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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1889
Page
2
Brief telegraph notices cover political gossip railroad rumblings personal mentions fires accidents crimes and other world events. Read with brisk country newspaper tone for quick updates on notable occurrences and notable personalities.
An executive session of the Senate lasted two hours on the 30th alt devoted to Murot Halstead nominated as Minister to Germany. A roll call vote on reconsideration failed 25 to 19 with Evarts Ingalls Plumb and Teller dissenting with Democrats. The President sent several names for diplomatic posts and confirmed others including Lincoln and Rice as ministers to various countries.
A violent gale struck Cincinnati on the 31st between 4 and 5 pm with 44.5 mph winds. Many houses in the southwest and north were unroofed, fences toppled, and Covington Newport felt the impact. Dayton reports damage to the incomplete Sacred Heart Catholic Church as a heavy timber dome frame collapsed after hours of sway.
J C Biggins a Palmyra Illinois sheep exporter went to St Thomas Ontario to buy breeding stock. He was robbed at gunpoint on a road two miles north of St Thomas losing 500 dollars after a man flagged his horse and demanded money. He reported the incident to police.
The Central Union Telephone Company failed to obtain a restraining order against the Akron Electric Street Railway Company. Judge Green refused to curb the railway from extending its line, ruling conflicts over earth and air rights on city thoroughfares unresolved. The telephone firm plans to appeal.
A new legal action in Herman Minnesota arises from a farm lease by H H Schram to Alex Weir. The lease requires equal division of livestock increases between lessor and lessee. Weir seeks half of the baby born to Schram’s wife, claiming rights under the lease and moves to prevent removal.
At a New York City Central Labor Union meeting a letter claimed from Jay Gould via contractor Washington Davis offered 11 million dollars in gold to the union if it would adopt Goulds plan for cooperative industry.
Hartford dispatch reports Harriet Beecher Stowe has recovered physically from last summer illness but now suffers severe mental decline. Her memory is childlike, she greets old friends with a vacant stare, and doctors treat her with tenderness. The piece notes similarity to her father Lyman Beecher’s later years.
John Bright, renowned English statesman and philanthropist, died in London after a long illness. Interment was at the Quakers' burying ground in Rochdale. Born 1811 near Rochdale, Bright rose as an orator in the Anti-Corn Law League, served in Gladstone cabinets, and was a longtime advocate for Irish rights and reform before opposing home rule. He married Elizabeth Priestman in 1839, then Margaret Leatham. survived by four sons and three daughters.
A man pulled a bottle of nitro glycerine on Mr. Moffat in a bank, forced a cashing of a check, then fled after tipping his hat. Clerks stood by as three men were arrested but none matched the suspect.
The New York Centennial Committee requests President Harrison issue a proclamation for a nationwide Thanksgiving service at 9 am on April 30 in churches, marking the Washington inauguration centennial. They also urge nationwide decoration of buildings, fireworks, and patriotic meetings to commemorate the holiday.
The Supreme Council of Royal Templars of Temperance met in Buffalo New York and elected officers including Supreme Councilor the Rev R D Munger Waterloo NY Supreme Vice Councilor the Rev J N Emery New Castle PA Supreme Chaplain the Rev A M Phillips Toronto Ont Supreme Secretary Samuel Nelson Buffalo NY Supreme Treasurer John Lytle Buffalo NY Supreme Medical Examiner Dr G W Grosvenor Buffalo NY Supreme Advocate J H Tatum Grand Rapids MI Supreme Herald George A Lewis Kentucky Supreme Guard F M Huntington New Jersey Supreme Sentinel J W Wilson Illinois The Council approved replacing one degree with two in subordinate councils.
Cincinnati widow Mrs. B F Marsh died at home leaving no will. Her siblings John Fox, George Fox, and sister Mrs George Middlecoff inherit the entire estate, totaling about 800000 dollars, with 267000 dollars to each. Mrs Marsh was widow of Cincinnati millionaire B F Marsh, who built his oil of vitriol empire.
Two Moberly men died when Wabash Western Railway train No. 8 the St Paul and St Louis Express plunged through a bridge near Queen City Missouri. Engineer John Arthur and fireman Luther Chamberlin were killed. Mail agent Charles Hisle and express messenger W. L. Skinner were injured. No passengers were hurt. The wreck left the engine and three coaches in a ditch eight feet deep and three feet wide.
R G Dun & Co reports a general drop in average prices for all commodities for the week, with trade improving in parts yet coal and iron weak, wheat down, sugar and cotton mixed, and the stock market slipping amid investor selling and potential receiverships. Failures totaled 240 versus prior weeks.
