Financial Bill Passed by House in Conference Report
The House adopted the conference report on the financial bill by 166 to 120 with 10 not voting. President McKinley is expected to sign soon after Senate approval. The bill redefines value parity, shifts gold reserves, and allows bond sales to restore gold to 150 million. It also restructures silver and treasury notes and expands national bank circulation rules. The measure includes a swap of old bonds for new two percent bonds and adjustments to national bank taxation and capitalization.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Senate
McKinley
Overstreet
White House
Ind
Brossitus
Little
Arkansas
Yeas
Clayton
Driggs
Underhill
Levy
Scudder
Allen
New York
Denny
Maryland
McAleer
Pennsylvania
Thayer
Massachusetts
Fitzgerald
Underwood
Gage
House
United States
Treasury
General Fund
Redemption Fund
General
General Fund of the Treasury
National Guard Delegation Pushes Militia Increase
A large delegation of adjutants general and high officers from 38 states urged Congress to raise the annual militia appropriation from 100000 to 2000000 before the House militia committee. Generals Geiger and Harries led the effort as governors sent endorsements for the higher funding. The committee signaled approval, and a favorable report was expected.
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Washington
National Guard
House Committee On Militia
Adjutants General
Geo. R. Geiger
Ohico National Guard
Geo. H. Harries
Controversy Over Telegrams Mark Coeur D Alene Hearing
Washington dispatch from Coeur D Alene reports Rep Lents highlighting War Department telegrams showing capitalists seeking protection for mining interests amid a debate over affidavits from Carter and Hellfeldt. The committee adjourned to executive session and did not request the President's affidavits as L J Simpkins’s cross examination added new disorder details but upheld earlier testimony.
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Washington
Coeur D'Alene
Rep. Lents
War Department
Carter
Hellfeldt
Mining and Labor Organization
Lewis
L. J. Simpkins
President Grants Unconditional Pardon to Captain McCalla
President McKinley issues a full unconditional pardon to Captain Bowman H. McCalla of the navy serving in the Philippines. In 1890, as commander, he was court-martialed for striking a mutinous sailor and suspended for three years. The unexpired sentence was remitted in 1891, and a Senate confirmation for restoration was refused.
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Washington
McKinley
Bowman H. McCalla
Navy
Philippines
MecCalla
Secretary of the Navy
McCalla
Senate
Ruthers Exonerated By War Department Board
Washington reports the board investigating Major George W. Ruthers commissary subsistence U S V has exonerated him though officials will not release details. The charges claimed he caused government losses by selling subsistence stores without proper condemnation while stationed in Florida.
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Washington
George W. Ruthers
War Department
Ruthers
Florida
Fortunate Rescue as Four Men Cling to Dories Four Miles Out
Four men trawling near Provincetown survived after their dories capsized four to five miles from shore. Joe Bent Manuel Tasha Manuel Victor and Barney Francis were rescued by divers from their boats as gusty winds and shifting ballast left them clinging to rails and gunwales. Persistent cold and exhaustion followed until rescue teams reached them.
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Provincetown
Joe Bent
Manuel Tasha
Manuel Victor
Barney Francis
Race Point
Fostine Tasha
Manuel Gracia
Bent
Tasha
Mill Boy Arthur Richards Found Dead at Providence Mill
In Providence on March 12 a 16 year old boy, Arthur Richards, vanished from his shift at Kinsley avenue worsted mills. A search led to the mill where the youth was last seen whitewashing a wall, and investigators reported a shocking death. Police will investigate the scene and determine cause. Arthur Richards lived at 410 Orme Street with his family.
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Providence
R. 1
Kinsley Avenue
Etienne Richards
Orme Street
Arthur
Tragic Shafting Accident Claims Boy’s Life
A night watchman and father discovered a boy dead in a room with shafting. His clothes torn, both feet broken, and bones in both arms pulverized after being drawn into the machinery, he bled to death.
Frick Carnegie Suit Answer From Megrew
George Megrew, a defendant in the Frick equity suit against Carnegie Steel, filed an answer stating he is the Carnegie Steel purchasing agent and owner of a small stock share. He claims no knowledge of the company’s org and its 1892 amendment and cannot admit or deny the bill’s allegations.
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Pittsburg
George Megrew
Frick Equity
Carnegie Steel Company
Carnegie Steel Company, Limited
F. T. F. Lovejoy
Carnegie
Swett Returns to Nashua in Defrauding Case
William Swett of New York arrives in Nashua amid renewed interest in the Brookside Supply and New Hampshire Soap Company case. He says 680 letters sent from Antrim to an express company have been lost, leaving writers without refunds and alleging those authors caused prior trouble.
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Nashua
N. H
William Swett
New York
Swett
Helena Franklin Jones
Brookside Supply Company
New Hampshire Soap Company
Express Company
Antrim
Two Germans Dead in Manchester Homes
In Manchester on March 12 Wm Weber of 485 Second Street and August Graf of 330 Central Street, both prominent German residents and longtime friends, were found dead in bed at their homes. Weber died of consumption and Graf of heart disease. They were members of the Manchester Turnverein Society.
