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13 Dec 1882
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1882
Page
1
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The 4th session convened with Speaker Keifer presiding in the House and Senator Davis in the chair of the Senate. Vacant seats noted, 212 House members sworn in. Dakota admission, pensions, and treasury topics debated as Smith and Sherman led committees. A distressing string of incidents and nominations followed amid weathered political shifts.
In the Senate on the 8th petitions favored soldiers lacking limbs and tobacco tax reductions were presented. The Internal Revenue bill with amendments was recommitted. Becks resolution on political assessments debated. Bankruptcy bill discussed. In the House tobacco tax petitions arrived. The consular and diplomatic bill reported allotting 1,258,255 dollars. A London fire caused 15 million loss. Allen Miller convicted on pension fraud counts. The tug George W Childs and Idle Hour yacht foundered near Hatteras. Starbuck named as supervising inspector. Snelling indicted for forged bond. Montreal shoe makers refuse talks. 5,000 out of work. Scott Hughes arrested for forgery at Oxford Michigan.
President Arthur reviews foreign relations, trade, and naval affairs, calls for arming reforms and railroad protections, and proposes tax, tariff, and civil service changes. He notes treaties, extradition, immigration, and boundary issues, urges arbitration, and discusses education, postal rates, and internal improvements while urging fiscal prudence and reduced internal taxes.
A scientist notes pelmanent cockroaches differ from living species by wing veins, five versus four, and mentions a meiozic aspect. A woman sighting the insect would react with alarm and strike it with an old shoe, producing a mashed rather than mesozoic outcome, per the Norristown Herald.
Fred Mills aged seventeen died of lockjaw in Toronto after his finger was caught on a meat hook in a refrigerator. He suffered a week of agony and his case showed hydrophobia symptoms puzzling medical men.
A recently deceased Philadelphia woman was found to own 21 804 silver dollars stored in two oak chests. She was not known to possess such a sum.
Detroit Post notes Dong Tong, a successful Chinese artist in Chicago, has painted a compelling picture of a man and his dog. The work clearly identifies the man and distinguishes the dog with striking ease.
A New York City chimney built by the New York Steam Company rises 221 feet with 1,056,000 bricks. Few would climb to its summit to glimpse the view, but its scale impresses observers.
A Detroit Free Press note recounts a young man spending weeks praying and calculating that he could cut and split twenty cords of wood in the time, illustrating a period of religious resolve and work ethic amid fragmentary text.
A Glendale Missouri girl saved a passenger and freight collision on the Missouri Pacific Railroad by frantically waving her apron as two trains approached on a curve. Her quick warning stopped one train and averted a disaster, earning a life pass on the railroad.
A Syracuse servant girl demanded her pay from the hotel proprietor by standing with a knife and cleaver over the baked meats set for dinner and forbidding anyone from carving. The incident was reported by the Troy Times.
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