Star Route thieves trial stirs capital court scene
In Judge Wylie’s court the Star Route case opens amid harsh commentary on the defendants and a skeptical jury pool. Bliss outlines fraud sums like 51 313 76 on Garland Parrott route and 29 000 on Wyoming’s Mineral Park Probe route, while fears of juror corruption loom. A. K. M. doubts an honest conviction, predicting a long, turbulent trial.
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Wasatxaron
Judge Wylie
Old City Hall
Wylie
Singersoll
Bliss
Ker
Corkbill
Garland and Parrott
Mineral Park
Wyoming
Ingersoll
Fire destroys Merrick law offices in Star Route cases
A third floor fire on F street, Washington, gutted offices used by Richard D. Merrick, principal government counsel in the Star route cases. The blaze, deemed incendiary, aimed to destroy important papers, but was checked quickly with only a few hundred dollars in losses and no papers harmed.
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Talesmen
Marshal McMichael
Philadelphia
Star Route
Washington
Eurast
Dorsey
Brady
Jose
Gauiteau
Garfield
Arthur
F Street
Richard D. Merrick
Merrick
Murder Suicide in Baltimore Mobbury Street Tragedy
A Baltimore couple, John Schoengler and his wife Lena, die in a double tragedy at Bank and Chapel streets. Jealousy sparked the murder of Lena and the shooter’s subsequent suicide. The incident, described in a German letter found on Schoengler, details marital strife, a double fatality, and two young children left motherless and fatherless.
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Baltimore
Tiana
BauktTr Moren
Bankstreet
John Schoengler
Bank and
Chapel Streets
Schpengler
Bartimore
Lena
Charlotta Paschell
Broadway
Canton Avenue
Charlotta
Tourist Dies After Drowsy Sleepers On Express
A New York tourist, Herman Weyman, aged about sixty, died after being found in a stupor in a Pan-Handle sleeper car on the St Louis to New York route. He had drunk heavily since St Louis and died at the St James Hotel within half an hour. He carried Chinese curios and a manuscript poem titled To the Maflin Man. Remains sent to Burns & Reilly for friends.
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Turtus PrrTssura
Herman Weyman
New York City
St. James Hotel
St. Louis
Hie
Maflin
Burns & Reilly
Resignations and deaths in international and local news
M Bartholomei resigns as Russian minister to Japan. Right Reverend Alfred Ollivant of Llandaff dies in London. Jamesburg resident William Sodan killed near Bordentown on the Freehold and Jamesburg Railroad leaving a wife and four children. John Morris Saunders acquitted in London Old Bailey for threats to Gladstone on insanity grounds. A Detroit Post Office pouch for the East bursts into flames from spontaneous combustion destroying mail and merchandise. Dynamite blasts at Montecarlos mines damage a house tied to coal output registers. Kingston Ont drowning near Cattaraugus bridge. CumberlandMd engine 32 crown sheet blown, scalding three engineers. Innsbruck case against Paul Alexander Vaius Rammingen swindling claimants linked to late General Reenhardt fortune.
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M. Bartholomei
Japan
Alfred Ollivant
Llandaff
London
William Sodan
Jamesburg
Freehold
Bordentown
John Morris Saunders
Gladstone
Old Bailey Court
Detroit
Montecarlos Mines
Martin
Robert Robinson
William Robinson
M. P
John Spencer
Spencer
Cattaraga Bridge
Kingston
Ont
Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad
Cumberland
George Reilly
Frank Carifine
Henry Miller
Civil Service Debate Halts as Senate Delays Vote
Washington dispatch reports Republicans push civil service reform but fail to secure a vote as speeches stretch the session. Opposition leaders, including Ingalls and Voorhees, attack the bill while noting past commissions and humbling exam questions. Adjournment votes and whisky bond issues crowd the day's agenda in a tense, partisan backdrop.
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Washington
Senate
Voorhees
Hamilton
Maryland
Blackburn
Kentucky
Indiana Statesman
Iense
Allison
Hoar
Ingalls
Hawley
Kansas
Connecticut
Grant
Globe
London
Havana
Cuba
Washington, D. C
Union
Boston
Richmond
Congress
United States
Special Mail Facilities Debate on Post Office Bill
The Hongo resumed debate on amendments to the Post Office bill proposing six hundred thousand dollars for special mail facilities, amended to two hundred thousand. Robeson opposed both amendments while Hiscock defended New York to Chicago mail service. The House defeated the reduction in first class postage and delayed final action to Monday to allow debate on crossing the St. Louis bridge.
