GREAT STRUGGLE OVER LABOR DEPARTMENT PLANS
In Washington April 27 Mr Springer drafts a plan for a labor department to arbitrate between labor and capital. A board would investigate disputes, report to the President, and Congress, with authority to intervene in interstate issues. Separate notes describe strikes and labor unrest in St Louis Chicago and Pittsburgh, plus factory wage talks and boycotts affecting bakers and furniture workers.
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Wassisaten
Springer Daerutlures
Board of Arbitration
Congress
Tan Nuk Hs
Hugh Fares
Loma
Lyber
Campany
St. Lous
Nuit
Wisin Fe
Broken Levees Threaten South as Mississippi Flood Worsens
April 28 near Memphia a Mississippi river levee broke forty two miles south of Memphis, near Austin Miss, flooding Tunica, Sunflower and neighboring counties. Hundreds of feet of levee failed, with widespread inundation feared from Iptena Ark to Lacon and threatened crops.
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Mississippi
Mearms
Tenn
Mississippi River
Memphia
Austin
Miss
Yazoo
White Oak Bayou
Skia
Tunica
Conhoma
Quitman
Sunflower
Mise
Conhemi
Iptena
Ark
Lacon
Frontier Slaughter by Apaches Reports Eight Dead
Pantano Arizona April 29 A telegraph report from John O Daugherty superintendent of the Total Wreck mine says forty Indians attacked Richardson Giormley's ranch twenty miles southwest of here early today and killed eight persons. Guaymas Sonora April 28 Geronimo Apaches seen near Calabasas with ten killed on ranches near that area. Nogales Arizona April 28 the wife and child of A N Peck killed by U Dazis and Peck’s niece captured. Owen brothers, noted ranchers, also killed.
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Pantano
A. T
John O'Daugherty
Richardson &Giormley
Here
Nou
Guaymas
Mex
Geronimo
Calabasas
Torres
Cinita
Noganes
Peck
Owen Brothera
Honors to a Fallen Chief Jefferson Davis Lecture Honors in Montgomery
Reports from Montgomery and nearby towns recall Jefferson Davis lectures for Confederate memorials. Jefferson Davis spoke in Montgomery with mild terms, promoting Lost Cause sympathy, while crowds along the route celebrated in Beauvoir and nearby. A Sultana survivors reunion in Toneto recalls the 1865 disaster that killed 1355 soldiers, and Judge Bulomon L. Withey of Michigan died in San Diego after 1863 appointment to the US bench.
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Ala
Jefferson Davin
Alabama
Beauvoir
Miss. Lo
Aterationa
Montgomery
Jefferson Davis
United States
Cutcaco
Bulomon L. Withey
Michigan
San Diego
Cal
Campaign notes on House debates and campaigns
A compilation from Washington April 27 to 28 covers House debates on the Crane plan for a $7.5 million yearly education appropriation, and labor questions, plus lists of Republican campaign names across states. It notes bills for Ohio River bridge penalties, Peoria Federal Court creation, and river harbor work, with references to Gladstone and Parnell sentiments and various senators and representatives active in legislative moves.
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Wasnixaros
General Grant
Meshorhat Episcopal
Newman
Gwenerg Grrnit Ois Om
Preavent
Justles
Abecmio
Myarta
Brawn
Weorggias
Canogrennen
Massiteloidettd
Aelin B. Spence
Gladstone
Wasiisutos
Riddleberger
Lazpresentatives
Fara
Amerson
W. Va
Phelpa
N.J
McKinley
McMillen
Tenn
MccAdoo
N. J
Butterworth
Lawler
Me. Uarmon
Chicco
Sherman
Logan
Pilden
Patrick Ford
Counless
Wasaincrox
House of Representatives
Covington
Peoria
McDonsugh
Fulton
Tazewell
Southem
Linoia
Consyt
Stark
Honry
Rock Island
Mercer
Henderson
Warren
Knox
McDonoy A
Putnam
Marshall
Woodford
Livingston
Iroquois
Ilinsix
Chicago
Washington
Senate
House
Wasuinotox
Cobb
Indiana
Ditigeon Public ‘Lands
Michigan
Marquette
Ontonagon
Ulinces
Cas
Dakota
Death of Wendell Phillips Widow Boatos
Anne Green, maiden name of Mrs. Wendell Phillips widow Boatos, died on Conmion Street after a long illness. She was daughter of Benjamin Green of Lexington and joined the Philips family as a voyage girl two years after meeting Wendell Phillips. Her marriage coincided with Mr. Phillips’s conversion to abolitionism, which he attributed to her influence and steadfast devotion during their unhappy years of strain.
