Postal Affairs and International Postal Service Statistics
Washington October 27. Superintendent Bell submits annual foreign mails report. Total sea letters 600,108 pounds and papers 1,184 tons. Sea transport cost $357,449. receipts from foreign sea transport $23,851. Population basis ranks: Canada one office per 633, Switzerland 1 per 004, United States 1 per 1,092. U.S. leads in railway miles with 117,846. Germany 22,111. Jamison completes railway mail report: 871 lines, 485 whal cars, 1,709 car apartments. Total railroad route length 110,672 miles. Clerk service miles 100,923,010. Money-order system: 14,483,158 orders total $132,716,317. fees $1,214.50. net profit $9,164. House bill allowing postal notes in small offices may pass. Also: Spain reciprocity proclamation suspending foreign discriminating duties for vessels from Cuba and Puerto Rico. Various international items including sheep losses in Buenos Ayres, Pauper emigrants at Ratibor, and incidents of fires and conflicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasitnatos
Bell
Canada
Switzerland
United States
Germany
Wasnixojon
Jamison
Railway Mail Service
Co. F. McDonald
Congress nominations and a robbery report
A roundup lists recently nominated aspirants across multiple districts in Massachusetts New York Rhode Island and Iowa with names such as Carter Harrison Timothy Campbell and EB C Palmer Also noted is an express robbery at St Louis where $50 000 vanished after a forged letter enabled a thief to overpower a route agent Illinois charity finances report deaths and inmate counts and a fatal train collision near Pine Bluff Wisconsin with several injured and a Kentucky death from burn injuries Additional items include Andover Seminary charges and Fat Stock Show delegates and various other brief notices
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Massachusetts
Léopold
Morse
New York
Edward Einstein
E. F. O'Connor
Rhode Island
Oscar Lapham
Charles Bradley
Iowa
EB. C. Palmer
Sioux City
August P. Wagner
Joseph Pulitzer
Enoch L. Fancher
Trumann
Merriam
Louisiana
W. L. Burwell
J. Oscar Barbea
Pennsylvania
HW. P. Donnelly
Missouri
Br. Louis
St. Louis
San Francisco
Adams Express Company
St Louis
Express Company
Visitation of French Delegates in New York prompts reception
New York October 27 a gala Academy of Music reception honored the French delegates for the Statue of Liberty dedication. Leading figures including M Lafou Senator Evarts Spuller and de Lesseps addressed the audience. Bartholdi received hearty acclaim. A later City Hall ceremony conferred freedom of the city on Bartholdi and his party with accompanying breakfasts and receptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
New York
Academy of Music
Cercle Francaise de l'Harmonie
M. Lafou
Frederick R. Condert
Evarts
France
Spuiller
M. Baertholdi
Mme. Barthold
M. de Loaseps
Ren Yong
Grace
M. Bartholdi
Cyrus W. Field
Delmonico A
Barthold
de Lesseps
Vistory
Produce Exchange
Union League Club
Arbitration Address and Labor Reform Proposals
A Chicago Board of Trade event featured George May Powell of the Arbitration Commission urging arbitration before strikes. He praised conciliation as reducing cases and highlighted rail profit-sharing and savings banks as labor-capital harmony tools. Other items note Curtin backing anti freight discrimination legislation, a fatal ax murder in North Dixon, and various regional updates on rail and public concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arbitration Commission of the
United States
Carcago
Chicago Board of Trade
George May Powell
Arbitration Commission of the United Stas
France
Britain
Europe
Savings
Arbitration Commission
Lowell
Pirranman
Curtin
Congress
Justice Miller
Temperance Convention and World’s Women’s Union Meeting Highlights
Minneapolis and St. Louis reports cover the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union sessions. Willard, Willard’s officers, resolutions on temperance, schooling, and anti liquor policies are noted along with a minority dissent and policy pledges to the Prohibition party. Reports also chronicle the Baseball World Series outcome and local crime, death, and political notes from multiple cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temperance Convention
