Senate Debates On Silver, Immigration, And Nicaraguan Canal
Senate discussions spanned a silver standard resolution, immigration bill conference report, and opposition to the Union Pacific sale. Thurston pressed against federal rail ownership, Vilas spoke against the Nicaragua canal, and House sessions covered District of Columbia expenditures and contested elections.
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Senate
Chandler
United States
Gibson
Lodge
Nicaragua
District of Columbia
Thurston
Allen
Union Pacific
Vilas
House
George W. Cornett
Claude A. Swanson
Virginia
Swanso
Capitol
Hill
Delaware
Richard R. Kenney
Gray
Aden
Executive Department
Union Pacific Railroad Co
Allen and Caffery
Mr. Allen
Deaths and notices from Washington and surrounding regions
Death of Capt. Charles Bendine in Jacksonville and other brief items include the dismissal of William E. Ryan for a silver Democrat bid, street box contracts awarded to Mayberry & Ellis, and remarks on Maj. McKinley’s appointment plans. Dividends by Standard Oil, deaths of Margaret Hosmer and John Lee, and various local incidents, crimes, and business failures are reported with a Washington focus.
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Charles Bendine
Jacksonville
Fla
War Department
Smithsonian Institute
William E. Ryan
Treasury Department
Congress
Rochester
N. Y
N. C. Brewster
Wilson
Mayberry & Ellis
Detroit
Mich
Maj
McKinley
Reductions Hit National Banks in New York City
The article explains NYC national banks cutting circulation due to anticipated long easy-money conditions and the high prices at which government bonds are trading.
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New York City
Missouri House Bans Base Ball on Sundays
A Missouri bill prohibiting Sunday baseball passes the house. Other items note a fatal fire near Fayling Michigan, a seven month railway strike crippling the Chicago & Southeastern line, a family feud in Missouri with fatalities, and various national notices including a California prize fighting bill and a Chicago business founder’s death.
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Missouri House of Representatives
Seeley-Wakeely
Fayling
Mich
Chicago & Southeastern Railway
Lebanon
Ind
McIinley
Joseph Ritchie
John Thomas
Frankfort
California Senate
Assembly For
Albert M. Billings
People's Gaslight and Coke Co
Chicago
Racine
Wis
Edward J. Wagner
Allegan, Mich
Wagner
Fire destroys Maple Co warehouse in Camdentown
The Maple Co warehouse in Camdentown storing absent Wondon ers goods burned down on the 6th with an estimated loss of 80 000 pounds. Sylvester Scovel, New York World correspondent, is jailed at Tunas Santa Clara Cuba. Consul General Lee to safeguard his interests as an American citizen. A London dispatch reports bubonic plague at Kandahar Afghanistan. Dr Koch wires from Cape Town about returning to Germany with a serum to lessen rinderpest impact.
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Maple & Co
Camdentown
Sylvester Scovel
New York World
Tunas
Santa Clara Province
Cuba
Lee
Scovel
Kandahar
Afghanistan
Koch
Cape Town
Germany
Secretary Carlisle to locate in New York after March 4
News in brief reports Secretary Carlisle will relocate to New York City after March 4. Other items include a receiver suit for Yellow Poplar Lumber Co. in Portsmouth Ohio, with mills in Coal Grove Kentucky and Ashland Kentucky, steamboats and timber lands.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Carlisle
New York City
Portsmouth
Yellow Poplar Lumber Co
Chicago
Coal Grove
Ashland
Kentucky
West Virginia
Senate
Jient
Edward Moale
Third Infantry
Francis E. Lacey
Seventeenth Infantry
Rotten egging and a political shift in Ohio news
Ohio items report a Columbus worker Koch attacked with rotten eggs by fellow laborers after taking groceries from a relief committee. Columbus also notes M A Hanna foes conceding Gov Bushnell may appoint Asa W. Jones to the senate vacancy, with Jones not seeking election. Cleveland reports a Mayfield gas well strike at 540 feet with a large gas gusher supplying the city.
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Columbus
Hayden
Charles Koch
Koch
Columbeus
Friends of
Bushnell
Senate
Sherman
Asa
W. Jones
Youngs Town
Foraker
Gen. Jones
Cleveland
Bennett
Mayfield
Tusday
Tragic death after drugstore whisky misread
Charles J Heany 28 years old salesman for a Cleveland cigar firm entered O hls drug store at 10 pm Tuesday while sick with a cold Heany took what he thought was whisky but it proved to be preecoatin and he died two minutes later. Nearby items report court decisions miners strikes and local deaths.
