Democratic Northwest in Napoleon, Ohio

Treaty sparks new Spain US trade pact and colonial shift

A Madrid dispatch reports a proposed Hispano American convention shaping a trade treaty between the United States Cuba and Porto Rico. It envisions tariff reforms and freer Caribbean commerce while limiting European competition, with Spain adjusting duties on bread, meat, and cereals and promising harbor reforms and consular tonnage changes. Meanwhile a Baltimore and Ohio wreck injures dozens and a zeal for Dr Bigelow’s cure touts its cough remedy and other claims. A letter from Liverpool touts St Jacobs Oil and fertilizer debates continue amid farm and beetle notes.