Diverse 1890s Clippings Include Politics and Technology
A collection of notes covers Nicholas Slavin’s death in Russia age 125, France’s presidents, railway smoke chemistry, fir trees along highways, school funding rankings, paper from wood pulp, a 77 by 40 foot Agra jail carpet 58,840,000 stitches, and North Carolina’s young senators. It notes life insurance for women, Massachusetts biennial elections talk, and the January 1895 sea disasters including the Elbe sinking with 334 lives lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo Chamber
Windsor Castle
Agra
India
Holland
Hottendam
Lowestoft
England
Epitome of the Week Metes Up Legislative Scenes
The summary tracks week of Jan 28 to Feb 1 with Senate hearings on Pettigrew’s credentials and bankruptcy bill. House actions include repeal of tariff sugar duties, Kalamazoo harbor survey, and Pacific railway funding. Debates cover currency plans, a retiree health bill for Associate Justice Jackson, and resolutions on revenues and Hawaii aid amid political sparring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Richard F. Pettigrew
South Dakota
House
Kalamazoo Harbor
Michigan
Springer
Congress
Chandler
N. H
Army
Schofield
Labor Bureau
Wepsespay
West
Jackson
Supreme Court of the United States
Union Pacific Railway
Gorman
Hill
Carlisle
Peffer
Teller
Breckinridge
Heard
Seventh Judicial Circuit
United States
Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Hawaii
U S Financials and Notable Deaths Highlight Week
Weekly U S financials show total exchanges at 942 531 065 with a 74 point rise from the prior period and 354 business failures. January receipts were 27 814 500 with expenditures 34 823 447 creating a 0 719 048 deficit. Notable deaths include Ward McAllister and former U S attorney general E Rook Wood Hoar. several incidents and a violent crime in New York are noted along with the Brower McGowan brokerage suspension for 400 000 liabilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Ist
Treasury
Av Sing Sing
N. Y
David Hampton
Annette Ahrens
New York
F. W. Ostraander
Brooklyn
Leonard Smokeless Powder Company
New York Society
Ward McAllister
E. Rookwood Hoar
President Grant
Concord
Mass
Philadelphia
Zindlinger
Alexander Vonkariage
Wilkesbarre
Brower & McGowan
Fatal Boiler Explosions Kill Two In Denver Works
In Denver electric railway works Col Frank Waldrod and Conrad Bitzer died. Edward Stanley and John Brown were fatally scalded when boilers burst. Meridian Mississippi firm Joseph Baum & Sons failed for 200000. Mine bosses Joshua Ilvenes and Wiley Cemens were shot at Champion mines near Birmingham by Budd Jones. San Francisco midwinter fair shows receipts 1200112 expenditures 1103260 surplus 32464. Kansas legislature passes gambling felony law with penitentiary terms.
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Denver
Col
Prank Waldrod
Conrad Bitzer
Edward Stanley
John Brown
Meridian
Miss
Joseph Baum & Sons
Joshua Ilvenes
Wiley Cemens
Champion Mines
Birmingham
Ala
Budd Jones
San Francisco
Kansas
Murder charge and other items from Centralia and beyond
Art Belleville and Wesley Tabor face murder charges for the McClellands killings in Centralia fourteen years ago. The report lists related legal actions, accidents, weather extremes, and various national incidents including a train robbery in Wilcox Arizona Territory and a steamer disaster in the North Sea.
Breckinridge and Heard Clash in House Scuffle
Washington February 4 congressmen Breckinridge and Heard engaged in a heated exchange during a district business proceeding. Breckinridge accused Heard of obstruction and called him a scoundrel before Heard retorted that Breckinridge was a liar. Breckinridge advanced onto the floor attempting to strike Heard, aides intervened, and both men later apologized. The incident was ordered omitted from the record.
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T Breckinridge
Heard
Washington
Breckinridge
Dem
tHleard
Heart
Breeckinridge
District of Columbia Affairs
Mr. Breckinridge
Goodnight
House
Fire Claims Four Lives at Deaconess Home
The Deaconess home on Jennings avenue burned Friday morning killing Albert Allmeyer Minnie Baumer a 6 month old baby and Jacob Krause. Firemen and police prevented further loss as a nurse Minnie Baumer stayed to rescue her patient William Allmeyer before perishing.
