Congressional Week in Review May 25 31 1882
Senate and House action through May 31 covers treaty emigration with China and District of Columbia government bills. Army appropriation debates fix ranks and pay. various resolutions seek correspondence on fisheries and constitutional questions. Decoration Day ceremonies noted with speeches at Gettysburg and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Publishing Society
Boston
Charles Trussell
J. Russell Bradford
American Unitarian Association
Henry P. Kidder
Fall River
Mass
Kimberly, Carnes & Co
Pennsylvania
R. W. Grand Lodge of the World
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Columbia
State of California
Philadelphia
Russia
Philadelphia Commercial Exchange
Congress
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Tilton
Gettysburg
Hayes
B. F. Butler
New York
Sherman
Hancock
Booth
Grant
Maceo
Rhode Island Senate
Electoral Commission
N. Y
Coney Island
William Cullen Bryant
Central Park
Mazzini
James G. Wilson
Bryant
Justice Waite
Bar Association of New York
Rhode Island House
Senate
Order of Hibernians
Army Appropriation Bill Adopts Transfer of Indian Affairs
In the Committee of the Whole the amendment moving management of Indian affairs from the Interior to the War Department passed 113 to 107. Other items include Hoxie wedding to Vinnie Ream in Washington with General Sherman officiating, 1877 customs and internal revenue receipts exceeding 1876 by 7,940,164, and $401,800 subscriptions to 4 percent bonds. The Naval Affairs Committee favors the Harris bill creating a Board of Admiralty to sell old ships and build a new navy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Interior
War Department
R. L. Hoxie
Vinnie Ream
Washington, D. C
Sherman
Internal Revenue
House Naval Affairs Committee
Board of Admiralty
Canadian Commission of Customs
Stewart Hotel for Women to become a general hotel
The Stewart Hotel for Women in New York will be converted into a general hotel. Only eighty women could use its privileges at once, a number that had fallen to fifteen by the 25th, marking the venture as a complete failure. Whitehall Associated report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart Hotel
New York
Whitehall
N. Y
Stephens seeks reelection as political tensions rise
The article notes Alex H. Stephens running for re election. It covers diverse items from Civil War graves at Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis with 12 000 attendees to baseball scores for games on the 25th and 28th. It reports Bishop McCoskry’s New York resignation and a planned August 18 House of Bishops meeting. Also included are legal and political notes from Peoria and New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex. H. Stephens
Jefferson Barracks
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Chicago
Boston
Providence
Detroit Associated Press
Bishop McCoskry
Michigan Exchange Hotel
New York
Smith
House of Bishops
Jack Hughes
Peoria
Ill
Cincinnati Board of Trade
Congress
North American Turnerbund
Cleveland
Emil Walker
United States
Senate
House of Representatives
Army
Navy
Robert G. Ingersoll
New Orleans
A. Auguste
Recorder’s Court
Auguste
State Conventions Nominate Candidates Across States
The article notes various party conventions: National Greenback Labor Reform Workingman's party meets in Syracuse, N Y. Massachusetts Prohibition Convention set for Sept 11. Alabama Democrats fail to nominate a governor candidate with 500 delegates present by adjournment. Pennsylvania Prohibitionists nominate Lane Shallcross Parsons and Agnew for governor and other posts. Iowa Democrats nominate a full state ticket at Cedar Rapids. Tennessee Democrats in Nashville nominate four Supreme Court judges and on the 30th nominate a fifth judge before adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Alabama
Pennsylvania
F. H. Lane
John Shallcross
Calvin Parsons
Daniel Agnew
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Nashville
State Supreme Court
Fearful tornado hits Canton suburbs causing heavy losses
A powerful tornado swept into the Canton area bringing extensive death and property damage. Reports set the loss of life in the thousands with widespread destruction across the suburbs. Cholera also reported in China amid escalating fears.