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Tirrin
Charles J. Heany
Cleveland
Ohl's
Heany
Ohio's National Guard Adjutant General Reports Strength and Needs
The annual Ohio National Guard report by Adjt. Gen. Axline details eight infantry regiments, three attached infantry companies, one light artillery regiment, and one cavalry troop totaling 481 officers and 5,648 enlisted. It notes mustered out units for inefficiency, new divisions and armory funding, equipment aging, and recent tours of duty in Akron Berea and Cleveland with costs.
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Adjt
Axline
Collumbia
Ohio National Guard
Troy
Viqua
Gettysburg
Cleveland
Wadsworth
X@nia
Springfield
Fifth Infantry
Burton
Columbus
Battery of Light Artillery
Newark
First Light Artillery
Third Infantry
Eighth Infantry
Naval
Toledo
Naval Brigade
Vhis
Highth
Akron
Stone
Tallmadge
Berea
Fifth*infantry
War Reminiscences of Gen Walker Capture at Reams Station
The Boston Traveler recalls Gen Francis A Walker’s Civil War capture at Reams Station on August 26, 1864. A Confederate scout in Union uniform seized papers and forced surrender, exchanging a pistol and a fine sword for his release. The sword later returned to Gen Walker via Brig Gen G T Anderson after years.
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Gen. Curtis
Reams
Toio-So
Ife
Lieut. Jones
Georgia Regiment
Col. Walker
Mooncock
Toll
Gen. Hancock
Gen. Walker
G. T. Anderson
Anderson
Enery
Boston
Fatal Bullet Said to Have Ended Stonewall Jackson Life
Highland Falls NY man claims to possess the bullet that killed Stonewall Jackson during the 1863 Chancellorsville campaign. The bullet allegedly wounded Jackson as his own troops mistook him for Union cavalry, ending in the general's death long after the war.
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Stonewall Jackson
Je. I. TB. Wheeler
Highland Falls
Wheeler
Jackson
Chancellors Hille
Lee
Sickles
Chicago Chronicle
Veteran regimental ties in the Tate civil war noted
The article recalls the old Second U S Cavalry later the Fifth, organized at Jefferson Barracks in 1855 under Albert Sidney Johnston. It highlights officers who served for both sides, including George H. Thomas and George A. Custer, and cites battles with the Comanches on the frontier and a May 29 1861 attack at Fairfax Courthouse.
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Second
U. S. Cavalry
Jefferson Barracks
St. Louis
Jefferson Davis
Texas
Albert Sidney Johnston
Robert Be, Ley
Ham J. Yardee
George H. Thomas
George J. Stoneman
Innis N. Palmer
James Oaks
Albert C. Brackett
Richard W. Johnson
Kennard Gerard
William R. Royall
William W. Low
John B. McIntosh
George A. Custer
Earl van Dorn
Edmund Kirby Smith
Charles W. Fields
Nathan Q. Evins
Theodore O'Hara
William Bradfort
Licuis
John B. Hood
Fitzhugh Lee
Walter N. Jeniifer
Lunsford Lomax
M. M. Kimbell
Joseph Liffer
Minter
Fitzhugh Lea
Wild Plains
Wichita Village
Eagle Creek
Lee
Kimbell
Thompkins
Fairfax Courthouse
National Tribune
Old North Carolina Fashions Escape From Libby Prison
A Chicago Times-Herald account recounts a daring Libby Prison escape. An angular Pennsylvanian prisoner, nicknamed Old North Carolina after acquiring a butternut suit, blended in during a visit by Maj. Turner and civilian compadres. Cupps, detained by Turner, slipped away by stepping into the street, prompting a rush for butternut outfits.
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Libby
Libby Prison
Col. Rechardson
North Carolina
Maj
Dick ‘Turner
Mchmond
Maj. Turner
Forme Tims
Cupps
Turner
J. A. Watrous
Chicago Times-Herald
Bushwhacker with uncanny map sense famed by General Porter
General Horace Porter recalls a man nicknamed Bushwhacker who navigated by natural topography and rivers. He could read terrain without maps, claiming only Cairo Illinois once misled him when the river bend altered his sense of direction. The anecdote highlights extraordinary navigation skill.
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Grant
Ilo
Cairo
Horace Porter
Century
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Alton Carriage Works
A. H. Arick
Will E. Scott
Mata
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Supreme Court
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George S. Harker
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