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Newspaper
Cuba Pilot
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1887
Page
2
A chaotic Kansas scene reports a new vigilante group in Chautauqua County dubbed the Second Kansas Invincible Regulators. It notes threats against opponents, plus army officers visiting Fort Leavenworth for annual prison inspection. Also covered are rail expansion, desertion cases, a death by chloroform accident in Leavenworth, and local incidents from Atchison to Baxter Springs.
Washington December 20 Treasury officials prepared a tariff bill outline to substitute specific duties for ad valorem rates. It envisions about 62 million dollars in annual revenue cuts, including 50 million from tariff reductions and 25 million from internal revenues, focusing on wool and various imported goods while targeting not nation’s makers.
The New York Evening World notes the Prince of Wales remarking that like most fathers he is trying to raise his sons properly. He has taught them the manly arts but fears they may come to see the folly of past choices themselves.
A Philadelphia public school pupil complied with a request to write a composition on physiological structure. The piece outlines the body as head thorax and abdomen, noting brains in the head heart and lungs in the thorax and bowels in the abdomen with five named parts and occasional extra letters.
In the Virginia General Assembly on December 20, the senate results show Barbour with 34 votes and Mahone with 26, with one absentee. The house had four absentees. The formal announcement of Barbours election was planned for a joint session of both houses tomorrow.
A Des Moines area crime report details three men Dr Thomas J Jones F W Potthoff and C S Porter caught in the act of grave robbing at a Mitchellville cemetery. They attempted to replace a body in a trunk and were arrested amid threats of lynching. The men face charges for desecration of a tomb and related offenses with preliminary hearing set for December 26.
Vinita reports ex Chief D. W. Bushyhead fired from Tahlequah mansion calls followers to Campbell's store for a 200-man gathering to seek redress for the Bullivhead party and to gain control of the government now led by the Downing faction. The nationalists plan an attack while Downing allies prepare. General Armstrong arrives at Muskogee to help resolve the split. The illness of Canada’s queen is noted.
Washington dispatch reports the Interstate Commerce Commission hearing on John H. and H. Martin versus Southern Pacific and affiliate roads over long and short haul discrimination. A general freight agent testified higher San Francisco to Denver rates than to Omaha, justified by Canadian Pacific competition and lack of jurisdiction. Martin alleged Kansas City interests drove the practice.
The Senate engaged in a heated discussion over a holiday adjournment resolution, with senators including Plumb Beck Allison and others debating public interest and treasury surplus. Plumb argued against recess, criticizing the president and treasury policy while Beck defended executive actions and bank dealings amid a looming presidential campaign.
The senator from Kansas criticizes the president’s policy and cites a Republican approach that maintained a treasury surplus through high taxation. He argues the party arranged debts to be repaid only with premiums, while the president paid 3 percent bonds without extra costs. The Democratic platform seeks tax cuts to avoid surplus, opposing the idea of over-taxation.
A Louisiana woman famed for wealth and slaves now earns a cent a day picking cotton on her former plantation. A West Virginia man’s daughter shoots a burglar at Mr Mullen’s Cabell County home. A colossal coal block, seven cubic feet and 6 351 pounds, shown at Dallas Texas State Fair. Philadelphia entertainment lets in by vegetable donation. Insurance records reveal 97000 impairment in Continental Life’s books. Fremont man wins damages after liquor trouble. Honolulu reports salaries and reduced royal pay. Galveston dispatch notes first Giddings girl in 120 years. Crescent City windstorm kills Mrs Arnold and daughter. others injured. Hunneman era fire engines man dies at Rosebury. Finlander Herman Hochkoch murdered at Ynot Hotel Milwaukee. Philadelphia hoist accident kills Edward Brown and John Kerrivan. Yazoo cotton wager yields 60 and 9 pounds. Matinicus Island shooting wounds brother in law. Panthers in Mississippi force back raid after man is shot.
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