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Newspaper
The Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1872
Page
1
A condensed notice lists topics including emigration policy, creditor meetings for the Bowles brothers, and tax official reductions. The items touch on government actions and the broader fiscal and political climate of the era.
A London creditors meeting of the American Bowles Brothers bank discusses alleged fraudulent transactions and potential criminal proceedings. Speaker Mr. Neale accuses losses from securities tied to Union Bank of London. Bowles denies knowledge, cites Charles Bowles as manager. another meeting may follow to protect creditor rights.
The Washington Light Infantry commandants coordinate with other units for inauguration parades. Reports indicate Gen. John B. Gordon may be Georgia's next U.S. Senator, replacing Joshua Hill. Internal Revenue cuts target 80 districts by 1878 with reduced staffing across inspectors and clerks. Officials await district allocations while a Northern Pacific inspection labels the line as first class and well equipped.
The new internal revenue law embarrasses the bureau and is seen as a failure by experts. It is believed that current tax cuts still leave insufficient staff to perform duties without pecuniary loss to the government. An early session effort may push to raise the number of collectors and assessors to 150 each.
News from New York reports raids on Broadway concert saloons, with about 130 women and all proprietors arrested. Berlin dispatches say Germany fears a large exodus of young men to America by 1873, despite new circulars threatening penalties. Poultry and horses suffer from a spreading disease, while Thurlow Weed lies seriously ill. A fire in Abbeville, South Carolina, destroys much of the town the record notes.
In a Chicago dispatch dated November 18, reports claim American rail projects and other systems in San Domingo aim to boost natural resources and value of the island. Baez backs American interests while opposing government change. The Forty-third Congress will push territorial position in the West Indies, while arbitration peers plan a pacified award distribution to American claimants. Separately, a New Decision in a Telegraph Suit notes the Great Western case reversal and a new stock election.
The Burnt City on Sunday Harvard College asks for aid from Alumni to replace lost funds, while relief efforts surge. The Relief Committee reports many aid applications and urgent needs for clothing and bedding. Boston Provident Association supports families, Park Street vestry hosts unemployed women, and a relief appeal targets New York citizens. Museum benefits total 1615 dollars to aid the relief effort. Masonic brothers nationwide send funds, later to be returned as Craft suffered little.
In Philadelphia on Nov 18 thieves entered the wholesale silverware manufactory of William Wilson & Son on Fifth Avenue and Cherry Streets. They forced a cellar door and then a door to the store, broke into an iron safe, and stole solid silverware and sheets valued at $8,000. No clue has been found.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul line is expected to reach Chicago by Saturday evening with celebration planned. Reports from Fon du Lac and Green Bay note a horse distemper outbreak causing four deaths in Green Bay and raising concerns about logging in pineries being hindered. Illinois election returns show Grant leading with 56,821 and Oglesby ahead by 42,404 in preliminary tallies. official figures pending.
Navy weather bulletin outlines probabilities for the morning through afternoon. Northwest to Michigan and Ohio Valley expect very low temperatures and clear skies. Gulf states see northwesterly winds cloudy with rain on the western gulf. South Atlantic states have northeasterly winds and partly cloudy skies. Lower lakes and Middle States forecast slowly falling barometer and southwesterly winds with partly cloudy skies. New England will have variable winds and diminishing pressure.
News from Madrid reports King Amadeus ill after a bad night while Cortes passes the mortgage bill and unrest grows in Vittoria with troops in defiant standoff. In Strassund, Strassund gales wreck eight ships and flood towns, with many losses and relief efforts underway. Empress Eugenie hosts a Chiselhurst fete as French politics brace for Gambetta’s critics.
Severe weather continues across Minnesota with Duluth worst hit. Rail lines including Winona & St Peter and St Paul & Sioux City blocked by snow for about 60 miles. Breckenridge line train derailed near Minneapolis injuring engineer Chas Yaeger and a fireman.
Fires damaged frame buildings and junk shops for about 20000 dollars. Returning Board headed by General Longstreet failed to provide closing poll details. Administrator of Improvements tally shows Beauregard 13012 and Lawes 12224, Beauregard leading by 188 with Third Ward polls pending. State Conservative majority and Conservative Legislature reported.
Obio loses 205000 in Boston fire. New York hosts American Institute Fair closing Wednesday. Thousands of families become destitute due to late Italians. General John F. Sale, Memphis lawyer, dies suddenly. YMCA convention meets in Toledo. A dead man found in Brooklyn linked to a robbery gang. Kaiser fears emigration from Germany. Harvard faces 562000 loss from Boston fire. rebuild costs rise. Boston rents soar amid high store demand. Train wreck in Bowlersville kills engineer and injures crew. Poultry disease threatens Thanksgiving poultry. Seward praised by Transcript as a pioneering orator. Lincoln statue by Meade completed at Ames Mfg. Parasites in ladies false hair noted. A Welch clergyman extols love with a tale of two goats on a plank bridge.
County Clerk begins a general index of deeds and mortgages at 1 Covington, promising public title labor savings. Emanuel Storkett of Cincinnati dies at Third Street residence. T A Wilson loses a horse amid epidemic. Grant Wilson Club plans new hats for church Sundays after election win. Kentucky Central trains on time after bridge rebuilt near Boyd's. 1870 district vote totals rise to 6,564 from 4,080. Thieves steal brandy and tobacco from Jansen's saloon last night.
The Short-line railroad company will pay a $3500 judgment awarded to A S Berry in Kenton Circuit Court instead of appealing. Some coal dealers move twelve bushels per load by manual labor. St Martin's Catholic Benevolent Society marked its 30th anniversary with a procession. Newport Fire Dept chief Williams invites volunteers to serve during the horse epidemic and recruits well, with a meeting at the Engine-house tonight to elect officers.
A white woman named Ketterman faces a bastardy charge with bond set at 200 dollars before the Common Pleas Court. her husband, remarried, will raise the child per consent. Dayton amateurs staged Mrs Jar ley's Wax Works at the Soldiers' Home. Charley Stodtfeld cleared of highway robbery after an alibi, sent to prison. a Superior Court case looms over a husband suing a saloon for selling liquor to his wife. The oyster war widens as Baltimore ring agents undersell local dealers, prompting concern and talk of profits.
In Lockland Ohio a petition signed by 25 local firms and residents calls for a post office near the village business center. The current post office sits at the eastern edge on the Lockland Wrewing boundary, and the surge favors a central facility to aid commerce.
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