Congress Passes Silver Bill After Week of Debates
The House kept a continuous session from May 23 to 24 and passed the Silver bill 114 to 97. In the Senate, May 26 to 29 featured debates on coins, militia use, and election laws with several measures advancing or being postponed. The President vetoed the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, and Congress adjourned toward June 10 with various committee actions and notices from the Treasury on refunding certificates.
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Pendleton
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Call
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Maxey
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Saulsbury
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Congress
Voorhees
Butler
Farley
Conkling
Allison
Blaine
Ingalls
Platt
Gibson
Louisiana
Committee On Ways and Means
Michigan
Whithorne
Tennessee
Atkins
Yeas
Todd
Stevenson
Barlow
Good
Committee On Judiciary
Vance
Ways and Means
Treasury Department
Washington
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Little Chief
Secretary of the Interior
Dakota
Ways and Means Committee
Infested Canadian River valley cited in Chickasaw Nation
A section of the Canadian River Valley in the Chickasaw Nation is said to harbor lawless white men preying on Indian property and threatening unrest unless the Government removes them. Captain Kendrick of the Ludington tug is awarded a first class life saving medal for saving seventy people from a wreck, with several second class medals to others for Lake Erie rescues. The Treasury circular asks holders of called bonds maturing before July 1 to present them in June for redemption with interest to maturity, addressed to the Loan Division, Secretary's Office.
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Kendrick
Ludington
Mich
Lake Erie
Secretary of the Treasury
Department
Secretary’s Office
Sherman
Dedicatory mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral and river tragedies
The St Patrick’s Cathedral ceremony in New York drew 4000 to 5000 worshippers with hierarchy including Archbishops Gibbons Purcell Wood Williams Lynch and Hannan. Reports note deaths in Niagara River drownings and a platform collapse at Lancaster Decoration Day.
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New York City
Archbishop Gibbons
Baltimore
Purcell
Cincinnati
Wood
Philadelphia
Williams
Boston
Lynch
Toronto
Hannan
Halifax
William Lloyd Garrison
New York
Jennie Smith
Covert D. Bennett
Jersey City
N. J
Smith
Brooklyn
N. Y
Bartlett & Green
John 8. Richards
J. Stewart
John King
Walter Swan
Niagara River
Lewiston
Scituate Savings Bank
African Methodist Episcopal
M. E. Toulmins
Buffalo
United States
Samuel J. Tilden
Tilden
Commission Out West
Maria G. T. Blair
General Granger
Thomas Blair
Pennsylvania House
Gloucester
Mass
Delia Wheeler
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Tom Moore
Connellsville
Pittsburg
Mary A. Witham
Miragane
Baptist American Home Missionary Society
Saratoga
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Rumberger
Armstrong County
Smith and Petroff
W. H. Kemble
Charles B. Salter
Alex. W. Ransenring
Carbon
Jesse R. Crawford
Blair
Chris Long
Cumberland Counties
Petroff
William E. Gray
England
Wall Street
Island Pond
Paris Green
Lancaster
Multistate Violence and Disasters Report From Late 19th Century
A long list of incidents includes Colin Mahony shooting Bridget Murphy in Monroeville Ohio after a marriage refusal, a whirlwind capsizing a propeller near Lake Charles Louisiana with eight dead or drowned, a Brighton Illinois powder magazine struck by lightning, and a Wisconsin farmer murder of his infant. Other items cover ambush shootings in Breathitt County Kentucky, bank embezzlement charges in St. Louis, tribal convention at Eufala Indian Territory, and legal actions in Brownville Tennessee and Sacramento.
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Colin Mahony
Bridget Murphy
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Lake Charles
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Oriental Powder Company
Nicholas Attenhofer
Kewaskum
Wis
Louisville Courier-Journal
Riverton
Custer County
Elva Underwood
George Underwood
Elya
Jesse
Andrew Carpenter
White
Breathitt County
Lewis
Lumpkins
Convention of Civilized Tribes of Indians
Eufala
I. T
Grand Lodge of Good Templars
Detroit
Great Britain
Australia
O’leary
Chicago
F. A. Hall
Jacksonville
Fla
Brevard County
Brownville
Tenn
Baxter
Des Moines
Daniel Campbell
H. H. Moore
M. H. Jones
J. A. Nash
Pomeroy
Bakersfield
Cal
Thomas
William Yoakum
Yoakums
Johnston
Tucker
Long Tom
Supreme Court
Fresno County
Holt and
Nodaway
Troy Dye
Sacramento County
Edward Anderson
Sacramento
A. M. Tullis
Tullis
Anderson
Washington
Hagerstown
Thomas Troxell
Cumberland
F. B. Smith
Shady Grove
Michael Shannon
Fears of Drought Hit Ceara and Global Tensions Rise
The Ceara province in Brazil faces drought fears after a near depopulation last year due to drought and smallpox. Internationally, conflicts and political shifts unfold from Greece's war prep to German Reichstag changes. Britain plans forceful moves in Africa while Egypt strands under European pressure.
