Prospects Bright as Extra Session May End Next Week
Washington reports say legislators expect to finish the extra session with votes on the Panama Canal treaty next Tuesday and the Cuban reciprocity treaty reported to the senate. Amendments aim to require House approval for the Cuban treaty to take effect, boosting Democratic support. Havana fears delay if the reciprocity pact stalls again, while merchants prefer ratification or a prompt end to uncertainty.
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Capsized Pacific schooner Prescott crew survives wreck
The George W. Prescott of Victoria capsized fifty miles off the Columbia river. All seventeen survivors include Captain Kamlose, four white men and eighteen Indians. They were rescued by the Montara and brought to Seattle after forty eight hours adrift and exposed.
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George W. Prescott
Victoria
Columbia River
Kamlose
Montara
San Francisco
Prescott
Royal University of Ireland proposed as federal system
The royal commission on Irish university education issues a report recommending reconstitution of the Royal University of Ireland as a federal university. It would include Queen's Belfast Cork Galway as constituent colleges and establish a new Roman Catholic college in Dublin endowed and equipped as a first rank institution.
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Royal Commission On Irish University Education
Royal University of Ireland
Queen's Colleges
Belfast
Cork
Galway
Ew College
Dublin
Postoffice promotions announced for April first next month
Washington announces sixty fourth class post offices to be advanced to the presidential class on April 1 with Illinois towns Fairmount Glencoe Venice to Blockton Hawkeye Lineville Peterson Wesley Michigan Center ille Nebraska Elgin Wisconsin Wattoma and more listed.
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Elgin
Wisconsine
Wattoma
Missouri Marks End of Bonded Indebtedness
Democrats from across Missouri gathered in the house of representatives in Jefferson City to celebrate the extinction of the state's bonded indebtedness during a March 17 18 event.
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Jefferson City
House of Representatives
Indiana men held for grave robbery before grand jury
Noblesville Indiana March 18 Rufus Cantrell Walter Daniels and Samuel Martin all under indictment at Indianapolis for grave robbing were before the grand jury here Wednesday afternoon This is Cantrells second sit here in a week.
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Rufus Cantrell
Walter Daniels
Samuel Martin
Indianapolis
Otrell
Market Reports From Buffalo and St Louis Grain and Livestock
Buffalo and St Louis market notes show live stock and grain quotes. Receipts, prices, and ranges cover cattle sheep veal calves and hogs, with bids for wheat corn oats rye and barley across several exchanges. Continuous price listings reflect strong to steady demand and varying regional quotes.
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N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
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Strona
St. Louis
Moe
Glee
Milwaukee Grain
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Standard
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Grand jury to indict in grave robbery case
Cantrell statements cited by Tin and Daniels as necessary to corroborate before indictments. It is understood several Hamilton county citizens will be charged for grave robbery. The grand jury is expected to return seven or eight indictments.
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Daniels
Cantrell
Hamilton County
Graves
Connecticut approves funds to catch Waterbury trolley killer
The legislature adopted a resolution for a $10,000 bounty to apprehend the Waterbury murderer who killed Policeman Paul Mendelson on a trolley car. President Young of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Co announced a $5,000 reward, bringing total rewards to $19,400.
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Paul Mendelson
Waterbury
Young
Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company
Michigan district UMW appoints scale committee
The Michigan district convention of the United Mine Workers appointed a scale committee. The general wage advance to be demanded is 12 percent. Inside wage scales listed include track layers 2.55, helpers 2.36, trappers 2.18, bottom grafters 2.56, water and machine handlers 2.56, timbermen 2.56, pipemen 2.50, and all other inside labor 2.26.
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Michigan
United Mine Workers
President designates midshipmen at large at Naval Academy
Washington March 15 The president yesterday designated several individuals as midshipmen at large at the Naval Academy Ralph Earle Sampson son of the late Rear Admiral W T Sampson J W Philip son of the late Rear Admiral Philip Alfred F L Miles son of the late Lieutenant Chas R Miles U S No Rufus King son of Brigadier General Charles King VU Ss A Sloan Davenhower son of the late Lieutenant John W Davenhower U N The group includes multiple notable naval lineage connections and denotes a presidential designation.
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Charles King
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Sloan Davenhower
John W. Davenhower
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Alleged Bribery Probe Called in Saginaw Over Bridge Contract
Judge Beach in Saginaw circuit calls grand jury to investigate bribery allegations tied to the Genesee avenue bridge contract awarded last summer to the National Bridge company for 194000 dollars. Proceedings by injunction blocked signing the contract.
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State to Call Counties for Funds as Treasury LoWows
Indianapolis March 13 state treasurer Hil states consideration of calling counties for funds due to a low treasury balance. The legislature has made large immediate appropriations and the auditor has postponed some payments.
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Hil
Corydon Boy Repeats Confession Linking Suspect
Elijah Thomas, the boy who confessed to arson, now implicates Nathan Rolf. He says they planned to burn the court house, Abernathis livery barn, Corydon Lumber yards, and the north side of the square, and ties the Riley hardware burglary to the case.
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Resistance of Law Charged Against Strivers in Riot
Federal grand jury in Charleston reports indictments for resisting officers serving process at Atkinsville before the Stanford City battle. Other related moves include Colorado labor federation action against militia officers and injunctions in Kansas City and Western Kentucky disputes.
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Strikers treated politely as women drive nonunion trucks
Yesterday in Kansas City two women Mrs. G. B. Evans and Mrs. H. B. Meyers took the places of their husbands and drove trucks through town in defiance of striking transfer companies. The crowd cheered as the vehicles passed and no interference occurred.
