Work in Washington as Truce on Oklahoma Bill Holds
The article outlines the reopening of Congress with focus on tariff debates, sugar bounty and lumber rates, and potential night sessions. It notes the likely order of business including fortifications, river and harbor, sundry civil appropriations, territories bill, and a contested election case, with private measures slated for passage before Saturday.
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Congress
Senate
Senate Committee
Allison
Renee Hie
South Carolina
Caldaro
Senate action and nominations signal ongoing government business
The Senate passed a land entry bill for Flapstall Arizona and debated presidential vote counting procedures in the House. A sugar tariff amendment proposed one cent per pound bounty. In Washington, Mr Randall’s resolution ends daily adjournment rule and aims for general debate. Presidential nominations include Wilbur Webb for District of Columbia commissioner, Thomas C. Anderson for associate justice in Liechtenstein territory, and Presleyavininu as assistant surgeon.
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Wasmisaros
Senate
Flapstall
Ariz
Hoar
House of Representatives
VasuinGrox
Randall
Committee On
Wasninctoy
Wilidin B. Webb
District of Columbia
Thisteiet
Vet placement notice names Vinidervoort assistant secretary
Jan 15 reports Gen Paul Vinidervoort former commander in chief of the ts AJ R of Omaha Nebraska has been appointed assistant secretary of the Re putes tonal committee.
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Woastusatos
Paul Vinidervoort
Ts. Ajr
Omaha
Neb
Reputes
Yantics Lieut Very OL Reported Near Despairing Health
The Yantic's Lieutenant Very OL, Lieut Miles of the United States steamship Yantic, is not well and his chance of recovery is believed poor. A separate dispatch notes the postal savings system's growth with 444 offices operating and deposits rising to $20,067,052 by year end, reflecting encouraging savings among mechanics and laborers.
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Yantic
Very OL
A We Vonas
Lieut
Miles
United States
Grypswa
Ont
Postumastar General
Organ firm quits business amid cheap trade and piano rise
In New York on January 13 a Tribune special reports Burdette Organ Company will cease operations, leaving a surplus. The move is blamed on a weak organ market and the growing popularity of the piano.
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New York
Mrnc
Burdette Organ Company
England's Chinese Policy Pressures McDonald Policy Shift
An Ottawa dispatch reports Britain will compel Sir John McDonald to abandon his restrictive Chinese immigration stance, stating China has warned Australia and Canada against hostile acts toward Chinese. If Canada withdraws the act, Vancouver and Victoria could see a surge of arrivals, channeling more Chinese into the United States.
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Canada
Australia
Poston
Ottawa
Herald
John McDonald
China
Victoria
Vancouver
13. C
United States
Mrs Gould Dead Wife of the Great Manipulator Passes
New York reports Mrs Jay Gould died at 9 o clock Sunday evening after four months with paralysis. The end was painless and she remained conscious near the family. She was Daniel Miley’s daughter and her mother, over 80, lives in New York.
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New York
Jay Gould
Gouldo
Daniel Milley
ChicaGo
Patrick Walsh
West Sixteenth Street
Walsh
Indiana Governor Hovey inaugurated in tight ceremony
Governor elect Hovey was sworn in at Indianapolis with a formal inaugural address urging election law reforms, local anti monopoly measures, road upgrades funded by liquor and tax revenue, price controls on school books, and nonpartisan oversight of benevolent institutions. The report notes other inaugurations and a coal miners strike in Des Moines and Boone County.
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Indiana
Ottee
Indianapolis
Dan
Hovey
Liguor
Supreme Court
Surprise Telegraphers order shocks Colorado Northwestern operators
A Clinton Iowa dispatch reports the Chicago and Northwestern division orders all telegraphers brotherhood operators to resign or quit the railroad. The move is unexpected and leaves the outcome uncertain for the affected workers. In Montana, the upper house faces a likely deadlock over its organization as Will S Kennedy from Jefferson county supports Democrats, risking a tied result and Republican plans for speaker.
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Caicaco
The
Tribune
Clinton
Iowa
Chicago and
Northwestern
Brotherhood
Berre
Mont
Montana
Will S Kennedy
Jefferson County
Kennedy
Express War On Dent Rates Cut Half
An Express War on rate competition rages in Dent with prices slashed by about 50 percent. In Toronto two ex-convicts robbed a Jarvis Street grocery but were captured after a knife contest. In Ohio a sheriff fought two attackers, was burned, and is expected to die. Allegan mourns P O Littlejohn, 75, builder of the Baltimore and Ohio line.
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Misneapolis
Hennepin County Jail
Pete Barrett
Kiley
Barrett
Dent
Toronto
Richard Reidy
John Jennings
W. J. Dugdale
Jarvis Street
Dugdale
Reidy
Cleveland
Ohio
Hobensack
Mt. Hickory
Allegan, Mich
P. O. Littlejohn
Littlejohn
Brooklyn
Gittings Seminary
la Wares
Ills
Methodist Episcopa North
Whistler barred from concert over sacred music demand
In WoreeR Massachusetts on January 10 Ella Chamberlain the whistler was slated for a Sunday concert but a clergyman objected and the mayor required she whistle only sacred music. She did not perform.
