Report on U S relations with Central and South American states
The South American Commission report outlines steps to deepen U S ties with Central and South American nations. Proposals include direct steam lines, treaties and tariff reforms, updated customs rules, expanded consular services, American commercial presence, banking links, a shared value standard, liberal credits, and bonded warehouses. It urges creation of a cabinet led foreign commerce department akin to Britains Board of Trade to coordinate policy and promote U S foreign trade.
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New York
United States
Central and
South America
Central
Board of Trade of England
Great Britain
Postage Reduction Boosts Mail Use Says Officials
Wasuixeron January 8 The calendar year statistics being collected support the Post Office expectation that the two cent rate will soon prove profitable. Data from the last three months of 1884 show a marked shift away from postal cards and open circulars to two cent stamps and closed envelopes, offsetting revenue losses and validating the rate cut despite business depression.
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Wasuixeron
Internal Commerce Statistics Report to Treasury Chief Nimmo
Nimmo presents the annual internal commerce report to the Treasury Secretary. The 1883 railroad freight rate averaged less than half of 1868 while traffic volumes rose sharply. The report highlights pooling as an industry expedient to counter war rates and public anger over secret rates to shippers.
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Internal Commerce Statistics
Hingcton
Nimmo
Bureau of Statistics
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
The New Postal Bill Passes House Senate Pending
The Post Office Department supports the bill that would allow second third and fourth class mail paid for at a full rate to be forwarded to the final destination without extra charge. Previously this matter could not be forwarded. a recent ruling made it chargeable to the recipient, and now the bill aims to remove all additional costs.
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WasaixctTon
Post Office Department
House
Senate
Ciety
Serine
General Assembly
Ashland
Ashland County
A. Conger
Conger
Hamilton
la Pugnberd
Court of Common Pleas
New Orleans
Ohio
Philadelphia
Lakes
Gulf
Mexic
United States
Ncre
Bia
Paulding
Cincinnati
Miami Canal
Brighton House
Seven Die From Cold In Oregon Mountains
Port land news reports seven deaths due to the recent blizzard in Oregon. Anthony Sellers, sixty, and John Kish, forty five, both bachelors, were found frozen on the road to Nehalem in Tillamook County. The cold spell is blamed for the fatalities.
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Portland
Obe
Anthony Sellers
John Kish
Nehalem
Tillamook
Earthquake at Sea Report From Isobel and Crew
The British bark Isabel from Cadiz reports sighting a large Norwegian bark named Alhama of Arendal on the 20th ult. No crew remains found. Two days earlier Isabel endured a fifteen minute submarine earthquake with thunderous roars that shook the ship and panicked the crew before calm returned.
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St. Joan’s
N. F
Isabel
Cadiz
Alhama
Arendal
Sensational death near Goodletsville in Texas
A young man named Smiley Cantrel died instantly when a spike pierced his side after he fell from a loft while sawing meat in a smoke house near Goodletsville. The accident occurred today in the county town, prompting an investigation.
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Nashville
Texv
Goodletsville
This County
Smiley Cantrel
Aftershocks Hit Granada. 500 Remain in Houses
Still Quaking. Mapem, January 9. Two more shocks of earthquake were felt at Granada yesterday. Only five hundred persons continue to occupy houses in the city. The rest of the population are living in tents or camping in the open air.
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Mapem
Granada
Secret Society of Dynamiters Near Gremenspurc
English detectives allege a powerful secret dynamiters society exists near this city and is linked to recent English explosions and assassinations. Described as a Molly Maguire type, thoroughly organized and well funded.
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Secret Society of Dynamiters
Gremenspurc
New President of Panama Elected and Installed
Panama January 8 General Santo Doming Villa has been elected president for the seat of Panama and was duly installed today.
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Panama
Santo Dom Villa
Seate of
Clermont Worker Advertising Rates and Cards Policy
Advertising rates for the Clermont Worker include legal and transient ads at 1 per square for ten lines, plus 50 cents for each additional insertion. A yearly reduction is offered. Business cards up to six lines can be imported for 6 per year.
