Indian Territory right of way bill for railroad and telegraph
A House committee report substitutes a bill granting Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad a 100 foot-wide right of way through Indian Territory with a route from near Baxter Springs Kansas north to Fort Smith Arkansas. It covers land strips for stations, dispute arbitration, controlled fares, mail carriage, and payments to Cherokee Indians, plus route maps, six month grading deadline, and a three year fifty mile construction requirement.
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WastisGron
House Committee On
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad Company
Indian Territory
Baxter Springs
Kansas
Arkansas
Benton
Washington
Evansville
Washington County
Fort Smith
United States
Eicher
Port Smith
Congress
Secretary of the Interior
United States Circuit
District Courts
Jersey silk hat band tax clash sparks punctuation debate
A New Jersey silk maker appeals to the Treasury to tax silk hat bands at 50 percent under the 1833 act. A comma between material and not shifts interpretation, prompting calls for a legislative editor to prevent such drafting errors. The debate centers on whether braids and trimmings are taxed as materials or as enumerated goods, highlighting friction over wording and enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adersey
New Jersey
Secretary of the Treasury
Skeptics
Jersey
Fairchild
Kentucky Citizen Handles Government Expenditures
Special to the Post: Mr. Breckenridge of Kentucky faces public budget concerns as he engages with government expenditures and financial oversight. He discusses aid, accountability, and fiscal policy affecting state programs and local services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breckenridge
Kentucky
President Names Alfred H. Terry for Major General Post
The President sent nominations to the Senate naming Brigadier-General Alfred H. Terry to be major general, to succeed the late Winfield Scott Hancock. The record covers his Civil War service, brevet promotions, and Fort Fisher capture, with details of prior posts and engrained commendations.
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Alfred H. Terry
Sifington
Senate
Alfred
Terry
Winfield Scott Hancock
Joshua JT. Child
Missouri
United States
Siam
William Gordon
New York
Medellin
Connecticut
Second
Connecticut Volunteers
Seventh Connecticut Volunteers
Fort Fisher
Congress
Wilmington
Senators Secretaries Move to Exclude Certain Reporters
In the Senate on March 3, Mr. Riddleberger offered a resolution requiring each Senator to report their private secretary. He alleged some attendees on tickets to the Senate floor were not proper gentlemen and suggested hacks from Republican and Democratic newspapers sought private details to libel Senators. The measure was amended to have names sent to the secretary of the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiair
Washington
Senate
Harsxison
Allison
Hoar
Alison
Wand
Mr. Edmunds
Tate
R. Vogan
Biddleberger
Riddleberger
Riddieberger
Houe of Representatives
House
Rindieperge
Marcus P. Norton
Downs
J. P. Lord & Co
A. E. Jeaneret
Bowdoin Square
Court Square
State Must Bear the Expense of Boston Draft Riots
The second comptroller disallowed a Massachusetts claim of 27074 for militia expenses in suppressing the July 1863 draft riots in Boston. The ruling says reimbursements under a 1861 act cover militia enrollment and federal service calls, not local riots, and that the provost marshal lacked authority to call out the state troops for draft enforcement.
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SSG
Washington
Masachusetta
Boston
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Uratt
Iimegainst
Favorable Action on Naval Expansion Bill
The House committee on naval affairs finished reviewing the measure to enlarge the navy and will report it to the House at the earliest opportunity. It authorizes two sea going double bottomed vessels of about 6000 tons with speed of at least sixteen knots and raises steel tensile strength to 60 000 pounds per square foot with 25 percent elongation. The bill allows domestic fabrication of heavy guns and totals 14 675 000 dollars for new vessels torpedo and navy yard plant. next year appropriations total 6 425 000 dollars. The committee was nearly unanimous in favor of a favorable report.
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Washington
House Committee On Naval Affairs
House
Secretary of the Navy
Fea
Ant
Treasury report shows gold and notes totals
Washington March 8 The statement of the United States treasurer lists funds held including gold coin and bullion silver dollars and bullion United States notes and national bank notes with figures totaling 250 091 19 2 174 612 677 and 46 604 756 as in process and deposits.
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Washington
United States
Treasury
National Bank
Nearing a Million Losses Hit Nickersons Boston Firm
The long lived Boston firm F W Nickerson & Co. and partners assign to Joseph B Russell with liabilities around 900000. The failure follows the City of Columbus disaster and West India ventures. Assets include the Boston Halifax and Prince Edward Island Steamship line, Caicos salt and cattle holdings, with many suits pending. The assignee is 33 year old Joseph B Russell, secretary of the firm and head of the line’s management. creditors listed include Adeline T Nickerson and Robert Ware Powell & Co.
