Belknap to resign as Secretary of War amid probe
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Belknap agreed to resign under pressure from Republicans after ongoing hearings on War Department transactions. The Clymer committee debates a sensational report while Pierrepont and Bristow officials dispute trial-related rumors and testimony handling. The story includes discussions of the Pierrepont letter and Treasury testimony regarding informer use. The House later considers silver for fractional currency and adjourns amidst Democrat inaction.
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Cincinnati Gazette
Washington
Belknap
War Department
Clymer
Pierrepont
St. Louis Times
Babcock
Dyer
Storrs
Abcock
Col. Dyer
Porter
Bristow
Gen. Grant
Eaton
Treasury Department
St. Louis
Bluford Wilson
United States
Internal Revenue
B. H. Bristow
Secretary of the Treasury
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Tutton
Chicago Times
House
Scott Lord
House Appropriation Committee
the Treasury
Treasury
Protection of agriculture bill details insect commission
Amended bill from the Agriculture Committee calls for a single Commissioner to study the mountain locust army worm chinch bug and other pests. Findings go to the Agriculture Commissioner for transmission to Congress. The Secretary of the Interior Smithsonian and Agriculture appoint a one year commission at 4000 dollars plus expenses. Senate confirms nominees Seth J Comly and A F Adams.
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Frelinghuysen
Committee On Agriculture
Commissioner of Agriculture
Congress
Secretary of the Interior
Smithsonian Institute
Agriculture
Senate
Lexington Dispatch Moves Quarters Amid Hemp Boom
The Lexington ace Press will shift from Broadway near the Post Office to Cheapside and Short as it prospers. The new hemp crop is high quality and rapidly manufactured. Granger shipments to Frankfort total about thirty tons weekly, while city hemp firms send forty tons to the State Penitentiary. Hemp prices range 450 to 530 per hundred. Cattle sales noted, prices 3.5 to 5. Gen S W Price and Col H K Milward discussed for the Post Office race, with uncertain outcome. Belligerents Todd and Roiman have buried the hatchet. A fire in Clintonville destroyed a colored church worth 900, insured for 600. Large stock sales planned in Central Kentucky, including ten short-horn sales next fall. Bourbon County buyer B F Bedford acquires two London Duchesses and London Duke for 13000. There are sixty four pauper counties in Kentucky out of 116.
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Lexington Ace Press
Broadway Street
Frankfort
State Penitentiary
Lexington
Todd and
Roiman
Clintonville
W. King’s Agency
Kentucky
B. F. Bedford
Bourbon County
Presbyteries Session and Local Notes From Delaware and Jackson
In Delaware on March 1 the Columbus and Marion District Presbyteries met in the Presbyterian Church with discussions on church progress and education. Addresses by W E Moore and C N Olds covered teachers editors and evangelization, with a move toward spiritual outpouring and a visit from C H Payne of Ohio Wesleyan University. A leap year party and a lecture by Jonn B Gough are noted amid cold weather and light snow. In Jackson on March 1 the insanity of farmer Charles Walden dominates town talk after his disappearance and return amid possible family mental health patterns. The Common Pleas Court proceeds as whisky fines approach 600 dollars and the Plum mer burglary case advances with only one of three boys appearing.
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Delaware
Columbus
Marion
Presbyterian Church
W. E. Moore
D. V
C. N. Olds
C.H. Payne
Cincinnati
Ohio Wesleyan University
Bebe Richardson
Jonn B. Gough
Charles Walden
Washington Township
Court of Common Pleas
State of Ohio
Plummer
Steam screw blowup at Mantilla Rapids deadly
A steam screw in Mantilla Rapids on the Columbia River exploded this morning after removing obstructions. Reports say a boiler burst or a giant powder package detonated. The boat was destroyed, one man killed, two fatally injured, and twelve others missing, presumed swept into the river.
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San Francisco
Portland
Oregon
Mantilla Rapids
Columbia River
Bowen Driven to Tell Names at Plymouth Church Meeting
In New York Bowens testifies before the Plymouth Church Examining Committee on charges against Beecher. Bowen refuses to reveal names, offering to present facts to separate clerics with secrecy. The meeting adjourns after confidential discussions and motions on conduct, with a three-member panel to report next Friday.
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New Yor
Plymouth Church
Henry C. Bowen
Beecher
Andover Theological Seminary
Edgerton
Bowen
Mr. Tilney
Mr. Bowen
Dr. Ward
Independent
Tilney
Mr. Beecher
Raymond
Church Examining Committee
Brother McKay
Brother Shearman
Mr. Shearman
Star Chamber
Shearman
Clarence Bowen
Cincinnati Caucuses Clash Over Police Bills and Rail Plans
The March caucuses in Columbus discuss and back the Cleveland police bill for Cincinnati and approve shifting the Cincinnati measure to the Senate. Reports note railroad incorporation and a chain of narrow gauge routes to Cincinnati, plus state council activity of the Sovereigns of Industry and a verdict for the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College case.
