Miscellany of World News and Local Incidents
A dispatch catalogues varied items from Pogland papers mocking Parsell fund progress to a Ravenswood bank raid and a speech in Ottawa. It notes German, Italian, and French figures, railway approvals, Red River Valley celebrations, and a Lehigh Valley crash with fatalities. Includes discoveries in Saratoga and Pompeii, plus Irish politics and a papal note on sovereignty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pembina
Oak
Red River Valley Railway
Winnipeg
Man
Senate Proceedings Describe Tariff, Indian Affairs And Adjournment
The article outlines Senate actions including the foreign relations committee siting during recess to examine the Weil-La Abrahams claim and a bill on treaty matters, a resolution for sine die adjournment, and debates over Indian service wagons and army blankets. The House review covered tariff legislation with a clash between Kentucky members, and adjournment resolutions were adopted with executive sessions and limited daily business.
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Senate
Mr Blair
Peter Letves
Preston William S Pashaw
Eatalus
West
Allen
Wnstead
Oates
Alvamia
Erutzittee
Weil-La Abra
Bowre Bil
Makota
Abenteen, Bismarck & Nothwestern Railway Company
Was P
Allison
Cox
New York Trion
Mt Hilcore
Committee On Ways
Congress
Secretary of the Interior
Indian Service
Tennessee
Secretary of War
House
Messrs
Taylor
Brechtmrhlee
Kentucky
Finance Committee
Minnesota
Dakota
Montana
Howse
Murder of a Nephew by a Laborer in Albany
A laborer named Epwamp Frtzpatrick, twenty four, killed his four year old nephew at the parents’ Albany home by crushing the skull with a shotgun. He is said to be insane and was arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epwamp Frtzpatrick
Albany
N. Y
Gisert & Svetlivan
America
Casino
New York
Washington Square
St. Louis Browns
Edwin Booth
Lawrence Barrett
Messrs
Booth
Barrett
Porte
Beyrout
Riverton
Valparaiso
Ind
Mills
Jono P. Irish
California
J. E.ces Foster
Republican Party
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Treasury Department
Ausratan
Dundee
Scotland
Pesce Ferogiaxsp
Lnst
Macueste
Empresa F
Tae Penneyt
Farmers’ Club
George W. Childs
Wooten
General Sherman
General Grant
Wicklow
Gut
Reilly
Bramnally
J.D. McClurr
McFadden
Lehigh Valley Company
Bely
Wilkesbarre
Coxoness
Paesipent Cievetasn
Rochester
H. & Briggs
Whieart Sasvord
Fileey House
Cathanine McManox
Greencastle
Iith
Washington
Western Union
Guttenberg
Fatser Domonovici
Persia
General Rehabach
Turkestan
St. Petersburg
JoupGe Shelladarger
United States Supreme Court
David S. Terry
Jndze Field
San Francisco
Xavier Oxvorsst
Brian E. Lian
Sarsfield Guard
Ith
New Haven
Conn
Hungary
CoLonet J. F. Bates
Post Office Department
Postmaster-General
St. Josefs
Joseph Lowenstein
Joseph Ford
Maryland
Ford
Sales
Lowenstein
Late News Items From Across the Nation
A roundup of brief items reports Mrs. Mary E. Hunt in Georgia receiving 2751.15 under the Pension Arrears Act, tax collector J. M. Wilson suspended in Atlanta, railway deals in Illinois Central to run a Memphis New Orleans train in eight hours, and a murder-mystery claim in Alabama. Other notes cover a Tennessee Ohio railroad sale, Frank Clifton & Co. liabilities, Canadian boodlers, a Louisville Tennessee political shooting, Mississippi cotton crop losses, Arkansas Wheelers stance, Noxubee county fair success, a sugar-plantation boiler explosion near Houma, and a deficiencey bill signed. Prospects for a Greenville Mississippi shooting tournament are noted.
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Mary E. Hunt
Gwinnett County
Georgia
Atlanta
J. M. Wilson
New Orleans
Illinois Central Railroad Company
George H. Murray
Memphis
South
Tennessee & Ohio Railroad
Rogersville Junction
Rogersville
Frank Clifton & Co
Chicago
Canada
Louisville
Tenn
Finney Brothers
Carr
Claiborne County
Miss
Tas Wheelers
Second Congressional District
Arkansas
Woodlawn
Houma
Mib
Greenville
Miaz
Longest Session of Congress Ends as Work Surges
The Fiftieth Congress concludes its historic term with 218 general measures becoming law and 4 pension bills enacted. Reports show 11,507 House and 4,520 Senate bills introduced, vetoes totaling 7, and a massive output awaiting final counts as the second session begins December 2.
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Keroct
Waentworee
United Press
Sénate
House
Senate
Senate Committee On Pensions
Congress
A. Smith
New York City
Army
Navy
Great Lakes
Regular Army
Open switch causes terrible Washington railroad wreck
A through B & O train from the West to Pittsburgh derailed in Washington Pa after an open switch. One engineer and James Newell of Wheeling died. the fireman is dying. Fifteen to thirty injured, including Superintendent Stephens and Captain C W Batchelor.
