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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1883
Page
7
Domestic tragedy recounts a woman's suicide by hanging tied to a beam, with a wash tub used to aid the act. The piece notes religious turmoil as a motive and lists local concerns alongside a Chicago mayoral race and county agricultural statistics for Lee County. The Dixon high school play provokes harsh critique of theatrical focus in public education and calls for ideas over display.
E W Smith is in Chicago and Mrs Margaret Beal is ill. James Jordan appointed fire warden and Luther Bachus heads to Dakota. The mayor plans a new carriage house and Miss Addie Anderson returns from Kansas. A. Barlow returns from Dakota, Judge Brown improves at Hot Springs, and many locals visit family or roads to the Dakotas.
John W. Mizner sues Lillie V. Mizner in Lee County Circuit Court for the May term 1883. A summons issued returnable on the first day of the May term. Case No 856 remains pending with Ira W. Lewis as clerk and Joan D. Crantres as solicitor.
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