Congressional News and Notes Summary Flash
A tumultuous legislative session reports debates on appropriations and boundary lines, plus a stream of obituaries and incidents. Notable items: Seneca land politics, a Mexico boundary query, tariff debates, ship warnings, and a fatal railroad fire at Chesapeake. Also noted are Tributes to McFarlane and Havemeter, a fatal horse- trolley accident in Portland, and a severe hailstorm in Mexico’s San Luis Potosi region with crop and life losses.
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Turbulent World News and Disasters Report
Reports from multiple regions note executions in Turkey and embezzlement charges in Nebraska. Crete readiness shows French detachments. a tornado near Cairo causes damage while floods ease. Cuban Spanish casualties rise as Black Jack killed, with rewards posted.
Various 190? News Briefs From Across the Nation
Telegram items report a failed banking house in Aspen California due to poor business. composer Woonsex Morse died in New York. the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad sale in Albuquerque for 12 million dollars joins Santa Fe. Southern Pacific 1906 earnings total 44,666,606 with expenses and losses noted. Earthquake shocks hit southwestern Virginia. April currency and mint coinage figures released. Pittsburgh sustained a major fire loss. Ex congressman John J. Penny died in Portland. Acapama gold fields sale in Alabama to Cincinnati buyers. New York treasury gold withdrawal eyed with concern. Wm. P. Nieworts, ex-president of Bank of Commerce New Orleans, connected to financial events.
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Cleburne County
Ala
Governor's Message on Mississippi Finances and School Funds
The governor's April message outlines the state's fiscal condition, detailing receipts and disbursements for the year, noting a deficit risk, and urging legislative action. It discusses treasury balances, interest, and bonds, and calls for budget reforms including ad valorem taxes to support common schools and state operations.
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Curious Commons of the Human Body Described
A playful Victorian style overview explains the liver’s many roles its valves and pulleys in the eye hip joint air pressure in the leg Adams apple as a brain blood reservoir and the epiglottis guarding the windpipe while swallowing with a metaphor of a traffic policeman at the throat and nose area
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Mississippi Legislature Debates Capital and Levee Plans
The Mississippi Legislature considers capital relocation and levee funding. Key items include committees to organize the house, proposals for a new capitol, and appropriations for river levees along the Minnesota region with votes and committee referrals ongoing.
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Great Fire Destroys Pittsburgh Wholesale Establishment
A massive blaze in Pittsburgh began shortly after midnight at Thomas Jenkins on Penn Avenue and Liberty Street. Three large blocks burned, including the Jenkins wholesale grocery, Hermes store, Holmes office building, the Duquesne Theater, and the Methodist book concern. losses exceed 20000 with heavy insurance coverage.
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Greek Letters Sought to Aid Native Treeks in War
An address to Delta Kappa Epsilon officers proposes a national Greek letter society drive among colleges to raise funds for Meek native treeks returning home to fight for their land. Funds would cover transportation only and avoid arms or neutrality violations. chapters urged to discuss the plan.
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Towed Into Port After Turbulent Atlantic Voyage
The German steamship Johanna from Flensburg arrived in Lewes Delaware under tow by the Austrian ship Pandora from Santos. After breaking her tailshaft and losing her propeller on a voyage in April she drifted for days in a northeast gale and was towed for six days with repairs and provisions supplied along the way.
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Disaster Fears in Mediterranean Mission and War News
Reports detail the loss of Lieut Henderson and a large escort near Wa It outlines a mission to treaty chiefs, with fear of disaster. Greek and Turkish maneuvers are reported across Epirus and Crete with rail and lighthouse disruptions and troop movements.
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Father and Son Charged In Heavy Cass Attack
The Huntington Indiana special reports L Leeces and his son Fred L Lucas, once with T L Lucas and Son real estate firm, are charged as more victims surface. They allegedly secured loans totaling 97 thousand on fictitious property and a $5 loan on a fictitious farm in Wabash County, after leaving the city.
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Wabashergnty
Indianapolis
Drunken Son Kills Father in Nawata Fight
Report from Nawata describes a fracas between Jim Riley and Louis Riley over their father John Riley aged about 60. Louis fires twice, killing the father instantly as brothers quarrelled after returning home drunk.
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National finances and federal coinage reports
The treasury bureau releases show April national bank note circulation at 507,344, with a yearly gain of 5.7 million and a monthly loss of 6. The total circulation backed by U S bonds stands at 204,765,549, up 5.385 million for the year and a monthly tax of 9,710. Other data include lawful money circulation up 559 for the year and 500 monthly, U S registered bonds 202,749,509 for circulating notes and 1,313,000 for public deposits. Alaska gets its first annual mail service from Juneau to Circle City 8 miles each way, starting July 1 1897, with one round trip per month. The mint reports April coinage totaling 1,118,120 with 460,400 gold, 1,355 silver and 74,359 minor coins, and 1,400 standard dollars.
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Strike at Milwaukee Laborers Seek Higher Wages
In Milwaukee on May 1 workers including masons and builders went on a wage strike demanding cents extra per hour for masons and cents for builders. The disruption affected various city buildings and most expect resumes soon. In Chicago on May 2 Globe Savings Bank officials facing indictments avoided immediate arrest as warrants were not issued in time.
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Trinity Church Begins Weeklong Bicentenary Celebration
A garbled May 3 report notes Trinity Church starting a weeklong celebration marking a bicentenary with services and activities planned daily throughout the week.
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