25 Feb 1871
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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Daily Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1871
Page
1
The Burtine Sentinel announces its publication schedule and pricing. Daily issues delivered by carrier at 9.00 per year and 4.50 for six months. mail 9.00 yearly, 4.50 half-year. Weekly rates list 2.00 for one copy and tiered discounts for multiple copies.
A local Fort Wayne business directory lists prominent firms across sectors. Entries include art galleries, bookshops, wholesalers, dry goods, hardware, clothing, tailoring, millinery, trunks, tobacco, paints, and window coverings with addresses such as Columbia street Calhoun street and Main.
Societies list of Masonic bodies meeting weekly with stated communications and officers named. Includes Warse Council No 4 R R M Nort Wayn Chapter 19 OME Lodge 342 and Summit Encampment 16 with meeting nights and officer rosters.
Fire department notices show LEAT HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY No 1 meeting first Wednesday monthly with Foreman Vogel and Secretary A H Carter. OPE HOSE COMPANY meets at Fireman's Hall on the freth burning of each month with Foreman Beard and Secretary Henry Colerick Becrethry.
Versailles telegram reports a peace treaty signed by Thiers and Bismarck with unsettled details to be fixed tomorrow. France pays Germany 320 million thalers. Alsace and Lorraine including Metz and Nancy ceded to Germany. German army will not enter Paris. Emperor William to depart for Berlin Monday.
Export demand for low grade State and Western flours supported higher shipping extras while general prices steadied. Wheat showed activity with export demand to Great Britain and Europe and a 500,000 bushel Chicago to New York rail move noted. In Washington the Senate Judiciary Committee found Boutwell and Akerman wrong on government bond interest calculations. Gold eased on peace news, stocks rose with Lake Shore Wabash Rock Island Western Union Pacific Mail leading gains. The money market eased, government yields at 4 percent, stock collateral rates at 5 percent, and dry goods trade grew as Western buyers kept pace with freight reductions.
Washington February 25 Nothing will be done on the congressional apportionment this session. A new bill will be prepared and introduced early next Congress. Hooker to push a bill to abolish the 50 cent per gallon whisky tax. Soldiers' Land Bill remains on Senate calendar with support and opposition. Patent of lands to Union Pacific Railway Company issued for 639000? acres.
A New York bank note firm maintains a strong lobby in Omaha seeking a government contract for printing notes and bonds amid regional tensions and industry competition.
The Erie steamship from London to New York lost her screw and sails home. Versailles issues a telegraphic order to free French hostages. Peace talks at Versailles remain undecided with no new news. Orleans princes stay in Gerard departmental area amid reports of peace terms. Bordeaux warns against false peace reports. Clerical faction opposes moving the assembly to Paris. In New York KF M Wener, 45, killed himself at a cemetery. Fenian exiles Burke and McClure receive city council welcome and banquet. Coal prices steady at 30 cents per bucket and 28 a ton. Halietts Point miners strike over superintendent removal. German signals herald peace, sparking cheers in New York. Methodist book concerns subcommittees meet in secret. A Missouri tornado damages Jefferson City and Lincoln Institute with heavy losses.
The Indiana Senate adjourned at 2 PM after a ruling that the House lacked a two thirds presence, with Governor vetoing a salary limit bill for the State Agent. The Assembly cites quorum issues as the Forty-seventh General Assembly nears its end, with Democrats planning day to day adjournments until March 6. Odd Fellows seek central Indianapolis lodge site to replace current quarters as membership grows.
Was hIncTon reports show the House approving an Omnibus Sundry Civil Expenses bill for 33 582 992 dollars after 20 pages of the measure were disposed of. Senate actions include favorable reports on the Pacific Railroad bill and the repeal of the test oath, with President signing the Georgia Senator oath form. A visiting convict of notable oppression era sits in the city with a legislator brother.
Fort Wayne fur market lists prices for raccoon mink and fox skins, plus deer and otter, with values for odd pelts and hides. Also reports grain and feed prices, beef and mutton costs, and New York market figures for cotton, hay, wheat, and lard.
Telegraph notes fair demand and rising prices for breadstaff and wheat with No 1 amber at 136 and No 3 red at 125. Oats, clover seed, hogs and beef markets show mixed gains and declines as receipts reach wide weekly totals and prices range in lower to mid levels.
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