First Vote On Sugar Schedule In Senate
The first test vote on the sugar schedule yielded a narrow 82 to 30 approval of a Republican caucus amendment raising the House rate to 1.95 per pound. Support came from 29 Republicans, one Democrat, McEnery of Louisiana, one silver Republican Jones of Nevada, and one Populist Stewart of Nevada. opposition included 25 Democrats, three Populists, and two silver Republicans. The debate highlighted charges of protection, revenue needs, and trust influence as the measure moved to further discussion before adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Yeas
McEnery
Louisiana
Jones
Nevada
Stewart
Allison
Gorman
White
Caffery
Harris
Kansas
Union Pacific Railroad
Secretary of the Treasury
Mr. Jones
Arkansas
Frye
Maine
Tillman
South Carolina
Havemeyer
Europe
Berry
Sugar Trust
Kyle
Heitfeld
Eigars
Hoar
Congress
Adjournment Postponed As Legislature Plans Prolonged Session
Harrisburg June 11 Governor Hastings and Chairman W T Marshall of the appropriations committee held a conference and decided to extend the session to July 15. Revenue questions will dominate the next days while leadership from both parties supports the extension. Senator Quay will visit next week and a direct inheritance tax bill aims to raise about 1.5 million dollars annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall
Appropriations Committee
Washington
Harrisburg
Hastings
W. T. Marshall
Commonwealth
James N. Moore
Butler
Quay
Haywood
House
Senate
Pullman Parlor Car Service Between Philadelphia and Long Branch
The Pennsylvania Railroad announces a new Pullman parlor car service from Broad Street Station Philadelphia to Long Branch via Monmouth Junction starting Saturday June 12 with a 3 30 P M departure. The return from Long Branch will begin Monday June with a 7 14 A M departure.
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Philadelphia
Long Branch
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Monmouth Junction
Broad Street
Direct inheritance tax bill moves to third reading
In Harrisburg the direct inheritance tax bill by Mr. Marshall Allegheny was read second time and goes to third reading and final passage Monday evening. Other measures passed include city park land damages and constable fee reforms while a beer bottle prohibition was postponed amid house mood against it.
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Harrisburg
Marshall
Allegheny
Keyser
Philadelphia
Hanna
Martin
Lawrence
Kennedy
Boyer
House
Crothers
Mr. Young
Renker Boye
Young bill advances as House moves to calendar pace
The Clerk read the bill as the Speaker announced the calendar would proceed without frequent interruptions. Mr. Boyer insisted on uninterrupted consideration while Mr. Crothers declared he was not an obstructionist and moved adjournment. A roll call showed 74 yeas to 55 nays. The bill heads to third reading and will be taken up Tuesday as the House adjourns to Monday night.
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House
Representative Young
Tioga
Boyer
Representative Crothers
Philadelphia
Crothers
Young
Haywood
Mylin
United States
Eastburn Academy Class of 1897 Commencement in Park Theatre
The Eastburn Academy for Young Men held its commencement at Park Theatre on North Broad Street. David Walker Jayne gave the salutatory and J Campbell Lancaster delivered the alumni oration. Rev Kerr Boyce Tupper addressed the grads and J Henry Radey Acker gave the valedictory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastburn Academy
North Broad Street
Park Theatre
David Walker Jayne
J. Campbell Lancaster
Kerr Boyce Tupper
D. D
J. Henry Radey Acker
Harold B. Beitler
Edward A. Bowen
Alvah Bushnell, Jr
J. Irving Chapin
Alexander T. Dickson
David W. Jayne
Kennard G. Keen
John W. Kratzer
William
Joseph G. Shryock
Clayton Cks
British Officers Slain in Tochi Valley Engagement
A dispatch from Simla reports a fierce clash in the Tochi Valley where a Bombay mounted battery escorted by 300 Sikhs was attacked by a large native force. Colonel Bunny and Lt Browne are among the casualties with several officers and privates wounded. The Mollah of Powindah is implicated in the broader trouble.
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Bombay
Simla
Punjab Infantry
Tochi
Bunny
Mollah
Powindah
McGee
Shiraki
Malta
Browne
James Browne
Crookshank
Royal Artillery
Higginson
Seton Browne
Gray
Miranshah
Tochi Valley
Gumal
Ghazni
Waziristan
British Influence. Owing To An Attempt Which the Mollah
Afghanistan
Wano
A. H. Turner
News Officially Confirmed of Frontier Disaster
Bombay reports officially confirms the disaster on the frontier of British India. The telegram from Bomb Bay on June 11 notes that the news has been verified and issued to authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bombay
British India
Quiet Among the Indians Withdraw Troops From Montana Posts
A telegram from St. Paul to the War Department says quiet prevails among the Indians in Southern Montana and that troops from Forts Custer and Keogh can be withdrawn, with the withdrawal to proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Custer and
Keogh
Washington
War Department
St. Paul
Montana
Custer
Bishop Leighton Coleman to sail for Lambeth Conference
Special Telegram to The Times Wilmington June 11. Bishop Leighton Coleman of the Diocese of Delaware sails from Philadelphia to London for the Lambeth Conference. A testimonial fund of 587.74 supports his trip. He aided a choir sister admission at St Raphael's Chapel with Rev H P Roche and Canon Knowles assisting.