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Columbus
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Senate
Ransom
House Republican Caucus
J. Flickinger
Hodge
Cleveland Fire Department
Allen O. Myers
Enquirer
Rhodes
Monroe County
Flickinger
Secretary of State
Jeffersonville, Mt. Sterling & Columbus
Theodore Womstock
F.C. Sessions
E. Munnig
Harrisburg
H. D. Marcy
G. W. Baler
Mt. Sterling
O. W. Marshall
Isaac Glaze
Jeffersonville
Miami Valley Railroad
Waynesville
Lebanon
Port William
Springfield, Jackson & Pomeroy
Waynesville, Port William & Jeffersonville Company
J. H. Randall
Clyde
United States
National Council
J. E. Rudisil
Laintiff
Mr. Rudisil
Robert E. Neil
Supreme Court
W. W. Johnson
Ironton
Supreme Bench
Supreme Court Commission
Ohio
Columbus Medical College
E. 8
Otwell
Greenville
Milton W. Colman
Spencer
Albert W. Dumm
Delaware
W. Smith
van Wert
D. Lindsay
Salineville
A. W. Lyon
McArthur
Geo. W. Dye
Marietta
C. W. Otwell
J. H. Thompson
St. Clairsville
Henry A. Furness
Tanktown
J. W. N. Voght
D. J. Powell
Bishopville
G. Zulch
Munich
Germany
W. F. Wood
M. D
New Bremen
F. J. Schug
Upper Sandusky
H. C. Blake
Lee
H. M. Clewell
Gnaddenbutten
W. T. Mitchell
Glencoe
J. K. Denman
West Unity
H. S. Preston
Nelson
George A. Close
H. A. Radebaugh
E.C. Brush
O. W. Weeks
Suit to halt stock voting in St. Louis County Railroad case
Amos H. Schultz and other stockholders sue ex Mayor Brown and Col. James C. Broadhead as administrators of F A Sharp estate in Circuit Court to enjoin voting 419 shares of stock in the St. Louis County Railroad. The petition claims a fraudulent compact among Kasson, Sharp, Brown, Broadhead and others to transfer control.
Democratic mass convention urged on currency reform
New York dated March 1 reports an Executive Committee led by Gideon J. Tucker and others calling a mass Democratic convention in Syracuse for March 15. The aim is unity on currency policy with several states and favoring withdrawal of bank currency for greenbacks, greenbacks for duties, and repeal of the specie resumption act.
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New York
Gideon J. Tucker
Richard Schell
Wm. H. Hitchman
McGuire
Wheeler H. Bristol
Rufus F. Andrews
Syracuse
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Missouri
Direct Cable Company vows independence amid damaged Farraday repair
March 1 dispatches report the Direct Cable Company pledging to remain independent and not amalgamate with Anglo American firms. The Farraday finished repairs after a January break caused by malicious cutting, with evidence of ax blows and possible entanglement.
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Lowpoy
Farraday
Farray
Nova Scoti
Forged bills and diplomatic notes stain March events
The Times Rome special exposes forged bills of exchange purportedly drawn by the King. Marchese Mantegazza, once trusted director of the Modena & Mantua Railway, allegedly used his influence to secure a 6,000,000 franc Naples loan via Paris bankers. Alexandria reports Col Gordon may return to Cairo citing tribal resistance and disharmony with Egyptian authorities. Gonzales resigns in Santo Domingo as Provisional Government resumes. Red Path refinery closes in Montreal due to tariff, Blanqui dies in Paris, and Lady Augusta Stanley dies in Loxpox.
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Loxpon
Times
Rome
Marchese Mantegazza
Modena & Mantua
Naples
Paris
the Times
Alexandria
Col. Gordon
Cairo
Equatorial
Egypt
New York
San Domingo
Gonzales
Montreal
Redpath
Blanqui
Loxpox
Augusta Stanley
Pillow Pathetics
New York reports Gen. Pillow's letter on his bankruptcy in which he declares his lifelong service to the Nation and laments exile, poverty, and a bleak future for himself and his family as he faces homelessness and neglect.
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New York
Insurance Rates Drop Citywide After Board Meeting
Representatives from the National Board of Underwriters met Portsmouth officials in conference today and achieved a material reduction of insurance rates throughout the city, citing the towns water-maras as a key factor in the savings.
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National Board of Underwriters
Conviction Under Civil Rights Act Reported
Puitapeupata dated March 1. Clerk Newcomer of the Bingham House was found guilty today after prosecution by the Rev. Cook colored of Virginia for a violation of the civil rights bill.
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Puitapeupata
Newcomer
Bingham House
Rev
Cook
Virginia
Steamships Arrive From New York and Liverpool
Lennox and New York reports show steamships Anchoria Colombo and Canada arriving from New York, and steamship Nevada arriving from Liverpool on the same day March 1.
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Lennox
Anchoria
Colombo
Canada
New York
Nevada
Liverpool
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Lexinetox
Cincinnati Gazettes
Maprio
Biscay
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Pants
Don Carlos
Spain
France
Tyndall
Terday
Lonnox
Prof
Louise Claud Hamilton
Westminister Abbey
Dean Stanley
Thomas Carlyle
Huxley
Dr. Hooker
F. Pollock
Winslow
Lonpoy
Boston
London
Beruiy
von Arnim
Berlin
High Court of State
Florence
Foreign Office
Prince Bismarck
Portsmouth Insurance
Portsmouth
Radway
Pat Radway
DR. Radway
Medici
Bgverly
Mass
Rapway
Hannah P. Knapp
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
James Cincinnati
Sadeway
S. Arestem
Radway & CO
Warren Street
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