Senate Delays Vote on Sherman Act Repeal Amid Heated Debate
Monday's senate session drew packed galleries as a long eight week struggle nears end. Victory rhetoric filled the floor with leaders from opposing sides delivering valedictories while the repeal faction pressed for a final vote. Debate covered gold reduction plans, free silver proposals, and territorial land grants as parts of the vast measure lingered toward a decisive outcome.
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HiIndon
Senate
Renate
Voorhees
Mr. Morgan
Mr. West
Mr. Cockrell
Cockrell
Carey
Wyoming
Hunton
Friends of Silver
Cameron
Pennsylvania
Stewart
Pascoe
Jones
Nevada
Peffer
Allen
Territories Admit Utah Delayed Over Silver Views
Washington October 31 The house committee on territories has been busy perfecting the Utah statehood bill while administration opposition and the presence of silver-leaning delegates in the forthcoming Senate and House prompt delays. Delegate Joseph of New Mexico proposes delaying operative admission to 1895 to avoid immediate political conflict.
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Washington
House Committee On Territories
Utah
Senate
House
Joseph
New Mexico
Naval Construction Progress and Trials Report
Philip Hickborn reports good progress on vessels under construction over the past year despite armor plate delays. Trials for new ships showed satisfactory results. launches include Columbia Marblehead Olympia Cincinnati Katahdin Indians Massachusetts Minneapolis. The tug Mayflower and gunboat Palos sold. 47 vessels repaired. The U.S. lacks an experimental tank.
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Washington
Philip Hickborn
Navy
Detroit
New York
Bancroft
Columbia
Marblehead
O Ympia
Cincinnati
Katahdin
Indians
Massachusetts
Minneapolis
Mayflower
United States
Barratt's Location Uncertain After Fake Moorhead Dispatch
Sheriff Coleman returned from Fargo with a dispatch said to come from Moorhead claiming Barratt was held there. The dispatch proved fake. Barratt is believed to be in Canada by now.
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Canada
Ellendale
N. D
Coleman
Fargo
Moorhead
Barratt
Artesian Well Contract Put Before City Council
The city council in South Dakota considers hiring H A Miles for an artesian well project. The proposed 800 foot depth with eight inch pipe offers $7.50 per foot if water is found by 600 feet or less. failure yields no pay. City may place the well on Main Street or near the water works.
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H. A. Miles
Priday
Welch
Mohr
Stearns
Miles
Aurora
Brule
South Dakota
Main Street
Surprise birthday gathering for Captain Powers echoes in Mitchell
Captain F D Powers returned home to find about forty G A R and W R C members awaiting him for his sixty second birthday surprise. The evening featured conversation and refreshments as friends wished him many more birthdays. Uncalled letters listed in the Mitchell post office close of week ending Oct 30 1893. Wheat buyers and lumber men in Wilmot clash over markets, and a football prospect grows among Mitchell athletes with a planned Thanksgiving game against the University eleven. a meeting is set for Monday at 8 o'clock in the Champeny block Commercial rooms.
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WasHincTon
Union
Washington
Maryland
Virginia
District of Columbia
Minnesota
Allegheny Mountains
South
West
Capt. Powers
F. D. Powers
Mitchell
Brown J H. Nanning Louis
Boswell Walter
Taman
Arthur C
Cashen
Lile
M FP
Cowin Etoling
Miller
W BE
Gardiner
W M
Mitchell Michel de. Green
Mr Frank
Patterson James
Wocknitz
Herr A
University
Champeny
Yankton land office consolidation moves to Mitchell
The Yankton district will be consolidated with the Mitchell office within thirty days. Records from Yankton will be relocated to Mitchell on November 1, using space rented over the Mitchell Dry Goods Co. The Yankton district includes Yankton, Clay, Union, Lincoln, Turner, Hutchinson, Douglas, Charles Mix and Bon Homme counties, though most business is final proofs. The rent will be borne by the government. A catarrh remedy is advertised, with Cheney & Co of Toledo offering a constitutional cure and a $100 reward if it fails.
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Yankton
Mitchell
Yankton Land District
Clay
Union
Lincoln
Turner
Hutchinson
Douglas
Charles Mix
Bon Homme
General Land Office
Mitchell Dry Goods Co
Everitt-Singiser
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
G W Gillis Bargain Fiend Store Ad Promises Low Prices
G W Gillis advertises Saturday morning sales of laundered and unlaundered shirts over twelve dozen overshoes and Goodyear gloves with a promise of real value. It touts Bay State and Boston goods on order, a wide range of stamped linens, and a large selection of embroidery silks while urging customers to bring money for bargains and birthday gifts.
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New York
Goodyear
Bay States
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Thompson
Amanda H. Bowdle
W. Seaman, Y. Pres
H. R. Kibbee
J. R. Atler
Asst
OF Mitchell
Dawota
Ban Bring
A Boysen & Cos
Atte SD
Mercurial
J.C. Jones
Fulton, Ark
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta, Ga
G. W. Gillis
Alex
Alex Mitchell
F. L. Moyer
Chicago
A. H.pearson
All Grocers
Mitchell, S. D
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