Washington Notes Promotes Secretary Fairchild
NG TON April 5 The press signs commissions of Fairchild as secretary of the treasury and Isaac ST Maynard as assistant secretary. Fairchild enters upon duties at once, visits the office, with officers and clerks extending congratulations and flowers. A Wholesome Compound Oleomargarine report by Wiley examines spread, adulteration, and opinions of scientists about its wholesomeness.
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Fairchild
The
Isaac ST. Maynard
Treasury
Secretchild
Lon
Department
Ile
Interstate Commission Begins Active Operations First Case
The Interstate Commerce Commission started work at 11 o clock this morning. A hearing noted potential rate changes under the interstate commerce law that could raise railway rates and disrupt the southern manufacturing trade. Reports from Texas and Alaska describe severe famine conditions with cattle losses and starvation, prompting calls for urgent relief. News from New York cites limited financial success for Ruddy Gore and notes the death of poet John G. Saxe last week.
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Ashington
Interte Commerce Commission
Atta Chamber of Commerce
Southern Railway and Airship Association
Southern Societies
Blaine's Promised Coup and Foreign Trip in 1884
New York reports Blaine will sail for Europe in June and stay abroad a year, during the Republican convention. Friends say he seeks no renomination, aims to study labor and international issues, then return to campaign for party nominees. Some Republicans view it as a strategic bid.
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New York
Blaine
Europe
Sherman
Allison
Hawley
Lincoln
Chicago's Disgrace Bail Bonds in Indicted Boodlers List
Judge Anthony faced a crowded doorway as indicted boodlers and friends gathered for bail. Sheriff Matson presented the list including Washburn ex commissioner with $15,000 bail and others from $5,000 to $17,000. Nine contractors and furniture dealers are also named. most secured bail by afternoon.
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Curiaco
Anthony
Matson
George C Kluhm
Michael Washerman
Michael Leyden
J.J. McCarthy
Wm. J. McGarigie
McClaughrey
Henry Varnell
Dan Wren
Adam Ochs
R. M. Oliver
Christian Girls
Christian Casselman
Ed Phillips
J. S. Harrigan
J. E. Lanpert
J.B. Carpenter
Michael Costello
H. L. Holland
August Basse
Napoleon Barsaloux
Phillip Kelly
Patrick Maloney
Loren P. Crane
Joseph Buckley
Washburn
Buck MacArthur
New Dakota Railroad Commissioners Prepared to Take Reins
Fargo reports a new Dakota railroad commission board with Griggs of Grand Forks as chairman and temporary headquarters in Fargo. Members include Boynton Lennox and Smith Huron. Headquarters location disputes linger with Bismarck or other cities mentioned for eventual secretary and office.
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Farrac
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Messrs
Griggs
Grand Forks
Boynton
Lennox
Smith
Huron
Fargo
Capt. Griggs
Railroad coal pool forms to fix western prices
Pittspuren April 7 railroad coal operators in the Pittsburgh district form an association to maintain a uniform selling price for coal. Eighty percent of western shippers representing $12 000 000 capital join the pool. Boston April 7 Atchison Topeka Santa Fe president Strong denies any interest in buying Chicago Eastern Illinois. J Howard Taylor named postmaster at Columbia North Dakota after resignation of F B Smith.
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Pittspuren
Pittsburgh District
Western Points
Boston
Strong
J. Howard Taylor
Columbia
Dakota
F. B. Smith
Chicago's Danger and Socialist Coalition Claim
Emissaries from socialist headquarters press Mayor Harrison with a pledge of 40,000 socialist backed voters. Joe Gruenhut says Chicago is a European colony where labor and capital clash. He claims Democrats will fuse with the socialist ticket, aiding Harrison, while Republicans fall. He warns Irish wards will swing to the socialists and urges union of all citizens to defeat them. The rhetoric frames a clash between American commune and capital.
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Chicago
Harrison
Joe Gruenhut
Ile
Democracy
New York Notes Mail Thief Committed for Trial
New York April 7 W A Clark register clerk accused of stealing a $10 000 mail pouch at the New York post office waived examinations before United States Commissioner Griffiths and was committed for trial District Attorney Martine names Jacob Sharpe as next indicted for complicity in the Broadway theft DA hopes trials will reveal more boodler evidence Chicago April Liberty Schwartz murder trial testimony recounts no tracks near Moris within 400 yards of the train Winthrow Rock Island general solicitor testified he questioned Schwartz without threats Schwartz then contradicted Winthrow and the court adjourned with Schwartz on the stand
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New York
W?a. Clark
New York Post Office
United States
Griffiths
Martine
Jacob Sharpe
ChicaGo
Morris
Illinois
Daily News
Schwartz
W. J. Ray
Moris
Thomas
Winthrow
Rock Island Road
Milbank Gardener Shoots Self After Family Row
Charles Schuchardt a market gardener near Milbank South Dakota shot himself last night after being warned by the injured husband to leave the territory. Found dead outside his door this morning a shotgun lay beside him with one barrel discharged. He was a widower with an only son at college in the east and had been regarded as a moral man and good citizen.
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Milbank
Dak
Charles Schuchardt
Schuchardt
Goulds Hands Seize Little Rock & Ft. Smith Line
Fr Surry Ark April 7 The Little Rock and Ft. Smith railroad passes into Jay Goulds hands and construction starts at once. The line will run north of the Arkansas river to a bridge site opposite this city and extend from Ft. Smith to Shreveport connecting with the New Orleans and Texas Pacific. Work begins in sixty days.
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Surry, Ark
Little Rock
Cattle Interests Report On Winter Condition In Southwest
Colonel B. Cunningham, agent of the bureau of animal industry, reports cattle on the ranges of New Mexico, Indiana Territory and Colorado came through winter in excellent condition with little loss. United action among state territorial and national sanitary boards will prevent contagious pleuro pneumonia crossing the Mississippi River.
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Departur of Agriculture
F. Wiley
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Herhat
Interstate Commission
Drouth
Texas
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Alasca County
Medina County
Galveston
Austin
Woodward
Calhoun County
Alasca
the Herald
Gilbert and Sullivan
Stetson
Fifth Avenue Theater
Carte
Ruddygeore
Fifth Avenue
England
John G. Saxe
Albany
the New Railroad Commissioners of
NEW York Notes
Jake Sharpe
Mitchell Price
Mitchell
Northwestern Depot
Cook Block
S. D. Cook
J. M. Gaines
J. F. Arnett
Buckeye Hardware Store
Gleason, Baily & Co’s
Fireman’s Outfit
Caines & Arnett
Randall & Wheelock
Tam
Second
Lawler Streets
M. L. Scoggins
R. McMillen & CO
Gould
Ethan
Webb Gillingham
A. E. A. Fuller
Schwarner
F. Weller
J.S. Daniels
Agt
L. W. Adams
van Brunt & Avacis Monitor
Rowell & Son
Tiger
Little Yankee
Scimans
Grand Detour Plow CO
Dixon
Ill
Sunes
Keystone
Harrows
Jackson
Mitcnell
Mt.Vertica
Woonsocket
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Mitch
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