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Woreer
Mass
Ella Chamberlain
Miss Chamberlain
A Fatal French Duel In Paris Between Editors
Paris report of a duel between M Rochefort editor of Liftntransigent and M Lissagaray editor of La Bataille using swords. Both were wounded with Lissagaray seriously hurt. Also brief notes on New Jersey farming, mild January weather, rapid express-rate cuts between St Pat and Chicago, and a miner Oscar Joseph Bon who fell into a shaft and is dying.
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Paris
M. Rochefort
Liftntransigent
M. Lissagaray
la Bataille
M. Lissazaray
Collisions Victims and Burning Cars Toll in Wreck
Report of a wreck on the New York Pennsylvania and Ohio line near Tallmage Ohio large loss of life and many injuries. Names given for engineers firemen baggage master and several passengers. fires and missing Chinamen noted. Additional items include Niangara Falls storm losses and other late 19th century news briefs.
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Kent
Ohio
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
Tallmage
Richard Muntington
William Walters
Zep
William Landy
Cleveland
New York
Pennsylvania
Two Passengers Die in Wood Mowing Elevator Accident
A Hoosie Falls special reports at the W A Wood Mowing Machine works in Troy New York that William Carroll and a boy named Bostley were killed when an elevator failed. Ahern and Jansen survived with critical injuries and are expected to die.
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Wood
Troy
N. Y
Landtag opens with clergy pay and rail expansion
January events report the landtag opening with the emperor announcing bills to raise clergy emoluments and improve national elementary school teaching. Proposals include stamp tax regulation and extra resources for railway expansion to aid 1883 flood victims. Cossacks aim to found Abyssinian colony near Red Sea with Amphitrite arrivals and Italian gunboat monitoring. New York Postoffice finances show 5162968.81 receipts, 4801982.48 expenditures, net 3270986.33.
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Leruix
Landtag
Red Sea
Suakim
New York Postoffice Finances
New York
Pearson
Daughter Arrives With New York Coachman in Montreal
In Montreal on January 15, a supposed daughter of a wealthy New York stock broker has arrived with her father's coachman. The woman is named Jennie Stuart and the coachman is identified as Thomas Johnson.
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Montreal
New York
Jennie Stuart
Thomas Johnson
The Big Muddy Is Rising Across Missouri River
Yankton and Exporapo report Missouri river ice retreat and two foot rise. In Yankton the river opened after blocking a crossing enabling boat traffic. Dr. Robertson, an Indian doctor from Janesville Wis, left with 1200 dollars after a week of tooth pulling and selling medicine.
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Big Muddy
Yankton, Dak
Missouri River
Exporapo
Iowa
Robertson
Janesville
Wis
American Exhibitspace applications for Paris exposition grow
Somerville P. Tuck assistant commissioner general to the United States for the Paris exposition of 1889 has released the list of firms seeking space. Applicants extend across the nation and cover all industries and arts. About 750 applications have been received and the commissioner expects as many as 1,000 exhibitors when the list closes.
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New York
Somerville P. Tuck
United States
London society gossip book to be published in New York
A volume titled Peeps at Our Cousins attributed to a queen s maid of honor will soon be issued in New York. It is said to recount gossip about prominent London society figures, Americans, and others, and the announcement has caused intense excitement in the West End.
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London
New York
West End
Chicago Grain and Provisions Market Summary
Chicago grain and provisions prices show wheat and corn bids varying across contracts including January February and May with mixed figures. Local livestock values list hogs cattle and sheep receipts and prices with standard headcounts and bid ranges. A Sioux City missing farmer report ends with a prairie chicken sighting and a sizeable search by neighbors.
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Chicago
York
St. Paul
Northern
Ste
Timothy
Rival towns at war explodes into bloodshed in Cimarron Ingalls clash
Wichita Kansas January 15 The Cimarron Ingalls conflict escalates with three killed and many wounded. Governor Martin dispatches Gen Meyers and militia to restore peace as both towns mobilize men and ar
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Wichita
Kan
Cimarron
Ingalls
Watson
Supreme Court
J. N. English
J. Bliss
Martin
Meyer
A. E. Brooks
Gage
Ed Robbins
Cimmarron
Bliss
Meyers
Not of Great Value Powderly Says He Was Offered New Labor Order
Myr Powderly told a public D A 152 K of L meeting in Binghamton New York that a Philadelphia man who started a new order offered to sell it for 100 and had previously tried to sell it to John Wanamaker. Delegates from Syracuse Auburn Cortland and other places attended the session and officers were elected. The item then moves to other short briefs including anarchist matters and local notices.
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Myr. Powderly
Binchamton
N. Y
Powderly
D. A
K. of L
Syracuse
Auburn
Cortland
Philadelphia
John Wanmaaiker
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London Daily News
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Arbeiter Bund
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Lonposx
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Liverpool
Servia Satunday
Signoria Bevignani
Miss Massimi
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Damian
Atzel & Martin
Farnhamville
Heard
Madison
D. E. Roberts, Jr
Douglas County
Richard Bardon
the Security Bank
Mitchell
Dakota
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Pres
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N. Grant
Main Street
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Opera
W. S. Crouse
James
Jeres Mears
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Tames Means & CO
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