Rock Springs Chinese Treatment Stirs Senate Debate
President Cleveland forwards a detailed message on the Rock Springs massacre in Wyoming. He cites treaty obligations and the 1880 treaty with China, arguing the United States offers no obligation to indemnify Chinese victims but may seek congressional action for relief. The note emphasizes protection under law for all aliens and calls for considered policy without creating new rights.
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Wasnuxetes
Conto
Senate
House of Representa
Congress
United States
China
Rock Springs
Wyoming Territory
Union
Grover Cleveland
Executive Mansion
Washington, D. C
Central Union Telephone Company Declares Indiana Withdrawals
Caicaco March 2 The Central Union Telephone Company announces it will withdraw new business in large Indiana cities and terminate contracts as early as possible due to a Supreme Court ruling upholding the law regulating telephone rentals and toll charges. The firm cites unprofitability and urges subscribers to note possible service reductions while appealing to the United States Supreme Court.
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Caicaco
Central Union Telephone Company
Indiana
Supreme Court of Indiana
Supreme Court of the United States
Senate
Trunk Lines Meet. No Action on Transcontinental Contest
The executive committee of trunk lines met today in New York reporting routine business with no measures taken on the transcontinental contest.
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Trunk Lines
New York
Executive Committee of
Embezzling Sub-Treasury Clerk Sentenced Five Years
J H Auf demarte, an embezzling sub-treasury clerk, was today sentenced in Chester to five years imprisonment in the state pen. He must also pay a fine of 5000 dollars. The March 2 report places the case in the New OR area.
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Bass
J. H. Aufdemarte
Treasury
Chester
Attempt to Lynch Graham
Springfield news reports an attempted lynching last night that was foiled. The crowd dispersed and no further action occurred today. The Jersey Bills are referenced in the report.
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Graham
Springfield
Fulton Family Perished in a Burning Home
Carcaco Ill March 2 Inter Ocean Fulton Mo special says Mrs Quissenberrys house on Nicholas street found on fire. Neighbors rushed to aid and found Mrs Quissenberry dead in the yard partly wrapped in a blanket. The house burned, and her two sons aged 17 and 19 were missing. their charred remains were later found. In Ottawa Kas a fire in the heart of the city behind Shomos store and a large livery stable was quickly contained, with the fire department delivering water within five minutes and officials deeming the area safe by 11 p.m.
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Carcaco
Fulton
Ottawa
Kas
Shomo’s
Prohibition Violence Sparks Georgia Feud After Killing
A Milledgeville telegram reports Marshal Haygood killed by Sam Emils in a Georgia prohibition feud. Parties accuse each other of inciting riot and bloodshed. Prohibitionists cite Rev. Sam Jones who urged firmness, while others deny his words caused the killing amid heated campaign rhetoric.
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Curcaco
Milledgeville
Marshal Haygood
Sam Emils
Georgia
Sam Jones
Jones
Jed
Street Car Strike Sparks Stop in East Broadway Line
On New Year’s Day March 2 a strike shut all cars of the Dry Dock East Broadway Battery railroad. Management had hired new workers and planned to discharge veterans involved in prior troubles, replacing them with the newcomers. The striking workers stopped service in response.
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East Broadway & Battery Railroad Company
They Must Hang Death Sentence For Murders In New Orleans
New Orleans La March 2 The board of pardons for the third time refuses to commute Ford and Murphy the murderers of Captain Murphy. Public interest rises as the governor will set the execution date and March 12 has been tentatively fixed for the sentence to be carried out.
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New Ornteass
Board of Pardons
Ford
Murphy
Captain Murphy
Shot by His Step Son in Illinois Quarrel
Aton Illinois March 2 Jonas Johnson was shot by his stepson Charles Carr five miles below Aston during a family quarrel. The dispute had many prior threats between them. The 44 calibre pistol shot entered near the naval. Johnson will die before tonight. Carr has fled.
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Aton
Ill
Jonas Johnson
Charles Carr
Aston
Naval
Johnson
Carr
Cardinal Angelo Jacobini Dies in Rome at 75
Rome reports Cardinal Angelo Jacobini dead aged 75 born in Genoa in 1825. Created a cardinal in 1882. Pope Leo XIII marked the 75th anniversary of his birth and the eighth anniversary of his coronation with an address to the sacred college.
