Sayward case stirs fears of British writ in Alaska
Washington dispatch reports Chief Justice Fuller hinting the British government may seek a writ of prohibition in the Alaska Sayward case. The ruling spurs talk that Blaine could be sidelined, with partisans predicting a strategic political move. Owenby finally appears before the Silver Pool committee, testifying as a broker with ties to Wells Fargo & Co and mining interests, while avoiding direct names.
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Silver Pool
Fuller
United States Supreme Court
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Sayward Cane
Congress
England
United States
State Department
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Sayward
Solicitor General
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Owenby
Owenbs
Wella, Fargo & Go
Payne
Sevens
St. Louis
Sinaia Atonut
Wells, Fargo & Co
The Name of a Senator in Silver Speculation Evidence
Testimony details a congressman explaining his silver trades and the alleged senator named by Owenby. Abner Taylor says he bought 40,000 ounces at 1093 dollars, sold at 11234, with a 2000 dollar margin, and denies knowledge of a senator or representative pooling to buy silver. He cites prior talks with Hedenberg and actions approved with the President, Treasury Secretary, and Mint Director.
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Hanover National Bank
Hall
Owenby
Donald
Pa Payne
Chicago
Stevens
Congressman Taylor
Tae
Abner Taylor
Hedenberg
Congress
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Mint
United States
Free Coinage Bill Sparks House Fight Over Committee
Washington February 2 The free coinage advocates clash with the House Coinage Committee over delays in reporting the Senate passed bill. Mr Bland says hearings favored Wall Street opponents and that Congress has power to stop a small group from killing the measure. Many fear passage is doomed amid anticipated amendments and Speaker Reed’s influence.
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Tax
Dispatch
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Short Senate Session Proposes Direct Election of Senators
The Senate met at 2 PM and Turpie introduced a joint resolution proposing no amendment to the Constitution for the direct election of United States Senators by the people of the states. The fortification bill was taken up and an amendment reducing harbor defense appropriations from 1,000,000 to 750,000 was adopted.
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Turpie
Committee On
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United States
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New York
San Francisco
Hampton Roads
Bill Extends Temporary Appointment Period in House
In Wasuineros on February 2 the House passed a bill to amend section 180 of the Revised Statutes. It changes vacancies caused by death or resignation to not be filled under the three sections for more than ten days, with special reference to naming a successor to the late Secretary Windom.
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Wasuineros
McKinley
Windom
First Person Inoculated in This Country Passes Away
New Hayes Connecticut Feb 2 George M Bradley the first patient in the country to receive the lymph inoculant dies.
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New Hayes
Con
George M. Bradley
Death of 30s man after tuberculosis treatment continues
The son of Prof. Blake, a lymph patient under two months of treatment, died today. Bradley, about 30, had not been in an advanced stage when treatment started but grew weaker as throat pain worsened, impeding nourishment. He had been on injections since early December.
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Shank
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William Suaith
Peffer
Soaith
Ohio Legislature Moves to Deny Brice Senate Seat
A Columbus special reports a resolution in the Ohio House to block Calvin S. Brice from the U S Senate, citing nonresidency and citizenship questions. The measure, under consideration, would have Senator John Sherman use his influence to deny Brice admission.
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Brice
United States Senate
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Whenrzas
Calvin 8
New York
Ohio Society
New Hoo
New 3
St Calvin S&s Price
Senate
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General Assembly
State of
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John Sherman
Calvin S. Brice
Bowdoin Students Plan Labrador North Sea Cruise
About 20 Bowdoin College students under Prof. L A Lee prepare a two to three month expedition from Rockland in July. They will study ethnology biology botany and geology in Labrador Newfoundland and possibly Iceland using deep sea dredging coastal surveys and interior visits. Lee, chosen by the U S Fish Commission in 1887 for Albatross voyages, leads the project.
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L. A. Lee
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Iceland
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Lee
United States Fish Commission
Pacific
Rail fare cut proposed for Ohio railroads
In Columbus on February 2 a House bill would set passenger fares at two cents per mile for routes over eight miles, rounded to the nearest five cents multiple. Roads may not issue passes except for excursions and employees. A separate shipper bill seeks joint accountability across lines to curb intercarrier liability shifts when goods are lost or damaged.
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Newark enters commission at Cramps shipyard
The steel cruiser Newark was formally commissioned at Cramps shipyard in Philadelphia as a United States government man of war. The event marks Cramps' first navy contract completion, following earlier builds including Yorktown Vesuvius Baltimore and Philadelphia with premiums for speed or horsepower. Two more cruisers are under construction and two more will start, with total government work exceeding 0,000.
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Newark
Cramps Shipyard
United States
Cramps
Yorktown
Vesuvius
Baltimore
Sara Bernhardt Arrives in New York From Havre
Sara Bernhardt arrived in New York this afternoon aboard the French steamer La Champagne from Havre. She was taken to her hotel to rest for a few days before a roughly five week engagement in this city followed by appearances in Detroit Indianapolis St Louis Denver San Francisco and other cities. She appears more robust than on previous visits and declared 107 pieces of baggage on entering the ship’s cabin.
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Sara Bernhardt
Havre
Detroit
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Denver
San Francisco
Sara
McKinley Bill Test Case Proposed in Louisville
A large Louisville drygoods firm plans a petition to the Surveyor of the Port for the return of 103 dollars collected under the McKinley bill. They argue the law is unconstitutional since section 30 was altered in the final bill. The petition would move to Federal District Court and then to the United States Supreme Court as a test question on the bill’s validity.
