Random Victorian miscellany in The Register
The itemization surveys a collage of anecdotes and facts from late 19th century culture. It touches on milk powder production, Castro, international notes, Paris gas fears, Washington society, Chamberlain and von Buelow, English insanity, Rockefeller, ragtime, an Omaha suitor, McCleary statues, Babylonian texts, Irish league oversight, Japanese incidents, Nicaragua Germany trade, bartenders in church, marriage advice, sleigh riding, NorthwesternUniversity sweat er, Canadian locomotive works, Spring Valley vow, Borghese Titian bid, Marconi, Chinese exclusion photographs.
Washington notes mix of defense, reforms, and court cases
The piece summarizes House actions on rural postal pay, access to floor rules, and a range of defense and diplomatic moves including Philippine scouts funding, naval command changes, canal diplomacy, Indian policy overhauls, and proposed legal restrictions on archy and anarchists, with remarks from John W. Foster on Chinese exclusion treaties and immigration law.
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House
House Committee On Rules
Congress
Root
Philippine Scouts
Colorado Briefs Highlight Oil, Tariff, and Camp Plans
A Colorado syndicate plans to bore for oil in Washington county while a West Point cadet nomination favors H D Zimmerman of Colorado Springs and Fred Carstarphen of Pueblo as alternates. A murder suspect captured near Fort Collins resisted arrest and wounded himself. Sugar City officials oppose sugar tariff cuts aiding Cuba’s beet industry. Denver aims to build a monster packing plant near the Union Stock Yards within 40 days, backed by D H Moffat and Charles Boettcher. Congress may seat a military mobilizing camp in Colorado after a $15,000 survey bill passes. Oil finds excite Jefferson county farmers with wells near Golden showing crude, and land leases rise east of the foothills. Colorado’s State School of Mines faces a student walkout after seven sophomores are suspended for a lab fight. Costilla County reels from Teofilo Trujillo sheep killings by George Dorris cattle interests, with warrants issued. Florence to Cripple Creek broad gauge railroad incorporation filed, estimated $1,000,000 capital, one-hour Florence–Cripple Creek run, and halved freight rates to profit ore shipments.
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Washington County
John C. Bell
H. D. Zimmerman
Colorado Springs
West Point
Fred Carstarphen
Pueblo
Harold Fridborn
Fort Collins
Sugar City
Colorado
Roosevelt
Cuba
West
Denver Capital
Denver Union Stock Yards
Washington
MacArthur
Department of Colorado
Jefferson County
Golden
Pennsylvania
California
Florence
Boulder
State School of Mines
Chemical Laboratory
Costilla County
Teofilo
Dorris
Dorrie
Gallegos
James W.shields
Trujillo
Secretary of State Mills
Cripple Creek
Florence & Cripple Creek
Florence Mills
Kelly
Lorence
Convicting Evidence Shocks Cheyenne in Horn Trial
In Cheyenne Wyoming on January 23 Tom Horn stock detective was bound over for trial on first degree murder charges after testimony from Deputy Lefors Deputy Snow and stenographer Ohnhaus. They testified Horn confessed to killing Willie Nickel and two Iron Mountain ranchmen Powell and Lewis and described payments received. The proceedings revealed a plan to seek Montana work, Horn’s statements about the Nickel killing and the money involved, and the dramatic reaction in court.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Tom Horn
Willie Nickel
Kels P. Nickel
Iron Mountain
District Court
Laramie County
Justice Becker
United States
Joe Lefora
L. E. Snow
Charles J. Ohnhaus
Lefors
Snow
Ohnhaus
Horn
Little Willie Nickel
William Powell
Charles Lewis
Joe Lefors
Montana
Tom
Nickel
Ohnhaus Este
Leutenant
Powell
Lewis
Denver
Goble
John C. Goble
Iron Mountain Ranch Company
Corral
Prince Henry Weighs Down American Visitors With Gifts
Berlin reports Prince Henry selected about fifty presents for Americans during his U S visit. The gifts include diamond set gold and silver boxes with the Emperor’s monogram, engraved silver cups, cuff links, brooches and scarf pins bearing Hl diamonds. A jeweled bracelet for Miss Alice Roosevelt and a fine hunting gun for the President are anticipated, with secrecy observed.
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Berlin
Prince Henry
United States
Admiral Evans
Alice Roosevelt
Miss Roosevelt
New Jersey Senator Nominated in Trenton Caucus
In Trenton New Jersey on January 24 the Republican caucus named John F Dryden of Newark president of the Prudential Life Insurance Company to stand for the United States Senate replacing the late General Sewell On the nineteenth ballot Dryden won exactly thirty two votes the required total
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New Jersey
Trenton
N. J
Republian Caucus
United States
General Sewell
John F. Dryden
Newark
Prudential Life Insurance Company
Largest West Virginia gas well strikes in Pleasant county
Parkersburg W Va Jan 24 The largest gas well in the state has been struck in Pleasant county It is flowing at about 15000000 feet of gas per day and producing over 250 barrels of oil daily The drill has just reached the sand top and a larger flow is expected when deeper drilling continues
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Pleasant County
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