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Clermont
Earthquakes injure and damage towns in Europe
A series of earthquakes across Switzerland and France caused destruction in Morris and Loja with hundreds of homes damaged and seven injured. A large Granada procession sought divine aid while King Alfonso prepared relief funds and travel to disaster sites. In Geneva and nearby Grisons shocks were noted, with ongoing tremors reported into January.
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Maprip
Morris
Granada
Mavrin
Day-Bresk
Loja
Alfonso
London
Geneva
Grisons
Switzerland
Department
Unusual Influx Drought Hits Port Byron Wells
In Hornellsville near Port Byron all wells dried up and drills found water twenty feet below bottoms but with a pungent oil that makes water unusable. The oil resembles castor oil and is not petroleum. Salt water with brine up to seventy five percent pure salt was also found, perplexing locals.
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Hornellsville
N. Y
Port Byron
Deer Park Accommodation Train Derailed at Bethpage Junction
The Deer Park Accommodation train from Hunter's Point derailed at Bethpage Junction at 6 50 pm. Locomotive overturned. Fireman Joseph Dotzell injured fatally and Henry Burtsell dead. Few passengers aboard. rear car occupants shaken but unharmed.
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Farminepage
L. I
Deer Park
Hunter’s Point
Bethpage Junction
Here
Henry Burtsell
Joseph Dotzell
Burtsell
Dotzell
Kentucky Cattle Exposed to Pleuro Pneumonia Shipped to Texas
WasuHineton January 7 A number of Kentucky cattle exposed to pleuro pneumonia shipped to Texas Representative Ochiltree asked information from Mr Loring Commissioner of Agriculture about the shipment and was informed that the exposed cattle left Kentucky through the negligence of the Government Inspector but now that they have been shipped every precaution will be taken to prevent mingling until danger of disease passes.
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WasuHineton
Kentucky
Texas
Ochiltree
Loring
Fiendish Tramps Attack Track-Walker Near Eaton
John Varek, a Lehigh Valley Railroad track-walker, was beaten by three tramps on Monday night in Eaton, Pa. Stripped of his clothes and tied to the track, he was stabbed repeatedly in a brutal assault. Train crews routed the assailants, and Varek, found near death, was brought to town with likely fatal injuries.
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Eaton
John Varek
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Varek
Benjamin Sheridan
McArthur
David Parker
Hancock County
Samuel Shrakes
Dresden
Routh Gil
John Gill
Cleveland
Walter Grosshart
Lamar Loveland
Marchson
Pittsburgh
Relatives Inherit Large Sum From Clarissa C Peck Will
January 7 report states the will of Mrs Clarissa C Peck widow of Philander Peck leaves 395000 to relatives and earmarks the remaining estate 400000 to 500000 for a city foundation home for incurables There are 29 individual bequests including 25000 to her sister and her sister s husband Greenwich O Henry Keep Albert Keep and Dora Keep each get 10000 and Howard R Brady of Kansas City receives 5000.
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Curiaco
Clarissa C. Peck
Philander Peck
Greenwich
O. Henry Keep
Albert Keep
Dora Keep
Howard R. Brady
Kansas City
Widow to build United States' costliest home in Massachusetts
In Pittsfield on January 8 the widow of Mark Hopkins announced plans to erect the nation's most expensive residence in Great Barrington. The $5,000,000 house and grounds will be blue stone from her quarry. Construction starts in spring with continuous quarry work and electric night operations. One thousand workers will be employed for three years.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Mark Hopkins
Great Barrington
United States
General Grant Declines Private Donation Letter
The New York letter dated January 6 1885 from President Grant to Cyrus W Field declines a subscription raised by friends for his benefit. He thanks them but says he must decline and regrets not stating this earlier. The note reflects Grant’s reluctance to accept private gifts.
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New York
Cyrus W. Field
New York City
Wyoming Cattle Wintering Well Despite Chinook Winds
Reports from ranges across the territory indicate a satisfactory stock condition. Two days of high Chinook winds have melted snow and left cattle exposed, with the outlook for Wyoming stock described as very encouraging.
