Closing Week in Congress Promises Turbulent Debates
The House enters its final session week with suspension rules in effect and a swollen calendar. Experts predict night sessions and continued Congress until Monday noon, as 381 public bills and large private calendars await action. veto risk hangs over sundry civil and diplomatic bills, with Hawaiian cable and printing-site disputes pending.
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Washington
House
Congress
Prospect
Senate
Senate Committee On Finance
Secretary of the Treasury
Cleveland
Committee On Pacific Railroads
Committee On Public Buildings
Committee On Rules
Senate agenda outlines remaining session business this week
The Senate plans to follow the sundry civil bill with the legislative executive and judicial bill then the naval bill and finally the general defciency appropriation bill. Night sessions are planned to finish appropriation bills amid anticipated debates over the Hawaiian cable and certificate amendment to the sundry civil bill.
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Senate
Faulkner
Conference Committee
Programme of the Services at Washington This Afternoon
The funeral of Frederick Douglass is marked by broad respect. The body moved from the Anacostia residence to Metropolitan AME Church where it lies in state until two. Clergy conduct, Rev Jenifer presides, with Crummell and Wayman participating. Honorary pallbearers include Bruce Wormley Lynch Cook Messer Pinchback Pitcher Murphy Purvis Bailey. Active pallbearers are District of Columbia negro letter carriers. Remains to Rochester, N Y, to be welcomed by the Rochester city council. The colored community mourns with school closures and mourning badges.
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Frederick Douglass
Douglass
Anacostia
J.G. Jenifer
Turner
Alexander Crummell
Wayman
Baltimore
Moses Hodges
Boston
B. K. Bruce
W. 8. Wormley
J. R. Lynch
John F. Cook
B. F. Messer
P. B.S. Pinchback
D. L. Pitcher
George H. Murphy
C. B. Purvis
L. C. Bailey
Rochester
N. Y
District of Columbia
Fraud Order Sought Over Mail Scheme In Office
A report concludes a scheme in the office has demoralized operations and urges immediate remedy. It recommends issuing a fraud order prohibiting use of the mails, though the report has not yet been acted on.
Pooling bill defeated in Senate session
Washington February 26 the pooling bill failed on Butler's motion with 24 ayes and 42 noes. A heated debate followed as Peffer warned against victory by talk and Hale argued there is no time to act. Many members signaled changes would be needed for a majority if revived. The listed nay votes totaled thirty eight or forty two?
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Butler
Peffer
Hale
Aldrich
Allen
Alison
Bate
Berry
Blackburn
Call
Chandler
Clark
Cockrell
Davis
Dixon
Dubois
Frye
George
Gorman
Hansbrough
Hawley
Hill
Jones
Arkansas
Kyle
McLaurin
McMillan
Mantle
Mitchell
Oregon
Morgan
Morrill
Pasco
Pettigrew
Platt
Power
Pugh
Roach
Sherman
Smith
Teller
Turpie
West
Vilas
Washbourn
Nomination Confirmed for Minister to Mexico
The president nominated Hon. Matt M. Ransom of North Carolina as minister to Mexico to replace the late Hon. Isaac P. Gray. The senate quickly confirmed after an executive session, noting Ransom's long service since 1872 and wartime service across several general officer grades.
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Washington
Matt M. Ransom
North Carolina
Mexico
Isaac P. Gray
Senate
Ransom
Senator Ransom
Senate Delays Pooling Bill Amid Debates on Indian Funds
Washington February 25 The Senate refused to take up the pooling bill by a 24 to 4 vote, promising further talk. The Indian appropriation bill passed after five days of consideration as a sundry civil bill began. Aldrich and Morgan debated paying Creek Nation $600,000 in silver half dollars or other legal tender, while a commission proposal and Douglass rotunda tribute failed to advance. Eulogies were given for Rep Shaw. Ransom was confirmed as minister to Mexico. The House approved an extra month's salary for its staff and continued reading the deficiency bill with amendments pending.
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Washington
Senate
Wolcott
Germany
Great Britain
Frederick Douglass
Representative Shaw
Wisconsin
Ransom
Mexico
House
Illinois Congressman objects to Chicago strike resolution
Washington February 5 In the house Fithian of Illinois introduced a preamble and resolution declaring that the resolution passed by the house endorsing the administration s act in sending troops to quell the Chicago strike troubles did not express the sense of the house and the president s action was unconstitutional and in violation of states rights.
