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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1883
Page
8
A Victoria Hall horror in Sunderland results in 186 children killed as a crowd crush in a narrow gallery door. Mass panic follows as officials deploy troops and identify bodies while Queen Victoria and city Sunday schools send condolences.
General Crook and staff move from Fort Bown after breaking camp as troops head toward Wilcox. Captives under Captain Crawford and Lieutenant Gatewood march to San Carlos via Sulphur Springs with a supply train ready for Mexican Indians. Signal fires burn for eight days. Chiricalmas may return to the reservation under restrictions. Indians express weariness of ongoing warfare and hint at trouble if the Interior Department rejects settlement. General Crook hopes they choose farming. they agree to obey.
In Uniontown Pennsylvania on June 14 Nicholas L Dukes who killed Captain A C Nutt cashier of the State Treasury in Uniontown December 24 last was shot and killed by James Nutt the nineteen year old son of Captain Nutt. Nutt surrendered to the Sheriff and was jailed. Dukes had been acquitted in March and faced threats while lingering in Uniontown.
Cincinnati report states William Dicely, a Black man, is arrested in Columbus on charges connected to the December 24 1881 Gibbons children killings in Ashland Kentucky. Three other suspects George Ellis William Neal and Ellis Craft were jailed and await governor's decision on execution.
Illinois lawmakers publish the Harper High-License bill detailing fees for dram shops in cities counties and townships. It requires minimum annual payments of 500 for each license 150 for malt liquor sales and licenses for medicinal or scientific purposes under local rules. Penalties include fines up to 100 jail time up to 30 days license forfeiture and enforcement options.
The Jacksonville Morgan County Female Academy marked its fifty third anniversary at the First Presbyterian Church with eleven graduates. Professor E F Bullard remains principal for six more years after re engagement by the trustees.
Senate and House sessions summarize acts and resolutions. Measures include funding for asylums, mining inspection, townships, and railroads. Officials note adjournments and chair changes. bills advance to third reading or are defeated. several appropriations approved for state institutions and infrastructure.
The Star argues the Republican party shows no shame for past actions from the Credit Mobilier bribery to the River and Harbor theft. It claims the Tribune’s fear of Democratic weakness is unfounded and questions how Democrats could weaken the treasury or banks without Republican aid.
A Virginia senator Mahone is denounced as a scandal in federal patronage. The piece argues the Arthur administration should sever ties to Mahone, noting the pattern from Hayes and Garfield and urging the GOP to dissociate to preserve respectability and republican principles.
A dubious remedy claims that complete fasting cures rheumatism and any ailment if undertaken long enough. The note suggests abstaining from all food as a universal treatment, reflecting fringe medical ideas of the era.
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