National Law Makers Forfeiture and Senate Debate Deepens
Congressional actions cover forfeiture of railroad lands and river harbor bills with Senate amendments. House and Senate clash over Gulf Ship Island exception, conferees named, pensions veto reports filed, and the deficit bill faces amendments. A lengthy naval academy expense reading ends with a liquor restriction amendment approved. Washington, July 2.
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Payson
Linois
Committee On Public Lands
Senate
Gulf & Ship Island Railroad
Gulf & Ship Island
Anderson
Kansas
House
Weaver
Iowa
Adams
Illinois
Barksdale
Misissippi
Cobb
Indiana
Cobb, Stone
Missouri
Taulbee
Kentucky
Carter W. Tiller
Sawyer
New York
Andrew Johnson
Hammond
Georgia
Cannon
Ilinois
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Western Union Telegraphers weigh strike in August
Washington July 2 reporting strong talk among Western Union telegraph operators about a possible strike by August 1 if their demands to curb salary reductions are not met. A key speaker noted shifts from $90 to $60 wages, with longer-term pay cuts and scab reinstate cases. The group is now linked with Knights of Labor for support and a different resolution than three years ago is anticipated.
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Western Union
Nummber
Knights of Labor
Denson
Wichita Valley Railroad Company
Indian Territory
Satan
Rowan County War and Tolls in a Damaged Rail Era
A Morehead dispatch reports Rowan county tensions flare anew as Mat Carey Howard Logan and Craig Tolliver fortify Ravine hotel while allies blockade access, risking a renewed feud after a governor mediated settlement. In Virginia floodwater chaos, James River rises ten feet above high water, rail lines washed out, traffic halted, and mail service interrupted across Richmond area.
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Rowan County
Louisville
Morehead
Mat Carey
Howard Logan
Craig Tolliver
Ravine Hotel
Logan
Carey
Martin
Tolliver
Knott
Ricsmorp
James River
Columbia
Richmond & Allayzheny
Auna
Richmond
Miss Rose Cleveland to Become Editor in Chicago
Miss Rose Cleveland will assume editorial duties at the Literary Life in Chicago within the week. Negotiations were conducted mainly by letter and she expressed strong enthusiasm for the assignment in her reply to the initial offer.
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Chicaco
Miss Cleveland
Chicago
LAFAGAN'S LOG Full of aphorisms on virtue and society
A collection of aphorisms on talk and listening, energy and energyless life, religion and temperance, criticism, honesty, love, wisdom, decorum, and the role of Christianity. The notes blend moral maxims with social commentary, highlighting the value of logic, restraint, and virtue.
President nominates Edward Young consul Windor N 8
The president nominated Edward Young of the District of Columbia to be consul at Windsor, N B. He returned to the house without approving the act granting a pension to Wm Boone. Boone enlisted in 1862, was captured, paroled, and injured in a cannon accident during a July 4 1863 celebration. The president questioned link to service and opposed broad pension grants.
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Wasateros
Edward Young
District of Columbia
Windsor
Wm. Boone
Boone
Pension Bureau
Alerta
Ill
Second District Resolutions Revised at Ottawa Convention
Ottawa Kansas July 2 The revised report corrects errors in resolutions from the second district Republican convention. It reaffirms faith in the party and its platforms, declares prohibition settled policy of Kansas, supports labor and capital balance, lauds representative E H Funston, and calls for unanimous support of his work. Prohibition plank omitted.
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Kas
Kansas
Second
Congress
E. H. Funston
Gladstone Re elected in Midlothian and Cork city
Gladstone wins reelection in Midlothian. Up to 1 pm 22 Tory 9 Conservative 12 Liberal 3 Parnellite elected. Parnell and Maurice Healy win Cork city seat unopposed. Parnellite P. J. Power takes Watersford east division. Kilkenny has P. Quinn and Galway Chamberlain wins. Chamberlain says Tory leaders favor broader local government for Ireland.
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Chamberlain
Ireland
Powder Explosion At McCainsville Kills Dozen Workers
Monnistown New Jersey July 2 An Atlantic giant powder explosion at McCainsville leaves 11 or more workers dead and bodies scattered up to 500 feet from the blast site. Names of the killed include Charles Jackson John Kinnan George Ammerman George Hankill Theo Bregan Charles Milburn George King John Smith and two Sanbach brothers.
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Monnistown
N. J
McCainsville
Charles Jackson
John Kinnan
George Ammerman
George Hankill
Theo. Bregan
Charles Milburn
George King
John Smith
Sanbach
Freight pool talks in Kansas traffic crisis continues
In St Louis on July 2 a meeting of general freight agents from Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Southern Kansas and Missouri Pacific failed to form a pool. They reconvened to seek a common traffic basis but no pool exists and agreement remains elusive amidst ongoing talks.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Southern Kansas
Missouri Pacific
Central Kansas
Southern Hotel
George W. Lilley
Southern
Kansas
Lake Shore Strike Appears Near End in Chicago Yard
In Curcaco on July 2, the Lake Shore yards showed no major disruption as Pinkerton guards accompanied an engine and caboose sent to the packing house. Workers watched from blocks while switching continued at South Chicago and Englewood yards, suggesting the strike may be near ending.
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Curcaco
Lake Shore
Pinkerton
Forty-seventh Street
South Chicago
Englewood
Forty-third
Twelfth Streets
Franklin Easton hanged for rape in Salisbury crowd
Congroph North Carolina July 2 Frank Easton a Black man was executed by hanging in Salisbury before a large crowd for the rape of a white woman. The case drew widespread attention amid the tense racial climate of the era.
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Congroph
N.C
Frank Easton
Salisbury
Papils, Wine Prize and Advertisements for Douglas County Pupils
A county wide contest offering $10 for best pupil written general advertisement and $5 for second best. Open to any pupil in Douglas county schools, written by the student and certified by a teacher, under fifty words. Entries filed with local editors until comparison, winners announced July 15 1886. Barber Bros. Drug Store offers trial bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption.
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Indiana Cash Grocery
Douglas County
Mesars. W. Chalfant
the Tribune
Col. Learnard
Journal
Osbun Shannon
Gazette
Indiana Cash
Bayless Mercantile Co
AD. A. Bradford
Chattanoogeous
Dr. King
Barber Bros
Consumption Cure Recipe Offered By Retired Physician
An old physician, retired, claims to possess a simple vegetable remedy from an East India missionary that cures consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and other lung ailments and also nervous debility with a radical cure. He offers the recipe free by mail to all who apply with a stamped envelope.
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ES ‘Novas
End to Bone Scraping Thanks to Bitters and Salve
Edward Shepherd of Harrisburg Wilt expects relief after eight years of bone scraping and possible amputation. He credits three bottles of Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve with restoring his leg. He also praises B B B blood purifier after weeks of neck issues thought to be cancer. Barber Bros distribute the remedies in Griffin Georgia. Lemon vanilla chocolate and strawberry ice cream is offered by Wiedemann’s.
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Edward Shepherd
Harrisburg
Bucklen
Barber Bros
Griffin
J. H. Barnes
Griffin, Ga
Sanford
SaNtorp
Potter Drug & Chemical Co
Boston
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