Erie to operate N Y P O R R for 68 percent of gross
Domestic and foreign news items report the Erie Company agreeing to work the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railway for 68 percent of gross earnings up to 65 million dollars, then 65 percent thereafter, plus guarantees on traffic shares and a 5 percent loan. Also noted are fires losses, robberies, court rulings, tax rebates, and political developments across the United States and abroad.
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N. Y
Erie
Erie Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
Broadway
New York
Edison Electric Light
A. K. Hamilton
Fond du Lac
St. Augustine Normal School
Raleigh
N.C
B. F. Murdock
Brown’s Mills
Ohio
David Cammick
Maycie
Ind
Fairmount Woolen
Cincinnati
Taylor Clay
Massillon
Seymour Bros
Manistee
Mich
Clepington Spring Company
Dundee
Scotland
Springfield
Ill
Little Rock
Ft. Smith
Crawford County
John Cain
Rogers
Lester
Hartman
Texarkana
Abk
Mitchell
C. E. Dixon
News
Johnson
Granada
Miss
Dixon
New York County Medical Society
U.S. Medical College
Supreme Court
Internal Revenue Bureau
U.S
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Revenue Bureau
Congress
Philadelphia
Towanda
Galveston
Cleveland
Wm. Lyon
Cambridge Flats
Wakeman
Rose
Chamber of Commerce Relief Committee
Lawrenceburg
Masonic Relief Committee
Henry Seybert
Armour & Co
Chicago
Tur
Simon Cronise
Frederick
Washington
Senate and House Near March End Proceedings Summary
Proceedings in the Senate on the 3d authorized a payment not to exceed 3009 to Charles H Reed for defending Guiteau and praised David Davis. River and Harbor bill reported back without recommendation. House conference adopted. Evening postal money order bill passed without amendment. On the 4th the Senate met after an early session with multiple recesses and adjourned sine die after expressing sorrow for Alexander H Stephens. The Capitol lease and one month extra pay resolution were noted amid whisky bill tactics and Sunday objections.
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United States Senate
Charles H. Reed
Guiteau
Senate
David Davis
House
United States
Capitol
Alexander H. Stephens
Deadly gale sinks Navarre with emigrants aboard
The steamer Navarre from Copenhagen to Leith foundered in a gale on the 8th. Eighty-one people, mostly emigrants, were aboard. sixteen saved. Some passengers planned to sail to America via Anchor Line and State Line. Rescue efforts and survivor accounts describe boats swamped and men drowned as the ship foundered near Christiansand. Also reported: two men hanged in New York. bondholder actions in London. a forecast storm overdue on the Pacific coast. Massachusetts seeks a new insane asylum. local Jersey transit accident. broken Erie rail near Belvidere.
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Navarre
Copenhagen
Leith
America
State Line
Anderson
Hogelberg
Nygren
N. Manail
Hull
Christiansand
Michael E. McGloin
Pasquael Majone
Tombs
Massachusetts State Homeopathic Medical Society
New Brunswick
N. J
Peter A. Vorhees
Abraham
Jersey Central Railroad
Erie Road
Belvidere
N. Y
Pensions paid by United States from 1789 to 1861 a brief table
The United States paid 89,486,359.65 in pensions before 1861 and 552,741,170.67 since then. A table lists annual pension expenditures from 1789 onward, noting totals for major wars and survivor cases. It also details enlistments for the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican War, and Civil War eras, with counts of pension recipients and descendants. Washington Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer reported that 837,361 applied for pensions and 472,776 received them.
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United States
Isles
BAS
Lemuel Clark
Clarendon
N. Y
Congress
John Gray
Brookfield
Daniel F. Bakeman
Freedom
Numbr
Mexico
Washington Cor
Cincinnati Enquirer
Romantic wartime tale ends with reunion in Troy
A Troy man Frank Lee returns from California after years fighting Indians and serving in the Army to meet his former wife Eliza Bussey, now married to Merrill Cody. Cody and Lee plan legal action for bigamy as the daughter and wife are drawn into a tense family drama spanning decades.
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Eliza Bussey
Frank Lee
Lee
New York
Wor
United States Army
Arizona
Troy
Frank
Lees
Orer
Cody
Calfornia
California
N. Y
Chicago Tribune
Pensions Increased to Thirty Dollars Under 1833 Act
Washington announces regulations to raise monthly pensions for total disability and loss of limbs to thirty dollars, with current rates at twenty four and eight. Beneficiaries in admitted cases receive expedited reissuance of certificates to reflect new rates. no formal application required.
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Washington
Commissioner of Pensions
Secretary of the Interior
Ottawa telegram operator named heir to Scottish estate
Anderson of Ottawa Ontario, a telegram operator, was gazetted as heir to a $9,000,000 Scottish estate. He bought a Brockville summer home on credit for $39,000 and faces arrest for trying to obtain $100 by false pretenses. A Chicago Tribune item notes the story. A sharp shark ten feet long and weighing about 200 pounds was captured at a Long Island life-saving station and sent to Prof Bard in Washington who called it a remarkable new species.