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Wyoming
Cheyenne
Senator Vest Renominated by Democrats in Missouri
In Jefferson City the Democratic caucus nominated Geo. G. Vest for re election to the U S Senate without opposition. The nominating session occurred in St Louis January. Vest faces possible renomination in the general election as the party preserves its support.
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St. Louis
Jefferson City
Geo. G. Vest
U. S. Senate
Rioting Miners Clash in Keystone Mine Town
Striking miners attacked workers, drove them from town in a riot. One male miner died at Keystone Mine No. 2 and six others were reported seriously wounded. The strikers seized control of the town and the outcome remains uncertain.
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Ancus
Keystone Mine
Gallagher Pleads Not Guilty In Federal Forgery Case
William J Gallagher, charged with forging the tally sheet of the Second Precinct in the Eighteenth Ward, appeared before Judge Blodgett in U S District Court this morning and entered a plea of not guilty.
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Gallagher
Curiaco
William J. Gallagher
Blodgett
U. S. District Court
Ice Palace Work Nears Completion in Montreal
Montreal January 8 Work on the ice palace progresses as the carnival committee stays confident of finishing on schedule. The structure could be erected in ten days if needed with abundant high quality ice. There is strong demand from the United States for accommodations.
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Montreal
Carnival Committee
United States
Gladstone to Retire From Politics After Session
London January 8 The remarks of Gladstone s son at Hawarden yesterday suggest the elder statesman will retire from party politics at the end of the current Parliament session.
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London
Gladstone
Hawarden
Death of the Noted Litigant Myra Clark Gaines
New Orleans reports the death of Myra Clark Gaines, renowned for the Gaines case. Daughter of Daniel Clark, she spent decades pursuing her father's property through a protracted legal fight that involved national courts and millions in costs. Her demise leaves the famed litigation to weather a potential compromise by heirs.
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New Orleans
Myra Clark Gaines
Gaines
Supreme Court of the State
Supreme Court of the United States
Daniel Webster
Charles O’conor Down
Edmund Pendleton Gaines
United States Supreme Court
Captain Phelan Fatally Stabbed in New York Office
Captain Thomas Phelan, superintendent of the Kansas City Workhouse, was stabbed in the office of O'Donavan Rossa by a man named Barry. The quarrel, likely tied to Irish National affairs, left Phelan gravely wounded. Phelan had been suspected in the past of being the infamous "No. 1" referenced by informer Carey.
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New York
Thomas Phelan
Kansas City
O’donavan Rossa
Barry
Phelan
Carey
Detroit man with glass eye swindles Toronto creditors
Morris Lary once arrived from Detroit and opened a credit collection agency in Toronto. He gained trust among tradesmen, then left for the States, leaving creditors owed about £10,000. He is known in Pittsburgh and the West.
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Toronto
Morris Lary
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Old Lady Burned to Death in Pittsburgh Fire
An oil lamp in the hands of Catharine Vannessen exploded this morning causing a fire that badly burned Mrs Vannes sen who died before help arrived. The blaze caused little damage to the house and was quickly extinguished.
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Pittsburgh
Catharine Vannessen
Earthquake Toll and Rebuilding Plan in Granada Malaga
Official bulletin reports up to January 3 in Granada and Malaga provinces 1400 killed 900 wounded and 45000 homeless. Alhama will be rebuilt a mile from its current site.
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Mapriv
Granada
Malaga
Alhama
Congress Debates Lands Funds and Copyright Law
Washington reports during the first January sessions show Senate action on an international copyright bill and Oregon Land Forfeiture, while the House passes a pension bill of 59,976,000 and discusses lighthouse costs and a gun foundry purchase. The inter state commerce bill advances as debates continue on penn claim agent fees and bankruptcy measures.
