30 May 1884
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Newspaper
Alton Review
Location
Alton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1884
Page
1
Til late Cyrus H. McCormie by his will leaves property valued at about $10,000,000, all of which is bequeathed to his widow and children.
Alexander Wuustz a wealthy flairyman from Grand Rapids Michigan who lost heavily in New York last week shot himself dead at his mother's home in Utica New York The act ends a string of financial ruin amid ongoing personal tragedy reported in local newspapers.
The Pike's Peak Railway will be completed during 1885 and already runs to 12000 feet above sea level. An exchange notes the line spans thirty miles with no straight piece longer than 300 feet. Maximum grade is 316 feet per mile and average grade 270, with many curves 500 to 1000 feet long and frequent radius changes. Cost projected at 12000 to 15000 dollars per mile.
City officials plan a protest meeting condemning pauper emigration from England led by London slums. Emigrants are deemed undesirable, unable or unwilling to work, burdening Montreal charities. Sir Henry Tyler and others front a so called slumming craze. Dominion Government to press Home Office against this migration.
The career of W Bogan Cash ends in a Cheraw barn when a sheriff posse fires on him after he opens fire on attackers. He is killed, reportedly saving the state trial costs and possible disgrace of acquittal, dying with his booted stride.
Peapot calls a large Sun dance and demands land for fresh fish to fight scurvy blamed on bacon. Fifty deaths in three months. Assiniboines and other tribes join the movement. Yellow Calf's band arms itself defying authorities. Cannon and troops to Reina, a front line fight anticipated.
STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY in New Orleans is praised as one of the most successful colleges for colored students. Dean Hitchcock says the pupils exhibit strong moral character on par with white students, excel in metaphysics, are natural theologians and politicians, and show invention in drawing though lacking in exact sciences and higher mathematics. He notes their drawing designs show originality, predicting they may become poets and musicians rather than inventors.
Senator Dolph introduces a bill forfeiting lands along the Northern Pacific main line from Wallula Junction to Portland a 214 mile stretch. It restores land to the public domain and to public land laws, then forfeits adjacent unbuilt lands after five years. The act allows possession holders to purchase 820 acres if improved and requires the railway to assent to bill conditions.
Ottawa NL judgments totaling 1 845 257 were entered against Eliot Brewing Company of LaSalle. In Water Ville MA tar was dumped on a Mormon elder. proselytizing among lower classes noted. Debates on pensions, road orders, and government expenditures dominate a wide range of foreign and domestic items.
A Milwaukee businessman Tully H. Smith disappeared days ago and died by suicide in a New Orleans jail. The report also cites Joseph Frazier’s hanged suicide in Anderson Indiana after being charged, and various other crime notes including depot robbery arrest, burglaries, and a fatal seeding by self-inflicted death linked to a Milwaukee judge’s son.
N G Summerfield removed as assistant superintendent of the railway service. Treasury and tariff actions loom as Hewitt bill work begins. Garcia named Colombian minister to the United States. Gresham orders mail from New York and Galveston to Mexico rerouted via El Paso. Exposition loan approved. civil service reform bill moves. Mock convention at Washington and Jefferson nominates Edmunds. St. Louis district attorney Buss weighs in on tenure bills.
Foreign reports note Kina Alronzo of Spain pledging higher soldier pay and tax reform. A Turartisan arrested in Prussian Saxony confessed involvement in dynamite attack plans on Germania’s statue at Niederswald. Indemnity talks see Mala gassy government offer France 1 million pounds for territory renunciation in Madagascar. The steamer Australia arrives with dignitaries including the marquis of Normandy and marchioness. In Asia Minor, Bei Bazar features heavy destruction with 950 homes, 544 shops, 11 mosques, 15 schools, and 9 khans burned. eleven people perish. Wool spinners in Liegnitz win a 15 percent wage rise after owners concede. In Parliament Chamberlain speaks four hours for Merchants Shipping bill. David Maciver and others oppose passage, expected outcome uncertain. The London Times notes broad English regret over finances.
Fire destroys Sinux's shoddy mills in Philadelphia with losses of 26000, while Tur village in Tuscola county Michigan suffers 86000 in fire. A port of Owensboro wagon factory burns with hubs lost 20000, and a bridge collapse near Portsmouth kills three children. Heavily insured Oswego Arcade block loses 50000 with multiple big claims. A river ice tragedy claims Jamies Ansty near Toronto.
The canal commissioners grant J W Beach permission to lay a pneumatic tube line from Chicago to La Salle for pneumatic transport. Beach plans a Pneumatic Transportation Company to move packages letters and grain with 99 mile lines and 17 inch diameter tubes, speed up to ten miles a minute, compressed air motors, and end receivers. He aims to extend to St Louis via Peoria and Springfield and cites a London example between Westminster and the central telegraph office as precedent. The project will begin with one tube in operation and may include disjointed sections with air tight receivers. Beach intends to organize promptly.
C A Dana argues Mexico’s population is around 9 to 10 million with most inhabitants being Indians akin to Pueblo Zuni and Navajo. He notes limited education but growing school efforts and envisions a bright future through native development while Spanish influence dominates ruling classes and officials.
An old time advertisement extols Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a remedy for nausea tongue coating and liver distress. It claims the tonic calms the stomach aids digestion and cleanses the bowels while offering relief for fever bilious disorders and kidney and bladder troubles and promotes vigor with steady use.
In East Oakland California last Tuesday afternoon a male canary strangled itself by squeezing its head through the cage wires after its mate died on Monday. The birds belonged to Mr Calberg. The male sang briefly then refused to eat before the fatal act.
In his thirty seventh year with Plymouth Church Beecher will conclude duties on May 16. The historic ministerial tenure marks decades of service to the congregation and local community.
British Counsel at Copenhagen paints a bleak view of Danish drinking habits using government statistics. From 1860 to 1880 licensed drinking venues rose from 21 to 51 per 1,000 inhabitants. In 1871 divorces reached 825 with seventy due to drunkenness. by 1880 these figures were 380 and 104. In Prasto and Bornholm all divorces stemmed from drinking, mostly the husband’s fault. About 30 percent of relieved poor are habitual drunkards. lunacy rose 20 percent. Despite more pubs and higher drink taxes, deaths from drinking fell in 1881–82 while tax receipts for drink climbed only modestly.
A playful exchange shows an American man bragging about impressing a Mexican bella in a social moment. The Mexican sternly notes his faux pas including lighting and finishing a cigar without offering one, leaving the man embarrassed and realization dawning.
In a St Nicholas tale a prisoner plays a tuning fork near a garden spider, Mrs Epeira, causing her to tug at the web's spokes and attempt to seize the metal. The experiment, repeated on each spoke, ends with the spider deceived by the hum, mistaking it for prey, while the narrator notes the misinterpretation.
Miss Vallie Case, principal of Ga Sierra public school in San Bernardino County, found a bee hive inside an unused stove. The bees entered via chimney and elbow joints, attacked pupils when disturbed, and were eventually smoked out and subdued by the schoolmistress.
In Charlottesville Virginia a Black man named Jog Barko was sentenced to hang on July 25 for killing Raadhit Ot Roteor on a public street last November. The case drew attention to racial tensions and public safety in the city.
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