Various Political and Legal Movements Tangle Across Nations
A broad digest notes diverse events: Croxton Boupited is named for a Michigan presidential convention in Grand Rapids. France’s Mat. Hawn organizes a bridge project in England costing £52,000,000. NY court rulings on House of Public Entertainment in Keokuk. Foreign affairs include Vatican England relations talks and a Rome telegraph note. Local Detroit pool rooms shutdown. Derby betting updates. tariff committee moves. fisheries treaty debates. and a dynamite cruiser extension request.
Congressional actions update on tariffs and expositions
The Senate and House split duties over the Tariff bill and related measures. Key items include amendments and passage of a Cincinnati Centennial Exposition appropriation, a 20 100 branch home grant in Grant County Indiana for disabled veterans, and the Pension Appropriation bill. Debates featured strong speeches from Randall McKinley Breckinridge with lively proceedings across several days.
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Senate
Cincinnati
House
Committee On
Futterworth
West
Mewsto Trust
Grant County
Ind
Messrs. Randall
McKinley
Breckinridge
Memorial committee bars Confederate veterans from parade
In New York City the memorial committee declined to grant a place in the Decoration Day parade to Phil Sheridan Post No. 1, Independent Army and Navy Veterans, citing rules excluding groups with Confederate ties. Separate notes mention political appointments, bond sales, and various court and crime items.
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Tor G. A. BR. Memorial Committee
New York City
Phil Sheridan
Army and Navy
United States
Jones
Stewart
Messrs
Sharon
Hamilton
Storey
Williams
Ormsby
Foley
Eureka
Nevada
Chicago
Tennessee
Nashville
Blaine
Father McFadden
Dublin
Court of Exchequer
Methodist Conference
General Grant
Pinkerton
Brotherhood
Plattsmouth
Neb
Republican Territorial Convention
New Mexico
Thomas Catron
Santa Fe
Francisco Chanez
Valencia
Ith
Conestoga
Pittsburgh
M. Gall
Lakeside
Mich
Supreme Court of Michigan
James Orr
Tahiti
Polynesia
Kansas
Wichita
St. Louis
Alsace-Lorraine
California
Los Angeles
Cleveland
William Groner
Zanesville
Columbus
Jessie Moreys
Quebec
Canada
Fleming
Jubilee
St. Johns
N. F
Natavie
Jervia
Weisbaden
Ques
Belgrade
Late News Roundup of Political, Transport, and Local Incidents
Republicans resist Mills tariff proposal requiring paragraph by paragraph consideration. Immigrant arrivals at Castle Garden and Havre and Amsterdam ships noted. Southern Wagon Makers meet in Louisville with routine business. Cremations rise at St. Louis crematory with five in operation. Racing magnate George Hasxinx bids for Terra Cotta at $15,000, price asked $20,000. Railway bridge plans for Memphis, Missouri area submitted to War Department. Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph reports 1887–88 year gross earnings $188,714.2, expenses $111,574.1, net $77,140.25. Monument erected at Gettysburg site of Hancock’s wound. Derrty Sneeky Sure killed near Knoxville. lynch risk if captured. Interior official weighs resignation. Moonshiners captured at Magnolia. distilleries destroyed. no injuries. Mississippi flood scenes described near St Paul and St Louis. William R. Sarra from Nashville named cadetship acceptor.
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Repubblicans
Umbria
Castle Garden
Labretagne 417
Havre
Schiedam
Amsterdam
Tae Southern Association of Wagon Makers
Louisville
St. Louis
Geonce Hasxixs
Chicago
J. W. Gest
Kansas City and Memphis Railway and Bridge Company
Secretary of War
Mississippi River
Memphis
Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company
Nashville
Major Bigelow
Hancock
Pickett
Gettysburg
Derrty Sneeky Sure
Hicks Martin
Knoxville
Tenn
Secretary of the Interior
J. D. C. Atkins
Indian Affairs
Derek Marsoat Favcexevac
Jeff Grant
Magnolia
Ark
St. Aul
Wittiamr
Sarra
Many Local News Items Sweep Southern States
A long miscellany reports deaths and accidents from Kentucky to Georgia. Notable notes include Mr Rome’s collapse, Mrs Keen’s pension fraud case, a Mobile River survey, a fatal axe murder at Clayton Alabama, General Harrison’s death in Savannah, frost strikes in Western North Carolina, and fire losses in Atlanta. Also covered are the Florida Immigration Association, a poison incident in Caldwell County, a boy burned in Hopkinsville, and a church wreck from an electric bolt in Blowing Rock.
