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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1872
Page
3
The Senate wrangled over a conference on the Brazil mail service amendment while House members split on a new rules commission. Other business included pensions for General Anderson’s widow, tax collection reform, and post office appropriation discussions with the District of Columbia and steamship subsidies still unsettled.
The Arizona Miner notes Apache activity around Camp Verde with attacks on settlers and a Mexican herd herdman. Indians request talks with the post commander while attempting to stampede stock. losses include cattle near Prescott and Granite Mountain as pursuit continues.
London reports Senate action on a new treaty article with broad journalistic support for Earl Ranville. Paris carries Napoleon’s letter defending Sedan and German war losses. Vienna notes Archduchess Sophia’s critical illness, and Madrid covers ministerial resignations and Carlist activity. New York describes Baker’s expedition setback and a tiger escape in Chicago.
A territorial letter rails at government for supplying Indians with scant provisions and accuses officials of sympathy toward Apache savagery. The writer contends military efforts failed, claiming appeasement has worsened conditions and urges decisive action by bullets and bayonets.
Senate orders a conference on the postal bill and other committees are named. Senate goes into executive session on the treaty and adjourns at midnight. House approves $2,000 for Admiral Farragut funeral expenses and grants a $50 monthly pension to General Robert Anderson. A tax simplification bill is proposed for fermented liquors. Boston dispatch notes Hendley will contest half a million dollars in the Supreme Judicial Court. jury sustains verdict.
The piece notes growth in Brooklyns churches led by Rev Adam A Hendricks new Baptist edifice on Lee Avenue and Plymouth Church expansion. It reports Swedens caution on Bible translation, Hyacinthe in Rome, and missionary activity across Russia and Greece with Protestant conversions. It cites Oberlin and American Baptist Union finances and colonial missions, plus church disturbances at General Theological Seminary and a trance case in Upshur county West Virginia.
In a regional effort, missionaries served 210 UI, delivered tracts across 99 miles, found 15 000 families, and supplied 1 000 Bibles to communities, highlighting outreach by the society.
Three people including Mr Betz, his daughter, and Miss Genie Touseleyee drowned when their small boat capsized at Alderbrook Pond near Eaton Oneida County. Attempts to rescue failed as a crowd watched for hours, with two years earlier a mill superintendent’s son also lost in the same waters.
Dr Fulkerson of Sonora California described a massive migration of lake fish up Kelsey creek fed by freshet swelling. He reported shoals of salmon trout and two species of perch and a mass of suckers so dense they crowded the shore and died by the thousand. Indians feasted on the run as the season's exodus was unusually large. Patrick Callaghan was arrested in Chicago on a murder charge linked to an event in Minnesota seven years prior.
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