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Vinol claims and patient testimonials promote flesh gain
The ad touts Vinol as a powerful cod liver oil tonic to build flesh muscle and bone, improves digestion, and renews bodily vitality. It cites H M Stufell a Boston and Maine Railroad worker who reports weight gain and better health after using Vinol and promises refunds for unsatisfied customers. COOK SHERMAN endorse the remedy.
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Governor Corbin Signs Road Bill for Rural Routes
Indianapolis March 15 Governor Corbin signed a new law compelling counties to maintain rural route roads. The act allocates five percent of the road fund to keep these rural routes in good repair across counties.
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Corbin
Governor Declines Reprieve for Murderer Gott lieb Neigentind
Lincoln March 13 Governor Mickey announced he would not interfere with the death sentence for Gott lieb Neigentind who murdered his divorced wife and her father. The governor spoke to those urging clemency as he prepared to depart for Chicago.
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Resignation of General Impont Leads Navy Inspector Change
Washington reports General James A. Impont resigns as chief of the steam ship inspection service Treasury Department. His successor will be George Abler of Orange Texas. In Texas, Mrs Ella Russell was shot and killed by Dan Richardson after she fired at him for entering her yard per her instructions.
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House pushes senate bill making chicken stealing a felony
Jefferson City Missouri March 13 the house advanced a bill to criminalize chicken theft as a felony with a penitentiary penalty.
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Minnesota Roots of London custody case figure
Sioux City reports Lady Granville Gordon once hailed from Pipestone Minnesota where she grew up as the daughter of a widow. The narrative recalls English investors Fred William and James Close who settled in Pipestone and Iowa, with marriages linking to Mrs James Close and eventually to Eric Gordon in England. The piece notes a polo accident in 1889 and a subsequent divorce and royal court action involving Gordon.
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Eric Gordon
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Money No Value To Him
Fremont, March 13. Ernest Hussman says money has no value and may trigger an insanity petition by his brothers to prevent him giving his $60,000 inheritance and local property to charity. He disappeared last fall and was found working on a Platte county farm, claiming he needs nothing and sees no reason for trouble.
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Man Commits Self Destruction After Threats
In Helleville Illinois on March 1 Warren Fleming a year old son of Warren T Fleming a prominent business man shot himself in the head with a shotgun after a quarrel with a playmate who threatened arrest. The tragedy followed a note of despair about his life.
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Legateport High Faces Tobacco Challenge
Legateport Indiana March 1 The high school faculty mounts a crackdown on tobacco after girl students are found in the basement smoking at the old towers coffee nails.
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Wis
Leahey
Legateport
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Law Was Unjust To Him
Chicago reports Jacob Gilhooley held by police in connection with a saloon brawl murder of William Tracey. Hugo Beckman identifies Gilhooley as the man who killed Beckman’s wife in 1800, a case once tried as manslaughter and pardoned after serving time. Beckman had named Gilhooley previously. authorities now plan charges for Mrs Beckman’s murder.
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Jacob Githooler
William B. Tracey
Hugo Beckman
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Reckian
Gilhooley
Keekman
Plunged to His Death in Eloise Asylum
Detroit March 1 Jacob Beyer a young farmer from near Wayne Michigan died after leaping from a third floor banister at Eloise county asylum. He had been jailed in Detroit awaiting burglary trial and attempted suicide twice before succeed
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Jacob Beyer
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Eloise
Beyer
Flooded Nebraska rivers ease but smaller streams flood towns
The flood situation in Nebraska shows the largest rivers receding while four smaller streams continue to flood areas causing trouble. General Reyes, vice president of Colombia, is noted to have presidential aspirations.
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Nebraska
General Reyes
Colombia
Boost Heart Health With Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery
A pamphlet-style health notice extols the heart and digestion benefits of Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It advertises cures for digestion disorders and blood purification, claims to strengthen the heart, and offers free expert opinion by letter from Buffalo New York. A patient named W D Merchant from Tyler sburg Pennsylvania is cited as weighing 176 pounds before and 198 after seven bottles.
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Golden Medical Discovery
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N. Y
W. D. Merchant
Tylersburg
Clarion
Reforms for Russia Grant Liberty of Conscience and Self Government
A March 18 decree from Petersburg marks a landmark reform in the Russian empire. It proclaims tolerance under the Orthodox Church while granting freedom of creed and worship to other faiths, and strengthens local self-government as part of a broader internal administration modernization.
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Village Lifehould Be Strengthened in Kuselan
The text advocates strengthening village life and communal property while easing peasant burdens and boosting self-government. It calls for reforms by provincial authorities, cooperation of credit institutions, and broader public trust to adapt laws to local conditions, referencing Alexander II and the emancipation era.
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United States
Alexander II
Mystery Solved as Bar ny O H are Bodies Recovered
Kenosha Wisconsin reports the disappearance of Barney O H are from December 9 is solved his body was recovered from the lake by the captain of the tug Hoffnung. O H are left his home for treatment in Chicago and this is the last heard of him.
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Barney O'Hare
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0 O'Hare
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Kings Edward to visit Portuguese monarch next month
Telegrams say King Edward plans a visit to King Cartos of Portugal on the first of next month. Whitaker Wright, London promoter, is claimed to be a citizen of this country. A funeral near Logansport Indiana saw a hearse stuck in mud and a wagon substituted. The Ohio and Mississippi rivers on their annual boom are near peak levels.
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Whitaker Wright
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