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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1897
Page
2
Marshfield Times digest cites a deadly cyclone in Georgia and Alabama, tariff Bills, fires in Iowa, wage protests by New York tailors, and political shifts. Notables include Stewart Woodford, Baron Hirsch gifts, and a Kentucky senatorial result. Also reports on a Wyoming murder, a Center City execution, and street railways seeking underground lines.
A sprawling late 19th century dispatch reports on Turkey's reserves and sultanate matters, Canadian tensions over bills, Japan’s currency and gold standard, unions and marriages including Parla 1g and Victoria Woodhull, Crete Greece tensions, Cuban insurgents and Weyler, Manila and Philippine disturbances, Armenian casualties, and a looming transatlantic steamship project for Canada with a $50,000 annual publicity cost.
A blunt remark from a store scene sparkled by a whittler, declaring the man most ignorant in the town to be oddly proud of his own admission. The Washington Star is cited amid a muddled dialogue about government.
Washington March 19 to 26 reports show the House Ways and Means Committee reporting the revenue bill and setting a calendar path with debate under a five minute rule. Senators clash over civil service reform and election issues while tariff policy dominates session, featuring Dingley as debate leader and scattered GOP-Democrat opposition across multiple days.
Madison March 18 the senate confirmed Z O Raymond of Stevens Point for normal school regent term ending February 1200. A joint resolution created a three member committee with fish commissioners to study uniform fish and game laws across Wisconsin Michigan Illinois Iowa. Bills passed include exempting beet sugar factories from tax, prohibiting sale of contaminated ice, granting criminal jurisdiction to La Crosse county court, setting terms for eleventh judicial circuit, allowing under 3000 population cities to change names, enabling sale of adulterated milk and farm product statistics. A bill cutting wages exemptions from 60 to 44 dollars for three months passed the assembly, while other senate bills were concurred in, including placing an abstract of constitutional amendments on ballots and fixing the Dane county judge salary at 2506 per year. Senator Baxter's bill repealing bank examination fees prompted a rebuke from a bank official, but the measure advanced. Republicans signaled unity by sending Solliday's bill to the ballot at the next election. Assembly bills restricting crossing private lands to fish in public streams and medical treatment of infants were killed. Both houses adjourned to Monday night Madison March 23. Both houses met.
Madison March 23 in the upper house senate bills were passed authorizing a contingent fund of 50000 to prevent contagious diseases by the board of health. A constitutional amendment shall be stated briefly on ballots and nominations for stenographers by justices of the supreme court set at 100 per month. Provisions cover appointing powers, suppressing county court jurisdiction in Dodge county, park sprinkling, and an 320 mill tax for 1897 1898 to meet general fund deficiency. Senator McGillivray’s memorial to Congress praying for a federal constitutional amendment to suppress trusts was adjusted. Several bills killed or amended relate to telephones, theater nuisance, and governor actions. Madison March 25 senate action includes licensing deer hunting and provisions on long distance lines and county road designation. Assembly measures include uniform interstate game laws and a state fair at Chippewa Falls, with and without dissent. The legislature also debates tax limits, public health bills, and road improvement funding.
A tall native at Euclid Beach Park chats with a visiting couple in fluent English. The man asks about schooling, and the Indian boasts Cornell and Pennsylvanian education, prompting surprised reaction from the bemused husband and wife.
A German woman traveled to Washington state to join her husband only to learn he had died in the mines six weeks earlier. A well to do Frenchman who was boarding with the family proposed and she agreed to marry him and adopt the children. The couple married soon after and she set off to her new home.
In Watertown Wisconsin on March 27 Mrs August Sell aged 66 leaped into a cistern under mental strain. She is described as the mother of a grown family and the act occurred during an episode of insanity.
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