Pension payouts in Maine and Swiss bank plan headline
The Gazette notes Maine pension disbursements reach $5 per person and pension checks are a main currency in remote hamlets. It reports Switzerland planning a state Berne bank with 25 million francs capital to issue notes. Also mentions a strong apple export year and the Labrador carrying 17 000 barrels of fruit from Portland. The pineal gland is described as a brain center with unknown function and debated links to the soul.
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United States
Maine
Switzerland
Berne
Swiss Confederation
United States spends vast gold to run government in 1864
The article notes 741 tons of gold or its equivalent were needed to cover 1864 government expenses. It adds that a team of haulers carrying a ton and twenty-five feet per team would form a procession over three and a half miles. In Germany preparations mark Bismarck's eightieth birthday on April 1 1895 with statues busts and monuments unveiled and charitable institutions dedicated in his memory.
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United States
Germany
Bismarck
Europe
Initrahull
Congo
Hull
Grimsby
Yarmouth
Italy
Reggio
Messina
Milazzo
Alfred McClure
Belgrade
Servia
Mexico
Guatemala
Acapulco
Canada
Real Tichborne Heir Found in NSW Insane Asylum
Reported discovery confirms the real heir to the Tichborne estate, previously pursued in a costly false-claim trial, now revealed as an inmate in an New South Wales asylum. The case had drained government funds and halved estate revenue.
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New South Wales
Perjury and murder cases highlighted in Missouri and New York
News notes report Annie Bocganness in St Louis may face hanging for perjury aimed at convicting Jacob Heinze and Henry Kaiser in a murder case. Other items note a German healer in Radbruch attracting crowds, a post mortem on Hans von Bülow, czarist popularity in St Petersburg, and local legal quirks in Massachusetts.
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Annie Bocganness
St. Louis
Jacob Heinze
Henry Kaiser
E. E. Brown
Missouri
Proposals and Debates in Senate and House This Week
The Senate discussed tariff amendments including a one cent per pound sugar bounty and striking income tax funds, plus Nicaraguan canal bill and currency issues with state banks favored by McCreary. In the House a malt tax proposal and pension increase for 108 year old Hosea Brown were noted. Lodge questioned warship withdrawals from Honolulu as sessions adjourned to Jan 7.
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Tamnspay
Senate
McCreary
Military Academy
Senator Lodge
Mass
United States
Honolulu
Hosea Brown
Public debt rises in December and tax plans move forward
The December statements show a debt increase of 31.8 million with treasury cash at 153.8 million, leaving total debt minus cash at 910.9 million. Receipts for December were 21.9 million and disbursements 27.1 million, creating a 5.3 million deficit for the month and 27.6 million for the fiscal six months.
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Treasury
Census Office
United States
Miller
Internal Revenue Bureau
Fll
Civil Service
Pardon for Kansas lifer Girmnano amid late 19th century notes
The governor pardoned Huon Girmnano, 70, who had spent twenty years in Kansas State Penitentiary on a life sentence. The column also lists fires, drownings, deaths, and warnings across the United States, including a $600,000 Riverside Water Company failure and a 112 year old death in Illinois.
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Huon Girmnano
Kansas Penitentiary
Lewelling
Riverside
Cal
Riverside Water Company
Henry Clements
Lillie Deils
Lima
Walter Bartlett
Greensburgh
McBryde
United Mine Workers
Sovereign
Hayes
Mary T. Larurer
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Jackson
Mich
Paris
John L. Sullivan
Tue
Catharine Nolan
Litchfield
Wickow
Ireland
Washington
Axprew Vavnenan
Will J. English
Kentucky
George Jordan
Savannah
I. Dolorme & Quentin
Milwaukee
Sacramento
Gov. Brown
Thor Ul. Paynter
Court of Appeals
Chronicle of Civil Strife and Disasters Across Towns
A roundup notes political debate in the U S senate and house over currency plans. multiple fires devastate Stuartsville Ohio Hamlin West Virginia and Toronto. fatal shootings including Mrs William Frost and a double killing at McDaniel farm. duels and deaths of public figures. a plane of misfortune with river pilots and a missing note on a mine blast. a kidnapping reunion and a large industrial explosion near Xenia.
