Senate and House Advancing Bills on Tariffs and States
The Senate reported a bill amending liquor import laws and confirmed Carroll D Wright as Labor Commissioner. The House favored a Panama protection appropriation of 250000 and passed a Sioux reservation bill. South Dakota statehood by presidential proclamation was amended for three new states. Senate backed National Board of Health and retired list for Rosecrans and several pension bills. House advanced Mills and Breckinridge tariff plans and NM enabling act while Senate debated Cass statue and Washington County Texas outrages. The eleventh census bill passed in the House amid filibustering on the California contested election case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Carroll D. Wright
House
Panama
Dakota
South Dakota
North Dakota
Montana
Washington
Board of Health
General Rosecrans
James Berger
Washington County
Tex
New Mexico
Secretary of the Interior
Civil Service Commission
Palmer
Lewis Cass
Michigan
Old Hall of Representatives
Texas
Sullivan
Felton
California
Domestic Turmoil and Disasters Across the Nation
The week saw 289 business failures nationwide, a coal company collapse in Pittsburgh, two trainmen killed in a locomotive boiler explosion in Norristown, a Minnesota hangings and commuted sentence, a Mount Olive murder, a Fort Wayne cracker factory fire, gold finds near Purcell, and a raft of other incidents from arson and drownings to cyclones and fires in multiple states. The rundown covers stock exchanges, indictments, poisonings, and notable deaths, with scattered notes on crime, weather, and transportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Grand Lake Coal Company
Pitttsburgh
Norristown
Joan Lee
Alexandria
Minn
Charles Cheline
Martin Moe
Jacob Faucett
Mount Olive
N. C
Louis Fox
Fort Wayne
Ind
Purcell
I. T
Lake Superior
Duluth
Wauton
Farmers’ Bank
Butler
Kein
Matazia
Samoa
San Francisco
Washington
State Department
Port Huron
Mich
Bernard Beechler
GoverNon Larrabee
Iowa
Polk County Grand Jury
Turney
August Penmann
Philadelphia
Thomas Willons
Ashland
Notable Deaths and Political Upsets Across States
Rhode Island large man George Hrot dies in Providence after famed feats. Actress Kate Claxton retires after fortune. Mobile lawyer Coronel Dunn dies at eighty one. Evansville doctor Unquant dies of pneumonia at thirty three. Nashville bishop Horiann McTyerett passes at Vanderbilt. John W. Street, railway inventor, dies in Chicago. Patti signs for thirty opera performances in New York. Cincinnati matriarch Mrs. Resecca Canby dies at ninety eight, mother of Gen Samuel Cary. Arkansas House resignations follow ballot box thefts in Pulaski County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hrot
Rhode Island
Providence
Kate Claxton
Coronel W. B. Dunn
Mobile
Ala
United States
F. M. Unquiant
United States Marine Hospital Service
Evansville
Ind
South
Horiann N. McTyerett
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Tenn
John W. Street
Chicago
Patti
New York
Resecca Canby
Hamilton County
Cincinnati
Samuel F. Cary
Multiple world disaster notices and a royal death report
Advices describe Costa Rican earthquake damage with San Jose losses over 200000 and ruined streets, plus Alajuela damage and La Laguna sea-like ground. Reports note Lake Starnberg suicides, former King Ludwig II deaths, Viscount Arinori More assassination in Tokyo, and other international calamities including a Catalan epidemic and Samoan question talks.
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Lab
Costa Rica
San Jose
Alajuela
la Laguna
Lake Starnberg
Munich
Ludwig
Arinori More
Tokio
Washington
Aden
France
Villa Campa
Madrid
Sith
Hippomenes
Yarmouth
Barbadoes
Canada
Agricultural Department
Tweedle
N. B
United States
Apia
TuHres
Manchester
Eng
Montreal
Can
Kine Orzo
Bavaria
Servia
Gradatz
Russia
Orenburg
Numerous 19th Century Disasters and Political Moves Reported
A diverse late nineteenth century dispatch notes pensions rising to 100 dollars for double amputees, a Philadelphia business fire causing half a million loss, and a major Cincinnati railroad blaze. It also cites a Pike County Ark suicide, three blocks burned in Youngstown Ohio, a tariff conference in Chicago with President Cleveland’s letter, and multiple other incidents including earthquakes in Alabama and a Grand Trunk collision in Quebec.
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Philadelphia
Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago
Cincinnati
Jessie CanHoun
Pike County
Ark
Texas
Youngstown
American Tariff Reform League
Chicago
Cleveland
Attala
Ala
Boston
Citizens’ Law and Order League of the United States
C. O. Bonney
Grand Trunk Road
Ste. Hyacinthe
Que
Rugert Jonxson
David Fleming
Malden
Mass
H. W. van Drie
Minnie Douglass Opera Company
Iowa
James Ropgins
Franklin
Ind
Wehkash
Furthren
Banks Gownty
Hodgensville
Joseph Houston
United States
Senate
Fifty-first Congress
Butterworth
Oral tradition and memory across ages echoed in folklore
A historical survey argues writing diminished memory yet preserved lore. Oral tales, legends, and religious recitations kept through centuries, with examples from Italian islands to Waldenses. The piece notes bias in written history and argues folklore often preserves truth alongside tradition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Herrick
Dean Prior
Reiner
Toulouse
Telemachus
Burgundy
Fenelon
Louis XIV
Mary
Lingard
Bess
London Standard
George's Timely Interruption
A Chicago Tribune excerpt presents a scene where a maiden rejects George's proposal, citing a recent stroke of luck enabling him to buy a Prairie Avenue home and insure his life for 25000 dollars, while Laura confesses a deeper love he must hear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura
Prairie Avenue
George
Chicago Tribune
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