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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1888
Page
2
A compilation of telegraphic reports covers political social financial and criminal events. The bundle highlights political moves social happenings market shifts and notable incidents from varied regions and sectors.
The murdered millionaire Amos J. Snell was laid to rest in Rose Hill cemetery after a funeral that drew about 150 carriages. Police guarded the house during the interment and conducted a thorough search for clues but found no lead to the crime. Chief Henshaw said investigators remain at sea yet confident the murderers will be caught.
Vienna reports Prince Lobanoff states Russia will not initiate a settlement by diplomacy or discuss other powers schemes. Constantinople warns Russia may sever relations if Kiamil Pasha is sent to Sofia as Turkish Commissioner. Bulgaria cites the Berlin treaty allowing a Turkish Commissioner and views failure to send one as undermining Bulgarian independence.
In Marissa Illinois a wealthy resident George W. Guthrie was found shot dead in his home after church. A robbery attempt rifled his clothes and damaged a safe while a struggle appeared to have occurred. Guthrie, 44, was highly regarded in the region and his death resembles a famed Chicago case of a millionaire victim.
A Washington special reports Republicans in Congress insist on separate enabling acts for admitting the territories. They oppose lumping Dakota with Washington Montana and New Mexico and expect Senate Republicans to pass the Dakota bill while shelving New Mexico.
A Fort Worth dispatch reports the Carthage Texas Treasurer Hill was killed during a robbery at the Panola County Treasurers office. The door was forced, the body headless, and $6009 was stolen from the safe. the crime was discovered 24 hours later.
Mrs Sarah J Robinson of Massachusetts the Borgia is found guilty of causing the death of her nephew Prince Arthur Freeman in a murder trial. Authorities believe she poisoned and killed seven persons across her alleged scheme.
Reports from the German Crown Prince say he remains alive and is doing as well as could be expected after undergoing the operation. The bulletin provides few new details and offers no further prognosis.
Beating the world record, Aubert the pedestrian finished first in New York after six days of walking. He completed 62114 miles, setting a new mark in the endurance event.
Telegrams in brief report that the remains of Stephen J. Meany will be sent to his mother in Ireland. A Pullman palace car was seized and chained to tracks near Topeka Kansas over unpaid taxes. Abita has been prepared in Washington to reorganize the Federal judiciary shifting district court workload from circuit courts to ease backlog at the Supreme Court.
A New York Herald report covers Senator Wade Hampton's long attack on Gen. Sherman over the burning of Columbia, while Sherman retorts that Hampton and an international commission settled the matter. Other items include the execution of Clement Arthur Day for the murder of Johanna Cross, a deadly explosion at Du Pont Powder Works in Pa, Princeton College's leadership change with Dr. Patton chosen as president, and a boiler explosion on an Indiana farm killing two.
Two men killed and four injured by a boiler explosion in Barnesville Ohio. Metropolitan National Bank of Cincinnati in trouble. President Means arrested for misappropriation and signing a false bank statement. Other items include Dakota blizzard notes, a large Cleveland clothing-store fire loss, Kansas City cable car crash with multiple injuries, a Toledo family ill with trichinosis, Dubuque saloon injunctions, a Helena Montana murder by hanging, and a nitroglycerine explosion in Bellevue Ohio killing two workers.
The House Democrats in Washington elected a 34 member Congressional Committee with members from Alabama through Arizona and New Mexico. Names include James J. Jones, L. I. McKinney, William McAdoo, L. S. Bryce, Beriah Wilkins, Benton McMillin, G. D. Wise, M. A. Smith, J. K. Toole, and C. S. Voorhees. A New Orleans telegram notes ex govern H. C. Warmoth accepts the Republican gubernatorial nomination with a nonpartisan admin aim and calls for fair elections while opposing color line politics. Chicago reports Republican managers and convention preparations for the National Democratic Convention at the Auditorium, with Ford W. Peck leading the building effort.
A black man forced entry at the Tunnage residence in Ponchatoula and assaulted Miss Tunnage. Arrested and held for transfer to Amite jail, he was seized by a mob of about thirty men as officers prepared to board, and by morning was found dead hanging from a tree.
The Queen’s speech in London signals government plans for bills on public gathering squares and thoroughfares, Irish land valuation, English local government, land transfers, titles, limited liability reforms, employer liability, and technical education. It notes crime decline in Ireland and omits European crisis mentions.
The English bark Abercorn, wrecked off Washington Territory with a cargo valued at 125000 dollars, may have lost twenty lives. Congress reports a bill to form the Oklahoma Territory from unoccupied Indian lands with government machinery and school land reservations. Delegates of the African Emigration Association plan talks with the President about emigration to Liberia. The Dun weekly review notes general business slack with some improvement in St. Paul and Omaha, persistent debt in real estate and agriculture, and mixed commodity price shifts. The Agriculture Department reports rising livestock counts overall, led by horses and cattle, with declines in sheep and swine, pushing total farm animals above 13 million and value up by eight million dollars.
Prince Bismarck asserts Prussia’s cautious alignment against Russia and France, warning against provoking war. He stresses Austria as a natural ally, calms market nerves, and pledges a strong defensive frontier to deter conflict while seeking peaceful relations with Russia and other powers.
Hoar reports a joint resolution for Congress to meet in the House hall and have a Chief Justice deliver an oration. Debates on tariff policy, assorted House measures, pensions for army nurses, and railroad telegraph separation are noted along with nominations and various committees actions.
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