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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1874
Page
2
Senator Carpenter condemns the Wisconsin Railroad prevailing practices calling them taw constitutional and pidddedings instituted against two companies. The column lists various other items of interest from the session and public notices.
Berlin reports Prince Nicholas, a nephew of the Emperor, arrested in St. Petersburg for stealing his mother diamonds and gifting them to a French actress. Paris notes a cabinet formed under M. Goulard amid Right faction hopes for a monarchy restoration or dissolution. Japan reports the rebel leader captured and decapitated. Galicia mentions a fire in Galata. London says most exiled Poles may return. The French king advocates a commercial treaty with the United States while cautions on territory. German Diet prorogued on the 31st.
A continental congress gathering at Atlanta endorses rail and river links to connect inland waterways to the Atlantic via the Mississippi Valley. It calls for state action to reform corporate transport and outlines proposals on public land proceeds, tobacco tax, and new leadership. Also notes floods in Massachusetts, hospital abuses, and political upheavals in Arkansas and Wisconsin.
Senate actions on June 15 to 20 include passage of a resolution for copies of official correspondence on Arkansas troubles, approval of private relief bills, and a bill creating a Bureau of Internal Commerce under Treasury. House measures extend bounty claim filing, Homestead land entries, and consular funds. debates on speeches and adjournments continue.
A compilation of statistics covers costs, populations, rails, schools, and resources. It notes 23 million dollars yearly to run Mexico, 2 million beehives in the U S, 20 000 railroad cars for Pennsylvania Central, 30 000 maple trees tapped in Bethel Maine, and 42 million produced by Syracuse New York. It lists 1 000 000 people within 35 miles of Boston, 2 000 Oakland public school scholars, Mississippi land value at 101 210 347 dollars, Michigan salt output 4 116 730 bushels, and London underground cost per mile of one million pounds. It also cites wall paper production over a million yearly, steerage fares, Grange membership at 1 260 000, and about 250 000 school teachers nation wide. Various other figures include New Hampshire aging, paper collars shipped to New Zealand, St John quicksilver mine output, Toledo storage capacity, English railway declines, and for Ohio marriage statistics. The note also outlines veterans pensions, and Humboldt River dead cattle concerns.
The advertisement saga shows scatters of 1874 letters from John Verysmart and Thomas Dounce describing a scam promising $500 to $1,000 yearly with no capital. Pages reveal a Providence case, Emilie E. Brown awarded $10,600 after a city blast injured her in 1872, with warnings ignored.
The Interior Secretary resumes settlement talks with the Pottawatomis of Indiana under treaty terms. Senate and House actions include pension and appropriation bills, postal funding, New Mexico statehood passage, and a currency substitute report. adjournments follow.
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