Record for New Measures Broken in Senate Session
The Senate set a record by introducing 102 bills and joint resolutions in one day. Manderson proposed a postal savings bank, mint at Omaha, expansion of public buildings, and army reform. Stewart and others pushed free coinage, Chinese exclusion, and various public health and government oversight measures.
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Manderson
Secretary of the Treasury
Omaha
Neb
Norfolk
Stewart
Plumb
Alaska
Gray
Revenue Cutter Service
Navy Riment
Pasco
Callum
United States
Chandler
Greely Expedition
Navy Department
West
Senate
Hawler
Army of the
Ransbrough
Faulkner
Arsenic Evidence Fronts Graves Murder Trial
Testimony from chemists in the Graves murder case asserts the bottle sent to Mrs. Barnaby contained lethal arsenic and alcohol but no whisky. Experts describe a high fatal dose and recount the bottle’s journey through Chicago and Denver as detectives test its contents.
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Denver
Barnaby
Haines
Chicago
New York
Sewell
Headden
Mra. Barnaby
Grand Jury
Macon
Pras
Judge Furman
Jin Belford
Stevens
Mr. Pence
Graves
Stenographers
Judson
Marsh
Prof. Haines
Rush Medical College
E. S. Worrell
Topeka Jury Awards Damages in Girard Mob Whipping Case
In Girard, Kansas, Robert S. Scaife, contractor, sued the city for 10000 after a mob whipped him at the Commercial Hotel on September 2 1890 over alleged slanderous rumour. The Federal case went to a jury in Topeka with a verdict of monetary damages.
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Topeka
United States
Robert S. Scaife
Girard
Scaife
Commercial
Tinker
Walter Lantz Arrested for Aggravated Assault and Mayhem
Walter Lantz of Lawrenceville was arrested on a complaint by Alderman Leslie for aggravated assault and mayhem after an incident on Sherman Park inson on November 27. Parkinson, struck with a hot metal pile, was bitten on ears and nose and remains in critical condition at his Forty-fourth Street home. The report notes potential death as police and medical staff assess his condition.
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Gibson
Louisiana
Healy
Henry Clay
Manderson
Morrill
District of Columbia
Wailcott
Denver
Platt
Torpie
Tupie
Senate
Peffer
Cali
Spain
Cuba
Dolph
Pacific Coast
Columbia
Plumb
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Finance Committee
Walter Lantz
Lawrenceville
Alderman Leslie
Sherman Parkinson
Lantz
Crescent Steel
Parkinson
Forty-fourth Street
Lashed by a Guy Wire on the Mon tour Railway
Charles Bonner an engineer on the Mon tour Railway fights a dangerous situation after being struck by a guy wire. He struggles to regain balance while coworkers assist and safety crews inspect the damaged section.
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Charles Bonner
Montour Railway
Mad Liberated Man Attacks Family in Greensburg
John W Mack recently freed from an insane asylum attacked George Fisher and family in their Bolivar home. Mack torn beds, seized a sink, tried to break doors, knocked Fisher senseless, and bound by neighbors. Fisher injured. wife in danger of death. Bethany Home housed Mack.
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Greensburg
George Fisher
Bolivar
John W. Mack
West Fairfield
Indiana County
Fisher
Mack
Charles Fisher
Bethany Home
Divine Healing" Institute
Fiend’s Revenge Pipe Blown Up Italian Worker
Angelo Marino, a Boston sewer worker at Faneuil Mass, heated his pipe at night and an explosion blew it apart. He lost three fingers and a thumb, with a hole through a knuckle joint on another finger. The attacker filled the pipe with dynamite intending to kill him, and Marino suspects no one.
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Boston
Angelo Marino
Faneuil
Mass
Marino
Railway Law Breakers at Canadian Border Roads
Railway officials of Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific have been told by the Treasury to stop transporting Chinese persons not lawfully admitted. The department views such conveyance as a violation of the exclusion law and has instructed officials to notify the railways.
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Ewing's Mill
Imperial
Washington
Grand Trank
Canadian Pacific Railways
Treaury Department
United Site
United States
Treasury Department
Flower's Inauguration Aims for Least Pomp and Ceremony
Special dispatch from Albany reports Governor-elect Flower set to be inaugurated with minimal ceremony. He will arrive late December and stay with Governor Hill until events end. The Burgesses' corps and Tenth battalion will provide escort from the mansion to the capitol, with no other military displays. A noon public reception in the executive chamber and a private afternoon gathering follow.
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Alpany
N. Y
Governor Flower
Governor Hill
Burgesses’ Corps
Tenth Battalion
Ban kee Beals Threatened and Abductor Letter Report
Kansas City reports Banker David B Beals received a letter from the abductor Ralston vowing to blow his residence with nitroglycerine unless the manhunt ends. Police guard the Beals home as locals confirm the claim. Separate items note Lake Lamonie's dry bed and a Cleveland railroad mortgage and Hardy Hayes artroom opening with ads for watches and jewelry.
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Kansas City
David B. Beals
Beals
Ralston
Parachutist Mansfield Killed In Bombay Balloon Accident
An acclaimed parachutist Lieutenant Mansfield died after a balloon burst during a height flight in Bombay. The parachute failed to deploy due to rope entanglement as the craft collapsed, following a prior sea-damage repair that was deemed improper. Lord Harris and officials witnessed the tragedy at Victoria Gardens.
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Bombay
Mansfield
Victoria Gardens
Lord Harris
Bombay Presidency
Collusion Charged in Mining Company Suit
A San Francisco report details alleged collusion in the Consolidated Virginia cases led by Theodore Fox. Attorney Seney G. Sieberst, now with Hale & Norcross, is accused of dual allegiance. A prior $2,500 settlement involving Flood estate links Sieberst to improper gains. Eisure evidence in Hale & Norcross suit shows outside assays of $40 to $60 per ton versus claimed $10.
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San Francisco
Consolidated Virginia
Theodore Fox
Seney G. Sieberst
Hale & Norcross Company
Martin H. Fox
Sieberst
Gould & Curry
James L. Flood
Flood
Hale & Norcross
Nevada
Home Insurance cancels global risk coverage troubling rail insurers
New York observers report the Home Insurance Company has canceled its entire insurance risks for the week, triggering a storm among railroad insurers. The pact among Home Greenwich Phenix and others across London Liverpool Philadelphia involved mutual reinsurance and shared risk. The sudden cancellation expands exposure and questions future policy handling. DigMtcaAL Diamonds. Who has them? Lovely gems.
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New York
Home Insurance
Home
Greenwich Insurance
London
Liverpool
Ess Phenix
Rove
American
Philadelphia
Home Insurance Company
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Mitchell
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Army
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Collom
BNL
China
Secre of the Treasury
House
Hamilton's
Fifth Avenue
Fori
Bing
Parker
Loaded For Lives
Sharp Lawyers For
Detective
Bottle
Artistic
Hanily
Pennsylvania Railroad
California
Mexico
Florida
Watt
Bankee Beals
Thomasville
Lamonie
Savannah
Cleveland
Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad Company
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
Hardy & Hayes
Smithfield Street
St . P. Roberts & Sons
Market Street
Ou Ccok
Chica
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Eains
Portieres
Brussels
T M. Latimer
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Capes
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