Congress Debates Tariff Schedules In Senate and House
The senate and house discuss tariff changes with wool and silk schedules, free lists, and duties on candles, diamonds, steel rails, and iron. bills on telegraph rates, pilotage, and naval appropriation advance amid further amendments and the session adjourns. Multiple incidents and global notes follow, including fires, explosions, crimes, and international concerns.
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Senate
Finance Committee
Davis
West Virginia
Aldrich
Vance
House
United States
United States Senate
Ingalls
George Washington
Philadelphia Society of Cincinnati
E House
Messrs
Tucker
Morrison
Haskell
Edmunds
Mr. Bayard
Hale
Committee
Plumb
Kansas
Dawes
Logan
Hill
Beck
Internal Revenue
Franklin Institute
Philadelphia
Secretary of War
Alegheny
Massive Ohio River Flood Sweeps Towns and Corridors
At Cincinnati and across Ohio River towns floodwaters surge to historic levels. In Louisville and Newport homes, streets, and rail lines flood as two thousand houses go under water. Rescue efforts mobilize while gas works and bridges fail or suspend, leaving thousands homeless and in urgent need of aid. Officials report hundreds feared dead and entire districts submerged.
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Ohio
Cincinnati
Louisville
Newport
Covington
Cinneinnati Gas-light and Coke Company
Broadway
Pearl Street
Lawrenceburg
Columbus
Little Miami
New Albany
East Tenth Street
Air Line
Wheeling
W. Va
Lehnert & Renek
Cynthiana
Licking River
Pirrssur RG
Monongahela
State Senate and House debate constitutional amendments and bills
The State Senate met at 3 p m and 2 30 p m with adjournment on the 2d. A remonstrance opposed Kinney's amendment linking license and prohibition. Communications from labor unions on Penitentiary labor. Bills passed include education accounting, cemetery borrowing, Hanover bonds, and judges' salary raise. House and Senate actions 8th and 9th cover officials, bonds, and public works. Petitions favoring and opposing constitutional amendments were read. adjournment followed.
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Richards
Kinney
Knights of Labor
Cincinnati
Cleveland
East Palestine
Iron Molders’ Union
Springfield
Ross County
Madisonville
Supreme Court
Justices of the Peace
Senate
House
Shepherd
Boards of Education
Hathaway
Thompson Township
Geauga County
Love
Hanover
Columbiana County
Wilson
Court of Common Pleas
Franklin County
Myers
Justice of the Peace
Eason
Simon Kenton
Terrace Park
Dexter
Ohio
Boards of Commerce and Merchants’ Exchange
Conrad
Columbus
Maing Os Lochober Refo
Summit County
Defiance County
United States
van Dorn
Robberies, accidents and local trials flood Columbus area
A woman was assaulted near Noble Pike and High Street in Columbus on the 5th as two men robbed her, while another resident near Grove City reported an $89 theft by a shoemaker named Woods who was later arrested with the money on him. Other items note fires, floods washing away bridges, rail earnings, court actions, a suicide, and various legal cases. The collection highlights include a Canton fire, a bedrock of court disputes, and profits from Philadelphia oyster stock, all set against a flood and crime backdrop.
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Rockford
Ill
Akron
Hemmingway
Ont
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St. Paul
Minn
Sedalia
Camden
N. J
Water Department
Illinois
Benjamin J. Gier
Charlotte
Mich
Gier
Wm. Gordon
James Godler
Jane Smith
Chicago Gas and Coal Company
Chattanooga
Tom Wiggins
Ottawa Iron Works
Grand Haven
Senator Ferry
Indian Territory
Jersey City
N.J
Herb Havner
John C. Gray
J. W. Goddard & Co
New York
New
Youther
Taylorsville
Peter New
John Jones
Samuel Lanain
John McCollum
Wm. Dishel
Chris
Tandy Vandiver
Negro Smith
Paola
Kansas
Smith
Philadelphia
Congress
Cincinnati Customhouse
William Barlow
Christina Isherwood
Fourth Avenue Tunnel
Waitr W. B. Cash
Col
E. B. Cash
Lancaster
Young Cash
Watcott
Chatham Street
Pennsylvania
Haldeman
Harrisburg
Cleveland
Ohio
Memphis
Michigan
Red Bank
New Jersey
Chicago
C. A. Rosixson & Co
Post Office Department
Donegal
Ireland
Fornes, Barstow & Co
Alaska
Lamar
Barton County
Missouri
J. A. Doran
M. M. Smith
Doran
Western Union Telegraph Company
Mutual Union Company
Messengeer
Murray Hill Bank
Secret Service
America
England
Amsterdam
Vienna Court of Appeals
Ring Theater
Caucasus
Ural Cossacks
Trevelyan
Ile
Michael Kavanagh
Kilmainham
Phenix Park
Joseph Brady
Timothy Kelly
James Carey
Patrick Delaney
Burke
Cavendish
Kavanagh’s. Tue
Assembly
Napoleon
Penper
London
United States
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Court of Inquiry
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Wallace
Turkey
Smyrna
Constantinople
High Street
Columbus
Grove City
Franklin County
Woods
Pau T. Corsin
New Britain
Connecticut
Cleveland, Akron &Olumbus Railroad
Huron County
Wheeling
Fremont
Canton
Schraishuhn
Klotze
A. Goofrey
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Gaylord
Portsmouth
Ohio Supreme Court
State of Ohio
Joseph Turney
Luke Staley
Pittsburg, Cincinnati and
Newark
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
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Oio
Carter L. Cooney
Bellefontaine
E. J. Sweeny
Joseph Rudolph
James A. Garfield
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Rudolph
Fiora Ada Pyle
Joseph Hough
Scioto County
Amon
Dock Street
Delaware Bay
Brown Street
Delaware Avenue
Spruce
Anthony William Black
Trollope
Josephine Mansfield
Jim Fisk
Stokes
Hannibal E
York City
Hamlin
Maine
Hale
Ellsworth
Joseph Cilley
Nottingham
N.H
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F. L. O. Rhoerig
College of Asiatic Languages
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State Department
Washington
Jane Stuart
Gilbert Charles Stuart
Newport
R.I
Senate
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N. Y. Sun
Joe Gerhart
Montgomery County
Tenn
O Door
Gerhart
Picayune
Kee-Wee
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South Sea
Newand
Kerecora
Pittsburgh Post
W. G. Raoul
Georgia Central Railroad
Appomattox
South
Alexander
Haster
Indianapolis
General E
Florida
Sarah Bernhart
Paris
Sarah
Temptation
N. Y
Tiny Nonsense From Vague Folio Of Jests
A collage of humorous snippets and quips from various papers. Vignette style lines mention publishers, lawyers, a Dakota town named Billings, a flea biting a dog, editors wives, the Pendleton Civil Service bill, a London scientist, a Sunday school, a child’s math joke, an old paralyzed man in Texas, and an American twist on debt and marriage. Notable phrases include Edith and Mr Wigglesworth.
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Dakota
Billings
Josh
Edith
Philadelphia News
Pendleton Civil Service
Mr. Wigglesworth
Rockland Courier- Gazette
London
Times
Gould
New York
Norristown Herald
Arkansaw
Mlle
Lili
Austin Court House
Texas Siftings
Mouse Nest Found in Woods Tapped by Log Cover
In fall 1879 a man uncovered a ball of dry leaves concealing a deer mouse den in a bank near a spring. The creature revived after freezing, was kept as a pet through winter and died of natural causes in spring. The account includes measurements and behavior, with notes on other local curiosities and figures.
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Mouse
Mousie
Iy van Winkle
Col. Rochester Union and Advertiser
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