Supreme Court Rules Warrants Beyond Constitutional Limits Invalid
The court sided with the city of Huron in invalidating capital and related warrants used to fund a capital campaign. It held that municipal authority cannot issue debts for private and speculative purposes and that taxation may only fund public aims. The decision narrows municipal borrowing beyond legal limits and emphasizes ultra vires action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huron
Capital Committee
Olson
Ramsell
City of
Municipal Corporation
City of Huron
Toto
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claims Universal Cure
Readers learn Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease treated internally to reach blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer $100 for any failure to cure and invite testimonials from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio with sales through druggists at 75 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
J Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Personally Conducted Excursions to California Begin
The North Western Line now runs personally conducted excursions to San Francisco and Los Angeles every Thursday. The route offers scenic views and modern smoking cars. Experienced conductors accompany travelers to California ensuring care and comfort. Daily sleeping cars run between Council Bluff and California. For rates contact Chicago & North Western railway agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North-Western Line
San Francisco
Los Angeles
America
California
Council Bluff
Chicago & North-Western Railway
Indication of Good Times and Home Work Prospects
An optimistic piece touts booming foreign demand for farm products and reports the Big American Woolen Mills Co of Chicago offers $40 to $150 monthly home employment for men over 18. Applicants are urged to write for a free sample line and immediate local work, promising steady pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Woolen Mills Co
Fulton Street
Chicago
Spend Winters in Florida on Indian River
Readers urged to spend winter in Florida along the Indian River for hunting boating fishing and bathing. Send 10c in stamps for Weekly News with full information to Melbourne Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Indian River
Newe
Melbourne
Bind Your Magazines At Low Cost Deal
Bring in your magazines and have them bound at a bargain price. We offer cheap binding services with quick turnaround and quality results for newsstand issues, catalogs, and periodicals.
Members of the Next Legislature Senate and House Listings
A long roster lists district by district candidates for the next legislature. Numerous districts show names of Republican and Populist nominees across South Dakota counties including Yankton Minnehaha Bon Homme Hutchinson and Beadle with multiple entries per district and repeated clusters of districts across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Union
Louis N Crill
Clay
Carl Gunderson
Yankton
D Wyman
Bon Homme
J H Stevens
Lincoln
W H Wilkinson
Turner
A A Powers
Hutchinson
ET Sweet
Charles Mix
Douglas
A Prather
Minnehaha
C S Palmer
Lasse Botham
McCook
C D Morgan
Hanson
E E King
Davison
George E Schlund
Aurora
V S Coox
Brule
J S Stewart
Moody
Rufus Whealey
Lake
M E Hart
Miner
D W Jackson
Sanborn
Seth T Winslow
Buffalo
Jerauld
Jefferson Sickler
Brookings
D Sage
Kingsbury
Keith
Beadle
Hinckley
Hand
Majors
Hughes and Stanley
H R Horner
Sully and Hyde
D B Thayer
Deuel
M F Greeley
Hamlin
L R Burlingame
Codington
G W Case
Clark
George Keenan
Spink
W D Craig
Grant
Thomas L Bouck
Day
T A Goodwin
Brown
F W Webb
J © Kindsley
Marshall and Roberts
James Ross
Potter and Faulk
J F Whitlock
Walworth and
Edmunds
E J McGlenn
Campbell and Maepher
R Gilchiest
Hans Hanson
F Schnauber
A L Davidson
Ole Oleson
P A Overseth
A L Kuhns
W E Heenen
F W Downing
J M Downer
J J McLaury
J W Ulmer
G Meisenholder
Robi Dolland
Charles Baugut
Douglass
Wm Pfeffer
John P Williamson
JS Kirk
Henry Alweis
H H Swartz
A G Risty
W. O Colton
J S Purdin
Oliver Gibbs
P R McManus
Davidson
John Colvin
B F Wright
S P Johnson
P B Davis
J W Allen
G W Anderson
L E Blackstone
J W Houston
John T Baker
A L McWhorter
Jno Mitchell
Hyde and Sully
T M Goddard
Chas Burke
Jos Donahue
M C Ryan
C H Gunnison
W S Glass
J H Michaels
John Jardine
C H Lohr
W O Storlio
A G Somers
Marshall
Samuel Denton
Roberts
C H Lien
W H Jones
Ole L House
G P Day
E Kidd J P Neer
L M Benson
R McCauhey
C K Thompson
Ebbetts
A H German
McPherson
P Howell
Walworth
P Vick
Campbell
W F Varnum
Potter
G F King
Faulk
Jas B DeVinne
Custer
Horton Mastic
Fall River
D G Bruce
Pennington
Otto Ander
Zach Halmer
SE Foryeerash Dein Teds
Gee E Hair
Lawrance
R H Lilly
Olea Oa Geesans
Cov
Teen Fenenga
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pills Ad Promo
An advertising pitch urges readers to trust Hood's Sarsaparilla as the best blood purifier and Hood's Pills for prompt reliability. It claims leading world sales and recommends insisting on Hood's without substitutes.
