Political press warfare and economic talk in Sullivan County
Local columns celebrate improving winter trade while blasting post office politics as partisan. The piece taunts editors over distribution of offices, cites Chicago and Vincennes papers, notes iron industry revival, Indiana legislature actions, and debates tariff policy and Stormonth dictionary superiority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincennes News
Purcell
Briggs
Sullivan
Vincennes
Belding
Vargill
Knight
Evans
Notable death and crime round in late 19th century notes
The column lists deaths including Colonel J. M. Frye and Samuel Wade, a bank president and former mayor of Alton, along with multiple suicides, a mine visit by Samuel J. Randall, a court action in Toledo, and a series of accidents and crimes across states. It also notes wheat prospects, tax rates, and forthcoming elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Sala
New York
Marshfield
Oregon
Sol Thomas
J. M. Frye
Maine
Lewiston
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Chicago
Schaefer
Slosson
Samuel Wade
Alton
Illinois
Leland Stanford
California
J. G. Scrugham
Lexington
Kentucky
Canada
Thess
Indiana
Trenton
New Jersey
Muncie
Birmingham
Alabama
Samuel J. Randall
J. A. Uarris
Indianapolis
Andrew Hichenbrecher
Zoological Garden of Cincinnati
Grand Army of the Republic
New Mexico
Kit Carson
Yaos County
John Maxwell
Springefield
Ohio
Pittsburg
Isaac Allen
Noah Hunt Schenck
Brooklyn
Russell Hancock
Showhegan
Ilis
Electoral College
Hazelton
Allendale
Allendale, Ilinois. James F. Mallory
Maryland
Connecticut
New Haven
Jackson
Michigan
Jud Crouch
Grand Rapids
Bristol Tunnel
New Lexington
Mr. Newman
Ripon
Wisconsin
Congregational Church
Washington
John Wise
Congress
Virginia
State University
Thierry A. Wise
Adams Express Company
United States
Buffalo
Bishop Coxe
Shillock
Chaska
Minnesota
Louis Fedder
Bloomington
Lynchburg Tobacco Association
Tauszky
James Tillinghast
New York Central Road
Wagner Car Company
Coburn & Irving
Kansas City
Munson
Panhhandle
Texas
Jacob Michaels
Nardenburg
Ind
U.S. Grant, Jr
Ferdinand Ward
Indiana, Bloomington and
Western Road
Lilly
Ilineis
Monda
Buzzard
Columbia
Pennsylvania
Numerous 1885 national items span crime to politics
A long dispatch reports arrests and trials from Cincinnati to Vancouver, including a jail term for Mullen for election day abuse, a murder case in Phoenix New York, and a forged note in Detroit, with political shifts, lynch fears, and delayed trials across states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen. Sherman
Messrs. Child
Drexel
Philadelphia
Gen. Grant
Fort Yates
Cincinnati
Mullen
James Mason
Lake Shore Road
Saratoga
John F. Morse
Oshkosh
Wisconsin
Louisville
Morris Goldsticker
Potter’s Field
Kate Meyer
Phoenix
New York
Quebec
Edward Goodspeed
Silas Stotz
Bloomington
Illnois
Johm Gallagher
Savings Bank
John McCullough
San Francisco
Vincennes
Ind
Moorfield
West Virginia
Union Pacific
Iowa
Missouri River
Council Lluffs
Omaha
John M. Palmer
Illinois
Southdown Sheep Association
Washington
Mary E. Cody
Detroit
First National Bank
Sol White
Thomas A. Doyle
Providence
Rhode Island
General Assembly
New York Assembly
M. Blake
William
Denny
Remus
Michigan
Jie
Grand Rapids
New Jersey
Trenton
Blodgett
University of Chicago
Stephen A. Douglas
Board of Trustees
Bay Roberts
Newfoundland
New York Redemptionist
St. Johns
Arthur
Cleveland
George Z. Erwin
Dennis McCarthy
Senate
Hill
Daniel L. Wells
Milwaukee
Prospect Avenue
Galena
Highland
Scranton
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Delaware & Studson Companies
Gilmour
St. Prokop’s
Bohemian Church
D. N. Moody
Richmond
Virginia
Congressional business and tariff law debates recap
