Global notes on rails, prizes, and literature in 1895
European rail expansion and urban growth are noted alongside plans for long rails in Ohio. Geneva will host a prize chronometer contest in 1896. Scholarships rise at Cornell and other universities. Beadle, publisher of dime novels, dies, drawing critique for sensational literature yet credited with expanding access to reading.
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Geneva
Geneva Observatory
San Francisco Chronicle
Cornell University
Beadle
Cooperstown
N. Y
New Orleans Picayune
New York
Blue Mick
Bowery
Mr. Beadle
Douglas Citizens Plan Rail Line to Connect with Brunswick
Enterprising Douglas residents have arranged a tram road project to connect with the Brunswick and Western railroad at McDonald's mill, aiming for completion within about ninety days. The Augusta congressional election mood is low amid business concerns and recent local political shifts.
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Douglas
Brunswick and Western
McDonald’s Mill
Local Official Regret as Service Call Looms
Constituents express regret as the official prepares to enter military service. Returns are due by the first Monday in March. Collectors are not required to supply blanks. failure to provide blanks incurs the usual penalty for noncompliance.
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Uncle Sam
General Bethune dies at ninety in Washington DC
General James Neil Bethune, famed owner and longtime manager of Blind Tom, died at his son's residence in Washington DC at age ninety. A Georgia graduate of 1827, he served as county solicitor general, edited The Times and Sin Sinel and The Enquirer at Columbus, and held a 28 year role as colonel in the Creek war of 1832. He spent recent years near Warrenton Virginia and visited his son. He leaves six children including Judge J. D. Bethune of Arizona and Mrs N T N Robinson. Interment will be in Columbus beside his wife.
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James Neil Bethune
Tom
Washington, D. C
University of Georgia
the Times and
Sensinel
the Enquirer
Columbus
Warrenton
General Bethune
J. D. Bethune
Arizona
N. T. N. Robinson
the Treasury
Columbus, Ga
Chinese Boats Sunk in Wei-Hai-Wei Engagement
London Times correspondent reports a February dawn clash at Wei-Hai-Wei with Japanese warships entering the bay. Three Chinese torpedo boats were sunk while thirteen more Chinese warships formed a defensive position on the southeast island as four forts kept firing. The main Japanese squadron remains outside the harbor.
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London Times
Wei-Hai-Wei
Knights of Labor Convention Opens in Columbus
The miners Knights of Labor convened in Columbus Ohio with forty delegates. Master Workman Phil H Penna called for credentials report showing no contests. The New Orleans report drew focus as delegates urged withdrawal from the general Knights of Labor assembly over Sovereign and Hayes alleged exclusion.
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Columbus
Knights of Labor
Phil H. Penna
Committee
New Orleans
General Assembly
The
Sovereign
Hayes
Nihilist Proclamations Ring Petersburg Rumors
The Lokal Anzeiger reports daily nihilist proclamations and threats reaching the czar after his declaration of absolutism. A palace official is rumored arrested for placing printed assassination pictures in the czar's study, including a depiction of his grandfather’s killing, with similar rumors spreading across Russia.
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Lokal Anzeiger
Berlin
St. Petersburg
Alexander II
Russia
Ford Theater Disaster Relief Bill Approved for Families
After two years the Ford theater disaster committee reports to the senate approving $115,000 in relief. Each deceased receives $5,000. widows with children share half to the children, others receive through legal heirs if unmarried.
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Washington
Senate
Northern cotton mill men tour belt to study sites
A party of ten northern cotton manufacturers and allied representatives left New York Tuesday to survey mill sites and water power across the cotton belt. They will visit Norfolk Virginia Wilmington North Carolina Charlotte Atlanta and New Orleans collecting data on facilities and power sources.
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New York
Cotton
Norfolk
Wilmington
N. C
Charlotte
Atlanta
New Orleans
Bond Contract Details U S Treasury and World Bank Syndicate
The joint resolution authorizes 65.1 million dollar 30 year gold bonds at up to 3 percent interest with proceeds not to cover current expenses. It records a 3.5 million ounce gold sale to the United States at 178.04 per ounce, with bonds issued under 1870 and 1875 acts. It outlines delivery terms, currency weight standards, and duties of Belmont Rothschild Morgan interests.
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Wilson
Ways and Means
House
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Keng Wilson
West Virginia
Turner
Georgia
Cochran
New York
Montgomery
Kentucky
Stevens
Massachusetts
Tareney
Missouri
Reed
Maine
Payne
McMillan
Tennessee
Bryan
Nebraska
Wheeler
Alabama
Whitney
Michigan
Hopkins
Illinois
Grosvenor
Ohio
Congress
Treasury Department
Treasury
Syndicate
Secretary of the Treasury of
Messrs
August Belmont
The
Europe
Secretary of the Treasury of the
J. G. Carlisle
the Treasury
Aveust Bemont ’ Co
N. M. Rothschilds & Son
London
J. P. Moreau
J. 5. Morgan & Co
W. E. Ovartis
Francis Lixpe Sversoy
Carlisle
August Belmont & Co
Messrs. N. M. Rothschild & Sons
J. P. Morgan & Co
Department
Shrosad
Washington
Olney
J. Lynde Stetson
Senate confirms Ruger to rank of major general in army
Washington dispatch notes the Senate confirmed Brigadier General Thomas Howard Ruger for major general amid House tensions over administration policy. It reports on the Navy medical board rejecting T A Jonas for physical reasons and details treasury gold reserve trends and a proposed silver coinage bill as well as a planned 4 percent gold bond issue to replenish reserves.
