Female suffrage vote defeated in Senate amid debate
The Senate rejected the proposed female suffrage amendment by a vote of 16 yeas to 34 nays after a long sectional and philosophical debate. Brown opposed, Dulph and Blair spoke for, and the discussion touched on jury service, civic duty, and the future of republican government. The House referred the agricultural appropriation bill after considering Rhode Island election case Page vs Pierce and adjourned.
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Charles B. Farwell
Illinois
Senator Cullom
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Plumb
District of Columbia
Washington
Senate
United States
Congress
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Wassenate
Dulph
Seneca Falls
New York
Eustis
Dolph
Washington Territory
Secretary of State
West
New Hampshire
Blair
South
House of Representatives
Yeas
Messrs
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Ransom
Daniels
Marcy
Gorman
Frye
Stanford
Camden
Miller
Kenna
Butler
Cameron
Jones
Arkansas
Iarrison
Beck
HOUSE
Rhode Island
Page
Pierce
Hatch
Missouri
Washington Notes and Public Affairs Digest
Washington Notes reports a War Department formal recommendation to the House to purchase the Portage Lake canal and related harbor works, plus a parallel Sturgeon Bay inquiry. It also covers the ninth annual National Woman Suffrage Association convention led by Susan B. Anthony, the Nicaragua canal arbitration context, new five dollar silver certificates, and various political and legal notices including Senator Morgan's department of agriculture amendment and Beck's oleomargarine bill.
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Wasington
Bureau of Engineers
Portage Lake and River Improvement
Association
Europe
Harriet R. Shattuck
Nicaragua Canal
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
United States
Treasury Department
Wm. Reed Lewis
Pennsylvania
Tangier
Thomas B. Connery
New York
Mexico
Morgan
Department of Agriculture
Beck
Emmon
A. Worth Spates
Baltimore
Emmons
Cholera Alarm Reaches Chile and Argentina
Reports from Chile and Argentina describe a severe cholera outbreak near Mendoza with forty deaths in a single day. Officials claim censorship of true conditions while residents flee southward. trains to Rosario halted by new quarantine rules, leaving ten thousand workers temporarily unemployed.
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Pasama
Chile
Argentine Republic
Mendoza
Cordillera
Rosario
Freight Tariff Pledge Sealed by Chicago Roads
Commissioner Blanchard urged east bound freight rate demobilization to slow, prompting a Chicago local freight committee meeting. A resolution pledged to maintain the printed tariff, though officials doubted the pledge would be kept.
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Cutesco
Blanchard
Chicago
Chicago Local Freight Committee
Temperance Move in Legislature Proposes Liquor Prohibition Amendment
Hanriessere Jan 25 A Republican caucus resolves to submit to the people an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage use. Councy Grove Jan 25 Morris County bonds for the Chicago Kansas Western extension win by over 400 majority.
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Hanrissere
Councy Grove
Kas
Chicago, Kansas & Western
Morris County
Terrific Explosion Shatters Fort Scott Windows Deadly Train Crash
A massive powder explosion near Fort Scott Kansas destroyed twenty three freight cars and a magazine car. Brakeman Scott Hooker was killed instantly and several workers injured. Ten thousand dollars of plate glass shattered citywide while reports of tremors echoed to Nevada and Rich Hill. Separate riots in Lincoln Nebraska involved B B Trabbatt a ranchman linked to a divorce suit and mob violence. Governor Thayer ordered measures to protect Trabbatt and restore order.
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Kan
Scott Hooker
Sedalia
Ad. R Dillon
Shufford
Elliott
Nevada
Rich Hill
Kansas City
the Times
Pleasanton
Kas
Breen Bill Passed Unanimously Aimed at Suppressing Vice
Michigan Legislature reports the Breen bill to curb vice in the upper peninsula passed the house unanimously. It imposes up to five years in state prison or a $1,000 fine, or both, for keeping or visiting disreputable dance houses. The same session clears Mr. Ogg’s labor bill barring deputy sheriffs who are non citizens or non electors of the county.
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Lansine
Mich
Breen
Upper Peninsula
Ogg
Pinkerton
War Inevitable Warns War Correspondent Vanderpool
New York January 25 Lew Vanderpool war correspondent for the Paris Figaro who covered the Russo Turkish and other campaigns is in New York. He received a cable from the Figaro ordering him to sail for Paris not later than February as war is deemed inevitable.
