Senate in Special Session Nominates Federal Officials
The Senate in special session considered President Harrison's nominations on the 20th and 23rd including Frederick D. Grant for United States Minister to Austria-Hungary and John C. New for Consul General in London. Rhode Island Governor’s note announced Chace’s resignation. Confirmations included Whitelaw Reid as Minister to France and Grant to Austria-Hungary. Other posts for Washington Territory and Montana were listed.
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U. 8
Senate
Frederick D. Grant
United States
Austria-Hungary
John C. New
London
Rhode Island
Chace
Harrison
Miles C. Moore
Oliver C. White
Washington Territory
Henry M. Blane
Broad wrap of 1889 calamities and court cases sprawl
Readable items report hydrophobia in Milton boy recovering, a Kansas City beef dealer vowing boycotts, a New York murder case verdict, a Newport stable fire killing the owner and eight horses, and numerous accidents fires crimes and disasters across the country with railroads, weather, and legal notes.
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Davin Barrey
Milton Township
Kansas City
New York
Wilhelmina Lebkuchner
Gordon & Warner
Newport
Neb
J. B. Gordon
National City
Cal
Cyrus W. Field
Anderson
Ind
York
Atlantic City
N. J
Rupert Craven
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company
Robert Sicel
Franz Sigel
Benedict
Erie County
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
Canon Diablo
A. T
Wells
Pons
Bnrotuens
St. Louis
J. H. Manor
Thomas Hacc Berry
William Nicholas
United States Dynamite Company
Lakewood
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Barnun
Wisconsin Assembly
Andrew StRovupg
Atwood
J. W. Wendt
Barnegat
Lewis Lapse
Patterson
Weesley Cornell
Deer Creek Township
Mason Brown
Kanawha Valley Railroad
West Virginia
Benjamin Moorne
New Hanover County
N. C
Dunne
United States
New Jersey
Timothy
Peter Barrero
Minneapolis
Tolefsen
Dover
N. H
Cincinnati
Patrick Trainor
Notable Deaths and Appointments Update
Prince H Emerson former Utah Associate Justice died in Ogden on the 20th. Justice Stanley Matthews of the US Supreme Court died in Washington on the 22d at age sixty five. Rhode Island Republicans nominated Herbert W Ladd for Governor and Daniel G Littlefield for Lieutenant Governor. Rev Erexte resigned as Brown University president and professor of moral philosophy. Prof R H Bishop of Miami University and his wife celebrated their fiftieth anniversary in Oxford Ohio.
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Prince H. Emerson
Grant
Supreme Court of Utah
Ogden
Erexte, G. Ropinson
Brown University
Providence
R. I
R. H. Bishop
Miami University
Oxford
Rhode Island
Herbert W. Ladd
Daniel G. Littlefield
Stanley Matthews
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Matthews
Fifty-seventh
Ohio Regiment
United States
United
W J Foye Seized At Grand Manan And Other 19th Century Notices
The 20th saw the American schooner W. J. Foye seized at Grand Manan N B for customs violations. Sir Thomas Guar?stown Bart died in London aged eighty five. A fire at Brownsville Ontario destroyed three major blocks. Genoa reports duels and crises at Monte Carlo. England’s paper makers form a price rise syndicate with 2 000 000 capital. Canadian Finance Minister Loser cites possible limits on American land amid adulteration concerns.
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W. J. Foye
Grand Manan
N. B
Thomas Guapstown
Bart
London
Brownsville
Ont
Genoa
Monte Carlo
Younhtern
England
Loser
Jose Vicente Villanda
Mexico
Shangtung
China
Zamboanga
Philippine Islands
Cuba
Sir George Gray
New Zealand
America
Pinska
Russia
Dominion
Ottawa
Washington
Cherbourg
Prussian
Silesia
Lake Chapala
Jalisco
Mex
Florence
Italy
Isthmus
Panama Canal
Rome
St. Petersburg
Kieff
Notable Fatalities and Disasters Reported in One Day
Multiple calamities noted: a Lake Shore passenger train collision near Goshen Indiana kills Robert McCaffery and Della Love. a Brooklyn shoe factory fire destroys a major plant injuring twenty three. Other incidents include a Pittsburgh molten metal accident, a bank embezzlement and familicide in Ontario, and various political appointments and legal actions.