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Washington
Post Office
Tliscock
Robeson
City of
New York
Hiscock
Chicago
Albany
House
Reagan
Texas
Philadelphia
Greenbacker March
Maine
Sunset Cox
Holman
Indiana
Caswell
Wisconsin
Calkins
Cox
Bingham
Appropriations Committee
House Committee On
St. Louis
Twenty Six Drowned in Longrigg Hall Collision
Lonxpow December 16 British bark Longrigg Hall from Liverpool struck Tus kar Rock off Wexford Ireland. Twenty four crew drowned two saved. Glad Tidings from Calcutta to Falmouth ashore at Prawle Point yesterday caught fire and burned. seventeen of nineteen crew saved two drowned. Clandon from New Orleans to Bremen ashore at Petten coast of Holland. aid sent. previously misreported to have reached Bremen.
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Lonxpow
Longrigg Hall
Liverpool
Tuskar Rock
Wexford
Ireland
Glad Tidings
Calcutta
Falmouth
Prawle Point
Amsterdam
Clandon
Tiarney
New Orleans
Bremen
Petten
Holland
France Refuses Egypt Debt Commission Presidency
The Temps reports France will not take the presidency of the Egyptian Public Debt Commission. Negotiations with England remain open for possible new talks, with France signaling its intended safeguarding of French political and financial interests in Egypt alongside its subjects. In Cairo, the US envoy presented credentials and the British Lord Dufferin proposed reform of native courts with European judges and a code aligned with international tribunals.
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Egypt
Paris
Temps
France
Egyptian Public Debt Commission
England
Debt Commission
Cairo
United States
Ent
Khedive
Lord Dufferin
The Proposed Expedition to Tonquin
Pang reports from December 16 that French opinion does not demand abandoning the Tonquin expedition. Advices from Tonquin say Chinese evacuated since October end. The Temps urges seizure of Tonquin, while The National notes Grevy and Jaureguiberry dispute civilian leadership in a military venture. London reports Paris delaying a credit bill for the expedition.
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Tonquin
Pang
Republique Francoise
Temps
Grevy
Jaureguiberry
Higgins Sentenced to Death in Galway Murder Case
Thomas Higgins was convicted and sentenced to death for participating in the murder of the Huddys, Lord Ardilaun's bailiffs, in Galway. A letter signed Rory Hills threatened arson against government offices in retaliation for yesterday's executions, prompting doubled police protection at all government sites.
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Thomas Higgins
Dustin
Joyce
Changes In the English Cabinet Completed
A Windsor dispatch to the Pall Mall Gazette reports the cabinet changes completed with ministers taking the oath before the Queen. Lord Derby becomes Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Kimberley for India, Lord Hartington for War, and Hugh C. Childers as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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London
Pall Mall Gazette
Windsor
Lord Derby
Colonites
Lord Kimberley
Seer
India
Lord Hartington
Hugh ¢. Childers
Schumacher to Lima Minister Resident not Washington
Berlin December 16 The Berlin correspondent of the London Post reports no foundation for Dr. Schumacher’s appointment as German Minister at Washington. He has been named Minister Resident at Lima and will return to New York for a short period after Christmas. The successor as German Consul General at New York has not yet been appointed.
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Berlin
London Post
Schumacher
Washington
Lima
New York
Hirshfeld Acquitted of Libel in Easton Trial
Moses Hirshfeld was found not guilty of libel after a trial in Easton. The case concerned posters circulated about Hogenbush Brothers and their business failure. Costs were divided between the parties.
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Easton
Moses Hirshfeld
Hogenbush Brothers
Ocean Steamship Arrivals At New York and Queenstown
Ocean steamship arrivals reported with vessels Virginian from Liverpool Bergenland from SeD Adri atic from New York. Ships listed docking in New York and Queenstown with origin ports noted.
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New York
Virginian
Liverpool
Bergenland
Sed
Queenstown
Adriatic
Rapid Rise of Gambling Houses in the City
The crackdown on gambling in New York drives bettors to Philadelphia. Daxter McCussenry 219 South Ninth and others on Sansom Ninth and Broad streets run fare banks and tiger clubs. Police report many venues, few arrests, and ongoing raids planned by Mayor King amid a wave of illicit gaming.
