Timber Trespass Prosecutions Referenced by Washington
Washington Special reports a surge in trespass suits examined by Assistant Secretary Jenks with recommendations for criminal or civil actions. Gull River Lumber Co of Minneapolis faces claims for cutting 3,209 pine trees on government land, valued at 2.37 per tree, with mill and manufactured values cited. The secretary questions the company's ignorance of the land lines and proposes civil suits for about 4,509 value plus criminal prosecution of the agent, plus similar actions against Clearwater and Red River Lumber companies. Also notes long-time Hartford Times editor and Chicago Press Club election, and Palmyra faster ending a 20 day hunger strike with a meal.
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Washington
Jenks
Gull River Lumber Company
Minneapolis
Thomas Naper
Narey
Comey
Clearwater Lumber Company
Red River Lumber Company
Northwestern Committeemen by Appointment of Speaker Carlisle
The House committees allocations list Minnesota members Nelson Indian affairs Strait public hands and education Wakefield post offices and post roads White mines and mining Gilfillan patents and revision of the laws. Wisconsin members Caswell judiciary Bragg military affairs La Follette Indian affairs van Schaack manufactures railways and canals Rankin Mississippi river and American shipping Gunther post offices Thomas private land claims Price agriculture and alcoholic liquor traffic Stephenson public lands. Iowa Hall elections private land claims Murphy railways canals rivers harbors Henderson appropriations Fuller coinage and revision of the laws Frederick agriculture and alcoholic liquor traffic Weaver expenditures interior department and labor Conger invalid pensions Hepburn judiciary Lyman state department expenses Holmes Pacific railway Struble territories and pensions.
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Carlisle
House
Minnesota
Nelson
Strait
Wakefield
White
Gilfillan
Wisconsin
Caswell
Bragg
la Follette
van Schaack
Rankin
Holmes
Pacific Railway
Struble
Territories and Pensions
Senate action and appointments move through Congress
The Utah bill passed the Senate 38 to 7 with Senator Hoar opposing due to a women’s suffrage section. Public Printer Rounds backs civil service standards for department workers. Special Agents Montgomery and Tingle will assist in NY customs review. Commercial Travelers plan to press Congress to bar license taxes in states. Ex-Minister Lowell may press for international copyright measures. General Hatch arrives from New York as a reshuffle promotes several officers. Committee clerks are named as Wester, Elliot, Rix, Weaver, Jures, Sanders, Gordon, and Chobb. Widows’ half pay cases are being scrutinized, and Mexican war extra pay rulings favor Oliver Hayward. Northern Pacific timber sales in Washington Territory draw scrutiny for unapproved indemnity lands. Sparks recommends suing for 4,000,000 feet of logs tied to the Hokium Mill sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah
Senate
Hoar
Fairchild
Secretary of the Treasury
Montgomery
Tingle
Berry
Customs Service
New York City
Commercial Travelers’ Association
Senate Committee On Commerce
Congress
Lowell
Patent Committee
John P. Hatch
Second Cavalry
Ebbitt
New York
Col
Sweitzer
Cavalry
Lewis Merrill
Edward J. Spaulding
House
Apve
Ohn Wester
Indiana
John F. Elliot
Texas
W. P. Rix
Wisconsin
Abram C. Weaver
Iowa
Alexander Jures
Ilinois
Clifford Sanders
Missouri
Charles Gordon
Ohio
Lewis Chobb
Commerce
War Department
The
Treasury
Oliver Hayward
Second
United States Artillery
Mexico
Guadaloupe Hidalgo
General Land Office
Pracific
Washington Territory
Interior Department
Sparks
A. Simpson, Bro. & Co
San Francisco
Hokium Mill Company
Fires Cause Major Losses in Three Cities
Record of Casualties describes a Boone Town fire that damaged Charles Wills drug store by 5000 dollars. A Mobile blaze destroyed most of T G Bush & Co wholesale grocery houses, leaving only one structure intact, with losses near 100000 dollars. In Louisville, a heavy snow storm triggered a collapse at a large cotton and commission merchants warehouse housing H P Forwood Trabue Balmforth firms, overturning a stove and igniting a wide fire. The structure contained cotton tobacco molasses and dry goods, with losses around 110000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone
Charles Wills
Mobile
T. G. Bush & Co
Louisville
H. P. Forwood & Co
Trabue & Co
J. B. Balmforth & Co
Richmond's Richest Man Pace Controls $1.75 Million
James BK Pace, reputed as Richmond Virginia's wealthiest man, has access to funds totaling up to $1 750 000. The figure underscores Pace's financial influence in the city and his capacity to back ventures or loans as needed.
