Senate and House Records of January 21 23 Proceedings
A summary of Senate and House actions including inquiries into convict labor on Peoria public works, pension increases for widows, and the purchase of the old Produce Exchange. Also notes on Dakota statehood enabling act, anti demonetization bill, election vote counting, and various public notices, accidents, and local incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hale
Secretary of the Treasury
Peora
Ill
Senate
Hovss
Matson
Committee On
New York City
House
Butler
Dakota
Committee On Territories
van Wyck
United States
Sven
Hovuse
Union and Central Pacific
Brown
Sheridan urges weather bureau shift to civilian control
Lieutenant General Sheridan told a special Senate committee that weather services should exit War Department custody and come under civilian authority. H W Cannon resigns as Comptroller to become VP of National Bank of the Republic of New York. Rankin dies. Dorman B Eaton resigns. Arizona appropriations deemed illegal. Desertion pension ruling upheld. star routes contracts awarded for four years across Wyoming Colorado Oregon and California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheridan
Senate
Weather Bureau
War Department
H. W. Cannon
National Bank of the Republic of New York
Joseph Rankin
Wisconsin
Washington
New Jersey
Dorman B. Eaton
Lamar
Arizona
Black
Wyoming
Colorado
Oregon
California
Tragic River Ice Accident Near Dawson Pennsylvania
A party on the Youghiogheny River near Dawson on the 21st saw a young woman named Riser fall into an air hole. Her escort James Marshall tried to rescue her but the ice broke, sending both into the water and they were drowned. A furnace collapse at Linden Street works in Pittsburgh killed a Polish worker Wisanski and fatally injured William Johnson. The Delaware Oil Works at Chester burned destroying most buildings used for lubricants and wax manufacture, with losses around 40,000 dollars. A ship Frank N Taylor, bound from Manila to New York, was reported burned at sea with vessel value freight and cargo totaling 330,000 dollars. The New York State Workingmen's Convention voted to boycott Chinese labor and their products. A cotton warehouse fire at Tompkinsville New York destroyed 10,000 bales with estimated losses of 150,000 dollars. John L Sullivan offered to fight Jem Smith for 9,300 to 10,000 dollars in America or Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Barry
James Burdick
William Carsen
Webster Avenue
Pittsburgh
Barry
Burdick
Carsen
Mr. Storms
Tarrytown
N. Y
General Scott
Lundy's Lane
Massina
United States
Canada
Pacific
Burchard
Rutger’s Female College
New York City
William Curry
Medina
Cigar Manufacturers’ Association
New York
Richmond Township
Catawissa
Philadelphia & Reading Railway
Ringtown
Roach
Chester
Europe
Havana
New York Associated Banks
William D. Sloan
William J. Vanderbilt
Sloan Maternity Hospital
Vanderbilt
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Alvan Cluck
Spencer House
Niagara Falls
Youghiogheny River
Dawson
Riser
James Marshall
Linden Street Works
Wisanski
William Johnson
Delaware Oil Works
Boston
Frank N. Taylor
Manilla
New York State
Tompkinsville
John L. Sullivan
Richard K.fox
Jem Smith
America
Rioters Pardoned and Local Accidents Highlight West and South
Governor Hughes grants clemency to thirty Howard County rioters linked to a fatal two years ago riot where Wyatt was killed amid fieldwork. In Virginia Dr. Thomas F. Andrews dies at 89 in Baltimore. A Michigan man, John R. Moore, burns himself severely during insanity episode. Foreclosure suits seek $9 million on Houston and Texas Central Railway mortgages. Findlay gas well floods area with an estimated forty million cubic feet daily. Chicago forger Hale arrested. Chicago Milwaukee St Paul roundhouse boiler explosion kills one and injures nine. Joliet man dies frozen after snowbank accident. Kentucky incident ends with a pistol confrontation at Kate Harvey’s home near Manchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hughes
Arkansas
Alist
Howard County
Wyatt
Thomas F. Andrews
Virginia
Baltimore
John R. Moore
Clifford
Mich
Houston & Texas Central Railway
United States
Galveston
Findlay
J. ¥. Hale
Chicago
First National Bank
Hale
East
Robert Bowman
J. C. Hogan
New York State
Chicago, Milwaukee &.St. Paul
Madison
Wis
Peter Burke
Joseph Leitner
Joliet
Theodore Benge
Dink Stivers
Dan
George Gray
Kate Harvey
Manchester
Clay County
Duel Ends in Death as Brothers Battle Adversaries
A house duel between the Gray brothers and the pair Benge and Stivers left three men dead George Gray Benge and Stivers were found dead with multiple bullets Dan Gray mortally wounded The woman fled to fetch help and returned with bystanders.
