Senate Proceedings and Budget Debates February 23 26
Senate and House actions include a De Moines River land title bill, Dawes conference report on Indian Appropriation, Navy bids amended to exclude armament, Utah voting amendment debate, and adjournments. Also coverage of pensions, public printers, Sundry Civil Appropriation, and postoffice appropriations with conference reports and investigations into education and labor relations. The week closes with credentials for Oregon, false impersonation penalties, and the Republic immigrant case inquiry.
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Senate
McDill
Committee On Public Lands
de Moines
Dawes
Secretary of the Navy
Utah
Blair
House
Williams
Wis
Foreign Affairs
United States
Russia
Government Printing Office
Beck
Internal Revenue
Edmunds
Nandall
Andrew Herron
Louisiana
Jess
Jogt—Yeas
J. T. Codegraff
Ohio
Sherwin
Grover
Dolph
Oregon
Garland
Committee On Judiciary
House of Representatives
Education and Labor
Thistrict of Columbia
Cessell
Conference
Robinson
N.Y
Secretary of State
Republic
Birthday observances pace across the nation and officials named
Wasamutdx’s birthday was observed nationwide while militia reviews occurred in Washington before President Arthur and General Sherman. Courts and post offices closed in major cities. several nominations to the Senate were confirmed including G. M. Lambertson as U S Attorney for Nebraska and John B. Raulston as Virginia Internal Revenue Collector. A bronze Luther statue project proceeds in Washington with costs estimated at about 7,000 dollars including transport and pedestal. The State Department received a British extradition request for R J Sheridan linked to the Phenix Park murder. Additional nominations were sent to the Senate for Indian agents and consular roles.
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Wasamutdx
Washington
Arthur
Sherman
Inhabitants’ Association
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Tax Senate
G. M. Lambertson
United States
District of
Nebraska
the &Th
Luther
Europe
Department of State
R. J. Sheridan
Phenix Park
Sheridan
Iriss’ World
Ireland
Senate
Darwin B. Andrews
Green Bay Agency
Wis
G. W. Benjamin
Real Nt
Diplomatic Figures in Tehran and Madrid Names
United States officials Wickham Hoffman in Teheran Persia Lucius H Woote Envoy to Corea Dwight Tl Reed and others are listed with titles of Minister Resident Consul General and Envoy Extraordinary along with Madrid postings, reflecting a chain of diplomatic appointments across nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Teheran
Persia
Wickham Hoffman
Denmark
Lucius H. Woote
Corea
Dwight Tl Reed
Leza‘tonj
Casuls
Uhtvea
Madrid
Comet sighting and a flood of midyear notices
The report notes a bright telescope sighting near Beta Pegasus with a half degree tail and eastward motion, marking the year's first comet. It also details multiple 19th century notices: a failed Lawrence mass deposit society, major defaulter Crowell with vast sums and a Talman trust, a Philadelphia death by swallowed teeth, a fatal drugstore cyanide error, a murder of Ungashick, suicides of bankers Purscott and Howe, a mass poisoning at Haunton Poor Farm, and fires in Washington Town and Vaughan Mississippi plus St Joseph Lead Company losses and Tennessee ex-Treasurer Polk proceedings.
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Dinecrok Swit
Warner Observatory
Rochester
N. Y
Pegasus
Severae
Augustanian Society
Lawrence
Mass
Pritsh
Re Aal
Ginsert L. Crowell
Empire Mining Company
Summit County
Utah
New York City
Crowell
Tasman
New York
Cornelia A. Atwell
Catharine C. Talman
S. Caroline Talman
Empire Mining Scheme
Talman Trust
Caroline Talman
Jersey City
N. J
Jane HassivGes
Hey
Philadelphia
Furiture
rummer& K_ppenstein
F. M. Brows
Elmira
Canonine Welthman
Mary Wrricks
Legrand Perry
Woodcodk
Crawford County
Ife
A. Purscott
Prescott & Co
Imau
Topeka
Kansas
Matuias Ungashick
Andrew Marshey
Can ‘On
Ohio
Marghey
Marshey
Aulbert J. Howe
Howell, Crops N & Co
Chicago
Haunton
Missouri Free Trade League
Kansas City
John 9. Phelps
Springfield
E. L. Martin
D. P. McAnnelly
Columbia
Clark Irving
St. Joseph
Albert Young
Washington
Vaughan
Miss
Birmingham
Bonneterre
St. Francis County
Polk
Tennessee
Nashville
Myers, Osborn & Co
Cleveland
Mutiny and Fires at Missouri Prison Ignite Major Loss
A noon mutiny at Jefferson City penitentiary led convicts to seize foremen, set fires, and clash with guards. 1,150 inmates were confined as flames razed multiple shops, with hospitals and main buildings saved by volunteers and prisoners. Losses about 200000 dollars, with insurance largely absent.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
John B. Johnson
St. Louis
de Oe
Geisecke and Meysenberg
Knights Templar of
California
San Francisco
Johnson
Middletown
Ohio
East Portland
Oregon
Ture Old Malley Cotton Mills
North Adams
Magss
Io Baudhoas
Tate Driscoll
Milwaukee
la Crosse
Splauchee
Erile Cheyenne
Peiter
Foreign Intelligence Items Reported From Europe and Britain
A Paris report says the French Admiral at Madagascar was ordered to suppress any resistance to France's rights on the island. May's Manchester chemical works exploded. one man died. The late Pope Pius IX remains moved to a permanent tomb. The Pariy Gulus was suppressed for six months for its tone on Statensitations. Harrison of the Land League was jailed in Dublin but elected to Parliament from Westmeath. Threats to blow up the Kremlin prompted a security watch. Socialists in Andalusia resemble outrages in Ireland. German Imperial Bank gold reserves rose to 6,230,000 marks.