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Richmond, Va
James BK. Pace
Noted Conflicts and Trials Across Several States
Facts from the report include Mr. Miln the actor in a bloody row over baggage in Carbondale Pennsylvania. A coroner's jury finds Jims Freeborn of Fox Lake Wisconsin poisoned by unknown parties. A boxing bout in Gleneive Montana ends in Blakeley's honor after Carney is knocked out in the fifth round. Neil Williamson a Texas prisoner with a Moody gang past is pardoned from Chester Illinois. Dr. E M Nelson of West Rutland Vermont Marble company is under arrest on suspicions tied to a Lancaster bank embezzlement and is guarded at home. Ex manager W W Clarke of the same marble concern may be arrested. In Cleveland Ohio a romance shocks locals as Ina Norton marries Augustus Barber a colored barber and leaves town for the East. Barber was once the lover of a Norton family girl.
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Mr. Miln
Carbondale
Jims
Freeborn
Fox Lake
Wis
Gleneive
Mont
Jack Carney
J. J. Blakeley
Blakeley
Carney
Neil Williamson
United States
Texas
Moody
Chester
E. M. Nelson
West Rutland, Vt
Lancaster
W. W. Clarke
West Rutland Marble Company
Nelson
News From Foreign Lands And European Affairs
News from Cairo to Canada and Britain reports varied events. US consul general arrives in Cairo. snow storms cause accidents in France. Canada’s Lansdowne to visit England. Vatican consistory on the 10th for nuncios. Also notes royal beef weight, German petitions, British Columbia population, settlement land pre emptions, and court sentences in Germany.
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John Caldwell
United States
Cairo
France
Lansdowne
Canada
England
Vatican
Devon
Royal
Germany
Bismack
British Columbia
Supreme Court of Germany
Herr Scopen
Boulevard Haussmann
Weather, finance, and news items from a late 19th century issue
A roundup of disparate items: record cold in Louisiana and New Orleans a 15 degree high. a 10,000-barrel flour warehouse near completion in Duluth. first light snow at Savannah in six years. Cleveland Rolling Mill raises wages 10 percent. Gen Sheridan optimistic about Crook pursuing Apaches. Princeton Theological Seminary reports 150 students. northern Dakota secessionist rumor of Algonquin state. Burke vs Kelly draw in St Louis. dairy association convention at St Louis. Ingersoll of Vicksburg faces a $95,000 failure. Montana Bar elects Hiram Knowles president. Albuquerque expedition to explore ancient ruins with $20 million in plunder suspected. New Orleans coldest year on record. Deadwood liquor pool tests legality of higher licenses. Maggie Clemment and Ernest Clemment divorce proceedings. F J Winston to Persia hosts farewell banquet. Wisconsin National Guard strength cut to 2453 with uniform changes. Cahill libel case in Chicago. Northwest blizzard develops from light snow. railroads report severe conditions across NP and Omaha divisions.
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Duluth
Savannah
Cleveland Rolling Mill Company
Sheridan
Crook
Princeton Theological Seminary
New York Sun
Northern Dakota
Algonquin
Jack Burke
Ed Kelly
Tom Kelly
St. Louis
Mississippi Valley Dairy and Creamery Association
W. K. Ingersoll
Gator
Vicksburg
Miss
Montana Bar Association
Helena
Hiram Knowles
Butte
Albuqerque
N. M
Mercury
New Orleans
Louisiana
Deadwood
Wrenece County
Chicago
Maggie Clemment
Ernest E. Clemment
Janesville
Wis
F. J. Winston
Persia
Wisconsin National Guard
Adjt
Hapman
Minnesota Opinion Supports Redeemability Of Land Sold For Taxes Twice
Attorney General Hahn advises county officers should permit redemption by any person with an interest in land sold for taxes even after a second sale. The ministerial process assigns no conclusive proof required, and the right to redeem has been broadly construed by courts. The opinion, printed for distribution to county auditors, emphasizes that redemption can proceed unless courts adjudicate otherwise.
