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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1883
Page
2
A crocodile hosts a dinner inviting many animals including the Lion Wolf Leopard Lynx Fox Duck Frog and Crocodile. Guests discover the host plans to eat them all. In turn the Lion and Leopard are devoured and the others are served to finish the tale of appetite and guile.
In a May church wedding Emma Crane and Humphrey Carbonel vow to stay together till death. War parts them with estrangement and pride, then death claims him, but a later injury leaves him living. Emma must seek forgiveness as he returns maimed, and vows of reconciliation finally prevail.
At the West Side Commercial Hotel in Carcaco a man and a woman identified as M Crowley and wife were found unconscious from escaping gas. A physician declared the man dead and the woman in danger. They had checked in Saturday night, room 39 on the second floor. meals were missed and the door opened by proprietors, revealing the closed ventilation and fatal asphyxiation. The woman, about forty, was hospitalized but not expected to recover.
In Lincoln Illinois Charles Phillipps former City Marshal and current Deputy Sheriff was shot by F B Warner a tinker at McGrath's grocery store. Phillipps tried to subdue Warner after the first elbow wound and suffered additional injuries to the left wrist and thigh but survived. Warner attempted suicide after being captured.
Illinois county fair notices add Clay Flora Edgar Lake La Salle Peoria Richland Union counties with dates. Marriages, train arrival to Cairo from Batesville, Rome communiqué on Father Riordan to San Francisco, Morgan County reunion, multiple accidents, thefts, and a glanders case. Officials reshuffle and law on fence height. Lincoln marble slab receives daily flowers.
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