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Canada
Dominion
Austin
Thirteenth
United States
Henry Ward Beecher
London Times
France
England
Egypt
Afa
Russia
Kieff
Webb
Ohio Republican Convention at Cincinnati nominates Taft for Governor
The Ohio Republican Convention held in Cincinnati on the 28th elected Judge Foster for governor on the first ballot with 280 1 6 votes to Taft 275 5 6. Alphonso Taft named as candidate for governor and Andrew Hickok Looper for lieutenant governor, with other ticket members and a unanimous platform affirming free suffrage national supremacy and Republican leadership in Congress.
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Alphonso Taft
Charles Foster
Foster
Taft
Andrew Hickenlooper
Cincinnati
W. W. Johnson
Lawrence County
George K. Nash
Columbus
John F. Oglevee
Clark County
Joseph Turney
Cuyahoga County
Board of Public Works
James Fullington
Union County
Republican Party of
Congress
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Treasury
O’connor
United States
Chinese start Marine Insurance Company in Hong Kong
The article notes rising Chinese influence in profits formerly held by Europeans and reports the formation of a Chinese Marine Insurance Company in Hong Kong with a capital of $600,000.
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Hong Kong
Plans to flood Sahara basin for Atlantic canal test
The article outlines two proposals to flood El Juf in the Sahara. One plan envisions a canal from Cabes to admit Mediterranean waters, directed by M. Ferdinand de Lesseps, with favorable survey reports. The other restores the ancient outlet at Boca Grande to fill El Juf, a vast basin near Timbuctoo, into an inland sea connected to the Atlantic.
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Mediterranean
Suez Canal
Atlantic
Boca Grande
Great Mouth
el Juf
Azawad
Walata
Timbuctoo
Atlantic Ocean
Diodorus Siculus
Hesperides
Soudan
Morocco
Algeria
Tunis
Tripoli
Cape Juby
Niger
Mackenzie
Port St. Bartholomew
Madeira
Canary
Western Sahara
Central Africa
Europe
Africa
Harper’s Weekly
Insurrection Fears in Transvaal and Cape History
The piece notes potential uprisings in Transvaal as Boers clash with British rule after Cape colony status. It traces colonial transfer from Dutch to British hands, early conflicts with native groups, and the harsh reprisals that followed including executions of six men and their supporters.
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Vaal
Orange Free State
Transvaal
Andreas Pretorius
England
N. Y
South Africa
Canada
Jamaica
Ceylon
Cape of Good Hope
Mighty blast levels Oriental Powder Magazine after lightning strike
A severe storm caused a lightning strike on the Oriental Powder Company magazine near Archer Avenue, destroying the brick structure and scattering about 2,000 kegs of coarse blasting powder. The blast left no brick standing, but nearby buildings including a barn and a hotel suffered no damage. Wooden kegs largely survived while iron ones exploded.
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Oriental Powder Company
Brighton
Archer Avenue
Cobb
Chicago Tribune
Dangers of Wall Street In Old New York Tale
A New York correspondent recalls five men who flocked to Wall Street with $50,000 hoping to double it in six months. One became a lunatic asylum patient, another a streetcar conductor, a third an insurance clerk, a fourth vanished toward the Black Hills, and the last still lingers unable to invest.
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Stock Exchange
Scientific American
New York
United States
Memphis
New Orleans
Black Hills
William Lloyd Garrison obituary noting life and struggles
The obituary recalls William Lloyd Garrison born December 12 1804 in Newburyport Massachusetts. It covers his early apprenticeship as a shoemaker and printer, his rise to editor of the Free Press and Natural Philanthropist, founding the Liberator in 1831, persecution and imprisonment, leadership of the Anti Slavery Society, and his later honors including a $30000 memorial gift and publications of his poetry and writings.
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Newburyport
Mass
Newburyport Herald
Herald
Salem Gazette
Free Press
Natural Philanthropist
Boston
Benjamin Lundy
Baltimore
New York
the Liberator
Georgia
Female Anti-Slavery Society
Garrison
England
Anti-Slavery Society
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ohio Senate and House Journal May 24 30 actions
Ohio Senate and House reports cover May 24 to May 30 with amendments to fishing laws, toll-gate projects, board reorganization, county officer duties, second-hand dealer records, toll road amendments, a proposed judicial commission, salary cuts for railroad commissioners, trout and salmon regulation, poster protection, presidential electors and congress, and confirmations for asylum trustees. Adjournments noted.
Burial myths expose 162 cases of living interment
Dr Josat records 162 cases of apparent death with two to forty two hours of unconsciousness before burial. Causes include syncope hysteria apoplexy narcotism concussion of brain anaesthesia lightning and drunkenness. Ex streams never meet.
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