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Post Office Department
Missouri
Clarence Hite
James Gang
Logan County
A. B. Stevens
South Desplaines Street
Chicago
Grover Z
Adams
Stewart
James Adams
Carrie Affleck
Jesse Williams
Philadelphia
Cairo
Hassan & Doty
Canterbury
Hyde Park
Mass
German Lutheran Church
Logansport
Ind
Hoffman & Meyer's Clothing Establishment
Akron
James Watson
Sanford Town
Capitol
Blaine
Theodore Hyatt
Pennsylvania Military Academy
Thaddeus Love
Wa. Spracur
Rhode Island
Staunton
W. Va
Dora Inez Calvert
Greenbrier County
Connecticut
West Virginia
Anderson
Ottawa
Ont
Brockville
Chicago Tribune
Long Island
Bard
Washington
Changes in Tariff Bill Conferees Strike Out Free List
Washington March 3 The Conference Committee report on the Tax and Tariff bill outlines changes across schedules A to N and misc provisions. Key edits include higher duties on metals and glassware, reclassification rules for two rate articles, and a cap on free items such as seeds and foreign language books. Internal revenue tweaks extend capital tax repeal to National Banks, adjust tobacco tax date to May 7, and set a $10 minimum for drawback rebates.
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Washington
Conference Committee
Congress
Senate
Erie
Manila
Saxony
Wilton
Sorry
Ad Valorem
Brussels
Long Senate
Internal Revenue
Work of Congress spans bills and laws enacted
Washington March 4 The Forty seventh Congress closed with 10 670 introduced bills and resolutions in both houses of which 163 passed both houses and became laws. Key measures include the Tax and Tariff bill Civil Service bill Japanese Indemnity Fund and a mixed commission per 1866 treaty with Venezuela plus post office reforms and a two cent postage provision after October.
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House
Senate
United States
Venezuela
Congress
Executive Department
Fort Smith Reservation
Arkansas
New York
Oregon
California
District Court of the United States
Wichita
Kan
Freedman’s Savings Bank
Mississippi River
Ohio River
Legislative Proceedings in the State Senate and House
The State Senate passes bills including abolishing the Montgomery County Superior Court with a delayed effect, and separating disordered prison populations. the House sees many new measures and petitions. Multiple counties and cities receive authorizations, road and school reforms advance, and various local bills progress amid routine adjournment.
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State Senate
Superior Court
Montgomery County
Cleveland
Henry County
Ohio
Boards of Education
Chapman
State
Senate
Guernsey County
Put-in-Bay Township
Put-in-Bay
City of
Xenia
Oecree Urbana Eet
Str
Kenton
Harding County
Talesman
Board of Education
Dunkirk Union
Hardin County
Vinton County
Goshen Township
Tuscaraway County
Court of Common Pleas
Fifth Judicial District
State of
Jackson County
Coal Township
Forest City Troop
Ohio Nation
Muskingum
Perry
Sensational Mobile Prisoner Hoaxes Buried Treasure Claim
A Black man in Mobile Alabama created a stir by digging a false grave and placing a blood soaked corn sack nearby to hoodoo witches guarding a buried treasure. Empress Eugenie reportedly traveled to Paris for a tooth extraction by her family dentist, prompting nationwide gossip.
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Mobile
Ala
Empress Eugenie
Paris
France
Philadelphia News
Youngster In Binghamton Suffers Throat Stick Emergency
A Binghamton New York youth, while bulging with a stick in his mouth, forced it down his throat and required urgent surgical aid to relieve the obstruction.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Ungster
Advertising rates for Clermont Gourier and Transients
The Clermont Gourier advertises one dollar per square for the first insertion and fifty cents for each additional insertion across ten lines. A liberal annual reduction is offered with business cards up to six lines at six dollars per year.
A Year of Disasters in 1883
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes 1883 as a year of widespread calamities with more deaths by violence, floods, storms, and shipwrecks than in prior years. It links disasters to misfortune and politics, urging courage and warning against panic or fatalism.
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Germany
Cimbria
Newhall House
Brussels
California
Ohio
Cincinnati
Quebec
St. Lawrence
the Lakes
Detroit
Chicago
Lake
Mississippi
Decemb
New Orleans
Milwaukee
Ohio Valley
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Linseed meal versus corn meal for livestock value
An old agricultural note compares linseed meal and corn meal as cattle and hog fodder. Linseed meal has higher albuminoids but lower fat content than corn meal. its value lies as a coarse fodder rather than fattening fattening animals. Price and cost considerations influence feeding choices. corn meal remains the premier fattening food.
Westport Records Mention 1746 Armament Date
Fragmentary notice notes Westport and N. and powder mentions with a reference to an armament dated 1746. No clear event or full facts present.
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Westport, N
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