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Lake Shore Road
Goshen
Ind
Robert McCaffery
Della Love
Elkhart
J. R. Neal
Congress
Third
Tennessee
Rhea Springs
Brooklyn
N. Y
Pittsburgh
W. A. Hanway
Guelph
Ont
J. W. Lyon
Michigan House
Owarues J. Bartre
Chicago
Jamieson
William BR. Manierre
Theodore Steinway
Steinway & Sons
New York
Brunswick
Germany
E. Cummines & Co
Boston
Rikward B. Rrcxarp
Cincinnati
Mindanic
Manilla
John Rosenbarger
Andrew Castaline
Creighton
Neb
Apvicus
Ocotian
Guadalajara
Mexico
Melvin C. Garlitz
Cumberland
Nominations Made for Several Important Offices
Washington March 25 President sent to Senate nominations for pensions commissioner James Tanner of Brooklyn and many others including Edward Willetts Michigan for Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and Commodore Harmony to rear admiral. Confirmations also discussed for John C New London post and several state and territorial appointments with details on who was confirmed March 25. Corporal Tanner outlines a policy of pensions for worthy soldiers and no one should be in want.
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Corporal Tanner
New York
Edward Willitts
Michigan
Rusk
Washington
Senate
James Tanner
Brooklyn
N. Y
James M. Shakelford
Indiana
United States Court
Indiana Territory
Zachariah L. Warrend
Kansas
United States Court For
Indian Territory
Thomas EB. Needles
Illinois
Walter P. Corbett
Georgia
United States
Georgina
Edwin Willetts
David B. Harmony
Francis M. Ramsay
United States Navy
Albert A. Burleigh
Maine
Aroostook
James W. Wakefield
Bath
Charles G. Edwards
Minnesota
George W. McBride
Charles M. Bradshaw
Washington Territory
Puget Sound
Oregon
Centralia
W. H. Cullimore
Bloomington
J. S. Neville
Wisconsin
Stoughton
J M. Hibbard
Chilton
G. D. Breed
Lancashire
T. A. Burr
Rushville
R. F. Bebout
Ohio
Coshocton
Jamestown
J. R. Crain
Iowa -Tama
London
Mr New
New
Mr. New
Messrs. Reed
Grant
Andrew C. Bradley
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia
Frank R. Aikens
Supreme Court of Dakota
John R. Mefie
Supreme Court of New Mexico
Henry WW. Blake
Supreme Court of Montana
John Fleming
District of
Colorado
Miles C. Moore
Oliver C. White
Edwin Willitts
Nathan O. Murphy
Prescott
A. T
Arizona
Julius Goldschmidt
Vienna
John A. Fellows
Pontiac
E. S. Hoyt
Griggsville
W. R. Parks
Petersburg
A. H. Reed
Flora
Edwin O. Shaw
Newaygo
D. GC. Carr
Fowlerville
Iowa
Lucy Bowers
Tipton
William F. Carpenter
Manning
Sarah Harthman
Griswold
Frank T. Piper
Sheldon
J. S. Reeves
Union City
Edward McGlachlin
Stevens Point
G. S. Rice
West Superior
Whitelaw Reid
Hotal
Bureau
Harrison
Funeral rites for Justice Stanley Matthews attended by President Harrison
President Harrison and Cabinet joined other dignitaries in solemn funeral services for Associate Justice Stanley Matthews. The ceremony took place at the justice’s Washington home with a flower-filled music room, a silver-ornamented casket, and a silver inscribed plate on the lid. The body was later transported to Cincinnati for burial.
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Washington
Stanley Matthews
Funeral services for Stanley Matthews life timeline
The article details the late Stanley Matthews born July 21 1824 and died March 22 1889 with funeral rites in Washington and Cincinnati. It notes the White House attendance including President Harrison and Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, and numerous officials, plus reverent tributes from Justice and Mrs Field and President and Mrs Harri gan. The service featured hymns and prayers, with interment planned at Spring Grove Cemetery near Cincinnati after a courier to Glendale Ohio.
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Stanley Matthews
Justice
District of Columbia
Order of the Legion of Honor
Supreme Court
Bief
White House
Harrison
Blaine
McKee
Wanamaker
Russell Harrison
Windom, Proctor, Rusk and Noble
Miller
Halford
Russell H. Harrison
Porter
Navy
Morton
Butler
Hoar
Farwell
Sherman
Payne
Evarts
Morrill
Hale
Mundergon
Cockrell
Coll
Paddock
McDonald
Conger
Carlisle
McKinley
Springer
Cabot
Lodge
Butterworth
Cox
Schoonmaker
Garland
Davia
Court of Claims
Hazner
A. C. Bradley
District Courts
Wylie
Hugh McCulloch
Horatio King
P. S. Cooney
Notre Dame University
Indiana
B. H. Warder
Alexander Graham Bell
Carter
John Hay
Calhoun
Welling
Columbia University
Wynkoop
T. 8. Hamlin
Church of the Covenant
Leonard
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Hamlin
Schubert
Jerusalem
Matthew
Cincinnati
Spring Grove Cemetery
Gray, Blatchford
Harlan and Lamar
Hayes
Howell IE. Jackson
George R. Sage
John W. Herron
W. M. Proctor
J. Thompson
H. W. Hughes
Fire Traps Kill and Injure in Brooklyn Shoe Factory
In Williamsburg Brooklyn a four story shoe factory building burned rapidly trapping eighty workers on upper floors. Dozens jumped windows as flames roared through the structure. Twenty three injured. one expected to die. property losses around 110000.
