Aid for the Civil Service Rulers and Tax Case in Brief
News of the Week covers Civil Service apportionment plans to pre certify eligible lists by state before re election certifications, plus a rejected compromise in the Goodrich Bush internal revenue case. Also notes about Chinese smuggling in Victoria and unchanged foreign postage rates remain at five cents per half ounce.
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Civil Service
Civil Service Commissioners
Washington
Civil Service Law
Goodrich Bush
Boston
Internal Revenue
Commissioner of Internal Revenues
Evans
Bush
New York
Universal Post Union
Quiet Week in Business and a Michigan Robbery
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue announced an inquiry into statements about the Red Men aiding illicit distillers and moonshiners at Wheel, West Virginia. R G Dun reports a quiet New York week with declines in business but more activity in Western cities. Wm Dutton of Adrian Michigan, a retired capitalist, was robbed of bonds worth 80000, mortgages, cash, and jewelry. his safe was unlocked in his bedroom facilitating the theft.
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New York
Michigan
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United States
Monroe
Sheridan
Bank sues Postmaster General over money order ruling
The New Orleans National Bank sues Washington Postmaster General Gresham for 100000 damages alleging his order forbidding money orders to the bank but intended for a lottery company damaged its business. The action contends fraud and illegal action and seeks recovery. Major Nickerson’s whereabouts are reportedly in Thorald Canada, with War Department orders for him to report in person. he declines and may be expelled as a deserter.
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Interior v ment notes restore Guassin as attorney
Secretary Fouler declares the move compatible with public service and public convenience to issue distinctive gold certificates for Chicago. Treasury duties drawback on refined sugar and syrup from imported material will stay in force to 1884. Postal money order system deemed too complex. Congress to be asked to simplify. Garfield Memorial Hospital work begins in Washington with a cluster of open-air buildings to be under roof by winter.
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Immigration at Philadelphia and stage robbers pursuit
The Commissioners of Immigration at Philadelphia report 16 606 arrivals from November 1 1882 to September 2 1883 with 10 returned to Europe for unspecified reasons. In spring 294 Irish eviction tenants landed in Philadelphia via British Government aid. A band of stage robbers, including Jacob Elmer and Charles Hinsley, were tracked by a Sheriff s posse near Tucson Arizona where Elmer died and Hinsley was wounded and later killed.
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Cancer Found in Cattle at Union Stock Yards
Chicago Health Inspector reports sixteen cattle found with cancer at Union Stock Yards and slain. Tongue is common cancer seat. some animals show sores on sides and necks. Cattle from various parts of the country. Also reports a Boston swindler case and rising smuggling of Chinese across the border into British Columbia.
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Union
Fatal Lovers Duel on Horseback at Black Fork Creek Choctaw Nation
Two cousins Austin Guthrie and Franklin Meyers dueled over a girl at Black Fork Creek on horseback with knives. The combat lasted minutes, leaving Meyers with a severed arm and facial and chest wounds, Guthrie with leg and body injuries. Both died within hours after collapsing by the roadside.
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Train Crash Kills Three As Gates Haven’t Been Erected
An inbound Philadelphia and Reading train struck a street car in Philadelphia on the fifth, traveling twenty five mph. Three passengers died and most others were injured. The street car was crushed, scattering debris fifty feet. The crossing lacked safety gates despite council orders.
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Philadelphia
Tragic Mexico Crime Details Five Slain Children
Report from Lampasas Mexico details a wife of a man named Vandalaz going insane in his absence. She used a butcher knife to kill her five children aged ten to two years, all instantly, then fatally stabbed herself in the heart.
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Street Car Brakes Fail Cause Allegheny Wreck
A street car on a steep grade at Allegheny Pennsylvania failed to stop when brakes refused to work on the 6th. The car ran through safety gates at the Fort Wayne Railroad crossing and collided with a freight train. Twenty five passengers were aboard and injured. four seriously.
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Fort Wayne Railroad Crossing
Another Fatal Railroad Accident at Pitts ford Michigan
A Lake Shore and Michigan Southern freight train collided with a preceding train at Pittsford on the 6th, instantly killing three and fatally wounding another. The wreck sparked a fire and destroyed several cars. The crash is blamed on the leading train crew failing to signal properly to stop the second train.
