Ogden Utah Household With Large Family Noted
In a three room house in Ogden Utah five Willard Bingham two wives twenty unmarried children five married sons with their wives and fifteen children and two hired men occupy the attic. The mormons nearly equal Chinese in economising space. The attorney general ruled British sailing schooners seized in Alaskan waters unlawfully by US revenue cutters Corwin. Proper damages will be paid by the government for detention losses. Legislature and railroad managers seek methods to heat cars without fires after deadly past accidents. A solution may prevent future holocausts from derailments and other events.
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Ogden
Utah
Willard Bingham
Alaskan
United States Revenue
Corwin
Interstate Commerce Bill Applies to Cross State Trade Only
The bill applies solely to transportation between states or with foreign countries. Shipments within the same state are not governed by the act if the railroad does not pass through another state.
Wealthy Chicago heir bequeaths 10000 for Shakespeare statue
Samuel Johnson, who died in Chicago, leaves a 10000 bequest for a bronze statue of Shakespeare in Lincoln Park. He inherited great wealth from his father. After Harvard College graduation he led a pleasure seeking life, avoided business, and let an agent manage his property.
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Samuel Johnson
Chicago
Lincoln Park
Shakespeare
Harvard College
Commissioner of Patents urges full revision of patent laws
The annual report to Congress calls for a complete overhaul of the patent office rules. It notes 41 442 applications filed last year requiring action, 24 915 patents issued, total receipts 1 154 551 dollars, expenditures 992 508 dollars, leaving 162 048 dollars in surplus. Credit in the patent fund rose to 3 107 453 dollars.
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Commissioner of Patents
Congress
Patent Office
Patent Fund
Treasury
Arizona Passenger Ship Brings News of Heavy Atlantic Seas
The Guion line steamer Arizona arrived in New York with flag half mast for two sailors killed by a giant wave. Other crew suffered injuries after being hurled against bulwarks. The voyage underscores a severe winter Atlantic season, with ships reporting swept decks and crushed boats.
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Arizona
Guion Line
New York
Ocean
United States
Senate approves major steel and fortifications funding bill
The Senate passed an $8,000,000 appropriation for rough bored and tempered steel for heavy ordnance and armor with a West Troy gun factory, plus $5,000,000 for fortifications and coast defense works. The measure supports steel manufacture for naval and military needs per the gun foundry board report of December 20, 1883.
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Senate
West Troy
Gun Foundry Board
Minnesota Supreme Court voids railroad warehouse law
The Minnesota Supreme Court held the 1885 railroad and warehouse act unconstitutional for allowing grain warehouses on railroad right of way without just compensation. The decision rejects allowing any party to seize land from railroads under the guise of regulation, citing the need for compensation and property protections.
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Minnesota
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Berry
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Supreme Court
House and Senate clash over pensions and rail rights
Congress advanced several bills including steel for army armor and coast defense, questioned private claim payments, and debated salaries for U S attorneys and district judges. The Senate passed a fisheries statistics bill and a port Angeles entrance measure while the House worked on mackerel landing rules and Indian Territory railroad rights.
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Springer
Senate
Court of Claims
Congress
Bayne
United States District Courts
Peters
Indian Territory
Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Railway Company
Cuthbert Stone
Claii
Franklin Sweet
Jesse Campbell
K. Bennett
Catherine Sarler
James R. Baylor
Pension Bureau
Dolph
Committee On Commerce
Port Angeles
Puget Sound
Washington Territory
Morrill
United States
State Department
House
Callendar
Edmunds
Commission of Fisheries
Hoar
Tajgress
Cox
N. Y
Committee On Civil Service Reform
San Francisco
James
Committee On
Rock Springs
Wyo
Belmont
Morrow
Pope Mediation Clarified in May Laws Negotiations
In Breslau Monsignor Kopp bishop of Fulda was deputed by the pope to explain the Vatican stance on advising Catholic electors and government regarding the septennate bill. The message underscores papal interest from a Catholic perspective in Catholic success. Cardinals blame Jacobini for a recent Munich dispatch about the septennate.
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Bismarck
Breslau
Monsignor Kopp
Fulda
Prussia
Vatican
Jacobini
Munich
Cold Weather Sudden In Pittaburg Dispatch Report
Reading shows a distressed citizen noting a sharp drop in temperature with astonishment as wind and street scene imply an abrupt winter chill. The fragment hints at a local response to unexpected cold.
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Fred. C, Kile
Warner
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Canada
Pennsylvania
House of Representatives
Nevada
Helena
Assiniboine
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Deer Lodge
Dawson Center
Indian Commission
Chateau
Parymaster
Sam Hamilton
John Patterson
Rapid River
Mich
Hamilton
Patterson
Patti
Sherman
Judge Kelley
Ira Davenport
George Sparpe
John Baker
Gladstone
Red Ward
Miles City
J. Wright
A. Smith
W. Birkle
Ada Young
Peter Doyle
Thomas Townsend
Pittsburg
McMunn
Cleveland
Alger
Michigan
Mexico
Hot Springs
Sioux Falls
Ingalls
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Eyperete
Rice
St Paul
Riggs House
Ramsey
Senate Committee
Mississippi River
Daye A
John Cowdan
Lake Teas
House Pension Committee
New Lexington
Great Seay
Taemie
Elliott
French Chamber of Deputies
War and Naval Department
France
Chamber of Deputies
Strasburg
Berlin
Alsace- Lorraine
Joe Howard
New York World
Pulitzer
Howard
Iinois
Wisconsin
Gov
Leslie
Montana
Treat
Towa Steel Barb Wire Company
Marshelltown
Iowa
Southern Barb Wire Company
St. Louis
Ross
Marshalltown Company
L. K. Church
H. D. Galigher
Indiana
Pine River Indian Agency
W. M. Neal
Lamb Agency
T. Priestly
Yankima
Wash
Postimasters
J. W. Curry
North Yankima
F. M. Kinter
Lamoure
Oak
C. A. Trovatun
Park River
William A. A. Walker
Eastern District
Ezra A. Glover
New Richmond
Wis
Peter V. Cottrell
Fort Howard
Patrick Talent
Butte City
Mont
John E. Glover
Hudson
Vilas
Glover
Benjamin R. Chamberlain
Combes, Hannah &Co
Agel Babb
Andrew Moon
Willmington
Ohio
Montana Independent
Parnell
South Sligo
London
Pasteur
House of Commons
Ireland
Great Britain
Frederick Middl
Jease P. Farley
Norman W. Kittson
James J
Hawley
Committee On Military Affairs
Hou
Logan
Eulogista
Collo
Reed
Helman
Committee On Appropriations
Representative Price
Renate
House of the General Assembly of Indiana
da Turpie
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Sub Treasury
Louisville
Mr. Cullom
Sabin
Secretary of the Interior
Rocky Mountains
James A. Waymier
Merriman
Naval Affairs
Hewitt
Hammond
Tucker
Natchez
Miss
Allen
Mississippi
Manderson
Salt Lake
Fort Douglas
Fort Hall Reservation
Utah & Northern
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Denver
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Farwell
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Cheney
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Maxey
Pittaburg
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