Senate Advances District Judge Salary Raise Amid Telegraph Bill Debates
In Washington the Senate resumed consideration of increasing United States District Judges' salaries to 5000 dollars while debates continued on a broad telegraph and postoffice reform bill. House actions covered bonded extension, Mississippi relief funding, and postal telegraph contracts spanning Atlantic to Pacific divisions with new stamping and pricing structures.
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Sexatz
United States
Morgan
Bayard
Wasuixaron
Szaats
Harrison
Territory of
Dakota
Cockrell
Harrigan
Senate
van Wych
Wasumoerox
Senate Committee On
Postmaster General
Congress
Washington
Arma Mina
Chaaper
Postal Telegraph and Cable
Atlantic
Mississippi
Missouri River
Omaha
Minneapolis
Pacific
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Tacoma
Idaho
Walla Walla
Wasnmarox
Hovace
House
Reagan
Herbert
Tia
Mob Hangs Suspect After Jail Takeover
A mob of forty masked men abducted Samuel Fraser from the Manussa ville jail and hanged him at a south bridge after he confessed to the John Pennington murders near Frankfort. Fraser claimed no accomplices and the crowd dispersed quietly.
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Manysville
Kas
Freyer
Spring Creek
John Pennington
Frankfort
Manusviuue
Samuel Fraser
Pension Appropriation Bill Passes House Committee
The House Committee on Appropriations completed work on the pension appropriation bill. It allocates 20,684,400 dollars and reappropriates any unexpended current year balance on June 30, 1884. The balance is estimated at 66,000,000 dollars. Presidential offices listed include Bement Franklin Grove Evanston Wyoming Rock Rapids with salaries of 1100 dollars.
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House Committee On Appropriations
Bement
Franklin Grove
Sooth
Evanston and
Wyoming
Ilinois
Rock Rapids
Iowa
Five Negro Children Arrested as Father Suspect in Double Tragedy
Ed Dows, a Missouri farmer, faced trials after allegations he killed his five children to avoid supporting them. Authorities note he doubted paternity while attempting to raise crops amid hardship. In Illinois a separate assassination scare targets Governor Hamilton as a pistol shot shatters a mansion window.
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Ed Dows
Sixmarieto. Ill
Hamilton
State House
Executive Mansion
Perriman Chiefs Creek Nation Face Looming War
Reports from the Indian Territory indicate Perriman the Creek chief maintains authority despite a Interior Department ruling. Chipote Spieche and their followers pledging resistance turn to blacksmith shops to repair muskets as signs of war grow, signaling a likely long guerrilla conflict.
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Ark
Indian Territory
Secretary of the Interior
Perriman
Chipote
Spieche
Yellow fever outbreak aboard Iroquois reported
Information from Mixes City Montana reports thirteen Cheyenne Indians connected to a house fire in Roessbadh. They are believed to be sent back to the Red Cloud reservation. The Iroquois steamer traveling to Alaska is said to have a yellow fever outbreak.
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Navajo Agency
Arizona
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Dyer
Tongue River
Mont
Gervon
San Francisco
Alaska
Mixes City
Roessbadh
Anderson
Red Cloud Reservation
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TUA Postal Telegraph
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Nebraska
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Fourth Avenue
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James H. Dalton
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St. Joseph
Union Depot
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