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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1872
Page
3
The Jersey City grand jury returns 110 indictments chiefly against city and county rinzites for pilfering public funds. Other items include fires destroying mills and stores, a bridge completion at Council Bluffs, and several political and criminal developments across the nation.
A Mrs McManus walking on a furnace platform in Benwood near Wheeling West Virginia stepped on a loose board and fell twenty five feet while carrying her young child. She died soon after the accident. the child had a badly broken leg.
The Chief Signal Officer directs all observers at Western river stations to telegraph any sudden or unusual river changes. This enables steamboat operators to take precautions against property loss from ice breakup.
Reported plan names Viscount Moock, Canada governor general 1861 1868, as the new Viceroy of India after Earl Mayo’s assassination. The English court circular notes the Prince of Wales will go to Weymouth to recuperate. Mme Ristori suffers knee fracture from Perugia railway accident, delaying stage work. A papal decree convokes an Ecumenical Council with venue yet undecided.
The Senate passed a bill authorizing a railroad bridge near Clinton Town. The House debated the Civil Service bill and reviewed the Diplomatic Appropriation in Committee. Discussions covered Japan missions, free machinery import, and tax relief for Chicago warehouses destroyed in a fire. The Currency bill and Central American missions were adjusted before adjournment.
Senate debates Sumner resolutions and confirms multiple bills. House advances Consular funds, William and Mary reimbursement debate, and removal of political disabilities for Southerners. Measures include German language teaching at West Point, canal project end date extended to March 3, 1878, and nuisance removal around the capitol.
A northern bound passenger train on the Louisville and Cincinnati Short-line fell through a bridge three miles north of Elliston Station Kentucky. Two passengers were killed and fifty two wounded as wreckage and fire engulfed the front car. Local surgeons arrived from Covington and passengers aided in rescue and care. The dead are John G. Brock of Sparta Owen county and Harrison Julian a colored porter.
The Dubuque Telegraph reports Wm. Mahl a former Tetes des Moins miner and long-time poorhouse inmate suffers a head cancer with skull erosion exposing brain. County physician skill limited. Five weeks without food. steward Treanor fed him whisky punches and he remains alive though unable to speak.
A civil damages case Willard Ames versus Sally Ames in Massachusetts courts moves to arbitration after a long pend ing period. The five referees include one man and four women with majority rule. if the women split, the lone man would become the deciding voice, prompting sympathy for him.
The Albany Knickerbocker reports the death of a young Albany woman days before her wedding. Suffering from a prostrating disease, her father refused medical care despite a fortune, and her betrothed finally arranged a physician too late. The funeral drew a large crowd with the fiancé bearing coffin and carriage expenses.
A crowd recalls wartime tales of captives and sieges as a quiet boy shifts the focus. He reveals his uncle, never a soldier, is in prison, turning the room toward a personal, unglamorous connection to conflict.
An English writer visiting the United States praises the scale and quality of American parks and cemeteries. He lauds Central Park and Riverside Park, notes exquisite rock plantings, mocks overbuilt bridges, and predicts Europe will be left behind in public gardens if American cities continue their growth.
The article describes making mainsprings for watches by cutting steel into strips then fastening ends to a horizontal frame. Edges are smoothed by hand polishers, the strips wound around a wooden center, and held by binding wire. The roll is heat treated, cooled, blueed, trimmed, and coiled into spirals for hooks.
Captain Layman, instructor in tactics at the German military school in Caseel, lectures to students attributing German victories to sustained offensive initiative. He argues the moral force of attack grows with success, while defensive mindset harms the foe, noting Franco Prussian War results.
A Rome report says the Pope may call a new Ecumenical Council after Rome’s occupation by Victor Emmanuel. The meeting could be held on Malta or Tyrol, with a claim that the papal seat might move to one of those locations.
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