Congressional Actions Highlight 1892 World’s Fair Debates
The Senate passed a 5 million dollar World’s Columbian Exposition appropriation with a Sunday closing restriction, while a prohibition amendment failed. House and Senate debated sundry civil, diplomatic, and naval bills, with conference reports agreed and temporary funding extended. A claim payment of 10 million to W McGarrahan moved forward amid 1892 fiscal year plans. The Senate also authorized a labor slums investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House
Dominion of Canada
United States
William McGarrahan
Congress
Committee On Labor
Rain and storms cause widespread damage across multiple states
President Tiaerison signs pension and river and harbor bills as storms devastate thousands of acres of corn near Sedalia Missouri and blow down buildings. Sawmill boiler explosion at Hague Illinois kills two and injures five. Pittsburgh Homestead riot probe ends with report due. Robberies and lynchings reported in multiple states amid ongoing labor unrest and natural disasters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiaerison
Sedalia
Bamnp
Hague
Ila
Pittsburgh
Homstead
Congress
Union
Carnegie Company
Homestead
Co. C. Winthrop
Centerville
8. C
Westport
Conn
Grand Rapids
Mich
Nostie Kennedy
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Julien MosEney
Halley
Ark
Floops
Warrior
Tombigbee
Alabama
National Educational Association
Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Albert G. Lane
Chicago
United States
Peter Daniels
Atlanta
Silvia Tyle
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Connersville
Ind
Spencer
James Wills
Annie
Mary Connor
Omaha
Neb
Solomon Gerber
Siberia
Poland
Huron
Cal
Montana
Des Moines
Grn
Carlin
Wardner
Idaho
Joan Harkins
Philadelphia
Joan W. Bancock
Meadville
Commercis
Cincinnati
Riots, fires, floods and storms dominate early summer woes
A flood threat looms in Alabama as Sumter and Marengo counties face starvation. a Milwaukee livery stable burns with sixty horses perishing. a Wisconsin man dies in a storm in Lac qui Parle county. the Four Mile Creek Kansas waterspout damages property and livestock. immigrants reach 73,120 in June. a Cleveland linoleum factory burns for a $100,000 loss. Homestead riots claim eleven lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams Express Company
New York
New Haven
Conn
Ricuuard Beers
Milwaukee
Dunne
Lac Qui Parle
Minn
Sumter
Marengo
Ala
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Baltimore
Washington
Louisville
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Boston
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Columbus
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Indianapolis
Omaha
Toledo
Alt
Four Mile Creek
Kan
Christopher A. Ball
Princess Anne
Turn West Superior
Wis
Homestead
San Diego
Cal
San Diego Bay
Kokomo
Ind
John G. Coombs
John Smith
Don Bogart
Ohio River
City of New York
City of Paris
Wilkesville
W. C. Cline
Tit Goshen
N. Y
Hugh O'Donnell
John Mcluckie
Burgess
Lomestead
Sylvester Critchlow
Anthony Flaherty
Samuel Burkett
James Flannagan
Hugh Ross
T. J. Connors
Silas Wayne
Martew Murry
Mary E. Gallagher
Delaware River
Gloucester
N. J
James McCroskey
Wilmington
Del
Mabel Claringbould
Kansas
ErHen Ramsey
Belle’s Creek
W. Va
Nominations and political shifts across several states
The notices list congressional nominees in multiple districts including Carter Tate in Georgia and Johan Monroe in Iowa, plus state and local slate movements. It reports Kansas prohibitionists nominating I O Pickering for governor and Wichita’s J M Monroe for congressman at large, with a free trade and free silver platform. It also notes the death of Francis Loomis and the Populist convention in Minnesota nominating Ignatius Donnelly, signaling ongoing party realignments and failed efforts toward Democrat unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
McCullock
Indiana
Arthur P. Twineham
West Virginia
B. B. Dorener
Georgia
John C. Black
Illinois
Norman Kilburn
Iowa
John FF. Lacey
Territory of Oklahoma
Dennis Flynn
Cyrus W. Field
Dobb's Ferry
N. Y
Stockbridge
Mass
Newton Booru
California
United States
Sacramento
GrorGh Gazelly
Adrian
Mich
Tennessee
H.C. Snodgrass
Congress
James A. Cunningham
United States Soldiers’ Home
Chelsea
Thomas IH L. Carter
Montana
Michigan
Grand Rapids
Ross Terry Cook
Pittsfield
Tate
Connecticut
Hartford
D.D. Aitkin
Carter Tate
Johan Monroe
A. L. Hager
North Carolina
Willliam H. Bower
David Yeomans
People’s
Kansas
Topeka
I. O. Pickering
Olathe
J. M. Monroe
Wichita
Francis P. Loomis
Tur People's Party
St. Paul
Minn
Ignatius Donnelly
Global disasters and political notes from a historic press
A blaze in Berkhamsted kills eight children. cholera spreads to Crimean ports. landslide near Chamoun kills twenty. Gladstone elected with small margin. Rosalis torpedo boat founder, seventy missing off Uruguay. Cholera actions by France and Spain frontier vigilance. Uganda religious conflict grows. Sangir eruption kills many. Philippine towns burn leaving thousands homeless. Berlin fire destroys six factories. Merritton trains crash. Montreal foundry loss $300,000.
