Congressional News Hour Recaps Bills and Votes
The week covers Senate and House actions including Blair educational bill variants, pensions for dependents, a Burlington Iowa public building, and pension retirements. It notes Senate discussions on trusts and interstate commerce, and House actions on timber culture repeal, immigration tweaks, and National American Woman Suffrage Association incorporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blair
Burlington
Sydney B. Mudd
Maryland
Barnes Compton
Senate
House
Fremont
Arkansas
Mississippi
Louisiais
Congor
Ashland
Wis
Sherman
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Montana
Sanders
Multiple 20th Century Incidents Reported Across Regions
Summary of diverse 20th century events: lynching near Robinson Station Kentucky for bogus checks. famine reports from FlamBEau Indian reservation Wisconsin. Indian Stand ing Rock agency killings and suicides. Wilkesbarre pa miners aid distribution begun. purse snatching on train at Cleveland. bare knuckle fight in Westport Connecticut. moonshiner camps in Franklin County Virginia. fatal marble game quarrel in Joliet Illinois. Iowa Republicans to meet in Des Moines. raid on liquor sellers in Indian Territory. Minnesota G A B encampment elected commander. Christ claimant Schweinfurth meetings near Rockford. Jacksonville La houses burned. Cataract Hotel sale Niagara Falls. fatal Midland road collision near Hancock. hangings in Plaquemine and Franklin Louisiana. schooner HI Duncan losses. Decatur dairy barn fire. lynching near Huntsville Alabama. Reading railroad bans liquor users. March Agricultural outlook. 200 business failures in week. 8,167 total failures since January. Governor Thayer on farmers’ destitution. nationwide trade reports remain mixed.
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Benjanin Grewet
Robinson Station
Flambeau
Wisconsin
Horn Ciorup
Standing Rock
N. D
Julian
Mike
Wilkesbarre
J. I. Sterrett
Sterrettania
Cleveland
Mr. Sterrett
Westport
Conn
Annie Loverie
Mamie McDermott
Miss Loverie
Franklin County
Timothy Wineman
Bertie Polhamus
Joliet
Ill
Iowa
Des Moines
Indian Territory
United States
Walker
Minnesota
Minneapolis
James Compton
Fergus Falls
George Jacob Schweinfurth
Rockford
la Villa
Jacksonville
Fla
Niagara Falls
Peter A. Porter
Midland Road
Hancock
Prince Lampens
Plaquemine
Rhody Walker
Edmond Nicholas
Franklin
HI. Duncan
Gloucoeter
Mass
Brown's Bank
Asa Clothier
Decatur
Huntaville
Ala
Ellen Austin
CorBin
Reading Road
Dopar
Agricultural Department
Governnor Thayer
Nebraska
New-York Court of “Appeals
H. W. Longley
Dayton
Cincinnati
Detroit
Schweainfurth
Frank Foox
Sam Lee
Dubuque
New York
Flack
Barrett
Edgemore
Nean
Hiol
Alleghany
Monongahals
Pittsburgh
R. F. Sutin
First Congregational Church
Morris City
Oliver Coxe
Dixon 11
Colorado
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisville
Sam Martin
Wrightaville
Sveral Big Cleveland
Boiler Inc
Wickliffe
Georax A. Watson
Columbus
Almensa
Mich
Albert A. Fosdick
Dr. Fosdick
Seattle
Wash
Hamilton
Chicago
Washington
Indianapolis
Covington
William Kinney
Peter McGinness
John Burke
HL Wairaxern & Co
Toledo
Wichita
Kan
Rooks County
Oklahoma
Rube Johnson
Houne Ture Midway Hotel
Kearney
Neb
Harry Deming
Finx
Laredo
Tex
Cott & Knott
Paterson
N. J
BR. M. Krno
Obion County
Tenn
Philadelphia
Court of Appeals backs electric chair law
The New York Court of Appeals rules the electric chair statute constitutional. Reports on violent deaths include H W Longley found in the Ohio River near Cincinnati. Chinese smugglers enter Detroit area while a Schweinfurth meeting in Illinois claims a miracle. Clearinghouse weekly totals rise to about 1.05 billion dollars.
Military finds few settlers in Cherokee Strip
Report notes U S troops found very few settlers within the Cherokee strip in Indian Territory and that all left without resistance per military orders. Frost damages to orange trees in Florida on the 24th estimated at 1 000 000. Rosa Camppern Co New York dry goods merchants charged on the 24th for 125 000. Joseph Thomas suicide in Wilkesbarre Pa on the 34th to avoid robbery arrest. Tragic deaths of Hose child in South Bend Ind and Domen son in Goshen Ind on the 24th. A gang of railway freight thieves exposed on the 24th in Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Indian Territory
Florida
Rosa
Camppern & Co
Dry-Goods Commission
New York
Wilkesbarre
Joseph Thomas
Major Generals Crook and Starry Die in Separate Notices
News items report the sudden death of Major General George Crook United States Army in Chicago on the 21st aged 61 leaving a widow. General Francis H Starry longtime Virginia Military Institute superintendent died at Lexington aged 78. Other obits include diplomat and congressman Clarence Rosent Commune in Washington and railroad president J Mannow in Newtown Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason
Grover Crook
United States Army
Chicago
Francis H. Starry
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington
Glenxral Rosent
Washington
Bloomington
George Crook
Oakland
J.& Mannow
Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad
Newton
Mass
Extradition Treaty to Take Effect April Fourth
Summary of international and domestic items dated 25th including the new British extradition treaty making crimes such as manslaughter counterfeiting embezzlement perjury rape abduction burglary kidnapping and piracy extraditable. Also reports fires in Tokio and Elmoria Colorado railway deaths in Illinois and California prairie losses in Kansas and political debates in Congress.
