Resolution to study timber damage near Northern Pacific line
A March议 resolution directs the Public Lands committee to examine alleged timber destruction on public lands along the Northern Pacific railroad and report needed legislation to protect timber. Also covered are debates on the Electoral Count bill Edmunds resolutions and various appropriations and pensions in Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Renate
van Wyck
Committee On Public Lands
Northern Pacific Railroad
Edmunds
House
Caswell
Judiciary Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Senate
General Grant
Hancock
Vrgina
L‘ll
E House
Court of Claims
W. P. Randall
Navy
Cumberland
Merrimac
Shim
I'st
Wna
Spooner
Colmitt
Carlis'e Beng
Crisp
Georgia
Government suit against Bell Telephone moved to Columbus Ohio
Government action to test Bell patent validity will be filed in Columbus. Several federal appointments announced include Gen O O Howard becoming Major General and Patrick B Garman named Registrar of the Land Office at St Cloud Minnesota. Also trichiniosis cases reported in Zuttichan Silesia and Ohio elections committee rules Hon Frank Hurd not entitled to the Tenth District seat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell Telephone Company
Columbus
United States
Senate
O. O. Howard
Pope
Patrick B. Garman
St. Cloud
Minn
D. F. McDermott
Benson
Widow Grants Memoir Funds Amid Ward Failure Fallout
The Grant widow sent 25000 dollars to Mrs Corbin for losses from the Grant Ward failure, funded by proceeds from the late General's memoirs. McKeesports National Tube Works workers strike for a 15 percent wage raise, about 1500 employees sign to join the Knights of Labor. A New York court enters a 1401908.79 judgment in Holt versus Warner. Gas poisoning in a New York tenement leaves one dead and others dying. An east bound train wreck near Hawley injures and kills crew and passengers. Miners plan a general strike after failed arbitration talks in Dubois. Weekly business failures rise in US and Canada. Two ferries collide on the Hudson with injuries amid panic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tamaqua
Boston
Oregon
Hudson
Philadelphia
Maria Beck
Frederick
Avenue C
New York
New York Associated Banks
Neal Dow
Portland
Watertown
Conn
William McCaffey
Clarence Cook
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad
Shousetown
Clymer
Kechler
Thomas Swords
United States Army
New York City
Army of the West
Clinton Iron Works
Graff, Bennett & Co
Pittsburgh
General Grant
Corbin
Grant & Ward
National Tube
McKeesport
Knights of Labor
Hamilton Cole
George C. Holt
Ferdinand Ward
William 8. Warner
Eleventh Street
Thomas Jackson
Martin O'Shaughnessy
Jackson
Fire & Wyoming Valley Railroad
Hawley
Fred Smith
O’hara
The
Fourth District
Dubois
United States
Canada
Hudson River
Barbed Wire Makers Plan Nationwide Price Increase
Chicago meeting of the Barbed Wire Manufacturers’ Association with 95 percent of U S makers votes to raise prices by ten percent. Other items include a dead body found near Tecumseh Michigan a embezzlement case in Spring City Tennessee and a Studebaker rail strike settlement in South Bend Indiana.
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Chicago
Mich
Lenham &Co
Duluth
Minn
Northern Pacific Railroad
Daisy Carroll
Spring City
Tenn
Champion Works
Springfield, CO
Evansville
Ind
Goldsboro
N. C
H. C. Dwight
Twenty-seventh
Massachusetts Regimental Association
Goldsboro Rifles
Studebaker
South Bend
John W. Lauer
Omaha
Neb
Lauer
Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore Railroad
Zaleski
Lewis Benditt
N. K. Fairbank & Co
Detroit
Thomass. Serrill
New Orleans
Alice M. Kirby
Helen G. Serrill
Helena
Ark
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
United States
Atchison, Kansas
Dubuque
Memphis
Emma Norman
Henry Arnold
Penitentiary Pressure and Maritime Disaster Report
The Illinois Penitentiary Commissioners inform the Department of Justice they will not accept more government prisoners unless costs are covered due to labor laws likely from Congress. A Marshfield dispatch reports the steamer Beda foundered after a leak near Cape Perpetua on the 15th. all crew perished including Captain Healey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilinois
Department of Justice
Washington
Congress
Marshfield
Ore
Beda
Cape Perpetua
Healey
Grand Jury
Hamilton Conwaty
Cincinnati Infirmary
J. H. Devereux
Cleveland
Galveston
Tex
Fred Gould
Young Gould
Violent Earthquake and Snow Riots Mark Europe News
Reports from Europe describe a midnight quake at Weisbaden and widespread snowstorms in Silesia causing villages to be buried and children to freeze. Riots in Liege involve unemployed Socialists, cafes wrecked, and many arrests. The Greek Government secures a £800000 loan in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weisbaden
