Wholesale Divorce Debate and United States Law Reform
Reverend Dr. Talmage condemns easy divorce and polygamy, urges a national, uniform law to safeguard marriage. He cites free love campaigns, Utah polygamy, and rising divorce rates, urging Congress to act and advising young couples to choose partners of good character through prayer.
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Penna
Sigourney
Poetesa
Tran
John Wesley
Alsohn Milton
Reneriv
Thamas Carlyle
Froude
Craigenputtock
Cheyue Row
Coogee Institute
New York
Tremont Temple
Ston
Land
Utah
Congress
James Buchannan
Buchanan
Nees
Illinois
San Francisco
New England
France
England
United States
Western Reserve
Ohio
Rhode Island
Vermont
Rome
Gibbon
Bower of Love and Heavenward Farewell
A poetic meditation contrasts a secluded bower with outside strife and urges one guest the angel of love. It imagines paradise gained after loss, hoping for a brighter home in heaven while familiar faces await arrival in the windows of eternity.
Growth of the South Reports Industrial Expansion Across Locks
The past week shows steady activity in southern textile and iron manufacturing with many mills busy on orders. New ventures include a sugar refinery at New Orleans, metal works in Brenham and Austin, electric plants in Ocean View and Bowling Green, a distillery in Loniaville, and numerous mills and factories across Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
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South
Repewala
Inuber
New Orleans
Agricultersal Implement Works
Brenham
Tex
Ion Company
Danellc
Ocean View
Tynchburg
Loniaville
Austin
Match Factorn
Wickhart
Miss
Irrigation and Land Company
Tulsa
T. x
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Eretrica Planta
Bowling Green
Jack-on
Tenn
Florence
Mayville
Charlote
N.C
Blow Ridge
Guntersville
Athers and
Thomaston
N. C
Chattanooga, Tenn
Rumor of Chilean-Argentine War Looms in South America
A private Potosi letter received in San Francisco warns of a Chile versus Argentine war that could draw Bolivia Peru and Ecuador as Argentine allies. It says Chile may move troops through Bolivia by railroad to divide the allied powers, with the outlook described as cloudy.
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Potosi
Peru
San Francisco
Chile
Bolivia
Ecuador
Rioters Indicted in New Orleans Murders
Twenty eight men are charged with murder by the New Orleans grand jury, indictments returned after levee troubles. All were in custody but released on bond. Indictments name unknown co-defendants described as workers in rolling and stowing compressed cotton on ships in New Orleans port.
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New Orleans
Grand Jury
Recorder’s Court
Grand
Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia Plan Made Public
The New York Sun reports a finalized reorganization plan for the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia. It envisages foreclosure under the tripartite or consolidated mortgage, or both, with foreclosed properties conveyed to a new firm named the Central of Georgia Railway Company.
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Central Reorganization
New York Sun of
Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia
Central of Georgia Railway Company
Settlement Talks End Building Trades Strike Standstill
The New York council of conciliation and meditation met with a committee from the Board of Walking Delegates at Bishop Potter's home to devise terms for ending the building trades strike. W. J. O'Brien, chairman, declined to reveal details but signaled favorable indications for a speedy settlement.
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Board of Conciliation
Woking
New York
Armistice Reaches Peru After Three Days of Fighting
U S minister reports Lima streets strewn with over a thousand dead and wounded after three days of fighting. A tentative armistice was arranged between insurgents and government troops, followed by a peace accord. A provisional government appears to have taken power.
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Lima
McKenzie
United States
Peru
State Department
Washington
Georgia Southern Road Auction Fails to Attract Bids
The Georgia Southern and Florida railroad went up for sale at Macon on Tuesday with an upset price of £3,750,000 but drew no bids. Commissioner Hardeman attempted to solicit offers. the road will be offered again on the first Tuesday in April with an upset price of $3. A Macon investor group is rumored to plan a purchase at the next sale.
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Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad
Macon
Hardeman
Elevator and Warehouse Burned at St. Louis
Fire leveled the Hugh Rogers & Co. elevator and Gevers warehouse in St. Louis. The blaze destroyed 240000 bushels of wheat along with salt hay and cotton. Loss estimated around 200000 dollars.
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Hugh Rogers & Co
St. Louis
Washington Notes on Appointments and Tax Debates
The president appoints Jas H Collins collector of customs at Nashville Tennessee and William Martin Aiken supervising architect of the treasury in place of Jeremiah O Rourke. Secretary Gresham considers a Cuban arms shipment via Fernandina while others debate post office removals and the income tax deadline approaching. Internal revenue shows eight month total of 100,532,464 with gains in spirits and tobacco and a pension outlook of about 140 million for 1896 with a gradual decline in 1812 veterans pensions.