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New York
Daxter McCussenry
South Ninth Street
Disk” Davis and Conners
Sansom Street
Crawies Kane
Manks and Serr
Means and Lawcow
Fairmount Avenue
Grorge Brormerrox
Coss and Lovett
South Broad Street
Warre and Me
South Eighth Street
Pete” Thomas
Twelfth Street
Girard Avenue
Monty and Lewns
Ridge Avenue
Callowhill
Brotherton
Tiger Clubs
Philadelphia
George
McElfresh
Columbia Avenue
Eleventh Street
Ancud
Iast
Givin
Kane’s
Marks
Lovell
Ninth
Sansom Streets
King
A Fire and Some Narrow Escapes at Eighth and Arch
Edward Weiss a florist in the cellar under the jewelry store at Eighth and Arch narrowly escaped a blaze. Works by A E Jones and Joseph Ford halted by a flare up from hot coal igniting pampas grass flammable material valued around 500 dollars. Firemen extinguished the flames and the loss totaled about 500 dollars. A hose burst and soaked parts of Strawbridge Clothier’s windows at Eighth and Filbert streets.
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Edward Weiss
Eighth
Arch
A. E. Jones
Joseph Ford
Charles Blizzard
Ford
Weiss
Strawbridge & Clothier's
Filbert Streets
Inter-State Base Ball Association Meets at Athletic Club
Delegates from all clubs gathered at 135 North Eighth Street for an executive session and a report on the American Base Ball Association convention in New York last week. The American Association recognized their contracts and elected all inter-State clubs as American Alliance clubs. The body adjourned until February to meet in Pottsville.
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Inter-State Base Ball Association
Athletic Club
North Eighth Street
American Base Ball Association
New York
American Association
American Alliance Clubs
Pottsville
Chippewas Promise New Reservation in Turtle Mountain
Washington report notes the Chippewa delegation met with the Secretary of the Interior who pledged an executive order setting aside a portion of Turtle Mountain Reservation in Rolette County Dakota for their use. The plan includes a 30 mile south stretch from the Canada line and 20 miles eastward. A department representative will visit homes in spring to check on conditions. The delegation will return home Monday.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Turtle Mountain Reservation
Dakota
Rolette County
Canada Line
Department
Four Young Victims Drowned on Abbott's Pond Inquest Rules Accidental Death
Deputy Coroner Powers presided over an inquest into four deaths after children drowned on Abbott's pond Falls of Schuylkill. Verdicts returned of accidental drowning for each child. Funerals scheduled for Johanna Casey John Snowden Violet Barker at Cathedral Mount Vernon and St James the Less Cemeteries. Thomas Kindon to be buried in Leverington Cemetery tomorrow.
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Powers
Abbott's Pond
Falls
Schuylkill
Johanna Casey
John Snowden
Violet Barker
Cathedral
Mount Vernon
St. James the Less
Thomas Kindon
Leverington Cemetery
Back Pay for an Assessor in Pennsylvania
Special Dispatch reports Senator Cameron introduced a bill directing the Treasury to pay James L Selfridge, late Assessor for the Eleventh internal revenue district of Pennsylvania, salary and end of an Assessor from year to year for duties performed as Assessor during which he was not compensated.
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the Times
Washington
Cameron Today
Secretary of the Treasury
James L. Selfridge
Internal Revenue District of
Pennsylvania
Death of Dr John F Meigs Authority on Diseases of Children
Dr John Forsyth Meigs died at 1208 Walnut Street Philadelphia yesterday afternoon after a week long illness from pneumonia contracted after short bout of wakefulness. He was 44 years in practice and wrote A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children first published in 1857. He served at Pennsylvania Hospital and was a consultant at the Children's Hospital. He belonged to the American Philosophical Society Academy of Natural Sciences Pathological Society and Obstetrical Society and was the son of Professor C D Meigs.
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John Forsyth Meigs
Walnut Street
University of Pennsylvania
Meigs
Jefferson College
Jefferson
Lince
Pennsylvania Hospital
Albert Meigs
American Philosophical Society
Academy of Natural Sciences
Pathological Society
Obstetrical Society
The
Children’s Hospital
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Disastrous explosions halt Pennsylvania Coal mines
A boiler explosion in the engine house at the head of No 9 on the Pennsylvania Coal Company's gravity road killed engineer Fred Marsh and wrecked the head-house. The disaster blocked the line from Dunmore to Hawley, idleing the mines and leaving thousands unemployed. Eight workers died at Canton in a separate plow factory blast, and two were fatally injured. The Canton fire caused $20,000 in damage and left 250 jobless.