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Washington
Fithian
Illinois
Chicago
Captain Howgate Acquitted in Embezzlement Case
The jury acquitted Captain Howgate of embezzlement after a hung jury with the judge refusing to discharge them. The February 25 ruling ends the long trial process in Washington.
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Washington
Howgate
Five Murders Claimed by Dying Confession in Kentucky
A dying black man in Halsey Kentucky confessed to five murders across Alabama Tennessee and Georgia. He boasted three victims were white women and claimed another man was wrongly hanged on circumstantial evidence. He prayed with Rev James Smitch and kept a skeletal hand as a lucky charm.
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Louisville
The
Post
Halsey
Alabama
Tennessee
Georgia
James Smitch
Rev. Smith
Populist Editors Clash Over Taubeneck Platform Fight
In Kansas City on February 25, Populist editors clash over the Omaha platform and Taubeneck led national committee. Resolutions rebuke Taubeneck for veering toward free silver while radicals vow to continue the fight. Convention endorses Vandervoort's Industrial Legion and adjourns sine die.
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Kansas City
Omaha Platform
National Committee
Taubeneck
Industrial Legion
Vandervoort
Bank President Replies On Silver Deposits Policy
New York February 25. President St John of Mercantile National Bank replies to Springer’s call for redeeming deposits in silver. He says the policy is in good faith but banks are supplicants and depositors can be dictators, often refusing gold while accepting silver dollar certificates in large amounts.
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New York
St. John
Mercantile National Bank
Springer
United States
Vessels Lost In Severe Winter Storms Hit Philadelphia Fleet
Philadelphia shipping men report a deadly winter sea season with many ships lost or missing. Eight crew aboard the Emma J Meyer are believed lost near the Jersey coast, while the Marooshen sails from Philadelphia with seven crew and is missing. The five masted Governor Ames and Maggie Dalling also face disaster, as crews are feared lost and families await word.
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Maritime Exchange
Oliver
Emma J. Meyer
Charleston
Jersey
Gulf Stream
Marooshen
F. 8. Brown
Wiscasset
Governor Ames
Salem
Baltimore
Dalling
Maggie Dalling
The Crew Frozen in Rigging and on Deck
Shipping men say the steamship Brunel from Bermuda tried to hail a sea craft where the last crewman had died in the cold near New York. The Emma wore a down Union flag at her masthead as the Brunel approached within 100 feet but received no response and found the crew motionless after six hours in rough seas.
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Brunel
Bermuda
Union
Anderson
Kent schooner listed as lost arrives at Chatham New Brunswick
The coal laden schooner Kent, which sailed from Baltimore for Boston January 21 and was once listed as missing, has been reported to have reached Chatham New Brunswick.
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Kent
Boston
Chatham
N. B
Living Picture of a Train Robber at Court
In Stafford Court House Virginia on February 23 the defense pressed Searcy the train robber who testified for the state. He wore a bandanna fashioned with cut holes and a Morgan hat to mimic the robber’s appearance prompting the observer audience to declare him an ideal train robber.
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Stafford Court House
Searcy
Morgan
McBride's Election Surprises Oregon Delegation
Washington reports the sudden Oregon Senate victory of George W. McBride. The well known state figure had not been discussed as a candidate and was thought unable to run due to health. His father served as Lincoln's minister to the Sandwich Islands in the 1860s, and his brother John R. McBride was Oregon's first Republican congressman.
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WasHingtion
George W. McBride
United States
Oregon
McBride
Dr. McBride
Lincoln
Sandwich Islands
John R. McBride
Feuding Families End With Fatal Kentucky Virginia Shootout
In a road near Osborne's Gap Dickinson County Virginia two families, the Smiths and Coxes, engaged in a deadly exchange that left Lem Cox as the sole survivor. The incident ends the long running feud as Lem Cox is expected to die.
