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Dixon Sun

Location

Dixon, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jun 27, 1883

Page

2

Stampede of 110 Texas steers roars through Chicago streets

A herd of 110 wild Texan steers driven along Halsted Street on the 20th stampeded at Fortieth Street. Cowboy George Sweeney routed 26 with shots, 17 more were dispatched by citizens. A woman and a child were killed, several injured before the herd was controlled.

Halsted Street Chicago Fortieth Street George Sweeney E. L. Stewart Fayette San Francisco Morton Fresno Cal Chicago Express Omaha Minneapolis William Harrington Roberts Philadelphia Hathway Adeline Tex Hughes Thomas Ezekiel M. Patersoon New Brunswick N. J John Parrey Kansas City Electric Light Company Williamson & Stewart Paper Company St. Louis Harvard College Columbias New London Conn Wesley Warren Prospect Tenn James Trice Moses Secretary of the Interior Washington East St. Louis Mississippi Bluffs Gibsonton John Gibson & Co Willliam T. Cook & Co Foxboro Mass Salt Lake City Butte M. T Chillicothe Thorn Adams County Neb Boston New England Minn Robert Williams Greenville S. C Ned McBra Pawnee John Grubb

Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention Set for August First

The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention will be held in Harrisburg on August 1. The report lists other political and social events: John Devoy sentenced in New York for libeling August Belmont. Frank James arraigned in Missouri for bank robbery. Wong Caine Foo sued for libel in New York. British subscriptions to a Longfellow bust in New England. the International Military Rifle Team leaving New York for England. WCTU petitions to Congress to prohibit liquor in the District of Columbia. marriages and deaths including General Sherman and Archbishop Woon. Dakota counties arrange a constitutional convention at Sioux Falls. Ohio Democrats nominate a governor and lieutenant governor. notes on Dr. Knickerbocker and other officials.

Pennsylvania Harrisburg John Devoy Risk Nation New York August Belmont Belmont Frank James Gallatin Wong Caine Foo Chan Pond Tipp Great Britain Longfellow New England International Military Rifle Team England Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Washington Congress District of Columbia Chattanooga W. B. Thompson Railway Mail Service Emma Key Charles Ewing Thomas L. Tullock Sherman James F. Woon Philadelphia Dakota Huron Sioux Falls Ohio Democrats Columbus George Hoadley Cincinnati John G. Warwick Charles Backus Knickerbocker Minneapolis Indiana Indianapolis American Homeopathic Institute Cleveland J.C. Sanders Micuaki Nouan Albany N. Y Arthur Cap

Fires in Lyons wood stores burn two acres and rail cars

A fire in Lyons France consumed wood stores covering two acres and destroyed forty railway cars. Reports from Campbellford Ontario mention a bride killed in a buggy accident. An array of other foreign incidents includes fraud arrest in Nova Scotia and floods in Germany.

Lyons France George Hepburn Pictou Bank Bank of Nova Scotia

Death of Zulu giantess Fanny Donnery reported

S. L. Phelps of Washington and Richard Gibbs of New York appeared in a diplomatic role in Peru and Bolivia disputes. Fanny Donnery, a circus exhibitor from Mansfield Ohio known as the Zulu giantess, was found dead in bed in Salamanca New York. She weighed 6597 pounds.

Tain S. L. Phelps Washington Peru Richard Gibbs New York Bolivia Fanny Donnery Mansfield Ohio Salamanca N. Y

Madison Dike Breaches Flood Southern Illinois Farm Land

The Madison dike between Alton and East St Louis broke in two places on the 23rd flooding sixty square miles of rich southern Illinois farmland. Wheat crops were deemed a total loss and overall damages and property losses reached about 1 million dollars.

Madison Alton East St. Louis Illinois Bluffs Pullman Hanlan and Lee Teemer Vera Cruz Mex Havana Cuba New York Castle Garden James Glidden Perry P. Long Dover N. H Glidden Samuel Rutherford John Ryan Brady’s Lake Stapleton N.Y Rutherford Atchison Kan Omaha Neb London Silesia Henry Ward Beecher Plymouth Church Brooklyn New Zealand Waitara Alexander Squarivan Arthur United States St. Louis Venice Mitchell Ill Ilinois Horseshoe Lake Indianapolis Chouteau Namcoka Chicago & Alton Railroad Fish Lake Mississippi Missouri River Here Cairo Kansas City Wabash Council Bluffs Burlington Denver Leavenworth St. Joseph Creve Cour Lake Missouri Creve Cour Ice Company

Desolation as Mississippi Flood Devastates Illinois Farming Belt

Flooding after the Madison levee breach between Venice and Mitchell Illinois devastates farms and crops in a 17 000 acre floodplain. Families flee to high ground as 22 miles of levee hold back waters and towns along the Chicago and Alton rail lines brace for impact.

Stampede of Texas Steers Strikes City Farmyard

A herd of 110 wild Texan steers arrived for Libby McNeil Libby broke from the corral and rampaged through the stock yards causing chaos. George Sweeney led a volunteer posse killing many animals while residents battled to secure carcasses and livestock through streets and alleys. Forty three steers were killed or lost and Libby McNeil Libby suffered about one thousand dollars in losses.

Carcano Libby McNeil & Libby Halsted 40Th Wentworth Avenue George Sweeney Sweeney South Park Avenue Bridgeport Twelfth Street Ashland Avenue Rebecca Street Wood Nineteenth Streets Morgan and Harrison Blue Island Avenue Fourteenth Street Stewart Avenue Mary Mulholland Maggie Carney Maxwell Street Maxwell Streets Halsted Ami Meagher Fox Fifteenth Street Winnr Wing Blue Island Center Avenues Brown Street Mason Slip South Fork Libby, McNeil & Libby

A Boil ers Singular Performance At Mill

A boiler at Behymer Holbrook and Stiles saw mill seven miles from Shawneetown Illinois on the Ohio and Mississippi line leaped up and rolled away, injuring none of eight bystanders but destroying lumber, tearing the switch and damaging the main track. The cause is believed to be a misaligned pass. Loss estimated at 1500 with no insurance.

Shawneetown Ill Behymer Holbrook & Stiles Ohio & Mississippi

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