President's message and policy notes from Kane Leader
Congress received the President's message noting foreign relations remain cordial and urging canal safeguards free from single-power domination. He backs silver coinage limits, budget reform, navy reorganization, postal revenue growth, and civil service reform while urging protection for the capital library and merit over partisanship. Vanderbilt dies suddenly in New York. Dakota motto suggestion provokes ridicule.
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Tendricks
Isthmus Canal
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of War
Navy Department
Whitney
United States
U. S
Hendricks will probated in Indianapolis reads as last will
The late Vice President Hendricks’ will, likely in his handwriting and dated August 8, 1868, bequeaths all property to his wife Eliza Hendricks with executrix wish noted. Witnesses Winstow Prence and J. H. McKernan attest to the document here in Marion County Indiana.
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Indianapolis
Hendricks
J. Thomas A. Hendricks
Marion County
Indiana
Eliza
Winstow
Prence
J. H. McKernan
National Bank totals and Dolphin steamer trials
The Comptroller reports that in the year ended Nov 1, 1885, 145 banks were organized with 16.9 million dollars capital and 1.37 million in circulating notes. Since 1863 there have been 3,406 national banks. 2,727 remained in operation on Nov 1, 1884. A details note to the dispatch steamer Dolphin states she will be commissioned at Brooklyn Navy Yard and may cruise two to three months, with Captain Mead in command. officials promise a tough but fair trial, dismissing structural weakness rumors.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
Navy
Mead
Pittsburg Gas Shortage Causes Widespread Disruption
In Pittsburg and five cities, a sudden natural gas halt provoked chaos as families lit coal fires, schools dismissed, and factories paused. The gas company planned to hook to a 24 inch main from Murraysville, promising relief after Wednesday. Separately, a libel suit over a Harrisburg saloon proceeded in federal court with witnesses from the establishment. The Forty-ninth Congress opened with routine ceremony and J. Sheri elected pro tempore.
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Murraysville
Harrisburg Sunday Telegram
Joseph X. Glering
United States
Glering
Toose
J. Sheri
Wild Man Arrested in McKean County Cave Hideout
A wild negro living months in a cave between Clermont and Wilcox, reportedly a fugitive with a troubled past, has been arrested and is jailed in Smethport. The tale grows of a creature-like wanderer with little intelligence, found in ragged condition and suspected of earlier crimes.
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Wilcox
Smethpor
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