Market Closes Firm As Reading St Paul Lead Gains
The stock market opened active with most prices up 3¢ to 1% and gains widening into the afternoon. Readings, St Paul, Lackawanna and Northwest led activity while reports of a pending strike settlement bolstered the grangers. News of R. C. Millken’s failure barely dented sentiment as prices closed at top figures amid heavy trading totaling about 452,000 shares. Money and bond rates held steady, with the money market at 4.5 to 4.85 percent and government and Pacific bonds showing modest activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parket
K & C. i Millien
New York
Michigan Central
Rock Island
Burlington
Reading
St. Paul
Lackawanna
Northwest
Shorts
Millken
No. 70
Broadway
Pacific Railroad
Centrals
New York Produce Exchange
New Yorks
Minnesota
West Indies
Western
State
National Lawmakers Debate Appropriations and Pensions
Washington reports detail House and Senate actions from April 5 to midweek viewing pension benefits for Gen. Logan’s widow and Mrs. E. P. Blair, bonds with treasury surplus, and various public building appropriations. Filibusters and committee votes frame a busy legislative period with dozens of bills advanced or stalled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pobiie
Gen. Logan
E. P. Blair
Senate
Washington
House
Troy
N. Y
Hudson
Mary
Fredericksburg
Gen. Lozan
Buffalo
United States
San Francisco
Treasury
Logan
Ways and Means
Riddleberger
Foreign Relations Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Freedman’s Bank
National Bank
Fire at Celaya Bull Fight Kills Eighteen in Mexico
A crowd at Celaya Mexico watched a bull ring blaze erupt at 4 15 p m causing panic. Bulls dashed through spectators while many escaped women and children leapt from heights killing eighteen and injuring over a hundred severely. Convicts witnessing the fight started the fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Celaya
Mexico
Mine Horror Buries Hundreds at Rich Hill
A mine explosion at Rich Hill Missouri trapped more than 100 miners. Fifty five bodies recovered. at least five more believed dead. Cause linked to natural gas. search efforts hindered by fumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rich Hill
Brotherhood Strike Continues Across Burlington Lines
The Brotherhood strike remains unresolved with Burlington workers and other crews staying firm. A Thursday riot occurred as a Q switch engine tried to transfer freight cars to Northwestern tracks, injuring several including Pinkerton detectives. Subsequent days saw more injuries from coupling pins and ongoing railway walkouts across Fort Wayne Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Panhandle lines.
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Burlington
Brotherhood
Krown
Northwestern
Pinkerton
Fort Wayne
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Panhandle
St. Paul
Explosions At Multiple Mines And A Divorce Case
Fire boss Alexander Snyder and a Hungarian were badly burned by a gas explosion at the Neilson shaft. At Garfield colliery Robert Jones was fatally injured by a blast. A boiler explosion at Cameron colliery caused panic but no injuries. Separate items note a sensational divorce case in Trenton involving many prominent individuals.
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Shamokin
Alexander Snyder
Neilson
Robert Jones
Garfield
He Wants to be a Delegate
John Y. McKane seeks mandamus to force Kings county Democratic Committee to revoke his expulsion and recognize him as Gravesend delegate. The school ship St. Mary sails May 3 from New York to Newport Lisbon and the Madeira, with Commander Crowninsfield expecting 100 boys in crew. A judgment for 208.72 against Editha I. Diss De Barr favoring Charles H. Kerner was entered in the county clerk’s office for a 1883 Sixth district court judgment. The Wakefield Rattan Company strike ends after nine weeks with terms concessions. Three smallpox cases appear in New York City, two on One Hundred Forty-seventh Street row house and one on Second Avenue near Sixth Street. Two clerks in public stores, Henry M. Thompson and Frederick G. Kisam, are discharged by Collector Magone.
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A. Oakey Hall
London
New York Star
Henry FE. Pierrepont
Brooklyn
Massachusetts House
Senate
Isaac Hinckler
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company
Hinckley
Higham
Mass
Bridgeport
Conn
Washington
Anna Smith
Hempstead
Long Island
George Smith
Prince Bismarck
German Empire
Vistula
M. Karaveleff
St. Petersburg
M. Lankoff
Prince Ferdinand
ML Karaveloff
Wicklow Assizes
Daniel Hayes
Daniel Moriarity
Farmer Fitzmaurice
County Kerry
Moriarity
Brooklyn Board of Excise Commissioners
O'Neill
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Lancaster
New York Association of
Cornell University
Delmenico’s
New York
Gen. Woodford
James D. Bell
Adams
Napoleon Ives
Chicago
St. Louis
Little Lyle Garrison
Francis William Pittman
Rachel
Sadie
Miss Fream
Father Drumgoole
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Corrigan
United States
San Francisco
Crosby
New York Board of Health
Britannia
Tabor
Rockwell
New York Central & Massachusetts Railway Company
New Zealand
Boulanger
Massowah
Kang Jobx
Hewitt
Joint Committee On Railroads
Hoe
Terry
David Garrick
Charles Wyndham
Mary Moore
M. Jean Pascal
Napoleon III
Thiers
M. Pascal
M. Paul de Cassagnac
L’ordre
Balfour
Hudson
Albany
Georgia
Macon
Rhode Island
Williams
Exeter
Smith
Pennsylvania
Sarah Bernhardt
M. Damala
America
Germany
Frederick
France
Russia
M. Floquet
Boston
Victoria Methodist University
Cobourg
Ont
Arthur Fall Bridge
Joseph W. Drexel
New York City
Lenox
Judge Barrett
New York Supreme Court
Townsend Cox
Edward 8. Stokes
Bankers and Merchants’ Telegraph Company
Brooxlen
John Y. McKane
Democratic General Committee of
Kings County
Gravesend
St. Mary
Newport
Lisbon
Madieras
Crowninsfield
Mme. Diss de Barr
Editha I. Diss de Barr
Charles H. Kerner
Sixth District Court
New Yor
Henry M. Thompson
Frederick G. Kisam
Magone
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Finance and Trade
Berraio
Michigan
Canada
L&c
National Lawmakers
Enleyttos
National Transit Company
Maxwell
St. Lewis
United States Supreme Court
Morehouse
Newton
The
Panama Railroad Company
Aupany
Hill
Trenton
N. J
New Brunswick
John D. Williamson
Crissia Willard
Rhode Hall
Middlesex County
Zanesville
Chandlersvill
Edward Smith
Maggie le Page
Miss le Page
Wasuinaroy
Flora” Horticultural Society of
Cologne
Empress Augusta
Department of State
Providence
R. L
Channing Conference
New England Methodist Conference
Berlin
Reichsa Anzeiger
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
M. Meline
M. Clemenceau
Morocco
Tayever
Lewis
Rabat
ON & CO
Fi + RICHARDS
Leadifes
Trautle
Nelson Greenland
Exchange Hotel
Warren, PA
W. H. Pickett & CO
Evsee
HA. Jamieson & Co
Geary and Shelf Barina
Dowatt
Spring
Syracuse
Gale
American Saw Co
Circurlar Law
Wakefield Rattan Company
Peter Greenland’s
Water Street
Episcopal Church
High Street
Hazel and
Laurei
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