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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1886
Page
3
Fragmentary text references bans on certain items and potential tariff or rate actions. No clear subjects, dates, or entities are identifiable to form a full news item.
President calls Congress to consider labor reform and proposes a three member federal labor arbitration commission. He urges stable, nonpartisan mediation between labor and capital to prevent disturbances and protect commerce, under constitutional authority to regulate commerce among states.
The bill empowers landlords desiring sale to apply to the state authority which routes the request to a land commission. The commission fixes a sale price after inquiry unless accorded beforehand by landlord and state. If the price is disputed the landlord may withdraw with costs. Creditor claims are paid before distribution of purchase money. Minerals may add value. proceeds vest in the state or local body as provided. The Irish receiver general and deputies are to execute.
The bill appoints permanent civil servants under treasury control with salaries from the imperial exchequer. Ten Irish collectors will be appointed locally. Malfeasance by the receiver general or deputies triggers forfeiture of losses and a £500 fine. It authorizes three classes of perpetual annuities at 3, 2 1/2 and 2 percent charged on imperial consolidated land. Rules prohibit subdividing holdings while state charges apply, with relaxations possible by the state. Mr Gladstone's speech covers remaining bill points.
Erastus Sheppard testifies in New Orleans fraud case that a major counterfeiting operation involved Charles H. Leonard once Galveston mayor and other city leaders. He says he acted as a messenger delivering fake money to banks and officials and cites widespread distribution in the United States and Mexico. He, now 62, declines to name initial accomplices citing family and social ties.
Commissioner Sparks reorganizes a special board of 15 to 20 expert clerks to examine patent applications for public lands with fraud detection focus. A field boost adds 12 agents, eight targeting fraudulent entries and four on timber trespass.
Senate approves bill authorizing interior secretary to sell pine timber from Menomonie Indians lands Wisconsin. Two disinterested appraisers will assess eighty acre lots, report quantities and values, with sale by auction at minimum appraised value and cash terms. Purchasers may take five years to receive timber.
The article lists pensions secured for Northwestern veterans and others through Senator Sawyer and related bills. It names multiple individuals and units from Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota Michigan and New York, with mentions of widow pensions and widows of veterans. It also notes a bill for Gen. B F Kelley of West Virginia and Senator McMillan pushing a pension for Archibald Money of the Eighth Minnesota.
Dr. Dunn reports sixty-seven wounded at Sauk Rapids needing medical care and thirty-eight killed or died. A separate list details St. Cloud patients with injuries ranging from scalp wounds to compound fractures and amputations, under Dr. Gilman’s care.
The article lists injuries and fatalities with names and counts. Mrs. ca sustains severe head injuries and shock for three weeks, Mrs. F. M. Martine suffers contusions for one week, and Nic Junneman’s three children have incised wounds. The total deaths to date reach seventy one across locations including Cloud, Rice’s, Sauk Rapids, and Buckman.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin reports a sudden collapse of a looming strike at Whittenton mills Taunton due to a covert large textile alliance across Rhode Island Connecticut gathering forty nine woolen mills. A Boston based cotton mill league forms linking Maine New Hampshire Massachusetts with mutual insurance against labor unrest. The non stock body seeks arbitration not attack Knights of Labor. aims to protect fair treatment.
The pensions committee reports a bill to pension Confederate prisoners of war from the Rebellion. It would add about 1.5 million dollars to the pension roll and pay two dollars per day to surviving officers and enlisted men held thirty days or more. The bill excludes those already receiving pension and estimates justify large treasury costs.
Exports for the year ending March 31 1886 totaled 665 956 720 dollars, down from 743 791 093 last year by 77 834 093. Imports rose to 614 778 670 dollars from 596 202 655, up 18 576 015. Internal revenue for the first nine months of the fiscal year ending June 30 1886 totaled 84 581 932, up 2 974 048. Spirits led gains with 50 591 735, tobacco 20 136 018, fermented liquors 13 662 750 and other items 179 788. Aggregate March 1886 receipts exceeded March 1885 by 549 825.
The week ending 24th saw 175 failures with 78 percent of them from small traders under $5,000 capital. Notable embarrassments include F Remmington & Sons in New York and Ilion New York, John M Conner feathers and flowers New York, George A Bennett & Co bankers New York, James White Brooklyn, Safford & Sargent leather belting Bea ton, City National Bank Williamsport Pa, and the Dallas ex Brewing association.
Aley shot himself in a Turrell Texas hotel room. The Lake Shore railroad ends a switchmen strike with eight non union workers returning to work and others kept from yard duties. John Boyd is jailed in Harrodsburg Kentucky for a $16000 theft linked to a buried wartime stash. Secretary Lamar favors interview format for press access. The Bear revenue steamer to cruise in search of Amethyst. A Philadelphia plant fatally shoots wife then dies. Jealousy cited.
A string of incidents across Dakota Territory reports fires destroying property near Emsley and Brown County, including a prairie blaze that nearly reached Erick. An accident near Volga fatally burned Andrew Nelson and two children. Vermillion’s Justus Robinson was killed after being struck by a train. Other items note a planned large elevator in Ordway, a discontinued Minneawa kan to Turtle mountains stage line after May 15, and storms in Chadron. The Groton college plans, Midland Association sessions, and local government actions are also mentioned along with various fires, land offices, and civic notes.
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