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Rome
Angelo Jacobini
Genoa
Leo Sim
Sacred College
Telegraph Regulations Move Telegraphed Messages
Des Moines March 2 The senate passed on second reading the Miles telegraph bill imposing a penalty for failure to transmit and deliver messages promptly and reducing the tariff to twenty five cents for fifteen words between any points in Iowa Babbit Foot
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Des Moses
Iowa
Senate
Big crop prospects brighten Kansas farming outlook
The Kansas Farmer reports a cold winter across 68 counties with stock losses in western regions from January storms. Wheat looks good, fruit prospects strong aside from peaches and blackberries in exposed areas. Fall plowing was heavy, oats sown, and corn acreage expected to rise sharply. farmers are in good condition with bright hopes for the year.
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Kansas
Market Report from Lawnexce Daily Markets
Chicago and St Louis markets provided by Lawnexce Gary ap Provision Excuaxer. Mixed crop quotes with May wheat and corn figures. Notes show price points across futures, including May wheat around 10.60 to 10.85 and corn around 4.0 to 4.3 in various listings.
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Lawnexce
Chicago
St. Louis
Gary Ap
Kansas City Market Report on Flour Cereal Prices and Bets
The Commercial Indicator lists mixed price quotations for flour and wheat futures, with bids and asks for No 2 red and white wheat, corn, oats, rye, butter, eggs, corn meal and bran. Entries include March to June contracts and various quality grades, reflecting a volatile commodity market in Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Corn—Wesker
Wilge
Soge
Kansas City Live Stock Report
Kansas City March 2 Live Stock Indicator reports cattle receipts 1105 shipments 497 market active and firm. Hogs receipts 4303 shipments 1142 market weak and slow. Beef at mixed prices good to choice 3.50 4.60 common to medium 2.25 3.25.
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Kansas City
St Louis Produce Prices Quiet Market Tone
Market report shows dull and unchanged trading for grains and provisions. Wheat No 3 red and corn bids steady while oats and barley display small shifts. pork and lard prices appear at firm levels with dairy and whisky noted.
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Novaa
Taney
SB Sane
Wcorn Se
Wmensc
St Louis Live Stock Market Report March 2
CATTLE receipts 660 with active market and higher prices. Choice shipping and export graded 5.00 to 5.59, common to good around 4. Pou 4.85 for butcher steers, cows and heifers 22563.55. HOGS receipts 3,200 with market active and higher, closing strong. Butchers' selections 4.25 to 4.0, mixed lots 3.90 to 4.15. PORK receipts 600, shipments none, market active and firm at 1.58 to 5.
Chicago Produce Curcaca Market Report
March 2 market notes for Curcaca Chicago. Flour prices for Southern winter wheat and Wisconsin flour listed with ranges. rye and buckwheat flour values noted. Wheat futures show March to August contracts with variably closing prices. corn and oats cash and futures data included. Rye No 2 price stated.
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Wisconsin
Sige
Srasec
Chicago Live Stock Market Report March 2
The Drovers Journal notes cattle receipts at 909 with 2,000 shipments and a steady but slow market. Steers 950 to 1500 lbs bring 3.90 to 5.00, stockers 4.40 to 9.00, cows and mixed 1.50 to 4.00, bulk 3.00 to 3.40, Texas shipments 4.30. Hog receipts 12,000 with a steady to strong market, light and mixed hogs and Texans listed. Sheep receipts 4,000 with prices noted but incomplete in the fragment.
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Drovers Journal
Texas
Aisaa
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Touted as Cure for Pulmonary Ailments
An archival note credits Ayer's Cherry Pectoral as the best preparation for curing pulmonary complaints, highlighting its reputation in historic medical advertisements.
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Ayer
Navigation Suspended Amid Freezing Harbor Conditions
New York reports the harbor frozen solid and navigation suspended as the Hudson River freezes again. Steam boats from Peekskill halt, some frozen to docks. Boston notices east shore ice hindering boat movement. Officials note ongoing cold snap and disrupted transport across the region.
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New York Harbor
Hudson River
New York
Peekskill Down
Boston
Mass
Welsh colonization scheme forms Welsh Land Association
The Welsh Land Association is organized with Rev. U.S. Davis as president, D.S. Thomas as secretary, and W. G. Morgan as treasurer. The plan buys 10,000 acre blocks to divide by lot into 160 acre plots for members, location unsettled whether in Dakota or Washington Territory, promising Welsh cultural revival.
