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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1894
Page
3
A massive blaze engulfed a major structure causing widespread ash and smoke. Fire officials report the fire began in a confined area then spread rapidly, with the great concourse evacuated safely. Dr. Talmage provides description of the fire's description and origin investigation continues.
A fire destroyed the Talmage Tabernacle and damaged the adjacent Hotel Regent on Front Street, with enormous loss to nearby homes. Officials estimate church losses around six figures, while the tabernacle site will be rebuilt.
A Kansas town recounts the hanging of George Rose, shooter of assistant postmaster Karl Kuhl at Cottonwood Falls in Chase County. Mob violence followed, with Rose executed on a railroad bridge over the Cottonwood River after sheriff and crowd confrontations. The incident concludes with a coroner's inquest and a note that acts of lynching have no legal sanction locally.
The article notes the seventh week of debate on tariff amendments with no results yet. Democrats face pressure as Republicans push sugar trust questions and Senator West diverts discussion. A suggestion to rest the Senate and pursue adjournment is mentioned.
The seventh week of the tariff discussion opened at 11 o clock with a fair floor turnout. Two pensions for widows, one of Rear Admiral MacNeal and another of Major General Doubleday, were reported and added to the calendar. The sugar duty discussion followed, with Aldrich proposing various ad valorem changes to alum and refined sugar, and Lodge, Butler, Chandler, Platt, and Vestall among those speaking. The session tangled in debates over the sugar schedule and a separate topic on American seafaring, ending with a tentative plan to adjourn as the chalk article moved forward.
An article reports on a planned torching and obstruction of Green River bridge by industrialists aided by armed men, the ensuing arrests, and local officials like Constable Williams being taken into custody as the mob faced federal troops. It notes a deputy posse guarding trains and a large-scale manhunt underway. The piece ends with a crime involving Carrie Wendell and J P Royal and a completed tunnel project by the Susquehanna and Western railroad with past fatal trestle collapses.
Lexington and Fayette counties residents gathered for an anti Breckinridge rally at the Breckinridge County appears doomed as speakers Professor J W McGarvey and Judge Durhinuwy denounced him. Resolutions attacked his morals and urged votes against him. Harry Clay proposed a resolution calling Blackbourn to return to the Senate to speak out against Breckinridge. The crowd roared, signaling the end of the Treclanmadge influence.
The Colorado Senator expresses sympathy for Coxeyism’s cause but ridicules Coxey and Loe and Jennewr as farcical. He argues remedies lie in immediate legislation to relieve distress caused by unemployment and high prices, warning no hopeful changes will come through current statutes.
The Republican caucus debates blocking a long Senate filibuster as Democratic leaders push for action on a key measure. Senators from the committee on tales and others advocate protectionist aims while tensions flare between parties.
General Saunders and 430 commonwealers encamped along Missouri Pacific tracks in South Jopel, Topeka, with women delivering buttonhole bouquets. Deputy marshals jeered by townspeople. guards deserted. Neely weighs moves as Perry arrives. court hearings set for next Tuesday.
Amid tense debate on an amendment to a wine and oleo licensing law, Senitor Vanderson pushes concessions for Magic Dealers and local retailers. The proposal, tied to a ten dollar license fee for the year, faces opposition from wine merchants and retail groups. In other news, Major Jedyn Pew will head the Smithsonian Bureau of Ethology after Powell, and a House committee reviews general appropriation bills as private bills recess the evening session.
A founder recalls his shift on indiscriminate giving after a chilling encounter with a tramp on a snowbound Broadway night. The tale contrasts self interest with empathy as companions debate whether aiding begging leads to pauperism, punctuated by digressions on insects and oddities.
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