Washington Gossip on Appointments and Chinese Question
Secretary Carlisle orders revenue and customs officials to stop arrests of unregistered Chinese until further orders. Reports detail postmaster appointments in Georgia and other states, Cleveland's return from Chicago, and debates over presidential posts. Also notes Gresham's warnings on Chinese violence and Spain Cuba treaty doubts.
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Carlisle
Internal Revenue
Custom House
Crisp
Washington
Kansas City
Metrolitan National Bank
Citizens Nanal Bank
Midland National Ik
Jorge B. Norton
TNE
Astoria
Ore
Hong Kong
Portland
Dre
Gresham
Mamture Giren
Pennoyer
Oregon
Georgia
Braswell
Paulding County
J. B. Harris
Cole City
Dade County
J. A. Bennett
Ellijay
Gilmer County
A. T. Logan
Experiment
Spalding
R. E. Hardee
Horns Cross Roads
Miller County
Hardy Strickland
Oakley Mill
Cobb County
O. E. Johnson
William J. Parficu
Landrum
Peter T. Shore
Alto
John E. Mansfield
Bluffton
William 5. King
Bonair
Annie G. West
Cusseta
Sarana Parkman
Ellis
Rusk
Pennsylvania Road
Department of Agriculture
Chicago
Wisconsin
United States
Havana
Cuba
Santiago de Cuba
Seige
Velasco
Puerta
Margaret G. Davis
Biloxi
Miss
Thomas W. James
McComb
S. W. Collins
Walter N. Hurt
Winona
Mary C. Mathews
Albert L. Howe
Natches
H. C. Griffin
Thomas RB. Crews
Laurens
8. C
J. M. Robertson
William Y. ©. Hannum
Maryville
Tenn
J. P. Edmonson
John W. Clark
Ripley
Robert A. P
Cleburne
W. H. Day
Bissell
Jiim
Cleveland
Pennsylvania
Mr. Cleveland
Smith
Herbert
Morton
Lamont
Olney
Mies Herbert
Thurber
State Department
Blaine
Spain
Telegraphic Gleanings Business Review
R G Dan & Co reports easing trade delays due to President Cleveland's tender decision. Weather and money markets slow activity nationwide with 238 business failures in the past week, 208 prior week, and 211 year ago. Cotton prices slip, wheat and corn inch up, imports rise by 9 million, exports steady but lag last year.
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Messrs
R. G. Dan & Co
Cleveland
Chicago
Sioux City
Omaha
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Denver
St. Louis
Tennessee
Gene
Montgomery
Atlanta
Charleston
New Orleans
Pennsylvania Steel Company
New York
News of the World Condensed Paragraphs Recall Global Events
A selection of brief blurbs covers the Behring Sea arbitration session with counsel for the U S, a Milwaukee fire at Edward Schuster & Co with $100000 loss, a Boston diocese bishop election, the Khiva disaster near the Arabian coast, and a Vermont home for destitute children fire that saved 71 inmates. Other items note ex President Harrison as Loyal Legion commander, Drexel Morgan bond deposits, Edwin Booth’s improving condition, and the world fair’s African life exhibit entrants. Also reported are a Navajo outbreak note, Australian bank suspensions, a Cincinnati rail yard explosion, a Washington correspondent’s death, Stanford’s lecture plans, Homestead mill labor action, slave dhow drownings near Zanzibar, Ohio port coal shortages, Cuban insurgent counts, Madrid Cuba aid, and the New York Press Club fair opened by the duke of Veragua.
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Massachusetts
Phillip Brooks
Bombay
Mecca
Burlington
Cincinnati
Benjamin Harrison
Ohio
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
New York
Drexel, Morgan & Co
Richmond
Edwin Booth
Dahomey
Scheffield
Washington
Cook
Department of Arizona
Melbourne
Australia
National Bank of Australia
Cincinnati Southern Railway
Chattanooga
Tenn
John Quigley
Will Peak
Jesse Biles
Herbert A. Preston
Preston
New York Herald
Capital
United States
Standford
Harrison
Leland Standford, Jr
University At
Palo Alto
Cal
Carnegie Steel Works
Homestead
Lordon
Zanzibar
Madagascar
Great Britain
Malagassy
Clevelan
Madrid
Cuba
Duke of Veragua
Chicago
Grand Palace
New York City
Ingham County
Mich
Savings Bank
Sherwood
Little Red River
Searcy
Ark
Allen Brown
Robinson Caruth
Joe Scott
Sandy Cooksey
Allen Booth
Government Rock
United States Leather Company
New Jersey
National Debt Statement Shows April Treasury Activity
The Treasury Department reports a net public debt increase of 3,726,819.40 for April. Bonded debt rose 421,000 while cash in the treasury fell 4,147,824.40, leaving a higher overall debt. Interest bearing debt up 500. debt bearing no interest down 347,850. Aggregate debt 962,407,764.13. cash in treasury 756,544,116 against liabilities of gold and other obligations.
