Notable New York figures and a Russian fleet scare
The obituary of Oscar Coles recalls his age and a life linked to epic incidents. It recounts George W. Brown’s Water Street restaurant and a Belmont versus Drayton duel, then Coles’s marriage, mayoral wins in Aiken, and a 1862 Russian fleet display in New York Harbor that spurred Seward and Governor Morgan to actions amid the Trent affair.
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Long Island
Oscar Coles
Coles
Mr. Coles
Morgan
United States
Great Britain
New York Clearing House
Delmonico
New York
George W. Brown
Water Street
Wall
Brown
August Belmont
Europe
Rothschilds
Miss Brown
Niblo’s Garden
South Carolina
Drayton
Belmont
Beirut
Democratic National Committee
New York City
Aiken
S. C
Lakewood
N. J
New York Harbor
Thurlow Reed
William H. Seward
Governor Morgan
England
Trent
Mr. Seward
Bull
Russia
Senate Debates Philippine Question Amid Bills and Treaties
Washington deluge of daily actions includes Senate clashes over Philippine policy and Pettigrew Lodge resolutions. Debates touch on food safety, currency, and Samoan treaty ratification as House handles urgent deficiency provisions and rural delivery funding.
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Washington
Senate
West
Dem
Pettigrew
Lodge
Hoar
Paris
McLaurin
S. C
N Nuber
Messrs
Davis
Foraler
Spooner
Bacon, Money
Tillman
Bacon
Debate ends with attack on treasury secretary over New York custom house sale
The hour of debate featured an attack by Mr Richardson the minority leader on the secretary of the treasury for his courage in the sale of the New York custom house. Mr Hopkins championed the secretary asserting his reply to the house resolution answered every charge and showed notable business ability. Hopkins from the census committee then favored a senate bill broadening the census scope and the house adjourned.
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Washington
Jan
Senate
Berry
Dem
Ark
Bacon
Philippines
Pettigrew
Sil
Rep
S. D
Walcott
Col
South Dakota
Rawlins
Utah
Mason
Ill
Bureau of Chemistry
Agricultural Department
House
District of Columbia
June W. Gayle
Kentucky
Cannon
Treasury Department
War Department
Postal Service
United States
Hoar
Mass
Messrs
Lodge
Committee On Foreign Relations
Teller
Jones
Tutuila
Frye
Peru
Chile
Mexico
Hague
New York Custom House
Gage
Sulzer
N. Y
New York
Sibley
Penn
Messrs. Grosvenor
Ohio
Hepburn
Iowa
Messrs. Williams
Clarke
Terry
Lentz
Lacey
Towa
Wellington
National City Bank of New York
Corliss
Michigan
Hawaii
Guam
Richardson
Secretary of the Treasury
Hopkins
Committee On
Sensational Senate debate on Boer war and diplomacy
Washington reports show Hale defending Boer sympathy and attacking Britain's war while Allen and Spooner clash over Transvaal recognition. Pension bill advances amid charges of pension-robbery schemes. riders limit attorney fees. Jan 22 notes cover race and Philippine debates, New York judicial districts bill, and defense spending disclosures. Emperor Francis Joseph cases on Bohemian soldiers threaten Austria Hungary unity.
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Washington
Senate
Hale
Rep
Allen
Pop
Neb
Transvaal Republic
Great Britain
Balfour
House of Commons
Atlantic
Messrs
Spooner
Wis
House
Commissioner of Pensions
Curtis
Kan
Lentz
Norton
Oho
Robinson
Ind
Mahon
Penn
Pritchard
North Carolina
South
Tarner
Beveridge
Indiana
Turner
New York State
Hayas
Paris
Rock Island
Springfield
District of Columbia
United States
Kentucky
Idaho
Delaware
Francis Joseph
Austria- Hungary
Stomach Bitters Promised To Strengthen Nerves
An old advertising blurb argues stimulants worsen nerves and blood, urging Hlosteller's Stomach Bitters to cure dyspepsia constipation and nervous troubles by strengthening the stomach.
Mrs Walker Dies Near Morris Mt Aged 80
Mrs. D. P. Walker aged 80 died near Morris Mt from paralysis. Her husband aged 83 survives.
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D. P. Walker
Morris
Lost Eskimos Found on Southampton Island by Museum
The American Museum of Natural History plans to announce the discovery of a fifty eight member Eskimo tribe on Southampton Island Hudson Bay still living in the stone age. They use whale bone for cups lamps and sleds and speak a unique dialect. A second find reports fossil snake dances linked to the ancestors of the modern Moki Indians in Northern New Mexico.
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New York Herald
American Museum of Natural History
Hudson Bay
Southampton Island
Maine
Franz Boas
New York
Museum of Natural History
Esquimaux
Resquimaux
Isquimaux
Norsmen
Greenland
George H. Pepper
Boas
New Mexico
Giant Central American moth stretches wings wide
The Erbus Strix is described as the largest insect by entomologists, a Central American moth whose wingspan expands from eleven to eighteen inches, illustrating remarkable size.
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