Redistricting Plans Stir Ohio Caucus Debates and Bridges Bill
Washington dispatch reports a proposed Ohio redistricting plan favored by Democrats with changes affecting Fulton Defiance Henry Paulding Putnam and Hancock counties. The currency bill debate widens as Republicans push four hundred million in greenbacks while a new bridges bill seeks wartime style federal oversight of navigable waters. The piece also notes a private marriage at Mount Pleasant and Governor Kemper’s courtesy call on President Grant amid Virginia political reflections.
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River traffic and cotton movements on the Mississippi
Memphis reports river levels fell two feet six inches as boats and barges loaded with cotton, beer kegs, potatoes, and passengers moved between St. Louis Vicksburg New Orleans and Carrollton. Several steamers including City of Chester Scudder and Belle Lee returned or departed with cargoes totaling hundreds of tons and bales while requests for river improvements and canal connections were noted.
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Death of Judge R O Hard and city mourning
Special dispatch reports Hon. R O Hard longtime judge of the Court of Common Pleas and former president of the Mt V and O R R died at his residence in Cincinnati. The Court of Common Pleas adjourned in his memory and a bar meeting was held to arrange memorial actions. Funeral set for Sunday afternoon as the city laments.
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Episcopal Convention at Mitwaveen Faces DeKoven Charges
The Nashotah faculty accuses Dr. DeKoven of erroneous principles amid a heated session. A pamphlet by Dr. Bager titled Principles not Men is a flashpoint as four Nashotah students sign a document attacking Dr Raget. Hon Moses M Strong attempts to conclude the debate to shorten the long meeting.
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Debate over Bishop election heats up diocese clash
The convention moved to 9 p m and delayed Bishop elections. Dr DeKoven sought floor time to state his position but was blocked by others citing unfairness to the Hoffman party. The split between DeKoven conservatives and reformers fuels sharp contention and high tension.
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Fires spread across towns burn four stores in Arontson block
A morning blaze in Arontson Kansas destroyed a main business block housing A B Symmes grocery and Dubois & Co druggists. Buildings owned by Gillespie Ketchum Mendall Wise Neal valued at thirty thousand dollars. Insurance carried by multiple companies. Separate notices report a chair factory fire in Mantetta Ohio and a public square blaze in Trenton Tennessee with extensive property losses and incendiary suspicion.
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Warren County Bond Case Overruled Demurrer
In Curcacao the United States Circuit Court Judge Drummond overruled the demurrer to replications in the Warren County rail bond dispute. The decision upholds bona fide purchaser protection and rejects lis pendens applying to commercial paper, aligning with Olcott v Fond du Lac decision though noting judge’s differing view. The case concerns 200000 in Warren County bonds issued for the Rockford Rock Island St Louis Railroad. The matter awaits trial on disputed lis pendens effects.
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Protest march in Victoria tops Parliamentary Building crowd
About 1 000 citizens gathered peacefully in Victoria on a Monday afternoon to present a petition from a Saturday meeting. The document urged no negotiations on dry docks or borrowing from the dominion government until the McKenzie Ministry reveals its relocation terms. It also opposed provincial government interference and new terms until public approval. A gunboat station request at the government building was refused by the fleet commander. A resolution urged Dunsmuir ministry allies to resign and for Walkem to form a new government if changes to fees are not made.
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Higgt Leader Accepts Responsibility For Demonstration Card
A leader, threatened with arrest, publishes a card accepting responsibility for a demonstration. The House will meet Friday to consider the petition. The opposing press calls for dissolution and accuses the general government of trying to alter the union terms to undermine the railway clause.
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Redistricting of the State Decided by Democratic Caucus
In Columbus, a joint Democratic caucus last night voted to redistrict the State Congress after lengthy debate. Strong speakers Haag and John Weeney urged redistricting, while opposition faded. The committee on abolishing rail, insurance, gas, and controller offices did not report or discuss the subject.
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Elections in Middlesex Return Three Conservatives to Parliament
London February 12 Conservatives Lord Gee F Hamilton and Mr Coop were elected to Parliament for County Middlesex by overwhelming majorities. The county last sent a Conservative and a Liberal to representation. Moving funeral of Roman Catholic Bishop Ji Eugene Brano Guigues D D Ottawa held today in Movittz. The ceremony drew cabinets municipal and county officials and many prominent citizens. The bishop was carried in an open bier by eight priests. Stores closed and draped in mourning.
