Cipher dispatches and revelations before Potter Committee
Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune testified about receiving cipher dispatches from Chandler and Hiscock. He showed two scrapbooks and noted that the transfers included Florida, South Carolina, and Oregon telegrams deciphered with an old mining cipher from the Household Dictionary. The House then passed the post office appropriation bill after increases amid renewed morning-hour debates.
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Washington
Whitelaw Reid
New York Tribune
Potter Committee
William E. Chandler
Hiscock
Florida
South Carolina
Oregon
Reid
Hazard
Grovenor
Holden
Tribune
Associated Press
Post Office
Death by self destruction in Greencastle lodging case
A nameless woman calling herself Anna, from St Louis, sought lodging at a widow's home in Greencastle. She died this morning in bed with an empty laudanum bottle nearby. She was 24, suffering with consumption, expressed a wish to die, and claimed a Kansas-based brother. her identity remains unknown.
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Greencastle
Anna
St. Louis
Kansas
Legislative summary of state senate and house actions in late January
Senate reports were filed and resolutions proposed to revise the common school system and limit school funds to public schools. Bills covered prostitution and gambling property, abolishing Marion county’s Superior Court, expanding mayoral and justice powers, medical regulation, and election-law topics. House bills include railroad fare caps, mining regulation, and tax exemptions for unmarried women, with several measures slaughtered or advanced. The week closed amid adjournments and continued bill slaughtering, with town officer abolition under consideration.
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Senate
Menzies
Sanninghausen
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Superior Court
Marion County
General Assembly
House
Wayne County
Mth Judicial Circuit
Major Gordon
Committee On Ways and Means
Mr. Overmeyer
Woolen Mills Burned in Barrettsville Blaze
Providence reports the Granite Woolen Company's mill at Barrettsville was destroyed by fire on January 30. Firefighters battled the blaze for hours, with damage estimated in the thousands. No injuries are reported.
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Macon
Wittikine
Learney
Wituskine
Cleveland
H. M. Hempy
Fred Hempy
Cleveland Cabinet Manufacturing Company
Hempys
San Francisco
Sydney
Scauen
Hong Kong
Mecca
Ipilia Reef
Torres Straits
Providence
Granite Woolen Company
Barrettsville
Markets Report Delayed Grain and Produce Prices
January 30 market update lists New York figures for flour, corn and rye bids, with bids and asks on No 2 red wheat and oats. City market notes Green Apples Butter potatoes and other staples with daily corrections by William Rosenthal and HH Barnhisel & Co.
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ToLeno
Amber Michigan
Reid
Wibe
Wrige
Lagansport
Procice
A. H. Mcdonald
Market Street
The
Journal
William Rosenthal
Market
Broadway
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Bright
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Vince You
Clarke
Hall Ca
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DR Mach
Pratt
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Bib
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Norman
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Essex Street
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Clara Louise Kellogg
Lotta
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Prames
Champlin & CO
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Courier
Bloomington
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News From
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Tennessee
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Merrick
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Joy
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Michigan
Woo! Markets
HH. Barnhisel & Co
Tae
W. B. Johnson
Rai
Gray Medicine Co
Roids Mechanics
Inaneport
D & Prior
J Dann
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Dundas Dick & CO
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R. Strain
W Bringheret
D E Pryor
W. Dunn
Teasthur
AML
DR. Prices
Oder
Steele & Price
Steele
Price Manfis
Chicago
Magill
R. A. Robinson & Co
J. B. Wilder & Co
Arthur Peter & Co
Alford, Newhouse & Co
W. Springer & Bro
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Henry A. Maaitt
W. H. Pringwarst
Rodney Sirmin
Neednain & Koesling
Octiklaw Ly
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Tlis Importing Co
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T. Popham & Co
Philadelphia
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Lafayette
Syradusia
Reforn
United States
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Turkey
Tsev
Cryvenere
Goodspeed & CO
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