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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1872
Page
3
Reports list deaths from gas anesthesia in New York. Fires destroy hotels in Saugerties and Rockford mills. Bowles family burns, husband dies saving children. Snowbound trains trap crews near Gloversville and Ottawa region. Robberies and ship sinkings punctuate a week of calamities across states and Canada.
Holmes argues that effective talk arises from the brain’s readiness not mere will. He contrasts a stiff five minute oration with a spark of genuine insight that ignites longer eloquent thought and shared feeling.
Senate passed the Chicago Relief bill 2 to 17 and debated tariffs. House authorized bridges across the Mississippi at Clinton Iowa and condemned Ohio river bridge plans. measures for printing laws and Postoffice funding advanced. Senate discussed pensions and executive session followed adjournment.
The joint resolution calls for a colossal Admiral Farragut statue in Farragut Square Washington with a 20 000 cost cap The Senate and House Public Buildings and Grounds committees must review models by January 1873 and select an appropriate design The measure was adopted and the session adjourned
Deputy Sheriff Radegan went to President’s Island near Memphis to arrest John White a feared negro. White barricaded his cabin firing on rescuers and killing two as a posse moved in to burn the cabin and force surrender. He was captured and jailed after posing lethal resistance and threatening violence.
George Hall, official reporter, unveils mechanical tubes linking judge chamber to reporters bench. The system enables seven reporters to work a case with phonographic notes and rubberized flexible tubes improving audibility while preserving privacy. Alexis sails toward China via Rio and the Cape.
Massachusetts Board of Health reports on treadle sewing machines impact on women. It finds health risks rise with long factory use, recommends steam power, notes fatigue and cramps, and cites surveys of 312 to 226 workers across age groups. It also discusses manners and home training and a Newark fire incident during a charity play.
The Postoffice Department introduces a new registered package envelope with a registered seal for secure letter transmission. Envelopes and seals are supplied in equal quantities to Postmasters, seals sent separately, and placed on the reversed side over the lapping. Postmasters must use the new system, keep accurate accounts, exhaust old envelopes, and not apply seals to old style envelopes.
Congress considers authorizing the Treasury Secretary to hire a company to build floating docks with at least 5000 ton capacity and propellers to pass deep draft ships over the Mississippi River bar. The plan would pay $250,000 annually for ten years to move all vessels tax free. Digs are engraved nowadays, in Cresar's time the die was cast.
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