Distress in Victoria China markets and Samoan division talks
Reports from Victoria B C describe appalling distress among Chinese residents with many begging while others steal and break into houses. Berlin dispatches indicate commercial favor toward dividing the Samoan group among the United States Germany and England.
Ohio Senate Quorum Breaks Halted by Walkout
Republicans failed to convene a quorum in the Ohio State Senate on the morning of the 25th as Democrats arrived later causing a wrangle. The presiding officer refused adjournment and the Democrats walked out amid dispute.
Fire wipes Jackson county poor-house. five inmates die
Jackson Michigan January 25 The county poor-house housing forty inmates burned almost entirely. Five inmates perished in the blaze and the rest fled into the snow naked. The building cost twelve thousand dollars and was in a lonely area four miles from town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Mich
Mrs. G. Atkinson
Grass Lake
Catharine Avery
Columbia
Melissa Martin
Fron Spring Harbor
John Doherty
William Mills
Charles Smith
Shorty
Avalanches Kill Four In Colorado Silent Snowbound Pass
An Aspen report of late January details Maroon Pass becoming a snowbound tomb after two slides. Eight men were crushed and trapped in cabins. five survived after rescue efforts while four were dead, with victims suffering severe injuries and delirium before help arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Blizzard Sweeps Northwest Trains Stuck in Snow Drifts
A deep arctic blizzard collapsed rail service across the Northwest and Midwest. Sioux City trains blocked near Remsen. St Paul and Milwaukee routes hampered. numerous lines abandoned. temperatures drop to 30 below in Manitoba. roofs and tracks damaged. several freight and passenger trains stranded. Weather also devastates Los Angeles flood with broad property loss and drownings.
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Arctic
Los Angeles
Cal
Curcaco
Dodge City
Nebraska
la Crosse
Wis
St. Paul
Moorhead
Fort Garry
Manitoba
Iowa
Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Minois Central
Sioux City
Remsen
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Winona
McGregor
Kansas City
Santa Fe
Kansas Pacific
Burlington
Missouri Pacific
Atchison
Southern Minnesota
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Iowa & Minnesota
Lake City
Minn
St. Louis Road
Albert Lea
Milwaukee
Michigan
President backs Eight Hour Law and labor relief
In Washington an exchange with House Labor Committee members centers on enforcing the Eight Hour Law. President Cleveland calls the law sound and pledges enforcement to ensure full eight hours pay. He praises labor-saving machinery and supports settlers on public lands as practical relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Committee On Labor
House of Representatives
O'Neill
House
Murder Quickly Avenged in Kentucky Mob Lynching
In Hennerson Kentucky on January 25 Calvin Simpson a Union County negro broke into the home of Mrs Graves an elderly white woman and her two daughters. He pursued them and killed Mrs Graves with a club before dawn. Simpson who claimed divine instruction was seized and later hanged by a mob from a maple tree in the jail neighborhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hennerson
Calvin Simpson
Union County
Crisis in Ohio as Senate adjourns amid Hamilton County contests
In Columbus Ohio the Senate faced a crisis when Lieutenant-Governor Kennedy declared adjournment over a dispute on Hamilton County contest votes. Democrats refused to vote, a rump session formed, and both sides claim to be the true Ohio Senate as power shifts amid a tumultuous scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Hamilton County
