Weavers Meeting backs Blackburn standard amid wage debate
Wages tension grows as master cotton spinners meet in Manchester and adopt a resolution favoring the Blackburn list to standardize wages in weaving, while spinning terms are postponed and a wage drop is anticipated.
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Lancashire
Manchester
Blackburn
Messrs. Maple
Tottenham Court Road
Grafton Street
Buckfastleigh
Exeter
London
Charles Larkin
England
Newcastle
Marquis of Londonderry
House of Lords
Earl Grey
Lincolnshire Chamber Ofgriculture
Chambers of Agriculture
Ake Weeks
Marquis of Ripon
Kaplin
M.P
Central Relief Fein
Birmingham
Weston
H. Freeman Wood
Society of Arts
P. le Ne
British Medical Journal
College of Physicians
Duke of Richmond
Colville
Bagdad
Frank Payne
St. Thomas’s Hospital
Cayley
Middlesex
Fever Hospitals
Dublin
Vetoed Chinese Restriction Bill Shocks Congress and Public
Both Houses met Sunday to speed legislation while the President vetoed the Chinese Restriction Bill over treaty concerns. The Senate vote 109 to 95 failed to achieve a two thirds majority. Telegrams from San Francisco warn of unrest as the veto is announced and a militia guard is deployed. In Europe, Russians occupy Tabia after Roumanians evacuate and General Tchernaieff is recalled.
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American Congress
House
San Francisco
St. Petersburg
Arab Tabia
Berlin
Tchernaieff
Liberal Two Hundred honor Southampton retirement MP
Sir Frederick Perkins, Liberal member for Southampton, will not seek re election. A vellum address was presented at a February 25 meeting in the Skating Rink, Alderman Jones presiding, with Liberal representatives from nearby towns in attendance. Mr. C P Butt and Mr. Henry Lee addressed the gathering and were invited to contest the borough. The Southampton Times praised the meeting and urged Liberal support for Butt and Lee, calling them capable to serve in Parliament.
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Southampton
Frederick Perkins
Alderman Jones
C.P. Butt
Butt
Lee
House of Commons
Death of Mr. James Macdonell in London
The London writer Mr. James Macdonell died suddenly at his Gower Street residence at thirty seven. He contributed to several journals and was noted for culture and industry. An unfinished work on The Republic of France was left behind and a collection of his Spectator pieces may later appear.
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de Broglie
Louis Napoleon
M. Rouher
M. Victor Hugo
Paris
M. Léon Say
Kreuz Zeitung
Virchow
Ponienists
Jay
Bismarck
Alsace
Kropotkin
Kharkoff
Socialist Party
Baku
Lanzareff
Khiva
Kaufmann
Keats
Rome
Vincent Eyre
Augustus Paget
Trinita de Monti
The
Times
Nubar Pasha
H.M.S. Raleigh
Alexandria
Sir Henry Layard
Vienna
Sir Henry Elliott
St. Petersburg
Sanitary Commission
Loris Melikoff
Astrachan
Kirghiz
Reichstag
Herr Hoffman
Senate
House
Chicago
James Macdonely
Gower-street
Macdonell
London
Theondon
Leeds Mercury
Daily
Republic of France
Spectator
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