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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1883
Page
2
Treasury warnings on Chinese labor imports into California and drugged immigrants. burning deaths in Milford and a Texas lynching. floods devastate Nebraska Illinois Missouri and Pennsylvania. rail washouts halt trains. court actions and bank failures surface. Harvard Yale boat race won by Harvard.
Friends of Henry Ward Beecher fill Brooklyn Academy of Music for his seventieth, with congratulatory speakers. Various officials issue orders on revenue districts and captive negotiations, while monuments, retirements, and elections mark a busy political week nationwide.
Fire destroys several buildings in St. Petersburg causing 1.5 million rubles in damage. Yellow fever ravages Vera Cruz with about fifteen deaths daily. Java faces rice famine fears as 200 000 acres perish. Seven fishermen drown near Trepassy after a galley foundering. Thunderstorm kills four soldiers in Chatham. West Africa conflict brutalities rise as European captives are mutilated. Cholera sweeps Damietta and ports in Egypt. Cattle dealer Walter Gardner flees Toronto after fraud. A London submarine cable firm forms with 1.5 million pounds capital. Russia Vatican talks grant religious liberty but restrict church state interference. Irish Chief Secretary Trevelyan denies transporting paupers to America. Melbourne expedition plans New Guinea annexation. German authorities crack conspiracies. Lords rejects marriage to deceased wife’s sister. Cholera deaths climb in Daimietta. An English clergyman is attacked on a Calais-Paris train.
Mrs. LanGtry known as the Jersey Lily has secured a cottage at Long Branch for the upcoming summer season.
A five person family drowned in the Ohio River near Madison Indiana when a steamer wake tipped their skiff. New Orleans reports plentiful counterfeit coins on the 29th ult. US business failures for the week end 29th ult rise to 165 with 66 million liabilities. half year totals show 4,657 failures and 66 million owed. Cholera death toll rises in Damietta Egypt and postmaster Frank Conner named in Washington. Winnipeg fire causes a powder and coal oil explosion injuring ten. Montreal hardware merchant Kiney fails for 120000. Cottonwood Falls Kansas destroyed by fire. Nebraska floods drown 17. Illinois Agricultural Bureau reports crop declines. Fort Smith and Cambridge executions reported. Mall-pox outbreak among Arizona Indians and Staten Island drownings noted. New York liquor and cigar traders move to ban the trade dollar. bullion dealers set 85 cent valuation. Chicago banks copycat action.
The Mississippi River at St Louis falls to thirty four feet nine inches as floodwaters retreat after a twenty six day rise. Reports from East St Louis and across Illinois show extensive inundation and displaced families, with many towns including Chester and Kaskaskia largely submerged and levee breaches under review.
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