Plan Accepted in Senate Fusion Pact to Reorganize
Republican senators caucus approves fusion plan for filling senate committees leaving details to McMillan committee. They discuss elective offices and authorize the managing committee to negotiate with the opposition for division of posts. Secretary and sergeant-at-arms are Democrats, Republicans seek one of the posts. A subcommittee of McMillan Lodge and Spooner will handle details.
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Washineton
Senate
McMillan
Committee On Committees
Messrs
Lodge
Spooner
Baker
Gladness From Understanding Transit of Ills With Syrup of Figs
The text extols Syrup of Figs as a universal laxative that promotes internal cleanliness without harming body organs. It emphasizes purchasing the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product from reputable druggists and notes it suits general health when the system is regular.
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California By Syrup Co
Minor Items of Interest from Europe and America
The crown prince of Japan is alive and returning to South Africa. Brahms, the Austrian composer, died at 67. Lady Lascelles wife of Sir Franklin D. Lascelles the British ambassador to Germany, is dead. An iron ore pool for Gogebic and nearby ranges formed, Mesaba not included.
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Japan
Cecil Rhodes
South Africa
Johannes Brahms
Lady Lascelles
Franklin D. Lascelles
Germany
Revolution Breaks Out in Honduras Martial Law Declared
United States Consul Little reports from Tegucigalpa that Honduras has a revolution and the republic is under martial law. The telegrams describe a sudden power shift in the capital.
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Washington
United States
Little
Tegucgalpa
Honduras
Casearets Stimulant Notice and Resignations
Casearets stimulate liver kidneys and bowels. Never sicken weaken or gripe. A B Evans register of the land office at Des Moines has resigned and will resume his law practice. High water on portions of the Missouri river has mysteriously disappeared and scientists say it goes into the great artesian basin.
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A. B. Evans
Des Moines
Missouri River
To Cure a Cold in One Day Tablet Ad
An advertisement claims Laxative Bromo Quinuine Tablets cure a cold in one day with a money back refund if it fails. The product is priced at 25 cents and sold by druggists.
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America
D. P. Brown-Lewis Cycle Co
Chicago
Ill
Parker
House Refuses Concur in Senate Indian Bill Amendments
The House sent the Indian appropriation bill to conference after rejecting Senate changes on opening the Uncompahgre Reservation under mineral land laws and restricting oil and gas leases. An amendment limited corporate possession and favored government leasing. A Senate change on Seneca oil and gas leases was disagreed to. Mr Bland pressed action on Union Pacific mortgage resolution, blocked by the speaker.
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WasHineTon
House
Senate
Council of the
Bland
Union Pacific Railroad
Dawes Commission Closes Deal With Chickasaws and Choctaws
The interior department announces a final agreement with the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes in Indian Territory for allotment of land in severalty, town site disposition, federal court jurisdiction, and presidential approval of tribal acts. Choctaw land spans 6,633,000 acres.
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Washington
Interior Department
Dawes Indian Commission
Indian Territory
Day of Canton Named First Assistant Secretary of State
President McKinley nominates William R. Day of Canton Ohio to be first assistant secretary of state, and ex-Representative Bellamy Storer of Cincinnati to be minister to Belgium. Day’s appointment means he will not be sent to Cuba as special prosecutor in the Ruiz investigation.
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Judge Day of
Canton
Wasa Hinetos
McKinley
William R. Day
Bellamy Storer
Cincinnati
Belgium
Judge Day
Cuba
Ruiz
Passage of Nelson substitute bankruptcy bill in House
Washington April 26 The Nelson substitute bankruptcy bill is expected to pass the House Representative Bailey says he will push for early consideration The measure is seen as nonpartisan with both parties eager for passage this session
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Washington
Nelson
Bailey
House
Revenue Cutter Rush Fails to Find Overdue Samaria
The Rush searched 200 miles up the coast from Seattle to San Francisco for the Samaria but found no trace or wreckage. The 21 aboard included the captain, his wife and two children, and the ship is presumed lost at sea.
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San Francisco
Rush
Samaria
Seattle
Judge Grants Injunction Blocking 3 Cent Fare Law
Judge Showalter in Indianapolis grants the Citizens Street Railway an injunction blocking the 3 cent fare law. The ruling declares the Bugg law unconstitutional as special legislation targeting Indianapolis and allows a return to 5 cent fares. The court rejects delaying the case for Indiana Supreme Court ruling. Life imprisonment follows after a separate murder verdict in Cuixton. Christian Eckerlobe condemned for Miss Mina Kiel's Bellevue murder, now found guilty of first degree murder with life term.
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Showalter
Indiana Legisature
Indianapolis
United States Court
Citizens Street Railway
Co.er
Supreme Court of Indiana
Cuixton
Christian Eckerlobe
Mina Kiel
Bellevue
Bantamweights Fight in San Francisco Sees Barry Win
Five thousand spectators in San Francisco watched bantamweights Jimmy Barry and Jimmy Anthony contest a 20 round bout at the National Athletic Club. Barry secured the decision in the final round amid the same organization that ran the Fitzsimmons Sharkey affair.
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San Francisco
Jimmy Barry
Jimmy Anthony
Natiional Athletic Club
Fitzsimmons-Sharkey
Barry
Tornado Fatal in Kansas Near Wamaeco County
A small tornado struck part of Wabaunsee County near Wamego on April 26. Eight year old Henry Miller was killed, and his father Henry Miller and his wife were fatally hurt.