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Prirescre
Welsh Land Association
U.S. Davis
Ironton, O
D.S. Thomas
Pittsburg
W. G. Morgan
Sharon
Dakota
Washington Territory
Foundling leaves Nebraska City in uproar over libel case
On March 3 a baby was found left on banker B W Rottman's doorstep in Nebraska City. Rottman filed a warrant against Mrs C F Danke for malicious libel and slander over her public claim he is the father of the abandoned child. Sensational developments are expected as Mrs Danke denies the charge.
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Owana
B. W. Rottman
Nebraska City
Rottman
Pittsburg Furnaces Restart After Coke Strike
The coke strike settlement restarts Pittsburg coke furnaces with twelve furnaces in blast starting today. Daily output rises to about 1,850 tons, averaging around 1,000 tons daily for the last two months, totaling roughly 60,000 tons since January, compared with 1,430 tons per day over the same period last year.
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Pittsburg
Speculation on Presidential Nominations in Senate
On the Anxious Bench Wasurindos notes that Republican senators do not intend to delay nominations beyond necessary debate. If the senate has refused requested papers, the nominee will be rejected. in all other cases, good men will be confirmed.
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Wasurindos
Senate
New York Produce Exchange Seeks Bonded Warehouse Extension
Washington March 2 a delegation from the New York Produce Exchange urged the house ways and means committee for a three year bonded warehouse extension and for duties to be collected on actual quantity when goods leave bond.
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Washington
New York Produce Exchange
House Committee On Ways and Means
Eastern Snows Unyielding Delay Mails and Vessels Trapped
Lonpox March 2 The north endures a deep snow storm causing twelve hour mail delays between Scotland and London and twelve trains stuck in snow. Many ships are held in harbor. Aortic weather affects Denmark.
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Lonpox
Scotland
London
Denmark
Atlantic and Pacific railroad cuts freight rates
The Atlantic and Pacific railroad today met the cut on freights made by the Southern Pacific yesterday.
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San Francisco
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
Southern Pacific
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve and Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Ad
An old newspaper ad copy touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as best for cuts bruises burns and skin sores with a money back guarantee. It also promotes Ayer’s Sarsaparilla as a tonic claimed to purify blood and aid general healing by barber brothers and retailers.
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Bucklen
Noaia
Ty Barber Bros
Cure of Eczema Promises Relief from Crticcka Regorvest
Wills McDonald of 2542 Dearborn St Chicago writes that after seventeen years of eczema and a decade of immobility he was cured by Crticcka Regorvest blood unifier and CticcaRa II preparations both internally and externally, claiming doctors had declared his case hopeless and that he could walk again.
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Wills
Dearborn St
Chicago
Eczema Cured by Cuneres Remxnirs, Boston Case
Chas Houghton reports a ten year eczema case in a patient covering body and limbs, unresponsive to all known treatments, cured entirely by Cuneres Remxnirs. John Thiel of Wilkes-Barre writes of eight years salt rheum relief after using Carictma and RsSolver, enabling him to resume business.
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Chas. Houghton, Esq
State St
Boston
John Thiel
Wilkesbarre
Cure for facial skin blemishes via Cencuna remedy in Ravenna
Mrs Isaac Phelps of Ravenna Ohio reports a year long struggle with two skin conditions on her face and says a product named Cencuna cured them quickly and completely. The ad lists prices Crneena 3 eta and Dcents and promotes a pamphlet from Porrins Dros axn Chewicat Co.
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Isaac Phelps
Ravenna
Ohio
Cencuna
Drugglata
Porrins Dros Axn Chewicat
Weston
Mase
BEAU
Grand Union Hotel and cures marketed in a single page ad
The page touts Parker's Tonic for erysipelas and general health, promoting a Grand Union Hotel with European plan rooms and transport to depots. It also advertises a female health cure by Mrs. W. C. Hones at 658 Broadway and notes Neb brasks an Indian name meaning shallow river.
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Fred and
the Outlook
Market Report
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York
LIM
Burlington & Quincy
Chicago & Alcom
Rock Island
Union Pacific
Western Union
Kaansas City
Uicago
Red
Monro Bond
M. D
N. Broad St
Philadelphia
Tobstor
SANBD
Mueus
Glover
Potter Drug & Chemical Co
DOW
Porven Dice Sxp
Cuemcar Ci
Hatuerr Book Co
Portland
Bia
W. A. Neves
Powers
Bocheater N. Y
Barber Bros
Dr. King
Parker
New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Claga Hotel
City
W. C. Honnes
Broadway
N. Y
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