Congress and Senate Debates Through Feb 9
A condensed record of Senate and House actions from February 5 to 9 includes referrals of Oklahoma bills to Territories committees, passage of a $9,000 payment to Eads representatives, and amendments to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. Debates cover civil service reform, naval matters, district offices, and various appropriation bills. The session drafts and conference reports, including Nicaragua and Des Moines land issues, advance with adjournments and continued consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Oklahoma
House
James B. Eads
Committee On Appropriations
Hawley
Civil Service Commission
Messrs
Plumb
Gorman
Stewart
Hbotszt
District of Columbia
Mount Vernon
Post-office Department
Daniel
Civil Service
Frank B. Posey
Indiana
A. P. Hovey
Nelson
Minnesota
Mesers
Chapman
Scott
O'Neil
Peters
Kan
Wheeler
Ala
Clardy
Yeas
Dingley
Maine
Secretary of the Treasury
United States Revenue
Richard Rusk
Idaho
Montana
Maritime Canals Company
Nicamaugua
Blair
United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Brissett
W H Emery
Chandler
Kace
Des Moines
Iowa
Conerence
South Dakotas
Enlon
Tennessee
Commissioners of Fish and Fisheries
Alaska
Mrect Uy
Hoar
Ullom
Cockrell
Union Pacific
Fort Custer Military Reservation
Bighorn Southern Railroad
Mississippi River
la Crosse
Wis
Mason
Illinois
Seven guns contract for coast defense awarded
The Eneumatic Dynamite Gun Company wins the coast defense contract for seven guns. Three go to Sandy Hook, two to Fort Schuyler, and two to Fort Warren Massachusetts, per Secretary of War action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of War
Eneumatic Dynamite
Sandy Hoolkt
Fort Schuyler
Fort Warren
Mass
Bayard
Berlin
United States
International Geodetic Association
A. P. Edgerton
United States Civil Service Commissioner
Senate
Carroll D. Wright
Maasachusatts
Labor
Various Local News Items From A Massachusetts To New York Era
A sprawling list of incidents and notices from Michigan to New York, including Watson W. Eldredge’s appointment at the OCC, Charles Urbana’s $20,000 verdict against Philadelphia Traction, a Philadelphia streetcar injury, New York and Brooklyn streetcar strikes ending in surrender, a North River Refining Company case, a Hartford merchant’s assignment for $200,000, and a Rockland Pa depot fire. Other items cover burn injuries, suicides, robberies, gas and fire losses, a large tea sale in New York, coke strikes in Connellsville, broad business failures, a mystery illness in Attica, a pair of teens arrested in New York for boarding-house robberies, Pacific Guano Company assets, a life-saving telephone project, Delamater’s death, arson confessions in Boston, a fatal accident at Tartar Company, specie exports and imports, a Hester Street fire, a drug clerk’s manslaughter sentence, a large hotel fire, sheriff farm sales in Berks County, counterfeiters captured in Butler County, a New York bank weekly statement, a private Chicago school fire, a deaf school fire in Chicago, a governor’s offer for criminals, a Delaware G A R election, Oldenburg murder in Charleston, a large defalcation involving Dieckmann, a Wisconsin Sulphite Fiber plant fire, a pardon petition for Neebe, railway engineers striking in Minneapolis, Mexican prospectors murdered in Wyoming, and the Haymarket era figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles T. Urbana
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Tractions Company
Orbana
New York
Brooklyn
Brookyn
Sarrappens
Sth
Supreme Court of New York
Barrett
North River Refining Company
Palcott—prominentary
Chant of
Hartford
Conn
Allegheny Valley Railroad
Rockland
White
Porter
New York City
J. J. O’donohue
AY Connellsville
Jimtown
Standard
Ender
Emma Hore
Attica
N. Y
Frederick Truesdell
Barbour
Pacific Guano Company
Wood's Hall
Mass
John C. Ropes
Boston
Atlantic
Cornelius Delamater
Delamater Iron Works
Sun
Watertown
Emil Weber
Robert Plain
Hester Street
Thomas F. Bradenberg
Columbia
John Wunder
Bath
Humber
Cresson Springs
Berks County
Butler
Pittsburgh
United States
Sweeney
Marshal Chambers
New York Associated Banks
Stevens Point
Wis
Schissel
Chicago
Clayton
Arkansas
Eagle
Department of Delaware
Wilmington
Peter B. Ayres
EH Oldenburg
Charleston
8.C
Windsor
Can
Wisconsin Sulphite Fiber Company
Monico
Fifer
Oscar N. Neebe
Haymarket
Honest Money League of
Watscha
West and South News Highlights From Evansville to Alaska
