Compacts Signed by Rail Lines Stir Chicago Views
News reports say a twenty five year agreement among Union Pacific Rock Island and Milwaukee and St. Paul is accepted in Chicago as fact though Burlington officials doubt the terms. General Manager Potter argues no plan to control Union Pacific business and views the matter as a stock maneuver aimed at Burlington stock and avoiding open warfare.
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Chicago Daily News
Salt Lake
United States
New York
Union Pacific
Rock Island
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Chicago
Law Pool
Potter
Burlington
Three Roads
Iowa
McCook Wins Senate Officers Nomination
Republican senators caucused to nominate senate officers with General McCook as secretary nominee after ballots show McCook leading Gorham and Ramsdell. Charles M. Johnson named chief clerk and James R. Young executive clerk. Rev E E Huntley named chaplain and Col W P Canaday sergeant at arms. Senate retains wounded soldiers on rolls.
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Senate
Jones
Nevada
Geo. C. Gorham
California
Miller
New York
Anson
McCook
Morrison
D. M. Ramsedell
Indiana
Gorham
Ramsdell
Ramadell
Charles M. Johnson
Minnesota
James R. Young
Pennsylvania
E. E. Huntley
M. E. Church
Washington
Wisconsin
W P. Canaday
North Carolina
Prohibition Pressures on German Hog Product Imports
Washington December 12 The joint resolution condemns German prohibition of American hog products as unjustified and health unfounded. It notes Germany declined to send experts to evaluate quality and marketing and asserts authority to bar imports without Reichstag approval.
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Waas Hinngton
Esme.bas
Senate
House of
Blair boy wounded after horse runs into wire fence
A thirteen year old boy from Richmond Precinct clung to his frantically frightened horse as it bolted into a wire fence. The barbs cut to the bone above the ankle and severed a tendon while he was tossed, but the boy remained with the horse until help arrived.
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Blair Republican
John Lacrone
Richmond
New York Bars Salvation Army Parade Amid Court Decree
A chancery court in Nashville ordered distribution of 300000 dollars of Bank of the State of Tennessee assets to noteholders. War era notes totaling half a million will be funded and receivable for taxes.
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New York
Salvation Army
Chancery Court of
Nashville
Bank of the State of Tennessee
Washington and World's Outlook on Tariff and Appointments
Reports from Washington indicate renewed talk of reopening the tariff question and revising current laws. Advisers favor a Ways and Means plan aligned with Carlisle while nominees and legislative changes unfold including military promotions, restorations of duties, and public office rules amid international dispatches.
Cabinet discusses bills and amendments in progress
The cabinet considers actions on a Chinese restriction bill with amendments from Pacific coast delegation. The surgeon-general recommends inspections of rags for export to the United States with disinfection by boiling or sulfuric acid gas, certified by the consul-general in Egypt.
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Pacific Coast
The
Marine Hospital
Secretary of the Treasury
State Department
United States
Egypt
Late visit preparations for Her Majesty to Scotland
A Scottish paper notes preparations for a royal reception at Balmoral with tradesmen ordered to act promptly. A passenger on the Auburn railroad offers a trade dollar for fare. the conductor declines. A reference to Saraa Wilson, a 77 year old Black woman in New Haven, described as a schoolteacher and descendant of enslaved ancestors.
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Scotland
Balmoral
Auburn
Saraa Wilso
New Haven
Waq
Vigilantes Execute Ten Cattle Thieves in Niobrara Valley
Report from Yankton on the Niobrara thefts describes the vigilance committee killing ten thieves in ten days. Wade Murphy and Weatherwax were hanged while Trort and old man Weatherwax were shot. Culbertson Stewart Morris and Cline indicted. McFarland captured, later escaped. Context notes long-standing depredations and a rise in vigilante power amid outlaw bands once led by Doc Middleton.
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Yankton
Niobrara
Wade
Murphy
Weatherwax
Trort
Old Man Weatherwax
Culbertson
Stewart
Morris
Cline
McFarland
Doc
Middleton
Chicago Wins Next National Republican Convention Site
At the Washington meeting of the National Committee on the 11th Chicago was chosen to host the next convention. Ballot tallies moved Chicago from 14 to 26 votes, with Cincinnati and others gaining or yielding. The committee adjourned to meet May 31, 1884, at the Grand Pacific in Chicago.
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Washburn & Mben
Chicago
Republican National Committee
Washington
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Saratoga
Chiago
Chandler
Grand Pacific Hotel
Congressional Proceedings of December 10 1881 Senate and House actions
The record details December 10 to December 12 parliamentary business. It notes memorials from Mexican veterans seeking pensions, various bill introductions on coinage, land grants, railroad traffic, internal revenue repeal, inter state commerce, homesteading limits, and equal pay. It also covers Senate petitions on closer commercial ties with Latin America, civil rights petitions, and a military pension request, plus executive session adjournment.
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Dalph
Tt Union
Washington
Washington Territory
Idaho
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Southern Pacific Road
Department of Justice
Hoblitzell
George Washington
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Hill
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Valley Forge
Payson
Illinois
Internal Revenue
Henderson
Board of Commissioners of Interstate Commerce
Holman
King
Sherman
Mexico
Central
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Brazil
Plumb
Kansas
Ingalls
Hovusi
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Speker Keifer
Congress
Hatch
Bureau of Animal Industry
Cassidy
Utah Territory
Secretary of the Treasury
van Worcck
Beck
Wilson
Committee On Judiciary
Champion Mean Man of America Cited in Divorce Tale
In a county clerk office interview, lawyer William Mix calls a wealthy Italian client the champion mean man of America for avoiding a costly divorce. Mix recounts persuading the wife to drop suit and the client to treat him to a drink instead of paying $50, highlighting the lawyer’s contrived mercy and the client’s stingy gratitude.
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Loiuaville Courier Journal
William Mix
America
Europe
Mr. Mix
Father of Thirty Four Children Portrait Ordered
John C Kis senger, longtime Clarion county farmer near Collinsburg, Pa, was married three times and fathered thirty four children. Seven of his first seven died in a house fire in Butler County. Twenty seven born since then reside in Clarion county. several remain near the farmer and prosper. Yesterday a photographer was asked to enlarge an ambrotype eight years old showing Kissenger full length with a placard on his chest.
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John C. Kissenger
Clarion County
Collinsburg
Butler County
Kissenger
Aken
Father of 34 Children Poses with Backward Message Card
An older man known as Kissinger, over six feet tall with sandy hair, paid for a long narrow ambrotype card worn on the chest reading backward. The card was printed to be seen in a mirror, and Kissinger chose it over a photograph due to cost.
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Trevelyn Ridout
Toronto
High Park
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Newry
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United Irishman
Dublin
London
O’ Donnell
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Kissinger
Frost damage to poultry prompts comb and wattle removal
Advice notes frost harms tall combs. recommends trimming combs and wattles with sharp shears, applying alum solution, and keeping birds in the coop for a few days to prevent further damage. Also includes fragmented quotations about manners and beauty from various sources.
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New York Academy of Music
Patti
Carl Pretsel
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