Congressional News Roundup Reflects Bills and Contested Seats
A Senate bill for ten year continuance of Chinese exclusion laws. a joint resolution on marriage and divorce. and Utah territorial district creation passed. House rules debated as committees discuss Columbian Exposition funding and authority for federal expenditure. Reports on elections, fire, earthquakes, and other incidents follow with multiple local and national items.
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Senate
United States
Utah
House
Put-in-Bay
Lake Erie
Florida
Call
Congress
Ways and Means Committee
Craig
Stewart
Pennsylvania
Longtime residents and officials noted in obituaries across states
The article lists deaths and milestones including Jonxy Ferries at 112 in Garry Owen Iowa, RussELL SaGur Jr in New York at 53, Mary Wray turning 100 in Fairbury Illinois, Bridget McCaftrey age 110 in Bridgeport Pennsylvania, and Rev B J Frey age 68 in St Louis. It also notes Iowa Democratic state committee meeting in Council Bluffs May 11, Wisconsin prohibitionist convention in Madison May 31, and Michigan prohibitionists and people's party merging in Jackson. John Hogan who laid out Chicago’s site died in St Louis.
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Jonxy Ferries
Garry Owen
Jackson County
Russell SaGur, JR
New York
Mary Wray
Fairbury
Ill
Ohe
Democratic State Committee
Iowa
Council Bluffs
Wisconsin
Madison
Brineget McCaftrey
Montgomery County
Bridgeport
Ireland
Prohibitionists
People’s Party of Michigan
Jackson
B. J. Frey
Central Christian Advocate
Methodist Church
St. Louis
John Hogan
Chicago
Tragic blaze kills Huckster Gosgroski and family in Berlin
A huckster Gosgroski his two children and two laborers Kurs and Schutz were burned to death in Berlin. The report lists other global calamities including slave raids in Sengal, extreme cold in Russia famine districts, and riots in Argentina as world tensions rise.
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Gosgroski
Kurs
Schutz
Berlin
Dahomey
Popo
Sengal
Russia
Austria
Hungary
Santiago
Chili
Valparaiso
Chile
Foster
Baltimore
Carlos Arena
William Turnbull
Jose Amamada
Turnbull
Frederico Rodriguez
Charles W. Riggin
Breslau
Germany
Neusatz
Cardiff
Malta
Sicilly
Tur
Santa Tucia
Seventeen Bodies Recovered From Royal Hotel Fire
Workmen searched the Hotel Royal ruins overnight in New York. By midnight seventeen bodies had been recovered, with eleven women and six men among them. Several identifications were made including Miss Sarah Blake and Mrs J Cohen as well as Louis Levi and Hattie Van Norden.
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Hotel Royal
New York
Sarah Blake
Sheldonville
Mass
J. Cohen
Toronto
Can
Louis Levi
London
Mx Levi
Hattie van Norden
Henry van Norden
Elizabeth Donahue
Senate Adopts Bills To Increase Currency And Farm Loans
Senate debates bills to issue treasury notes backed by gold and silver to retire national bank notes and promote international free coinage with farm loan support. House proposals include bank safety, army officer duty for the world’s fair, and residency rules for property guards. Also reports deaths, fires, looting, labor disputes, and indictments involving the Louisiana Lottery Company.
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United States Senate
Treasury
Indiana
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of the Interior
Joan Jay Knox
United States Comptroller
New York
Tur Capital City Opera House
East Des Moines
Tnu
New Hampshire
Concord
Timm
Rothschild
Mattawa
Ont
Tur
Philadelphia
Russia
Otago
Canterbury
New Zealand
Charles H. Spurgeon
Metropolitan Tabernacle
London
Louisiana Lottery Company
Ptrand
United States
Boston
John Jay Knox Dies Former U S Comptroller
New York Feb 10 John Jay Knox ex United States comptroller died at his residence after several days of pneumonia following grip in New York He was born March 19 1828 at Knoxboro New York educated at Hamilton College and worked in banking before entering public service Knox advised national banking in 1862 and later led the mint and coinage correspondence He served as deputy comptroller from 1867 and as comptroller from 1872 under Grant Hayes and contributed to banking and currency policy through his annual reports.
