Senate and House session briefings December 9
The Senate opened with prayer and introduced bills on equal military service for all citizens, retired officers with full rank, universal promotion within the army, navigable river power, and bank capital increase for Chicago. An Interior fencing removal report was requested. The President’s message read. the House credentialed Shively, read the State of the Union message, and adjourned after noting the deaths of Duncan and Evins.
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President's Message ends a long national address
Chester A. Arthur delivers the final annual message to Congress, outlining electoral count reforms, foreign relations, trade, finance, military needs, and civil service, urging currency stability, tariff revision, canal treaties, and navy restoration amid a broad program of domestic and international policy.
Russian Wheat Crowding American Grain From Germany and Switzerland
U S Consul Rouen notes embargo on U S grain in Rouen harms American farmers as Paris market relies on non U S imports. Berne report says Russian wheat floods Swiss and South German markets aided by cheap transport, pushing out American wheat. To regain control, price and transport costs must improve.
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Decision in the Telephone Suit in New York
Judge Wallace of the U S Circuit Court in New York has ruled for the American Bell Telephone Company in its suit against the People's Telephone Company to stop the use of its apparatus. The case involved a larger sum than any prior U S suit and has dragged on for years.
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War on the Buzzards Intensifies in Welsh Mountains
Early today the Honeybrook Goodville and Boumansville horsethief detective associations joined fifty Brecknock Township farmers, mounted and armed, resuming the search in the Welsh Mountains for the Buzzard band of thieves. They plan to continue daily until the outlaws are captured or driven from the country.
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San Francisco man arrested in $48,000 notes case
Boston report states on Friday last Charles F. Jones of San Francisco was arrested in a suit brought by Charles A. Gregory of Chicago. The case concerns notes totaling about $48,000 alleged to have been converted by Jones after Gregory opened the notes. Bail set at $10,000. unable to procure it, Jones remained in custody.
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Accident claims life of man’s mother in Pennsylvan ia
In Woops Run Pennsylvania on December 1 George Rankin, while handling a shotgun carelessly, fatally shot his aged mother. He did not know the gun was loaded and is afflicted with grief.
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House Appropriations Committee estimates for 1886 rise
The Washington report states the House Committee on Appropriations projects an increase of 43,462,054 dollars over the current year’s estimates and 82,816,077 dollars over the present year’s appropriations, outlining a substantial expansion in fiscal plans.
Harvard to Prohibit Football by Undergraduates
Boston December 1 The Athletic committee will report to the Faculty Board prohibiting football by Harvard students as brutal and ungentlemanly.
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Kentucky tobacco crop improves with maturation
The Kentucky tobacco crop is good and well matured and housed. Connecticut reports the largest crop seen since 1871 per Hartford Ose.
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Apple-Tree in Chester County Produces Split Apples
The Philadelphia Times reports a Chester County apple tree bearing fruit that is halved with one half described as Sweet and the other as Four, noting an unusual or humorous division in the harvest.
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Sanitary cws Remarks on Alias Movement Down Shaft
A concise observation notes alias tends to move down a shaft into a room as a common passage from confinement to space, reflecting a habitual flow described in sanitary cws discourse.
France Sells Duke Title for About Ten Thousand Dollars
A report notes that a first class Duke's title in proper standing can be purchased in France for roughly ten thousand dollars, highlighting a practice that links nobility status with commercial payment in the era.
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