Congress Week in Review and Capital Notes
The report covers Senate and House sessions on December 4 with new members sworn in, bills introduced including coinage at Denver mint and pension for Rear Admiral Scott’s widow, and references to deaths of Senators Hill and Updegraff. A long eyewitness copy details a violent incident involving a boy and youths, plus local crime notices under a new penal code and a Harrisville woolen mill fire with $100,000 loss.
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Congress
Senate
Poo
Davis
House
Denver
Scott
Brown
Hill
Kieffer
Hitt
Ilinois
Hawk
Rees
Georgia
Stephens
Shelley
Alabama
John Paine
Utah
Committee On Elections
Yellow Stone Park
Agricultural Commission
Secretary of War and Navy
Secretary of War
Herbert
Lowe
Taylor
Ohio
Updegraff
Friends
Jamis ‘Carney
Arthur Dugian
Howard Fuller
Howard
Carney
Dugan
Nam
New York City
James Ca ¥aNavon
Philadelphia
Craven & Williard Woolen Company
Harrisville
N. H
Corpol Blucher offered staff post in Egypt army reorganization
Corporal Gephary LesexecuT Blucher of Fort M'Henry and attached to the Second Artillery has an offer from Baker Pasha to join his staff for reorganizing the Khedive's army. He will seek discharge once Egyptian authorities meet conditions. Blucher, descendant of Waterloo marshal Blucher, studied at Bonn Heidelberg and was a German military attaché in Egypt. He learned Arabic and came to America in 1890, enlisting in the Second Artillery as schoolmaster sixteen months ago.
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Gephary Lesexecut Blucher
Mchodmaster
Fort M’henry
Second Artillery
Baker Pasha
Khedive of
Egypt
United States Army
Corporal Blucher
Marshal Blucher
Waterloo
Bonst Heidelberg
Ramleh
America
Tas
Pacific Railroads
Pacific Railroad
Reak
RoBert H. Wistay
United States Navy
Washington
Indian Bureau
United States
Femi
Clayton McMicHae
Philadelphia Worth American
District of Columbia
Henry
Garfield
Bliss
Agnew
Hamilton
Reyburn
Boynton
Edson
Steward Crump
Brown
Buiss
Garfield Board of Audit
Clayton M’michael
United States Manual District of Columbia
Osage Indian Lands
Kansas
General Land Office
Sumner
Harper, King
Comanche
Nationwide business failures tally for week ending the 1st
The week reports 148 failures nationwide with 12 in New York City and 136 elsewhere by region. Causes include stock and oil speculation and iron trade weakness. Notable incidents include a Buffalo foundry worker’s botched suicide attempt and the death of Brooklyn mayor Henry Murphy.
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Eastern States
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Southern
Middle
Pacific Coast and Territories
Canada
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Boston
United States
Tuk Toho
Ae Ee
Colchester
Connecticut
Jenkintown
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Woes of early 1880s era clash and disasters headline
Reports from Cincinnati Cairo and London recount a tragedic shooting during a stage performance leaving Miss Annie Von Behren dead after a rifle misfire. Other notices include the death of Congressman elect N Jonathan Uppecraft, the Confederate monument unveiling, a fire at Cairo Illinois, and Arabi Pasha facing exile following rebellion.
Bank examiner named for Illinois and Wisconsin
William C. Oakley of Chicago appointed bank examiner for Illinois and Wisconsin. Colonel Thomas S. Larpsey of the United States Army placed on the retired list. Comptroller of the Currency authorizes Arkansas National Bank Hot Springs to begin with capital of 50000 dollars. Frank McNamesr Dutch Pillett and Levy Chew arrested in Philadelphia driving a wagon with five dead bodies from Lebanon Cemetery toward a medical college. Robert Chew cemetery superintendent and Andrew Mullen also arrested. Steamer Enterprise burned off Maud's Point Virginia with three drowned. National Exposition of Railway will be held at an as yet unnamed location beginning in May. Robert Norton and wife suffocated by stove gas in Belvidere Illinois. Chief Wapto and his wife decapitated by John Grande of Yamphill Oregon. Forest of Manleyville Tennessee beats his wife and crippled grandfather. Senate resolution by Mr Beck. internal revenue taxes discussed. repeal of certain enactments debated. House Ways and Means reports favorably a repeal bill on discharge costs for seamen abroad. Senate death of Senator Hill announced. House adjourned.
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Frank Frayne
Annie von Behren
Cincinnati
N. Jonathan Uppecraft
Ohio
Mount Pleasant
Magnolia
Charleston
D. C
Senator Butler
Pickfring
J. T. Bickering
Leesburg
Braver
Cairo
Imois
Chester
Roderick Dhu
San Francisco
South Seas
Pasa
Aputavoi
Helena
Miss von Behren
Frank Fray
O'Neal
Tennessee
Christian Heim
Bavaria
Sippeer Ky
Utah
Arabi Pasha
Canterbury
London
Constantinople
Mehemet Pasha
Dagestan
Cardinal Manning
R. G. Peters
Chicago
Volusta
Jacksonville
Florida
Bunker Still
Illinois
Rev. Clark
Indiana
Amos Townsend
R. R. Dawes
Gilson Atherton
Henry van Arnam
New York
Charles R. Skinner
J. Pelle
E. &. Willis
Kentucky
George Burke
Peter Martin
Henry Voights
Thel Gulf
Mississippi River
See 88
William C.’ Oakley
Haseen
Wisconsin
Thomas S. Larpsey
United States Army
Comptroller of the Currency
Arkansas National Bank
Hot Springs
Frank McNamesr
Dutch Pillett
Levy Chew
Philadelphia
Lebanon
Robert Chew
Andréw Mullen
United States
Ton Square
Enterprise
Maud’s Point
W. A. Thompson
W. W. Hancock
Ana
Robert Norton
Belvidere
John
Grande
Yamphill
Oregon
Wapt
Napus
Fioe
Senate
Hill
House
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