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Wilmington
Leighton Coleman
Diocese of
Delaware
Philadelphia
London
St. Raphael's Chapel
Community of All Angels
H. P. Roche
Canon Knowles
New York
Legislative Committee
Dover
Frank R. Carswell
Smyrna
Benjamin A. Hazell
George W. Dick
Henry Counselman
Boyce
New Castle
Alu
Hadley Lewi
Charles M. Smith
Harry Brown
Muel McDaniel
John J. Gallahher
EB. G. Buortudas
Samuel Chamis
Alton C. Pyle
Ohn Morefield
Edward Derrickson
Georgetown
Derrickson
Morefield
Grubb
Peter L. Cooper, Jr
James W. Ponder
Sweet Charity Lawn Fete for St Timothy’s Hospital
Charitably inclined Twenty-first ward residents filled the grounds around St Timothy's Hospital Roxborough for a lawn fete. Evening lights and lanterns, decorated booths and costumed young women drew attention. The event began in the afternoon and continued with creditable results. Rev Robert E Dennison rector of St Timothy's Church and Mrs Katharine Taylor aided with Miss Beatrice Cunningham the present superintendent of the hospital.
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St. Timothy’s Hospital
Roxborough
Twenty-first Ward
St. Timothy's Church
Katharine Taylor
St. Timothy's Hospital
Medico-Chirurgical Hospital
Beatrice G. Cunningham
Trying ordeals for women and a remedy ad
A Victorian style piece discusses painful women’s examinations and urges early symptom care. It highlights Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound via a letter from a young anonymous woman who suffered womb weakness and fatigue and reports improved health after use.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Feast of Roses commemorates Baron Steigel in Manheim readied anew
The Lancaster county town of Manheim revives the Feast of Roses to honor Baron Henry William Steigel, founder of the village and first glassmaker in America. Descendants pay an annual rose, with historical addresses and recent tombstone discoveries marking the event’s enduring local significance.
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Lancaster County
Baron Seigel
Manheim
Elizabeth Furnace
Baron Steigel
Germantown
Zion Lutheran Church
Henry William Steigel
Germany
Philadelphia
Elizabeth Hoitzin
Elizabeth
America
George H. Danner
Steigel
J. H. Sieling
Steigel Castle
No. 166
Martha Horning
J. Hay Brown
Lancaster
George di Fere Zacharias
Reformed Church
Brickerville
Zacharias
Steiger
Brickerville Cemetery
Germantown Cricket Club
Bicycle Clubs Plan Rides and Races Across Philadelphia Area
The Gloucester Ferry Co adds two Sunday morning specials for wheelmen to Atlantic City runs. Lehigh Cycle Club hosts a grand century on June 20 visiting Cedar Brook Hammonton Egg Harbor Absecon with medals for survivors. The Welcome Wheelmen relocate to a new clubhouse at Eleventh and Norris with a Laurel Springs trip planned for June 13. The Tacony Night Race and several club runs from St Stephen's Wheelmen and Embree Wheelers expand June schedules, with multiple venues and medals on offer.
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Gloucester Ferry Company
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Sounih Street Ferry
Gloucester
Lehigh Cycle Club
Cedar Brook
Hammonton
Egg Harbor
Absecon
Return
Sohares
Broad Street
Lehigh Avenue
North Broad Street
Richmond
Moorestown
N. J
House
South Broad
Court Notes From Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions
Court notes report James Goodwin as trustee issuing execution against Mathias Beck on a promissory note for 8617 dated April 6 1895 payable on demand. John Marley convicted of selling Minor without license fined 500 costs four months. Judge Beitler granted a rule to show cause in Frederick Warner trustee vs Pennsylvania Acetylene Gas Machine Company. In Quarter Sessions Jade overruled a new trial motion in Robert Muir case for keeping a disorderly behavior.
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James Goodwin
Common Pleas Court
Mathias Beck
John Marley
Price Street
Beitler
Frederick Warner
Pennsylvania Acetylene
Jade
Robert Muir
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Mr. Caffery
Treasury Department
Carroll D. Wright
Aldrich
Catfery
Dingley
Platt
Connecticut
Mr. Platt
California
Gear
Iowa
Treasury
American Congress
Mr. Allison
Pittsburg
Ripper
Lyon
Reeder
McCormick
Laugh At the Sun Drink
Keen
oo-Drink
Rootbeer
Philadelphia’s Palace
Pleasure Place
Woodside
Fairmount Park
Conterno
Dauphin Street
Belmont Avenue
Benny
Delaware News
Bishop Coleman
the Times
Sweet Charity's
Pennsylvania
Continental
Arc
Burlington
Camen
Continental Wheelmen
Young Men's Christian Association
Fifty-second
Fifty-second Street
Eleventh and
Norris Streets
Welcome Wheelmen
Laurel Springs
Kenilworth and Time Wheelmen
Bellevue Station
Philadelphia and Reading
Tacony Athletic Association
Tacony
Starbuck
Church
Aker
Lindley
Beverlin
Hadfield
Sprotesstone
Douglass
Hensell
Schwartz
Agan
Clift
Stackhouse
Wisber
Berlin
Beck
St. Stephen's Wheelmen
Frankford
Glenside
Belmont
Bryn Mawr
Ogontz
Andora Nurseries
Lenic
Waverly Heights
St. Stephen's Church
the GR. Chage Company
Chestnut Street
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