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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1895
Page
2
A garbled Telegrams In Brief item reports diverse items from New York and surrounding areas. It mentions voters, officials, legal actions, deaths, divorces, and local incidents with scattered names and places such as Alt Michigan, Warstington, Maseball clubs, and Minneapolis.
A garbled dispatch notes a deadly air or cable incident near Mexico City with many killed and injured. It mentions British Parliament debate on foreign policy, and a mass prison riot where five hundred inmates were freed from a Normanton colliery.
Four men died and many workers were injured when a building under demolition collapsed on 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in New York. Investigators blamed poor bracing and improper construction as arrests were made, while a second incident at the Orchard Street wall entailed missing men and damaged structures.
Madison February 85 joint resolutions create a pardons board and require full state citizenship for legislators. Bills set steamboat taxation rates, raise supreme court salaries, limit interest on school loans, and regulate insurance and town governance amid broader budget edits and payroll rules.
In Washington the senate discussed buying the Blaine property on Lafayette Square for 130000 to avoid its use for other purposes. Mr Palmer opposed the purchase citing lack of public rent. A substitute condemning the Blaine property was defeated and the committee amendment was adopted. later in Washington Mr Eye offered a revenue marine service list with amendments debated and adopted.
In Washington the Senate debated sugar bounty provisions and a silver purchase plan. Amendments shifting funds toward a five billion dollar sugar bounty faced stiff test votes, with a decisive 40 to 16 ruling the amendment out of order. A separate plan for four million ounces of silver monthly for ten months was rejected 12 to 60.
The appropriations bill advances for public buildings in Cheyenne Boise City Helena Olympia and other sites with a $150,000 cap per building and a total of $15,000 for three sites. Adjustments lift the supervising architect budget from $200,000 to $250,000 while the sundry civil bill totals $8,041,907. A separate provision allocates $1,804,000 to cover Southern Pacific railroad charges.
The dispatch details foreign wool arrivals lifting market activity and a surplus wheat outlook in the United States. It cites estimates of 100,000,000 to 140,000,000 bushels in circulation and notes a potential drop in bank clearance figures by about 7.4 percent from the prior year.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Lease Lacs, O C Guthete, and Maur with references to Corbett, August, and Ga. The text implies a local dispute or intervention involving a carpen tin group and a person named Jay Genk Vameletbus. Some names appear garbled, but the item conveys a tense commission or lease issue affecting territory.
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