Congressional All Night Session Ends With Adjournment
Both houses spent hours in a bitter all night session finishing river and harbor and appropriation bills. The total congressionally approved spending reached 1.569 billion dollars. Schley ahead of Sampson in naval nominations. Foraker amendment curbs Cuba franchises during military occupation. Adjournment sine die followed a rousing patriotism finale.
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Schley
Sampson
Cuba
Senate
Navy
Foraker
United States
Congress
Sneaker Reed
Treasury
House
Congress Night Before The Rites Of Debauchery In Senate
Washington reporters recount a boisterous pre dawn gathering of about 300 representatives at the House. The revelry featured songs and toasts to Dewey and the Spanish American War era, cake walks and dances, with many lawmakers joining on chairs and sofas. One clerk from Chicago is noted as thoroughly drunk while the Senate remained decorous.
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Congress
Washington
Jobby
Dewey
Iitzgerald
Massachusetts
Oregon
Havana
Old Town
Grosvenor
J. Murray Mitchell
New York
John Allen
Paul Hull
South
Texas
Fitzgerald
Lewis
Washington State
Jerry Simpson
Chicago
Senate
Senate Conferees Endorse Armor Plate Price and Fleet Numbers
Conferees fix armor plate at 300 dollars per ton and keep battleship and cruiser counts as in the House bill. A river and harbor package includes a one million dollar canal survey and a commission to study Panama and Nicaragua routes. The Nicaragua amendment was dropped and the anti contract labor law left unresolved. Over 300 nominations were confirmed in an early session. The Honolulu cable amendment in the sundry civil bill was struck out.
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Senate
Panama
Nicaragua
Morgan
House
Honolulu
Rebels Make Major Gains In Central China Battles
Chinese mail reports thousands slain as rebels pool forces across Honan Anhui Kiehen su Hunan and Hupeh capturing Hung Chai Paiyicha Payang Mengiecherg and 73 villages. In late January battles near Kuyang dispatch 4700 rebels, while Schuchon sees heavy shelling killing hundreds including rebel chiefs.
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Tacoma
Wash
Honan
Anhui
Kiéengsu
Hunan
Hupeh
Hung Chai
Paiyicha
Payang
Mengiecherg
Shuchou
Kanchau
Kuyang
Changlo
Schuchon
Ku Yang
State auditor warns on mortgage tax exemption danger
State auditor Hart says large appropriations are manageable but exempting 700 mortgage indebtedness is risky. He notes mortgages held by outsiders may escape taxes if the governor signs the bill. A proposed law would tax all mortgages on record in Indiana to close the gap. Current laws hinder the tax board from collecting taxes on mortgages financed by large corporations via Indiana agencies.
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Indiana
State Tax Board
City Life Church Services and Propylaeum Event
Rev BR W Clymer preaches morning and evening at Sixth Christian Church in Dr Lucas absence God in history will be Rev R W Hunter subject at Seventh Presbyterian Church Sunday evening Stereopticon illustrations Eighth Free Kindergarten section to present a dramatic entertainment and children cake walk at the Propylaeum on Wednesday March 15 Catia Har the
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BR. W. Clymer
Sixth Christian Church
Dr. Lucas
R. W. Hunter
Seventh Presbyterian Church
Propylaeum
Catia
Natives Repulsed as Gunboat Halts Attack at San Pedro
Manila March 4 Private John Toize of Company G was killed and Louis Barieau of Company G and William Wheeler of Company L wounded in a morning assault near San Pedro Macati. The attack lasted about an hour and was repulsed by the American gunboat which blocked enemy reinforcements. Insurgents are beefing up trenches with barbed wire while Dewey raises an admiral flag as foreign warships salute, led by the English fleet.
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Manila
John Toize
Third Artillery
Louis Barieau
Wm. Wheeler
Cali
San Pedro Macati
Dewey
Who Frewde Brick and Other Indiana Senate Battles
A Bloomington style report chronicles the Indiana Senate's clash over a primary election bill. Lawmakers from both parties attack party reform, with Roots defending his emergency board measure as Newby challenges it. Lambert's hospital bill dies after a governor veto, while various House bills pass on drainage, cemetery land, statistics, doorkeeper badges, road cooperation, justice limits, and lynching provisions amid political barbs and accusations of corporate influence.
