Congressional Highlights and Notable Incidents Summary
Senate discussed Chinese restriction law expiry in 1894 and free silver. House advanced eight hour DC labor bill and Mexican reciprocity commission. Reports covered Bar district division in Kansas, Helens Montana post, and Chinese exclusion debates. Notable events: Noyes-Rockwell NY election clash resolved with Rockwell retaining seat. various crimes, fires, and disasters across the country. immigration totals and early silver committee calls. wartime veterans pensions and naval appropriations.
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Congressional
Senate
Teller
House
District of Columbia
District of
Kansas
Helens
Mont
United States
Noyes-Rockwell
New York
Noyes Va
Rockwell
Twenty
Rockwell Em
Congress
Rival Labor Groups Face Off in Looming Battle
A PittTspuren report notes a long struggle for supremacy between the American Federation of Labor and the Knights of Labor. The item catalogues disasters from a Texas cyclone and other incidents nationwide, including murders, floods, arson, and political shifts, with numerous named places and people.
Indiana Parties Nominating Slates In Congress And Governorship
Democratic convention in Indianapolis nominates Claude Matthews for governor Mortimer Nye for lieutenant governor W B Myers for secretary of state Albert Gall for treasurer Green Smith for attorney general Democrats back Cleveland first Gray afterward Republicans nominate W F Daly for congress in Eleventh District H A Johnson renominated in Sixth District Republican George Surry named for congress Burnoucsus Chicago professor dies aged 74.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democrats of
Indiana
Indianapolis
Claude Matthews
Mortimer Nye
W. B. Myers
Albert Gall
Green Smith
Cleveland
Gray
Harrison
United States
W. F. Daly
H. A. Johnson
Joan C. Burnoucsus
Old Chicago University
Chicago
George Surry
Ilinois
Multifaceted Global Turmoil Echoes in 19th Century News
A wide array of incidents across continents includes aid appeals for 5,000 in Mexican regions hit by drought, a Rothschilds bank loss in Frankfurt tied to an embezzler, rising seal prices in British Columbia, and legal actions by Mrs. Parnell. Fire deaths in St. Petersburg, a deadly sand pit tragedy in Toronto, anarchist arrests in Paris, colonial shifts, and naval losses accompany uprisings and weather disasters from Hastings Ontario to Rio de Janeiro and Kingston Jamaica.
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Mexico
Rothschilds
Frankfort
Herr Jaeger
British Columbia
Parnell
St. Petersburg
Alfred Lucas
Ernest Lucas
Henry Petiit
Toronto
Ont
Messgneries
Clairhue
United States
Hastings County
Rio de Janiero
Accomplixe
Kingston
Jamaica
Legitime
Senate hears Massa on free silver and other midterm actions
Massa, Coat and Daniel urged free coinage of silver before the Senate on the 2nd. the army appropriation bill advanced only in debate, while the House discussed a 1 584 825 dollar diplomatic and consular bill. A conference on the Chinese exclusion amendments was named as New York adjourned sine die after apportionment. Democrats renominated Brown in Indiana Third, McNagny in Twelfth. William Astor died in Paris aged 60 with a 60 million estate.
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Massa
Coat
Daniel
United States Senate
House
Senate
New York
Third
Indiana
Jason J3. Brown
Congress
W. M. S. McNagny
William Astor
Paris
Order of American Odd Fellows
Baltimore
Truax
Batavia
Ravachol
Simon
Ohio
Columbus
Leeca
Mint
England
Illinois
B. I. Funk
J. R. Williams
W. M. Springer
Senate Approves Ten Year Extension of Chinese Exclusion Law
In Washington the Geary Chinese exclusion bill passed with a substitute extending current prohibitions for ten years. The Senate, voting 43 to 14, adopted the substitute and routed amendments. Conference with the House named Dolph Davis and Butler as negotiators.
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Senate
Washington
Committee On Foreign Relations
Yeas
Platt
Conn
United States
House
Dolph
Davis
Butler
China
Destructive Ontario Cyclone Ravages Hastings Townships
Reported from Belleville Ontario describes a cyclone in Hastings county affecting Carlow Mayo and Mount Eagle. Homes barns and clothing were blown away and destroyed with one family narrowly escaping as their house and door were torn off. No further details available yet.
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Belleville
Ont
Hastings County
Carlow
Mayo
Mount Eagle
Thomas Lebo
James Robinson
Louis Lavee
Alfred Armstrong
Armstrong
Tragedy in Denison: Husband Kills Wife and Two Others Then Ends Own Life
In Denison Ohio on Monday George Moore fatally shot his wife, seriously wounded saloonkeeper Edward McClelland, and then killed himself. Moore, a Panhandle Railway night worker, faced suspicions of his wife’s alleged closeness to McClelland.
