Southern railroad debate and council plans discussed
The Southern Railroad Council Committee advances a plan linking Knoxville and Nashville with Cincinnati and Chattanooga. The discussion covers financing, road value, and possible bonuses. The mayoral spring election may ask voters to choose between the Ferguson bill and a bonus plan with two separate questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Innall
Knoxville
Nashville
Chattanooga
Cincinnati
Theo. Cook
Fitzgerald
Southern Railroad
Yeas—Miller
Setchel
Fitzgerald, Sands, Bissel, Ziegler and Stoms
Davis
Robinson
Morgan
Bishop
Reevan, Corbett, Hord
Reinlein
Charles Kahn, Jr
Woolley
Meyer
County Commissioners Proceedings Reported February
County proceedings show warrants for repairing chairs to T H Westmayer and plastering materials for Theodore Beall, with 18 40 dollars. tin plates for a scraper to C F Dumast. gravel perches for Peter Ficher on Mill Creek turnpike. a refund motion to H Oehlman for 1499 20 overdrawn on general indexes. clerks removed from county treasury. The board tabling the revolution and actions on various budget items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. H. Westmayer
Theodore Beall
C. F. Dumast
Peter Ficher
Millcreck Turnpike
Sater
H. Oehlman
Tresteng
Kioreted
Police Court Docket Delivers Drunkenness and Thefts
The docket lists 18 new and 6 old cases. Dismissals and fines accompany charges including drunkenness, assault, property destruction, selling diluted milk, and theft of wagon shafts. Notable names include Christ Maghlin and Henry Johnson, with judgments ranging from 3 dollars to 50 dollars and varying terms. The United States v McGehan and Campbell verdicts total 1154 dollars, Schwab relieved as a bankrupt surety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ. Maghlin
Singer
Kara
Mr. Karz
Mary Maley
Margaret Wilson
Philip Hel
Aaron Smith
Henry
Jenny Martin
Susan Nixon
H. & D. Depot
Frank Wellenback
Chicago
Jewish Hospital
Julia Green
McLaughlin
Henry Vetter
Woodburn
Literary and Song Treat Crowds Magnolia Hall
Last evening Magnolia Hall hosted a literary and song program by Woodward Lodge No. 149. Mayor Davis was ill so Bay Boyce presided. highlights included a solo by Miss Wunder, comic songs by Dietrich and Lemon, and a top laugh with Relics of the Grand Army. Tonight the lodge marks its twenty second anniversary with a ball at Eureka Hall. A found baby girl near Freeman Street was taken to the Ninth Street Station House and entrusted to a caretaker for later welfare arrangements.
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Magnolia Hall
Walnut Streets
Woodward Lodge
C. F
A. M
Aten
N. G
Davis
Bay
Boyce
Miss Wunder
Mr. Smith
Dietrich
Lemon
Dyer
Grand Army
Eureka Hall
Mars, Ziegler
Ninth Street
Central Avenue
No. 18
Freeman Street
Ninth-street
Court Reports in Common Pleas on Redistricting Case
The hearing in Brrore Juper Cox et al v Redistricting Commission resumed with Judge Matthews outlining the law and the aim of equal city representation. Citizens from Walnut Hills joined as future plaintiffs. meanwhile Judge Taft argued the law’s general nature and warned against undermining broader municipal statutes.
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Young Men’s Christian Association
Eben Halley
Thackeray
Misons
la Rue
Disney
Nixon
Weber
Pullen
Spooner
TAR
Oehlman
Ochlman
Court of Common Pleas
Ammount
Superior Court
Oehrman
Common Pleas
Brrore Juper
Follett
Cincinnati
Twelfth
Matthews
King
Thompson
Walnut Hills
Burnet Avenue
Taft
Murder at Hamilton saloon ends in stranger slain
Bernard Leisner, saloon proprietor in Hamilton, shot a burglar who was tampering with the till. Leisner, over 60 and long regarded a peaceful citizen, shot the assailant in the back as a struggle followed. The deceased is an unknown negro. Coroner to hold an inquest this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Leisner
Second Ward
Leisner
River News Reports Winter Weather and Rising Waters
The river swells at Pittsburg with four feet of water while here it declines to about one foot. Four New Orleans steamers arrive, boosting levee activity as the Potomac Mollie Ebert Esperanza and E H Durfee pass through new locks. Diver Captain Dwyer works on Nashville hatchway as hull damage persists on Belle Vernon and other vessels.