England and Russia Reach Understanding on Balkan Settlements
In an extra edition of the Globe London May 30 reports England and Russia have an understanding subject to a congress. Proposals include Bulgaria divided into two provinces north and south of the Balkans, Turkish troops quit Bulgaria, and Thessaly Epirus and other Greek provinces reorganized. Bayazid ceded to Turkey Katour to Persia. Dardanelles Bosphorus remain open. France? Europe to reorganize Bulgaria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
The
Globe
England
Russia
Bulgaria
Balkans
Zgean Sea
Bessarabia
Batoum
Congress
Danube
Thessaly
Epirus
Bayazid
Turkey
Katour
Persia
Dardanelles
Bosphorus
Europe
Roumania
Russian envoy Count Schouvaloff predicts peace as war chances fade
A London interview notes Count Schouvaloff saying war probabilities have mostly vanished and Russia prefers peace. All major obstacles between England and Russia are removed and terms of the agreement were sent last night. Invitations to a congress will be issued soon, with Berlin chosen as the meeting site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
London
Count Schouvaloff
Russia
England
Berlin
Legal Tender Notes Retirement Bill Rejected in Draft
Washington May 28 full text of the bill to forbid retirement of United States legal tender notes is printed. It declares that after passage no secretary or officer may cancel retire or destroy notes and any redeemed notes must be reissued and kept in circulation. It allows cancellation of mutilated notes and issuance of notes of like denomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washinaton
D. C
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Potter committee hearings and related notes across May 29 to June 1
The Potter Investigation Committee held sessions on scope and open versus closed doors, with plans for witnesses and sub committees in Florida and Louisiana. Figures and letters from Georgia’s Alex Stephens and others spark debate over political disruption. Subpoenas issued to James E. Anderson. open press access approved. In maritime news, the Grasser Kurfurst disaster claims many lives with sparse rescue details and conflicting survivor counts. Koenig Wilhelm and Preussen movements noted. Lloyds tally reports 23 officers and 160 men saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Potter Committee
Florida
Louisiana
Oregon
Butler
Sherman
Potter
James E. Anderson
West Feliciana
Philadelphia
Subpena
J. R. Sypher
Grasser Kurfurst
Sand Gate Coast Guard
Preussen
Portsmouth
Preessen
Folkestone
Kurfurst
Koenig Wilhelm
Battoch
Grasser
Wisconsin Hurricane Death Toll and Destruction Rise
Madison May 25 reports confirm a deadly tornado sweeping Perry Primrose Montrose and parts of Jefferson County. The storm path spanned a quarter to half a mile, with 30 lives lost and 50 to 100 injured in the county. Officials warn the total losses may reach hundreds of thousands of dollars and rise further as details come in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Perry
Jefferson County
Fort Atkinson
Primrose
Montrose
Ocean Horror as German Ironclad Grasser Kurfurst Sinks
Dover reports the German ironclad Grasser Kurfurst capsizing off Ludgate while the squadron including Preussen and Koenig Wilhelm sails toward Plymouth. 180 to 200 crew saved and about 300 perished, with the Grasser Kurfurst the flagship and Rear-Admiral among the saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dover
England
Preussen
Grasser Kurfurst
Koenig Wilhelm
Plymouth
Gibraltar
Ludgate
London
W. H. Smith
Admiralty
Batsch
Folke
Missouri Emerges as Land of Opportunity and Liberty
A Beecher quotation extols Missouri from Red River to Gulf of Mexico praising its coal, minerals, forests, climate, and schools while condemning slavery. It notes emigration through Missouri to Kansas and beyond, highlights common schools, three normal schools, and projected 1878 educational expenditure around 2.7 million, and envisions Missouri rising to power through liberty and morality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red River
Gulf of Mexico
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Great Southern Gulf
Ohio
St. Louis
Henry Ward Beecher
Christian Union
Kind Hearted Liszt Helps Fraudulent Pianist
A young pianist claiming Liszt tutelage arrives in a German town for a concert. She confesses to using his name, but Liszt forgives and offers a solution. He judges her talent, suggests practicing, and arranges for the final piece to be credited to the Abbe Liszt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Liszt
M. L’ Abbe
Springfield Republican
Connecticut Judge Rules Turkeys Not Animals for Damage Claim
Judge Calhoun in Bloomfield CT rules a turkey is not an animal under state statute on animals damaging land in a neighbor dispute. The ruling notes the statute includes geese but excludes turkeys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calhoun
Connecticut
Bloomfield
Major Ohio Fire Destroys Ottawa Businesses and Deaths Reported
A fire at Ottawa on the 25th wiped out Reed's grocery Schmenck's saloon Wellen's cigar manufactory Stator's meat market and dwelling Fipp's saloon Burns saloon barber shop two ice houses stables and the Dayton Michigan passenger depot. Loss set at 20 000 Holmes County reports 2 944 dogs Willia AM B Brown shot and killed at Jefferson by a 14 year old son of Wagon Jack Gibbs Three men Edward Williams Alois Smith Joseph Eberle asphyxiated in a privy vault near Cleveland and a deadly Cedar Valley stabbing Nerr fatally wounds Samuel Daniels near Wooster three Daniels brothers from Holmes County involved Coroner duties amended by state assembly and other incidents across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Reed
Schmenck
Wellen
Stator
Fipp
Burns
Dayton & Michigan
Holmes County
Willia AM B. Brown
Jefferson
Gibbs
Art Cleveland
Edward Williams
Alois Smith
Joseph Eberle
General Assembly
Cedar Valley
Daniels
Wooster
Nerr
Samuel Daniels
CuRrist T. Guise
Cleveland
Ohio
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway
Joseph Biddles
Ada
Sandusky
Baptist Missionary Union
Ashtabula
Fairport
Senate
Ed. Higgins
West View
Austin C. Cooley
Henry Oakley
GREEN
E. H. Kelley
M. D
Cincinnati
Albert M. Riddle
Columbus
M. Mageean
Toledo
John M. Kiemer
Marietta
Wm. Boeser, Jr
Galion
W. H. W. Nicholas
Steubenville
William C. Myers
Bellaire
John R. Gow
Helen Wise
Malony
Hamilton County
Robert Lynn
Hillsboro
Amor Smith
U. S
Internal Revenue
Weitzel
Marshall
Cincinnati College
J. Scott Harrison
Whitaker
Harrison
North Bend
Webb
Mansfield
Gov. Bishop
Sailor Plucked From Ocean Raft Amid Sharks Off Brazilian Coast
A mid Atlantic rescue aboard the schooner Carrie E Long reports a lone raft with a disoriented black man calling for help. The raft is tiny and shark-filled as a life-saving boat approaches. The man speaks no English and sharks circle the craft.
