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Newspaper
Daily Liberal
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1881
Page
1
The president shows steady improvement in convalescence after the shooting. He desires hearty meals beyond broth, grows cheerful, and expresses faith inspired by his wife. Doctors monitor for internal issues while the public hopes for a full recovery.
Dubuque headlines report Guiteau the assassin and Geo Sykes death at Clinton from sunstroke, plus multiple Iowa incidents: deaths from July 4 6 and 7. fires at Lyons Low Moor Cedar Rapids and Burlington. drownings in Davenport Milan and Maples River. tornado at Battle Creek Perry Valley and near Ida Grove. a cattle company formation. burglaries and a dangerous madman case. and a note on vivisection and sneezing from Popular Science Monthly.
A Joliet fire destroyed 35 buildings with losses over 50,000. Dean Bros mill in South Chester Pa burned July 1. Large Cincinnati buildings burned July 7 causing about 500,000 in losses. Other notes include cattle losses in New York, drownings in Vermont and France, a deadly train wreck near East St. Louis, and a giant new Brooklyn grain elevator nearing completion.
Thomas Harper, a cowboy, was hanged in Tucson on July 8 for murder. He left a letter to Curly Bill warning him to spare lives. A Chicago officer sparked a court intrigue by naming a waif Charles J. Guiteau in court. In Wisconsin, two desperadoes killed Sheriff Coleman and Charles Coleman. Williams brothers are suspected and have a reward. A Mineral Springs Arkansas barbecue turned tense with armed Negroes and whites clashing as officers tried to arrest a drunken participant.
International reaction to President Garfield’s shooting dominates dispatches from London Berlin and Paris. King Kalakua’s inquiry confirms no death. British minister appointment noted. British troops and volunteers parade. German scholars wary of German University. Telegrams pour into Washington as Russia France Spain and Afghanistan updates spread amid a looming monetary conference and regional warfare.
Massachusetts ministers had small pay but achieved much, as byfield pastor Parsons earned 280 dollars yearly while sending three sons to Harvard. Jonathan Edwards wrote great works on letter scraps due to frugal funds, and his daughters’ schooling funded family earnings. The era’s thrift shaped educated success across the clergy.
A grocer read the Emerson line Trust men and they will be true to you and became furious seizing a club and asking where Emerson lived. The men withheld that information. The incident shows a strong reaction to the quotation.
A Detroit reader recounts saving his wife from a long illness after failed medical advice using Hop Bitters. He claims two bottles restored her health at a low cost, noting a dramatic reversal of years of ailment and financial strain.
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