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Wendell Phillips
Boatos
Ave
Wendell Jillipa
Conmion Street
Wendell Platlips
Mr. Philips
Garrison
Bitten by a Mad Dog at Pull Myn
A mad dog near Pull Myn bites three children and a policeman before being killed. A relief fund is raised to send the victims to Paris for Pasteur treatment. Mr. Perkins of Pullmyn Iron and Steel Works, bitten on Sunday at Wild Wood, has secured passage for himself on the steamship Servia departing New York Saturday.
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Cuicano
Pullmyn
Paria
M. Pasteur
Perkins
Pullmyn Iron and Steel Works
Soo
Wildwood
Servia
New York
Five More Austrian Towns Burned Reported
April 29 dispatches from Yuasa describe widespread fires across Austria. Friedlund in Moravia was nearly destroyed with ten dead, while Dobrowlaney Nojanec and Chyrow suffered total loss and Sunok endured heavy damage. In Chyrow a man was caught setting fire to a bulldog.
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Yuasa
Austria
Friedlund
Moravia
Dobrowlaney
Nojanec
Chyrow
Sunok
Be's Going to Marry. Rumor of Frances Folsom
Boston April 27. Rumor says President Cleveland will soon wed Frances E. Folsom of Blate street. Harmon a flour merchant confirms engagements will proceed despite press misreports. Folsom family surprised at premature announcements.
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Boston
Harmon
Frances E. Folsom
Cleveland
White House
Misa Folsom
Lynching of Graham shocks Missouri town
April reports from Springfield Missouri describe the lynching of George E. Graham by a mob at a jail end. He was accused of murdering his wife Sarah Graham, with coroner inquest and public warning letters found on the body. Authorities fear further reprisals against Mrs Malloy Cora Lee and Judge Haker as indignation runs high and security is heightened.
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Springeine
Goorpo KB
Grabniut
Cratinn
Mabey Faye
Enel
Tole
Doonell
Puand
Iraban
Dassou
van Pooary
Paloaidson
Graehinin
Groban
Hell
Vilas
Sarah Graham
Dent Nutes
Hleeule
Gunes County
Cora Lee
Malloy
Graham
Turaday
Judge Haker
Noted American Trotting Horse General Butler Dies at 30
New York April 20 reports the death of the celebrated trotting horse General Butler at thirty. Once a leading flyer, he competed against top trotters like Sandy Thyrne and George M. Patchen. In Chicago on September 22, 1906, during a charged race, co-driver George McKeever was murdered amid pools on the rival horse, the assailant using a bound gag as McKeever neared the backstretch.
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New York
General Butler
Sandy Thyrne
George M. Patchen
Chicapo
Cooley
George McKeever
McKeever
Cholera and Rebellion Report From Mandalay
Lord Dufferin dispatches from Mandalay stating calm there but widespread rebel activity in central districts. Cholera struck the Forty third regiment with high virulence as they ascended the Irrawaddy, causing fourteen deaths. The dead were buried and the sick sent to hospitals while troops moved upriver to camp.
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Barmah
Losnon
Lord Dufferin
Mandalay
Irrawaddy
Fatal Explosion at Tobey & Booth Packing House
An immense explosion ripped Tobey and Booth’s packing house at the eighteenth street bridge. One worker died instantly, another is dying, a third’s recovery is doubtful, and three more are badly hurt. The building suffered heavy damage, estimated around $4000.