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United States Senate
Cochran
New York
Baltimore
Stuartsville
Findlay
William Frost
Utica
N. Y
Eagle Flour Mills
Hamlin
W. Va
L. Swim
Cooper
McDaniel Farm
Newport
Ark
J. E. Rumsey
Tipton
Ind
James Cook
Charles Hudnall
New Orleans
William Waite
Ottawa
Kan
Grex
Parmit Sipney Post
Illinois
Washington
Jefferson Iron Works
Stebenville
D. J. Lawler
Minot’s Light
Boston
Louis Galloway
Edwards
Miss
Minneapolis
Chicago
Chara Pennell
Clinton
Rockford
Miami Powder Works
Xenia
Globe
Toronto
Ont
Ardagh
Cleveland signals support for currency reform step
The president, after talks with congress leaders including Chairman Springer and Representative Culberson, urged passing some form of currency legislation. He called the Carlisle bill a step in the right direction toward a sound financial system and hoped for favorable, speedy action. He did not highlight any flaws in the bill.
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Washington
Congress
Springer
Currency Committee
Culberson
House
White House
Cleveland
Austria protests tariff discrimination as German lead evident
Baron von Hengelmueller presents AustriaHungary protest to Secretary Gresham over a one tenth of one percent duty on sugar from treaty nations. The move mirrors Germany's protest and cites most favored nation clause. Congress may be notified. Austria may pursue retaliation against US food products.
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Washington
Baron von Hengelmueller
Austria-Hungary
Gresham
Germany
Congress
Austria
United States
Prussia
Cleveland
Defaulting Treasurer Said to Be Lynched in Nebraska
Barret Scott the defaulting treasurer of Holt county is believed lynched by vigilantes in Niobrara river quicksands after they weighted the body. Mrs. Scott doubts murder question and O Neill residents seek the perpetrators. In Kentucky at Mount Sterling a mob hanged Tom Blair from a railroad trestle after overpowered jailers and seizing the keys. Blair had aided in a February killing of Capt. Bonar and faced new charges.
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Turpath
New York
William L. Strong
Allegheny River
Olean
N. Y
Masco
Riverside
Pennsylvania
Charles Brooks
Ada
Louis Bergeron
Keene, N.hs
Hazleton
Crystal Ridge
Cranberry
Concord
Charles A. Tussel
New Hampshire
Henry B. Cleaves
Maine
Germantown
Pittsburgh
Dubois
Reynoldsville
O Nem
Barrett Scott
Ilol County
Niobrara
Best
Tom Blair
Morgan County
Blair
J. L. Bonar
Bomar
Senate Deficiency Bill Debates Income Tax Amendment
Senator Quay introduces a tariff amendment to strike income tax provisions and replace with a woolen schedule including raw wool duty. Other amendments seek abolishing the extra sugar differential duty, correcting tax on alcohol used in the arts, and exempting corporations from furnishing salary lists for those under four thousand dollars.
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Washineton
Senate
Quay
Rep. Pa
McMillan Nominated for Michigan Long Term Senate Seat
In Lansing Republicans nominate Senator James McMillan for the long term U S Senate seat, with election likely as Democrats hold a minority in the legislature. Julius C Burrows earns the short term nomination on a second ballot, defeating John Patton and S B Olds amid intra party grudges. The short term expires March 4, 1899 and a special election will be ordered after legislative adjournment to fill Burrows vacancy.
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Lansing
Mich
James McMillan
United States
Michigan
Julius C. Burrows
J. C. Burrows
John Patton
Olds
J. Hubbell
Patton
Burrows
Dun and Bradstreet review on trade prices and failures
The January Bradstreet weekly review notes prices at record lows across many commodities with iron, wool, and cotton affected. Wages per hour fell slightly while exchanges and money supply show unusual movement. It reports 1894 business failures rising in the US and Canada but not across all states, and cautions no near term trade revival despite some merchant optimism.
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Dun and Bradstreet
Newons
G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Goth
New York
United States
Dominion of Canada
Canada
Pennsylvania
Bradstreet’s
Bradstreet
Waite Muses On Silver Policy and State Sanctions
Gov. Waite in Denver delivers annual message noting local issues and criticizing banks for overstatement of capital. condemns federal troop deployments without state notice and proposes abolishing capital punishment with criminals running for state office as substitute.
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Waite
Denver
Col
Senate
House
Republican Party
Cleveland
United States
Congress
Moonshining Raid Ends With Deaths In Van Buren County
Sheriff Jennings and a large posse raided a moonshine still 16 miles from Clinton. Putnam the leader was shot dead, his 17 year old nephew mortally wounded. Two moonshiners were captured and one escaped. No officers seriously hurt. Prisoners brought to Littl e Rock.
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Littl.e Rock
Ark
H. L. Jennings
Clinton
van Buren County
Putnam
Jennings
An' Then You'll See That Feller Knows How to Walk a Chalk
A collage of verses and quips from various papers includes themes of unrequited love and rural charm. The narrator laments a48 age gap with a young woman, then shifts to country maid ideals. Quotes from Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Inquirer add humor on romance and social mores.
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Atlanta Constitution
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