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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1896
Page
7
The speech critiques President Cleveland and praises tariff policy while addressing Treasury troubles. It notes suggestions for currency reform and outlines other Senate topics, reflecting a period debate on fiscal measures.
Sherman in the Senate attacks the presidents finance plan, arguing the deficit stems from past tariff laws and revenue shortages. He endorses borrowing on good terms and raising revenue, while backing a bimetallic system with national banks and ample coin reserves to maintain par and fund future needs.
Treasury system defense clashes with tariff costs as Mills and Sherman spar over McKinley bill. Elkins pushes public bond sales and government credit, while Hill seeks finance committee review. Senate approves motion for public advertisements for bonds by 48 to 4.
Senator Squire orders a Senate coast defense committee meeting today to fast track his fortifications bill. Petitions pour in from Atlantic cities including Charleston Savannah Galveston New Haven and others while Pacific coast ports Seattle Portland San Francisco and San Diego push similar action.
Caicaco reports insurgent arson in Cuban sugar cane fields driving price gains. This week’s net advance reaches a quarter cent per pound with forecasts of up to a half cent more and possibly a full cent. Analysts say the Cuban crop is rapidly being destroyed by fire.
The Solicit ors Loan and Trust company of Philadelphia assigned its assets today to Colonel T DeWitt Cuyler, director, led by president Richard W Clay. The firm, founded 1886 with 500000 capital, holds about 1200000 in assets, much tied in Western mortgages, and its stock recently fell about 10 a share.
In Topeka Yoroka on June 4 Colonel Fred Close began a repreven tion action to possess the Topeka Daily Press on a $1500 claim. Blakesley and Ruggles will post a re delivery bond and contest the suit, arguing the claim is illegal. Close aims to take control and run the paper as a Populist organ.
P. D. Armour is said to be buying and cribbing corn in Iowa and Nebraska with George Lyon as local agent in Omaha. Lyon confirmed Armour's purchases and storage in the two states to await a higher price as a speculation.
Congressman Blue of Kansas introduced a bill to pension all honorably discharged veterans aged 55 or older. The plan would provide each eligible veteran with $122 per month.
Richard Mansfield announced his plan to retire from acting and move to the lecture platform after closing night at the Lafayette Square theater last evening.
Atchison Kan Jan 4 J M Robbins president and N F Hess cashier of the State bank of Everest charged with receiving deposits while the bank was known to be failing. Both were arrested yesterday on the basis of the alleged misconduct.
William Richard of Kansas City Missouri drowned when his skiff capsized at Shipley's Shoals on the Osage River. The incident occurred during a boating mishap with no survivors or witnesses reported. Police and rescuers recovered the body and began an inquiry into the accident.
President Cleveland appoints David J. Brewer Richard H Alvey Andrew D White Frederick R Coudert and Daniel C Gilman to the Venezuelan boundary commission. The group includes judges and university presidents and is charged with gathering evidence to define the line between Venezuela and British Guiana. They will assemble in Washington to take oath and begin work.
John B B Blair born 1800 dies at age 103 in Chicago at the home for incurables. Once famed painter of war panoramas and a White House portraitist, he circled the globe twice to paint birds, invented silk bag gas balloons and a bicycle similar to safety models, and boosted a pencil maker with rubber tips. Paralyzed five years ago, he lost sight and mind three years before his death.
Atchison January 3. L T Nackus GT Gackus C W Weller R R Verd and R A Park organize the Columbia Car Coupler Company for fifty years with capital stock of 150000 dollars and general offices in Atchison.
Senatta Mo Jan 3 Robert Lanyon says Chicago trip reveals zinc smelter purchase plans not fully completed. His ten furnace zinc works at Senatta and Lanyon Foundry at Pittsburg Ky have been sold to the syndicate with possession in about forty days. New owners likely to operate here after repairing suspended furnaces for immediate use.
Frederick R. Coudert, serving on the Venezuela boundary commission, denounced England as the bully of the world. He argued Britain held Gibraltar to control Spain and seized Egypt and Cyprus when France and Russia faced weakness, warning that war with America would unite Europe against England and reshape maps of Europe and Asia.