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Chrvenano
Jennings Avenue
Albert Allmeyer
Minnie Baumer
Jacob Krause
William Allmeyer
Altmeyer
Expenses of the Nation Show War and Other Costs Since 1865
A statement presented to the house by Representative Coombs (N Y) details war expenses totaling 6 679 570 904 and other expenditures since 1865 totaling 5 652 674 277, with grand total of 12 032 245 181. Also notes Senator Allen's credentials for Warren S Reese from Alabama and obituaries for Ward McAllister and Judge E R Hoar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasuixneton
Representative Coombs
N. Y
Washington
Allen
Warren S. Reese
Alabama
R. F. Kolb
J. C. Fonville
Reese
Morgan
Gorman Assures Credit Will Be Upheld In Congress
Senate debates a special October 1905 election on financial policy. Peffer proposes four questions on bonds, greenbacks, gold and silver coinage, and government paper money. Gorman urges Republicans to act, cites treasury strains, and presses for quick resolutions to obtain revenue and reserve details from Secretary Carlisle.
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Gorman
Washington
Senate
Peffer
Congress
District of Columbia
Dem
Allison
Rep
Treasury
Carlisle
Manderson Plan Introduced In Senate On Monetary Reform
Washington Jan 31 Senator Manderson Nebraska offered a seven point financial resolution. It calls for a $200 million gold reserve and $200 million silver reserve, gold or silver bonds, retiring legal tender when paid in metal, currency exchanges for five years, gold and silver coin exchanges, gold coin use for duties from gold standard nations, gold or silver for silver standard nations, and free coinage of gold and silver at 16 to 1 with expanded subsidiary silver coinage.
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Washington
Manderson
Rep
Neb
Finance Committee
Death in the Confessional in New York Church
Catherine Morrison of 179 East 108th Street killed herself in the Church of the Epiphany on Second Avenue. She slashed her throat and nearly severed an arm with a straight razor found in a confessional. A doctor declared her condition hopeless. she died within twenty minutes.
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New York
Catherine Morrison
East One Hundred and Eighth Street
Train Robbery Near Wilcox Hits $50,000 to $75,000 Loss
Southern Pacific westbound train No. 20 was stopped 6 miles from Wilcox by masked men. They blew open the express car with dynamite and took $10,000 in Mexican silver plus about equal in American silver, with a total loss estimated at $50,000 to $75,000. A $500 reward is offered for the thieves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Belleville
Wesley Tabor
McClellands
Centralia
Ilinois House
Peter Olson
Sterling
N. C
Bathga
Winer
la Junta
Col
Charles Donovan
Pearl Broapsworp
Ohio
Litchfield
Savannah
Osen
Great Lakes
Thomas Quayle
Cleveland
Lievy
Clover
Minnesota
Nelson
United States
J. G. Wells
Harrison Stevens
Dawson
Tur
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Atlanta
Susan B. Anthony
Banvits
Southern Pacific
Wilcox
A.T
Michigan Senate
Corbett
Tron Mountain
Shasta County
Cal
Joan Reno
Columbus
Ind
Aveoria
Ill
George W. Dunbar
Elizabeth Mystery
Bud Ellis
Aurora
Joseph Studebaker
Anderson
Grantsburg
Wis
Negaunee
Mich
Fresno
Joe Patchen
Robert J
Puorentx
A. T
Debs Defendant Avener Dismissed in Trial Session
Debs case sees Moses Avener dismissed after judge rules no proof appeared against him. Dunlap of the Rock Island road testified on violence during the strike while the court refused expert testimony linking strikes to violence. Georgia's last provision car sent to Nebraska sufferers by ex Gov Northen totals twenty two cars.
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Debs
Moses Avener
CnicaGco
Grosseup
Dunlap
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Road
Atlanta
Georgia
Northen
Nebraska
Strike ends as Brooklyn troops withdrawn from streets
Brooklyns Second brigade units recalled to armories after a conference between Mayor Schieren and Brig. Gen. McLeer. Police to maintain order as strike concludes and trolley service resumes. Strikers pursue legal action against Brooklyn Heights company and Atlantic Avenue Railroad while probes consider ties to past mob violence.