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Washington
Pittsburgh
James Newell
Wheeling
Stephens
Pittsburgh Post Office
C. W. Batchelor
Curious bely vehicle voyage and assorted regional items
A Georgia man travels with family in a peculiar bely device. reports include assaults in Valdosta, a Louisville death from pistollike injury, church dissolutions over Mormon ties, a Kieviston landslide drowning of a firm engineer, physician deaths in Kentucky, a murder case in Georgia, railroad bond plans in Tennessee, and various local crimes and outbreaks detailing community turmoil and notable figures.
The World’s Food Trade And Its Vast Scale
An experienced grocery salesman notes that figures fail to capture the enormous traffic in fool and food. He cites a Maryland corn factory processing thousands of bushels weekly and asserts canned goods are a small part of a vast global food industry in which well over three fifths of workers are employed in raising or handling food.
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Maryland
Exchange of Courtesies in Early Japanese Exploration
An account from Mr. St. John describes a contact between Brelish surveyors and Japanese locals. A gift of an empty meat can led to mutual thanks and a brief exchange, with the elder returning later to present a humble cook, prized by the poorer villagers who value simple possessions and family pets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Mr. St. John
Nike
Youta
Silence Is Golden in a Cautionary Letter
Excerpted thoughts on restraint and patience urging calm silence after emotional upheaval. The text reflects on writing, regret, and the healing power of reticence while citing Dr. Burton's Yale Lectures on the virtues of silence and self control.
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Mal Salacces
Dr. Burton
Yale
Ice Wall Destroys Kerschkaranza Village in Arctic Event
Reports from Kola describe a January 5 phenomenon where heavy detonations woke residents at four in the morning. A towering ice wall moved from the northwest, burying the fishing village beneath ice two miles inland while the inhabitants escaped with their lives.
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Kerschkaranza
Kola
White Sea
Philadelphia Press
Rash Prediction Fulfilled on Rail Line Between Philadelphia and Harrisburg
A 1835 charter for the Philadelphia Harrisburg line inspired Hon Simon Cameron to predict soon a passenger could have breakfast in Harrisburg and supper in Philadelphia the same day. A colleague remarked skeptically, yet they later traveled the distance in a little over two hours aboard the rail line. General Horace Porter notes the milestone in Scribner's.
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Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Simon Cameron
Simon
Horace Porter
Scribner's
Chicago Genius Inventor Makes Marvelous Comptometer
A Chicago inventor, Mr. Smelt, unveils the comptometer a key driven calculating machine weighing eight pounds and 14 by 7 by 5 inches. It performs all arithmetic operations across eight columns with rapid accuracy rivaling a typewriter. Government actuary Joseph McCoy notes novices exceed skilled calculators using it and test sums show swift correct results, with finely crafted hardened steel parts ensuring durability.
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Chicago
Mr. Smelt
Joseph McCoy
United States Treasury
Washington
Felt
England
New York
Treasury Department
Singular Experience Prompts Payment Revealed
The exchange centers on Dumley who declares a singular experience when he happens to meet Robinson in the street while seeking his address to settle a debt. He confirms he paid the money, noting the coincidence as singular. The snippet ends with a wry aside about Saratoga spring water and Niagara fall water from the Yonkers Statesman.
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Dumley
Brown
Robinson
Saratoga
Niagara
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Pogland
Parsell Defense Fund
Ameria
Ravenswood
W. Va
Scroexrons
Bohemia and
Moravia
Howe
Ottawa
Chaplean
John
Donald
Tre
Lectin
Earther
Winerax
Humbert
Rome
Naplea
Wth
John R. Moore
Mr. Moore
Pros. von Estanca
Frederick Lange
Thenet
Dalith & Winn Railway Company
Pond du Lac
John MacDonal
New York Bus Ball Club
Brooklyn
City of New York
Liverpool
Queenstown
Papa
Peanee Eas FP
K. Sisox
Mackinaw City
Mich
St. Louis
Berry
Frederick
London
Mackenzie
Pensacola
Fla
River Junction
Board of Healh
Escambia County
Camp Perry
Jacksonville
Dr. Mackenzie
Emperor Frederick
Leipsie
Berlin
Papal
William
Prof Pact Grater
Paris
Cuba
Preach Copper Syndicate
Sommer
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Lost Creek
Pottsville
District of Columbia
Etn Sai
Bess
Michraxs
Darrie
London Times
Burraca Willliam
Pompeii
Katy
Fiftieth
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Whitechapel
Valdosta
Vickers
4. B. Manson
Tts
John Thompson
Christian Science Association of
Pollock Street
Daviess County
Hubert J. Smith
Joecup
Lewis Beébwarde
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railrowl
Knoxrville
East Tennessee & Virginia Railway Improvement and
Harroleburg
Mollie Lester
Cambell
Grand Lodge of Tennessee
Adependent Order of Odd Fellows
John I. Nolan
Nashville
Peter Harman, Jr
Philip Elchorn
Pease
Fayette Court House
Morganfell
Hopgood
Spanking
Uoder
Wm. Sherrard
Louis Malloy
Pennsylvania Company
Ohio
Malloy
Sherrard
Greensboro
N.C
Laura Hiatt
Association of Southern Hemaopathista
W. E. Green
Little Rock
Walker Bailey, Jr
D. E Lippinentt
Howard Cratcher
Chas. W. Taylor
Elijah Magan
Percy Countile
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