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Newspaper

The Harrison News

Location

Harrison, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Feb 15, 1883

Page

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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.

United 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.

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.

State Senate 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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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.

Marathon Independent 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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