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Presip St Harrison
Ise
China
Tokio
John Rickett
Louis Williams
Harriett Lee
Arkansas City
Ark
Ricketts
Tur
LL. B. Root
Medicine Lodge
Kan
Shiple
Daves Nohuvwo
Omaha
Nob
Illinois
John Brown
West Berkeley
Cal
Ture
Elmoria, & Amall
Colorado
Rooks
Phillips
Kansas
Tue
New York
Liwenstan
United States Senate
Mary Crook
General Crook
Chicago
Local notes and visits from Red Town area
Wincitela nD TOWN, Peter Mattera erects a new Era windmill. The Gardner family leaves the neighborhood and Mr Yaoger tears down their former home. Robert Clark and family reach York and praise their new residence. Visitors include Chas Gapeu Ottawa Fred McGlanan Sparland and A E Kubo Bureau Co. Red Town social night draws a small crowd. ladies clear 12.50. Miss Faris returns. Beulah Nicholson of Henry visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Mattera
Misses Riley
Gardner Familly
Yaoger
Ray Ludwig
Robert Clark
York
Chas Gapeu
Ottawa
Fred McGlanahan
Sparland
A. E. Kubo
Bureau Co
Red Town
Miss Faris
Beulah Nicholson
Henry
Remsie
Brent
Maxcus
Deafness Cure Claim by Constitutional Remedies
An advertisement asserts deafness from inflamed Eustachian tubes can only be cured by constitutional remedies. It claims nine of ten cases stem from catarrh and offers $100 for any case not cured by Gall’s Catarrh Cure, with circulars available from FJ Cugeney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FJ Cugeney & Co
Toledo
Whitefield Dormers and Local Banter at Corners
William True continues barn construction while neighbors urge a pause or a new site. James Fountain shows slow recovery. A basket social at the Corners church on Friday March 28 features numbered baskets and a literary program. Laura Van Dyke of Eureka visits Mea De Willis. Mrs Case of Buda spent Sabbath with Mrs Shorts. Mollie Stringer visits Peoria friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura van Dyke
Eureka
Mea de Willis
Mra Case
Buda
Wm Shorts
Mollie Stringer
Peoria
Teachers Excursion to Mt Paul for National Educational Meet
The National Educational Association annual meeting will be in St Paul Minnesota in July 1890. The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Co will sell reduced rate excursion tickets from Chicago and points on its 6700 mile network across Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Missouri South Dakota and North Dakota. All railroads will offer excursion tickets to St Paul and return for the event via the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. For more details write A V B Carpenter general passenger agent Milwaukee Wis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt Paul
National Educational Association
Paul
Minn
Chicago
Milwaukee & St Paul Railway Co
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
South Dakota
North Dakota
United States
St Paul
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway
Carpenter
Milwaukee
Wis
Electric Bitters Promised To Restore Health And Vitality
Epoch claims Electric Bitters end lingering sickness and restore health through a Great Alternative and Tonic. Advertises relief for kidney liver and stomach diseases and credits Dr Powell's Drug Store. Also promotes Kemp's Balsam for throat and lungs at druggists with prices 50c and 1.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soc
Dr Powell
Kemp
Bible in Schools: Wisconsin Supreme Court Reverses Readings
Judge Lyon affirms Judge Bennett ruling that reading the Bible in public schools is unconstitutional only when it asserts belief in divinity. The decision distinguishes nonsectarian instruction from sectarian teaching of Jesus Christ, the Trinity, and the Sacrament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyon
Wisconsin Supremes Court
Mapisos
Wis
Bennett
Rock County
Edgerton
Supreme Court
Jesus Christ
Authors press for International Copyright reform in Senate
The American Copyright League urges passage of a bill to extend protection abroad, backed by American Newspaper Publishers Union. It argues current law harms authors, spurs cheap foreign books, and aligns U S policy with Berne standards, with broad support from publishers, educators, clergy, and the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Copyright League
The
United
Senate
House of Representatives
International Ht
Yeas
Union
Berne International Copyright Union
Cve
United States
Mites' Nerve and Liver Pills Discover New Principle
This item touts a medicine that acts on the liver stomach and bowels via nerves to cure biliousness bad taste torpid liver piles and constipation. Claimed as mild and effective, with 80 doses for 25 cents and free samples at Dr Powells Store.
Ivory Soap and train schedule notice from 1880
There is a warning about counterfeit soaps and a promotion for Ivory Soap. A dated travel notice lists daily train departures from Chicago including Express and Night Express services with times and bureau accommodations. The notice is signed by C. H. Moss, agent.
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Benin
Grorex Bort
Borrox
Siam
America
Westminster College
New Wilmington
Apviers
Lake Nyassa
East Africa
Havana
Montreal
Gordon
Canada
Switzerland
Malietoa
Apviets
London
Virent
Ethel Gwendoline
Scotland
Huacho
Peru
J.& Murray & Co
Quebec
Can
Wincitela
Nd Town
Whitefield
William True
Mr. James Fountain
the Bible IN Schools
Augasia Oy
New
Yomx
Cecass Orages Coos
Seevebes Sven Ag
Beeves
Cowenneaes
Kansas City
George Nicholeon
Scenassees
Griewold & Co
Essetence Cecessnersreereesaaes
Dugke Bros
Henry, Ill
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