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Cedar Rapids Times

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 16, 1874

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Beecher Trial Letters Debate Public Opinion

A long editorial urges careful public discussion of a local election issue in Linn County. It calls for intelligent voters and invites reader opinions, while touching on Beecher related accusations and calls for a fair inquiry and cleansing of Christian society.

General Assembly Arch ComNtiesas Board of Supervisory Kisi Witist Tay Circuit Court Peacs Justice of the Eich Tha Cumaly Hawayer Awe Fay Board of Supervisors Girmers Linn Beecher Woodhull & Claflin Weekly Theodore Tilton Leonard Bacon Theodore Titon Tim

Destructive Fires Ravage Chicago and Oshkosh

Reports indicate a great fire in Chicago destroyed over thirty blocks in the wholesale district and parts of south Clark street. Wind aided blaze overwhelmed much of the frame and omnibus blocks, with churches hotels and the Post Office swept away. Oshkosh Wisconsin reportedly suffers a similar extensive fire with few details available.

Chicago South Clark Steel Amicus Oshkosh Wis

New Rail Law Classifies Lines and Rates for Passenger Baggage

A Des Moines dispatch outlines the new law classifying railroads into A B and C by annual earnings per mile and detailing compensation per mile for transporting a passenger with baggage up to 100 pounds. Class A earns three cents, Class B three and a half, Class C four cents, with numerous lines listed under categories.

Des Moines Burlington & Missouri Riveer Brownsville Notheway Valley Burlington & Missouri Creston Kansas City St Joseph & Cornell Brnfis Keokuk St Paul Chicago & Northwestern Clinton Connell Bhass Stanwood & Tipton Toledo & Northwestern Town Midland Chicago, Tuck Island and Pacific Chicago Cinseeg Clage Clasa

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