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Grossbrenner
Wagg
Shea
Scott County
Democratic Party
Marion County
Ball
Binkley
Brooks
Burns
Charles
Early
Gilbert
Goar
Goodwine
Godenour
Liawkins
Flubbell
Hugg
Johnson
Jay
Lambert
Miller
New
Osborn
Wood
Agnew
Culbert
Campbell
Carr
Gill
Gwin
Hogate
Heller
Sorner
Inman
Madison
Keyes
Keeney
Kell
Legeman
Leich
Minor
Newby
Purcell
Stilwell
Stroup
Winfield
Roots
Senate
Ehrike
Columbus Hospital
Horner
Ryan
Patten
Neal
Union Chapel Cemetery Corporation
Washington Township
Union Chapel Cemetery
Whitinger
Cravens
Monroe
James
Marsh
Louttit
Fort Wayne
Noel
Mutinous Americans Involved In Manila Departure
A Hong Kong letter from an insurgent officer reports over 25,000 Manila families fleeing during the war with Americans. It describes American troops deserting, being intoxicated to board a transport, and mutiny aboard ship as men protested fighting Spaniards, with some leaping overboard and others wrecking parts of the vessel.
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Seattle
Wash
Hong Kong
Manila
Slailo
Americans driven from Manila amid censorship fears
March 4 report from Hong Kong describes an American correspondent arriving in Manila being forced out by strict censorship. He notes widespread belief that Gen. Otis may abandon Manila and that insurgents are gaining ground, with Col. Blanco offering to lead loyal tribesmen against them.
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Hong Kong
Manila
Otis
Blanco
Macahebees
Gunboat Bennington Destroys Native Batteries at Malabon
In Manila on Saturday morning the gunboat Bennington engaged insurgent shore batteries at Malabon, returned fire, and soon demolished the batteries while burning much of the native town. The transport Senator arrived with reinforcements for Gen Otis carrying four companies of the Twenty second Infantry and departed San Francisco February 1.
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Bennington
Manila
Malabon
Senator
Gen. Otis
Twenty-second Infantry
San Francisco
Spains Big Offer for Prisoner Release Details
Manila dispatch reports U S Philippines commission members arriving from Hong Kong aboard the Baltimore. General Rios, former Spanish commander in the Visayas, authorized to offer 2 million dollars for the release of Spanish prisoners held by the Filipinos.
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Rios
Manila
United States Philippines Commission
Hong Kong
Baltimore
Visaya Islands
Wilipinos
Dewey Sends Thanks From Manila For Honors
Manila dispatch quotes Admiral Dewey thanking the President Congress and the nation for the honor conferred on him. He signs the message from Manila dated March 4. Washington March 4 filed in the domestic dispatches.
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Congress
Major fires devastate multiple facilities across several states
Flames and convicts at the Canton workhouse broom factory in Ohio cause $10,000 in losses. Fire destroys Hotel Richelieu and the Frankfort post office in Tennessee. Alliance Pants Company plant in Ohio loses all buildings and machinery. St Louis & Pacific railroad coal sheds in Springfield suffer eight burned coaches with $50,000 damage.
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Canton, C
Richelieu
Frankfort
Tenn
The
Alliance, O., Pants Company
Springfield
Ill
For a Good 10c Smoke Pro Bono Cigar at Se Se
The item notes a low price on a cigar. Harness and straw goods firms appear in the text with a reference to vendors Pe Strawmyer and Niltus. The fragment hints at a promotional or trade listing involving cigars and suppliers.
Downey Bill Aims To Force News Reports For Papers
In the house on Saturday Downey offered a two bill to compel press associations to supply news to any paper that requests it His move to suspend the rules failed The bill is seen as a stab at the Sentinel Downey seeks to back a new democratic panel in Indianapolis where telegraph news may lack under current AP arrangements Heather Tittleton received a cane and watch from the house before adjournment James spoke for the minority praising the officer's fairness
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Downey
House
Sentinel
Indianapolis
Telegraph News
Associated Press
Heather Tittleton
T & Watch
James
Dolan claims Chicago stockyards sold diseased meat as beef
New York report on Thomas F. Dolan’s affidavit alleging widespread disease among slaughterhouse cattle. He describes inspectors’ complicity, removal of diseases, and carcass cheating from killing to sale. He warns of tuberculosis germs and extreme canning of unfit meat for soldiers and markets.
