25 Feb 1887
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Newspaper
Elyria Daily Telephone
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1887
Page
1
Yard goods list shows Brussels tapestry and Brussels body cloth at 50 cents and 73 cents per yard respectively with a few rods of choice patterns available.
Senator Ingalls nominated for president of the senate as the chamber names a candidate to lead the body. The approval by the president pro tempore hinges on the ongoing appropriations process and related confirmations in the upper chamber.
New York reports musk closing near 344 and varied rates for futures and currencies. Cleveland notes country flour prices and several wheat and maize quotes. Chicago shows February and March wheat and corn moves, oats and lard shifts, with raw pork and beef trends. Western cattle trade softens, hogs steady, and sheep mixed. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh totals reflect steady to firm conditions, while Washington dispatches confirm bills on immigration, opium prohibitions, and Senate leadership. An earthquake seismoscope in the capital notes France Italy shocks traveling about 500 miles per hour. A Nebraska City fire destroys a large block, injuring a firefighter, with estimated loss around 150,000 dollars. Snow worsens in Nebraska with heavy winter storm impacts. Streetcar workers in Covington lose jobs after strike actions. Three mine deaths reported in Colorado.
Judge Ingraham today denied the Commercial Telegram Company an injunction against the Sock Exchange Western Union and the Gold and Stock Company. He held the exchange, not being an incorporated body, may exclude outsiders and make contracts as it sees fit, ruling for the defendants.
Montana cattle losses are not as severe as some reports suggest. officials in St. Pawn note potential twenty five percent native cattle losses if cold weather continues. other estimates vary by locality with twenty to thirty percent in tougher ranges. A national anti convict-contract group discusses future legislation in Chicago and plans visits to Springfield and Washington.
Scattered late items report the Panama canal company purchasing thirty locomotives in Be zum. The New York G. A. R. State Encampment elects Major George H. Treadwellee Department Commander. A Bath, Maine shipbuilder Captain John Patten dies at ninety seven. A Mobile boy dies after a vicious horse attack. Misprints and garbled words appear in several items including a Bulgarian prince and Vagan death note. Census data show Massachusetts population at 1,942,141 with Boston area at 574,254 and a ten year gain of 17 percent amid varied rural losses and urban gains.
The Baltimore and Ohio Express Office in Pittsburgh received a four foot long wooden box from Cincinnati addressed to James Osborn. Opening revealed a mutilated, decomposed male corpse, parts missing, top of the head sawed off. Cincinnati detectives and local coroner tied to identify the killer or sender.
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