Attacks, floods, and trials mark week of turmoil
The week reports major events including a French decision to open attacks on Bacninh in March, a Fergus Falls wheat warehouse blast releasing 400000 bushels, and the Mexican Central railway’s progress toward U.S. traffic by mid March. Also noted are a Kentucky senatorial deadlock, Chicago high license enactment, robberies, lynchings, deadly fires, floods, wrecks, and legal notices across several states.
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Bacninh
Fergus Falls
Minn
Mexican Central Railway
United States
Long Island
Thomas Collier
Kentucky
White Heat
Sweeney
Carlisle
Chicago
E. Johnson
Union Pacific Railroad
Walla Walla
Oregon
Union Pacific Express Company
John Bennett
Ladd & Tilton
Portland
Union Pacific Express
Johnson
Peter Clifford
Ohio Central Railway
Rendville
Clifford
Jeff Romers
Stiflin
Chambers County
Ala
Morgan Martin
Gallipolis
Ohio
Culiacan
Chihuahua
Mexico
Henry Cooper
Tenessee
Polk
Nashville
Hopkins Pushes Eight Hour Law Enforcement Bill in House
Washington reports Representative Hopkins, chairing the labor committee, prepared a bill to enforce the eight hour law amid labor groups requests while tariff protections remain unchanged. The public lands panel seeks forfeiture of large railroad land grants unless patented, affecting up to 5 million acres valued at 3 to 4 dollars per acre.
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Hopkins
House Committee On Labor
House
House Committee On Public Lands
Oregon
California
H. G. Wright
John Newton
Richard S. Tuthill
Northern District
Illinois
John Watts
Ames
Iowa
George Eberhart
Cedar Falls
Daniel O’cross
Brownville
Neb
Morris Dennis
Syracuse
Manley B. McNutt
Red Cloud
M. Grimes
Kearney
Robinson
William A. Kirkland
Colorado
New York
Greeley
Senator van Wyck
Senate
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Congress
Western Associated Press
Association
Post Office Department
House Committee
House Committee On
Progress on naval appropriations and political notes
The report outlines a $14,320,196 naval appropriation, less than estimates and the current year, with multiple items across the House and Senate. Highlights include a favorable Senate agricultural committee vote on a pleuro pneumonia bill, a Mississippi River Commission plan with the Marine Hospital Service, and various international and domestic political developments. The item also notes Wendell Phillips’s death in Boston at age 77.
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House Committee On Banking and Currency
Dakota
Senate Committee On Territories
Sioux Falls
Congress
Cox
Senate
Loganotrod
United States
Hale
Greeley
House of Representatives
Bowen
Bayard
Conger
Plumb
van Wyck
Dolph
Sherman
Cooke
Davidson
Senor Carlos Aguro
Key West
Spain
Goff
Ohio River
Senate and House Debates Highlight War Veterans Bills
Multiple petitions from Union Army veterans were presented and various bills introduced to aid ex soldiers, including artificial limbs and pensions. Debates covered Mexican land grants, pleuro pneumonia in cattle, and a range of committee assignments and resolutions across Senate and House sessions.
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Senate
Logan
Pendleton
Frye
Harrison
Lapham
Fitz John Porter
Cameron
Wis
Dakota
Wilson
Territories
District of Columbia
van Wyck
Secretary of the Interior
Union Pacific Company
Hoar
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Garland
United States
Defeated by El Mahdi at Trinkitat and Suakim
London reports detail Baker Pasha's forces, 3000 troops poorly armed, defeated near Trinkitat as they pressed toward Tokar. Losses include 2000 men, four Krupp cannons, two Gatling guns. European officers behaved with discipline while many Egyptian troops fled. Missing include Maurice Bey and several captains. Survivors retreated to Suakim by midnight. Anxious tension rises in Suakim with potential new attack. Also notes election outrage probes moving to Copiah county seats Hazelhurst New Orleans and Jackson.
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Saigon
Miller
Tonquin
William Meagle
Phonix
Frederick Cavendish
Burke
Gordon
Karosko
Baker Pasha
Trinkitat
Vienna
Jacoby
the Future
Bachniah
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Porte
Soudan
Egypt
London
Constantinople
Wallace
United States
Turkey
Degraveff
Jablonsky
Suleikim
Herr Lasker
Nord Deutsche Zeitung
Bradlaugh
M. Dumay
America
Paris
England
Suakim
Sir Evellyn Wood
Cairo
Soudon
Laquaka
Teb
Tokar
Baker
Osman Degna
Khedive
Trinkat
Baker Pash
Maurice Bey
Lesle
Foster
Walker
Carroll
Smith
Watkins
Sartorious
Washington
Subcommittee On Privileges and
Matthews
Copiah County
Mississippi
Hazelhurst
New Orleans
Jackson
Miss
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Caldwell Tribune
Caldwell, Idaho Territory
W. J. Cuddy
Market Avenue
L. Danforth, M. D
Caldwell
Danielson
Charles E. Lee, M. Ji
Boise Valley
Cox & Martin’s Drug Store
F. S. Easton
Caldwell, Idaho
Haskell House
Cox & Martin
Charles Jr. Reed
Notary Public
Idaho
Town Co.’s
Gus. Wohlgemuth
Burton & Brown
Real Estate and Law Office
Dtanielson’s
A. Rummel
H. J. Goetzman
Rummel & Goetzman
C. Ellsworth
Boise City
Weiser City
Hon
T. M. Jeffreys & Co
H. Reep, Caldwell, J.T
Joan M. Lamu
Reed & Lamb
Heal Estate
Front Avenue
Town Company
News OF the
Robert Riley
James McCarroll
Winship & Co
Royal Havana Lottery Company
Wm. Morrison
Pocahontas County
West Virginia
Morrison
Boston
Blackburn
Williams
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Northern Trunk Lines
Utah
Love
Towa
Bar
Davenport
Harrisburg
Paris Academy of Mus
Takar
Marengo
Sincis Central
Billy McGlory
Robert P. Porter
Tariff Commission
Frank Huff
Coon River Bridge
Des Moines
Millersburg
Mary Shuster
Vicksburg Road
Committee On Ways and Means
Baltimore and Ohio
Fallsburg
Daniel Wallace
Texas Dan
Kendall County
Texas
Leander B. Bowen
Park Club
Baccarat
DeKalb
Missouri
Columbius Spratt
James Mitchell
Mitchell
Krosmer & Kinchper
Allentown
Frank
James Henderson
James Murphy
Tuscarawa
Lafayette
Hendersons
Wendell Phillips
Congressional
Hoasr
Thomas
Chace
G. D. Wise
Eaton
Wise
Rockwell
Milliken
State department—Davis
Price
Davis
Worthington
Department of Justice
Crisp
Springer
Richard W. Webb
New Mexico
Samuel B. Axtell
Committee On Judiciary
Ellis
Montana
Allison
Arkansas
Kansas
Minnesota
Nebraska
Coke
Committee On Indian Affairs
Hawley
Brown
Cobb
Indiana
Bureau of Animal Industry
Hatch
Committee On Agriculture
Belford
West
N. Y
Mr. Miller
Cala
Butler
Proteus Board of Inquiry
Greatength
Curtin
Clements
Secretary of State
Committee On Public Lands
Denver and
St. Joe
Cullom
Old Northwest and Indian Territories
Beach
White
EL Mahdi
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