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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1886
Page
4
A survey of items from Philadelphia Times Almanac to Buffalo Courier touches on tax law shifts affecting taxable property, tariff concerns including champagne duties, and a Pennsylvania oil well in Washington County. Additional notes cover court rulings on interstate commerce taxes and a string of editorial opinions.
The Senate confirmed W R Daw son as postmaster at Tidioute. A sweeping Democratic victory on the 20th re elected Hensen as state committee chairman. The Israel lines show varied notes from politics to society including Miss Bayard's death and gas price debates.
The Chicago News notes Anna Dickinson, once a fervent Republican advocate for the Union, has fallen into poverty. It laments her decline after years of public service and scolding at Democrats, suggesting she deserved a pension while recognizing many others are equally deserving.
The Christian Union reports responses from eighty to ninety correspondents in Illinois and Iowa on High License and prohibition. Findings: many small towns closed saloons due to local sentiment rather than licenses, rural areas show similar impact from both policies, and Chicago saw fewer saloons and less drunkenness while Iowa cities report more saloons and disorder under prohibition.
Bett Bros announces a liquidating sale of staple dry goods bought at under half price. The catalog lists lace curtains, linens, napkins, cottons, cambrics, ticking, denim, prints, ginghams, blankets and more. Sale days Friday and Saturday January 22 and 23 as previews to annual stock taking.
A girl named Collins died in Woodstock Cot recently and was buried. Her body was exhumed for relocation and revealed she had been buried alive with torn shroud, twisted limbs, and signs of torture. Separately, records show $37,000 paid to 927 Indians on the Cattaraugus reservation in the past year.
Notice states Flora Pilmer has left the household without just cause and the author forbids harboring or trusting her or paying any of her bills from this date. Signed in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, December 23, 1835.
Letters testamentary on the estate of Harriet Jane Trantum of Columbus borough Warren county Pa declared granted to the undersigned. Notice to all indebted to the estate to make immediate payment and those with claims to present them properly authenticated for settlement. Annal Trantum Warren Pa Dec 2 1835.
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