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City of Columbus
Boston
Savannah
Nickerson & Co
Gay Head
F. W. Nickerson
Jie
United States District Court
Nelson
Gray
Colt
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Golden Islands
West India
Nickersons
Caicos Islands
Caicos
Bahamas
Turk’s Islands
Jamaica
Turk’s Island
Toges
Boston and Savannah Steamship Company
Halifax
Prince Edward Island
Carroll
Worcester
F.W. Nickerson& Co
New York
Phila-delphia
Joseph B. Russell
Charles Theodore Russell
Cambridge
F. W.nickerson
South Boston
Cluny
Oxford
A. A. Nickerson
Savin Hill
Adeline T
Nickerson
Priecilla S
Adeline L. Parker
C. A. Campbell
C. F E. Pennock
Albert W. Nickerson
Dedham
St Marion
F. W. Nickerson & Co
Great Success of the Ball of the Express Employes
The New York and Boston Despatch Express Company's Employes Beneficiary Association held its first ball at Odd Fellows Hall drawing about 3000 attendees. The event featured lavish decorations, a grand march led by Thomas J. Driscoll and partner, a full band, and a supper by Caterer Tutts. Attendees included city officials, executives from Old Colony and Earl Prime, and delegations from Providence and New York among others. The treasury open to at least $1000, with preparations and volunteer coordinators named across many roles.
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New York
Boston Despatch Express Company
Odd Fellows Hall
James A. Mullare
Thomas F. Driecoll
T. A. Smith
George F. Newell
EK. F. Fitzgerald
W.F.O’ Brien
A.b.simpson
H D.W. Morris
B. F. Kennedy
James L. Ford
N.Y
B. D
D. Edmonds
Thomas J. Driscoll
Walter Co, Taft
Davis
Winchester
E. A. Taft
G., & Carroll
Old Colony
Charles F. Hammond
C. Ss. Prew
Earl & Prime
S Express
F. M. Keeler
Boston
Augustus M. Sampson
S. D. Shadduck
Treasury
Oasis Hall
Messrs
F. A. Mullare
H. D. W. Morris
W. J. O'Brien
W. H. H. Bond
R. S. Lucas
O. E. Norton
F. L. Ford
C. F. Crowley
A. M Converse
H.C. Mowry
M. Downy
D. J. McCarthy
A. K. Sampson
J. E. Gillen
W. ©. Simes
J. J. Sulliven
J. Ahern
J. O. Taber
J.J. Donohue
J. L. Tirrell
N. W. Tierney
T. Heffeen
Fire losses alert across multiple towns and cities
A series of fires caused significant damage from Shamokin to Gloucester and Boston. Miners escaped a blaze at Hickory Ridge slope, George Smith’s Lancaster farmhouse and barns burned with $260 cash lost, a Glouces ter Pweliing House fire damaged a brick residence, and a three story building on Atlantic avenue sustained $2000 losses with $1800 of stock insured. Eight to ten girls escaped from the cotton waste building, unharmed.
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Newport
N. H
George Smith
Lancaster
Gloucester
Mass
Liberty Street
Benjamin Low
Boston
J. K. Goulding
Atlantic Avenue
James Tirrell
Goulding
Mayor Whippe Vetoes City Appropriation Bill in Brockton
Special to the Post reports Mayor Whippe has vetoed the aldermen passed appropriation bill. The common council sustained the veto by a 12 to 7 vote and ordered a new appropriation bill be drafted in line with the mayoral communication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
Mass
Whippe
Board of Aldermen
Common Council
Governor Pattison to Probe Soldiers' Orphan School Charges
Harrisburg reports Governor Pattison and Attorney General Cassidy with a stenographer will start an investigation into charges against the Philadelphia Record management of the soldiers' orphan school. All schools will be visited and witnesses examined.
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Harrisburg
Penn
Pattison
Cassidy
Soldiers’ Orphan School
Philadelphia Record
Alligator Boy Not A Reptile Says Doctor
A Montreal man rented a room in North Adams and exhibited a boy he claimed to be an alligator. A doctor diagnosed the child as ichthyosis, a skin condition, and the boy and parent left town immediately.