Kennedy
Xach
Columnus
State Senate
Foraker
Axline
Walcott
Hamilton
Cincinnati
John O'Neil
Senate of
Ohio
Deranged Kentucky Mother Drowns with Infant
Covixeton Kentucky January 28 Mrs Georgie Gravener wife of M R Gravener a tobacco nist was found yesterday morning drowned in the cistern at her home while clutching the dead body of her three month old daughter Eva The mother of five children aged about thirty six had shown signs of mental disturbance for some time but no such calamity was anticipated Officials believe she may have drowned herself before daybreak and that the infant perished in her arms
Disasters of a Day Explosion Buries 37 Men in West Virginia Mine
Warenne W Va Jan 22 A fire damp explosion at Newburg Oriel Coal Company shaft trapped 37 miners as debris piled around the three hundred fifty foot shaft. Air passages are being built but no bodies recovered by midnight. Rescue work continues with many families awaiting news. Snow slides in Aspen and Utah following storms. one miner killed at Park City and two buried in a cabin collapse. San Francisco endures a hurricane level storm causing widespread damage and telegraph blackout. A derailment near Albany Mo kills one and wounds twelve. Terre Haute Ind reports a fatal boiler explosion at the Fairbanks Duneweg distillery killing McNellis and Otterman with four deaths total from the blast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gray Boys
Benge
Stivers
George Gray
Dan Gray
East Saginaw
Mich
T. B. Barry
Saginaw Valley
Fort Custer
Mont
Florida
United States
Collins
Cartersville
Oriel
Newburgh
W. Va
West Virginia
Colorado
Utah
San Francisco
Terre Haute
Ind
Warenne
Newburg Oriel Coal Company
Newburg
Aspen
Col
Maroon Pass
Hoskins
Marion Stewart
Charles Miller
Speller
Albert Sloper
Ira Hall
James Hungerford
David Pattenhall
Independence Pass
Leadville
Satt Lake
Park City
Thorstrom
A. O. Patterson
Patterson
Washington Territory
California
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Ocean
Mechanics’ Pavilion
Mission and
Thirtieth Streets
Annie Humbert
Coyle
John Carroll
AusBany
Des
Inprana Pouis
Terre: Haute
Fairbanks & Duneweg
Frank McNellis
George Otterman
Frank Buckingham
Charles Welker
Noted Forger Arrested in Crmcaco
Bank forger J F Hale captured in Crmcaco. A valise held drafts from sixty five banks on special paper. He is Robert Bowman with two Clinton Prison terms in Newark. Noted forgeries include 2700 at Catskill and 7000 at Troy. Victimized banks in St Joe County South Bend and others in Michigan Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crmcaco
J.F. Hale
Robert Bowman
Clinton
Newark
Catskill
Troy
N. Y
St. Joe County National
South Bend
Ind
Hirsdcale
Mich
Elmore, O
Lima
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Mgr. Boutello
Secretary of the Navy
Norfolk Navy Yard
Naval Committee
Navy Yard
Norfolk
Foreign Intelligence
Victoria
B. C
Berlin
Germany
England
Pekin
Parnell
Armagh
John McKane
St. Petersburg
Russia
Chamber of Deputies
Signor
Magliani
Belleville
France
Ohio State Senate
Oregon Railway and Navigation
Japar Lover
Keokuk
Fresno
Greece
Turkey
Ux St. Cloud
Philadelphia
Crested Buttes
Helena
Aln
Leavenworth
Kan
Riccard Lomparo
C.E. Walthall
Mississippi
Cullom
Morgan
Jackson, Mich
Denver
Tribune-Republican
Clayton Garnett
Svl
Charles Tuttle
Martin Riley
Jap Farris
August Goodwin
al Sams
Martin Patterson
Riley
Sol Camp
the Blizzard
Southern Pacific
Kate Lyttle
Theresa Whitney
Thomas Whitney
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