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Minnesota
Hahn
Rice
Nelson
Iowa
Capt
Braden
Minnesota News Roundup of Weather Fires and Forgery
Minnesota items report extreme cold in Watertown and St Vincent with 88 below and 35 below readings, fires destroying Lakeside mills at Bingham Lake and Brigham Lake, a fatal shooting in Winona, bank stock struggles at Lake City, and a string of legal notices and local elections.
Textile industry ranks next to iron and steel in Germany
United States consul at Cologne reports to the department of state that the textile sector holds the second-highest position in Germany’s manufacturing interests after iron and steel, with capital investment totaling 86 million dollars.
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Warner
United States
Cologne
Department of State
Germany
Industrial Brieflets on Agriculture and Horticulture
Notes from the department of agriculture show Maine sweet corn packing halved over two years with 8,364,000 cans in 1883 and 4,078,000 in 1885. Maine firms produced 1,378,000 cans Portland Packing and 1,310,000 Burnham Morrill, 1,240,000 Winslow, plus 150,000 by others. western wholesale tables reached fourfold previous years. Also, kaolin discoveries in Inyo County Colorado porcelain quality. Chrysopolis soapstone beds prove superior for furnace fire bricks. Cerro Gordo soapstone suited for furnace use. Sweet potatoes reach up to fifty pounds in Los Angeles County. Peru quinoa grain and edible leaves noted. Australia gains cattle shift. sheep rise, wool prices may fall. Florist birch bark flower holders attract attention. merino sheep vs Southdown hay intake compared in Michigan study. Daffodils and narcissus can be cut early for longer travel life. Texas livestock assessment totals 14.9M animals valued at 114M. cattle up while value down, sheep up in head but down in value, hogs up in head and value. Ohio amateur gooseberry grower yields large fruit on cool clay soil with pruning to air. California grape vine yields high. extensive vineyard. Bees wintering guidance given. New York dairy law mandates unwholesome milk ban. Britain to census cattle, horses, sheep, swine by county. Wisconsin reports 560,000 cows, 30,000 cheese, 38,000,000 pounds butter valued at $20,000,000. California cherry currant plantings yield 150,000 pounds annually at ten cents. Drain tiles used to blanch celery stems.
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Department of Agriculture
Maine
Portland Packing Company
Burnham & Morrill
Winslow Packing Company
France
Germany
Chrysopolis
Cerro Gordo
San Francisco Chronicle
Tulare
Westminster
Los Angeles County
Thomases
Los Angeles
Australia
Peru
Queensland
Chilli
Bolivia
New South Wales
Michigan Agricultural College
Texas
Ohio
T. S. Glaister
Sonoma
Cal
Describing Vanderbilt Fortune in Measures and Mass
The article converts John D. Vanderbilt's wealth into tangible scales of length, area, volume, and weight. It imagines 200 million dollars in silver dollars or in currency bills, detailing metrics such as a 4,672 mile length, 355 mile height, 60 acre spread, 7,160 ton weight, a 2.5 mile train with 12 to 20 locomotives, and a 23 mile circumference in bills with a 12 mile pile, plus a 23 by 22 by 20 foot vault.
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Mr. Vanderbilt
New York
Liverpool
Central Park
New York Times
Lords and Commons Lobby Atmosphere Compared in Parliament
The piece contrasts the bustling Commons lobby with the quieter Lords lobby. It notes busy, businesslike activity in the Commons and a smaller, ghostly space in the Lords adorned by a brass gate and labeled pegs for hats and coats. Distinguished visitors’ items hint at deeper statecraft.
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House of Lords
House of Commons
Lords
The
Commons
Marquis of Salisbury
Earl Granville
Life in Russia and Social Customs Described
The passage notes Russian attitudes toward death and marriage with stark observations. It describes funeral rites as noisy yet dignified, girls’ limited pre marriage roles, water carrying with shared talk by rivers, and winter water drawing from a hole in the ice during river baptism on January 6. It also covers St John’s night wreath weaving and the belief that wreaths touching determine marriage fate.
