Destructive storms strike Missouri and Iowa towns
A series of cyclones and hail storms swept through Kansas City to Linneus Missouri and across Iowa, injuring many travelers and destroying buildings. Reports describe wrecked trains, fallen depots, damaged churches, homes, and widespread crop ruin across Moberly Hamburg Maryville Malden and Clinton with numerous injuries and property losses.
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Linneus
Keokuk
Here
Chicago
Burlington
Browning
Watson
Ashburn
St. Louis
Theodore J. Shea
Cincinnati
S. T. Smith
Ottumwa
J. C. Ross
A. Ross
Missouri Valley
Moberly
Pacific Junction
Percival
Plum Hollow
McPaul
Paul Bros
Kansas City Railway
Hamburg
Westboro
Atchison County
Stanberry
Normal School
Burlington Junction
Maryville
Presbyterian Church
Roseberry
Morehouse
McCloskey
Dosley
Reynolds
Malden
Union Church
Spencer
C. H. Phillip
C. F. Herring
Lynching at Mound City in Pulaski County
In Mound City a mob from Cairo lynched Nelson Howard a colored man for the murder of John Kane a Wabash Road assistant bridge contractor. Twenty five to thirty masked men seized the jail broke the door with a spike hammer and hanged Howard after breaking him from an iron cell. A two hundred dollar reward was offered for the lynchers capture.
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Mound City
Pulaski County
Nelson Howard
John Kane
Wabash Road
Cairo
Prison Population and Local News Highlights
At Joliet and Chester prisons the June census shows 1 402 males and 25 females. 1 452 males and 28 females admitted. 62 males discharged. 2 died. 1 writ. 1 387 males and 28 females remain. Beecher planned Jacksonville lecture July 18. Kittredge and Mrs Swift wed with a 3 000 gift. Derbyish accidents, suicides, and storms fill the rest with notes on locals and officials.
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Joliet
Chester
United States
Henry Ward Beecher
Jacksonville
A. Eh. Kittredge
Third Presbyterian Church of
Chicago
Jane Bb. Swift
Herrick Johnson
Lemont
Cook County
Avery
Emma Bond
Taylorville
Christian County
John Morgan
Litchfield
Montgomery County
Honey Point
Macoupin County
Galena
Frank Chatherwood
Meyers
Shelbyville
H. 8. Jordan
Presbyterian Church
Peter L. Groot
Lyons
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Decatur
Owen Haley
Bloomington
Haley
McLean County Coal Company
Rockford
Wilson
Fayette County
Vandalia
Simon Perkins
Hon
B. W. Henry
East St. Louis
Anna
Union County
Rose
Johnson County
Let the rogues be put to rout in cleansing vote
A political denunciation accuses a dominant party of theft and corruption. It claims Treasury plunder, navy depletion, and hidden schemes by Whisky Ringsters and Star Routers. The call is to rout the gang, purge public offices, and end needless taxes. Signed M. . Sun.
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Sun
Stormy letter from Dorsey over Republican committee records
Dorsey writes that no records of the Republican National Committee’s transactions were kept during his term or any prior Secretaryship. He claims only his own paid checks and a bank book show his financial involvement and laments mishandled funds. The piece notes links to Star route contracts and hints at future inquiries by Congress.
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Dorsey
General Martin
Republican National Committee
Garfield
Arthur
Grant
W. E. Chandler
Blaine
Coness
National Republican Committee
Harrisburg
Will it Injure the Party Star Route Ring Trials
Republican leaders fear acquittal of Star-route ring members may harm the party. Dorsey Kellogg Brady and others linked to the ring are named as prominent Republicans. Acquittal timeline and Republican Club serenade cited. questions about government intent to prosecute persist.
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Dorsey
Arkansas
Kellogg
Brady
Whisky Ring
Washington City
Republican National Committee
Garfield
Arthur
Grant
William E. Chandler
Blaine
N. ¥. Star
The Republican Party's Future and Honest Government
The piece argues that the Republican party deteriorated after Lincoln’s era with widespread frauds and corruption. It contends a reform movement is underway with voters seeking honest elections and cost-effective governance, urging new men and a new order in the nation. Portland Maine's Register notes a rising independent stance.
Call for a sweeping reform of the Executive and Legislative branches
The piece argues that the Star-route trials and Treasury depredations show deep corruption in the Republican party. It calls for an absolute change in government, replacing officials tied to patronage with independent, honest leaders. It insists on a new deal to restore public service integrity.
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Executive Department
Republican Party
Legislative Department
Luchange
Manures and the Chemistry of Farming
United States Senator Palmer delivers a Western Michigan Farmers Club address stressing manure management, soil chemistry, and the farmer as a natural chemist. He urges practical demonstrations at home, warns against amateur farming mistakes, and notes trial hauling manure from a streetcar line as part of long term experiments.
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Europe
Nature
United States
Palmer
Western Michigan Farmers’ Club
Disappearance of Diseases Describes Past Plagues and Causes
A compilation argues diseases like malaria diphtheria and a deadly English Sweat recur across history. It cites sixteenth century England outbreaks, Queen Anne Boleyn and Wolsey, and links to unsanitary rooms and polluted rivers. It notes modern cleanliness reduced these diseases.
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New England
England
Europe
Pompeii
Anne Boleyn
Cardinal Wolsey
Henry VIII
Enland
Erasmus
Wolsey
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
Jeuth
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Clinton
Scott Counties
Wapsipinicon River
Piinee
Grove
Princeton
Toronto
Chicago & Northwestern
Grand Mound
Mississippi River
Illinois State News
Illinois
Lincoln
Greeley
Sumner
Fesssenden
Trumbull
Adams
District of Columbia
White House
Freedman’s Bank
Belknap
Robeson Naval
Indian Bureau
Pension Bureau
Portland
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