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Pittsford
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Warning to Catholics from New York church leaders
Cardinal McCloskey and the Archbishops and Bishops of the Province of New York issue a joint pastoral letter warning Catholics about divorce and urging bans before marriage. It directs that dispensations for Catholics marrying nonbelievers be limited and forbids Sunday or after dark Catholic society picnics or excursions without the Bishop's weekday consent.
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Destructive Dallas Fire Destroys Factory and Homes
A boiler room blaze at the Texas Elevator and Compress Company works in Dallas consumed the facility and five hundred bales of cotton. The fire spread to nearby property, destroying twenty residences. Estimated loss ranges from 250000 to 400000 dollars.
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Texas
Texas Elevator and Compress Company
Dallas
Self-inflicted death and homicide reports from early 20th century
At Milledgeville Georgia William Barnes seventy three a Recorder publisher killed himself on the fourth. Cause not stated. In Hartford Connecticut on the fourth Frank Olson farm hand was beaten to death by Frank R Olmstead whose parents Olson had assaulted. In Philadelphia Thomas Palin grocery merchant was found on a street with a bullet in his brain and a revolver with an empty chamber nearby. Police doubt whether it was suicide or murder. He had neither.
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Hamilton County
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Knox County
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Columbiana County
Multiple Domestic Tragedies Reported Across Cities
Reports describe a series of fatal incidents including Joan Brown killing James Weaver near Allegheny City over a horse trade dispute, Francis E. Paris's suicide at Fortress Monroe, a Northboro husband shooting his wife then suiciding over jealousy, and a German immigrant Albert Elsterwan killing his wife with an iron poker in Milwaukee before disappearing citing financial inability to support her.
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Negotiations With the Porte Reported Progressing Favorably
A Constantinople dispatch notes that United States Minister Wallace and the Porte are making concessions on petroleum storage and tariff questions. Wallace has raised two new questions whose substance is not yet disclosed.
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United States
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Porte
Washington Hospitality and Colonial Figures in Early America
A nostalgic vignette recounts Washington's dinners with elaborate tea service, nut and fruit courses, and quiet levees. visits from French officers and leaders like Steuben and Morris are noted, with anecdotes of witty finance jests. The piece weaves in later reminiscences on hats, public life, and broader 18th century society through humorous anecdotes and literary citations.
Northcote Criticizes Government at Belfast Banquet
Sir Stafford Northcote, in a Belfast banquet speech, censured both foreign and home policy of the Government. He said the Home policy conceded too much to Radicals and Parnellites and warned that Parnell aimed to sever the English connection with Ireland. He urged Commons members to stay true to their principles to frustrate the plan.
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Stafford Northcote
Belfast
Orangemen Attacked By Catholics in Belfast Incident
An Orange procession returning from a Belfast meeting on the 6th was attacked by a Catholic mob resulting in many wounds. A convent resident, previous window-smashing victim, died from shock. Other items include financial fraud by a bank secretary, Canton unrest, embezzlement charges, Tonquin dispute rhetoric, and a French minister’s resignation.
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Ireland
Stafford Northcote
City fathers in Ocala forfeit concealed weapons
The Ocala city government passes an ordinance forfeiting concealed weapons and now finds itself with a small armory and uncertainty about its disposal.
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Fla
N. O. Picayune
Philadelphia capitalists plan 1,000 acres of sorghum at Rio Grande
A party of Philadelphia capitalists owns 1,000 acres of sorghum at Rio Grande New Jersey and expects to produce one million pounds of sugar this season. The seed is used to feed hogs and the farm should yield $30,000 in pork in addition to the sugar.
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Rio Grande
N. J
Society Trends Warn Parents About Youth Behavior
A Iowa paper highlights concerns that parents should keep young daughters indoors at night due to clandestine meetings between young schoolgirls and men of doubtful reputation. It notes English society's shift in child speech from papa and mamma to formal titles like governor and old lady.
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England
Craftis O Connors critique of Paynes Home Sweet Home
Craftis O Connor dismisses Payne s Home Sweet Home saying there is no excellence of language or structure and the piece is on a par with minstrel songs. He insists the tune alone saved the work and notes the tune came from an old Sicilian air borrowed by Payne.
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Craftis O'Connor
Payne
Free-Soil Society Formed With 22 State Branches
A newly organized Free-Soil Society claims twenty two state branches. At a New York meeting the group adopted resolutions demanding abolition of private land ownership on which cities are built and pledging not to vote for any legislative candidate opposed to this aim.
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Tre ‘‘Free-Soil Society
New York
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