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Hamilton Gray
United States
Kingston
Tenn
Gray’s Hill
Polk
J. I. Ropsiyson
Kentucky Turf Association
Lexington
Kansas
James S. Clarkson
Republican National Committee
Blaine
Cameringe Suarp
Philadelphia
G. P. Barser
Lake Narbor
Mich
Vaith Templeton
Salt Lake City
James KE. Boyrp
Nebraska
William Guy Prox
Columbia College
Greenwich
Conn
New York
Marvin Hubbell
Eliza Clark
John Jay Knox
United States Comptroller
Knoxboro
N. Y
Hamilton
Vernon
St. Paul
Chase
Washington
Grant
Hayes
New York Clearing House
February Wide Awake offers varied fiction and poetry features
The February Wide Awake highlights Mrs. Mary McIntosh Cox's Jack Brereton serial and The Lance of Kanana, Eliot McCormick’s Sign of the Prophet Jonah, Indian articles by Harriet Maxwell-Converse, horse and frontier pieces, adventure sketches, and children’s poetry. The issue costs 20 cents per number, $2.40 yearly.
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Mary McIntosh Cox
Jack Brereton
Awaxke
Jonah
Eliot McCormick
New York
Harriet Maxwell-Converse
Ohiwekan
Maud Howe Elliott
Jane G. Austin
Tara Standish
Wipr Awake
Wipr
D. Lorgior Co
Boston
Mass
Tragic Roumanian Rail Fire Kills Eighteen in Car
Vienna reports a Bucharest to Bratsilov express disaster with twenty locked in a first class carriage. Fire spread rapidly as the train sped, doors could not be opened, and eighteen deaths followed from burning and suffocation with only two survivors.
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Roumania
Vienna
Bucharest
Ebrakilov
Bratsilov
Humbert Relies on Determined Senegal Conflict
Paris reports fuller details of Col Humbert s attack on King Samory in Senegal. Samory s forces fought a stubborn defense, retreated to reform, then dispersed after a second fierce clash. In the two battles Samory lost 150 killed and 800 wounded, while the French suffered ten killed and fifty three wounded.
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Paris
Col
Humbert
Samory
Senegal
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure for Catarrh
Readers are told a complete cure exists for catarrh through Hall's Catarrh Cure a constitutional treatment. The ad claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers one hundred dollars for any failure to cure with testimonials available.
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Hall
I’. J. Chhniy & Co
Toledo
Boschee’s German Syrup Promoted as Universal Consumption Remedy
The advertisement claims Boschee's German Syrup treats consumption more successfully than any other remedy. It has been tested in all climates from the North to the South and used by various nationalities. The copy asserts it is employed in every disease stage and consumed by millions as the only true reliable remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Pierce
Gous
Boschee
New England
Middle States
Express
Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlanta
The Wife and the Silent Burden of Illness
A New York paper asserts wives share the burden of family welfare as breadwinners while medical notes show many die young from lung trouble. The ad promotes Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cure as a safe cure for croup in children, urging purchase from dealers through Sylvan Remedy Co.
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New York
Croup
Reid
Sylvan Remedy CO
Peoria
Ill
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Joseph E. Farrar
Danvers
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Youngstown
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Ore
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Louisiana Lottery Compane
Jupge
Joan Ritter
Glasgow
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Ohio River
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John Roebling
Trenton
N. J
Memorial
Johnstown
State Flood Commission
Bahama Islands
A. M. Lennig
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Fla
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Raton
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James Odem
Louisiana
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Brazil
S. V. Whitre
I. W. Hopkins
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Stock Exchange
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Irvine
William Hall
Robert Chariton
Corred
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Minnie Hoskins
William Bush
Stanford
Dangerfield
Tex
Carr. W. E. Edwards
Louisville
E. Goppard & Son
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Henry Dorsey
Overton
Ham Mirron
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Western Farm Mortgage Company
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Propericx Zenner
Salt Lake
Liberal Territorial Convention
Tourn News
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Kirrie Sian
Louisa Sherman
Seneca Falls
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Frank Tyller
Gordon
Ark
Tuer
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Charles McIlvarne
Lucas
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Willliam A. Berns
New York Life Insurance Company
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