Senators Split Over Caucus In Capitol Debate
Washington December 7. Senators Cannon Dubois and Pettigrew left the Republican convention area. The silver faction predicts little tariff or other important legislation this session and favors delaying issues until after Western state elections. Pettigrew says he is a protectionist and will oppose obstruction while hoping Republicans secure full protection to reveal its benefits.
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Senate
Pettigrew
President Will Act on Cuban Question Soon
Congressman Robert R. Hitt, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said at a Union League luncheon that within a month the president would issue a proclamation on Cuba that would be decisive. He expressed sympathy for the Cubans and support for U S material assistance, though he did not specify details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ChicaGo
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Robert R. Hitt
Union League Club
United States
Hill arrives in New York as Senate session looms
Senator David B. Hill landed in New York at about eight this evening. When asked about politics he stated he would discuss finance and tariff in the Senate, not in the city, and vowed to avoid widening any Democratic split during the current session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
David B. Hill
Lam
Washington
Senate
Grosvenor casts doubt on Ohio cabinet prospects and tariffs
New York dispatch reports Representative Charles S. Grosvenor of Ohio stating he does not expect Hanna or any Ohioan in the cabinet. He predicts no tariff legislation this session and opposes the Dingley bill as outdated ad valorem duty policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanna
Ohio
New York
Charles S. Grosvenor
General Grosvenor
Michigan men seek General Alger as war portfolio
A prominent party from Michigan arrived by special train in Canton Ohio. They went to Major McKinley’s residence for a conference. A member stated the group aimed to boost General Alger for the war portfolio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Alger
Canton
Michigan
Major McKinley
Alger
Japanese Oil Production Jump Reported in Japan
Consul General McIver in Kanagawa reports a sharp rise in kerosene oil output in Japan from 1,172,778 gallons in 1884 to 9,054,458 in 1894. Japan imports much kerosene from America and Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
McIver
Kanagawa
Japan
State Department
America
Russia
Iowa Traveling Men Meet in Des Moines
The Iowa State Traveling Men's association is in session in Des Moines with about 150 attendees, a smaller crowd than usual due to limited contest for office though director elections are ongoing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Des Moines
Iowa State Traveling Men's Association
Gold Contracts Law Defeated in Senate Vote
Montgomery Alabama December 7 In the senate the bill prohibiting contracts payable specifically in gold was defeated with only nine Populists voting for it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Senate
Bank of Spain cashes 159 million pesetas loan
The Bank of Spain has cashed 159 000 000 pesetas from a recent loan. Other items include the Berlin grain merchant Otto Heyman declared bankrupt with liabilities over 3 000 000 marks and a courthouse fire at Eastland Texas with vaults safe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Bank of Spain
Otto Heyman
Berlin
Eastland
Tex
Charles H. Hoyt
Melbourne
Australia
Sadie McDonald
Henry Powers
Marion
Figaro
Hamburg
Lord Savile
P. C
England
Pomposo Ramos Rojo
Palomas
Las Cruces
N. M
Max Alvary
Carmaux
Sanford
Tokio
Formosa
Patton
Princeton
Cleveland
Law School
Clevelands
George Fitschen
Montana
Harper's Weekly ambitions for 1896 expansion
Harper 1896 plan outlines continued national coverage with foreign and domestic travel reports, naval evolutions, frontier studies, and Kiel Canal note. It promotes art literature drama and a new Howells novel and Crockett serial. The periodical retains independent stance, with annual subscriptions and world illustrated journalism leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper’s Weekly
Julian Ralph
China
Japan
West
Richard Harding Davis
Caribean Sea
Rufus F. Zograum
Frederick Remington
Poultney Bigelow
Kiel Canal
W D. Howells
Lirz and Leerrers
Martin
Transportation Commission
Caspar W. Whitney
W. D. Howells
8. R. Crockett
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the Supreme Court
Rameell
St. Louis
Hitt
Senator Hill
Grosvenor
Mwee H.kine & Co
White, Tex
Senco
Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlanta
Erie Medical CO
N. Y
Harper's Periodicals
Harper's Magazine
Harper's Weekly
Harper’s Bazar
Harper's Round Table
Canada
Mexico
Harper & Brothers
P.O
New York City
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