Fragmented 19th Century News Fragments From Various Cities
A jumble of brief items reports extensive stock losses in Chicago, a bankrupt Bowling Green Savings Bank in New York, a fatal shooting in New York City, and icy damage to Evans & Co. in Ohio. Other notes mention deaths of Earl Mayo and a Carlist electoral coalition, French indemnity funds, Alsace Lorraine language policy, and Apache Native American actions.
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Henry H. Epner
New York City
Evans & Co
Cecil
Ohio
Chicago Relief Bill Dominates Washington Debates
Special Dispatch reports February 19 that North Carolina senatorial contenders favor Abbott with Morton Conkling and Anthony backing. Chicago lawmakers denounce Wirt Dexter for using his post to aid lumber clients on the Senate floor. Civil Service panel to report a bill banning Congressmen from endorsing candidates without presidential consent. Tobacco interests push for immediate tax action and a uniform levy. House Ways and Means may oppose income tax repeal. Secretaries Bouteau and Robeson head to New Hampshire to campaign.
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Times and Chronicle
Wasuretes
Logan Calla
Chicago
Canmenis
North Carolina
Morton
Conkling
Anthony
Abbott
Wirt Dexter
Senate
House Civil Service Committee
Willard
Ways and Means Committee
Bouteau
Robeson
New Hampshire
Land grant dispute to be reported to Interior Committee
The Judiciary Committee plans to report a resolution re land claims involving the Kansas Pacific Central Branch Union Pacific and St Joseph and Denver City Companies. The aim is that the Interior Department decide the land allotment, asserting the latter company holds no entitlement to claimed lands and only a fractional portion remains valid. The article notes extensive figures and mentions the era's religious outreach and social activity.
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Western Associated
Gt. Je
Denver Land Grant ‘Tract Society
Wasttxetos
D. C
Judiciary Committee
Kansas Pacific
Central Branch
Nion Pacific
St. Joseph
Denver City
T of
Hannibal
St. Cones Y
Union
United States
Adbel Elisten
Tinen Hye Boys
Malin
Labor Reform and Utah Constitutional Debate
Fragmented city politics unfold with labor convention clashes and bills amid New Utah discussions. Delegates push Ewing for president while Utah drafts a state constitution and seeks admission. railroad grievances and blockade impacts color the public mood, with capital filings by Delaware Soap Factory and others.
Trial of Ich Sheely Set for March 4 Amid Smallpox Fears
Special Dispatch from Dayton reports Ich Sheely of Dan McGehan faces trial on March 4 as a second smallpox case is recorded by the Board of Health. Citizens express growing apprehension with several saloon occupants near the sick man having frequented the market and kept vigil for a week. The nearby saloon and a railroad switch-tender are noted among those ill.
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Times and Chronicle
Dayton
Ich. Sheely
Dan. McGehan
Board of Health
Dellers
Desperate Youth Shoots Sister Near Bowenstown
In Bowenstown Ohio on February 19 a young man named George Clark shot his sister with a life gun after she threw snow at him. The ball struck her right thigh and passed through to the left thigh, injuring the bone and threatening her life. Clark was arrested.
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Times and Chronicle
Bowenstown
George Clark
Clark
Cuba
Baltimore
Lealee
Plessan
Erin Mumiow
Fiak
Amr Pease
Verdict in Breach of Promise Case In Pittsburg
Special Dispatch reports the jury awarded $2,500 damages to Van Kirk in the breach of promise suit against Johnston. The February ruling stems from the Pittsburg case, with the plaintiff secured a favorable verdict.
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The
Times and Chronicle
van Kirk
Thanksgiving services planned at Cathedral of St Patrick
A notice states Thanksgiving services will be held in the Cathedral of St Patrick in Dante on the 27th inst. A St Helens Lancashire dispatch reports a factory boiler exploded this morning, causing multiple deaths and injuries.
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Cathedral of St. Patrick
Dante
St. Helens
Lancashire
Spain Crisis Deepens as Cabinet Resigns
Mapario February 19 reports the Ministry has resigned amid agitation. Sagasta may be entrusted with forming a new ministry. The crisis continues with ongoing excitement. Rumors place Topete or Serrano in the new cabinet.
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Spain
Mapario
Sagasta
Topete
Serrano
National Bank Probe and Murders Stir New York Headlines
Disjointed reports from New York reveal a treasury probe into the failed Eighth National Bank, the disappearance of a famed racehorse trainer Helmbold Wyomere, and a Newark infant murder. A judge’s committee hints at broader investigations linked to bank receivership and alleged misuses of funds.
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New York
Treasury
Eighth National Bank
Mobile
Ala
W. KR. Babcock
James Remmb
Lake Shore
M Rail
Fith Avenue
Newark
New Jersey
Ainroee Aston
Political Apportionment Bill Spurs Senate Inquiry
Fragmented report notes a legislative bill on apportionment and insurance law inflaming a Kansas county scene with bitter sentiment. Delegates elected February 17. testimony and committee summons surround allegations of fraud, losses, and improper funds with figures and names distorted in the OCR.
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Atchisox
Kansas
Distressing storms reveal Dr Hall remains and frontier woes
Sioux City reports the discovery of Dr Hall of Osceola County amid severe December and January weather. The account details a six week wagon train trek from Whetstone Agency to Otted Tail’s reservation, severe cold freezing watches, and deep snow drifts. Missouri floods burn injuries follow lamp explosions. Springfield police arrest Capt Robbins in a separate case, and Bancroft confrontations lead to arrests not executed. City council hires counsel for Robbins.
