Lamont era toast defenses and Monroe doctrine risk
Secretary Lamont estimates seventy years to complete the toast defenses and warns where we stand if the Monroe doctrine is disputed. The piece notes France buying and selling with the US in recent months, mentions the Fifty fourth Congress and many young members, condemns Pullman as an unregulated evil, cites army totals for major powers, and highlights the St Louis exposition sustaining a dividend with its plant fully paid.
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Lamont
House of Representatives
Citizens Back Plan to Restore Independence Square
Philadelphia moves to restore Independence Square to its 19th century condition after a legislative act lets the city proceed. The project will require removing several costly buildings that intrude on the historic space, a move supported by nearly all residents.
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Philadelphia
Independence Square
Liberty
Corn district reports show farmers hoarding crop for higher prices
Market watchers note farmers in corn districts intend to hold a large portion of the harvest to push prices up. Although a flood of shipments was anticipated, exports have been small and much of the cereal is being cribbed by sellers unwilling to release it until they secure a fair return for their labor.
Speech in Henry Clay's Handwriting Sparks Laughs
Readers learn of a surviving handwritten speech by Henry Clay with notes marking where applause and laughter should occur. The commentator attributes any mis timing to the audience's stupidity and argues Clay knew where the humor fit.
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Henry Clay
Mr. Clay
Massachusetts Health Statistics for 1893 Report
The 1893 state health report highlights improved water supply reducing typhoid fever stages and notes death rates from consuming diseases halved since 1853 while pneumonia now ranks second.
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Massachusetts
Supreme Court upholds life sentence for habitual criminals
The Supreme Court has ruled the act condemning habitual criminals to life imprisonment constitutional. The piece argues that condemning any person to life in prison is not right, except to protect society from those who refuse to live by social rules.
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United States Supreme ‘Court
Economic Colonization Schemes Debate in Congress
Fragmentary OCR text hints at a discussion in Congress on colonization schemes. References to pauper populations from southern Europe and hopes of securing farm labor or passage to the United States appear, but details and context are unclear.
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Congress
Europe
First Session Reflections in Senate and House News Brief
In the opening days of the Fifty first Congress the Senate swore in members and adjourned to noon the 8th. Reed won the Speakership in the House by 234 to 95, with the Reed rules adopted and seats drawn. It notes Cuba, Armenia, and Asia Minor issues, plus financial bills and troop of other measures across sessions, with various state and party positions.
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Senate
Reed
Maine
Crisp
Behring Sea
Committee On Foreign Relations
Asia Minor
Cuba
House
Ohio
Florida
Allen
Hozgr
Rep
Mass
Turkey
State Department
Great Britain
France
Germany
Messrs. Wright
Barham
Cal
Burrell
Iil
Pendleton
Tex
Treasury Department
Armenian Interests Satisfied Says U S Minister in Istanbul
Mr Terrer United States minister to Turkey cables from Constantinople that Armenian interests are satisfactory and missionaries are safe. Breckinridge case settles with $550 paid into court. W J Murray dies at 80 after forty seven days of voluntary confinement. Wayne MacVeagh meets Hon in audience. Tau president submits recess nominations to senate. Madrid Globe cites Cleveland message on Cuba as grave. Rev F Y Saterlee elected bishop of Washington Diocese. Gavel made from hull of first vessel to pass Sault Ste Marie canal presented to Speaker Reed. Hedding College head condemns football as disgrace and bans it. Roemer of St Louis Zouaves resurfaces in Cuba heading 200 Americans for Cuban independence.
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Mr. Terrer
United States
Turkey
State Department
Constantinople
Gus A. Meyer
W. C. P. Breckinridge
Madge Pollard
Cincinnati
J. Murray
Toledo
Kine
Humpert
Wayne MacVeagh
Tau
Senate
Madrid Globe
Cleveland
Cuba
F. Y
Saterlee
Calvary Church
New York City
Episcopal Diocese
Washington
D.C
E. H. Newson
Minnesota
Reed
Sault Ste. Marie Canal
Hedding College
Galesburg
Fire destroys six story sweat shop in New York corner
On the 4th a six story sweat shop building at the corner of Attorney and Riverton streets in New York was burned. A dozen people had to be carried from the two tenements on either side and nearly a dozen men jumped to neighboring roofs to escape the flames.
