Democratic County Committee Apportionment Drawn in 1887
The House sub committee proposes a district map assigning 22 Republican seats and only six Democratic seats. Possible new districts include Philadelphia six districts, and groups covering Chester Delaware Montgomery Bucks Northampton Carbon Monroe Pike Berks Lehigh Lancaster York and others.
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House
Philadelphia
Chester
Delaware
Montgomery
Bucks
Northampton
Carbon
Monroe
Pike
Berks
Lehigh
Lancaster
York
Cumberland
Adams
Sehuykill
Luzerne
Susquehana
Lackawana
Wayne
Northumberland
Montour
Columbia
Sullivan
Wyoming
Tioga
Bradford
Clarion
Forest
Elk
Clearfield
Centre
Clinon
Butler
Armstrong
Indiana
Jefferson
Erie
Crawford
Alleghany
Westmoreland
Fayette
Greene
Mercer
Lawrence
Beaver
Washington
Travel Safety And Fire Risks Dominate News
Readers confront daily reports of railroad disasters and hotel fires as travel becomes hazardous. The piece notes wary travelers petition for safer bridges, better fireproofing, and fewer carstores, while referencing a near assassination of the Russian Czar in St Petersburg by landowners.
Railroads Abolish Mileage Books Under New Interstate Law
The Reading and Pennsylvania railroads announce end of mile age books as the interstate commerce bill changes. Fare reductions for commercial travelers and theatrical troupes will end, impacting large firms with traveling salesmen who must pay regular fares.
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Reading
Pennsylvania
Wages Raised at Pottstown and Bethlehem Furnaces
Workingmen at the Pottstown iron company benefit 1400 workers with raises for puddlers from 3.50 to 3.75 per ton and helpers from 3 to 2.9 cents per beat, with other wages in proportion. Bethlehem iron company workers receive a 10 percent wage increase.
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Pottstown
Bethlehem
Bethlehem Iron Company
Congress
Knights of Labor Move Against Land Pirates
The Knights of Labor advocate a public campaign to denounce land grabbing by corporations and companies. They argue land grabs threaten workingmen by reducing access to land and wages, urging sustained discussion until monopolies concede.
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Knights of Labor
Maine Repeals Capital Punishment and Imposes Life Sentence
The capital punishment law in Maine is repealed and life imprisonment replaces death for all first degree murder. Convicts must be kept in close confinement away from others, and no pardoning power remains with the governor and council unless the convict is proven innocent.
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Maine
Senate action on bills and county education funding
The Senate received a message from Governor Beaver approving several measures including seating requirements for manufacturing and mercantile shops, livery stable protection, a 1800 salary for a state treasury clerk, mortgage lien rules, and a 10000 copy publication of amended game and fish laws. A separate soldiers orphans schools department bill was defeated. The House passed bills directing school boards to pay teachers for attendance at annual county institutes, adjusting county auditor pay with a 3 dollar daily rate and mileage not to exceed 150 dollars plus mileage, and creating a separate Lancaster county orphans court with a judge to be elected at an annual 4000 salary.
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Senate
Beaver
County of
Lancaster
Inter-State Commerce Commissioners Appointed
The president appointed five new inter state commerce commissioners. Thomas M. Cooley from Michigan will serve six years, William R. Morrison of Illinois five years, Augustus Schoonmaker of New York four years, Aldace E. Walker of Vermont three years, and Walter A. Bragg of Alabama two years.
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Washington
Thos. M. Cooley
Michigan
Wm. R.morrison
Illinois
Augustus Schoonmaker
New York
Aldace E. Walker
Vermont
Walter A. Bragg
Alabama
Washington Letter on Cleveland and Treasury Prospects
The Washington Letter notes President Cleveland marked his birthday by public business rather than celebration. Ex Senator Thurman’s visit sparks speculation over Inter-State Commerce and cabinet posts. Treasury finances look stronger, with calls on bonds dwindling and market under control as officials await Manning’s successor.
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Cleveland
Thurman
Pacific Railroad
Treasury
the Treasury
England
Manning
Carlisle
Tragic Fire Destroys Richmond Hotel in Buffalo
A new and fine Richmond Hotel in Buffalo New York was destroyed by fire on Friday morning. Several people died and about 70 were injured or seriously hurt in the blaze.
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Richmond
Buffalo
N. Y
Miscellaneous News Briefs From Railways To Courts
The sale of thousand mile books on the Pennsylvania railroad is halted. Chang Yen Hoon in Washington was photographed wearing diamonds worth a million dollars. New York Central and Hudson River railroads run trains lit by incandescent lamps with batteries stored to run two days. Miner George Weirath drew $58 in monthly pay, found a $50 bill in his envelope after lighting his pipe. Court of pardons in Trenton commuted Titus sentence to life imprisonment. Philadelphia Supreme Court affirmed Johnson murder conviction. Washburn ice gorge near Bismarck broke, causing over 15 thousand dollars in losses as water flooded river boarding houses. Meado wland south of Bismarck 80 000 acres faces flooding as ice flows ten miles per hour.
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New York Central
Hudson River
New York
George Weirath
Kelly Run Colliery
Washburn
Bismarck
D. T
Face to Face With a Crisis in St. John New Brunswick
In St. John New Brunswick on March 20 the local press shifts to warn of an international crisis. The Globe and Telegraph weigh the retaliatory bill’s effects on Canada and the risk of war over United States fishing vessel seizures and non intercourse.
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St. Joan
N. B
Cleveland
Canada
United States
The
Globe
Telegraph
Dominion
Republic
Two Fatal Accidents Hit Montgomery County in Peculiar Weekend
In Montgomery County two deaths occurred last Friday. Jacob Sensenbach found a neighbor’s mother dead on the floor after believing she slept on a couch. authorities suspect a fit caused her to fall against a baby carriage, strangling her. The victim was a forty five year old mother of four. Valentine Engle a Hauser Mills resident known as Dr Engle was found dead with a broken neck at the foot of a back stair after staying the night with a family for rapture treatment. he was seventy and married, reputed for herbal cures.
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Montgomery County
Jacob Sensenbach
Tobyhanna Mills
Sensenbach
Valentine Engle
Hauser Mills
Valentine Huey
Engle
Jay Gould Seen As Hidden Force Behind Major Rail Deal
A New York broker claims Jay Gould is the real power in the Baltimore and Ohio negotiation with Ives and Stayner. He says Gould seeks direct New York linkage for Missouri Pacific and would oversee a major consolidation with Richmond Terminal, controlling a vast railroad network.
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New York
Messrs. Ives
Stayner
Cnatret
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio
Jay Gould
Telegraph
Western Union
Missouri Pacific
Ohio
Mississippi
Richmond Terminal Company
Messrs
Ives
Gould
Sully and Sage
Sully
Fire at Chautauqua devastates assembly grounds
A March 21 fire at the Chautauqua assembly grounds in Jamestown New York destroyed eighty buildings including several large boarding houses. Loss estimated at about 125000 dollars. The blaze started in Curtis cottage due to a defective flue and spread rapidly amid wood structures with little fire apparatus. Neighbors and farmers aided efforts to save the Hotel Atheneum and remaining cottages.
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Jamestown
N. Y
Chautauqua Assembly
Curtis Cottage
Simpson Avenue
Simpson and
Summerfield Avenues
Atheneum
Summerfield Avenue
Terrace Avenue
Hedding Avenue
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Mc’Donald
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Haines Township
Ephraim Rupp
Agent Saint
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Centre Co
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Broadway
N.Y
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Phila
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Queensware
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Alues
USA
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Front Street
Milton , PA
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New England
Axminster
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