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Washington
Senate
House
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Detroit River
Secretary of the Navy
Gun Foundry Board
O'Neill
Pennsylvania
Allison
Penn
Committee On Pensions
Hawley
Executive Department
Confederate States
Sherman
Hous E
Craig-Shelley
Alabama
Craig
Greely
Treasur Department
Alaska
Oregon Central
Hornset
Philadelphia Board of Trade
Lowell
Beecher’s anecdote of a 1862 Maine regiment sleep sermon
Henry Ward Beecher recalls delivering a sermon to a large Maine regiment in Plymouth Church Brooklyn in 1862. He boasts of seating every soldier with a “whole seat with a suction in it” and notes the entire congregation slept through his sermon, a rare admission of a failed effort.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Maine
Brooklyn
Plymouth Church
N. 1
Times
State Census Duty and Population Figures From Early Legislation
The New York Legislature faced the constitutional duty to conduct a state census every ten years. After 1866 and 1879, censuses alternated with the national count at five-year intervals. State population rose from 4,382,759 in 1870 to 5,092,871 in 1880, a gain of about 70,000 over ten years.
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New York
Los Angeles Population Growth Outpaces County in Four Years
Los Angeles city and county in California show population increases over the last four years. Growth figures indicate sustained expansion with city and county residents contributing to the rise.
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Los Angeles City and Country
Cal
Ohio State Legislature Debates Election Date and Weirdo Reforms
State Senate and House sessions in Columbus discuss changing the state election date to November first Monday, with a proposed constitutional amendment. Numerous bills cover labor creditors, execution sites for murderers, county legacies for children’s homes, soldiers’ monuments, liquor joint offenses, a State Engineer, stenographer voting rights, abolishing second‑class city marshals, school policies, felony offenses on horse theft and burglary tools, foreclosure payments, bribery at primaries, homestead laws, joint school sub districts, weed control, wage payments in scrip, voter registrations, seating for female workers, and reducing peremptory capital case challenges.
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ColumBus
Association of
Muskingui County
Marsh
Statehouse
Gehera
Board of Education
Friesner
Court of Commonly
Athens
Hocking
Perry
Court of Commoners
Stoney
Rewa
Hocking Conrad
Aw Ae
Pennsylvania
Perry County
Court of Common Pleas
John J. Desmond
Cincinnati
Israel 5
Getz
Fourteenth
Jesse P. Brush
Hocking Valley
Emil Kern
Ashland
Horn
Gribben
General Assembly
Ohio National Guard
Board of Managers of the Intermediate Penitentiary
Two Twin Steers Headed to New Orleans World Exposition
Ashland County stockmen ship two enormous twin steers to the World's Fair in New Orleans. One steer weighs 4,150 pounds with a six foot four inch height and a ten foot seven inch girth, and the owners offer $1,000 for a match. The market spectacle and bidding war draw regional interest amid other local news and incidents.
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Ashland County
New Orleans
Keorner
Mt. Adams
Cincinnati
Babe
F. W. Floor
Philip Profit
van Wert
Walter H. Tarr
Rosbecktt Liggett
Dennison
S. E. Curtis
Bloomingburg
Census reveals pauper relief in German cities
A census shows Posen with 65,712 people reporting 1 ek son receiving public relief, Mind with 66,544 residents has 8,892 aided, and Dresden 558 per 10,000 receive relief. Frankfort on the Main 579, Stuttgart 510, Magdeburg 517, Düsseldorf 442. Berlin last year 68,754 assisted, 612 per 10,000, with other towns averaging 506 per 10,000.
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Posen
Mind
Dresden
Frankforten-the-Main
Stuttgart
Madgeburg
Dusseldorf
Berlin
Fragmented text from historical papers and notices
A collage of clipped snippets with varied topics. It mentions an editor in San Francisco awaiting a caller about a published article, a debt collection scold, a bantering reply about hiring a lawyer, a Mexican bandit case involving Isabel and Luis Pinzon, a description of a young female bandit, a note on General Jackson’s route near Newton County Mississippi, a plan to relocate a bridge timbers to the Orleans Exposition, and a Gulf of Mexico survey noting area and depth figures.
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San Francisco
Philadelphia
Isabel Pinzon
Luis Pinzon
Tecpan
Ajachitlan
Mexico
San Geronimo
Guerrero
Jackson
New Orleans
Newton County
Miss
Pichuto Creek
N. O. Times
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Indiana
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Supreme Court
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Athens County
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MIT
State
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Hamilton County
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Geo. Hoadly
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Uurbanely
Chicago Tribune
Gulf of Mexic
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