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Jas. H. Collins
Nashville
Tenn
Carlisle
William Martin Aiken
Cincinnati
Ohio
The
Treasury
Jeremiah O’rouke
Newark
N. J
Aiken
South Carolina
Gresham
Senor Murnage
Fernandina
Pia
la Ganda
Amadis
Cuba
Civil Service Commission
Warfield
Baltimore
Post Office
Commission
Olney
Post Office Department
Department
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Cotton States and International Exposition Company
Atlanta
Miller
Creedon Falls to Choynski in Six Rounds at Tattersalls
In Chicago, Dan Creedon ceded dominance to Joe Choynski by the end of the sixth round. Creedon led early but faded, leaving Choynski in control as the crowd of about 6 000 roared, Creedon visibly battered and unable to continue.
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Dan Creedon
Chicago
Joe Choynski
Tattersall’s
Joe
Creedon
Choynski
Gajrel
Choyneki
Supreme court rules back taxes due from Florida Central and Peninsular railroad
In Tallahassee the supreme court, with Justice Liddon presiding, upheld the state's claim to back taxes totaling 96000 for 1872 1880 and 1881 on lines from Jacksonville to Chattahoochee via St Marks and Monticello Fernandina to Cedar Keys and Waldo to Ocala The 1881 tax due from Ocala to Wildwood also stands The segment Wildwood to Plant City and Tampa is exempt The ruling improves state and county holdings unless reversed by higher courts and arises from a 1893 decision and subsequent appeals by Colonel Henderson and Attorney General Lamar
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Supreme Court
Tallahassee
Frs
Justice Liddon
Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad
Jacksonville
Chattahoochee
St. Marks and Monticello
Fernandina
Cedar Keys
Waldo
Ocala
Wildwood
Plant City
Tampa
John F. White
Live Oak
John A. Henderson
Lamar
White
Colonel Henderson
United States Supreme Court
Fair's Latest Will Discovered by Heirs in San Francisco
Judge Slack hears contention over a holographic will dated after the missing probate will. Reuben H. Lloyd for the children says Fair entrusted the document to a respected lady who learned of the later date. April 2 set for probate of the certified copy and to challenge the new will's authenticity.
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Slack
San Francisco
Reuben H. Lloyd
Fair
Governor Foster Seen as唯一 Hope for Labor Crisis Settlement
The article argues Governor Foster may quell New Orleans labor troubles as he did in 1892. It notes his past success in resolving strikes, but states he is no longer central to negotiations and is not approached by either side. His role now is limited to sustaining armed peace on the levee front.
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New Orleans
Foster
Public excitement in Madrid over Reina Regente news
London Times Madrid correspondent reports widespread public anxiety as details of the missing Reina Regente are withheld. The government is accused of censoring telegrams, while officials and the public alike face uncertainty about the cruiser’s fate and condition after a suspected Atlantic storm.
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London Times
Madrid
Atlaatic
Sioux City Suffers Major Fire Destroys Plant and Elevator
A vast blaze in Sioux City, Iowa, Thursday morning destroyed property valued at about 400 000 dollars. It began in rubbish on the Western Transfer and Implement Company warehouse platform and within an hour the four story iron building and its 200 000 dollars of goods burned to ashes. The fire then spread to the Sioux City Linseed Oil Company plant and the large elevator containing 100 000 bushels of flax was also destroyed.
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Sioux City
Western Transfer and Implement Company
Berlin advisers propose compromise to avert Reichstag crisis
Reports from Berlin say center members plan a compromise to calm the Reichstag crisis by increasing President von Levetzow s powers to exclude an offending deputy during debates. The standing orders committees are expected to adopt the plan.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Center
von Levetzow
Congress forms joint commission to reform executive accounting
On March 3, 1893 Congress created a joint commission to reorganize accounting systems and business methods in the executive departments. The panel included Representatives Dockery Richardson Dingley Cockrell Jones Cullom and Senator Cockrell Jones. Opnator term defined as a bearer of probity is noted, with a remark on modern progress.
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Congress
Dockery
Missouri
Richardson
Tennessee
Dingley
Maine
Senstere Cockrell
Jones
Arkansas
Cullom
Illinois
Sixty Miners Die in Red Canyon Mine Disaster
An explosion at Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron No. 5 mine in Red Canyon Wyoming at 6 pm Wednesday left sixty dead and many widows and orphans. Fifty nine died by noon Thursday with forty seven men still believed in the mine.
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Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron Company
No. 5
Red Canyon
Wyoming
Order of United Workmen
Donnelly Declines Alliance With Free Silver Party
Ignatius Donnelly and Sidney M. Owen announce the Minnesota People's Party will not join the Free Silver Coinage Party. Donnelly rejects deserting Omaha platform principles and urges silver advocates to stay with their party while highlighting past electoral implications for states like Colorado and Montana.
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Ignatius Donnelly
Sidney M. Owen
People's Party of
Minnesota
Free Silver Coinage Party
Mr. Donnelly
Omaha
People’s Party
Colorado
Montana
Washington
Idaho
Wyoming
Republican
Debate Over Reina Regente Wreck Still Unsettled
Madrid newspapers clash over the fate of the Reina Regente with reports of a sunk wreck at Bajo Aceitunos, the Alfonso XII returning with thirty bodies, and government hopes the cruiser may yet be heard from if found adrift after coal shortage.