Reports detail Charles Smith the Camelton murderer escaping Evansville jail on March 8 with a $1,000 reward for capture. Henry Dieckmann flees to Canada amid a $50,000 cash shortage at the St. Louis Merchants Exchange, while Mrs Wilhelmina Meyer loses her fortune. Ex-Cashier Francis Bornmann faces embezzlement charges of $10,000 from the San Francisco sub treasury. Judge Williams denies Alaska outrages claims. A Cincinnati ice machine, weighing over 80,000 pounds, shipped for $86,000, goes to Denver by thirteen cars. George Senet, a 30-year-old Bohemian, fatally shoots Ida Poltz, a 17-year-old waitress in Mobil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles ‘Smith
Evansville
Ind
Henry Dieckmann
St. Louis Merchants’ Exchange
Canada
Wilhelmina Meyer
Francis 8. Bornmann
United States Sub-Treasury
San Francisco
Louis L. Williams
United States
Juneau City
Alaska
Cincinnati
Denver
Col
George Senet
Ida Poltz
Ab Mobil
Fires and disasters overseas and in Canada sweep North America
Reports on a Niagara Falls brewery fire causing a $50,000 loss, Aldershot Theatre Royal fire with panic and injuries, severe weather across the English Channel and Germany, a building collapse in Bolton killing six, a Pembroke ferry capsizing with nine drownings, two elderly Canadians frozen to death near Ottawa during a blizzard, snow depths in Germany, mob looting in Rome valued at £75,000, Greek government loans, and January emigration from Ireland to Buenos Aires totaling 25,000 aboard 68 steamers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara Falls
Ont.) Brewing Company
Theater Royal
Aldershot
England
Bolton
Pembroke
McNulty
Annie McGuire
Ottawa
Germany
Berlin
Schleswig-and-Jutland
Rome
London
Dublin
Ireland
Buenos Aires
Deaths and a nation in brief from Rome to Capitol Hill
A cablegram notes the death of Cardinal John Baptiste Piotra in Rome at age 77. Other reports include a fatal boiler explosion at Guild White & Gillespie creosoting works in Chattanooga, Tenn., injuring Charles Falls and fatally scarring his son. Rear Admiral Chandler dies in Hong Kong from apoplexy. The President sent several nominations to the Senate including Norman J. Colman as Secretary of Agriculture and Addai E. Stevenson as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Governor Henry J. Hunt of the Soldiers Home in DC dies at 69. A fire near Minot, D T., destroys six stores, with $12,000 loss. Aqueduct tunnel work eyed for cost of about $750,000. Senate Naval Appropriation bill advances several naval program items. House approves Missouri River bridge at Leavenworth. Election contest between Smalls and Elliott in DC district remains unresolved as House adjourns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
John Baptiste Piotra
Sacred College
Creosoting Works
Guild, White & Gillespie
Chattanooga
Tenn
Charles Falls
Navy Department
Chandler
Asiatic
Hong Kong
Senate
Norman J. Colman
Missouri
Agriculture
Addai E. Stevenson
Illinois
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia
William M. Herrick
Henry J. Hunt
Soldiers’ Home
Howe
Atlanta
Cape Hatteras
Minot
D. T
Naval Torpedo Station and War College
Goat Island
Newport
R.I
House
Missouri River
Leavenworth
Kan
Crisp
Georgia
Smalls-Elliott
Elliott
Rowell
Linois
CoLumnus
State Library
Library of the ‘Ohio-Archeological—and Historical Society
Granvillo Township
Licking County
Osio
Congress
United States
Great Britain
Antik Dntalic
Ard
Wauscon
Logan County
Salt Creek Township
Muskingum County
Port Clinton
Ottawa County
Genéral-Revenue Fund
Adams County
Cousbus
Joint Committee
General Assembly
Stato
Tocal
Towos.nd
Oint
Messrs. Morison
Huffman
Massie
IMC
Sterr
Allinnas
Stark “County
Corny -Verry
Summit County
Greenville Femate Seminary
Greenville Female College
Warren
Frumbull County
National Guard
PEA Ad
Rand
Clarke
Kennedy
Ohio
Stark County
Council of Youngstown
Alston
Sandusky
Zaneasville
Spinefield
Columbus
Supreme
Leotonia
Columbiana County
Iennedy
Rennels
Robertson
Ashland County
Seneca County
Bryan
Williams-County
Ohio Penitentiary
Foraker
Thomas J Godfrey
Mercer County
Ohio State University
Robert Mohnfiey
Institution For
Leo Hirsch
Xenia
Saiiors
Wallace
Scintor Mackin
Cincinnati Southern Railroad
Tryon Road
CHG
Novos
CoLustpor
Gole
Board of Pardons
Comon Schools
Ohio Senate and House take up wide range of bills
The Ohio Legislature reports a flurry of proposed laws in both chambers. Senate actions included library consolidations, tax revisions, road and jail funding, and new bonds for counties. House moves feature school oversight, parole provisions, and municipal suffrage debates with several local measures advanced or defeated.
