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16 Mar 1872
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1872
Page
1
No coherent single event. Multiple brief items: resignations, royal travels, convention dates, budgets, legislation, funerals, protests, and fortification updates across multiple regions and countries.
From Columbus special dispatch for the Cincinnati Gazette. Legislators adjourned without action as members of the Longview Lunatic Asylum committee disparage conditions. The liquor law faces criticism amid blackmail schemes at Neal and Neiderlander cases. Public notices urge reform, saloons reopen, and debate on enforcement grows. Arts events and a notable death are reported as well as a writ of error bid in Hamilton County.
In Brazil on March 15 two are dead after a scale fell and crushed them. Nathan W. Fitzgerald sues Terre Haute and Vandalia for 20 dollars after being refused fare on a commutation ticket. Ex-Policeman L. W. Russell faces trial for alleged complicity in robbing an ex-Councilman. jurors could not reach a verdict. George Dickens, Vandalia Railroad brakeman, was fatally injured in Brazil yesterday.
Middletown News notes no parade on St Patrick's Day but an anniversary will be observed by St Patrick's Beneficial Society formed from the town's Irish workers. An evening concert at the church and a lecture by Rev Father Birne of Cincinnati are planned.
Memphis reports a pact between the Joint Common Council and Memphis and Little Roe Railroad granting five years of Central Landing depot use and transfer of depot buildings to the side for car transfers on transfer steamers. A. T. Lacey and others lose a cotton seizure case on appeal, remanded for new trial. A. J. Moses faces murder trial with recent confession and an accessory arrest.
The St Croix and Bayfield land grant failed after a bitter fight in the House. Ketcham’s substitute effectively returns the lands to the United States, reopening settlement. Prominent Republicans Dawes Banks Farnsworth Garfield Stevens on record against the scheme. debate highlighted by Stevenson’s clear, forceful speech.
Gen A R Dyer chief of ordnance lies ill with Brights disease at his home in the city. Ex naval officers seek reinstatement under the act of 1865, with back pay if restored. Custom House committee examined Special Poerry sees Frank Howe on revenue fraud charges and agent expenses. no cases recalled. Cabinet meeting held about two hours with no重大 business.
New York on March 15 reports Jay Gould resigning from the Erie Railway Board, with a brief note accepted without discussion. The Erie committee notes earnings since last November exceed the prior year by about 3,000,000, and Gen. Sickles discusses his campaign against the Erie ring, detailing his cautious involvement, meetings in Paris and Washington, and the push to place trustworthy managers in control.
The committee heard morning testimony on Barnard’s alleged excessive allowances to counsel and receivers. Jay Gould testified that accusations of Barnard’s corruption were unfounded and recalled paying Samuel J. Tilden a $1,000 Erie Railway retainer in 1869, noting no contact until Tilden later joined the plaintiff’s counsel. The Erie Directors’ Report shows earnings of $21,000,000 from Novem ber 1871 to date, up from $17,000,000 the year prior.
The Wisconsin Senate amended the cuperence bill with wine from pes grown in the manufacturer’s yard and punish drunkards by imprisonment from one to sixty days. The Assembly moved the Slough Booming Company bill to a third reading 48 to 28 after discussion. In Albany the Erie bill passed, with an amendment barring Atlantic & Great Western Directors from Erie board service.
From New Orleans March 15. The Times reports agitation among Grant supporters in and about the Custom House over the appointment of J. M. G. Parker as Surveyor of the port, replacing Longstreet. Opposition centers on the colored Radicals who back Grant and seek a colored successor or Parker's withdrawal, suspension, or Senate rejection.
The Herald notes an anti Grant convention planned for April 18 at Parkersburg West Virginia. The movement centers on Judge Chase and forms a new Democratic Republican party. Illinois and Arkansas calls for state conventions follow. In Titusville Pennsylvania a high turnout charter election sees Dr Roberts champion Progressive Key win over W T Neill with a 158 vote margin amid celebratory cheers.
Milwaukee March 15 a serious fire at Manston Wisconsin tonight destroyed property valued at about seventy thousand dollars heavy losses include O T Temple furniture eight thousand W P Van Wil pub He hal Teed groceries eight thousand R R groceries buildings fifteen thousand F Winsor tin shop sixteen hundred T P Naughton case five thousand A Wilkinson office there was little or no insurance The fire started from a varnish boiling over in a work up
A man named William Alexander was detained following a chaotic incident in the arena. Reports say blows opened and about 1200 dollars in plunder were involved, with the event occurring amid a disorderly scene and resulting in police action.
Dispatch notes Mary Middeton Rutledge wife of Francis B. Rutledge died suddenly in Nashville of heart disease. She was a granddaughter of a signer of the Declaration of Independence and respected as a benevolent Tennessee woman. Buffalo citizens adopt how to bond for an independent oil region road.
The aecelsatia from Hamburg and the Ville de Pu from Brest have arrived. The steamship Palmyra has arrived out, reported from London on March 15.
River conditions and weather reports from Greensboro Pa to Evansville Ind and other river towns dated March 15. Reports note water levels from inches to feet, river rises and falls, boats arriving and departing, crews, and weather ranging from cloudy to cold and clear. Several named vessels include City of Cairo, Fleetwood, Fleetwood, Kanawha tow, and Mary Day with multiple barges and cargoes.
New Orleans notes firmer trade with middling at 22c and strong week exports totaling 27 000 bales. Savannah shows steady demand with middlings at 21 1 2c and weekly exports to Britain and the coast. Charleston reports fair demand with middlings at 21 1 2c and stock on hand 26 583 bales. Galveston records steady market with middlings at 19 1 2c and weekly sales 3 162 bales. Mobile notes strong demand at 21 5 8c, weekly exports 8 000 bales. New York item lists weekly cotton receipts and exports, and a summary of live stock and meat markets with prices for beef, pork, and wool, reflecting the broader market activity.
Albany March 15 cattle market shows about 5000 head. Prices fell slightly due to Missouri scares and Canadian supply. Steers and heifers mostly steady to weak with common stock 5 to 7 dollars, receipts light and no sales recorded in some categories.
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