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New York
Lew Vanderpool
The
Paris Figaro
Figaro
Paris
Milwaukee Madison Senate and Assembly elect U S Senator Sawyer
In Madison both houses chose United States senator today. In the senate Sawyer Republican received twenty six votes, Winans Democrat five, Cochran Labor one. In the assembly Sawyer 56, Winans 31, Cochran 5.
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Madison
United States
Senate
P. Sawyer
John Winans
John Cochran
Assembly
Sawyer
Winans
Cochrane
Across The Pond And Other Dispatches
Reports from Svaxiu Massawah Abyssinian clash with 200 killed. five Italians dead. Also in Europe Germany’s pacific declarations seen as invention by Gobiet The London Daily News. Opinions from Lespes about United States fisheries bill and Ingalls. New York smallpox talks flag funding and vaccination drive. American legislature scene in Troveka and Kansas rail accident near Rush Center with a fatality.
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London Daily News
Germany
France
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the Post
United States Senate
Ingalls
England
American Senate
Chronicle
Washington
Daily News
New York
Montreal
Ottawa
Hale
Frye
Despondent tailor in El Paso ends his life
Joseph Vogel a 42 year old tailor in El Paso committed suicide by shooting himself through the throat about 6 this morning. Despondent over debts he owed he left a note for his wife saying he intended to kill himself. Born in Germany he had formerly lived in Cleveland and Cincinnati.
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Paso
Tex
Joseph Vogel
Cleveland
Cincinnati
The Lorillard Strike and Local Work Return
Lorillard strikers in Jersey City demand discharge of workers who returned to end the strike, a demand refused, with members trickling back to jobs in small groups. In New York, the Boodle Alderman O Neil trial proceeds with jury candidate examinations as a second day passes. In Missouri, wheel moulders at St Charles Car Works walk out for a five cent raise per wheel.
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O'Neil
New York
New York Money
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Monxey
Coll Vagy
Mercantile Paren—Prigie Mercantile Paper
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Stering Exchange
Kansas City Officer Fatally Shoots Suspect in Escape Attempt
Kansas City January 23 J I Van Trustler a Denver third was fatally shot in West Kansas City while trying to escape arrest. The incident occurred this afternoon as officers attempted to detain him before transport. Cincinnati News reports ex Governor George Hoadley plans to move to New York for a new law partnership following a recent development. Sax Antos10 Texas January 25 Joseph Rose a tinware and stove dealer made a voluntary assignment for creditors with liabilities $3500, stock $1600, debts due $1200, W W Herren named as assignee.
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Kansas City
J. I van Trustler
Denver
Cincinnati
George Hoadley
New York
Sax
Tex
Joseph Rose
W. W. Herren
Telegraphic Briefs Highlight Drowning and Disasters
Two pilots on a Barnegat landing drowned. Morgansea levee, largest in the south, completed after thirteen years, holding 207000 cubic yards of earth. Trial of John O'Neill, third indicted New York alderman from 1884, opened yesterday. Chicago council halts saloon licenses at 1000 dollars. Piedmont hotel, state warehouse and eight stores at Reidsville NC burn, loss 60000. Remains of Mrs Voorhees arrive in Terre Haute. Funeral set for this morning. Belvidere janitor Titus to be hanged April 15 for girl’s murder. Governor Foraker quarantines against finois battle. Flood danger at Toledo over ice gorge passed. Three miles of street railway contracts let in McPherson Kansas.
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N. Y
Morgansea
South
John O'Neill
New York
City Council of
Chicago
Piedmont Hotel
Reidsville
N. C
Senator Voorhees
Terre Haute
Ind
Titus
Collegiate Institue
Belvidere
N. J
Foraker
Ohio
Finois
Toledo
McPherson
Kan
Market Reports From New York and Kansas City
Market notes show price reports across commodities and livestock. Cattle and hogs sell strong with demand steady. beef, pork, and dairy values mixed. Grain futures reflect firming prices with No. 2 red wheat and corn futures cited alongside live stock receipts and shipments at regional markets.
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Jan
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Macy
America
Kansas K
Kansas City
Bancas City
Val
Blige
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Bac
Coux
Spc
Barney—sic
Burren—Creamery
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U. S. Senator
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Bureau of Contagious Diseases
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