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Chcaco
Tobey & Booth
Eighteenth Street Bridge
Valuable Horseflesh from the Weal
New York April 29 Eleven car loads of saliprale trotting stock owned by Bong on Stanford arrived there a god orig
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Bongon Stanford
Orig
Various World and Local News Items From April
A miscellany notes General Butler and others borns died in New York. Kansas GOP convention set for July 7 at Topeka. Manning rode in Washington. a new comet spotted near Milwaukee. Milwaukee and Chicago railroads plan extensive extensions within eighteen months. The 2000 guineas at Newmarket won by Ormond. Pope honored with a gold testimonial in Chicago. Dakota fair to be held at Hugo from September 1 to 29. Winter weather cited as cause of Wisconsin crop failures. American Surgical Society meeting in Washington with Dr Moses Gun presiding. Barb wire price cut by 25 cents per hundred. Chicago Alton train vandalized at Lemont. Portage, Wisconsin fire destroys a mill and 1,200 barrels of flour. Krome Brothers mill burns near Preston Minnesota. Lionel Tennyson dies in London telegram. Toronto peddler ban discussed. San Francisco murder trial updates. California killer jailed in Hong Kong. Eight-year-old burned in Taylors, Tennessee. Fifty-mile bicycle record lowered at Clarke'sville Missouri. Vanderbilt clinic cornerstone laid in New York. Depew delivers dedication address. Ongoing trials and punishments noted. Confederate Decoration Day observed in Georgia cities. Mexico importation rumor claims 660,000 Chinese workers may be brought in. Levi Jarrard dies in Trenton prison. past political career and $50,600 theft revealed. Anarchist indictments discussed.
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Mydad
General Butler
Tanaus
Borns
Turaday
New York
Kangan
Topeka
Manning
Washington
Bevoks
Phelps
Shte
Girte Ab
Joseph IL Urammner
Fort Wayne
Newmarket
Duke of Winstonmeater
Ormond
Williams
Bia
Board of Agriculture of Dakota
Hlugo
Chicago & Alton
Lemont
Krome
Preaton
Minn
London
Ilon
Lionel Tennyson
Iducente
Calcutta
Toronto
John Whetwood
Kansas
Uera
Charles
Hong Keong
John Amlerson
Tayloc
Tes
Nk Cin
Samuel Lechun
Clarkesville
Munday
George E. Weber
Smithville
Collie of Physicians and Surgeons
Chauncey M. Depew
Alfred I. Brotherton
Stitman
Baltimore
Bentence
Ephraim Lawson
K. Pa
Uchdny
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Springer
Department of Labor
St. Eatin
Pennaylyarla
Mllingdon
Eni Ganpien
W. Vu
Geore'a
Pittsburgh
Wheteling
Samuel McKowan Shaw
Mineral County
John A. Martin
Pekin
Alleghany County
Cubcano
Northwest
Sher Wuun House
Lakeside
Rhos- Cutters
Bey
Ethiker
Curiaco
B. Rothachild
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company
Cincinnati
Windsor
Union Brass Company
Uurers” Association of Chicago
Furniture Factorice of
Productio
Yeaterday
Aix
Phird Avenue Railroad
Tall
Privaneents
Given & Co
Korth
Monthizan
Can
Tasetrean
Knights of Labor
Ana Secest
Oeder
Toneno
Memphis
Ohio
Blair Educational
Sovnlo Oid
TNT Tire
Hnuse
Crain
Crain Wl
Allan
Wasmanton
Analifornia
C. Ne Fulton
Colorady
George UG
Symes
Connectiut
Josephie Hawley
Milnois
Joseph G. Cannon
Georgy W. Ste
West Virginia
Natiantot
Wisconsin
Tan Cion B
Caswelly Annona
A. C. Bean
Dackota
Gifard
Wyoming
Joseph My Carey
Wasinsaros
Chong Tao Ja
Clavelsad
Ater
China
Grant
Laber
Pennsylvania
Maryand
O'Neill
Missouri
Ireland
Wilkins
Ole
Tan House
Beveraliy
Round Valley
California
Riveux
Harbor Hill
Muskingum River
Anderson
Erie Canal
Omer
Judiciary Committee
Breckinridge
Internal Revenue Officers
Internal Revenue Laws
Ohio Legislative Committee
Payne
Olio
Benater Payne
Rundy A. Krert
Sunates
Bel
Snators
Phamb
Prya
Mitchell
Qomemoriod
New York Methodist Episcopal Church
Oregon
San Francisco
Thor
Wasitineros
Hatch
Committee On Agriculture
Casttaxovea
Marabus Purdon
Manchester
Purdon
Uraca
Buspronp
Kinzua
Alton
Ogicaco
Adama Strett
George Graham
Wis
Mivor News
Tgms
Dave Wasatseton
Atlanta
Augusta
Intercas
Mexico
Herald Hance
Gureorm
Tnextox
Levi D. Jarrard
New Brunswick
Trenton
Middlesex County
Canada
Sr Leene
Tohaua How
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