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Sergent, Ky
Robert
Sam Smith
Ben
Lem Cox
Osborne’s Gap
Dickinson County
Irish Americans of Colorado urge McCarthy support Everett bid
Prominent Pueblo Irish leaders and others nationwide cable London MP Justin McCarthy requesting he back the Everett bimetallic resolution on Tuesday amid Colorado political ties. Archbishop Corrigan tightens church stance in New York by proscribing Odd Fellows Knights of Pythias and Sons of Temperance urging Catholics to withdraw or risk sacraments denial.
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Colo
Justin McCarthy
M. P
London
Colorado
Everett
New York
Corrigan
Diocese of
Church of the Odd Fellows
Knights of Pythias and
Sons of Temperance
Death of Gen Joseph B Carr at Troy on Feb 25
General Joseph B Carr died at 9 45 am in Troy born August 16 1828 he served with gallantry in the Union war A Republican he was elected secretary of state and nominated for lieutenant governor but defeated Stamboul the trotting stallion of Andrew Hildepran is mentioned with a stray Wisconsin date line.
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Troy
Joseph B. Carr
Train wreck near Greenville claims one life during Mardi Gras travel
A south bound Louisville and Nashville passenger train derailed three miles below Greenville Alabama. The wreck burned five cars including two passenger coaches a baggage car and an express car. One death C R Walsh of Birmingham. Dozens injured many with serious burns cuts and broken bones as passengers on their way to Mardi Gras in Mobile and New Orleans.
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Louisville and
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Mobile
New Orleans
C. R. Walsh
Birmingham
GH. Armstrong
Buffalo
N. Y
G. W. Morey
Shelbyville
Tenn
Margaret Moody
W. H. Johnson
Newcastle
Ind
Sallie Johnson
W. C. Thomas
Montgomery
C. R. Johnson
Toledo
W. H. Schoolcraft
Alabama mine disaster claims two dead and many injured
A fire at the Tent Coal Iron and Railroad mines in Pratt, Alabama, killed two miners John Patton and Louis Stevens and left eighteen others badly hurt. Twenty convict miners in Rock slope near the air shaft escaped suffocation by reaching the air shaft, while three hours later the fire was controlled. Kept alive were many in the mine, with one man found battered, and thirty animals perished in the chaos.
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Eck Slope
Tent Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Prattas
John Patton
Louis Stevemans
Louis Stevens
Chicago man shoots wife and her brother then is cornered in stable loft
Emanuel Barker, a colored man from Chicago, shot and killed his wife and her brother over jealousy. He escaped but was cornered in a stable loft where a police sergeant tackled him before he could shoot. E P Kearns, Pittsburg revenue collector, faces removal over alleged improper levies on clerks and other misconduct.
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Emanuel Barker
Chicago
E. P. Kearns
Internal Revenue
Pittsburg
Washington
Six Tionachie French Canadians seek Canada free transport
Six Tionachie French Canadians plan to leave Michigan for Canada if the Dominion government provides free transportation and a bonus of ten dollars per person. The Old Dominion Jockey Club showed a readiness to run winter races, leading the American Turf Congress at Cincinnati to refuse a license under Turf Congress rules.
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American Turf Congress
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Turf Congress
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Zanesville
United States
Hazeltine
Milan
Italy
Grand Rapids
Samuel Dana Horton
Washington
North Carolina
Fred Douglass
Stickney
Chicago Great Western Railway
Oelwein
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Kansas
McKinley
Reed
Harrison
Richard Wortman
Osborne
Oxford
Judge Lynch
Rockford
Lits
General Boo
Salvation Army
New York
England
Weather outlook for Michigan Iowa Indiana and Wisconsin
Weather indications for twenty four hours from 8 p m yesterday show showers then fair in Lower Michigan with slight warmth in extreme southeast. Iowa expected fair and slightly cooler. Indiana and Illinois to have fair weather with southerly winds. Upper Michigan split with fair west and rain east, cooler in the west. Wisconsin to be fair with cool conditions and northwesterly gales diminishing.
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Michigan
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Indiana
Illinois
Upper
Wisconsin
Japan Open to Peace Talks With Li Hung Chang
Official reports state Japan, with 176000 troops unused in the field and intact finances after the China conflict, is ready to negotiate a peace treaty. Li Hung Chang, newly named peace commissioner, may lead discussions. Chicago meanwhile forms a Trilby club as city lore notes the Windy City fame.
