Senate and House Bills Dominate Congressional Week
Senate debates impeachment of Belknap, tariff and land sale funding discussed. House passes army efficiency and merchant seamen bills. Sioux treaty talks set, President salary debate, Alaska lease report, Blaine letters queries continue with Mulligan testimony and Naval Academy cadet reinstatement requests.
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Senate
Mississippi River
New Orleans
House
Morrill
Congress
House of Representatives
Capitol
Black Hills
St. Louis
Milwaukee
United States
Indian Bureau
The
Interior
War Department
Alaska Fur Seal
Treasury directs retirement of 404,208 in legal tenders
The Treasury orders retirement of 404,208 in legal tenders, eight tenths of May national bank circulation, leaving 370,153,668 in greenbacks outstanding. Dist Atty Dyer reports judgments on distillers bonds and forfeitures totaling 1,000,000 to the Internal Revenue Commissioner. Senate confirms Beale as Minister to Austria.
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Secretary of the Treasury
National Bank
Dist
Atty. Dyer
St. Louis
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
War Department
A. P. Green
Kerr
Green
Lawrence Harney
Harney
Speaker Kerr
Pierrepont
England
Alex. P. Tutton
Philadelphia
Robeson
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Cattell & Co
Taft
Cameron
Treasury
Senate
Edward F. Beale
Austria
Presbyterian Assembly Signals Unity of Northern and Southern Churches
Reports from the era note the General Assembly announcing a near union between Northern and Southern Presbyterian churches. Also covered are railroad fare cuts between New York and Chicago, notable obituaries, elections, political nominations, and a prison escape involving Sing Sing convicts.
Conflicts At Iron Mills Halt Most Work In County
Reports from Pittsburgh say conferences between iron manufacturers and puddlers failed to stop a lockout. only a few mills in the county were operating. The Centennial Exhibition attendance is rising and financial hopes grow.
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Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Andrew Moore
Frederick Lawler
New York City
Highgate
Chas. Butler
Harrisburg
D. Smith
State Treasury Department
John A. Wagner
Auditor-General’s Office
Scranton
Oil City
Death of Sultan Abdul Aziz in Constantinople
A Constantinople dispatch reports the death by self harm of the late Sultan Abdul Aziz. After months of mental derangement he locked his rooms on the fourth, cut his wrists with concealed scissors, and died within a short time.
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Constantinople
Abdul Aziz
Ohio News Items From a Dayton Area Journal
Barn fire four miles north of Dayton destroys John Y Maxton’s barn and contents about 4000 dollars. suspected arson by Maxton’s father. State Board of Agriculture seeks 1500 dollars in Columbus for floral premiums at the State Fair. Stewart Srcons drowns washing sheep near Independence. Delphos celebrates a homecoming for John S Bruce with a fatal vault accident to a child. Sixteenth O V I reunion in Millersburg set for Aug 10 after date shift. Louis Stinel, 14 17, and others confess to arson and fires at Exposition sites in Akron. Ohio Archeological Society Exposition display draws notice. Scioto Valley Railroad reaches Chillicothe. Cincinnati Exposition Hall hosts grand Musical Festival. Dayton Soldiers Home link, Decoration Day honors at Schenck reception. Shelby ladder tournament hallmarks large prize awards to Red Rovers Elyria and others. State Charities visits Dayton Hospital for the Insane and County Infirmary. Circleville missing editor J E Lutz feared drowned. Pickers found guilty of manslaughter in Columbus. Charles Taylor dies after zinc chloride dose mistaken for brandy. Ark thunderstorm kills Thomas Boner near Newark. lightning strikes various structures. Tuscarawas County totals show 3,707,789 taxable personal property. jail break at St Clairsville thwarted.
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Ohio Archeological Society
Scnoo
Smart
Philadelphia
Ohio
Scioto
Shelby
Red Rovers
Elyria
Centennial
DeKalb
Buckeye
Bucyrus
The
Twilight
Tiffin
C. H. Clark
Eagle Company
Wooster
H. H. Whiteman
Board of State Charities
Dayton Hospital
County
Zanesville
Circleville
J. E. Lutz
Circleville Advertiser
Darby
John A. Lutz
PickErs
Columbus
Charles Taylor
Mechanicsburg
Springfield
Taylor
Newark
Thomas Boner
Town
Rosebrough
Wallace
St. Clairsville
Durance Vile
Great Fire at Quebec Destroys Hundreds of Homes
A massive blaze roared through Scott Street and nearby blocks in Quebec, fanned by a strong westerly wind. Fire brigades, police, and aid from Levis aided efforts, saving the Grande Allee row and determining roughly 17 streets and about 400 houses burned, with 800000 dollars in losses and multiple injuries and deaths.