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Paris
Madagascar
France
May
Manchester
England
Pius IX
Rome
Kremlin
Moscow
Andualusia
Spain
Ireland
Imperial Bank of Germany
Senate to require underground wiring for telegraph and power
The New York Senate on the 27th alt passed to third reading a bill compelling all telegraph, telephone and electric light firms to lay ducts underground after March 1, 1885. Various notices from officials and interests followed, including resignations and inquiries about labor and taxation policies.
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New York Senate
Fun Versus Fiction Promised Cure Myth
Fragmentary ad style text extols a health product claiming wide benefits and cheap price. It references named but unclear entities and vague claims about digestion nerves and liver issues with dubious efficacy.
Arabian Nights and Aesops Fables in New Volumes
A catalog listing several accessible books including Arabian Nights entertainments and Aesop's Fables, plus John Ploughman's Pictures by Spurgeon. It highlights illustrations, plain speech, moral lessons, and broad appeal for households and social gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Persia
Aesop
Assapur
Athens
Ayide
Asop
John Ploughman
Chan H. Spurgeon
Prohibition Documents and Temperance Works Featured
A listing of temperance publications including Alcohol and the State by Robert C Pitm LI I and Our Wasted Resources by Dr William Margreaves with prices. Also noted constitutional amendment discussion by Hon H W Blair among other works totaling several dozen pages and editions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert C. Pitm Li.i
Superb Cour
Massachusetts
William Margreaves
Keveenssaee
B. W. Richardson
M.A
M.D
I.R
London
Willard Parker
New York
F. R. Lees
F.S.A
Bauchus
Frederick Powell
United
OW York
New Jersey
Joseph Nok
G. W. Hughey
Beer Congress
Robert C. Pitman
Ll.d
Supreme Course of
Masachusetts
ON. Brearng
Canon Farrar
Rev
H. D. Kit
Jasemine
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Gerald
D. Ashenhurst
Eprrer
Péter Dennen
Montague
Muskegon County
Mich
Mary Burr
South Bend
Inf
Henry C. Parr
Stoc
City
Davis
Variou
Anthony
Chicago Stock Exchange
Milwaukkee
Messrs
Morrill
Sherman Aldrich
Bayard
Hammon
Felley
Rees
E River End Harbor
Socom
Henderson Etertlandt St
Nis
Loomis & Nyman
Tiffin
Dage
Earlie
Mdiganise Seaton Fyfe
Holy York
Toma &O
STEN
Anntalogue
St. Pauls Miry
Ayer
Qeezer
J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
Mitchell
Hoelzel & Kaltwasser
South-Ease Side Public Square
Aaasess Taelosings Co
Ben Andelf & Gd
Barclay Street
John ‘Bunyan
Jion
Gunde’ Curtain
Douglas Erruld
Gulliver
Lemuel Gulliver
B.B. L. Fargeon
Dickens
No. U
Ture
Ae Sitate University
Colum Ae
Orton
Ibert H. Tuttle
Nile
Peel
Chuse
Samuel W. Paker
Cornwall
Carfield
Citien
Tegmeier
Tegutmei
Anand
THE
National Temperance Society
Joseph Cook
H. W. Blair
Albert Barnes
D.D
Sumner Stebbins
Noah Davis
G.T. Stewart
Stewart
G. T. Stewart
Wileos
William . Dodge
Pan-Presbyterian Council
Alcomolio
Charles E Joyce
M.C
Maine Jaw
Andrew
Atmauler
Praca
Ae de Hallo
J. Ne Stearns
Reade Atrect
New Fork City
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