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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1889
Page
2
Legislative week reports extensive Senate action on election outrages Creek Indians Dakota Sioux Ute affairs and Alaska salmon protections. House passes bills pension adjustments and Indian allocations while conference reports on Agricultural and Pension bills advance. Notable deaths and trials noted alongside treasury and naval budget items.
Domestic report notes the acquittal of C. D. Huston Burlington engineer who shot and killed Ed Hall a switchman in Creston Iowa last fall. The article also lists January internal revenue collections totaling 1 702 206 with breakdowns for spirits tobacco banks and bankers oleomargarine and miscellaneous categories.
Ex Senator Jonny Johnston of Virginia dies in Richmond after a long illness in his seventy first year. Mason General J M Senorre expresses sympathy for National Confederate soldiers home at Austin Texas and pledges support. Arkansas Senate passes vetoed measure allowing Norwood to withdraw gubernatorial contest. Cononen E C McLee of South Carolina dies of heart disease in Washington. West Virginia Governor Wilson issues election certificates for J A Alderson and J M Jackson. Pauncefote appointment to Washington is semi-officially confirmed. Maine House defeats Woman's Suffrage bill and votes against Labor Day date. Michigan Democratic convention re-nominates Sherwood for Supreme Justice and Daily and Lawrence for Regents.
The report notes thousands of Panamanian laborers leaving the isthmus and canal work nearly halting, while Berlin predicts spring will bring major labor strikes. It also mentions nun led proselytizing causing Notre Dame Toronto boarders to leave, freed German missionaries near Zanzibar, North Sea gale deaths, and Dr Frankel's forthcoming Leipzig paper on cancer treatment.
ARD Piggott and an officer located the Parnell letter forger in a Madrid hotel and in custody, Piggott requested a side step for a private task and then killed himself with a revolver. The report notes various other events including a capital crime in Arizona for train robbery and multiple local mishaps and political motions.
In Columbus on Feb 23 to Mar 1 the Senate advanced bills authorizing Greenwich bonds for cemetery and fire equipment, plus remedies for state debt. House moved on probate appraisals, tax exemptions, and public advertising. By Feb 28 the railroad tax and debt collection measures faced votes, while March 1 saw bonds for Urbana gas, Cincinnati female directors, and a White Cap suppression bill.
A collage of gags and quips about bald heads dogs butter and a violin temper appears alongside blurbs promoting remedies like Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Carter's Little Liver Pills and Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. Also notes on dubbing Greece’s queen and a New Zealand sparrow prize.
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