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Sioux City
Hall
Osceola County
Eer
Dakota
John W. Smith
Whetstone Agency
Otted Tail
White River
St. Louis
Gordon
Pemiscout County
Missouri
Hix Ligie
Gayose
Robbins
Springfield
Ilinois
Kiting Coburn Bree
Bancroft
At & Railroad
Northwestern Railroad Company
Kim
Reconstruction era debt summary across eleven states
Hos Job F Stevenson reports a general view on Confederate state debts and liabilities. The document outlines total state debts, trust funds, and balances in treasuries, noting increases since 1860 and 1865, plus prospective railroad liabilities and effects of loss of assets. It highlights state debts, trust funds, and balances.
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Hos
Job F. Stevenson
Eleetion Lawa
Treasuries
Tetat
Iby
Torninex
Tanehibes
Louk
Grahams
Arkansas
Flora
Texas
Profair Spencer
River floods and ice disrupt midwest river traffic
Special reports from New Albany Cincinnati and St Louis note river rises of several feet with rapid ice movement. Vessels like the Ada Heilman Anna Abeona Nash vile Armidiko Lawrence Exchange Minneolla and Tom Rees are laid up inside the dam while towboats Chicken, Fisher, Bogy, and others fight ice in pools of the Monongahela and Ohio. Weather is cloudy with thawing and freight movement unsettled but business remains brisk despite hazards.
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Specia
Times and Chronicle
New Albany
Ind
Neen
Mollie” Ebert
Silver Mech
Dick Falton
Anna
Abeona
Ada Heilman
Armadillo
Alice Dean
J. W. Garrett
Cincinnati
West Wind
Webster
Memphis
Lovuisville
Cincinnati Mail Parckers
Nashvile
Armidiko
Lawrence
Exchange
Minneolla
Tom Rees
Warner
New Orleans
Evansville
Nashville
Red River
St. Louis
Prrvéeurg
Monongehela
Lion
Tom Dodsworth
John Penney
Gilmore
Diamond
Charles ‘McDonald
John Wood
Monongahela
McIntyre
Ohio River
Line Island
Dean
Stella
Sunfish
Ohio
James Gilmore
Wildcat
Parkersburg
Incomes Tea Coffer Halt and Coal Taxes
Special Dispatch from Washington reports the Ways and Means Committee will back repeal of the income tax if tea and coffee duties stay. Hale moved to instruct the committee to report a bill repealing coal and salt duties, but the salt coal repeal resolution failed 58 to 106.
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Times and Chronicle
Washington
Ways and Means
Hale
Actions of Committees Reported by Western Associated Press
Washington February 19 The Ways and Means Committee declared it would hold the 1871 income tax payment, with no future tax action. A House measure repealing coffee duties passed under suspension of rules by 153 to 35. The Senate and President were urged to appoint civil service nominees upon request.
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Western Associated Press
Wasnixaton
Committee of Ways and Means
Body of male infant found beside road near Boston Pike
In Wi¢umonp Ii, February 19 a four month premature infant's body was found on the road one mile from town by boys en route to Sunday school. Despite searches no trace has been found. Meanwhile Mr. Morrow, badly burned last Saturday, is improving and hopes for recovery.
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Salt Lake
Utah
City
The
Herald
Mormon
Passenggne
Inion Pacific
Union Pacific Railroad
Cals
Iia
Etter Lang
McKeanex
Tor
Washington
Deean Tha Quow Wat
Union Pacific
General Ord
Noah
Torexa
Rollex
Sr. Louis
Democrat
TOS
Celledees
Ceutlegabn
Sepa Bey
Maeh
Times and Chronicle
Boston Pike
Morrow
Cincinnati Schiff Bill Commission Meets to Redistrict City
The Commission appointed by the Superior Court Judges to redistrict Cincinnati into 24 wards, after oath by Judge Hagans, organized with John W. Herron as President. Reporters denied admittance and information until work completes. Adjourned to 2:30 PM. deadline set for the evening of the 25th.
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Superior Court
Schiff
City of
Cincinnati
Hagans
Park Commissioners
John W. Herron
Whippers-In Prepared as Cross-Motion Targets Government
London reports the whips summoning partisans for tonight's session where the Opposition will move to censurably attack the Government over Sir Robert Collier's appointment to the Judicial Committee. The Government is expected to sustain the action. Army estimates show a £1,000,000 reduction from last year.
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Eng
London
Robert Collier
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Anticham bord demonstration in Axtwerp disrupts Count de Chambord visit
In Axtwerp on February 19 a large crowd protested the Count de Chambord's presence at his residence. Police arrested several demonstrators as tensions rose during the event.
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Axtwerp
Antichambord
Count de Chambord
Court session and notices amid tax delays and fire losses
The court moved to hear Sedey's case despite objections while Tax detentions disrupted revenue and Egypt from Liv reported. over $100,000 in advertising claims were disallowed as unauthorized. A Bethel fire loss exceeded $300, and Lorillard Insurance declared a first dividend of a cent on the dollar, payable soon.
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New York
Seney Ciemsareli
Hall
Sedey
Aefete
Egypt
Liv
Detsanente Sa
Bethel
Conn
Ae Hall'see
Hbishop
McClosky
St. Patrick’s
Lorillard Fire Insurance Company
River News Brief From Cleveland Area Update
Fragmentary note reports water and river conditions near Cleveland with a figure around 36,000 in an odd phrase. Reads like an archived weather or river status line without clear events or dates.
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Cleveland
Falta Fe
Ray
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