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el Imparcial
Madrid
Alfonso XII
Hes
Atlantic
Correspondencia
Bajo Aceitunos
Tarifa
Reina Regente
Pasquin
Cadiz
Carthagena
Tangier
Long Island Traction Company Placed in Receivership
H J Morse appointed by the United States circuit court of Virginia as receiver for the Long Island Traction Company. The move follows collateral noteholder action led by J B Clarke Co, with 145 miles of road operated in Brooklyn under lease. The case ties to the recent trolley strike, involving the Brooklyn Heights Company and Atlantic Avenue system.
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New York
H. J. Morse
United States Circuit Court of Virginia
Long Island Traction Company
J. B. Clarke & Co
Philadelphia
Brooklyn City
Brooklyn Heights Company
Atlantic Avenue
Traction Company
Virginia
White House
William M. Springer
Ilinois
United States Court
Northern District
Indian Territory
Constantine Buckfey Kilgore
Texas
United States Court of
Southern District
United States
Samuel M. Rutherford
Lucien L. Stone
James V. Walker
Andrew C. Cruce
Shortage Hits Carson Mint Accounts Near Sixty Thousand
The Carson Nevada Money Mill shows a shortage of about 60 000 dollars in gold and silver, with 3000 ounces of each unaccounted for. Hirsch Harris, melter and refiner, suspended amid inquiry as Joseph Douglass broker linked to two bars of bullion lacking gold undergoes review. Silver bullion from local mines is noted to contain gold.
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Carson
Nevada
Preston
Mint
Carson, Nev
Mason
New York
Hirsch Harris
Joseph Douglass
Spanish cruiser fires on steamer near Cuba on March 8
Havana advices say the commander of the Conde de Venadite fired twice blank and twice solid shots at a northeast bound steamer off the Cuban coast near Maysi. The steamer raised an English flag, ignored signals, and was about one and a half miles offshore when the firing occurred. Captain Crossman identifies the ship as the Alliance.
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Havana
Conde de Venadite
Maysi Point
Cuban
Crossman
Restoration of Silver Dominates Michigan Democratic Platform
The Michigan Democratic State Convention at Saginaw renominated Justice Mc Grath for the supreme court and named O. J. Pailthorp and Stratton D. Brooks for university regents. The party endorses free unlimited coinage of silver and gold at a 16 to 1 ratio with full legal tender, urging immediate legislation.
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Michigan
Saginaw
Justice McGrath
Supreme Court
University
O. J
California Manufacturers Convene for Mutual Protection
About 300 delegates gathered in San Francisco for a state manufacturers convention aimed at reducing prejudice for foreign goods and beating brokers who undersell California products. The resolutions urged citizens to buy California goods, lower shipping licenses taxes, and seek lower eastbound freight to the east with higher rates westward.
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San Francisco
Committee On
California
St, Brey
Will Arp in Florida and St Petersburg Letters
In Florida the writer notes spring arriving, family partings as son Carl leaves for Mexico via the International railroad, and reflections on parental sacrifice. He describes a Dunedin fishing chowder party led by Colonel Bond, a Gulf beach outing, and a humorous romance mishap aboard a boat with a charming girl. He also recalls visiting St Petersburg for Washington's birthday and comments on Southern Presbyterian unity and local hotels, ending with hopes to return with better weather.
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Cnet
Carl
Hay Gota
Mexico
Raoul
Texas
Arkansas
Isao
Florida
Dunedin Isa
Palmetto
New England
Brunswick
Georgia
Bond
Marietta
Gulf Side
Palmetto Grove
Lincoln
General Parsons
Savannah
Wolfe Island
Captain Poatell
Colonel Bond
Dunedin
Lady
Burns
St. Petersburg
Washington
St. Paterslaré
Detroit
Fating
Atlanta Constitution
Monon Route Faces $300000 Verdict in U S Court
Judge Baker in Indianapolis awards C. E. Pope receiver of Chicago and South Atlantic $168,922.88 plus 6 percent interest for fourteen years, totaling about $310000. Monon railroad alleged to owe for work on the L D and road bought by Monon, with unpaid contractor claims. Judgment to be appealed. case lingered fifteen years.
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Baker
United States
Indianapolis
C. E. Pope
Chicago and South Atlantic
Monon
N. A
L. D
Chicago
Del
Reorganization Committee Named for Distilling and Cattle Feeding Co
A New York special states stockholders elected a committee for reorganizing the Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company. Richard B. Shortshone serves as president with John S. Waterbury F. Lockwood J. Bacheon and William Hutton of Cincinnati as members.
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The
Distilling & Cattle Feeding Company
Richard B. Shortshone
John S. Waterbury
F. Lockwood
J. 8. Bacheon
William Hutton
Cincinnati
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