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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1892
Page
2
A column argues that honor and integrity define the right kind of man and urges focus on honest work over appearances. It warns census insight shows urban growth brings vice and disease, urges scrutiny of tenements, and calls for moral seed planting rather than harsh subsoil digging to shape a better society.
Owen Scott of Illinois introduced a resolution in the House urging the Attorney General to investigate a suspected cordage trust. The chamber opened with the Sibley bill awaiting consideration, then pivoted to river and harbor debate in Committee of the Whole led by Mr Hatch of Missouri. Evening session focused on private pension bills as recess followed.
In Washington May the Vice President reported the Navy department's reply to bids for Great Lakes warship types. Only three proposals were received. two rejected for not being lowest. Wheeler & Co. bid 240100 for Bancroft steel practice vessel but was rejected. Samuel L. Moore & Sons won at 250000. A Maryland monument memorial was read urging Congress aid. The Senate adjourned 31 to 27 to Monday. Meridith of Virginia will introduce a patent medicine bill requiring secret recipes to be examined, licensing for a year at 96 dollars, and a 5 percent revenue stamp on sold packages.
Washington May 9 The House committee on post offices authorized Chairman Henderson to report the postal fractional note bill. It allows the Postmaster General to issue one dollar fractional notes to postmasters nationwide. Notes are sold at face value and payable at any post office in the United States within six months from issue, after which the note is canceled.
The discussion on a proposed free lumber bill moves slowly with final action uncertain. Mr. Lynch of Wisconsin protests the measure while Babbitt of Wisconsin Stout of Michigan and Butler of Iowa advocate it.
The Birmingham Alabama meeting of Alliance presidents on Tuesday endorsed forming a third party for the upcoming campaign. An urging address pressed united, harmonious action while some factions expect the order to wane into innocuous despotism and the People's Party to inherit its influence. Senator Peffer praised cohesive action and council-worried voices warned of internal rifts.
Private dispatches from Albuquerque report Jay Gould is seriously ill and confined to his bed in his private car. He may not reach Cerrillos and Santa Fe as planned and was to visit Cerrillos yesterday, tour Santa Fe with Gov. Prince, and visit the Indian Pueblo village of Tesenque.
Philadelphia May 9 Charles Emory Smith plans to go to Washington to present his resignation as minister to Russia to President Harrison. He will resign to regain his journalistic duties and pursue the looming presidential campaign, though he has not publicly announced the move.
Delegates and supporters across Kentucky align with Senator Carlisle as a potential Democratic presidential candidate. At Frankfort a May gathering produced resolutions urging his candidacy ahead of the Chicago convention. In Charleston South Carolina Tillman maintains control of most county Democratic machinery based on recent convention returns.
Orrumuwa Iowa May 9 large party hunted from Blakesburg amid heavy rains. The all day search produced only three wolf scalps. Prohibitionists nominate a ticket at Prixcetox Illinois. Washington May 0 inquiries to justify dismissal of a senior clerk and reasons given for action.
All travel by boat as floods worsen in Peoria Illinois where a fifteen mile marsh dike breached opposite Pekin. The six hundred foot crevasse grows with the rising Illinois River not seen since 1844. About eighteen families lived in the bottom area, most have left, livestock remains, and fears grow that the land will level with the river for some time.
Alexandria Missouri floods from the Egyptian levee break along the Des Moines river. Heavy rain swelled streams, inundating wheat fields and meadows with incalculable damage. Nearby towns report storms, train suspensions, and rising rivers across several counties.
At Omana May 2 the Methodist conference discussed President Harrison’s Chinese exclusion act. Delegates criticized the signing, urged protection for missions and Chinese living in the U.S. and in China, and debated recommitting the issue to a committee. The meeting also named candidates for editor of the Central Christian Advocate and announced Columbian exposition committees.
In Scranton May statement, Mr Powderly says a Reading emissary has been in Luzerne Valley seeking to aid the combine. He alleges the man met ministers and priests offering passes and money, with the combine ready to take on church debts and even proposing funding parochial schools if endorsed from pulpits.
Albany May 9 William Bray in prison Dustin May 9 The medical board reports Mrs Montagu need not be released and will serve her full term in Derry jail Pension money to be withheld Soldiers Home Board at Graxp Rapids Republicans Hutcumeon Kan May George T Anthony noted for Con Ne large to the who were instructed for Her risom Ex Heritor J J Ingatla Celestia nd Raper is a mae imperia L A a under Ed C Little Abilene A
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