Salt as seasoning for hogs plan from Western Swineherd
A Tennessee plan suggests salting hogs with a mix of one gallon salt to two gallons strong wood ashes and three to four gallons of water kept in a trough. The author claims it prevents sickness, reduces worm disease, and helps sows in farrow avoid abortions, based on fifteen years of use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farrow
Samoa Talks Move to End Island Troubles
Washington reports President Cleveland sent to Congress the Samoa correspondence with Germany England and the United States. The note details proposals from Count Arco and others, urging resumption of the 1867 Washington conference and outlining terms for a native government consuls jurisdiction and a three nation approach to peace and governance in Samoa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waamurox
Yeasterday
Congress
Germany
Samos
Bayard
Count Arco
Civy
Prince- Brat HI
Samoa
England
United States
Washington
United
Snd
Malitova
Malletoa
Great Britain
Garman
Air—Bayard
Mulicton
Tamasesa
Baynard Aaid
Maalicton
Uarmany
Great Biritain
Bing
Mr. Bayard
Land Commission
West
Thres
Apia
Land Tithy
Corta'nly
Woat
Bayard Kalu
Proposet-Land Commission
Rabid Dogs Trigger Wetzel County Hunt to Kill
Wetzel County West Virginia erupts in fear after about a dozen dogs bite livestock and kill hogs and cattle over a month. Two children are bitten as farmers plan a statewide dog roundup for roughly twelve miles to curb the rabies scare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wuzellino
W.va
Wetzel County
Squaw Men Creating Trouble in Crow Reservation
Barney Brave, a so called squaw man, was arrested on the Crow reservation after defying Indian Agent Briscoe’s orders to leave. He has lived on the reservation for 25 years and holds a government land patent. The case, set for February 18 before U S Commissioner Bates, draws strong Indian interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BillinGs
Mont
Barney Brave
Crow Reservation
United States
Bates
Brave
Briscoe
Work of Flames: One Fireman Killed in Walle Blaze
Phanemria Feb 11 The most destructive fire in years burned 1412 1414 Walnut street destroying drug store and chemical works. Fireman George Showers was killed. Abraham Lacey and William Buzzard were seriously injured. The blaze caused about 2 600 000 in damage with Wyeth Bro losses at 500 000. The fire started in the drug store and a massive water tank plus flammable contents fed the flames. Surviving crews rescued trapped men as debris toppled, and a relief fund formed for the widow and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phanemria
Walnut Street
Fromen
George Showers
Engine Company No. 4
Abraham Lacey
ofErgine Company No. 14
William Buzzard
Whder
F. B. Morgan
Atore
Messrs. Wyeth& Bro. Iva
Timnhors
Stokely
Ussilton
Savoy
Dicey
Stratford
Prof. DaCosta
Fitter
Polke
Andrews
Messrs. Wyeth,& Bro
Counterfeiters Captured in Butler County Pa
United States Detective Sweany and Deputy Marshal Chambers arrested thirteen counterfeiters in Butler County over ten days. The gang used dies and molds to produce bogus coin and operated widely, with thousands of dollars passed in several states. Prisoners include James Johnston, John Dawson, Bob Montgomery, Charles Woods, John Woods, Thomas Stoughton, David Dunn, Curtis Fox, Alfred Grossman, Warren Black and James Pryor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler County
Pirtrsnman
United States
Sweany
Marshal Chambers
James Johnston
John Dawson
Bob Montgomery
Charles
John Woods
Thomas Stoughton
David Dunn
Curtis Fox
Alfred Grossman
Warren Black
James Pryor
Fatal Elevator Accident at D W Shelling Plant
A workman Gardner Ayres fell into a shelling machine aboard the I D W elevator while cleaning a sheller. The trapdoor was open and the swiftly moving gears tore and mangled his body, leaving only his head uninjured. The report notes a shocking workplace tragedy from February 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Learee
Also Mentioned on This Page
Congressional
Watson W. Eldredge
Michigan
Peo
Comptroller-of- the Currency
Whce
A. B. Dickerson
Ohio Legislature
Municipal Council
Yofora
Yellville
Richland County
General Fund
John M. Doane
T. J. Goltnng
Horst
Hougo
Naarly
Gclovtalund Exchange
Tompkine-and-velosol-Poorman
McKinstry
Morsta
Holmes
Hudson
Sanford
Albaugh
Messrs. Rawlins
Young Mio
Colundus
Sandusky, Ashland & Ovslodton Railroad Company
Kirkwood Township
Belmont County
Aranyilila Township
St. Bernard
Hamilton County
Asue
Toledo
Clermont County
Summit c
Akron
Winr- Ton County
County Agricultural Society
Houst
Young
Auditor of State
Nand
Tompkins
Secretary of State
Committee On Schools
Tve
Uelon
CoLumBus, Jan
Alphonso Hart
Cleveland
THE
Gazette
Dalton
Wayne County
Jos
Mat
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