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St. John’s
Domestic Hints for Frying Feet to Bake and Steam
A detailed vintage kitchen guide lists methods for preparing and cooking unusual ingredients, including foot preparation in cotton bandages boiled for hours, then fried or pickled, with recipes for waffles crumpets apple meringue leglantine pudding baked custards batter pudding rice pudding fricassee of eggs muffins tea cakes and other baked or boiled dishes using common pantry items and dairy products.
Sharper Than a Coon The Dogs Used by Early Settlers of this Country
A vivid reminiscence on how trained coon dogs shaped night hunting among frontier communities. The piece contrasts silent still-hunters with baying hounds, recalls social status tied to hides, and recounts coons’ nocturnal habits, mating, scenting, and seasonal foraging from spring floods to winter stores, noting decline of the practice and enduring legends of famed hunters.
A Scotch Story of an Infant Baptism Misnaming
A Scotsman brings his bairns to be baptized and avoids laddie or lassie by saying infant. The clergyman probes asking if it is a laddie or lassie. the father ambiguously replies nae laddie nae lassie and finally an ellifant. The tale ends with the minister learning the infant was expected to leap.
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Sandy
The Fatal Watch
The Telfair County Times recounts Dr. McLean who once felt a patient die as his watch stopped during a pulse check. Later, Davy Harris, a county official, fell ill and, recalling the tale, warned the doctor not to pull that watch out as his own pulse was checked. The watch halted again and Harris died within two days.
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Dr. McLean
Davy Harris
Our County
Harris
Maj. Burt’s
Corpad
Telfair
Preparing for War The Dangers From Without
George B. McClellan argues in Harper's Magazine that the United States must maintain readiness for war due to rising global tensions. He outlines risks from foreign bases, Cuba, Canada, Mexico, and proposed isthmian canals, urging strong naval power, defended coasts, and prepared neutrality to protect commerce.
The Miller and the Farmer's Daughter Ballad
A rustic tale unfolds with a farmer's daughter delivering grain to a miller who insists on tolls. After the girl offers a kiss as payment, the miller consents to a single kiss, sparking a playful exchange that ends in the wheel striking the water and a moral sting.
A Delicate Rebuke in Cambridge Car
A young Cambridge woman offered her seat in a crowded horse car. An undergraduate hesitated, two young men nearby reviewed the seating. One gave his seat to an elder lady while the other kept his place. The German exchanged remark about beauty before surrendering his seat to the young lady.
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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General News
A. E. Burr
Hartford
Northwestern
Washington Gossip
Cleveland, O
Ina Norton
Agustus Barber
Barber
Adonis
Norton
Brunswick
Fox
Duchy of Brunswick
Wolfenbuttel
Carolines
William
Cardinal Jacobini
Monsignori Mocenni
Galimberti
Mgr
Massoni
Jacobini
Pontifical Achieves
Bismarck
Exelso Vira Magni Cancellario
Prince Bismarck
M. J. Cahill
Chicago Pilot
H. J. Conway
Dakota
Northern Pacific
Nebraska
St. Paul
Sioux City
Onaha
Omaha
Minnesota News
Attorney General
Watertown
Oak
A. L. Lewis
Reorganized
West
Devil's Lake
Posmaster
Preston
Melcher Knudent
Crookston
Princeton
Elk River
Margaret M. Becker
R. 8. Burdick
A. D. Ross
Litchfield
Rosa
Bingham Lake
John Steele
First National Bank of
Lake Side
Brigham Lake
Windom
David Herbert
Mountain Lake
Haycock
Asa Farnum
Owatonna
Anoka Agricultural Society
Jared Benson
Gladstone
Red Wing
James Lawther
Wilkins House
Santa Cruz
C. L. Anderson
L. Wheeler
Dr. Anderson
C. C. Tillotson
D. C. Sherman
William Denning
Maggie Foley
Clermont
Father Shanley
Jennie McPherson
A. R. Helmer
Vilas
Hall
Great Britain
Wisconsin Dairyman’s Association
Patrick Barry
Lewelling
California
Lords and Commons
Life In
Russia
Honesdale
Dominie
Pike County
Brown
Dominic
Moe
American
South
Middle States
Atlantic
Halifax
Bermudas
Nassau
Jamaica
Bermuda
Cuba
Spain
Gulf
Isthmus
Panama Canal
Nicaragua Canal
Pacific
George B. McClellan
Harper's Magazine
Dobbin
Thrush
Robin
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