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Brooklyn
New York
Kent Avenue
Broadway
Williamsburg
Ferry
Wurster
James Hart
Rochester Dried Apple Trust Forms in New York
Rochester capitalists form a trust in dried apples purchasing 150 cars at about 250000 dollars. New York state accounts for three quarters of the nation's dried apples and the Rochester syndicate has acquired the bulk of the product.
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Rochestrer
N. Y
Rochester
Rochester Syndicate
Bald-Knobber Walker Death Sentence Confirmed
The Missouri Supreme Court upholds the lower court death sentence of Dave Walker on appeal from Christian County. This marks the last Bald-Knobber appeal case with execution set for May 10.
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Bald-Knobber” Walker
St. Louis
Jefferson City
The
Chronicle
Supreme Court
Dave Walker
Christian County
Bald-Knobber
Stowe Mind Fails as Fame Leaves Her Illusions Behind
Reports from Hartford say Harriet Beecher Stowe has recovered physically from illness but has lost most of her memory and mental faculties. She greets familiar friends with a vacant look, shocking relatives who now face tender care. Her genius, responsible for Uncle Tom's Cabin, is said to have departed, echoing the later life of her father Rev. Lyman Beecher.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
New York
Hartford
Great Calf Case enters new decision in Iowa litigation
Jones County calf dispute dating to 1877 ends with judge Linehan overruling defense motion and awarding plaintiff $1,000 and costs to $3,500 against all defendants except Harman Keller who died last week. Defendants plan appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Iowa
Warrerz
Jones County
L Linehan
Harman Keller
Supreme Court
Gold Fever at Santa Clara Denied by Governor
San Francisco March 27 Governor Torres of Lower California and Sonora via Ensenada dispatch to the Mexican Consul warns the Santa Clara placers are greatly exaggerated. Only practical miners have found gold and any new discoveries lack certainty.
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Lower California
Santa Clara
San Francisco
Torres
Sonora
Ensenada
San Diego
Kenney Fire Destroys 32 Stores. Aid Sought
Over thirty-two stores burned in Kenney Illinois Monday night causing losses over 100000. John Edwards, Kenney Town Board president, appeals to Bloomington residents for help. a meeting is called for tonight to organize relief. Families are left without homes food or raiment.
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Clinton
Kenney
Chicago
Springfield
Illinois Central
Illinois, Midland
Peoria
Bloomington
Ill
John Edwards
Tragic Indiana Crossing Death In Lake Shore Crash
A Lake Shore passenger train near Dunlaps Indiana struck a buggy carrying Robert McCaffrey aged 20 of Goshen and Della Love aged 18 of Elkhart. Both were killed. the horse perished and the buggy was demolished. The couple were believed asleep when hit.
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Indiana
Detroit
Mich
Goshen
Ind
Lake Shore
Dunlaps
Here
Robert McCaffrey
Della Love
Elkhart
McCaffrey
Death of Ex Lieutenant Governor Cutler of New York
Providence R I March 27 Hon Charles R Cutler of Warren died last evening of paralysis at 67 Born Ballston N Y he sailed 1839 in Warren for nineteen years became a captain then manufactured cotton cordage Held public offices and was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1872 A prominent Odd Fellow and former Grand Master of the State Grand Lodge of Freemasons
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Cutler
New York
Providence
R. I
Charles R. Cutler
Warren
Ballston
N. Y
State Grand Lodge of Freemasons
Died After Six Years of Suffering in Chicago
Mabel Mc Gregor, the young girl who died in Chicago Sunday from injuries after a brain tumor operation, was buried yesterday near Rockport. She was shot six years ago by Norman Swartzell who also killed her father. Swartzell later killed himself in jail.
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Rockorp
Mabel McGregor
Chicago
Here
Norman Swartzell
Swartzell
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