WEWS OF THE WEEK SUMMARY OF EVENTS
Jack Cole, once of the Jeannette expedition, remains in Government Hospital for the Insane in Washington with little hope for recovery. Emancipation Day in DC prompts a National Convention of colored men to discuss rights. Indian agents in the Northwest report supplies to Turtle Mountain and other tribes. Internal Revenue issues new redemption rules for checks and stamps. Admiral Middleton retires from the Navy after long service. Green B. Raum resigns as Internal Revenue Commissioner. Twenty-nine national banks begin April operations. Public debt reductions for April are small due to pension redemptions. In patent news, Stare and Peyton v Farmer upholds Farmer’s priority in an electric lighting case. Palen & Co. faces bankruptcy proceedings in New York. Colonel Leo Tate, aged 73, dies. A Scranton hotel gas incident kills a couple on their wedding trip.
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Jack Cole
Siberia
Government
Washington
Convention of
Colored People of
District of Columbia
Oliver Wood
Ohio
Quin
Washington Territory
B. F. Johnson
Minnesota
Fergus Falls
Minn
John T. Cartin
Bozeman
Mon
Patrick Buckley
Tulalip Agency
Charles Willoughby
N Sails Bay
Cramsie
Fort Totten
M. T
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Turtle Mountain
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue
Edward Middleton
United States Navy
Navy
Green B. Raum
Comptroller of Currency
Stare & Peyton
Moses G. Farmer
Secretary of the Interior
Commissioner of Patents
Farmer
Tax bill on outflow of crude by Pennsylvania bill
The Ways and Means Committee reported a bill to tax one mill per gallon of crude petroleum shipped out of Pennsylvania. A fatal shooting occurred as William Macourr of New York, temporarily insane, shot his wife and child before killing himself. An autopsy on a dead tramp in Wareham, DSfass, noted an unusually large heart. National business failures for the week ending the 27th totaled 182, with regional tallies. Fires destroyed Fred Smith & Co.’s Tonawanda mill and Zomprr & Co.’s varnish works. Bangor Me sawmills burned with losses around 80,000. Banks in New York City showed loan growth and reserves rose. A fatal explosion hit Keystone colliery near Ashland Pa with seven killed. The assignment schedule for George remains outlined.
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Ways and Means Committee
Pennsylvania
Wiliam Macourr
New York City
Wareham
Dsfass
Marsh
Canada
Tox
Fred Smith & Co
Tonawanda
N. Y
Zomprr & Co
Summer ‘Station
Great Works Milling and Manufacturing Company
Bangor
Associated Banks of
Keystone
Ashland
George
West and South News Briefs Chronicle 19th Century Events
Obituary notes for Rev Dr C. B Boynton of Vine Street Cincinnati died at his daughter's home. Reports Ohio political and local incidents including a fatal rail collision near Olivet Station, mass illness from trichina, Governor Foster’s father buried in Fort Wayne, and a large religious funeral. Dispatches cover storms in Texas and Arkansas, fires in Wellsburg and Newaygo, archeological finds near Collinsville, Cherokee Nation council session, and international affairs from France to Greece. Also notes on rail, weather, and a Lutheran conference in Ohio with extensive deliberations and a closing hymn.
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B. Boynton
Vine Street Congregational Church
Cincinnati
House of Representatives
Eee
Kreighyea
Olivet Station
Mich
Chicago & Guard
J. W. Sturaman
Millershux
Holmes ‘County
Ohio
Charles W. Foster
Foster
Fostoria
Foulkes
Presbyterian Church
Wallace
Methodist
Link
Reformed Church
J. E. Wilkison
Odd Fellows
Toledo
Tiffin
Findlay
Norwalk
Texas
Benham
Palo
Pinto
Belton
Bell County
Ft. Worth
William M. Brown
Georgia State Agricultural College
Athens
Sherman
Iowa
Coffin
Fort Dodge
James Wilson
Secess
Wellsburg
W. Va
Fawer
J. N. Sharnéck
Hugh Barth
Robert Thompson
Hot Springs
Ark
Prohibition State Committee of
Columbus
Nashville
Tenn
Collinsville
St. Louis
J. R. Miller
Mr. McAdams
Indian Territory
Bushyhead
National Council of the
Cherokee Nation
Tahlequah
Constitutional Party
Spieche
Congress
George Warn
Muscle Shoals
Ghor
Pegro
Wilmington
Del
Winn Dement
Louisville
Carroll County
Knoxville
London
Lord Carlingford
Duke of Richmond
Carlingfordj
England
America
Quebec
Canada
Council of State
Dominion Ministry of Agriculture
British Columbia
Port Said
Egypt
United States
Youna
Hong Kong
Ward
Ui Hung Chang
Ei@nt
St. Petersburgh
Russia
Smolensk
Greece
Poland
Paris
China
Shanghai
Tonquin
Mergaradec
Anam
Pekin
Union
East Ohio Synod
Lince Pitgburg
Reva
G. Z. Worhel
Redatung
de O
Kauffiffer
D. D
Wiooser
A. M. Geiger
J.F. Sonali
C. S. Sprecher
Cference
I. N. Keiffer
Dr. Wiles
J. C. Kauffman
H. M. Geiger
G. 4. Cochel
E. Minter
New Pittsburg
J. F. Wile
Steer Collision Kills Three Near Fort Worth Texas
Pacific train ran onto a steer near Fort Worth on the 30th alt. causing a concussion that threw two head cars from the track. Killed were T. A. Simmons civil engineer Price Johnson and J. T Bind. Jeff Ward Charles F. Porter and Albert Simms were badly hurt but expected to recover.
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Pacific
Fort Worth
Texas
T. A. Simmons
Price Johnson
J. T.bind
Jeff Ward
Charles F. Porter
Albert Simms
President appoints Kedder to Supreme Court of Dakota
The President names Jerson P. Kedder Associate Justice as the Ist. Bond calls mature 16 Ist with 11 5 million redemptions. Other items include Freeman trial, Dr. Harvey Backus WizB0R death, a Syracuse soda fountain blast, and New York burial bill for soldiers. Also Senate rejects liquor amendment. Ohio I O O F meeting notes. Standing Rock Sioux embarkation. Ohio bribery case appeal denied. notable deaths in Wheeling WVa.
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Ist
Jerson P. Kedder
Theupreme Court of
Dakota
Freeman
Barntable
Mass
Harvey Backus
New York State Senate
Sinion Rupert
Fort Wayne
Ind
Ohio
Akron
Waters
John N. van Deman
W. J. Behan
Fort Randall
Standing Rock
Sitting Bull
Wheeling
W. Va
GttIunbar
Pees, Patent
Medieh
Catalpa Premium Offer for New Herald Subscribers
The Herald offers Catalpa trees as premiums to readers who recruit new cash subscribers. Each new subscriber earns the finder a two year old Catalpa tree. Catalpa trees are praised as fast growers and long lasting, with pest resistance noted and lifespans extending to about ninety years.
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Flattery
Prmer
Testimony to Dr Bigelow Cure From Ottawa Times
W D Wilson of Ottawa Illinois testifies that three months of lung trouble and coughing with blood were cured permanently by Dr Bigelow's Positive Cure. Free trial bottle available at Labanch Dontelley.
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W. D. Wilson
Ottawa
Iil.) Times
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Monster
Megatherian Museum
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Alli God
Europe
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