Washington Letter on River and Harbor Bill Debacle
Washington dispatch notes the river and harbor bill narrowly passed the House, with Indiana delegation split and Senate expected to raise the total to 18 million. It condemns pension appropriation practices, urges reform, and reports on Treasury Secretary health and patent grants. Also covered are West Coast corporate grab and Seminole slaveholding in Florida with vivid field reporting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
House of Representatives
Indiana
Kleiner
Senate
House
United States Treasury
Congress
Secretary OF the Treasury
Treasury Department
Cyclone in Kansas City Kills Many
Telegraph item reports a cyclone in Kansas City last Tuesday demolishing several buildings and claiming 15 to 20 lives. Also notes storm damage in Evansville near $100000 and other brief items from the era including politics, culture, and a deer chase in Illinois.
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Weekly Star
United States
Canada
New York City
Daily Star
THE
Itak
North Wiliam St
New York
Kansas City
Logan
New Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Evansville
House
Democrats
Oregon
Sylvester Pennoyer
Johann Strauss
Saloonkeepers Unite Against Higher License in State Race
Indiana news notes report saloon keepers meeting to oppose any party calling for higher license or local option. They may withhold active campaigning, focus on next legislature. Also: anarchist Lewin York ousted from Logansport. Laurel burns. Gas strikes in Portland. universities and towns reporting oil and gas efforts. Petersburg lists 489 school children.
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Tampa
Fla
United States
Florida
Everglades
Caloosahatchie River
South
South Carolina
Massachusetts
Henderson
Varied Illinois News and Anecdotes From The Era
A roundup of brief items from Illinois towns includes four youths aged about 14 stealing about $50 in stores, a farmer mistaking a weather flag for anarchist danger in Genesee, and Batavia residents pelting Salvation Army marchers with eggs and firecrackers. Reports cover a rock embankment wreck near Rockton with five horses killed, a humane society protest against birds on hats, a Mount Morris woman keeping a large aviary, a red fog in Bloomington, and local costs for pauper care. Additional notes mention whisky towns, a giant lead mine near Galena, canary seed curiosities, a Paxton cider violation fine, widespread grasshoppers, Mt. Carmel revival conversions, a vicious horse incident near Tuscola, frost in northwestern Illinois, and ex-Senator David Davis’s illness. Weather, market figures for Chicago area, and a Georgia hunter’s tall tally conclude the column.
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Newton
Genesee
Batavia
Salvation Army
Rockton
Illinois Humane Society
Chicago
Mount Morris
Bloomington
Richland County
Shawneetown
New Haven
Gallatin County
Champion Range
Galena
Aurors
Paxton
Mt. Carmel
Mike Christophan
Tuscola
Illnois
David Davis
Elizabethtown
Havana
Carmel
Fairfield
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Slater
Tur
Lising
Georsees
Los Land
Waeeenane
H Beau
Schwanna
City of
William Dorsheimer
Daily Stan
London
Paris
Berlin
Vienna
Dublin
Washington
Albany
Tax Stax
Tabar Attistes
ATI
America
Sun
the Sun
Scientific American
Momki
SaNe Nas NM Co
England
France
Germany
FORD
Meadquarters For
New Orleans
Ford & Bennett
Brown’s Clothing House
New Harmony, Indiana
NWW
Harmo Claning
YY Letors
Duclos CO
New Harmony
Ind
Thrall & Mumford’s
F. W. Cook Brewing Company
John
W. Miller
Dealehn IN
New Harmony Register
C. A. Snow & Co
U. S. Patent Office
Washington, D. C
T. H. Frankenberry
North Liberty
L. W. Holloway
Indianapolis
C. M. Keller
Columbus
W. Kimmel
Milton
W.R. Kramer
Fairmount
H. Fati
Middletown
E. Wood
G. W. Bond
Fort Wayne
J. Dickason
Vevay
H. V. Shaw
Northwest
Southwest
Middle States
Rocky Mountains
Pennsylvania
Ellis Reinhart
Goldsboro
Michigan
Peter Weber
Babes
Gene
Peener
Weber
St. Louis
McPherson
Kas
Hagaratown
Illinois
Springer
Caampatan
Inn
Main Street
Walnut Street
Trevett & Green
Maj
Ben Perley Poore
Marine Band
Mendelssohn
Grover Cleveland
Indiana State News
Hoosier
Lewin York
Logansport
Wayne County
Elkhart
Richmond
City
Laurel
Franklin County
Princeton
Portland
North Vernon
Petersburg
Carcago, Inc
Georgia
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