Minneapolis
Minn
Woman's Christian Temperanca Union
B. G. Petera
Kate Bushnell
Illinois
United States
Frances EK. Willard
Evanston
Ill
Mra
Carolina B. Buell
Connecticut
Mary A. Woodbridge
Ohio
Wither Pugh
Perkins
Vermont
Prohibition Party
Minneearouts
WWC
Republican Party
Iowa
Haddock
Congress
George C. Haddock
Ixuighte
Powderly
Miss Pugh
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Westphalia’s mining yields dip amid global woes
Minor items note Westphalia’s mining interests slump and Avignon floods submerge parts of the city in France. Samuel J. Campus named customs collector at Detroit. Debates, wars, expositions, and bankruptcies appear across continents with varied outcomes. J. P. Reynolds reports Chicago Exposition profit. Senor Calman becomes Argentine president. Canada Paper Works burn and insurance details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westphalia
Avignon
France
Samuel J. Campus
Detroit
Taylor Brothers
General Boulanger
Switzerland
Beaconsfield
St. Louis
Windsor
Can
Senor Jaues Calman
J. P. Reynolds
Sebrides
Commercial Bank of Brazil, Ind
R.F. Pierce
Butler
Kansan City
Penoyer Bros
Oscoda
Mich
J. D. Park
Cincinnati
New York
St. John’s
Anchoria
Atlanta
Edwin Cotgin
Medina
Bay City
Newburgh
N. Y
Albany
A. T. Stewart
Hilton
City of Mexico
Thomas C. Manning
Diaz
Old Colony Iron Works
East Taunton
Mass
Charlotte
N. C
Liberia
RK. A. Massey
Norfolk
Harvard University
Iowa
Robert Weat
Advence
Chicago
Charles O. Hennett
Sycamore
Henry Peters
Haddock
Sioux City
Prairie du Chien
Wis
St. Paul
Jordan Brook
Murfreesebury
Tenn
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Postal Affairs
Railway
Foreign Mail Service
Money-Order
Spain
Cleveland
Cuba
Porto Rico
Porto Fico
Buenos Ayres
Llanos
Vienna
Gom
Ratibor
IndianaPouts
Ind
J. C. Ferguson & Co
Neel
Cana
Bromwonn
Pocahontas
Custer
M. T
Custer Battlefield
Beswixcox
Frederick Joslin
St. Johnsbury
London
Uganda
Africa
Mwanga
Wasureton
Haa
Daniel N. Lockwood
Lucilla M. Lamar
Georgia
Fish Brothers
Racine
Snyder
Toronto
Ont
Rothschild & Co
Illinois Charities
Biringfinld
MinnAukee
Pine Bluff
Wiss
Lovinville
Bally McGrath
Price McGrath
Lexington
Erning
Belle McGrath
Miss McGrath
Kentucky
Higmarck
Bronx City
Albert Kosnitsky
Bismarck
Lawrence
Audubon
Fillmore
Boston
Mags
Board of Visitors
Andover Theological Seminary
Andover
Oglesby
T. W. Harvey
William D. Fulkerson
Jerseyville
National Cattle-Growers? Association
Losnos
Singapore
Earl of Jersey
Cardiff
Mmen
Young Lander's
Stouilogs
Ispranarotly, Ind
Hicklin J. Landers
Maxwell
Agaio
Evarta
Bartholdi
de Lesatos
Wabingaton
United States Supreme Court
Illinois Supreme Court
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway
Bradley
Waite
Gray
Baxanoo
Andrew Hamilton
Evansville
Howet
Lena Fairbanks
Adrian
Havana, Rantoul & Eastern Railway
Littiu Rock
Ark
Ward
Stewart
Cornelia M. Stewart
Thirty-fourth Street
Fifth Avenue
Owenstone
Welch
Triplett & Wen
Mantao
Diyos
John Denny
North Dixon
Denny
Elgin Asylum
Dennis
Vanderbilt
Lixcunvic
Daily Advance
Pacahontas
Chesterfield County
Eixteen
George Barber
Lynchburg
Tito Bama
Sam Jones
Sam Small
Jones
William Gooderham
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
Cedar Lake
Engiocera
National Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
P. M. Arthur
Cleveland, O
J. R. Sprague
Harry C. Hays
A. B. Cavner
Cutting
Ogreans
el Paso
Chihuahua
Bovora
Durango
Ullinois Knights Templar
Carcaco
Oct
Grand Commandery
Knights Templar
W. C. Bromfield
Lincoln
Graig
Yorx
Gien Rock Man‘Company
St. Loos
Chicago Club
St. Louis Browns
American Association
Browns
Garessune
Knox County
Harry Nelson
Hannah
Gladstone
Loxnon
Liberal Party
Scates Evaxetox
Frederick W. Smith
Branch County Agricultural Society
Coldwater
Henry C. Sweelzer
Alton
Amsterdam
Knights of Labor
Dorobreck
Sheriff Street
W. Cu
Scereinger
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