kassala. Also noted are the Nicaragua canal treaty passing the US Senate, Zanzibar annexation notification, London Parliament damage costs, British troop offers from colonies, a Karwin explosion with uncertain casualties, Quebec Parliament precautions, Toronto woolen mill fire injuring two firemen, and Serbia's amnesty for 706 revolution-era prisoners.
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Carrain John Traynor
Fritz Federmans
St. John’s
Newfoundland
England
Ottawa
Gilenfinen
Ireland
Suakim
Kassala
United States
Nicaragua
Zanzibar
Germany
London
Bth
Karwin
Austria
Quebec
Tax Union Manufacturing Company
Toronto
Ont
Tue King of Servia
Cabinet oath marks new officers and shifts in politics
Twz memberaf of the new Cabinet took oath and entered office. General E C Walthall named to succeed Lamar as US Senator from Mississippi. Cholera outbreak in Java and mine explosion at Karwin reported with hundreds dead. Ohio animal disease, floods in Missouri and Mississippi valleys, and stock exchanges show declines. Donavan wins six day race in New York.
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Twz
Ith
Lamar
E. F P. Hamma
Hanna
Albany
Ohio
Lowry
Mississippi
E.C. Walthall
United States
Washington
Nile
Batavia
Java
Genénat Briere DE L’irle
Tonquin
Tuyen-Kwang
Genenat Grant
New York
Donovan
Elmira
Karwin
Austrian Silesia
Clark County
Des Moines
Stha
St. Francisville
Alexandria
Inauguration of Grover Cleveland as President
March 5 Washington reports the inauguration of Grover Cleveland with a vast crowd along Pennsylvania Avenue, elaborate decorations, and two grand stands. The ceremony includes the oath, the Senate reorganization, and Cleveland's inaugural address urging unity, constitutional fidelity, tariff reform, civil service reform, and peaceful foreign policy.
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Wasnixdton
Grover Cleveland
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
Pension Office
White House
Sherman
Ransom
Cleveland
Arlington Hotel
Hawley
Willard
Hendricks
Thither
Nally
Regular Army
Marine Corps
Arthur
Congress
Mr. Hendricks
Senate Chamber
Senate
Navy
Kerga
Supreme Court of the District
Court of Alabama Claims
Commissioner of Agriculture
Supreme Court
House
United States
Capitol Building
Clevland
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William C. Endicott
William Co. Whitney
L. Q. C. Lamar
Interior
William F. Vilas
A. H. Garland
Riddle‘berger
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