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Wameco
Kan
Wabaunsee County
Henry Miller
Miller
Oarsman Lester Mabon Dies and Local News Roundup
Lester Mabon of St. Paul, famed oarsman, dies. About 2,000 St. Paul area residents expected at Stockholm exhibition this summer. R. H. Strauble hanged at Friday Harbor Wash for murder of Leo Lanterman on Blakely Island in 1895. Ira Stansbury of St. Louis shoots and injures a street car motorman after a buggy collision.
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Lester M. Mabon
St. Paul
Stockholm
R. H. Strauble
Friday Harbor
Wash
Leo Lanterman
Blakely Island
Ira Stansbury
St. Louis
Market Report Shows Steady Grain Prices Across Regions
Milwaukee on April 23 reports steady flour and grain prices with No 2 spring wheat 76 cents and No 1 Northern 81.5 cents for May. Corn No 3 at 21.5 cents, No 2 white oats around 2034 to 211 cents. Duura notes cash wheat bids for No 1 hard 78 cents and Northern 76.5 to 78 cents for various contracts.
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Milwaukee
Grain futures report from Minneapolis trading session
On April 23 in Minneapolis Wheat May closed at 74 and a half cents, July at 74% to 75 cents, and September around 8 1/8 cents. On Track No 1 hard wheat priced at 78 cents, No 1 Northern near 7642, No 2 Northern around 745.
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Minneapolis
Hogs and Cattle Market Report From St Paul
Hogs market steady and active with fair quality and yards cleared early. Price range 57 to 90. Cattle market strong with high demand and limited supply. Cows sell around 260 to 263 per hundredweight, stockers 365 to 370, heifers 275, steers 400.
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Souta
St. Paul
Market Report from Cariaco AHOGS Prices and Cattle and Sheep Movements
Cariaco markets show AHOGS light up to 5 cents higher while others slip. Light sales range 3.95 to 4.17, mixes 3.95 to 4.15, heavies 3.60, roughs 3.60 to 23.75. Cattle markets steady with beeves 0.85 to 3.3, cows and heifers 2.00 to 4.50, Texas steers 3.49 to 4.40, stockers and feeders 0.40 to 5.0. Sheep markets steady to strong with natives 1.0 to 4.9, Western 5.6 to 4.85, lambs 3.5 to 5.8.
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Cariaco
Texas
Market Quotes for Wheat Corn and Oats
Cybaso April 2 closing prices list wheat ranges for April to September with 74 to 75 in April and 71 in May. corn shows 24 1/2 cents to 27 1/2 cents across April to September. oats prices run from 17 1/2 cents in April to 19 cents in September.
Harper's Magazine 1897 Fiction and Features Preview
The October 1896 through 1897 issue lineup includes The Martian by Du Maurier, a Frank R. Stockton novel, Howells Pair of Patient Lovers, and stories by Twain Howells Page Davis Wister Bangs Stuart Wilkin and others. Also featured are science pieces by Henry Smith Williams Andrew Wilson and Mexico features by Charles F Lummis plus portraits of Africa and the East and a coronation story by Davis. Harper’s offers a one year post free to subscribers in the U S Canada and Mexico with Harper Brothers address.
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The
du Maurier
Trilby
Frank R. Stockton
William Dean Howells
Mark Twain
Thomas Nelson Page
Richard Harding Davis
Owen Wister
John Kendrick Bangs
Ruth Mc McEnery Stuart
Mexico
Woodrow Wilson
John Bach MacMaster
James Barnes
Sheridan
Gen G . Forsyth
Howell
R. Caton Woodville
Queen Victoria
Warper 2 Brothers
Harper's Magazine
Personally Conducted Excursions to California
The North Western Line offers Thursday excursions to San Francisco and Los Angeles with modern sleeping cars and expert conductors. Daily tourist sleeping car service runs between Council Bluffs and California. For rates and details, contact Chicago & North Western railway agents.
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North-Western Line
San Francisco
Los Angeles
America
California
Council Bluffs
Chicago & North-Western Railway
Harper's Bazar enters thirtieth volume in 1897
Harper's Bazar promotes itself as an up to date fashion journal for women with weekly Paris fashion letters by Katharine De Forest and New York fashions. It highlights patterns, drawings by Sandoz Baude and Chapin, 1897 serials by Pool and Thanet, and stories by Wilkins Spofford Harland McEnery Stewart and others. The issue advertises features on outdoor women health sports music etiquette embroidery and etiquette and offers subscriptions.
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the Bazar
Katharine de Forest
Paris
New York
Sandoz
Baude
Chapins
Red Bridge
Maria Louise Pool
Father Quinnallion
Octave Thanet
Mary E. Wilkins
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Marion Harland
Ruth McEnery Stewart
Viola Roseboro
Margaret Sutton Briscoe
T. W. Higginson
Bazar
Harper's Bazar
Harper's Weekly marks forty years and plans for 1897
Harper's Weekly notes its forty year history and outlines plans for 1897 include new stories by Mary E Wilkins Greek uprising tale by E F Benson a Bangs sequel illustrated by Peter Newell and features like Life and Letters Amateur Sport and This Busy World The paper pledges continued world news coverage and advancement in literary and artistic sections United States Canada and Mexico subscription address Harper Brothers New York City
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Far East
Europe
New England
Mary E. Wilkins
E. F. Benson
The
Styx
John Kendrick Bangs
Peter Newell
W. D. Howell
E. S. Martin
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