In Brief: Global and U.S. Notes From Pasadena to St. Louis
A digest of scattered reports: Hotel Marengo Pasadena fire notes. Morocco United States dispute terms. California’s Stanton Stasrono seeks presidential nomination. Salvation Army general Booth’s daughter marriage in London to ex civil service officer Fakeer Jr. fires occur in China. Michigan politics meet in Lansing for delegates to Cincinnati. Cuban merchant Calindez kidnapped. Georgetown DCCivil inauguration reports. floods relief inquiries by Prussia. maritime ketch Bridesmaid race noted. U.S. court actions on bribery case Kerr. Royal Romania affairs sentence of Margon commander. New York assembly vote on woman suffrage. financial dividends for National Bank of St Louis. moonshiner fight in Lauderdale County. New York Club banquet and notable attendees. New York Assembly abortion of suffrage bill. comptroller dividend update. domestic crime reports from Stamford and Trenton. Reindeer water-spout off Bermuda. legal debates over Gould and Sage case. Washington elopement tragedy. statue committee for George Washington noted. France-France publications praise for Washington statue efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Birmingham
Ala
David Wat«en
Ozark
Imre Kiralfy
Lth
Juden Bookstaver
New York City
David Goodman
Goveror
W. H. Girson
F. J. Trotter
Ohin
Sherman
Jerry Smith
Memphis
Tenn
Jous RK
Logan
Topeka
Kas
Owens
Ohio
Falmouth
Maas
Charlie
Joseph Campbell
Rolla
Knights of Labor
Philadelphia
Friends of Organized Labor
Lehigh Valley
Maryland Republican League
Baltimore
Blaine
G. Dun & Co
United States
Canada
Nanticoke
Gonern
Maynard
Grace
New York
London
County Clare
Ireland
National League
Tor Chicago & Atlantic Railroad
Chicago
Boston
Peers
England
Aller
Fiftyth Congress Senate and House Proceedings Summary
The record covers a week of activity in the Fifty-first Congress. Senate actions include approving a Brussels exhibition invitation and excluding mining lands from the Alien Landlord bill, with speeches by Coke and Turple noted. The House faced a prolonged Direct Tax deadlock, adjourned temporarily, and later broke the deadlock amid rejoicing. The session spanned eight days with a night session on private pension bills and a petition for Conkling’s restoration.
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Senate
Brussels
Interior
Morrins
Coke
Turple
Coz
House
Conkling
Numerous 1890s incidents and notable deaths reported
A compilation notes business suspensions including Trier Bros in New York and Boston. hangings, fires, wrecks, and deaths across North America. It lists executions in Charlottetown, home destructions in Greene County Missouri, a lumber merchant death in Terre Haute, and Newark morocco factory owner’s passing. Also covers rail accidents, robberies, political events, and court actions with several named individuals and places.
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T. B.jones
Terre Haute
Ind
Ormister Her Nougent
Newark
N. J
C. T. Agnew
New York
Francis L. Patton
Princeton College
Princeton Alumni Association of Chicago
University Club
Iowa State
Erie Railroad
Wm. H. Barr
Philadelphia
New York City
Continental Hotel
James H. Barr
Youngstown
William Anson
Ryan
Preston
Pittsburgh
Buffalo
N. Y
Geo. H. Ayer
Browning, King & Co
Jenxie Stevens
Waterville
Conn
Muncie
Green
Pace Biswanck
Paris
Boulanger
Cardinal Howard
England
Rome
Prince of Wales
Germany
Hockman
R. H. Lovie
New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad
Virginia Jackson
Morton Metcalf
Mackenzie
Margaret McClain
Christopher Lamb
Lamb
Avocalu
First National Bank of
St. Johnsville
Syndicate secures oil lease on 25 acres in Scott county Arkansas
A petroleum syndicate has secured a lease on 25 acres in Scott county Arkansas and will start work immediately. The report also notes a deadly fire in West Point Mississippi with heavy losses, railroad extension actions in Mississippi, booming town of Wrane Ack, county seat moves in Tunica county, a elderly widow found dead in Jefferson town Kentucky, and other scattered local incidents including a powder car explosion in Montgomery Alabama and a jewel theft in Jackson Tennessee.
