Tariff and Senate Tariff Debates Highlight 19th Century Sessions
The Senate debated open session on reciprocity treaties as the Tariff Bill moved. Key actions included a duty on ple and scrap iron, a seven tenths cent rail steel rate, and a push to finish a double-turret monitor. The House advanced the Naval Appropriation bill with amendments, including pay for bureau chiefs debated. Tributes for Senator Hill and a tariff conference dominated adjournment, with parties divided over policy and delays.
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Fire destroys multiple piano manufactories in New York
On January 26 and January 2 the thermometer showed 14 to 88 degrees below zero. The Hazleton Brothers and Behr Bros. UG piano manufactories in New York were destroyed by fire, causing total losses around 270000 dollars.
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Calamities and crimes flood Western inquests and dispatches
In Newhall House inquest details reveal concern for papers and valuables over other losses. Reports note a fasting St Louis man arrested, Wyoming cattle losses minimal, and a theater incident in Independence. Desperado Cobb hanged in Kansas. Milwaukee mourns 46 Newhall victims with grand jury urging higher licenses. Canton, Ohio train crashes injure crew and passengers. George W Tranghher executed swiftly in Taylorville. Caldwell block destruction costs 125000. Smallpox hits Minnesota camps. clergy wealth linked to Archbishop Pierce debts. Cincinnati firm Muhr Moh assigns assets. Westport tragedy ends in Mrs Mopkins death by accidental discharge.
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Abolish whipping post defeat in Delaware House
Fragmented dispatches report the Delaware House defeating a move to abolish the whipping post. Other notes mention a murder case in Arkansas, a Tennessee deficit, sensational claims from Savannah, and various European cabinet shifts and ministerial appointments.
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Bill to Set Term Dates for Congress Read in House
In Washington a bill introduced by Mr Blanehare of Novel Carolina seeks to fix the start of Congress and reduce irregular early sessions. The measure aims to standardize sessions to avoid thirteen month gaps after elections and mirrors recent Supreme Court rulings on equal punishment for offenses.
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Political fragment from Mi ghipan and Colorado legislatures
A fragmented report notes ongoing legislative sessions in Mighipan and Colorado with mixed public opinion on the nomination process and related political activity. Details are unclear due to OCR errors but imply debate and voter sentiment shaping actions.
Political maneuvers and senatorial contests across states
Washington telegram notes President Arthur plans few colored officeholders. Ballots tally in Lincoln and Lansing show party support. In Colorado, Bowen leads for long-term Senate seat. the legislature nominates him, while short term house seats remain open. Prohibition and woman suffrage amendments were declared not legally pending by Colorado Senate.
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March Fayetteville wedding for Senator Davis and Miss Barr
The notice reports the marriage of Senator David Davis to Miss A. M. Barr planned for March in Fayetteville North Carolina. It also notes Col O A Trish's death in Washington from heart paralysis and a White House dinner hosted by President Arthur with a select guest list to honor official life. Flames destroyed several properties in Massachusetts Vermont and Georgia causing substantial losses. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Wheeling orders withdrawal from the Knights, and Gen Grant declines to lead the National Millionaire Hall Association.
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Paris and court cases mix in a chaotic foreign dispatch
A Queen's Bench court in Dardin, Davitt, Healy and Quinn face six months' imprisonment or a fine for alleged criminal behavior. Paris reports note government resistance to royal exiles, with measures to banish princely dynasties and strip political rights. Other items include a Brazilian loan, a wreck off Wales, and tenant farmer conference outcomes in Belfast.
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Tariff debate highlights reform and protection goals
The Associated Press reports Virginia Democrat Tucker attacking the tariff as a tool for monopolists, criticizing the Ways and Means Committee for not assessing the bill’s full impact. He cites the Sugar and Tin plate grants, calls for accountability, and warns against shifting to a revenue tariff, urging protection of domestic industries and workers.
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Alaskan gold deposits and political shifts in 19th century report
Dispatches cite rich Alaska gold surface finds from southern lands and plans by Heid to import machinery to exploit the district. Nebraska legislature ends deadlock with Manderson nomination as C P Manderson joins decisive Senate action amid ongoing treaty and tariff debates in Washington.
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Fragmented passage on tariffs and labor forces
A garbled historical excerpt discusses US reliance on labor, European imports, and a push for a revenue standard. It references failed consensus in Congress, potential factory closures, and a brief, applauded speech by Mr. Kasson. The text mentions wages, living conditions, and the risk of merchants’ price pressures.
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Europe
Congress
A Strange Deformity in Georgia Man
A Georgian man in Taylor County named Giulty is described as having extreme adipose accumulation around joints. He stands 36 inches tall, weighs little, and has hands and feet weighing over sixteen pounds each. The article notes his age as 248 years old and reports crowds gather at his home to view the condition.
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Capillary Definitional Confusion in Chicago School Exercise
A Chicago school task had children craft sentences using capillary. A pupil claimed a sentence about sailing across the ocean in a capillary vessel and cited Webster’s Dictionary. Investigations found about twenty scholars erred similarly as misused the term capillary. a notable fact notes that one in ten Negro cabins in the South lack daylight windows, forcing occupants to walk outdoors for light.
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Milwaukee Mother Kills Children In Blood-Curdling Crime
A Milwaukee mother murdered her three children, dismembering their bodies in a bleak, filthy room. The suspect, a young woman described as insane, confessed after police questioned her, saying she read a book and believed she was making a potent sacrifice.
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Prohibition Sleeping Cars Anecdote in Drake’s Magazine
A drummer asks about new sleeping cars and learns they are called Prohibition cars because they have no porter aboard. The exchange appears in Drake's Traveler's Magazine and mocks the era’s temperance mood with a wry joke about travel comfort.
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The Ohio Reserve and Its Boundaries
The Ohio Reserve, named for its reserved share of Connecticut, was established in postwar adjustments by Congress. It covers about three and a half million acres located in the northeastern part of Ohio.
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