20 Dec 1888
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1888
Page
1
Reports from Cureago San Francisco and Liverpool show mixed wheat prices and quiet markets as December to May futures range around 1.04 to 1.14. Looming local issues in Heppner involve right of way disputes for the K. T. N. railroad and stalled promises amid holiday commerce and community chatter.
The report covers a Senate resolution by Edmonde condemning any European role in building or managing a canal across the Isthmus of Darien or Central America, and calls for the President to convey Congress’s views to a foreign government. Other items note a Haitian release, a House committee decision to delay the Territorial bill until January, and various labor and civic updates including railroad conductors, a hanging in New Jersey, and other national briefings.
A caucus in decile upe Yeareats evening discusses Republican support for a holiday recess conditioned on Democrats naming a day to vote on the Senate substitute for the Mille bill. The sticking point remains whether to concede such timing to the other side. The Mississipp Mid Wanapack report notes armed violence connected to a Sunday tragedy with four negroes involved and a public execution in the aftermath. Pierce County approval grants Tecoma use of lands for a park in Washington Territory. A business block in Waslin was burned in a Michigan town.
A fierce storm in Montarat Canada wrecked the King & Rogers foundry collapsing a ninety foot chimney and burning machinery with damages estimated at $80,000. Many frozen and insensible villagers drift and disappear while farmers fleeing Christmas produce are untraced. In Zanzibar and Suakim reports detail brutal executions and colonial reactions to capital punishment.
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