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Newspaper
Salem Press
Location
Salem, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1886
Page
4
February debt reductions and multiple disasters mark a string of events. A fatal warehouse fire in Montgomery, a burning building in Fulton Maine, and a bridge project across the Ohio at Cairo headline a period of turmoil. Officials discuss silver coinage, pensions, and political upheavals amid indictments, lynchings, and labor actions.
Reports note Russian nihilists shifting to agitation, British authority to Lord Dufferin over Burmak, and a German Reichstag bill aiding wrongfully convicted. French chamber rejects expulsion of Orange Princes. bi metallic currency plan unlikely. Goodbody’s tobacco factory in Tullamore, Ireland, destroyed by fire causing $400,000 loss. Queen Victoria honors Minister Phelps’ wife at Windsor. U.S. minister to Persia meets the Sultan. Sexton wreck near Turks Island with six lost. Mexican outlaws derail and rob a freight train. Kraszewski recalled May 1. Pasteur reports successful inoculation for mad dog bites in 325 cases. Mexican bandits loot Central railroad train and strip crew. House of Commons rejects hereditary chamber. Parnellites cheer. Princess Eulalia’s wedding to Prince Antonine noted. dress valued at $10,000. Gladstone outlines Ireland policy with landlord sales to tenants, state funding, Dublin Parliament oversight.
The Blair educational aid bill moves to funding of 77 million dollars over eight years to aid common schools in the states territories and DC with allocation based on illiteracy rates. The president notes Chinese policy issues while reports of Chinese movement through El Paso and rising anti Chinese sentiment in New Mexico and Arizona towns.
Petitions urge legal protection for young girls and harsher penalties for seduction. Senate adopts a resolution to report private secretaries names, considers the education bill, and imposes data requirements on states. House debates pensions, Black's conduct, and silver coinage with quotes from several representatives. A Salt Lake Mormon women’s meeting denounces interference with women's rights and condemns court actions on marriage and maternity.
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