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Senate
Thomas Howard Ruger
House
Naval Medical Board
T. A. Jonas
Navy
Jonas
Louisiana
Meyer
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
Jones
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
New York
La Gasconge Safe After Long Atlantic Peril
The French liner La Gascogne, eight days overdue, reached Quarantine at Staten Island with all aboard safe following a breakdown of a piston rod and severe North Atlantic gales. The voyage from Havre began January 26. repairs took days as machinery failed four times, including a cyclone strike, before final approach to Fire Island and relief from the United Press tug Fred B Dalzell.
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Quarantine
Staten Island
North Atlantic
Battledon
Havre
St St. Pierre Miquelon
United Press
Fred B. Dalzell
New York
Lia Gascogne
Fire Island
Sandy Hook
Depositing the Gold Under Belmont Morgan Syndicate
The Belmont Morgan bond syndicate has deposited four million plus, with $3,340,000 cash and $1,050,000 after hours, totaling $4,390,000. Depositors include Chase National Bank, Park National, Harvey Fish & Sons, Morton Bliss & Co, Heidelbach Ickelheimer & Co, and C E Gregory. The assay office weighs 155,221.19 ounces from $2,890,000 coin, with a 115.81 ounce loss. The subtreasury issues certificates for $2,044,600 at $17.80 per ounce, convertible into 4 percent bonds.
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Chase National Bank
Park National
Harvey, Fish & Sons
Morton, Bliss & Co
Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co
C. E. Gregory
Governor Turney Denies Republicans Violated Election Law
Nashville special reports Governor Turney's attorneys file defense to Evans cross petition. Turney affirms original petition, charges Evans failed to deny issues, claims poll tax receipts not required in twenty six counties. Evans seeks constitutionality of poll tax law and vote validity, while Turney asserts Republicans broadly disregarded election laws by leadership directives.
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Nashville
Turney
Evans
Dead Letter Office Auction Reveals Postal Oddities
The Dead Letter Office holds its annual sale of unclaimed mail after two years, turning about $3,000 for expenses. The piece details lost money, drafts, and stamps recovered and remitted, alongside contraband items and curious live animals. It notes the volume of mail, penalties for misaddressed or uninsured items, and the quirks of postal regulations revealed by the sale.
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Washington
Express
Postoffice Department
United States
Treasury
Uncle Sam
Postoffice
Post Office Department
Smithsonian
Boston Transcript
Oddities and Names From a Past Global Snapshots
A collage of curios from the era notes the Rothschilds own an $18,000 clock, varnished paper umbrellas, a praised canvas-back duck poem by a Marylander, and insect tribal care. It quotes Kentucky gas rent rulings, bananas in Martinique for a cent, ape behavior at zoos, Munich etymology, and clergy Eskimo Rev Robert Gibbons in Parrsboro Nova Scotia. It mentions Peter Cooper’s Tom Thumb engine, a toothpick trade linked to a Rockland G A R, a Penshar preacher John Smith, and another John Smith dying in the same pulpit forty years apart. A new alarm letter box, Central Africa pigmies, Minnie Chew the Ohio highway robber, Sweden’s short winter days, and the endless northern sun conclude this omnibus of oddities.
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Church of England
Robert Gibbons
Parrsboro
Nova Scotia
Peter Cooper
Edwin Libby Post
Rockmann
Central
Africa
Asia
Minnie Chew
Ohio
Columbus
Sweden
Northland
Notable Polar Bear Dies After Twenty Three Years in London Zoo
The large polar bear residing in the Zoological Society of London for twenty three years died after a brief illness. Gifted by B L Smith from an 1871 Arctic voyage, it was described by Frank Buckland as about the size of a Newfoundland dog with a shaggy yellow coat. The bear had a remarkable life under careful care, rivaling another polar bear kept for thirty six years, with an estimated weight of three quarters of a ton though emaciated at illness end.
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Zoological Society
London
Society
B. L. Smith
Frank Buckland
Scientific American
White-Handled Razors in Barber Trade
A Kansas City Journal excerpt notes barbers avoid white-handled razors due to superstition and believes razors vary with seasons and weather. It compares razors to locomotives for engineers and mentions razors cutting different hair qualities in cold or hot weather, highlighting factors shaping a barber's assortment.
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Kansas City
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