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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1895
Page
6
Market wire reports Chicago general markets and New York money and produce quotes. Notes include bid and offer ranges for wheat corn and oat products, dairy and pork futures, Sterling exchange, and regional grain bids and cash prices. Entities include Wisconsin Illinois Indiana Nebraska and Providence, with price figures and delivery months.
A jumble of late news items notes political shifts in various cities, cold weather disasters across the United States, farm and industry updates, a dip into Guatemala peace efforts, and international tension. Key items include harsh weather crashes, business troubles, and rising concerns about public policy and national events.
A long fragment covers discussions in Congress over civil service reform with Minnesota issues and a stalled mineral land patent decision. It notes a San Francisco civil service inquiry, a partial veto history, and pushes to address railway pooling as a trust but cites no decisive action. The piece also mentions committee votes on seating disputed representatives and judges, plus a senator’s brief on tax amendments without clear passage.
The president signed the act reviving the grade for the army lieutenant general, following Sheridan’s tenure. The senate was sent Maj Gen Schofield’s nomination as lieutenant general, while no vacancies for major or brigadier generals would be filled until Schofield’s confirmation. Gen. Sheridan lay near death as the bid began.
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