Justice Jarvis Blume of West Chicago Avenue police station was attacked by two masked men under the Rey L structure on thirteenth street. He fired, hitting one assailant who died. the other fled but escaped uninjured. Blume and his daughter alerted police, and the patrol wagon recovered the dead man whose pocket carried a vaccination certificate for John Kelly.
Supersede the Bond. Jan 3. The Senate finance committee adjourned at 14 30 with no action or vote on the bond bill or tariff. White and Wolcott absent, West not present, tying silver and anti silver factions. Silver men aim to report a free coinage substitute or amendment to the bond bill, likely an amendment. Republican and Democratic conferences followed. Senator Jones Popular of Nevada joined Democrats in the conference. The silver camp plans an entire substitute to free coinage and end bond issuance authority. Senator Jones of Arkansas was chosen to draft the message for a full committee meeting.
A morning blaze at John H L Hibbard residence in Columbus resulted in six deaths by suffocation and burns. Victims include Hibbard's wife, son Allen aged five, baby Dorothy, and Miss Yay Mivbard and Mrs Grace Hibbard Lee. Four young sons and a colored servant escaped by leaping from a second story window. Hibbard was secretary of the Central Ohio Natural Gas and Fuel Company and connected by marriage to prominent Columbus families.
Simon Greenspan, who married the widow of Allen Sells, the ex circus man, wants to start a resub mission daily paper in Topeka. The plan has no definite form yet and will not proceed unless the National Liquor Association subscribes generously. Greenspan opposes prohibition and believes the moment is ripe for a resubmission campaign.
Colorado reports gold output for the year reached 17,340,495 dollars, beating silver at 14,259,049 dollars. Total mineral value was 35,432,150 dollars with Cripple Creek driving the gold rise, while 1894 figures show gold at 11,235,506 and silver at 14,721,750.
Havana January 6 martial law was proclaimed in Ilavanza and the Havana province amid advancing insurgent forces toward Ilavana and disturbances in Pinar Del Rio. Maximo Gonez aims to push into Pinar Del Rio as insurgents move toward Mavana with their cavalry near La Paste, eighteen miles from Guanaboca.
General Dufield, head of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Canadian rep King have filed a joint boundary report with the secretary of state. The document outlines a practical agreement between the two nations surveys, likely easing boundary tensions. The maximal discrepancy between the two lines is six feet seven inches, or 15 seconds of longitude.
King Bauman a Seminole light horseman near Wee Woka tried to arrest Alexander Saunders for alleged whisky bringing. Saunders fled and Bauman shot him and wounded his assistant Dave Coker. The jug he mistook for whisky was cabbage heads. Public outcry follows the fatal incident.
Ex priest Caspar J Wagner of St Joseph Missouri announced plans to publish a book titled Both Sides of the Latest and Greatest Sensation in St Joseph within about two weeks. The volume will recount his infatuation with Maud Steicie then 13 and his subsequent departure from the priesthood.
Chicago plans bull fights as Mark L. Stone moves Gypsy Village from Mexican Village to Chicago. He claims there is no law prohibiting bullfights and aims to stage events in northern cities.
The National Association of the Manufacturers will hold its first annual convention in Cuicano January 21 to 23. More than 0 delegates will attend from U S manufacturing industries, producing about 600 billion dollars in goods annually. The gathering is strictly a business meeting.
Ottawa reports the government will strengthen Canadian defenses and arm the militia. Colonel Lake, the quartermaster general, sails for England to confer with imperial authorities and to purchase guns.
Poriak Bxueurr Missouri reports an early morning blaze at the Alfrey and Son heading factory. The fire, with machinery and stock, caused an estimated loss of 40,000 dollars, with 3,000 dollars insured. The incident occurred at 11 o'clock and is under investigation.
A British judge in India used a typewriter during trial, its click and bell signaling lines as notes. The prisoner was found guilty and sentenced, but appealed claiming the judge played the machine instead of listening to evidence. The court considered this a technicality and a reason for a new trial.
A dated postal line from Camp St Harrisburg Pennsylvania May 4 references Piso’s Cure for Consumption claim lingering in memory. The fragment notes a long absence of Piso’s Cure and mentions the Harrisburg address and date.
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