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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1872
Page
1
A historical snippet from the Cincinnati business directory highlighting premier local establishments. It lists top shops and services in the city, reflecting the commercial landscape of the period.
Dispatches report no break for condemned communists and notes Dr Livingstone wary of the Geographical Society. Coverage of Marshal Bazaine and Schoeppe trials continues amid the Great Inland Canal project update. Metis disaster, Soldiers and Sailors convention, and Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum expose are summarized.
In London August 31 Mr Dawson reports contact with Dr Livingstone. Livingstone doubts the society’s friendliness and criticizes its Nile statements. International branches drift apart as members desert amid council discord. The American section plans New York headquarters to rebuild the Society free of European control.
Paris August 31 The Court of Cassation rejects the appeal of Communist prisoners condemned to death by the Versailles Commission and orders the sentence to take effect. The trial of Bazaine proceeds in secret with strong evidence alleged of traitorous correspondence with Germany.
Geneva August 31 the Arbitration Tribunal did not reach a satisfactory result on allowing United States interest on the Alabama claims. The court is evenly split and a delay in the final settlement is anticipated because of opposing views on the equity of the claim.
Judge Barrett upheld the legality of Rose McCabe detention at Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum and Blackwell’s Island for insan ity after charges against a holy father. Sanity examination set for next Tuesday. Also reported are a Jersey City bank teller bail case and the sinking of the brig Orion on Lake Ontario with seven crew saved.
Lieuteant-Colonel Broome of the navy yard is ordered by the Secretary of the Navy to visit state prisons across several states to gather data on government and discipline norms for improving practices at naval stations. He departs Monday. Reports on currency and market swings note gold weakness and price shifts. The Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum exposé describes brutal treatment and poor conditions, prompting Tribune calls for reform. Fire destroys Kelley & Co. furniture plant at Hunter's Point, with massive losses. Governor Curtin's health improves and a fatal Bowery horse accident injures three
Boston reports a severe storm across New England with extensive damage. A large lumber laden schooner named the Boston, from Calais, Maine, went ashore at Stony Beach and may break up. Haverhill sewer bursting flooded cellars citywide and damaged merchandise.
President Grant and General Porter arrived here yesterday from Washington. Their visit to Lone Bixden is noted in dispatches and adds to military post activities during the period.
A proposed canal from Guntersville Alabama across a narrow neck to connect the Tennessee and Coosa would enable navigation from the Mississippi to the Atlantic via Rome Georgia. Estimated cost twenty million dollars, with possible federal land grants or bonds. The plan has presidential interest and may be presented to Congress in December.
The Metis propeller of the New York & Providence line was struck by a schooner near Watch Hill Rhode Island on a Thursday night. It sank after partial immersion, with 70 passengers reported drowned and many rescued by the steamer Stonington and cutters Moccasin and others. Doctors and hotel staff aided victims while lifeboats saved several named passengers and crew amid a grim scene on the shore near Ocean House.
The 2d Edition notes a Republican mass meeting at Fountain Square and a long afternoon of lectures on natural history and geology. Topics include mammal and bird traits, coal formations near Cincinnati, and coal field data in the United States, with remarks on cannel coal and the Sun as a power source. The day closes with praised music from local quartets and soloists.
Report of imports and exports for the past 24 hours with prices for butter corn cotton flour hogs malt oats wheat whisky cattle sheep and related bulk items. Notes show market conditions for flour corn oats rye cotton pork bulk meats bacon lard hogs and various flour and grain grades with prices and demand signals.
The steamer Metis of the Providence line collided with a vessel in the Sound near Watch Hill around three this morning and sank to her upper deck. Over seventy lives are reported lost. The revenue cutter Moctasin is at the disaster scene.
During a thunder storm in Palestine Crawford county Illinois yesterday a young man named Alonzo M. Goggo son of the village postmaster was instantly killed by a thunderbolt. The bolt also killed two mules in the field.
The Chamber of Commerce board found E. L. and T. S. Johnson guilty of breach of contract and willful misrepresentation. They recommended a thirty day suspension and ordered ten days to print and publish the testimony for member examination.
Expar te Christina Fahner case ends with court removing John Brachman as guardian. Judge Hoeffer rules a girl over twelve lacks right to select a guardian against her father, declares Christina legitimate with a father in Germany, and grants the guardianship removal. Executrix and administrator appointments follow for Colgate Hessler Lanahan estates.
From New York August 30 reports show gold at 112 1 2, flour strong, wheat steady around 158 160 red and amber, corn 60 62, oats 4, pork 14, lard firm, whisky nominal, sugar steady with Cuba Porto Rico quotes, Rio and others listed. Chicago wheat opens firm at 117 118 for September with strong demand, receipts 6,757, and later price moves noted.
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