Senate measures and nominations roll through in March sessions
Reports from Tuxsvar and Wowespar detail Senate actions including appointing five Senators to examine interstate transport, considering forest preservation, and confirming nominees Edward D. Clark, Martin V. Montgomery, Malcolm Hay, and Milton J. Durham. Debates cover Alaska missions and Egyptian treaty ratification.
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Senate
Tuxsvar
Barrios
Guatemala
Edward D. Clark
Mississippi
Wowespar
Committee On Agriculture and Forestry
Martin V.montgomery
Michigan
Malcom Hay
Pennsylvania
Milton J. Durham
Kentucky
Treasury
Twensday
Alaska
Ephraim K. Wilson
Maryland
George Gray
Delaware
Sherman
sAjoare
Egypt
United States
England
Feubat
Delate, On
Martin V. Montgomery
Miles
Political and Personal Notes From The Week
Generaal Biacky became Pension Office Commissioner in Washington on the 17th. John W Warrens of Detroit turned 106 on the 17th. Andrew J Sxrrm named Governor of the Leavenworth Soldiers Home. Iowa Supreme Bench upheld Prohibitory law and valid injunctions against saloon nuisances. Attorney General Gray elected by Delaware Legislature to Senate seat. Governor Pierce faced veto over Woman Suffrage act in Albany New York. Starr Averton Brown suspended in Iowa. Cassell new appointee took office. Conanicut? Judge Jurroaps died at Vicksburg. Rhode Island Republicans nominated Wetmore. Democrats Slocum for Governor. Grant improving. doctors discuss throat growth removal but undecided.
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Generaal Biacky
Pensions
Washington
John W. Warrens
Detroit
Colons
Andrew J. Sxrrm
Leavenworth Soldiers’ Home Tax Supreme Bench
Iowa
Gray
Delaware
Bayard
United States Senate
Albany
Mw.y
Hierce
Dakota
Pierce
Starr Averton Brown
Sherman
Cassell
BE. Jurroaps
Congress
Vicksburg
Tom
Connecticut
Bonate
Tw Republicans
Rhode Island
Providence
Ith
Peabody Wetmore
Eiba
Slocum
Govenat Grant
Fragmented OCR summary of 19th century political and legal items
Reginxs Buatwhi ordered from Heaven to kill the new Press Ragland by the charity commissioners. Janus H Benny was elected to succeed Garland in the United States Senate. Tom Governor of Massachusetts signed a bill regulating liquor sales to registered guests between 11 PM and 6 AM. A joint Ohio measure asks voters to change state elections to November. Fauxx M Barpers died on the 30th. The Forty eighth Congress approved fourteen regular appropriation bills totaling 215 511 506 for 1885 6, down 34 783 301 from 1864 5. Grevena L Graxr sought his daughter Sartoris on the 20th. General remains improving.
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Reginxs Buatwhi
Dha
Janus H. Benny
Arkansas
Garland
United States Senate
Tom
Massachuseites
Ohio
Fauxx M. Barpers
Ilinois
Grevena L Graxr
Sartoris
Europe
Global News Briefs on Roads, Mines, and Battles
Manitoba MPs press for immediate measures to build the Southwestern Road to curb farmer emigration to the United States. A fire damp explosion in a Camphaus en colliery in Rhenish Prussia left 217 miners imprisoned. 90 rescued, others feared suffocated. General Granum warned Osman Digna to make terms as British advances faced resistance. Heavy snowstorms in New Brunswick halted railroads. British forces at Suakim engaged Osman Digma with heavy losses on both sides. 51 entombed workers were recovered alive while 137 bodies were found and 40 remained missing. Descriptions of Viennese theater incident and a Dutch reader incident follow the day’s brief reports.
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Manitoba
United States
Camphausen
Rhenish
Prussia
Arneral Granwam
Osman Dignis
O'Connor
Birch
Advicus
Camphalleen
Suakim
Osman Digma
Dezina
Vienna
France
Leoth
Fire destroys Laingham Hotel in Chicago
A blaze at the Laingham Hotel on Wabesh Avenue and Adams Street Chicago kills Belknap Burns John Hen Reacy and two firemen. Losses are estimated at 360000 with extensive property damage and several injuries reported.
