Public Lands Committee Favors Texas Pacific Land Grant Forfeiture
Washington January 16 The House Public Lands Committee unan imously agreed to report favorably a bill to forfeit the Texas Pacific land grant The Interior Secretary estimates the grant covers about 14 31 million acres and notes the Texas Pacific failed to commence or complete the road as required The Southern Pacific claims the lands after the Texas Pacific transferred title The committee finds no basis for the Southern Pacific claim and says land should revert to the public domain Postal revenues for quarter ended December 31 1883 show 5 653 six in receipts from 140 offices amid anticipated losses from lower postage yet results are promising for the fiscal year Presidential nominations include Reuben A Allen James Lewis and others with posts in Montana Louisiana Arkansas and Colorado
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House Committee On Public Lands
Texas Pacific Company
Secretary of the Interior
Texas & Pacific Company
San Diego
Marshall
Texas & Pacific
el Paseo
Southern Pacific
San Francisco
Colorado River
Colorado
Cung
el Paso
United States
Hazen
Reuben A. Allen
Blackfeet Agency
Montana
Thomas Wrong
Concordia
James Lewis
Louisiana
George B. Everett
Mitchell, D. T
David 8. Hoffman
Lake City
Col
Walter 5. Hurlant
Cheyenne
A. G. Lenning
Dardanelle
Ark
Abraham O. Whipple
Creelsbarg
Indiana Incidents and Fires Across States
Reports from Indiana Henryville and Jeffersonville note a fatal epileptic incident and a medical examination target. St Louis records fire losses at Neosho and Seligman, with totals around 75 000. Paris billiards summary shows Schaefer and Vignaux both posting scores and runs across two nights.
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Schaefer
Paris
Vignaux
Vignans
Ohio Wool Growers Annual Meeting in Columbus
The Ohio State Association of Wool Growers met in Columbus at the State Board of Agriculture, with Delano presiding. Members discussed tariff changes, state and national coordination, and proposed amendments to county memberships while electing Harpster as president and naming officers and directors for the coming year. A series of resolutions urged restoration of the 1867 wool tariff and unity among state associations to counter manufacturers’ influence, praising the Sixty sixth General Assembly for supporting tariff restoration initiatives.
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van Wert
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Perry
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Belmont
Morrow
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Monroe
Erie
Pennsylvania
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National Association
Chicago
Ohio
Ohio Wool Growers
Congress
Messrs Converse
J. D. Taylor
Messrs
W. J. Lawrence
C. Caswell
David Harpster
House of Representatives
Committee of Arrangements
Arts. Dyer
Columbia Delano
R. P. Thompson
Springfield
Committee On
United States
Converse
General Assembly
St. Louis St. Louis
Mississippi Valley Canalrowers Association
Norman 4. Coleman
St Louis
Cane Growers Association
Louisiana Sugar Growing Association
Eleven Die as Qage Rope Breaks at Garnant Mine
Swansea reports a tragic mining accident at Garnant colliery where lowering of miners began and the rope broke, causing a car to plunge to the mine bottom. Eleven men were killed and several injured.
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Garnant
Brutal prison attack on Estelle Blazer in Indiana cell
Albert Hercules of Indianapolis was jailed for seduction but demanded marriage to win release. He allegedly struck Estelle Blazer with a heavy iron tag, causing multiple skull and facial wounds. She remains critical, doctors unsure of prognosis. Lynching threats emerged but subsided as law proceedings began.
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Ind
Albert 'Erevles
Indianapolis
Estelle Blazer
Miss Blazer
Jesse Jones
Anderson
Estella Blazer
Albert Hercules
Hercules
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