Congress Week Wraps Senate and House Actions
The December sessions report Senate votes on navy chaplain salaries and French spoliation bills, along with committee moves and public land railroad right of way actions. House debates Post Office appropriations, tariff measures, and race toward adjournment with minor bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Senate
Navy
Pendleton
Hovss
Converse
Columbus Stern Railroad Company
Columbus
Ohio
Ferry
Post Office and Post Roads Committee
House
Anthony
Tariff Commission
O’neil
Philadelphia Maritime Exchange
Committee On
Cape of Good Hope
Guenter
United States
Fort Smith Milita Reservation
Arkansas
McLean
Missouri
Thomas Allen
Loosely Transcribed 19th Century Dispatches and Dated Notes
The fragment summarizes a string of 19th century telegraph and cabinet notes. It references a September 16 plan under Ensign Jakutska and a search led by Lieutenant Jeannette with Chipp's party reaching Irkutsk, all amid a mid-December delay. It also covers remarks on Ex-Senator Hendricks’s health and a nearly hopeless prognosis with senile gangrene. Additional items include nominations for Army Surgeon General, Chinese restriction act implications on marriage, General Sherman’s planned retirement, a blacklist of matrimonial and vital associations, Post Office money orders, and Arthur’s acceptance of railroad expansion in Arizona and Indian Territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeannette
Jakutska
Schultze
Chipp
Irkutsk
Haber
Chinp
Washington
Hendricks
Voorhees
Senate
Robert Murray
United States Army
the Treasury
Pittsburgh
China
Sherman
Absour
Post-Office Department
Arthur
Arizona
Indian Territory
Atlantic & Pacific
Notable Obituaries and Accidents Across Regions
Obituary notes Mrs. Maria Appiey dies at 104 in Morristown New Jersey born 1778 in New York City. Bay Ridge fire destroys Manhattan Beach depot and 60 trains and cars. loss about 500000. Parker Lemaine and two sisters killed by locomotive near Altoona Pennsylvania after leaving prayer meeting. Prince Areezagawa arrives in New York to inspect Americans and Congress. Weekly business failures total 208, up from 190.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific States
Keeley
Tyndall
Bocke
John G. Whittier
Boston
England
Greerek J. Rice
Utica, Ithica & Elmira Railroad
New York City
Eknira
New York
Chanes Denar
Salem
Mass
Sandwich Islands
Hays
Pittsburgh
Cumberland &Pennsylvania Railroad
Cumberland
George Reilley
Frank Carafine
Henry Miller
Reilley
Associated Banks
Maria Appiey
Morristown
N. J
Washington
Manhattan Beach Railroad Company
Bay Ridge
L. I
Parker Lemaine
Tipton Station
Altoona
Prince Arezagawa
Japan
American Congress
Iam
Bridge collapse at Bunset Texas claims nineteen lives
A bridge on the Bunset Railroad near Pecos River in Texas fell on the 13th, dropping nineteen workers 75 feet. Nine were killed and the rest seriously wounded as the falsework failed under heavy load. The 200 foot structure collapsed into a near perpendicular gorge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taz
Great Dry Canyon
Pecos
Bunset Railroad
Texas
Tax
Ohio State Grange
Mansfield
Ohio
J. H. Brighman
Fulton County
L. C
Reichenbach
Wayne
K. Haltzinger
Butler
Henry Talcott
Ashtabula
J. R. Smith
Marion
Lewis F. Smith
Crawford
Ceres
J. H. Bias Fulton
Pomona
D. K. W. Trumbull
Flora
T. R. Smith
Marat
Bitartin
Darke
H. Ellis
Warren
F. H. Dacianuyashoga
David Crouse
J. H. Brigham
Reichstag
Prince Bismarck
Taylor,Rodgers & Co
L. 8&8 Baumgardner
Ancy Nation House
Wood & Acklin
Ohio Central Gevel
Wabash
Patrick Slattery
Mount Peasant
Iowa
Hickman
Tae
P. Stafford
Ironton
Mill of Arms, Bell & Co
Youngst Ohio
Newport
Ark
Agricultural Parlan & Orendorff
Canton
Timeis
William Alley
Louis Hynnicutt
ILL & Co
P. A. Anuk & Sons
H. Franks
Michigan
Lansie
Pratt Brothers
Extradited figures and events from the 18th daily notes
The report lists a murder conviction in Pittsburgh for John Foster’s death and a gas explosion near Mountain View injuring several unnamed workers. It notes openings and arrivals in New York, a Supreme Court decision on Cur tis energy policy, a Treasury circular on bond exchanges, and various Senate and House actions including tobacco tax debates, civil service reforms, and a memorial for Representative Orth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
John Foster
Ladin & Powder Works
Mountain View
Eijent Miles Grance Jones
Paterson
N. J
Bryanansey
Henry Kuhl
John. Ie
Treasury Department
Senate
Man
Logan
Chicago
Pa & Fors
M ‘Ham
Nsit
Godd Hope
Pugh
House
Representative Orth
Commerce Committee
Butterworth
Yeas
Godlove
Notable Endorsements for Drance from Medical Leaders
A letter signed by multiple doctors and public figures lauds Drance as a highly capable physician. They cite his offices in New York and Philadelphia and promise improved treatment of chronic diseases. The document notes his three diplomas, home visits, and Sunday consultations at the American House in Wooster Ohio with office hours listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Flemings
Ville
Jefferson County
Ohio
Cornwall
England
Gooove Orth
Indiana
Indianapolis
Joan Schphengler
Baltimore
W.A. Franch
New York
Vince
Roe
Eer
Vacus
Philadelphia
Wm. Clark
M. D
J.J. Miller
Schenectady
Senobrnabet
Granvildle
Loyk
Sunnday
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wayne Cr
MO. J. Ashenhurst
Wooster
Cameron
Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce
Ald
Aldrick
Ge National Bank of
Louisville
Horst
Robe and
Hiscock
Wadaworth
Gedation
Jaan Uried
Tas First Presbyterian
Fort Wayne
Ind
Missouri Pacific
State Line
Kansas City
West and
Squtr
Foreign Intelligence
Winchester
Canterbury
St. Peterssone
Ignatieff
Ministry of Domains
Russia
Turkey
St. Petersburg
Paris
Nice
Geneva
Zurich
London
Berlin
Klenigsberg
Bucharest
Constantinople
Kingston
Jamaica
Hampton Court
Hampton
M. Bercovet
Radical
M. Welk
Pall Mall
Gladstone
Hugh O. Childers
Vienna
Austria
Athens
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Bultan
Patrick Joyce
Myles Joyce
Patrick Casey
Joyce
Dublin
Myles
Wexford
Prince Krapotkine
Thonon
France
Lord Derby
Tate
Lord Kimberly
India
New National Petroleum Exchange
Joan Most
Joyal Workingmen’s Association
Cooper’s Institute
United States Supreme J
Curtle
Curtis
Mitchell
LOCUM
Pearl Bt
Morey
York
le “Eaa Wawerita Sheet Cor
Grevwer
Lmpe
Ayer
J. C. Ayer & Co
Itchel
Bright
Benson
Seabury & Johnson
Ben "Vandels & Co
Barclay Street
N. Y
W. A
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