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Pittsburg
New Orleans
Potomac
Mollie Ebert
Esperanza
E. H. Durfee
Dwyer
Nashville
Mollie
Og Orleans
Chatnier Fleetwood
Guyandot
St. James
Maysville
General Biel
Louisville
C. . Dumont
Madison
Wildwood
Chile
Memphis
Mountain
Kenawha
Paina Cae
Page
Liberty
Frankfort Yeoman
H. E. Pierpont
Black & China
Is Agay
Kentucky River
Shell Road
Messenger
Geo. W. Reed
Lorena
Sam
Shuman
Wild Duck
C. F. Adams
St. Louis
Arlington
Dan Moore
Cincinnati
Stella
Sunfish
Traveler
Parke Painter
Sanford Coulson
Zephyr
Crescent City
Mary Alice Een Oon
Mississippi Valley Transportation Company
Commodore Rollingpin
St. Louis Times
James Howard
Admiral Poisset
Howard
Columbia
Belfast
Sedam
Quincy
Cairo
Lady Lee
Silver Bow
Thomas W. Rea
Ohio
Wm. H. Brown
Babbage
Valid, &c
Vicksburg
Mr. Zephyr
Northwestern Union Packet Company
Lon. Bryson
S. Mitchell
James Kenniston
Tom Jasper
William J. Lewis
Valid
Friendship
Argonaut
Kellogg
City of Pekin
Adam Jacobs
W. H. Brown
Petrel
Lookout
Belle of
Towboat and steamer news across the river trade
Reports cover arrivals and departures of multiple vessels from Louisville to Pittsburg and New Orleans, including the Maj Sanders and Potomac, plus the Crescent City towboat and the Silver Bow wreck. Notable incidents include the D S Page boiler explosion near Liberty, injuries to crew, and large ore shipments ahead.
Market Review from Evening Star February 28 1872
Daily market items report steady bran shipstuff and middlings on arrival prices. butter demand high with scarce choice grades. Ohio butter 20 to 22 cents per pound. fruit note: green apples quiet at about 3 to 4.50 dollars per barrel for storage era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Evening Star
Wdnesday
Ohio
Market report of fruit, grain, and provisions prices
Prices for dried apples, peaches, oranges, lemons, flour, and grain shown with ranges. Wheat and corn stable, oats steady, rye steady, barley inbest quality demand. Eggs, oils, pork, bacon, lard, sugar cured hams, seed, potatoes, and cotton prices listed with current quotes. Whisky demand moderate at six cents per gallon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petroleum
Timothy
Russell
Goodrich
Markets by Telegraph Burrato Cattle and Hog Receipts Vary
Burrato market reports 256 cattle cars in 72 hours, down from 204 last week, dull trading, prices down to 0.5 cent. Hog receipts 123 cars, 96 through consignments, market active at 480 to 495 dollars per head. Sheep receipts fair. New York gold at 1103 with mixed cotton quotes and futures sales totaling 6,450.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burrato
New York
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Nopror
Daily Evening Star
The
Evening Star
Henry Twitchell
Optition
West Fourth Street
Worrespay
Buarom
Fes
Langky McHven
Quinyw
Fortuna Street
Tux Harmonie Society
College Hall
Duncanson
Glen Finlay
Robert Clarke & Co
Fourth Street
Oiter
Megrue
Merrell
Sedamsville
Old Academy of Music
Fifth Street
Walnut
Main
Phanix Hook and Ladder Company
Wm. J. Flagg
Scioto County
New York Mutual Lif Insurance
Mozart Hall
Arbeiter Hall
Messrs
Tue Excelsior Musical Society
Maxwell’s Hall
Messrs. Graveson & Co
Finnegan & Co
Brown Stone
the Southern Railroad
Police Report
Jupax Carter
United States Circuit Court
Jupos PE
B. Swing
United States
Thomas McGehan
Y. D. Campbell
Peter Schwab
Boson Distiller’s Bench
McGehan
Campbell
Schwab
Hamilton
River News
Maj
Sanders
Daily Market Review
Telegraph
Baltz—Flint
Louis Baltz
Mary A. Flint
Avondale
Vine Street
Ae ‘&Tional Church
Eighth
Ninth
Warwood
Amelia Warwood
Joseph Warwood
Thomas
James Warwood
Birmingham
England
Queen City
Thomas Noonan
PSF
Beeler & Curry’s
Bas Shayne
OTICE
Office of Park Commissioners
W. Herron
Harn
Charles Thomas
Micha Eckert
Augustus Wessel
National Theater
H. J. Sargent
Race Street
Variety Theater
Annie Bindle
RAND
Central Christian Church
Plum and
Business Guide
MIDE
S. W. Cor
Whitehead
Liniment
Richmond Street
JAS. P. McCnamara & CO
Pearl and
JAS. P. McNamara & CO
West Pearl Street
McN&co
Ezekiel & CO
East Third Street
George Street
Wise Girl
Hopkins Street
Barr Street
Clark Street
McOgrew
Walnut Street
H. M
STAR
Cameron Ae Glass Paint Company
West
Basford
West Sixth Street
Tig West Corporations
G. G
West Fifth Street
Mercer
Main Street
Columbia Township
Hamilton County
City
R. Reat
Pringfield
Clarke County
First Vor
Laurel Street
Lincoln Park
Por
Snider & Bro
West Fifth St
Vermillion County
Illinois
T. D
Duniees
Ug Grauttings
Teace Street
Burnett & Reeder
Mt. Auburn
WM. Rendigs
West Third Street
Aikes
Paintsville
Awit
Iowa
Wilson Bro's
N. Y. M. Maslin
Saakeenes
USA
Wabash Avenue
Washington Street
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