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Scott County
Arkansas
West Poin
Miss
Nathan Goldstein
Starkville
Georgia Pacific Railroad
Greenville
Wrane
Rupert Minls
Texas
Galvester
Ith
South
Brazoria
Lincoln
Tell County
Ark
Bluffalo Zinc and Copper Company
Rush Creek
Friends of the River
Harbor Billas
Topeka
Louisville and Nashville
Montgomery
Ala
Jackson
Tenn
A. K. Jobe
Jobo Hall
John Caldwell
East Cairo
Mth
Mobile and Ohio
Poison Death of Social Sensation in National Capital
Mrs. Degrasate Bulkley daughter of Judge C J Hillyer died at her father's home from poison taken with medical intent. Earlier elopement and divorce filings stirred society. Bulkley claimed age, while Miss Hessie Hillyer Bulkley married Degrassie Bulkley in Baltimore and returned home amid family sorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wastinetos
Degrasate Bulkley
C. J. Hillyer
Heesie Hillyer
W. L. Trenholm
Degrassie Bulkley
Baltimore
Axceo
J. Antonio Obtha
Othy
Bulkley
Girassie
Chulkley
General Henderson ends Supreme Court tribute on justice
General Henderson spoke at the U S Supreme Court in Washington describing enduring justice across time. He claimed local standards remain the measure of contracts and praised the court for resisting local influence and upholding universal truth. He cited Roman law and the Ten Commandments as enduring guides and reflected on his quarter century of court advocacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John Ph. Henderson
St. Louis
Supreme Court of the United States
Henderson
Christendom
Mint glass firms seek to enlist Flint-Glass workers
Pursemen Pennsylvania April 14. It is reported that mint glass manufacturers plan to reopen their factories by offering bonds of several thousand dollars to each flint glass worker who returns to work. The promise guarantees lifetime positions and non-discharge at union request. Workers are not believed to accept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pursemen
Flint-Glass Workers’ Union
Woman's work and the many trades of a wife
A Woman's Journal essay highlights the daily labor of wives and mothers as they juggle dressmaking cooking mending and teaching while reflecting on male helpers and shifting social norms. It notes Columbia College's first women PhD in 1886 and mentions St. Louis hosting a women run mining company.
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Norah
Neral
William Henry
Willian Henry le Hot
Teo
Conscous
Milton
Paradise Lost
Xantippe
Tremont Street
Margaret Moore
Woman's Journal
Individualism and the Woman Suffrage Debate
Alice Stone Blackwell argues that the suffrage movement rests on justice and compassion rather than selfishness. She contends that wartime and church influence, not individualism, fuels demand for voting rights and that universal suffrage would not erode, but rather strengthen, home and society.
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Corbin
WLC. T. U
Mre Corbin
Charles Kingsley
Alice Stone Blackwell
Woman's Journal
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN AND NEWSPAPER NOTES
A collage of statements highlights women in journalism and public life. Mrs. Grange A Prox of the Boston Commonwealth stands as New England's sole female managing editor while Iowa lawmakers consider a plan allowing one woman among five hospital trustees. The Indianapolis Woman's News is praised for dense paragraphing and efficiency. Remarks from Lucy A Switzer and Madame Willard urge female education and ballot participation as paths to influence.
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Grange A. Prox
Boston Commonwealth
New England
Iowa
Hospital
Indianapolis Woman's News
Woman's Journal
Chicago
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Louisville
Lucy A. Switzer
Madame Willard
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Marengo
Pasadena
Cal
Moroccn
Aton Stasrono
California
General Booth
The
Salvation Army
Mar
Fakeer Jr
China
Sap
Ikesura Nakageri
Kashiwasaki Ae
Michigan
Greenback State
Lansing
National Union
Calindez
Rita
Dhow
Georgetown
D.C
Celer
Empress Victoria
Prins Victoria
Sophie
Margaret Ted Posen
Prussia
Thampton
Funchad
Madeira
Lew K City
Thomas Kerr
Aexander
Storia
Tstrep
Mansnat
W. H. Craps
Lauderdale County
Mme
Diss de Bar
Husb
Benjwrence
Frank
Tombs Court
New Yorkty
Oyer Marsh
Marghar
Mayon Hewitt
Unitan Club of
Wth
Geo. m. Curtis
Dorman B. Eaton
Gover Chamberlain
Robt. Collyer
O. B. Woodward
New York Assembly
Carey
Th National Bank of St. Louis
James B. Mills
Stamford
Smith
Perry
Delaware River
Camden
Commaspen McCauta
United Tes Ship Enterprise
Grecco
Sweden
St. Pierre
Martinique
Bermuda
Gould
Sage
Grand Y
Smyth
Grorce Buntos
East Liverpool
Trenton
France
George Washington
America
Minentiaties
Fiftieth
Late Newstems
John Th. Mendelson
Supreme Court of
Brivano
Attica
Wyoming County
Emma Tombs
Emma
Matt Howard
Barr Fear
Howell E. Jackson
Soulatille Ky
Waite
M.S. Craft
Mississippi
D. C
Charleston
Margaret Fosse
New Orleans
Jefferson Davis
Chronicle of
Augusta
Campbellaville
Charles Ramsey
Rodeford Jeter
Jeter Laven
D. Langley
Langley
Mississippi Blind Institute
Anthony L. Bargamin
BE. B. Taylor
Richmond
Bargamin
Kentucky
Union County
8. C
Vaughsville
Nero Felder
Cap Mathews
Estes
John Guess
Muhlenberg County
Peover
St. Paul
Nashville
Georgia Railroad Commission
Ramberg
South Carolina
New South Carolina
Moses Murphy
Moses Brown
Orangeburg
Brown
Murphy
Mawn County
Joase Saunders
Skeenah Mountain
Saunders
Chapman
Clay
Mitchell
Colquit
J.B. Young
Wildcat
Tatuana
John Vice
Owingsville
Vice
Bessemer
R.M Kyle
Walnut Hill
Rogersville
Clay Shawn
Kheaton
Green County
Woman's Department
Columbia College
Winifred H. Edgerton
Wellesley
Mary P. Hankey
Columbia
Annie Nathan Meyer
Alfred Meyer
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