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Brooklyn
Schieren
McLeer
Albany
Brooklyn Heights Company
Atlantic Avenue Railroad Company
Grand Jury
Muggs Hall
Mother's Heroism in Fire Destroys Family Home
A Kansas City mother, Mrs. Christiana Singlinger, and her 1-year-old twins Margherita and Christiana died in a blaze caused by a cat tipping a coal oil lamp. The mother entered the flames to reach the children, perishing with them as firefighters reached the upper floor. The house at 2629 Kansas Street was gutted.
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Poaapelputa
Christiana Singlinger
Margherita
Christiana
Conrad Singlinger
Kansas Street
Singlinger
Bradstreet Report Signals Mixed Trade Amid Midwinter Tightening
Bradstreet's weekly trade review notes gold withdrawals and banking anxiety curbing general trade. Eastern money rates rise as Boston sees more commercial paper, while wool lumber hides and leather hold steady or rise in some western grades. Iron and steel show the strongest price/volume gains with cold weather lifting egg and potato prices and coffee and sugar higher. Western centers vary with St Louis reporting a solid trade in millinery and dry goods, Chicago boosted by cold, and Portland, Oregon, seeing depressed wholesale lines.
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New York
Bradstreet
Weekly Review of Trade
Bradstreet’s
Treasury
Hias
Boston
London
St. Louis
Duluth
Chicago
Kansas City
Portland
Ore
Wreck of Van dalia Train Near Coatesville Kills One
A wreck of Van dalia train No 2 near Coatesville 2 miles from Indianapolis left one dead and thirty eight injured. Mrs W B Towers of Carthage Missouri died en route to a school house. Noted singer Zelda Seguin Wallace among the seriously injured. John W Norton, theater manager, died from injuries on Monday.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Coatsville
Towers
Carthage
Zelda Seguin Wallace
John W. Norton
Grand Opera House
St. Louis
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Coatesville
Wei-Hai-Wei Falls to Japanese in China Victory
Cui-Foo Feb 2 Wei-Hai-Wei captured by Japanese after two days of skirmishing. Chinese fled as actual assault began with 2000 killed. Lui-Lung-Tau island forts remain under Chinese control. Europeans evacuated unhurt. Chinese ships in harbor sailed away unscathed. George Bean of Richmond Virginia was shot and killed by his father while protecting his stepmother.
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North Sea
United States
Newfoundland
Morocco
England
Coaticook
Que
Che Foo
Wei-Hai-Wei
Mexico
Guatemala
Cui-Foo
George Bean
Richmond
Salzer Seed Co Offers 300 Oats Name Prize
Farmers prize Salzer Seed Co new oats name offering 300 dollars and promising high yields with 200 bushels per acre claimed. Advertisements tout massive catalogue offer for 10 cents postage to La Crosse Wisconsin.
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John A. Salter Seed Co
Salzer
John A Salzer Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
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the Gazette
Tuerre
Nicholas Slavin
Russia
France
M. Faure
Stret
Massachusetts Highway Commission
Commission
Empire State
Pennsylvania
Bina Coo
Turky
Alps
Edelweiss
Sexaton Purrrenarp
North Carolina
Butler
Pritchard
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
INTER
NG News
Foreign Intelligence
United States Senate
Lee Mantle
Montana
Committee On
Rock Island
Topeka
Kan
Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Bueyrus
Lilinokalani
M.D. Srivers
Times
Middletown
Jonestown
Iss
Great Britain
China
Japan
Tur Phoenix Glass Factory
Monaco
Minneapolis
Moline
Hundreps
Hamburg- American Line
I’hoenecia
Minnie Hanmer
Kolb
Arizona
Him
Wei-Hai-Wei Falls
Chicago Inter Ocean
Queen & Crescent
Oxville
Asheville
Cincinnati
Smee Anta
Schiller
Hood
Mary M. Stephens
Crane Nest
BIC
Peoria
Sandusky
Benton Harbor
Queen & Crescent & Nashville Ry
Old Point Comfort
Virginias
Carolinas
Jacksonville
St. Augustine
Florida
New Orleans
McCormick
cinNwciriwer
B. Martin
W.L. Bouc
Wl- Douglas
Iteiepeidadiacih
Brockton
W. L. Douglas
Certith
Elven
Ely
ELY Bros
Warren St
N.Y
HS "Hayfever A
Mammoth Farm
John A. Salzrie
Zack
MecVicker’s Theater
Ocapi
National
Mey
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