Altamont Walker fatally shoots wife then harms self
In Terre Haute at daylight Altamont G Walker awakens and fires at his wife wounding her. He then shoots twice more and turns the pistol on himself, dying shortly after. Mrs Walker, sister of D D Hudnut, is connected to local banks and mills. Authorities cite insanity and note a prior cryptic letter to Senator Sherman.
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Terre Haute
Altamont G
Walker
Bill to Abolish Racial Marriages Law Advances
In Indianapolis on February 25 the senate passed by 77 to 2 a request bill to end distinctions between white and negro marriages, aiming to remove legal barriers to interracial unions. A proposed amendment revived an obsolete charter favoring Western Mutual Life Insurance, prompting reconsideration and referral to a judiciary committee.
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Senate
Western Mutual Life Insurance and Trust Company
Robinson
Acta
House
Judiciary Committee
Grubbs
Committee Probes Salary Bill Omissions In 1881 Law
A special committee investigating the 1881 salary law changes heard George Nester of Warrick county. He admitted enrolling a faulty section while serving as enrolling clerk in 1891 and could not recall the circumstances or why officer names and salaries were omitted. Chairman Gowdy of the Republican state committee called a meeting for this afternoon ahead of the final legislative caucus amid speculation.
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Gowdy
Republican State Committee
Damages Sought Over Rail Mill Move and Property Lease
In New Albany Mrs. Fannie M. Depauw sues for 50000 alleging the New Albany Rail Mill Co Adolph Printer and Union Trust wrongfully moved a 200000 property it occupied under a ten year lease with her and relatives. The suit claims loss of one quarter ownership and unlawful relocation to Alexandria. James Knight editor of The Daily Bulletin is jailed for malicious libel in Cairo. Viola a Dancing Girl sues over coverage tied to the World Fair and Senor Mingo management.
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Fannie M. Depauw
New Albany Rail Mill Company
Adolph Printer
Union Trust Company
Newland B. Depauw
Charles W. Depauw
Florence Depauw
Rail Mill Company
Alexandria
Attempt to victimize Hudnut Milling stockholder in forged check
In Terre Haute on February 25 an attempt to swindle B. G. Hudnut, the largest stockholder in Hudnut Milling Co., by a forged Chicago check for 400 was thwarted. The suspected forger H. H. Henan is thought to have fled to Milwaukee to try another similar attempt.
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Terre Haute
B. G. Hudnut
Hudnout Milling Company
Chicago
H. H. Henan
Milwaukee
Rights and deaths mix in scattered rural reports
Lebanon report says Charles Smith died after being crushed while cutting a tree on his east Lebanon farm. The La Grange notice tells of Enos Randall and his wife buried together in a pre arranged plan claiming simultaneous deaths. Scipio case details a man driven to insanity after being teased about a love interest. Indianapolis reports the discovery of a headless body belonging to William Fallender after a missing persons case.
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Lebanon
Charles Smith
Laporte
Enos Randall
la Grange
Locomotives Like Women Say Baldwin Chief
William H. Crawford compares locomotives to women as he explains engineers must know their engines. He notes machines seek routine but locomotives often act unpredictably, defying the idea of perfect regularity and forcing engineers to adapt through experience with each engine.
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William H. Crawford
Constructing Engineers’ Corps
Baldwin Works
Chief Crawford
Philadelphia Broil Oysters Step by Step
Philadelphia household note outlines a method for broiling oysters not in a traditional sense. Oysters are prepared by simmering liquor with butter and flour then adding boiled oyster liquor sherry and paprika before thickening in a double boiler. The hot buttered griddle browns oysters quickly to finish in the sauce.
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Philadelphia
Cotton prices and plans loom over southern growers
The Arkansas Gazette and Arkansas Press echo calls for a 40 million bale cotton purchase plan. They warn that four cent cotton may prove a blessing by showing the value of local processing and near-field production. The Denison Herald notes a shift to smaller acreage and organized buying against Wall Street speculation.
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Wall Street
Arkansas Press
Proverbial Wisdom on Industry and Desire
A collected meditation on success, history, gossip, and Mammon. The text argues that ambition drives progress while warns against excess once a good thing becomes too much, implying restraint is needed to keep value intact.
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