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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1888
Page
2
The brief notes Political, Commercial, and Industrial News, fires, accidents, crimes, and personal crisis reports are cataloged. It preserves concise items from local events and daily occurrences, emphasizing notable incidents and economic updates within the community.
Delegate Caine of Utah defends Mor mons and says polygamy is a dead issue as the House, after hours of trying to reach a quorum, adjourns. A Georgia slate elects Mr Crisp as Speaker pro tem while a judiciary committee report requests Attorney General data on convictions and pardons for polyga my and unlawful cohabitation in Utah and Idaho. Payson of Illinois seeks to revoke most leaves of absence effective the 27th and to halt pairings.
Nine new yellow fever cases and two more deaths are reported at the Jacksonville hospital. The infected district expands as one hundred total cases are reached. Savannah Florida and Western Railroad reportedly barred Jacksonville travelers, even on through tickets, with one passenger ejected at Lavilla Junction. All express North is refused.
The weather bulletin dated the 27th notes favorable conditions for harvesting in the Northwest and farm work. Wheat harvests progressed in central and northern Dakota and Minnesota with frost damage largely overestimated.
Baseball column surveys pennant chase standings as of late season. It names leading batters, clubs, and key figures shaping the race. The piece analyzes performance trends and prospect changes for upcoming games.
L. R. Wooton and D. D. Finch traveled from Trinidad Col to Stonewall to mediate with Maxwell settlers and free six deputies. They found the besieged house vacant. in the clash Francisco Petique was shot in the head and R. D. Russell seriously wounded as eight or ten settlers were injured. The Governor declines intervention.
An east bound stock train in Manitoba, at high speed, struck a herd of cattle near Fort Buford. The engine and seventeen cars left the track and piled up. About one hundred cattle were killed and five trainmen injured, three of whom may die.
Near Findlay Ohio farmer Elza Harris sees a boy drive two horses past a beehive. The bees swarm in a body and sting the animals to death within half an hour. The incident is reported as a fatal bee attack on livestock.
W F Hudson assistant disbursing clerk of the House of Representatives died in Providence Hospital from congestion of the liver after a brief illness. He had moved from Iowa to Washington and was well known in Iowa Democratic circles.
The Wisconsin Republican Convention met in Milwaukee and nominated State ticket: Governor W. D. Hoard, Lieutenant Governor G. W. Ryland, Secretary of State Ernest G. Timme, Treasurer H. B. Harshaw, Attorney General C. E. Estabrook, Superintendent J. B. Thayer, Railroad Commissioner Atley Peterson, Insurance Commissioner Philip Cheek Jr. Hoard, a Jackson County farmer, won on the first ballot amid rival leaders. A platform backed the national party, praised state administration, and eulogized Gov. Rusk.
The piece lists Republicans and some Democrats nominating candidates across districts in Iowa Ohio Indiana Kentucky Michigan Maryland West Virginia Dakota and Idaho. Names include Conger Vance Braxton Henderson Butterworth Sayles Hartsuff Mudd McComas Mathews plus Minor party entrant W L Carpenter and others.
Rh. G. Dun & Co. notes improved crop prospects across corn oats and wheat with expectations of a larger cotton yield. Inflation in coal and iron markets softens, leather and wool sectors brighten, money tightness normalizes, dry goods show Chicago gains, and total failures fall to 214 from 219 week over week.
The Nebraska Republican State Convention in Lincoln nominated a full state ticket led by Governor candidate John M. Thayer and Lieutenant Governor candidate G. D. Meiklejohn. Others named were Gilbert Laws Secretary of State J E Hill Treasurer John Steen Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings George B e Superintendent of Public Instruction and presidential electors Hastings Russell Butler.
James McNeeny of Webster and Charles F Id dings of Lincoln lead a Nebraska Republican platform in support of Harrison Mor ton and the nine hour legal workday. The platform assails the Democratic administration and calls the convention to urge voters to decide the liquor prohibition question at the state election.
The Iowa Republican State Convention met at Des Moines and nominated for Secretary of State Frank D. Jackson, Auditor J A Lyons, Treasurer O P Twombly, Supreme Judge C T Granger Allama kee County, Attorney General J T Stone Council Blaffs, Railroad Commissioners F T Campbell Spencer Smith John Mahin, Electors at Large Ex Governor Stone Col Hepburn. A platform endorses national nominees, praises Gov Larrabee’s administration, supports railway control and recent railway legislation, lauds temperance laws, backs gold silver and greenbacks, denounces the Democratic Congress, and notes General Sheridan’s death.