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Quebec
Leon Boivin
Scott Street
B Battery
Grande Allee
St. Eustache Street
Artillery Street
Claire Fontaine
Claire
Fontaine
Burton
Prevost
Plessis
Scott
Levolet
Bethelo
St. Margaret
Lachevrotiere
St. Michel
Amable
Dartigny
Artillery
St. Croix
St. Julie
John Street
St. Louis Street
Levis
St. John’s Church
Cole
Good Shepherd
Trudel
Ed. Deery
Deery
Damas Fiset
Dozens of deadly tragedies report in scattered items
A long list of violent incidents and deaths across the United States. Bee sting kills Hon. J. A. Crawford in Kingston. Philadelphia building collapse kills three. Paris green deaths in New York. Fires, drownings, stabbings, and shootings appear inIllinois Indiana Iowa and beyond, with many named individuals and locations.
Indian scalping rumors spread from Black Hills reports
Isaac Howes confirms harsh conditions in the Hills with daily burials and frequent attacks on exiting or entering parties. He estimates about 5,000 people amid a small core profiting from high daily wages, while others earn little. Other dispatches cover Custer City fire, Crook’s likely broad Sioux fight, political conventions, and church ordinations.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Tribune
Isaac Howes
Black Hills
Omaha
Custer City
T. P. Herman
Carlisle
Egan
Fort Laramie
Crook
Tennessee
Hendricks
Missouri
Tilden
Iowa
Blaine
Kellogg
Pinchback
Packard
Brown
Minnesota
Cheyenne
Perry
Geneva
N. Y
Madison
Fla
U. S
Conover
Purman
Walls
Balters
Cincinnati
W. L. Stearns
Hon. D. Montgomery
Col.stone
Belleville
Joseph May
Evansville
Ind
Christine Becker
Tredwell Moore
U. S. Army
Fort Gibson
Indian Territory
San Francisco
New York
St. Louis
Germany
Bismarck
London Reports Yields and Sultan Change Stir Europe
A London dispatch says Britain will surrender Winslow to the United States with ease, while a Berlin report notes Servia may intervene in Turkish issues. The Porte protests Berlin memo, and Constantinople reports dethronement of the Sultan with Murad Effendi named heir. France Italy and England recognize the new Sultan amid relief over the revolution.
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London
Winslow
United States
Berlin
Servia
Porte
Austria
Turkey
Constantinople
Murad Effendi
Pall Mall Gazette
Mussulmans
France
Italy
England
Quebec
Canada
Mineral
Channel
Longotte
Two Columbus Boys Drown in Scioto River Incident
Walter Thrall aged seventeen and Ansel Phinney aged thirteen, both of Columbus, drowned while bathing in the Scioto River on the 3d.
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Columbus
Walter Thrall
Ansel Phinney
Scioto River
Deposing the Sultan in Constantinople May 29 30
London reports note a brewing constitutional crisis in Constantinople with ministers urging abdication to save the state. A mass street demonstration toward the palace swelled as Murad was proclaimed Sultan Murad and Abdul Aziz and his four sons fled to the old Seraglio.
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London
Standard
Vienna
Constantinople
Abdul Aziz
Murad
Sultan Murad
Seraglio
Impeachment Trial of Belknap Advances Amid Deliberations
The Senate suspended business at 1 PM and resumed consideration of the Belknap impeachment. The President pro tempore overruled a jurisdiction plea. the accused and managers were present. Arguments followed on pleadings, delays, and whether to adjourn to June 6.
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Washington
Senate
Whyte
Carpenter
Blair
Judge Black
Messrs. Lord and McComb
Mr. Carpenter
Wright
Salem Gazette Reprints 1776 Execution Note
A Salem Massachusetts Gazette excerpt recalls a June 29 1776 New York execution of a militia member from Gen Washingtons guards for mutiny and conspiracy near Bowery Lane in front of about 20000 spectators. The clipping warns that other conspirators still in custody deserve fitting punishment.
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Salem
Mass
New York
M’dougall
Huntington
Bowery Lane
Washington
Talkative Ladies Question Stranger About Silence
A three women aboard engage a sober fellow passenger in chatty banter. One asks if constant chatter disturbs him, he replies he has been married nearly thirty years, revealing a dry, humorous exchange during the journey.
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Joseph Morton
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William A. Carr
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T. O. Mann
Carpenter and Joiner
Cumberland, Ohio
D. K. Kyle
Marble and Granite Works
Wm. M. Siens
Guernsey
Mackey’s Art Gallery
India
J. E. Sankey
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Mirs
Sarah Jane Moss
Connor & Dyson
Mar
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H. C. Parker
Winfield and
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Art Callery
DAY & Scott
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Grant House
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Zanesville, Ohio
F. Hunter
M.D
Antrim
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Insane Asylum
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E. L. Wilson
Wilmington
Geo. W. Shinn
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Xenia
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Urbana
Ill
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Harrison County
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Corydon
Mary Nolan
Thomas Reasonover
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Robert Reasonover
Memphis
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Charles J. Roodenberg
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Dodwell
Jennie Bruce
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W. P. Walsh
Hot Springs
Ark
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Hall
Walsh
Brownlow
Muscatine
Ward
Robert Williamson
White Carroll
Carroll
Williamson
Sagetown
Lizzie Krantz
Tenn
Masonic Lodge
Thomas
Foreign Intelligence
Emerson
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