Civil Service Report Promotes Merit Over Spoils System
Washington report to Congress praises civil service reform under the act of January 1 with a sixty seven page volume. It claims exams ensure talent, end political coercion, curb extortion, and limit patronage while stressing nonpartisan care in selecting top offices. The commission cites fifty plus percent of officers educated in public schools and urges ongoing removal power for discipline, praising President Arthur's support. A Portland Oregon land scheme exposé follows.
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Oregonia
Oregon
Owen
Eugene
RK. V. Ankeny
Zana Washington
Oregonian
Deadly dynamite wrecks houses in Allecoraick area
A dynamite explosion at a quarry in Allecoraick's vicinity damaged about sixteen houses and shattered many windows. People were struck by flying debris as roofs were lifted and doors torn from hinges. Several residents and bystanders suffered minor injuries and furniture was ruined. Window panes at Lochiel Iron Works were also broken. A broader Pennsylvania industry update followed, noting steady iron production, mixed demand, and unchanged prices amid tariff and market uncertainties.
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Hargseems
AleCoraick
Simnel Brona
Brown
Willy Wee
Josiah Pearson
Lochiel
Coke Syndicate gains control in Connellsville region
In Connellsville Pa March 1 smaller coke operators met and accepted the syndicate of Frick Schoonmaker McClure and Connellsville Coke and Iron Company. Four firms own about five thousand of nine thousand ovens and 1530 ovens signed the pool. The syndicate will take a handling commission sliding from two and a half to fifteen cents per ton.
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Pennsylvania
Fouth
Connellsville
Bis Shippers
Frick, Schoonmaker, McClure
Connellsville Coke and Iron Company
Battle near Trinkitat as British push toward Teb wells
Unofficial dispatches report a daylong battle at Trinkitat with heavy rebel losses as British forces in a moving square engage and storm fortifications near Port Baker. General Graham’s expedition, about 4000 strong, advances past Fort Baker toward Teb with Gatling guns, Black Watch, and mounted units in action amid intense but non-graphic combat.
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Frinkitat
Taixairat
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Gorton Slighlanders
Eighty-ninth Regiment
Black Watch
Fussors
Fort Baker
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Baker Pasha
Oo Kruppgan
Aiso
Fort Burnaby
Ted
Tokar
Loxapox
Trinkitat
War Office
Rome
Late News Items From a Turbulent Era
A chaotic summary of global and domestic dispatches including naval yard stoppages in Boston, a London to Boston steamer incident, and political moves in Iowa, with notes on labor strikes at Milton Iron, a fire destroying a county courthouse, and Amherst College faculty reactions. Also mentions misfires of a Boston police commission and a suspicious dynamite case, plus injuries and arrests across multiple locales.
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