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Attorney and
Riverton Streets
New York
Fire destroys Chamberlain Institute in Randolph New York
Fire spreads rapidly through the Chamberlain Institute main building as a high wind drives flames from the cupola. The fire department arrives within five minutes but cannot stop the blaze, which destroys the main building and the chapel.
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Chamberlain Institute
Randolph
N. Y
London
Victoria
Schleswig-Holstein
Christian
Count Albert Mendorff
Dietrichtstein
Prince of Wales
New York
Grover Cleveland
England
Curzon
Lester
Panis
Albert Dreyfus
British Guiana
London Board of ‘Trade
China
Pekin and
Tien-Tain
TRE
Hunger crime prompts prison, hunger strike and aid
Be. Stold: hunger drove Broderick to admit theft from a Mobile and Ohio railroad car. He claimed his family starved and he would not have committed the deed if work had been available. Fellow convicts sent $15.69 to East St. Louis, aiding his family after his incarceration.
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Stold
Broderick
St. ‘Clair County
Mobile’ & Ohio Railway
East St. Louis
Springfield acquits Gibson in Bribe Charge and riotous news
A jumble of each day’s sensational notes from Springfield and nearby towns includes the acquittal of Milroy H. Gibson on acceptance of a bribe, theft and crime reports from Metropolis to Peoria, fatal accidents near Lacon and Metropolis, legal suits in Jefferson County, a sale of Pleasington Weekly Leader to Verne McGilvray, and plans for an electric road between Springfield and Acuna. The items mention courts, a guard’s death, a gypsy theft incident, a burglarized Brownstown shop, and a notable inheritance distribution by William Galt in Madison County.
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Milroy
H. ‘Gibson
Springfeld
Daughters-of- the-Ameerican
Chicago
Pleasington
Opin
L.A. Cass
Verne’ McGilvray
Lacon
John Shipp
Sparta
Collins Williamson
Williamson
Carlyle
Wm. Galt
Fort Russell
Madison County
Will
Cumberland Presbyterian Foreign Missions
Campbell Douthit
Jefferson County
Dix
Mount Vernon
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Chris Marcus
Metropolis
Wabash Railroad Co
Shelley & Brady
Springfield
Acuna
New York
Springeld
Charles W. Deering
Plowman
William Deering
West Point
Detroit
Fort Riley
Kas
Edmond D. Rogers
Wabash Road
Decatur
Rogers
St. Louis
W. Holder
Warren Avenue
Lizzie Hawkins
Jefferson, County
Jefferson
J. N. Simmons
Simmons
Cass
Samuel W., Rhiodo, & Son
Brownstown
Payette County
James
St. Louisi
Atranger
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Pullman
Fifty-fourth Congress
Austria
Italy
Russia
Japan
Liv
Greenville
Hortonville
Wis
Wm. Renter
R. J. Fox
Linneus
Gates
Sam Sewell
First National Bank of
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Tur
Ager
Klamath Falls
Ore
Mariested
Sweden
Matt W. Ransom
North Carolina
Mexico
Rouse
Indiana
Empire State Express
New York Central
Belgium
Holland
Austria-Hungary
Scoville
Scoville Manufacturing Co
Waterbury
American Catholic League
Baltimore
Illinois State News
East St Louis
E. H. Murphy
Twenty-first District
Washington Dispatch
Illinois
East St.Louis
St Louis
East St. Louisans
Nellie ‘Thomas
Edwards School
Reform School
Arnold
Winds
Springfield Episcopal
the Episcopal Church
St. Paul's Cathedral
Martin J. Wiley
Leroy
McLean County
American Falls
Idaho
Bloomington
Sangamon
Nora Casey
Ireland
Kane
Centralia
A. E. Andrews & Co
Sands Bros
New Athens
Jacob Emge
Henry and
William Sands
Altgeld
Donald H. Chapman
Simon McNulty
John Graves
Harristown Township
Macon County
William.r. Brown
Isaac Street
Woodriver
Madison
James Barley
Hawk War
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