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Tax Laingham
Wabesh Avenue
Adams Street
Chicago
Belknap
Burns
John Hen- Reacy
Bparroro
Illinois
R. E. Logan
Palace
Corea
Independent Party
Delaware
Easton
Signal-Service
Mount Washington
Pittsburgh
Gerxnan Haron
Oklahoma
Coffeyville
Kaw
United States
Fortress Monroe
Navasota
Tex
Bnakim
Lonaconing
United States Senate
Mitchell
a _sperial
Senate
Missouri Flood Devastates Waverly Area and Farmlands
The Missouri River flood in Carroll and Lafayette counties leaves multiple deaths and extensive crop ruin. Waverly suffers 1 to 15 foot flood depths over six miles of river bottoms, with hundreds of farms affected and many residents stranded or rescued after days without food. Rescue efforts continue as stock losses mount and property damage reaches about 100000 dollars.
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Ray
Lafayette
Missouri
Waverlyra Biel
Wascom A
Staate’ Mill
W. Va
BR. H. Larwons
Wales Newton
Elkhart
Ind
William ‘Hubbell
Vlan
Akron
Cincinnati
Sronat
Brooklyn
N. Y
Allequipps
Carter & Co
Augusta
Jake Doss
Artesia
Miss
Helena
M. T
Tax Oriental Hotel
Seattle
W. T
Alabama & Great Southern Railroad
M. W. Klein & Co
Johnstown
Tur
Kansas
St. Louis
Carroll, Bay
Carroll County
Waverly
Lafayette County
Judge Thomas
Slee
van Meter
Terrible Mine Disaster in Rhenish Prussia Buries Hundreds
Brat March 19 reports a catastrophic mine explosion at Camp Hausen near Surabruecken. About two hundred miners were inside when the blast caused a shaft cave in. only thirty were saved and ninety eight bodies recovered, with still one hundred two unaccounted for as rescue attempts continue. The scene drew grieving families to the entrance as exploration proceeds.
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Rhenish-Prussia
Brat
Camp Hausen
Ssurabruecken
Maniac Murderers Reported In Two Cities
The report details William Hub bell of Whitby County who killed his wife then fatally shot himself after showing signs of insanity. In Newark New Jersey William Mulcahy, a criminal lunatic, was murdered by Herman Fuchs after Mulcahy refused to eat. Fuchs struck him with blows to the skull.
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Fuchs
Wuchswaid
Mulcahy
Illinois Fate Never Says A Word To Prisoners
A dispatch notes various Illinois incidents including a mass of court actions and local misfortunes. It reports John Browsema of Cincinnati sent west from Tasewell County, a fire at Lake View High School, a man insane in Da viese County who tried to shoot his father, and numerous deaths and crimes across Rockford Pekin Decatur and other towns.
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John Browsema
Chtcinnati
Tasewell Coumey
West
Central Illiness Teachers’ Association
Bloomington
Janes Kirk
Woodford
M. Moore
Peter Perry
William Perry
Scales Mound
Daviese County
Kankakes
William Peters
Rockford
Newberry C. Mills
Chicago
Lancaster
Maggie Zaller
Old Ripley
Bond County
Chicago Emigrant Association
Europe
John Kuoche
Verona
Grundy County
Kansas City
Frank Atkins
Brighton
Cook County
New Holland
Logan County
Belleville
St. Clair County
J. B. Murphy
Delavan
Tasewell
J. B. Muurphy
Texas
Cherryvale
Kaw
BR. Lawrence
Clinais Central
Carbondale
Makaemia
Jackson County
Wiam M. Logan
Derrids Township
Daviess County
Moors
Harkaway Ryan
Coles House
Cole
Samuel Emmett
Ramecki
Madison County
Oé &. Louis
W. A. Boley
Pekin
Tasewell County
Ridney Smith
Mayer
John
Heanpstead
Washburne
Hermes C. Pleats
Judge Smith
Berglers
Thomas W. Cale
Reakford
Tower’ Hill
Christa County
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