The Treasury Department issues a statement on appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, prepared at the current session of Congress in the regular annual appropriation bills.
A fire at The Whitney Paper Mill in Menasha Wisconsin started around midnight. While spectators watched the blaze an overheated boiler exploded sending a ten ton mass into the crowd about 300 feet away. Fourteen workers were killed outright and many others were injured. The mill valued at $65 000 and insured for $51 000 will be rebuilt.
Billy Cole was lynched at Guide Rock Nebraska after a shooting at Talbot's Hall left William Montgomery and Charlie Grant wounded. Guards allowed a planned mob to seize him, then strung him up and vanished the attackers, leaving no clue to their identities.
Mrs. Robert Scott of Penn Yan, New York, consumed strychnine at a summer resort near home, expressed remorse, and died shortly after at a local doctor’s. She blamed in laws for pressuring separation from her husband, who had been married only months.
Violent windstorms sweep Louisiana Maryland Delaware and New Jersey destroying homes fences crops and injuring boats on the Lower Mississippi coal boats damaged or lost totaling about 500000. In Wilmington Delaware a cyclone wrecks Madlow Bros iron works and Pusey Jones damage. two lives lost. Boston Journal press room flooded.
Gouverneur Morris aged 75, member of the notable Morris family, died at Bartow-on-the-Sound Illinois. He was grandson and namesake of the Continental Congress member and founder of the American currency system, and an early proponent of the Union Pacific Railroad.
The record notes the originators of the Illinois Central and Iowa system of roads and mentions that his mother was a niece of Thomas Jefferson, linking prominent railroad development to Jeffersonian lineage.
The London Mark Lane Express notes depressed crop prospects with no English wheat in sound condition likely for some time. It records weekly English wheat sales of 16,570 quarters at 35s 9d per quarter, versus 61,022 quarters at 32s per quarter a year earlier.
Night Editor Bennington of the New York Herald lost his wedding when Miss Lottie Faulkner of Allegheny Pa married Dr. E C Marnekie hospital steward of the Western Penitentiary just before the ceremony. A stormy scene followed the announcement.
Mrs. Howes of Philadelphia was killed in an ambush on the Tobique River near Andover New Hampshire. Major Howes, her husband, had warned off poachers on his fishing grounds. two men, William Day and Frank Trafto, are suspected as the murderers.
At Rondout New York a malt house owned by Niedlinger Schmidt and Co. and two large ice-houses owned by the Brewers Ice Company of New York were burned. In South Rondout a section of Hiltenbrandt's shipyard burned. Total loss estimated at 100000 dollars.
Isaac Speckter, a Kansas City merchant, fired on a shadow entering his store early in the morning, killing his wife who he believed was a burglar. Authorities investigate the shooting as a possible defense claim.
The Burlingtons St. Louis and St. Paul Line with headquarters at St. Louis has secured joint occupancy of the Wabash tracks from St. Peters Missouri to St. Louis, including terminal facilities at St. Louis.
A Springfield to Columbus train accident injures twelve passengers, among them Charles Hall, Chicago superintendent of the Woodruff sleeping car line.
Dan Lyons, condemned for killing athlete Quinn, was hanged in New York Tombs. He maintained remarkable coolness throughout the execution.
The Honorable John Mosier former County Judge of Valley and Saunders Counties Nebraska died in Harrison Nebraska from asthma and old age.
The tower of the new Church of the Covenant in Washington collapsed taking the front wall with it, causing an estimated loss of 20000 dollars.
At the West Virginia Republican state convention in Charleston, Gen N was nominated for governor. Delegates backed his candidacy amid a crowded field as party leaders outlined campaign priorities and regional support.
News notes Dillon’s health deteriorates in Dundalk Jail with seven pounds lost. Separate items report the Australian mail service continuing after New Zealand accepts Dickinson offer worth 50 000 dollars yearly. A powder plant blast near West Berkeley, California, kills five workers including two Americans and three Chinese laborers.
Senate adjourns after dividing on the fisheries treaty with a 27 to 30 vote and party lines. House actions include tariff bills, Chinese prohibition, and defense of Benedict in Government printing probe amid appropriation debates.
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