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Treasury Department
Treasury
Rivers On The Rampage In St Louis Area Floods Rise
The article reports rising rivers and severe floods across multiple Ohio and Missouri locales with evacuations and property losses. It details St Louis rising water threatening to flood more areas, Alton damage and embankment risk, Cincinnati and Dayton flooding, Tremont City water spout and flood damage, and Arkansas river surge nearing 1892 levels. It also notes speculative stock purchases by a New York firm amid a Southwestern reorganization plan.
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St. Louis
Alton
Missouri Point
Burlington
Cincinnati
Sausage Row
Dayton
Miami
Tremont City
Springfield
Ohio
Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
Savannah
New York
Delay in bell casting ceremony postpones Columbian expo tribute
In Washington a delay in material collection stalls the souvenir bell cast from historical metal by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The opening ceremony, scheduled for Monday, would have seen Mrs. Cleveland press a White House button to trigger the molten metal’s flow. The delay is expected to last only a few days.
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Washington
Daughters of the American Revolution
Cleveland
White House
Georgia at the Fair Shows Southern Focus at World Exposition
Chicago May 1 A report from the World’s Fair notes strong Southern representation despite state exhibit funding gaps. Visitors learn southern products feature prominently in Mining Agricultural and Manufactures Halls. Florida Georgia and Alabama display buildings and relics while Georgia showcases wood floors and artifacts including Eli Whitney’s first cotton gin and a model of the Savannah steamship that crossed the Atlantic. a historic Atlanta locomotive is praised for its display.
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Chicago
Kansas
Nebraska
Atlantic
Pacific
Florida
Exposition Grounds
Old Fort Marion
San Marco
St. Augustine
Georgia
Midway Plaisance
Allatoora
Atlanta
Western & Atlantic
Kennesaw Mountain
Allatoopa Pass
State Road
Cumberland Mountain
Chattanooga
Nashville
Evansville
Terre Haute
John Bull
Philadelphia
Weather Bureau Report Sees Mixed Crop Prospects Pan Georgia
The past week brought cold dry conditions across the north with high winds retarding cotton and corn growth. Frost damaged some crops, replanting of cotton begun in many counties, while oats wheat and grass show good progress in several regions. Rain boosted fruit and general crops in the northeast and southeastern areas, though some districts report bud worms and drought relief.
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Weather Bureau
Georgia
Brooks
Lowndes
Clinch
Household repairs and domestic hints from old columns
A composite note from the New York Recorder offering household tips on mending china with lime and egg, keeping silver bright with borax, child bathing with warm flannel, and preserving fruit cake with a ripe apple. It includes a sentimental poem by Belle Hunt about a mother’s missing kiss as her son grows.
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China
New York Recorder
Belle Hunt
New York World
Candy making tips from Good Housekeeping
Recipes for Butter Scotch Molasses and Lemon Drops plus peanut candy and old fashioned molasses candy with instructions on timing cooling and wrapping. Notes warn candies get sticky when exposed to air and advise oiling kettle edges to prevent boiling over.
Editor Denounced By Denmark Mass Meeting
About five hundred citizens gathered in Denmark D C to denounce newspaper coverage of the Peterson lynching and to condemn the conduct of Sitter Gonzales of the State. Captain J E Steadman chaired the gathering with J D Millhouse as secretary.
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Denmark, D. C
J. E. Steadman
J. D. Millhouse
D. Paul Sojourner
Peterson
Sitter Gonzales
Various Regional Potatoes Methods and A Death on a Train
The article surveys regional ways to prepare fried potatoes from thick Virginia to Kentucky styles and Saratoga chips. It notes methods including soaking, frying in hot fat, and finishing with butter or milk, plus a final brutal incident of a man killing himself aboard a train near Los Angeles.
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Virginia
St. Louis Republic
Fragmented Jokes and Quotes From Daily Papers
A collage of quips and witticisms pulled from various newspapers. The excerpts mix playful lines on love, science, and society with brief social observations, including jokes about lawyers, engineers, cooks, and a baker, plus light blurbs on news topics and public life.
Hunting the Alligator in Florida
L J Hill recounts Florida alligator hunts done at night in a small boat. A hunter in the bow uses a bullseye lantern to spot eyes like fire in the dark water while another rows and a rifleman shoots between the eyes. If the shot is true the gator flips and is hauled aboard, though wounded animals can fight. Source cites the Atlanta Journal.
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L. J. Hill
Florida
Atlanta Journal
Rabbits Overrun Oregon Cited By Western Speaker
A Westerner described Oregon as overrun with rabbits using vivid imagery about rabbit tails in a wheat field. The quote, presented as soil language, highlights agricultural pest concerns and the cultural tone of the piece.
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Oregon
Texas
New
You's Tribune
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Post Office Department
Harrisons
Barrison
Business Review
Dan & Co
Ness
National Debt Statement
Rivers
Georgia AT the Fair
Whitney
Océan
Household Affairs
Los Angeles
Sual
Atchison Globe
Richmond Recorder
Montana
Lowell Courier
Puck
Squills
Drake
Germantown
Statesman
Blanche Rouge
George
Fred
New York Mercury
Atlas
Chicago Tribune
Washington Star
Bertha Clay
Inter-Ocean
Jackson
Jenkins
Clara
Ella
Mamie
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Texas Siftings
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