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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1872
Page
2
In Cincinnati Burnet House, a tax investigation into charges against District Attorney Bateman continued. Only one witness, Collector R B Pullan, was examined yesterday.
A major fire last night destroyed about six river steamers, alarming the commercial community across river cities. Further particulars are given in another Star column.
The Farmers' College at College Hill faces a move to dissolve the corporation and appoint a receiver due to alleged mismanagement. Friends of the institution fear the loss of its educational role and appeal for support to maintain the college and its officers on a firmer, broader basis.
Robbers killed Mr. Kreamer and his wife at a farm house in Schuylkill County to reach supposed money. Kreamer attacked in the house then beaten to death fleeing for help. His wife was beaten into sensibility and lingers. Two young men, Joseph Brown and Isaac Hummel, are arrested and have partially confessed.
In a long reflective piece residents weigh how to endure ongoing cold and arctic winds. The essay notes weather grumblers mainly seamen and farmers and mocks the notion of controlling climate while urging readers to keep calm and refrain from complaint amid winter hardship.
A critical essay contrasts Japanese and other Asian governance with Western systems. It questions reformist optimism about civilization, cites brutal yet effective justice abroad, and urges modesty toward visiting dignitaries while noting Western shortcomings in law, security, and cultural arrogance.
The excerpt speaks of awaiting the prosperous days promised by Providence and recalling seed time and harvest. It reflects on people’s tendency to complain while hoping for better times and orderly natural cycles.
A reported sale of the ex-empress Eugenie and Napoleon III wedding fans, including pieces once owned by Louis XIII Madame de Pompadour and Marie Antoinette, with one fan featuring an imperial diamond eagle and another with the marriage date 30 January 1853. The collection, tied to Eugenie’s marriage carbeille, signals financial strain after their Tuilleries fate.
Governor confirms nominees for board positions including trustees of Northern and Southern asylums and reform schools, and for the agricultural college. Concurrent bills authorize rail fare regulation, districting, sheriff and coroner duties, road work on turnpikes, removal of Scioto obstructions, and other governance measures. Reports include penitentiary gas works costs and plans, plus bills on bonds, taxation, and railroad contracts.
A compilation of proposed measures includes advertising fines for obstruction removal in waterways with costs capped at twenty percent above estimates. Other items restore county fee splits, regulate personal-property lending, and curb pawnbroker licensing. Proposals also cover filling vacancies by council action, criminal recognizance forfeiture, bird protection, and Sheriff fee exemptions in nonconsecutive criminal cases. Adjourned.
A Maine to Tennessee snapshot with varied items: Tennessee Republican Convention set for May 15, a Havana bull fight in Alexis honor yesterday, and Governor Holden declining a Peru ministership. Reports include a Japanese Embassy visit to the House floor, dividend declarations by Belcher Crown Point and Ely, and a customs probe of General Babcock. Cold East weather, a French Arms Committee in the Senate electing Hamlin as chair, and Ways and Means aiming to file tax bills in ten days accompany other notices including San Francisco murder sentencing for August Kamp, missing Collector John W. T. Alley with about $6,000, a Jacksonville election, oil market moves, Potomac Army officers elected, Baltimore convention planning, a double scull race in May, and political maneuvering over testimony. A Chicago family tragedy, Fortress Monroe storm notes, and a potential presidential request for Bates resignation round out the digest.
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