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Pennsylvania Coal Company
Tak Trwra
ScramTon
Western Union Company
Dunmore
Hawley
Lackawanna
Wyoming
Fred Marsh
Moosic
Erie
Wea
St. Louis
Canton
Parlin & Orendorf
William McCaurey
Lewis Hamment
Alexander McKerson
Joshua Obara
William Miller
Hiram Palmer
Archibald Henderson
E. McGrath
Samuel Bell
Calvin Armstrong
Assault and Theft Charge Against Newark Man
Charles E. Lovell of 656 Mulberry Street Newark faced Magistrate Ladner on charges of assault and battery against Annie Gray of 240 South Twelfth Street and larceny of a diamond crescent valued at £20. Gray said Grace alias Mamie Stone, connected in New York, planned to accompany Lovell. after objecting to his attempt to follow Gray to her room a confrontation and snatch occurred. Lovell was bound over for trial.
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Charles E. Lovell
Mulberry Street
Newark
N.J
Ladner
Annie Gray
South Twelfth Street
Lovell
Grace
Mamie Stone
New York
Miss Gray
Miss Grag
Norton’s Collapse Shocks Detroit Board of Trade
Detroit on December 16 reported a dramatic shock as E K Norton, a leading Board of Trade member, failed on margins exceeding 100000 bushels of wheat. The exact loss to other dealers remained unclear as Norton’s personal effects were sold to his father in law and he failed to appear at the exchange while deals were closed under the rule.
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Detroit
Board of Trade Today
E. K. Norton
Norton
Denying Allegations of Undue Influence in Will Case
John C. Sinclair answers his brother George A. Sinclair in the Orphans Court over their father Thomas Sinclair s will. He denies the father was unsound at execution and that undue influence occurred. George A. Sinclair is sole contestant. siblings support the will and say he expressed satisfaction after viewing a copy.
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John C. Sinclair
George A. Sinclair
Thomas Sinclair
Orphans’ Court
Woman Too Much for the Law in breach of promise suit
George Hildreth, elderly head of the Life-Saving Service at 1 May, sued Mrs Cahill widow of Thomas C Cahill former Knickerbocker Ice president for damages for breach of promise of marriage. He posted 100 for costs after the court declined Mrs Cahill’s counsel’s request for 500. Judge Blcock quipped that the law did not foresee a woman guilty of breach of promise.
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George Hildreth
St Louis Club Completes 1888 Roster With Kelly Engagement
The St Louis Club announces M. J. Kelly as new right field and change catcher, completing the 1888 roster. Catchers are Kelly Fusselbach Dolan and Deasley. pitchers Mullane and McGinnis. infield Comiskey Loftus Latham and J Gleason. outfielders SRO Dr W Gleason Cuthbert Walker. manager Sullivan, formerly of Dubuque.
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St. Louis
M. J. Kelly
Chicago
Kelly
Fusselbach
Dolan
Deasley
Mullane
McGinnis
Comiskey
Loftus
Latham
J. Gleason
W. Gleason
Cuthbert
Walker
T. 2. Sullivan
Dubuque
Notorious Whisky Case Compromised in Congress District
Secretary of the Treasury accepts a compromise in the Dickinson Leach & Co whisky case from Chicago. The decision rests on representations from U S officials involved in the long running investigation.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Dickinson, Leach & Co
Chicago
Department
United States
Little Girl Killed by Car at Cork Lane Depot
A girl named Keating was struck by a train at Cork Lane depot Pittston on December 16. Her legs were severed and she cannot recover.
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Times
Wilkesbarre
Keating
Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad
Cork Lane
Pittston
Overruling the Penal Code injunction granted in New York
The Manhattan Iron Works Company secured from the Labor Court an injunction restricting police interference with its furnace operations tomorrow. The action aims to protect the plant’s ongoing work and prevent disruption by authorities.
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New York
Manhattan Iron Works Company
Lubor
Tower Hill Sails With Record Cotton Cargo From Norrock
The British steamship Tower Hill clears for Liverpool from Norrock Virginia with 10,468 bales of cotton the largest cargo ever carried by any vessel. The ship sails tomorrow.
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Norrock
Tower Hill
Liverpool
The Morroeton Post Office Robbed
Towanda December 16 The Morroeton Post Office in Bradford county was robbed early today. The safe was blown open and several hundred dollars in stamps stolen.