Rescue of a Man Swamped at Sea From a Shark-Patrolled Raft
A raft survivor Manuel Francisco describes ten days adrift after two companions perished and sharks fed on one body. Picked up by the Carrie E Long near Matanzas, Francisco claims origin on the Brazilian coast and hints at Fernando Noronha escape. He spoke only "Brazilian" and was later deemed fit to serve as a seaman aboard the rescue ship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Atlantic Ocean
Carrie E. Long
Stockton
Buenos Ayres
New York
Equator
Manuel Francisco
Francisco
Fernando Noronha
Matanzas
Park
N. Y
Murder Case in Spot Hill After 1876 Killing
A Scranton correspondent reports unraveling of a murder in Spot Hill tied to 1876 disappearance of German immigrant John Larson. Witness Rhoda Hennion sworn with Mayor Powderly lodging claims that John Sweeny and Joseph Maria assaulted Larson, who later died indoors. Evidence includes blood-stained walls and a suspected burial site near coal dust, with Maria already jailed for another homicide and Sweeny pursued by authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spot Hill
John Larson
Rhoda Hennion
Larsen
John Sweeny
Joseph Maria
Larson
Hennion
Also Mentioned on This Page
A. Cooper
M. Jefferson
Drs. Cooper & Jefferson
Cambridge
Ocean West Market Street
Shaffner & Beymer’s
Farmers’ Hotel
Mill Street
Wm. Rainey & Son
Morton
Starr Hotel
Joseph Morton
West Side Public Square
Cambridge, Ohio
Teixchange Hotel
Warner
Caldwell
Oato
Thomas Lloyd
Corner Market and
Fifth Streets
Zanesville
N. D. Savage
Capt. J. McVay
William A. Carr
Rainey
Mill St
J. Woodford
Pine Street
Main
Guernsey County
J. D. Taylor
T. H. Anderson
Taylor & Anderson, Attorneys-At-Law
Taylor
D. K. Kyle
Marble and Granite Works
Mackey’s Art Gallery
India
A. F. Hubert
Main St
Caambridge
Sarah Jane Moss
Isaac Moss
Cambridge, O
C. T. Sweet
Cumberland, Ohio
Lambert Thomas
E. Harper Jeffes
Lambert, Thomas & Co
North Water Street
Delaware Wharf
Philadelphia, Pa
Kirk House
Grant House
W. &. S. M. Kirk, Proprietors
Zanesville, Ohio
J. W. Lippincott
wBeceche Eiouse
Coron Ae
South Streets
Quaker Cit
Seoring
McCollum & McKinney
South End Mill Street
Mar
W. S. Daugherty
Guernsey National Bank
News OF the
Congressional
China
District of Columbia
House
Blaine
M. Maurice Delfosse
Treaty of Washington
National University At
U.S
Indian Bureau
Pacific Railroad Commissioners
Indiana
Ilinois
Thurman
Morgan
Hill
Springer
Special Investigating Committee
Cobb
Ohio Medical Society
Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago Railway
Peru
Ind
Union Pacific Railroad
Percy Station
U. T
Union Pacific Company
R. W. Grand Lodge
Minneapolis
Gardner
Supreme Court
Key
Executive Mansion
National Greenback Labor Reform Workingman’s Party
Syracuse
Foreign Intelligence
Canton
Earl Russell
Bismarck
Bank of England
Vienna
Cimbria
Maine
Hamburg
Count Andrassy
San Stefano
Lord Beaconsfield
U. 8
Georgia
C. N. Potter
Iso
Union
Mr. Hayes
East Feliciana Parish
Reed and
Hiscock
Sim
Committee of Investigation
Clarkson N. Porter
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!