04 Feb 1887
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Newspaper
Warwick Leader
Location
Warwick, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1887
Page
1
Senate and House actions span post office class changes, a Canadian retaliation bill, and naval appropriations. Debates cover amendments to oleomargarine law, watershed rivers and harbors, agricultural stations funding, and district cable road enactments.
The Cabinet debated Senate action on the Canadian fisheries question and the legality of recent seizures of British vessels near seal islands. Other items include fines remitted for James D. Cummings, a rejected District Recorder of Deeds nominee, proposed transfer of the Signal Service to civil authority, and a revenue drop of over $1 million in six months.
Reports include settlement notices for Lake Erie & Western railroad proceeds, labor strikes in New York and Higgins factory, custody petition in Providence, a Baltimore trunk murder link, Archbishop Corrigan threats, dynamite scare, Transatlantic delays, and multiple fires and losses across Dallas Memphis San Francisco and Baltimore with assorted legal actions and prices.
The clipping mentions Jesse James believed alive in Arizona woods, Indian unrest on Colville reservation, a Delta County trapping accident with a hunter killed and wolves killed, and various transport and crime notes. It also reports on telegraph lines, a boiler explosion in Wellsburg, price shifts in barbed wire pools, and legal-government actions in Michigan and Indiana.
A Dawson County Georgia incident ends with the killing of informer And Howard and serious injury to another man. In Arkansas a pint is proposed to pension maimed ex Confederate soldiers.
Edward Unn, identified as the murderer of August Sobel in New York, has confessed. Riots flare in Belfast after Surrey regiment soldiers insult Catholics, with about one hundred arrests. Dynamite shatters San Francisco streetcars with no fatalities. Americans in Turkey protest a treaty with the Porte. Weekly White House reports show small gains. Blair Athol foundered in the Black Sea with twenty drowned. Swedish ministry resigns amid Diet uncertainty. Senate votes on Beck railroad and Yellowstone Park bill. Post-office Appropriation passes. French minister urges peace to Berlin. Imperial Vienna council approves large army credits. Diphtheria outbreak near Madison, Wisconsin. five children die. Black man lynched in Leavenworth after assault. Secretary Bayard denial over Alaskan sealers is noted. London money market jittery amid war rumors. Riot at Pittsburgh reports and shootings.
Senate and House actions include temperance measures and a reorganization of state boards. bills on railroads, schools, and municipal suffrage advance or fail through adjournments. A Wallace County dispute and a violent jail lynching in Hutchinson highlight ongoing political and social tensions.
Curcaco reports Capt. Schaak says a drawn basement plan of the jail and nearby buildings suggests tunnels for an anarchist escape. A shoe dealer lease and rear entrance deliveries were proposed. The plan failed, and conspirators were not captured. In Washington, James G. Fair Jr. drew a pistol on ex-Rep. Paige. Paige dodged the shot.
A historic bill details pension eligibility for veterans with disabilities from military service. It sets monthly payments of 12 dollars for those unable to earn a living, beginning at application, and clarifies that multiple pensions to one person are barred. It limits agents’ fees to five dollars, with higher fees allowed only in preexisting cases.
Jan 27 report from Lox-ton states Parliament opened. Lord Halsbury read the throne speech detailing friendly relations with other powers, unsettled southeastern Europe, and the Bulgarian question. It notes Egypt progress, pacification in Upper Burma, and Ireland with improving but cautious prospects.
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