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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1882
Page
2
Senate and House action spans pay and pension bills to post office routes and land grants. Amid violent crime and fires in Baltimore and Lehigh, executions in Brownsville and Talequah, floods in Southern Arkansas devastate plantations and mills.
Reports describe a 250 keg powder blast in a Galveston Road tunnel killing three men, a Pittsburgh iron mill return to work, a Grand Rapids shingles mill fire causing $125,000 loss and 250 jobs lost, NYSE expelling a trader for swindle, and fast Boston to New York express travel. Also noted are a Jersey City murder acquittal followed by marriage, dynamite found under a Dallas church, army worm near Gallipolis, $2 million gold shipped to Europe, Cincinnati fires, Secret Service busts for bogus coins, a British ship arrest for overboard Chinese labor, a Brookfield bank robbery, wage resistance by western iron manufacturers, a bank theft guilty plea, San Francisco ship overboard labor, and unrest among the Colorado Utes with a Kentucky post office burglary.
The report lists multiple state conventions and nominations including Charles Townsend for Secretary of State and John H. Doyle for Supreme Court in Ohio, with broader notes on tariff commissions, Greenback and Prohibition gatherings, resignations, and upcoming party events across Michigan, Alabama, Iowa, Indiana, Texas, North Carolina, New Hampshire, and New Mexico.
In St Louis on the 9th the International Typographical Union session elected officers for the next year with George Clark as President J J Clarkson First Vice President T A Fowler Second Vice President Mark L Crawford Secretary and Treasurer J R Haldeman Corresponding Secretary F R Foster Delegate to the Ator Congress Cincinnati chosen for the next meeting. In the Star route trial at Washington on the 9th Wayne MacVeagh testified to Beidell with testimony ruled out until conspiracy proven.
A Scotland Yard style dispatch notes Ireland reports 396 outrages in May, cattle poisoned by weed near Montreal, a Galway landlord shot with escort, Garibaldi remains buried at Caprera, Morinie battle yields heavy Austrian insurgent losses, and census figures place Japan’s population at over 35 million.
Early morning at Lawrence Kansas a masked mob of about one hundred seized Peter Vinegar Isaac King and George Robertson from the jail and hanged them from bridge timbers amid public outrage over Daniel Bausman’s murder. The report notes other scattered incidents from Rockville Connecticut to Chicago tragedy.
Frances M. Scoville, Guiteau’s sister, circulated an open letter to President Arthur urging a delay of the sentence. The appeal cites possible death of the president, malarial conditions, alleged court unfairness, judicial collusion, and insanity questions. It asks Congress to enact safe life custody for insane offenders and seeks indorsers via Chicago address.
A Brookfield Bank was robbed by six masked men at 3 30 p m with about 6000 dollars taken cashier John Ford and assistant Nettie Scott were compelled to surrender the cash pursuit by posse begins as news travels over wires. Descriptions note well mounted robbers and lynching threats loom as Brookfield, Missouri, residents react.
A Polish Jew Adolph Schon ig dies at the State Insane Hospital after eight months of voluntary fasting. Once sane then imprisoned for larceny, he refused nourishment because he believed Christ forbade eating. Despite doctors feeding him, his weight fell from 150 to 80 pounds before death. He lamented breaking his vow to Christ.
The Illinois Temperance Union issued an address to voters urging rejection of candidates tied to the liquor traffic. John C. Pepper and P B Mooney signed, declaring government must protect rights and end public wrongs, with a call to every man to do his duty in the autumn election.
The Greenback-Labor Party issues a call from Osacago June 19 82 for a state convention at Peoria August 2 at 11 a m. to nominate state officials and conduct party business with delegate representation based on county and district votes. James Springer chairs the state central committee.
The Illinois State Board of Health requires medical colleges to offer a three year course with two years of dissection, two poetry terms of clinics per year, eight tenths attendance at lectures, and degree conferment only after exams. Reports show cattle numbers in decline across many counties, with varied percentage drops and mixed condition reports. The piece notes a Harristown short horn sale with total sales and averages, New York capitalists buying Sparta coal lands, Chicago deaths in May, Siamese pigs in McLean, and a Chicago burglary near Hahn's home with a close call.
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