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North Adams
Mass
Montreal
Unknown schooner found ashore off Rocky Point
Riverhead dispatch reports a schooner seen anchored off Rocky Point yesterday was found ashore this morning. The crew are unable to reach the main land and assistance is awaited.
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Riverhead
L. I
Rocky Point
Yea.terday
Steamer Achilles Sailed with Coal for Newburyport Mfg Port
Newburyport reports the Philadelphia and Reading coal steamer Achilles sailed from Philadelphia on Feb 23 with 800 tons of coal. No word has been received by agents, raising alarm for her safety.
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Newburyport
Mass
Philadelphia
Reading
Achilles
Steamer Darlington Runs Aground Off Bermuda
The Darlington, sailing from New Orleans with grain and Bremen cotton, struck reefs on February 22 near Bermuda. About 1100 bales of cotton landed, mostly in good condition, with the vessel expected to prove total loss.
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Bermuda
Darlington
New Orleans
Bremen
Two youths vanish after taking letter from post office
In Waterrbury Vermont on March 3 a 14 year old boy stole 15 from his mother's letter then rode the orton express with an older companion. They left at Montpelier and headed toward Kerve. The father searched but no trace has been found.
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Watrrbury
Montpelier
Kerve
New York Strikers Halt Street Cars in Unified Action
On March 3 in New York the Dry Dock and Battery Street Railroad strike escalated as 22 Empire Protective Association members placed themselves on Brooklyn routes urging drivers and conductors to strike. By 6 pm every line was tied up, signaling potential broader troubles and company resolve.
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New York
Battery Street Railroad Company
Empire Protective Association
Knights of Labor
Dissatisfaction Over Wage Schedule At Fall River Mills
Special to the Post from Fall River Mass outlines executive committee discussions on the 10 percent wage advance and the failure to restore 1885 prices. Workers demand price schedules and say past reductions were not honestly implemented. Noted wage gaps, mule output, and contrasts with Rhode Island practices, plus a note on speeder tenders and a Knights of Labor readermission for weavers.
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Faw. River
Mass
Spinners’ Union
Obain
Mapnufaciarere
Rhode Island
Fall River
Board of Trade
Itia
America
Richard Borden Manufacturing Company
Knights
Barnaby
Sennator Howard
Order of the Knights of Labor
Howard
Star Music
Satisfactory Settlement of Some Labor Troubles
In New Haven Connecticut March 3 labor disputes at Peck Bros Co were settled after a conference with Knights of Labor national executive committee. The company canceled a 10 percent advance and ended contractor control. Henry Hooker Co carriage makers granted the advance to blacksmiths and returned to work. Delegates from rubber shops formed the United States Rubber Employes Protective Association amid secret sessions. The Knights of Labor also discussed ending a yearlong boycott on the Morning News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Peck Bros. & Co
National Executive Committee
Knights of Labor
Henry Hooker & Co
United States Rubber Employes’ Protective Association
Nights of Labor
Morning News
Manchester Loom Gain and Labor Unrest Report
The Amoskeag Company increased loom numbers by 442 at Manchester as strikers press for higher wages and send a committee to Boston. In Detroit French Canadian replacements refused work, and Bath shipyards raised wages 25 to 75 cents under Knights of Labor, with arbitration over blacksmiths. Beverly shows hopeful settlement, while Chicago indicates 700 workers at McCormick Works with calm conditions. Lynn painters win an advance, and a Knights of Labor shop opens with plans for April operation.
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Manchester
N. H
Amoskeag Company
C. Cc. Colby
Boston
Knights of Labor
Detroit
Mich
Bath
Knights
Beverly
Peverly
Mass
McCormick’s Works
Chicago
McCormick Reaper Works
Lynn
Excitement in Denton Over the Attacks Upon the Chinese in America
A despatch from Washington dated March 3 warns that attacks on Chinese in America have raised serious concern. Officials hope the President will act promptly to address the crisis and reassure the Chinese government.
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Denton
America
Post, I
Washington
Slugger Downs Attacks Spur Public Scorn and Threats
A detailed report traces Slugger Downs and lawyer Coffey menacing critics, harassing witnesses, and browbeating figures from Bowdoin Square to Chelsea. It notes libel suits, private warnings, and repeated confrontations aimed at silencing those with evidence of the minister’s guilt, while highlighting the mounting public outrage and support for press safety.