Silesia
Prussia
Paris
M. Pasteur
United States
McLane
Leopold Zung
Liege
Belgium
Leopold
Maria Heilbron
Nice
Italy
Baxes
France
Rosalie
Rio Grande Do Sul
Falmouth
Cork
Ireland
America
Petersburg
Kruglewsky
Pasteur
Prince Alexander of
Oldenburg
London
Multiple National Rail Labor Strikes Roil Midwest and South
Two Knights of Labor at St. Louis refused H M Hoxie offer for Missouri Pacific. Kansas City switchmen quit eleven railroads after a wage rise. Fire destroys 19 New Orleans residences. A bill in New York seeks electric chair murder method. Opelousas courthouse burns with court records. Rock fall kills turner men in Pottsville tunnel. Treasury issues 10 million in 3 percent bonds. Cholera vanishes from Tonquin. Cyclone hits Williamsport Indiana damaging churches. Northern Michigan snow blocks railways. Senate debates presidential papers removal and open nominations. House considers labor arbitration and polygamy bans while Hancock widow pension approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of Labor
St. Louis
H. M Hoxie
Missouri Pacific
Union
Kansas City
Afme
New Orleans
New York Senate
Oakland
Johnson
Nebraska
Opelousa
Tuner
Pottsville
Oo Tner
Allen County
Ind
United Brethren
Williamsport
Michigan
United States
Senate
Logan
Wilson
Iowa
Des Moines
House
Anderson
van Eaton
Swinburne
J. Merriman
Warner
General Hancock
What Hoxie Will Do With Missouri Pacific
Governors Marmaduke and Martin meet with Missouri Pacific Vice-President Hoxie in St Louis to press restoring the March 15 1885 Hayes circular on wages and reemployment for all non deserters, with exclusions for those who damaged property. Knights of Labor press for settlement before a three day deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marmaduke
Martin
St. Louis
Kansas
Missouri
Kansas City
Hoxie
Missouri Pacific
R. 8. Hayes
Missouri Pacific Company
Hayes
Ita
Martin and
Hurst’s Hotel
Martin Irons
District Assembly 101
Knights of Labor
Yeaterday
Miggouri Pacific Railway Company
United States
Wright
Missouri Pacific strike stalemate and Kansas City switchmen walkout
A Missouri Pacific settlement plan accepted by governors was rejected by Knights of Labor committees. Kansas City switchmen quit en masse disrupting freight and yard operations. 230 switchmen left, affecting 160 engineers and 160 firemen across multiple lines including Wabash and Union Pacific.
Connecticut Arbor Day Proposal Cleared for House Action
Hartronp Connecticut March 23 The Agricultural Committee reports favorably a bill to fix an arbor day by spring proclamation for school observance and economic tree planting. A second bill would grant twenty year tax exemptions to landowners who prove planting specified trees to six feet tall on non woodland tracts valued up to twenty five dollars per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartronp
Conn
Agricultural Committee
Spicy scraps recount oddities from across the nation
A parade of curiosities includes Perry Georgia resident praising his wife’s 25 year bonnet, a Maine man fined for lobster mishandling, a self styled prophet predicting 1888, the Conscience Fund reaching 220000, and various humorous misadventures from clocks to infamous aliases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
G. C. David
Perry
Maine
Samuel Tellmarck
Corydon
Ind
Washington
Cleveland
Canter Mix
Nebraska
Carrollton
Pueblo
Col
China
San Francisco
East Saginaw
Mich
Marietta
Indiana
Grant County
Anthony Comstock
Buffalo
Yokohama
Plymouth
Esquire
Jenkins Johnson
The Latest Fad of the Fool-Dandies
A Albany Journal column mocks new fadsters who plead poverty and boast of finery while avoiding payments. A tale from Fifth Avenue shows a dandy embarrassed by muddy shoes and unbrushed trousers, as a guest laments tardy cab service and slovenly carriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany Journal
Nea Don
Fifth Avenue
Don
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Monticello Express
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Srenatte
Hovusk
Messrs. James
Sermont
Connectcut
O'Donnell
Remphill
South Carolina
Bynum
Commissioner of Labor
Bureau
Chicago Journal
Hoxia
Hansac
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Gould
Plankinton & Armour
Argentine
Armourdale
Chicago & Alton
Rock Island
Wabash
Hannibal & St. Joseph
St. Joseph
Council Bluffs
Burlington & Missouri River
Atchigan
Topeka & Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Kangan City
Fort Scott & Gulf
Connecticut
Greeresurenaae
Donestia Chicago
East Liberty
Phiadelphias
Baltimore
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