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Morroeton
Towanda
Morrroeton
Bradford County
Silk thefts tie New York burglars to Philadelphia band
Police link a bold ring of thieves from New York to Philadelphia with coaching by unnamed professionals. Arrests at Carter’s saloon uncover a scheme targeting stores on North Eighth and nearby streets, involving silk valued at about 700 dollars from James Riley’s dry goods store.
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New York
Knights of the
Jimmy
Dark Lantern
Philadelphia
Jacquess
Gardner
Smith
Robels
James Riley
Eighth and
Jayne Streets
Chestnut Street
Riley
Nighthawk
Eighth Street
Tate
Fourth District
Cutenant Markoe
Ned” Carter
North Fifth Street
Race
Caive
Specials Tate
Scott
Carter
Markoe
Kingston
Central Station
George Danley
Edward Carter
Levi Edwards
James
Michael
Maguire
Edwards
West Jersey
Camden
Shoneman Bros
North Eighth Street
J. Riley
South Eighth Street
W. T. Hopkins
C. D. Manley
Hand & Co
Ladner Oane
Riley's
Danley
Atlantic Avenue
Atlantic City
Adjudication Filed in Estate of Edward Earle 1876
Judge Ashman filed an adjudication in the estate of Edward Earle who died intestate in February 1876. The estate valued around $2,000 with a brother and sister as next of kin. The sister had not been heard from for eighteen years until recently. The brother has been missing thirty years despite advertisements. The court ordered the share placed with Lloyd as trustee until Edward Earle’s death, seven years hence, for possible future distribution if the heir remains absent.
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Ashman
Edward Earle
Lloyd
Threatened Strike at Singer Steel Works Over Pay Cut
Special Dispatch to Tur Tres Pirrsnura reports a threatened strike at Singer Steel Company's works. Management asks steel melters to cut about one dollar per ton, risking a ten percent wage drop. Workers refuse and may strike on Monday if the cut is pushed.
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Tur Tres
Pirrsnura
Singer Steel Company
Illinois Jury Laws Ignoredjury chaos in Cook County
Chicago December 16 Messrs Stiles and Aldis attorneys in a Superior Court case reveal that jury selection rules have been utterly disregarded in Cook County A judge admits no valid jury has sat for fourteen months as all formal provisions are ignored.
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Illinois
Chcaco
Messrs. Stiles & Aldis
Cook Senieien
Tug Laura Seized Over Damages After Delaware Collision
Marshal McMullen seized the tug Laura from Philadelphia as it passed through the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal and locked it up at Delaware City. The action follows the owners of the steamboat Thomas Clyde suing to recover damages from a collision on the Delaware last summer.
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Wilmington
Marshal McMullen
Laura
Philadelphia
Delaware and Chesapeake Canal
Delaware City
Thomas Clyde
Delaware
Merchant appoints detective in Wilkes Barre
Dennis Ward a prominent dry goods merchant of this city was to stay appointed County Detective by District Attorney McGohren. There were over one hundred applications for the position.
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Taz Times
Wilkesbarre
Dennis Ward
McGohren
Merchant Convicted of Arson in Wilkesbarre
Wilkes Barre report Richard Graff a merchant was convicted for attempting to burn his store and sentenced to three years and six months in the Eastern Penitentiary Scholarly sentence is for arson attempt at his own business location in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on December 16.
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Wilkesbarre
Richard Graff
Eastern
Weather bulletin for Middle Atlantic States forecast
Indications for today show fair weather in southern portions of the Middle Atlantic States. New York area to see partly cloudy skies with light snow. Temperatures rise slightly from southwest to north as winds shift to the south and west. A slight rise, then a falling barometer signals changing conditions.
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Middle Atlantic States
New York
City Notes and Society Highlights From Philadelphia News
The H T Baya steamer begins its first mail run to Jacksonville. The University of Pennsylvania Philomathean Society plans its biennial celebration with an address by Francis A Lewis Jr. Sarah Smith faces habeas corpus hearing over perjury charges involving Ex-Alderman Urian. The Chi Board of Trade policy on quotations affects broker activity as Philadelphia Board of Trade expected to discuss broader actions. William G Huey anticipated to address the Board of Governors at an upcoming meeting.
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H. T. Baya
Jacksonville
Fla
Philomathean Society
University of Pennsylvania
Francis A. Lewis, Jr
Philomathean
Sarah Smith
Smith
Urian
Yerkes
Chi Board of Trade
Brecketshops
Philadelphia Board of Trade
William G. Huey
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