Political notes report the Canadian Senate defeats a reciprocity in wrecking on the lakes bill by 134 to 26. Henry W. Raymond of Germantown Pa editor named Private Secretary to Navy Secretary Tracy. Postmaster General names railway mail service superintendents Norman Parkins St Paul. P Lindsey St Louis. J B Weaver Fort Worth. Judge McCue resigns as Assistant Treasurer in New York.
A man was discovered dying in his room with a morphine bottle at his side. He was transported to the city hospital where he subsequently died.
Funeral services for Associate Justice Stanley Matthews were conducted at the family home in Washington on the 25th alt with a large assembly led by President Harrison, Cabinet members, Vice President Morton, and Supreme Court justices. The remains were then taken to Glendale, Ohio, for interment.
Dispatches report the American ships Trenton Vandalia and Nipsic and the German Adler Olga and Eber driven onto a reef in a violent storm and wrecked. Four American officers and forty six sailors drowned, while nine German officers and eighty seven seamen perished.
Two prominent Washington men prepare to duel with rapiers after an alleged insulting remark about one man’s wife. The incident centers on the old Hackettsville dueling grounds and follows a heated dispute between the young rivals.
Reports from Florence Alabama indicate Abrams Hewitt Edward Cooper and other New Yorkers have purchased a controlling interest in the Tennessee Coal Trim and Railway Company, described as the largest and wealthiest southern corporation.
W A Harvey a bookkeeper in Guelph Ontario was arrested for embezzling 4000 from J W Lyon his employer He was released on bail and after returning home shot his wife and two daughters then disappeared
A man registered as F. Barnet at the St. James Hotel Toronto was arrested on swindling charges. He targeted jewelers by posing as a Catholic priest seeking a present for the Pope. He is described as an old offender.
In Newton Highlands Massachusetts Nicholas Mead a waiter tried to murder Mrs Samuel Tuckerman and her three children by shooting the woman and her 14 year old son in the head wounding them badly He then fatally shot himself
The Consolidated Oil Tank Line storehouse in Lafayette Indiana was destroyed by fire. Loss estimated between 12000 and 15000 dollars with no insurance. Four tanks holding 2000 barrels of oil were saved.
At the annual meeting in Boston the American Bell Telephone Company re elected the old officers. The report shows a 24.45 percent return on stock and assets of 258 dollars per share.
Martin R. Goldsworthy an agent for Standard Oil at Hancock Michigan traveled to Toronto via the Soo leaving a shortage of 6090 dollars and debts higher still.
Ten miles west of Creighton Nebraska John Rosenberger struck and fatally hurt Andrew Casta line. He then set fire to his own house and burned it to the ground, after which he died in personal crisis.
Former Brooklyn Democrat Mahoney born 1848 in New York died at the Arlington Hotel Washington D C from the cold he contracted on inauguration day. He once ran a dry goods business in New York and was elected to Congress from Brooklyn in 1886 and re elected in 1888. Remains taken to Brooklyn for interment.
The West’s boldest bank robbery bears down on the First National Bank of Denver California where an unknown well-dressed man demanded 21000 from President Moffat of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. He threatened to kill and blow up the bank if not paid.
Among the nominations sent to the Senate by President Harrison on the 27th alt are Robert T. Lincoln of Illinois to be Minister to Great Britain Murat Halstead of Ohio Minister to Germany Allen Thorndyke Rice of New York Minister to Russia Patrick Egan of Nebraska Minister to Chile Thomas Ryan of Kansas Minister to Mexico John Hicks of Wisconsin to be United States Minister to Peru George B. Loring of Massachusetts Minister Resident and Consul General to Portugal Chester A. Wilcox to be Postmaster at Quincy IL
An elderly well dressed man and wife register as 8 M Waite and wife of Florida at the Hotel Park St Louis. The man claims ownership of a Florida orange grove. He drinks beer and dines in his room. next morning the woman leaves and does not return. Later Waite
The Senate held executive sessions on the 26th and 27th of the month to clear nominations from the committee. It confirmed ministers, marshals, collectors, and postmasters for multiple states and territories. A notable debate centered on Murat Halstead’s nomination as minister to Germany amid opposition linked to press comments about President Cleveland. The body also adopted a centennial ceremony invitation and appointed seven senators for New York.
Senator Hearst of California shows little pleasure in wealth as his Washington mansion reception overflows with guests. Flowers reportedly cost 25000 dollars and after mingling in the crowd the senator leads a small group to a coal-hole cellar where a servant sets up wine and tobacco for a quiet retreat away from “those idiots upstairs.”
An Ohio poultry-raiser reports a curious finding. He observed that when feeding a flock the chickens arrange themselves to circle him from right to left, moving in front and continuing the loop as long as he remains still. No interruption can reverse their course.
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