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Manchester
N. H
Wm. Weber
Second Street
August Graf
Central Street
Manchester Turnverein Society
Two Tenement House on Broadway For Rent
For base two tenement house on Broadway with 16 rooms in repair and rent at 90 per month. Includes land area and price set at 2800. Also a six room cotta house near Chelford street, near the car line, sewer connected, neat and affordable at 1200. Apply two T. Al. Bh lett 64 Central etree.
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Broadway
Chelford Street
T. al. Bhlett
Central Etree
Illinois Floods Threaten Northern Counties and Plants
Reports from Chicago on March 13 describe severe floods across northern Illinois as rivers including Desplaines Fox Sangamon and Kankakee rise rapidly. Destruction spans LaSalle Peru Peoria Havana Lorenso Pontiac and nearby mills houses farms and stores with evacuations and threatened power plants as ice jams and rising waters endanger families and workers alike.
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Chicago
Ill
Illinois
Desplaines
Fox
Sangamon
Kankakee
Lasalle
Walker
Dickinson Cement Works
William Chapin
Peru
Big Illinois Zinc Company
W. B. Brinton
Peoria
Ilinois
Havana
Herget
Lorenso
John Zipp
Pontiac
Vermillion
Democrats Lose Ground as Laconia Elects All But One Official
In Laconia New Hampshire on March 12 Col Mamo and Tetley were re elected mayor while Republicans swept all council seats and gained two seats from last year Mayor Tetley won 101 votes and Democrat Waldo H Jones trailed with 444 while one Democratic selectman William S Fitzgerald failed to win re election
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Laconia
N. H
Mamo
Tetley
Waldo H. Jones
William S. Fitegerald
Haine Elewed
Went
New Haven Man Arrested on Twenty Burglary Charges
Fred N. Davis a 24 year old resident of 231 Shelton street was arrested by Detective Donnelly on 20 burglary charges dating from October 1898 to the present and two theft counts. Davis served as a trolley car conductor and is held on $3000 bonds. The article outlines his alleged crimes including thefts of phonographs bicycles diamonds watches paintings statuary revolvers and money. He allegedly planned a robbery of a picture store this week and claimed he would not be taken alive.
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New Haven
Conn
Fred N. Davis
Shelton Street
Donnelly
Davis
Fairhaven
Westville
East Haven
Centenarian Nathaniel Robbins Celebrated in Ellsworth
Ellsworth Maine March 15 Nathaniel Robbins of South Deer Isle turned 100. Townspeople planned a quiet home reception to avoid fatigue for the ailing man whose life has been marked by vigor. Known as Uncle Nathaniel he has a social disposition and unusually active faculties. His hair has regrown to a dark color, and he recalls events from the War of 1812. He has seven children and many grandchildren.
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Ellsworth
Nathaniel Robbins
South Deer Isle
Nathaniel
Robbins
Mr. Robbins
Smalls Cove
Deer Isle
Newark Tenement Fire Toll Rises With Four Missing
Newark fire department says 14 dead and four missing after Morrie Street tenement blaze. Four victims, including Mrs Angelo Rowse and three Italian laborers, are unaccounted for though friends claim their bodies lie in ruins. Italian residents plan a mass meeting to seek blame for the crime.
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Newark
N. J
Morrie Street
Angelo Rowse
Edward Pettinger, Tweed's chum, ends in poorhouse decline
Edward Pettinger once wealthy and linked to Beattie Tweed's circle now lies in a county poorhouse near Westchester, a pauper in decline. The faded former Vernon resident, aged and destitute, ends his days amid squalor.
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Edward Pettinger
New York
Vernon
Bea” Tweed
Heetview
Westchester County
Parkhurst to testify in grand jury probe on vice
New York reports that Dr Charles H Parkhurst and Henry Burr will appear before the grand jury Thursday to aid the vice crusade. Ten gambling defendants arraigned, plead not guilty, with $1000 bonds continued. District Attorney Gardiner says police must press on. Ackron and Corey held on charges of running concert halls and disorderly houses at $500 each.
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New York
Charles H. Parkhurst
Society For Prevention of Crime
Henry Burr
Recorder Golf
Gardiner
Col
Charles E. Ackron
Tivoli
West Thirty-fifth Street
Edward B. Corey
Haymarket
Sixth Avenue
Cornell
Jefferson Market
Roberge arraigned on assault with intent to kill
Joseph Roberge appeared in New Market police court charged with shooting his father, Alex Roberge. He was held without bail and sent to Exeter jail as the victim’s injuries were deemed grave and the bullet could not be located.
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New Market
N. H
Joseph Roberge
Alex. Roberge
Exeter
Dia
Frankfort House Passes $100,000 Militia Reorganization
In Frankfort Kentucky on March 13 the House approved the Senate bill known as the Triplett resolution allocating 100000 dollars to Governor Beckham for equipping and reorganizing the state militia.
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Frankfort
House
Senate of Triplett
Beckham
Wood pulp poultices urged by naval surgeon
A United States naval surgeon advocates substituting wood pulp sheets for flaxseed poultices. Soaked in hot water, the pulp sheets absorb four to five times their weight in moisture and produce a clean, simple poultice with no cloths or cooking. Reuse possible with reheating.
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United States
Philadelphia Record
Monoo's Pills Promote Liver Health and Indigestion Relief
A dated health ad touts Monoo's Pills as cures for liver issues, fever, indigestion, headaches, and other ailments. The fragment emphasizes swift remedies and broad therapeutic claims without substantiation.
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MONOO
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