In the Senate a Beck bill proposes an arsevenue commission with Treasury, five Representatives, and three Senators to report by December. a resolution thanks Greely relief officers. leasing Indian lands requires Interior submission with a $1 per head penalty for unlawful grazing. Hawley introduces international copyright bill amid Oregon Central Land Forfeiture discussions, which then passes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Jr. Cleveland
McCulloch
Baum
Internal Revenue
United States
Conference Committee
Cobb
Senate
France
Germany
Russia
Treasury
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Houses
Eaton
Iti Malkes
Bee Collins
Ma Tlyn
Benderson
Lowa
St. Louis
New York
Baltimore
Willis
Collins
Treasury Department
Chicago
Iowa
Queenie Bureau
Illinois
Sioux Reservation
Messrs.w. J. Baxter
FE. L. Campbell Fiayre
Secretary of the Interior
Sions
Dakota
Hawley
House Debates Pension Bill and Related Measures
In the House on Jan. 5 the Keifer motion to suspend rules and take up the Mexican Pension bill failed after an animated debate. Other moves to suspend rules and pass tobacco and fruit liquor tax abolition failed. Bills were introduced on Bartholdi Statue lighthouse use and an Assistant Chief Signal Officer, plus river and harbor, silver certificates, and federal judges. On Jan. 6 a $50,600 Montana Indian relief appropriation passed and Pension Appropriation action proceeded with amendments limiting agent fees, amid sharp exchanges between Warner and Keifer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keifer
Hiscock
Cox
New York
Bartholdi
Greely
Tucker
United States
English
Breckinridge
Montana
House
Warner
Ohio
Messrs
Grevy orders mental report on Louise Michel for possible pardon
President Grevy directs a medical evaluation of Louise Michel to determine insanity as a basis for pardon. Germany seeks control of Chinese railroads by offering engineers and funding. General cemipeion resigns the French war portfolio over reinforcements to Tonquin. Lewall expected as successor. French government asks consuls to recruit conscripts for Tonquin garrison. Montreal vice consul reports locals liable for military duty refuse to return to Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grevy
Louise Michel
Germany
China
Cemipeion
Tonquin
General Lewall
Montreal
Europe
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Times
Sullivan County
J.C. Bartlett
Greenbacker Coulson
Post Office
Partisan
Chicago News
Blaine
Devine
Carlisle
Amalgamated Association
Cleveland Mills
Chas. L. Jewett
Floyd
H. C. Darnall
Putnam
J. T. Fanning
Marion
Harry Fry
Grant
A. J. Kelley
Vigo
I. C. Hoffstettler
Lawrence
J. W. Cope
Allen
Kelley
Hoffstettler
C. E. Crawley
Frelinghuysen
Dundee
Randall
N. Y. Sun
Great Britain
Webster and Worcester
Stormonth
Webster
Worcester
Edinburgh
Messrs. Harper & Brothers
South
Ing
Ife
Lee
R. D. Core
W. A. Smyth
Savannah
General Grant
D. B. Wesson
Springfield
Massachusetts
Baltimore and Ohio
Grafton
American Iron & Steel Association
Kansas
Orville H. Platt
D. T. Edington
Leelenaw County
David EK. Swan
Northern V Pacific
St. Paul
Bradley
United States Supreme Court
Waite
Benel
Trdlworth
Hayti
Col. Stevenson
Bureau of Ethnology
New Orleans
Union Pacific Road
Court of Claims
Young
Vincent Smith
Li Jung Chang
Nisoryees
West
Sesiast
TNE
Inauguration Committee
Albany Jackson Corps
Albany
Committee On Public Order
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Pension
Dodsworth
Germanic Orchestra
Marine Band
Congressional
Hallett Boox Co
Portland
Elegur Eet
Pereales
Jangdon Maslin
Ranth Vf
Main Stret
Terre Thaute
G T. W. Miller
Wailer and
Gent’s Furnisher
Werre Haute
Clothier
Terre Haute
J.T. H. Miller
Main Street
Sullivan Woolen Mills
Brunngehr c& Coo
Sullivan City Roller Mills
Cale
GEO. Bauer & Son, Proprietors
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