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Slugger Downs
Coffey
Slugger
Bowdoin Square
Billingsgate
Bowdoin Square Society
Chelsea
Deacon
Layrmman
Glove Fight Halted by Sheriff After London Style Bout
Pete Hall of Canada and George Williams of Rahway New Jersey faced a six round London prize ring match on a Trenton train at Millstone. Williams outweighed Hall by a small margin and landed strong blows to the head and body. Hall was knocked down multiple times before the sheriff interrupted as the crowd fled and both men were arrested.
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New York
Pete Hall
Canada
George Williams
Rahway
N. J
Trenton
Millstone
Hall
Williams
Ball
Hall Jum Bot
William
High Priced Pictures First Night Sale of Morgan Collection
The Mary J. Morgan art collection sold at Chickering Hall in New York drawing a large crowd and many were turned away. Auctioneer Thomas B. Kerby oversaw eighty paintings with strong competition over a specific library piece. Total receipts reached $171,200 as bidding continued through the evening and will resume Thursday.
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New York
Mary J. Morgan
Chickering Hall
Charles Crocker
California
W.T. Walters
Baltimore
James L. Claghorn
Philadelphia
C. Bowers
Rochester
M. T. Arnot
Elmira
G. W. Keudson
Norwalk
Conn
Deacon
W. White
Brooklyn
Dr. Stoddard
Low
Thomas L. James
John D. Sisayback
Henry L. Clinton
Alexander Harouton
Joseph Pulitzer
Thomas BE. Kerby
Messioner
Demonstration in Albany Raises Funds for Irish Cause
A March 3 demonstration at the Leland Opera House Albany gathered prominent citizens including Judge Nott and Roman Catholic clergy. Governor Hill presided and Alexander Sullivan of Chicago spoke to a packed house. Letters from Manning, Jones and others were read. About $2000 was subscribed.
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Albany
Leland Opera Flouze
Irish Parliamentary Fund
Judge Nott
Hill
Alexander Sullivan
Chicago
Manning
Jones
John Wilkes Hammond Assoc Justice of Superior Court
John Wilkes Hammond born December 1837 in Matta poisett Massachusetts is 49 years old. Tufts College graduate 1861 served in Civil War 1861 to 1863. Admitted to bar 1868 moved to Cambridge where he has resided since. He represented Cambridge in the Legislature 1871 to 1873. Senior partner Hammond and Pope with Charles G. Pope of Somerville as junior. City solicitor of Cambridge for thirteen consecutive years. Active in several city orders.
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John Wilkes Hammond
Superior Court
Mattapoisett
Mass
Tufts College
Cambridge
Hammond
Yale Athletic Meeting Winners at Winter Meet
New Haven March 35 Yale held its winter athletic meeting with winners in events across track and field and sparring. Scientifics won tug-of-war alongside freshmen, Walker cleared 6 feet 8 inches in pole vault, Goodlett 6 feet 5 6 in running high jump, Sage won light-weight sparring, Nerve took fencing, Bigelow claimed middle weight sparring, Laveritt won lightweight sparring, Kran won feather-weight wrestling, Carter heavy weight, Allen middle weight.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale
Scientifics
Consolidated
Walker
Goodlett
Sage
Nerve
Bigelow
Laveritt
Great bankrupt sale of clothing in Boston and Lynn
Cautious citizens anticipate more winter weather as the Post reports a great bankrupt sale by the Wilmot Clothing Company at 29 to 443 Washington street Boston and 92 Market street Lynn. Sweeping price reductions cover the entire list, giving buyers a rare opportunity to save.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Wilmot Clothing Company
Washington Street
Ant
Market Street
Lynn
Prudtabie
Vessel Owners Press Boycott Over Shipping Bill Choice
A largely attended meeting of the Vessel Owners and Captains Association in Philadelphia adopted resolutions protesting a bill in Congress that would allow the International Navigation Company of Philadelphia to purchase foreign built ships and register them in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Maren
Steinitz and Zukertort Chess Match Third City Game
Special to the Post from New Orleans reports the third city game between Steinitz and Zukertort played at the Chess, Checker and Whist Club with a large audience. Steinitz opened with Ruy Lopez. the game drew disappointment among spectators as Zukertort, the favorite, faltered in the critical phase, with the record of the lengthy play provided up to a late position diagram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Steinitz
Zukertort
Steintz
Ruy Lopez
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