Tax Bayfield and St Croix land grab faces defeat
The lobby’s effort to refer the measure to a Committee of Conference appears unlikely as opposition leaders Stevenson Perry and Holman push back vigorously and vow to contest every inch of ground.
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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1872
Page
2
The lobby’s effort to refer the measure to a Committee of Conference appears unlikely as opposition leaders Stevenson Perry and Holman push back vigorously and vow to contest every inch of ground.
A London Times editorial asserts Britain will not pay for consequential damages and questions the treaty’s scope. It critiques London’s haughty stance and urges retreat to preserve peace and good will between Britain and the United States.
Senate proposes a 16 000 per mile subsidy to build a Mississippi levee from Cape Girardeau Missouri to Fort Jackson Louisiana. Other measures touch settlement of Ohio Indiana Illinois accounts and Indiana inclusion. House debates civil rights legislation and Reed amendments.
In Greenwich on Stanwich road the aged investor and farm owner W O Hobby, noted as a miser with a fortune near $100 000, is found near death from cold and starvation in a dilapidated homestead. A starving calf and a roasted pig in the pantry illustrate the squalid scene as Dr. Sylvester Mead treats him and Selectmen oversee care.
A Crawford county family endures a shocking blaze when Mrs Smith falls victim to a fire after her husband leaves for town. The infant dies next day from severe burns while Mr Smith, distraught, attempts to save them. More details explain the wife’s head burned to cinder and brain matter baked on the hearth. Louisville Ledger.
The Boston Saturday Evening Gazette ridicules delays in the Stokes murder trial and contrasts it with harsher treatment for Mulligan and Flaherty. It mocks the process and notes the judge and DA’s leniency, while describing the criminal’s refinements. Also notes the London Crystal Palace aquarium size and 636 Dayton deaths in the year ending March 1.
Five children aged under ten died when a house owned by Mr. William Spinney in Argyle N S burned last week. Coroner Kirby reports the family, absent between seven and nine, were asleep in one upstairs room as flames and smoke overtook the building and a nearby neighbor helped recover the old insane mother from below.
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