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Fort Baton Rouge
Rome
Ville
Montgomery
S.J. Olam
Cole Ter
D. McEnery
Louisiana
Walter 3
Withers
South
Atlanta
Salvation Army
New York
Sarah Keen
Poduesh
United States
Dover
Tenn
Tennessee
Mobile River
John T. Morgan
Mount Vernon
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Mobile
Simon Pitts
County
Clayton
Ala
London Walker
Walker
Simon
George Paul Harrison
Savannah
North Carolina
Tate
Kentucky
Kentucky Central Railroad
Austell
jBain & Kirkpatrick
McDonald Brothers
Florida Immigration Association
Jacksonville
Cora
Henry Conway
Caldwell County
Moses Wade
Hopkinsville
Presbyterian Church
Blowing Rock
Watauga County
N. C
Blue Ridge
W.T. Wynn
Marietta
Major Wynn
John F. Flatford
Jones
Martha Flatford
Sallie Anderson
Anna Smith
Jonesboro
Weaner
Louisville
Lucy P
Crawford
J.M. Norton
Mr. Norton
Arkansas
George Frank
John Donnelly
Pr. T. Baley
Mississippi
Jackson
Tariff Debate narrows as Randall McKinley Breckinridge speak
In a crowded House, Mr. Randall argues against the Mills tariff bill, urging full repeal of internal taxes while preserving a whisky tax. McKinley defends protectionist tariffs, and Breckinridge frames a compromise plan to aid farmers and workers, touting reduced rates and domestic industry growth.
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Republcans
McKinley
Java
Bar
Allentown
Lowdon
United States
Mr. McKinley
Leopold Morse
Morse
Boston
MacKinley
Mille
Breckinridge
Genteman
Peanayhanaia
Mr. Kelley
Kentucky
Kelley
General strike actions and multiple flood disasters in 19th century reports
The article details a broad labor boycott against the Burlington road led by Chicago Brotherhoods with mass meetings and secretive planning at the National Hotel. It notes a continuing strike and possible cross-road alliance. Separate dispatches report levee breaches near Suny and Say, Missouri, causing widespread flooding and ruin for tens of thousands of acres, with many homes destroyed and residents displaced. Additional notes mention the American Baptist Publication Society meeting in Washington with $42,490 in receipts and many new publications, and a St Louis area suicide by a saloon keeper named Fred Grafenstein.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breatherhoods
Chicago
the Tribune
Burlington Road
Acc
Hoge
Sargeant
Arthur
Quincy, I
Suny
Mississippi Valley
Haxnipal
May
Say Island
Robert King
American Baptist Publication Society
Washington
Samuel A. Crozer
Philadelphia
St. Louis
St. Laws
Fred Grafenstein
Gravois Avenue
Smith & Wesson
Prohibition Governor Candidate Joseph B. R. Anderson Dead
Bristol Tennessee reports the death of Joseph B. R. Anderson 67 a Prohibition nominee for governor and Bristol National Bank president. He arrived in Bristol in 1852 built wealth from clerk to financier and his passing requires selection of a new candidate by the party through convention or committee. Also brief note of an expedition to Greenland by Dr Friteo Na gten and four Norwegians two Lapps starting from Stocknota.
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Wales
Norwalk
Conn
Sesaton West
Meat Trust
Chicago
Tae
American Baptist Publication Society
Washington
Parasell
America
London Times
Parnell
Wilfred Blunt
Cork
Rome
Fremont County
Sidney
Chances L. Jewett
New Albany
Indiana Democratic State Central Committee
John KR. Gordon
Wale
Keroene
Matilda Larson
Columbia County
N. Y
Tilden
Wil
Thomas Jones
Dunlap
Farrzorr Navzex
Stockholm
Sweden
Greenland
Josefh R. Anpensoy
Tennessee
Bristol National Bank
Bristol
New York Supreme Court
Third Avenue Railroad Company
New York City
Buistol
Tenn
Joseph BR. Anderson
Prohibition
Stocknota
Dr. Friteo
Nagten
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Croxton
Michigan
Grand Rapids
Mat
Mat Hawn
Maine
Republican National
Blaine Fac
Supreme of
A. J. de
Sing
General Assembly
Arylhnid
Mexico
Baltic
Baxx
Superior Court At
Keokuk Id and Veld
Harry Phillips
John Kven
Grand Trunk A
London Chronicle
England
The
Vatican
Fountain
Col
Com
Lenate
Mr. Hoar
Sduii
Essece
National Republican Nation
Sherman
Detroit
Gilman & Barnes
Aith Gilman & Barnes
Ator Mongini
Comon Finance
Tours Allison, Aldrich, Hiscock
Beck Harris
Comon
Senate Finance Committee
Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce
St Australia
China
Puller
Ulture
George B. Loring
STY
Honorarillery Company of London
Snme
Southamp
Artillery Company
Bos
Saly
Edison
States Electric Light Company
Simuts
United States Circuit
Thos. W. Ryan
J. H. Meade
Minnie Parsons
Ton
Capias
Scorreto
Broker Hatch
Supreme Court
House of Iron
Fancor Hitt
Kings, S
Richmond
Westr Counties
Abny Whitney
Naval
Messrs. Cramp & Sons
Baltimore
Yorktown
Vesuvius
Housman
Matson
Fiftyth Congress
House of Representatives
McKinley and
Breckenridge
Actitso Am
Randall
Diplomat Corps
Reading
Groank
Erica
Homac
Ways On Means
Mr. Randall
Millia
Mr. Mille
Mr Randall
Pentieman
Pennsylvania
McKiniey
Tremendous Applanes
Filnanl Atkinson
Ist
Atkinson
Standam! Oil Trust
Manning
Europe
Standard Oil Company
Republic
Mr. Scott
Reed
Jefferson
Monroe
Messrs. Foran
Areckiorides
Kogland
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