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Berkhamstead
England
Crimea
Chamoun
France
Goadstone
Midlothian
Rosalis
Uruguay
Spain
British East Africa Company
Uganda
St. Cuartes Dike
Sangir
Gladstone
San Miguel de Mayuno
Philippine Islands
Reinickendorf
Berlin
Merritton
Can
W. Clendenning & Son
Montreal
Senate adjourns amid fortifications bill actions and world fair vote
In Washington a legislative week closes with the fortifications conference report agreed and a sundry civil bill presented while the house defeats a 5 million dollar world’s fair appropriation by 128 to 110. Other items note deaths in London and Elizabethtown, strikes in Hungary, and accidents from St Louis to Richmond.
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United States Senate
District of Columbia
Tomas Cook
Cook
London
Iowa
Robert G. Cousins
Michigan
J. C. Burrows
Wisconsin
George K. Shaw
Ohio
L. W. Hull
Brickhead
Great Britain
Gladstone
Thomas A
Apvicks
Tangiers
Malmon
Mohutor
Presipetr Iwarrison
Senate
George Shiruas, Jr
Pittsburgh
Supreme Court of the United States
St. Louis
Charles Ploetz
Julia Willy
Richmond
Dan Emmett
Providence
R. I
Hennessey & Cooney
Bebar
Hungary
Seven Homestead strike leaders charged with murder
Informations filed before Alderman McMasters accuse Hugh ODonnell John McLueskie Critch Jon Anthony Flaherty Samuel Burkett James Iannagan and Hugh Ross of murder in the Connors killing during the Homestead riots. Warrants issued. one leader jailed. others sought as strikers resist return to work. Frick Lovejoy and Potter faces possible future charges. 215 strikers named as accessories.
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T. J. Connors
Pinkerton
Ijilugh O'Donnell
T. B Lovejoy
Carnegie Steel Company
Homestead
Burgess McLuckie
Alderman McMaster
McLuckie
O'Donnell
Burkett
Critchlow
Butler County
Frick
William J. Brennan
Amalgamated Association
Weihe
Messia
Carnegies
Connor
Wayne
H. C. Frick
Lovejoy
Potter
Messrs. Frick
Alderman McMasters
Hammsteap
Carnegie Mills
Carnegie
Carnegie Works
Homestead Mills
Dillon
Upper
Lower Union
Mississippi Floods Worsen Crops Across State
Mississippi reports ongoing rain with rivers out of banks and extensive crop damage. Pearl river rise worsens conditions as water covers turnpikes and crops suffer losses across the state, leaving residents despondent about the harvest.
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Jackson, Miss
Homestead Mills Brace for Labor Clash and non union influx
Non union workers flood Homestead mills as 22 informers face warrants. Secretary Lovejoy says bail likely for Burgess McLuckie and general bail plan urged. National guard presence debated as Gov Pattison arrives to inspect troops and seek peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lovejoy
Carnegie Company
Alderman McMasters
Burgess Meluckie
Burgess McLuckie
McLuckie
W. J. Brennan
McLueckle
B. I. Butler
Hoadly
Ohio
Carnegie Steel Company
Pennsylvania
King
Philadelphia
National Guard
Homestead
Allegheny
Steel
Armor
Homestman
Pattison
Gen. Snowden
Harrisburg
Lava Drives Residents From Nicolosi Near Mount Etna
The eruption of Mount Etna worsens with renewed crater activity and underground quakes. Poor Nicolosi villagers, forced from fields by advancing lava, receive free bread and soup as their homes are shaken and windows shattered.
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Caranta
Mount Eitna
Nicolosi
Tava
Economic figures highlight large historic costs and debts
The text lists sweeping totals including cosmetics costs at 62 million dollars annually, US national debt in 1791 at 75.5 million, mortgage totals of 15.35 billion, revenue from a tower ascent at 115 thousand, and a Vera Cruz port contract for 5.615 million with Mexico.
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Cosmeticis
Fair Americans
United Starrs
United States
Lst
Wiffel Tower
Austin Coram
Department of Public Works
Vera Cruz
World’s Fair appropriation bill voted down in House
Predictions about the World’s Fair funding were borne out as the House rejected most Senate amendments to the sundry civil bill only the Sunday closing provision survived. A conference was ordered with Holman Sayers and Bingham named as negotiators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Friends of the Fair
House
Atkinson
Holman and Hooker
New York
Yeas
Taylor
Lind
Wis
Dingley
Holman
Sayers
Bingham
Reapers Riot Kills Ten and Wounds Thirty in Wage Dispute
In Jamasi near Bupa Pesen on July 20 a mob of 180 reapers demanded higher pay. They attacked the employer and seized a sub inspector, killing him with sickles. Police fired as the mob fled, leaving twelve dead and thirty badly wounded, with ten arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bupa Pesen
Jamasi
Tornado Rips Ravigo and Polesella Italy Causing Destruction
A tornado struck the Ravigo-Ravigo region in northern Italy on Tuesday wiping out about forty houses in Polesella on the Po River seven miles south of Ravigo. At least two people were killed, six injured, and troops were dispatched to assist in rescue and recovery.
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Rome
Ravigo
Italy
Polesella
Chili Pays Indemnity to Baltimore Crew Families
Secretary of state says United States and Chili reach settlement over the Baltimore assault. Seventy five thousand dollars in gold will be paid to families of two sailors who died and to surviving crew members who were wounded.
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Baltimore
Washington
Secretary of State
United States
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the Express
Congressional
State
Mississippi
Mount Etna
Raviro
Pollesella
Chili
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