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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1882
Page
2
The week records Senate action on the Legislative Apppropriation bill with amendments boosting funds, and House approval of several DC bills and tax reform measures. It notes nominations, reforms, resignations, remarks on naval funds, a Monmouth memorial column, and various local disasters and accidents including drownings and a fatal kitchen fire.
A Missouri Pacific freight train derailed near Talmage Missouri after a storm, crushing five section men under a hand-car. Nine injured in Manchester New Hampshire from a boardinghouse fire. Seventeen killed and five dying in a disaster on the St Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba line near Atwater. Wheat harvests in Kansas report high yields. New York freight-handler strike disrupts perishable shipments. Silver dollars issued this week and patents for mineral lands rise. Yellow fever death in New Orleans. Bath water-cure infirmary burned with 50,000 loss. Exiled Russian Jews arrive at Castle Garden. Malley boys trial advances with prosecution opening. Tornado deaths estimated at 130 with property loss over three and a half million. Bank embezzlement at Third National Bank estimated at 200,000. New York City records 101 deaths with 70 under age three amid heat. Boston freight handlers strike for higher wages. Cincinnati homicide and suicide. Frenchburg floodwaters eight feet deep in Menifee County. Three dwellings affected.
The Republican meeting in the Fourteenth Illinois District nominated Captain Jonathan H. Rowell for Congress. Other notes include Democratic nominations in Ohio and Indiana, and a Republican convention in Illinois naming John C. Smith for State Treasurer and Charles Stratton for Superintendent. Counts from a census bulletin show voting age men at 12,830,349 with 1,487,544 colored voters. Prohibition amendment in Iowa shows a 33,600 net majority.
In Montpelier the Vermont Democratic State Convention on the 29th nominated George E. Eaton for governor. The platform calls for revenue tariffs, civil service reform, a single currency with gold and silver, strict economy, opposition to political assessments, a free ballot, and postal rate reductions with honest administration.
An Asia Minor quake shakes Smyrna on the 26th while Arabi Pasha threats loom over Porte actions. Paris通讯 reports landlord driven Irish tenancy dispute signaling potential war. Alexandria hosts 32 war steamers as Duke of Edinburgh escapes shipwreck near Bayonne. Forgers dupe Montreal bank of about 4000 dollars. Vienna convicts Carl Herrmann of large frauds. Germany’s Ritter resigns as Finance Minister. Murders of Christians near Benha and Jewish outrages at Balta provoke concern. Cahill shot near Tralee. Arctic expedition supplies depart St John’s. Russian War Minister Wannowski resigns. Rhine Valley quake spreads to Sweden. Clanricardi steward murdered in Ireland. England boosts war prep with marine drafts and Egypt security pledges. France may withhold support in the conflict.
Hanged for Garfield murder in Washington as 22 physicians attend the autopsy. Newport aldermen prohibit liquor licenses for the coming year. Fifth Illinois District GOP nominates Reuben Ellwood for Congress. Egypt and Arabi Pasha news from the era. New Haven jury finds Malley boys and Blanche Douglass not guilty. Texas Greenback Convention rejects a ticket but backs G. Wash Jones. Illinois and U S Senate deaths of Representative Hawk lead to adjournment.
Washington reports Melville's discovery of Lieutenant De Long and his party dead. Notebook entries chronicle a brutal Arctic march marked by hunger, cold, alcohol rationing, perilous ice crossings, and the deaths of Erickson Alexy Koach Lee and others as the survivors struggle toward possible relief.
The State Republican Convention in Springfield on the 28th selected George Hunt as temporary chairman and, after reports from the Permanent Organization, named Hunt for President Dan Shepard for Secretary and J. H. Paddock and Thomas L. Joy as assistants. John C. Smith won State Treasurer on the first ballot 664 to 128. Charles T. Stratton led for Superintendent of Schools on the fourth ballot 408 to 361. A long list of State Centre Committee members was named, and a platform endorsed fair elections honest counts tax reduction support for American industries Tariff Commission internal improvement and unity under the party flag. The convention adjourned sine die.
Dispatch from Eureka Springs Ark reports the illness death of John Q Harmon a well known Southern Illinois figure who held multiple county and state posts including Secretary of the 1882 Constitutional Convention and clerk of the Fourth District Appellate Court. Also notes sparrow crop damage near Mount Vernon and other local items.
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