Coal price hike set at one dollar per ton this year
The differences of the athracite coal ring have been adjusted, which means coal will be one dollar a ton higher this year than last.
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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1886
Page
2
The differences of the athracite coal ring have been adjusted, which means coal will be one dollar a ton higher this year than last.
The Massachusetts legislature, which has just adjourned with two exceptions, completed the longest service since the founding of state government.
The imperial provincial budget shows a deficit of 1,700,000 dollars. Charges include Afghanistan protectorate, India's army expansion, and Burmah subjugation. Overburdened natives will bear the cost of actions by imperial rulers.
Henry Watterson of the Louisville Journal argues from London that Tory nobles defend titles and estates. He predicts the era ends feudal prerogative as slavery ended and foresees emancipation of the English people from feudal ideas, with the crown following the house of Lords.
Wayne MacVeigh addressed Yale Law School on the link between labor and capital and urged that reverence for law comes from devotion to the general welfare. He argued private property is best protected when honestly acquired and praised lawyers for advancing good government and a pure state.
Agriculture notes seven large English firms own 672013 cattle and 3319072 acres in western grazing areas. The Prairie Company of Edinburgh, five years old, with over a million dollars in capital, holds about 125000 cattle and paid 20 12 percent in 1883 and 1 percent in 1884 1885. Prices decline as overstocking grows and American firms force sales to sustain dividends.
On May 1 striking miners at Grape Creek Illinois were not rehired and 1000 people including women and children were evicted. They encamped in woods subsisting on a pit stove while officials condemn both the strike and the company for the resulting hardship. The piece calls the situation a monstrous wrong in a republic.
President Cleveland vetoed a bill granting a general right of way through the northern Montana reservation to the St. Paul and Manitoba railroad. He cited treaty and law provisions, Indian rights, and the lack of consent from inhabitants. The veto halts plans by Mr. Hill and the Manitoba company to build lines from Devil's Lake to Great Falls and a Helena connection toward the Canadian Pacific.
A private telegram reports Col George B Corkhill died in Mount Pleasant Iowa on Tuesday the 6th of July from stomach hemorrhage. He served in the war as private and later as an artillery officer with brevet lieutenant colonel rank. He edited a newspaper, married Justice Miller’s daughter, and held U S district court cler kship. He bought and ran the Daily Chronicle in Washington, later practiced law, and prosecuted Charles J Guiteau as U S district attorney.
Senator Stanford delivers to the president an elaborate gold invitation from the G A R of California to the national encampment next month. The Senate and House discuss large expenditures in the river and harbor bill and Hennepin canal project while President Cleveland secures a cottage remodel permit. Patent cases shift as English millers win and Downton tents cases are unsettled.
News brief covers consul appointments in Chicago and Panama, age of ex Marshal Bazaine, German emigration totals, women guards in Prussia, mass beach crowds at Minne tonks Beach, Manitoba train ridership, and late Atlantic maneuvers. Also reports rail and canal funding debates, Russian troop movements, Canadian Pacific first through train to Vancouver, fires in Dallas and Duluth vetoes, and various political developments in Britain, Turkey, and the United States.
The report notes 110,000 pensioners granted since Gen Black took office, a record high. It covers pension bills vetoed or passed, the Northern Railroad clause, canal debates, tariff measures, and treasury surplus actions. It lists committee testimonies and specific bills affecting soldiers, public lands, and river projects.
A New York bank cashier expecting a Canada trip returns to the bank to find a burglar rifling the safe. A pistol is drawn and a tense exchange follows as the thief taunts the cashier about telling directors how much was missing. The would-be robber escapes as the line between warning and restraint falters.
A fragment recounts a guest from the Breville swell staying at the Bellevue. A physician and his wife were invited to dinner, Milord noting 98 percent passing through. The hostess refused to dine sans facon in tweeds, proving she could meet the emergency with poise.
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