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PittTspuren
American Federation of Labor
Knights of Labor
Gladwater
Tex
WiLiin HaRvine
St. Joseph
Eneuisu
Ind
Little Blue River
James M. Paummer
Tiffany & Co
New York
William Jones
Edward
Hartland
Wis
Georgine Walters
Schultz
Henry Altenbrand & Co
Brooklyn
N. Y
California
Sacramento
Winters
Dixon
Selma
New York City
Henderson
Joseph McCallister
John Rooney
Jim Knichen
Cyarums Emory Smrry
United States
Russia
EvueGent Kauriman
Reisel
Ohio National Bank
Cincinnati
Henry Werndt
Boston
Edward Press
Edward Turner
William Grassup
Hope Creek
N. J
Jonesboro
Tenn
Exxust Rapp
Syracuse
Chartues Minis
Cheyenne
Wyo
Waldo Emerson
Ross T. Fishbaugh
Union Pacific Railroad
Lehigh Valley
Herr Luptrow
Amos fYilkins
Groton
N.Y
Denison
George Moore
Edward McClelland
Moore
Panhandle Railway Company
McClelland
Four Die After Beaver Lake Boat Capsizes Near Beaver Dam
A row boat with four youths capsized on Beaver Lake Sunday. Peter House aged 17 John Pisberg 14 and Hugo Reberburg 22 drowned. Batman Deickmiller survived clinging to the boat. icy water cited as cause. Also noted deaths of Clifford P. McCalla in Egypt and Gov Peck appointing T W Kelsey as county judge in Prairie du Lac Wisconsin.
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Joan Crawford
Nat Aldrich
Ozark County
Crawford
Willie Schmidtetter
Bertha
Philadelphia
New York
William Nunez
la Grange
Tex
August Mischer
Franz Mischer
John Vagari
Washington
Green River
Indiana
Louisville
Boston
Pittsburgh
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Chicago
St. Louis
Baltimore
Tur
United States
Henrietta
Epward A. Trask
Conemaugh
Russia
Fern Hill
Wash
Mortimer Lewis
Pointe Coupee
Freeman
G. Cotton
Tu National Silver Committee
Ohio
Money Point
S. W. Rowley
Peter Eno
Minnie
Lawrence
Mass
San Francisco
John Hand
Fairmont
W. Va
Grover M. Basnbry
Mansfield
Blaine
Great Britain
Colbyy Academy
Old Baptist Institution
New London
N. Ti
Naruan Orcurr
Crocker
South Weymouth
Lrenton
N. J
Prince Allen
Grovore Mogoney
Dennison, O
Edward MacClelland
Cheshire Improvement Company
Parkville
L. L
Secretary of the Navy
Turek
Ilugo Regburg
John K. Pisbery
Peter House
Beaver Dam
Wis
Beaver Lake
John Pisberg
Hugo Reberburg
Batman Deickmiller
Wild camels do not exist in the wild world
The passage notes global animal facts and other items. It mentions no wild camels, a record shipment of apples from Portland to England totaling 13 000 barrels, size notes on African versus Asian lions, a packing paper process with dextrine and siccative oil paint, Suez canal oil vessel regulations prompting new bulk carriers, a syndicate forming for such steamers, and Ford H. Rogers of Detroit owning fur company records from 1817 to 1835 detailing millions in furs.
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United States
Portland
England
Africa
Asia
Suez Canal
Ford H. Rogers
Detroit
American Fur Company
John Jacob Astor & Son
Northern Department
Fancies For The Fair Sex In New York Fashion Notes
Enasren flower pins attract attention as delicate trifles in jewelry. The Tur Ladies Cycling Club of New York adopts a navy serge dress with scarlet skirt and a yachting cap as its uniform. Polish women in New York increasingly wear black year round in 1892 marking Poland’s hundredth year of bondage. Small brocade and plush bags lined with flannel shown at bazaars for umbrella and parasol handles. New hairpins placed at the back of the coiffure to secure bonnets and crownless hats, gold and open work, increasingly seen as replacements for knots and twists. Experts note they can be imitated in cheap quality.
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Enasren
Tur Ladies’ Cycling Club of
New York
Poland
Fads and Fashions Steal Spotlight in Paris and Homes
Broad trends show brocaded coats with Watteau backs as imports, Emprovery favored on dressy costumes, and dresses in black and colored net with plain net edgings. Engagement cups and saucers appear new while jars remain staples. Ventilated quilts from newspapers wrapped in chintz or cretenne, and Parisian breakfast jackets feature a Russian peasant blouse copy.
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Paris
The Bamboo Fife and Other Works in May Wide Awake
Theron Brown’s The Bamboo Fife opens the May Wide Awake with an oriental rhyme on birth of the gamut. Adaline Fordham describes Pierrefonds restored by Viollet-le-Duc. Philip Hale’s A Grain of Sand. Helen Gray Cone on Blake’s Songs of Innocence. Black’s Upper Nine sleeping-car tale. Ryerson’s Phebe Stont-Sculptor. Brastow’s Almost a Deserter. a Decoration Day ode by Elbridge S. Brooks. Nason’s My Lady of Make-Believe. Thorndike’s Getting Away from Gibraltar. plus sales notices on harness and buggies and scattered quips and jokes.
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Theron Brown
Burgess
Adaline Fordham
Pierrefonds
Richelieu
Viollet-le- Duc
Philip Hale
Traveling advice on health from the Danville Breeze
The Danville Breeze advises travelers to carry Syrup of Figs for kidney and bowel harmony to prevent fevers and headaches. It promotes 50 cent and one dollar bottles from leading druggists. A joking note claims a quart of nitro glycerine would explode into debris, referencing a blast of self-harm.
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Danville
Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets Promise Gentle Reliable Relief
Suffering from headaches constipation indigestion or bilious attacks should TRY Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. Small easy to take and guaranteed to satisfy or your money back. Do not accept imitations sold as just as good by dealers.
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Dr. Pierce
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