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Newspaper
The Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1872
Page
1
The record notes the President submitted the message to the Cabinet yesterday and cites the forthcoming Indian Affairs report. It also mentions updates on Chancellor Greeley's condition and reports the discovery of a new planet.
The president’s rough draft, read in cabinet, aims to present a broad year-in-review. It covers civil service reform, Cuban policy, the Geneva award, and a canal plan linking Tennessee to Savannah. It emphasizes impartial administration, nonentanglement abroad, and pending canal projects without final positions.
A Philadelphia committee of 300 citizens met to review a plan to increase local subscriptions to the centennial stock. The sub committee urged Philadelphians receive a larger share than their population quota and urged active organization, sale notices, and a subscription book system to meet the state pro rata.
Detroit reports Professor Watson of the State University Ann Arbor has discovered a new planet in Taurus. It was observed Monday night with a right ascension of 65 degrees 26 minutes and an inclination of 19 degrees 34 minutes. The object shines like a tenth magnitude star and travels nearly parallel to the celestial equator.
The Second Auditor exposed a fraud attempt tied to selling government papers. A man named Bingaman was convicted on fourteen counts and a related appeal affects Western states. Congress faces bills on French spoliation claims totaling about eleven million dollars with Baltimore-linked claimants prominent. The Texas frontier report backs stronger cavalry and river patrols, while Bowerman’s pardon is granted for wartime service. A colored rights delegation urged civil rights legislation, and other notes cover missing merchants, Vanderhilt denial, Burke Froude lectures, Baltic voyage, and Sumner’s aid to distressed sailors.
New York reports the missing merchant believed to have fled. The British steamer Carolina is abandoned after a sinking near Baltimore to Queenstown, with the crew rescued by the Norwegian bark Magnus Lagaboter. A nitro glycerine explosion near Yonkers prompts a formal inquest. one victim’s head and legs were not recovered. Greeley’s health shows slight improvement as nerves and appetite begin to recover. The Indian Affairs report defends current policy as protecting frontier life and railroad expansion, estimating 8000 hostile Indians including Apaches and Kiowas, with war risks diminishing in three years.
A major blaze in Sandusky Ohio on Monday at 11 30 p m consumed the Sandusky Wheel Company shops and most of the Keel Company works, destroying eleven dwellings and leaving over two hundred workers unemployed. Loss estimated at 130000 with 85000 insured for the wheel works. Firefighters prevented spread to nearby buildings.
At the Louisville Commercial office a large crowd discussed the proprietors plan to stop the daily and keep the weekly and Sunday pets. There was strong desire the daily continue, and steps were taken to form a new stock company with a meeting set for tonight to organize.
Weather report from Washington D C on November 27 notes clear cold conditions in the northwest upper Great Lakes and toward Arkansas Tennessee and the Alleghenies with northwesterly winds and high barometer. Gulf and South Atlantic states expect similar clear weather and northerly winds. New England and the Middle States show rising pressure with clearing skies. Warning signals remain in Duluth Milwaukee Chicago and Grand Haven.
The Newport Post Office opens tomorrow morning until 10 o clock then closes for the day. Two horses died of epizooty in the city, one owned by Captain Williams and another by Valentine Schrof f enberger. Oswald Carter of Highlands lost a valuable horse yesterday as the disease spreads in the district. O W Root and Col James Taylor plan readings on Friday evening December 5 at Odd Fellows Hall for the Second Presbyterian church. Local Evangelical churches hold union thanksgiving services tomorrow at 11 at the street M E church with Rev F Leroy Senour delivering the sermon. William Keifer and William Jolly were fined five dollars and costs each for disorderly conduct by the Mayor yesterday. A request by Fant latter for a new trial was granted.
Dayton reports a Mass celebrated by Bishop Gilmour of Cleveland at St Joseph's Church to the largest audience ever seen there. The oyster war ends as Baltimore dealers concede. Rutledge Hall paper mill damaged in a Monday noon fire loss about 500 dollars. Volunteer brigades formed at engine houses for fire fairs.
A Sunday afternoon blaze in the Tremount Hotel wash-house behind Charles Leive’s liquor store consumed his stock and fixtures valued at about fifteen hundred dollars, insured for thirteen hundred. Bickley’s tobacco and cigar shop nearby burned largely but most stock was saved. The building belonged to Shaw and Besselman. The fire brigade arrived promptly despite sick horses, and shortages loom if fires occur at night amid an epizooty. Vanneman Reid & Co began hog slaughter today. J W Salter, Joshua Hunt, and E Johnson purchased the Democratic Herald to found a new paper, the Times. The Radical publication has been discontinued.
Samuel Yenz faced a charge of selling liquor to a habitual drunkard and a minor. no proof he knew of the husband’s drinking or of selling to the son, so the case was dismissed. Car service on the Avenue route expands as weather allows convalescent horses. The Turners plan a concert to pay off their hall debt with Mannerchor and Professor Smith’s class. St Philip’s Church gears for music and tableaux on December 5. Talks of rejuvenating Main avenue south side with new buildings endanger local landmarks.
John Miller of 67 Austin street sustained both legs broken when a corn wagon ran over him on the Covington Cincinnati bridge. Dr J D Miller's buggy horse died at Moreland's livery on Madison street. Union Thanksgiving services at Greenup street Methodist Church at 11 AM led by Rev T J Dodd with other pastors taking part. Covington public schools closed tomorrow. old inhabitants report the coldest November in forty years.
Peter Becker lies in critical condition after a partition wall fell Monday afternoon. The new watch-house near the east end of the suspension bridge nears completion. John Shelly will build a malt house by the Basin’s south side. Marrage licenses issued include Henning/Haar and Cone/Hopper. Protracted Christian Church meetings resume. American Philharmonic Society hosted a social. City Council met with little business. Real estate transfers listed include multiple Hamilton parcels and properties sold in Hanover Township and Oxford.
A series of property deeds shows transfers in Hamilton Middletown and Fairfield townships, including lots and fractional acres sold for sums from 120 to 12 100 dollars. The Hamilton Public Schools announce a grand Christmas Eve concert at the Opera Hall led by Prof. Theodore Meyder, and St Josephs Church hosts a Becketts Hall ball tonight.
Park board met with all members present and approved payments. The body debated a large Eden Park plot, discussed fencing Lincoln Park, and postponed Deer Creek Valley purchase. A substitute was ruled out of order as a Burnet Woods expansion plan drew support and a committee was formed to obtain New York Central Park reports.
The Board of Health met yesterday with members Davis Clendenin Thomas Schulz Taxis Simpkinson and Baum present Dr Clendenin read a report from the Committee on Garbage Collections stating that the carts used for rubbish collection were in inspection and conditions noted.
Cincinnati Health Officer W Clendenik notes the city remains free of epidemics though smallpox lingers nearby. He urges vaccination, reports removal of slaughterhouse offal, garbage and ashes, and cleanliness in stables while condemning driving cattle and hogs through streets. Simpkinson suggests slaughter near stock yards to reduce traffic. The matter of driving cattle via streets is referred to a committee.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day with public offices banks and many businesses closed. Schools give a holiday Friday. hotels offer special dinners. theaters and balls fill the night. Charity feeds for homeless boys and bootblacks, orphans, widows, and inmates. churches conduct services and pastors promise generous suppers. Over the Rhine the day mirrors Sunday with sacred concert saloons observed.
Inquest opened yesterday on Valentine Schnell who died from injuries after a fist blow in a saloon incident on Monday November 18. He and a companion were attacked by a group of seven or eight men outside Fricker’s saloon. Police have arrested three youths John Paneers Wise and Henry Peck on charges related to Schnells death.
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