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Harrison
Federal District Court
One Court
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Senate
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
United States Senate
Tive
Pattison Denounces Force Bill as Cameron Wins Battle in Pennsylvania
In Habershire February 2 the fight over Cameron's stance on the elections bill rages. Pattison vetoes a concurrent resolution urging U S Senators to back the force bill while Cameron rides to victory in the Lower House as Speaker Thompson preserves a quorum and blocks the Butler county resolution. Pittsburg representatives Cotton and Graham break with some allies.
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Ocameron
Lochiel
Butler County
Cameron
Pattison
Pennsylvania
Congress
J. Donald Cameron
Tombstone Bill Mocked in Heated Legislature Hour
Hakrspunre Feb 2 The Legislature ridiculed Rep Tewksbury of Columbia county over his tombstone bill. An hour of joking motions and puns followed as opponents mocked liens on tombstones and the bill's provisions. The motion to place the measure on the calendar was defeated.
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Tewksbury
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Philadelphia
Stocking
Washington County
Shakespeare
Patience
Shylock
Willie
Huntingdon
Senate Bills Introduced On Relief Laws Charters and Tax Aid
In Harrissone on Feb 2 the Senate introduced bills for relief and employment of the poor and for a department of poor law administration. Other measures would allow towns to surrender charters to general borough laws, fund Philadelphia and Pittsburgh school districts, curb cigarette sales, regulate pawnbrokers, continue reopening certain judges, and revise bituminous wine laws. The session also passed to validate private real estate sales of decedents and to facilitate ejectment actions. Neeb's murderers in prison bill moved to second reading.
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Lancaster
Department of Poor Law Administration
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Williamson
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Markley
Montgomery
Penrose
Neeb
Liquor Legislation Committee Seeks Input in Pittsburgh
The special committee on liquor legislation will meet Tuesday to Thursday evenings this week. Distillers and wholesale dealers from Pittsburgh plan to appear. Chairman Graham denies charges of bias in member selection. Continued on eighth page.
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Ways and Means Committee
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Financial dispute rocks Third Regiment over missing warrants
Philadelphia reports reveal Colonel W B Smith of the Third Regiment National Guards faces impeachment and possible court martial over two $300 warrants. Board members demand accounting, allege misappropriation, and threaten DA involvement as they push for settlement and restoration of regiment’s finances.
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Batt
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Mitchell
Myers
McCann
Hail
Crowd management at the World’s Fair under review
Chicago February 2 The World's Fair Grounds and Building Committee held a long discussion with H H Porter Benjamin Thomas and consulting engineer Gottlieb about the transportation problem and the best means of conveying visitors to and around the fairgrounds.
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Chicago
H. H. Porter
Benjamin Thomas
Gottlieb Om
Fiendish Murder Slayer Held In Cincinnati Case
Special telegram reports Erge Roesch alias George Roesch jailed in Cincinnati for the brutal killing of gardener Philip Stadtler near City Hospital. Stadtler died after a beating at the House of Horrors, where proprietor Henry Kreieger allegedly struck him with a water-soaked baseball bat and stomped his face. An accessory, George Busch, also known as Boesch Roesch, implicated Kreieger and bartender Bill Eckert in a partial confession to the coroner.
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Stadtler
Henry Kreiger
George Busch
William Tacklenberg
Kreiger
Busch
George Roesch
Pittsburg
Allegheny City
Nig** Wyman
Pennsylvania
Boesch
Aliss Busch
Krieger
Bill Eckert
Fatal assault on country schoolteacher shocks WisCon
Miss Lent, a young country schoolteacher, died from injuries after a Crozen family assault following a punishment incident. The father, mother, and daughter were arrested and jailed as public outrage grows.
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Mivx
Miss Lent
Crozen
Ex Senator Hill Visits Curiaco On Money Conference
Former Colorado senator Hill passes through Curiaco on his way to Washington to join the International Money Conference. He doubts a startling disclosure will arise from the probe into the silver pool and warns against trusting the claims of J A Owenby, calling him a talker. He notes Colorado remains focused on silver.
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Hill
Colorado
Washington
International Money Conference
J. A. Owenby
O—Silver
Will of Rahway Millionaire Emerges After Years
New York reports a 1868 will found among a neighbor's papers altering the presumed intestate estate of Gordon, late Gordon Press Works proprietor of Rahway New Jersey. Lawyers have demanded the estate now held by others per the document.
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Gordon
Gordon Press Works
Rahway
N. J
Maryland Man Convicted of Assault to Be Hanged
Ernest Forbes colored, convicted last week in Baltimore for an assault on Bertha Phipps, was sentenced by Judge Wright to be hanged in the jail yard of the county where the crime occurred. Governor Jackson must set the date of death. Forbes was moved to Baltimore city jail for safety after threats of lynching by residents of Anne County.
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Ernest Forbes
Bertha Phipps
Wright
Jackson
Forbes
Baltimore City
Anne County
Legislative inquiry into Mammoth Mine accident advances testimony
The Joint Legislative Committee revisits Mammoth mine to hear witnesses on last Tuesday’s gas explosion. Inspectors, managers, and miners described ventilation failures, unsafe practices, and prior gas detections as the panel prepares a possible mining law remaking.
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Legiserative
Mammoth
Harrisburg
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