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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1882
Page
2
Senate and House actions feature pensions for Garfield Polk and Tyler widows. Tariff Commission debates proceed. various appropriation bills move, including Indians and industry. Flood relief measures discussed. railroad and ship canal topics appear alongside a flood and crime notes.
Fire wipes Grundy Virginia. a Louisiana tornado. Monroe plantations ruined. 40 smallpox cases and 5 deaths in Cincinnati. immigrant influx to Castle Garden. Wabash train wreck attempt. Leadville killing. Alabama tornado with 12 dead. Rider killings in Jasper Ohio. Alaska Indian execution in Portland. Havana water works contract worth 9.2 million. Irish girls to New York as domestics. Wells comet observed. miners resist wage cuts. Western Union buys Mutual Union lines. Tombstone gun battle leaves 2 dead and 3 wounded.
Representatives Darrall Belford and Tyler named to fill Republican vacancies. An Executive Committee for campaign affairs includes Senators Allison Hale Aldrich and Representatives Hiscock Robeson McKinley Fisher Page Davis Ilinois Houck Calkins Van Horne Russell Washburn of Minnesota and Ryan of Kansas. Guiteau case noted. Tariff Commission bill outlines nine members with $10 daily pay and nine-member panel to study tariff and internal revenue. Montana Secretary nominee McCarneon. tax cut proposal targets internal revenue and excise taxes. California anti Chinese stance urged. Iowa Greenbackers set June convention dates. Democratic Executive Committee roster listed. Washington Ladies Aid Society formed for Garfield Memorial Hospital. Prohibitory Liquor bill defeated in Massachusetts.
Indiana resident Wittiam Williams is nominated to serve as Charge d Affaires of the United States to Paraguay and Uruguay. E. T. Merrick is appointed counsel in the Star-route prosecutions after Cook’s resignation. The Alabama State Democratic Convention meets in Montgomery on June 7. Secretary Hunt ordered a new steamer charter for Siberia search efforts after Lena price dispute. Judge James Parton of West Virginia dies in Wheeling from heart disease. The Guiteau case bill of exceptions would fill two volumes, signed by Scoville on the 30th.
A Paris parliamentary repeal lifts the prohibition on American pork imports on the 25th. Other items note a Toronto fire destroying manufacturing property worth 60000 dollars on the night of the 28th, and various international incidents including a Nihilist arrest in St Petersburg, record Atlantic crossing by the Alaska, and strikes in Barcelona.
Corvexius J. Vanderbil t, second son of the late Commodore Vanderbilt and brother of railroad magnate William H., shoots himself at 2 p m and dies at 6 p m in New York. Despondency from chronic epilepsy is cited. Advices report Stephen A. Hurlbut's death in Peru and other items from Washington and Vienna. Flood notes from New Orleans region describe levee breaks, stock losses, and widespread inundation along the Red and Mississippi rivers.
Flood conditions multiply mosquitoes in frightening numbers and endanger livestock security. The buffalo gnat has become a serious annoyance, with disease risk growing if sickness follows, echoing ancient plagues in scale.
Washington March 29 The Speaker presented a communication from the Secretary of the Interior detailing land grants to ten states and thirty-two railroad companies for construction. It lists miles proposed and completed, acres granted and patented, and names major lines including Northern Pacific Oregon & California and Texas Pacific among others.
A New York man helps a French beggar who later proves to be a fraud. The man pretends hunger by dropping bread then retrieves it for money from passersby. He is described as forty, bearded, operating near Broadway and Houston streets, and the tale ends with the exposure of his ruse.
A Tunisian girl Fatima Ben Ali fell in love with a French subaltern in Tunis. He was wounded, transported to Paris, where Fatima followed and learned of his death. She fell ill with brain fever and died in a public hospital.
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