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Elise
Appointment shift for oil inspector sparks legislative clash
The appointment of oil inspector shifts from state geologist to the governor as Hichhorn urged rejection. Republicans back the report amid scandal claims. Hedgecock county officers bill failed 11 to 20, aiming to take excess fees over salaries into the county treasury. Artman reads a letter urging influence to pass the bill, planning a House record on fees and salaries.
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Hichhorn
Hedgecock
Artman
Boone County
J. B. Workman
Counte Officers’ Association
Looters at Work in Capitol Hide and Seek
Looting unfolds as lawmakers raid state property from desks and waste baskets to ink stands and spittoons. Members remove articles individually to dodge pursuit, piling items into baskets or carrying them out of the capitol while the speaker's ruling hints at a dubious precedent that goods are wild and belong to the first possessor.
Governor Signs Broad School Board and City Dept Bills
The governor signed many bills Saturday including reorganization of the Indianapolis school board and a clause legalizing acts of city departments under a Barrett law amendment lacking an enacting clause. Also approved measures on shorthand reporters, repair of free turnpike roads, burial of ex union soldiers, election of road supervisors, survey and sale of swamp lands, funding for Chickamauga park work, election of county school superintendents, and township high school construction by trustees.
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School Board of
Indianapolis
Chickamauga
Armour Denies It In Chicago March 4
The Armour company denies charges in an affidavit by Thomas Dolan. Dolan says Armour people, against whom charges are directed, discharged an employee and is safe at have a grievance. Armour provided the toll statement to the Scripps-McRea association. Dolan worked for Armour for years and, after 1886, was a foreman in the killing department. In 1899 Armour learned he was levying a system of blackmail on the employees under him and discharged him. Since then he has had a grievance. Armour denies any truth to the charges.
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Chicago
Thomas Dolan
Dolan
the Armour Company
Scripps-McRea Pr Association
Armour& GO
Miles Appears as Defendant as Court Begins Inquiry
In Washington on March 4 Maj. Lege appeared as Gen. Miles’s representative. The inquiry court begins a close up of witnesses Saturday and plans to visit Chicago Kansas City and Omaha on Tuesday. Miles treats himself as accused and ready to face the issue, calling the sentence a turning point in his career.
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Washington
Chicago
Kans City
Omaha
Maj. Lege
Miles
Bill Seeks $40k Appropriation on Vincennes Uni Relations
The bill carries an appropriation around $40 thousand while material on the relations between the state and Vincennes University is being gathered in the state auditor's office. The $120,009 claim tied to the matter is expected to be vetoed.
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State Auditor's Office
Vincennes University
Two fugitives nabbed as suspects in regional thefts
Detectives Kin and Thornton arrest Dudley Herges of 1012 Rhode Island as a fugitive wanted in Johnson county for chickeat theft. They also capture Charles Smith alias J Ferguson from Birmingham Alabama, a former 20 year burglary convict who escaped holding two watches likely stolen. Communication opened with Birmingham prison authorities. transfer possible if Indiana theft ties hold.
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Dudley Herges
Rhode Island
Kin and
Thornton
Johnson County
Kinney
Charles Smith
J Ferguson
Birmingham
Ala
Cers
Indianalis
France Tumbles Paris Coaling Station Accord Test
Paris March 4 France agrees to let England use Oman Arabia as a coaling station signaling a settlement of Anglo French difficulties. France will permit uninterrupted English possession of the entire Nie area according to the report.
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Paris
England
France
Oman
Arabia
Forecast for Indianapolis Weather 36 Hours Ahead
Forecast for Indianapolis covers the 36 hours to 8 p m with cloudy skies and snow flurries on Saturday and Sunday. Early morning temperature around 3 a m is 3 degrees, noon near 39, and 2 pm’s reading to be noted. February’s average shown as much colder than recent decades with record highs and lows cited and a very dry month expected in 1885 context.
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Indianapolis
Miss Mary Ann Hanne Dead in Ont. Detroit Tobacconist Recall
Obituary notice reports Miss Mary Ann Hanne of Ontario deceased. Related item references Daniel Scotten, a Detroit tobacconist, as a debt or connection in the brief survivor record. The fragmentary text notes a death and a local business association without further details.
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Miss Mary
Ann Hanne
Daniel Scotten
Tobacconist
Detroit
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