High License Victory Prompts Wisconsin Reform Debate
The Wisconsin reform movement scores a victory with a higher saloon license minimum in cities rising from 75 to 200 dollars. Projections show Milwaukee could gain 125 thousand dollars annually, while partisan lines split over future goals and the next legislature.
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Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Wisconsi
Wisconsi Means First, That the Whisky Fraternity
Whisky Fraternity
Fraternity of
Prohibitionists
Lins
Waukesha
Ware
Pond du Lac
Assembly
Comatock
Buffalo
Erwin
Jackson
Ginty
Dunn
Hoyt
Crawford
Hurliburt
Juneau
James
Jaws
Kidd
Gram
Maxwell
Kenosha
Minor
Tangside
Nugon
Barron
Parry
Adame
Ring
Ashland
Staxney
Wicuse Lenc
Waddington
Green
Warner
Au Claire
Wiley
Green Lake
General Grant Dying Seen As National Moment
The article reflects on General Grant's likely death, arguing his life work warrants broad national respect. It praises his manhood and leadership, noting that public opinion shifts from past prejudices as the old hero nears the end and the nation contemplates his legacy.
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General Grant
Gen. Grant
Eady
Gen
Grant
Lincoln
Gen Grant Estate and Berlin City Notes
The article discusses General Grant's finances in decline due to costly missteps by his sons, then shifts to a detailed observational dispatch from Berlin. It portrays Berlin as a cultural and military hub with vast population, grand architecture, strong institutions, extensive public works, and a lively urban life with expensive rents and modern transit.
Milwaukkee News Roundup of Fires, Officials and Obituaries
The Milwaukee area reports a factory fire at Farrington Furniture with $12,000 loss, insured for $11,000, plus a locomotive roundhouse fire and extinguishment by on duty workers. Appointments include Matt Simpelaar as deputy labor commissioner at 1500 dollars yearly and Henry Siebers as factory inspector at 1200 dollars. Miss Josephine E. Boorn, a long serving Eighth District School teacher, dies. An inmate at Soldiers' Home, August Emerich, aged 70, dies likely of apoplexy after a city visit. Former city comptroller James S. Wire is arrested in Michigan for embezzlement tied to Chicago bonds. A bold burglary at Rev. George H. Ide’s residence yields about $200 in valuables. The late Clark Shepardson’s will filed, executors named, with substantial estate. In Russia and England news, frontier lines near Herat stir nerves of peace talks. Obituary notes Mrs. M. Rockwood of Janesville, and other local notes including boiler explosions and self-harm attempts.
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Farrington Furniture Company
Cedar Steel
Chicago & North-Western Railway Company
Third Ward
Frank Flower
Labor Statistics
Matt. J. Simpelaar
Henry Siebers
Josephine E. Boorn
August Emerich
Hone
Emerich
New York Volunteers
Jasces S. Wire
Milwaukee
Niles
Mich
Chicago
George H. Ide
Clark Shepardson
John C. Coleman
Lurinda Shepardson
Jupge Freelon
San Francisco
Mas
Ezexten T. Cox
Cox
Turkey
Zanesville
Emery Candle Factory
Minneapolis
Alvin
Yorkshire
England
BisMarck
Dak
Alexander
Percy C. Surrin
New Jersey
Post-Office Department
Devens
Central Pacific
Southern Pacific
Kansas
Mansixe
Eugene Higgins
Baltimore
United States Treasury
Waite
Oregon
Ill
John B. Gale
Gov. Gray
Indiana
State Finance Committee
Exchange National Bank of
Norfolk
Pennsylvania
Joseph Patner
Berners
Cincinnati
Fishers
Formosa
China
New York County
Woman Suffrage Party
Gov. Pierce
Dakota
T. B. Hourwoort
Alton
Lovejoy
Austin
Tex
Lincoln
Neb
Charles Dain
Presipent Gregg
Ferry
Langson
James L. Cleghorn
Philadelphia
Robert Garrett
Cleveland
John BR. Garrison
Virginia
the Treasury
Tarbel
John 8. McCalmont
United States Commissioner of Customs
Internal Revenue
Chesley
Phil
Tenn Red
Talbot
Ofaryland
Senate
Henry P. Kernerchan
New Orleans
James 0. Henderson
Eleventh District
Janes E. Cnaxpir
John B. Clemings
First National Bank
Bushnell
Springfield
The State Prison Waupun Biennial Report 1888 figures
The first biennial report of the Wisconsin State Prison at Waupun notes a 10 percent annual rise in inmate numbers, with averages of 398 in 1884, 363 in 1888, and a current 410 inmates, near 90 percent of capacity. Six deaths occurred in the year and lost time stood around 86 percent. Weekly prisoner subsistence cost 80 cents, up from 77 cents the prior year.
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Waupun
The Iron Chancellor’s Seventieth Birthday Observed
Karl Otto Bismarck Schenhausen known as Prince Bissmarck celebrated his seventieth birthday on April 1. Germany marked the day as a high day with American admirers joining in. Colleges across Germany awarded him Doctor Honoris Causa and the Würzburg court cellar presented twenty four bottles from 1848 vintage.
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Karl Otto Bismarck-Schenhausen
Prince Bissmarck
German Empire
Germany
Bismarck
Wurzburg
Numerous 19th century items mark national and local events
March public debt fell by 453000 as writers note deaths, fires, strikes, and political moves. Reports include Emory Candle Factory and Minneapolis court-house fires, Yorkshire coal miners strike, gold rumors near Bis marck North Dakota, a self-immolation in New Jersey, and cabinet appointments in Washington.
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Rasmus B. Anderson
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Egypt
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D. A. & C. A. Goodyear
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P.H. Miller
lLoss
J. A. Sandford
Asunaxa
L.C. Wilmarth
W. P. Green
Martha & Hettmennsberger
Clintonville
Alprecht & Hume
Concordia Company
Dettberner
Germania Company
Henry Folkman
Ansapee
Fox
Jas. Fox
John Graef
A. Birkholz
Frank Muench
Cosco
Monroe Street
Dearborn
Najaapal Printing Company
Bradner, Smith &Co
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Philadelphis
the King
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Berlin
London
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Humboldt Brothers
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Mwilwachkee Hatters
Russia
Peter Lumsden
Enand
Chamin-L-Baidh
Herat
Chamin-I-Baidh
Janesville
M. Rockwood
Maj. S
Rockwood
Portage Register
Coscrsxats
David Hulse
Scipio
Ind
Anthony Cleaver
Morton Hulse
Alfred Hulse
Brropulad
S. Wright
Green County
Dr. Harter
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