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Movittz
Eugene Brano Guigues
Ottawa
War ends as headlines mix with European turmoil
The Ashantee war is over. Parliament will meet around March 18. Cardinals Antonelli Capalli and Tarquini lie seriously ill. The Austrian Emperor visits the Czar. The German bark Hercules wrecked with eleven dead. Rouher supports a plebiscite in France. Schreider has had a stroke. Disraeli doubts next premier. Earl of Derby could be winner. Yellow fever rages in Rio de Janeiro. cholera in Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
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Indian Outbreak Fears Rise Across Plains Frontier
Fort Jefferson reports an Indian attack on a wood party near Omans New with 25 relief men sent. Gen. Smith at Fort Laramie orders Captain Eagan to intercept arms en route to the Agency as 8,000 Sioux Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors may mobilize. Military preparations continue though distance to trouble is 400 miles. At Red Cloud a beef contractor brings Acting Agent Poplin’s body and a teamster is killed. threats against Agent Saville and life threatened of Agent Howard amid near Sidney violence.
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Stove Manufacturers' National Convention Adopts Price Cut Resolution
The Stove Manufacturers' National Convention at AupanY New York on February 12 adopted a resolution calling that stove hollow ware and castings prices not fall more than ten dollars per ton below the Bee standard set at the Pittsburg meeting of 1873. The body adjourned to meet again at Long Branch in June.
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Long Branch
Diverse 19th Century Legal and Political Tangles
A chaotic collection notes legal cases in Lancaster and New York with Marcus Simmons and Duryea murder case. murder, bribery probes into Gov Booth and Boss Tweed. political shifts in New Brunswick and California. looming Mardi Gras in Memphis and police matters. a suicide by D W Root in Colorado Springs. Waite’s Supreme Court return planned. religious academies face funding cuts. a Chicago women’s assembly event noted.
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Printing the Journals Reform Passes in Democratic House
The bill to print and distribute the journals and public documents, ending the long kept manuscript waste, passed 68 to 22. It promises annual savings and limits journal content while improving distribution, marking a reform amid partisan debate. The session also addressed road widths, clerk appointments, and anti bribery measures, with adjournment following.
Weather forecast from Washington special bulletin
A storm system is set to develop along the Middle Atlantic coast with northeast to southeast winds and rain. South Atlantic and Gulf states experience cloudy rain with southeast to southwest winds. The lake region and Ohio valley see winds shift to west and northwest with rain and freezing hours. Northwest remains cold with northerly winds. Signals continue at Mobile and New Orleans.
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Reappearance of the Vigilance Committee in Washington County
Washington County reports a band of outlaw vigilantes terrorized residents for a decade. A recent incident saw masked men threaten and abduct James Hamilton, forcing disclosure of a robbery amid threats of hanging. The band warned him to stay away as they dispersed. The Patent Right Convention adjourned with Indiana forming a state chapter of the National Patent Right Association led by C. E. McDonald and officers.
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Senate Concurremce on Bills and Bond Authorizations
The Cincinnati Gazette reports the Senate agreed to House amendments on eight bills and passed measures including Mr Potter’s city of Toledo bond bill authorizing up to 150000 dollars at not more than eight percent interest and a deficiencies fund levy to pay bonds. Also passed were Jones’ bills amending civil procedure on debtor examinations and criminal procedure bail provisions.
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Amend Section on Oil Land Valuation in General Tax Act
The Senate considered amendments to a general tax act bill adding a proviso to reduce or review oil land valuations by the County Board of Equalization based on oil development rather than county real property value. The amendment failed 12 to 16. Petitions were filed from Smarston County for a bridge near the Union station site.
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Kentucky Legislature Special Report on Reform and Rail Charter
FRANKFORT Feb 12 The House approved bills to reform liquor law and charter the Chicago and South Atlantic Railroad. Newport was authorized to raise bonded debt for Water Works. The Agricultural College amendment was rejected 82 to 46 and the substitute failed 46 to 46. the original bill passed 48 to 47 in a close vote. The Senate adjourned after routine business with plans to renew actions next morning. the measure expected to pass in the Senate.
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Royal Festivities in St Petersburg Describe English Princes
A New York Herald correspondent details the English royal party in St Petersburg. Their baggage weighs seven tons, plus three hundredweight more delivered by a Queen's messenger. The group attends Anglican services at Ep iscopal Chapel with Dean Stanley, then sails into the Russian social scene, enjoying the opera Le Papillon and the Jewell ball hosted by Gov. and Mrs Jewell. The piece notes the presence of Grand Dukes, Counts, and 46 guests, with rich dress displays. Separate notices recount Col. John Middleton’s death in San Francisco and a duel at Rastatt ending in a fatal head wound among two lieutenants.
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