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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1872
Page
3
The Executive Committee of the Centennial Commission met in Philadelphia and elected Hon. Daniel Morrell permanent Chairman. The week also brings a torrent of reports from New York and other cities detailing stock movements, crimes, fires, explosions and notable deaths across the nation.
Bandits attacked a train, resisted by a guard, shots fired injuring a guard an officer and a passenger. The assailants captured the cars and seized about £3000 in cash.
Reported actions include tea and coffee free bills debated in the Senate with amendments on salt and coal rejected. The House spent long hours on adjournment motions and depot site debates for the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad. Bills on tariffs internal taxes and relief were advanced or approved, with adjournments noted through March 28 to April 1.
Brownsville special dispatch reports Federal Court Grand Jury indicts Mexican General Cortina for levying war on the United States. It cites raiders stealing cattle along the Neuces River to Rio Grande, a depredatory war since 1865, with 6000 head monthly worth about 63 million dollars. Informers are threatened, Juarez pressed to remove Cortina with no effect. United States forces asked for border protection.
Monday afternoon a gale caused the trestle of a 100 foot high coal breaker at Lackawanna Carbondale Pa to collapse. Two men John Clark Dwight Moses and a boy William Palmer were fatally injured. A miner Rosser died from a coal fall. Several boys may have perished in the flames. The breaker was saved from destruction with great effort.
A sweoruine iron has been invented that can be heated on a gas burner in five minutes, allowing a young man to smooth his hat before going on the promenade.
Instructions describe tying three stakes per tree to support planting using leather belts with multiple punch holes and stays tied to stakes placed east, northwest, and southwest of each tree. Notes include wind directions, cost estimates, and garden-protection observations.
Practical kitchen tips describe a biscuit dough with flour soda cream of tartar lard milk and quick bake method. A spiced beef recipe uses beef ends suet pepper salt savory eggs dried bread or crackers butter and flour formed into a long roll and baked.
Washington report details the Soldiers Homestead bill now to be signed by the President. Eligible officers and troops may receive 160 acres of public land with conditions including residence and timely improvements. Provisions cover widows or minors, restoral of lapsed entries, and in-person or agent entries with rules to be set by the General Land Office.
The Sacramento Bee reports a telegraph depot joke where a long outdoor box lined with zinc shocks sitters who touch it while rising. Inside, electricity routes to iron chair arms for dramatic shocks. A large man leaped toward the ceiling. the sequel ends with the assistant superintendent ejecting the jokers.
Two boys on the Madison Division Chicago and Northwestern flagged a northbound express near Capron Illinois after spotting a fire on sixty feet of a bridge. They extinguished the blaze and halted the train, preventing a potential river wreck.
An English firm purchased a phosphate mine near Perth Ontario for 47000 pounds sterling and has begun large scale operations.
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