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Newspaper
Daily Logansport Pharos
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1875
Page
3
Advertisement rates and publication terms for Logansport Daily Pharos printed evenings except Sundays. Pricing includes per-square rates, weekly, monthly, and single-copy options with standard dates and locations for the South East corner of North and Fourth Streets.
City offices list includes mayor Samuel J. McFadin and clerk William Flynn with ward councilmen. Police and fire departments named with chiefs, engineers, and street crews. Rail schedule shows connections Logansport to Indianapolis and Louisville with arrival and departure times and through cars to Peoria and Columbus.
County offices listed with officials in the courthouse at North and Fourth streets. Commissioners Daniel Foglesong Dennis Uhl and John Hynes. Auditor George W Blakemore Clerk Noah Lakose. Sheriff Wmn T 8 Manly. Treasurer Jacob Hebel. Recorder Simon P Sheerin. Surveyor John C Brophy. Coroner Joseph H Ivins. Schools Superintendent Henry G Wilson. Circuit Judge Dudley H Chase. Circuit Prosecuting Attorney Thaddeus 8 ins. Circuit Court meets first Monday of February and April, September and November.
Directory lists Tipton lodges and chapters meeting schedules, officers, and hall locations. Includes Tipton Masonry and related orders with meeting days, officers, and hall addresses such as North and Fourth streets Broad way Orient Hall and Market Street venues.
The group convenes every last Monday evening at their Hall corner Bridge and Market streets over M. Frank & Bro's. Michael Wagner presides as President with Adam Weeht as Vice President, Conrad Groas as Secretary, and John Wolf as Treasurer.
The text lists officers and meeting places for Onward Lodge No.201 and related lodges. It notes meetings on Thursdays at Market erred, Fridays in the old road Fellows Hall at Market and Fourth, and every other Saturday in Ormerd Hall Shultztown with named officers such as Wm Shanahan President and Rev Robertson in the roster.
The U S Supreme Court affirms Pennsylvania's three fourths of one percent gross receipts tax on railroads. Erie Railroad Company had contested the levy after lower courts ruled for the state, with a $76 000 20 verdict for the state in Dauphin County courts being sustained. Separate items note the future plan for the three lines and a hotel fire at Orange Lake House, New York, causing $40 000 in losses with $18 000 insured.
Cincinnati Supreme Court allows writ on error for George Rufer in the tan yard murder case with a hanging planned. City tax office seeks due taxes from benevolent societies including Masons Odd Fellows Knights of Pythias Red Men.
A son writes to his parents from June 2 1875 describing a Yosemite journey via Central Pacific and Clark’s hotel, detailing Mariposa Grove, the Ribbon and Upper Yosemite Falls, El Capitan, Half Dome, Mirror Lake, and the Merced River, with vivid scenery and notes on travel by stage and horseback. He mentions an Australian steamer City of Melbourne and plan to return home via Panama by mid July.
The writer describes returning to the city by the northern trail passing Chinese Camp Calverns and Stockton and delaying further travel descriptions. He also notes omitting a future account of his trip to the Geysers and reserves those details for his arrival home.
The City Hotel lists arrivals including Edward E Clark from Auburn and Hugh McDonough of St. Louis among others. The Daily Star quotes Busman Taylor defending his conduct over Mexican picnic transport talks and delays. Logansport public safety officials investigate a rear Market street discovery while council members discuss unseen matters. An anonymous Ohio postmark note claims J N A will lift the Veil at the Court House soon amid past tensions with the paper.
Real estate transfers recorded by 8 P Sheerin show multiple lots and parcels changing hands in Logansport. Transactions include Sumption to Bishop for Bumgarner additions, Faber to Smith for Usher addition, Sanderson to O Haire & Beckley, Etnier to Kilburn, Maurice to Barron, Shultz to Oppenheim & Long, Strain to Oppenheim & Long, Swigart Commissioner to Button in Tipton addition.
A pair of horsemen chased into Vicksburg encounter an elderly husband and wife in a mule cart. The bid to sell the wife stalls when she undercuts the offer with a sharp retort, declaring she prefers to stay with her husband as the other rider rides off defeated. The article also notes abundant salmon in the Sacramento river this season.
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