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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1896
Page
7
A chaotic dispatch from Washington reports Ferent parts of congress debating bankruptcy legislation amid party factionalism and cabinet pressure. Havana correspondence details severe Spanish brutality against neutral Americans, including the Delgado case, as Gen Melgueiz’s orders provoke international concerns.
Washington April 18. The debate on the bond resolution resumed with Mr. Till speaking, Mr. Hear supporting the proposal, and Mr. Gear presenting a railway debt adjustment bill. A heated exchange ensued between Mr. Gear and Mr. Allen over alleged lobby influence as the Senate moved to open the Uncompaghie Reservation while keeping the bond issue unfinished. The chamber adjourned on a motion by Mr. Craven with plans to resume Monday.
Litchfield Minnesota report says the engineer and fireman of the Frisco passenger train identified a man shot here a few days ago as one of two men who held up the train near Lebaron Missouri weeks ago and seized several hundred dollars. Requisition papers will be asked for. April 18. A Lower Brute Indian who shot two Indian policemen, one fatally, has fled into a fortified house and will resist arrest. Indian police may assist the sheriff.
United States revenue service officers arrested William Westermeyer of Newport Kentucky for possessing an illicit still with a capacity of twenty gallons. He was found after a rent dispute led to a civil suit and a police search uncovered a strong odor of whisky in his premises.
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