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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1872
Page
2
A Maine legislature resolution urges Congress to back Niagara Ship Canal. obituaries and numerous 19th century incidents follow, including deaths, fires, lawsuits, arrests, ship and rail accidents, political graft probes, and international diplomacy notes ranging from the Japanese embassy to Franco‑German indemnities.
Senate passes relief for Postmaster Eastman and free import of art for Cleveland exhibition. Debates arms sales to France and various bills. House backs Missouri bridge and Green Bay canal actions. Adjourning sessions include elections, reports on education suffrage, and quarantine measures. Senate and House address Wisconsin railroad extension and national park designations. Ambitious calendar reflects early US governance and policy moves.
Senate memorials from Northwest lumbermen oppose Chicago Relief bill while Logan supports. Bear Lake bed lands in Indiana granted to state. New York Custom House notes discussed. House debates general. medical purveyor bill passed in Senate. Nevada Minnesota land districts created. Cincinnati public buildings site purchase authorized. Deficiency Appropriation bill under discussion. committee rose to adjourn.
Public debt statement reports a brutal triple murder in Taos county New Mexico. Juana Arguello Romero and her lover Jose Tomas Romero killed her husband Catalina Baca by axe before dismembering the body and hiding it in an outhouse. The pair with accomplices were tracked after ravens drew attention to remains found near an arroyo. Catalina Baca, a native of El Paso, Mexico, was identified and the suspects arrested or expected to be shortly.
The article outlines a 1871 relief bill offering free import duties on gratuitous contributions for Chicago fire victims, implements duty drawbacks on materials used in rebuilt sites within a year, and authorizes suspension of certain taxes in the burned district until the next Congress session ends.
In the Capitol building Court of Appeals ante room a crayon portrait of a gaunt shabbily dressed man is cited as evidence in a Covington divorce case. The husband testified to his wife's infidelity with the man, but the wife claimed she was faithful. Chief Justice Robertson reversed the lower court's decision, noting the portrait's moral repulsiveness and the case's dubious witness.
In Moorville York Township a German head sawyer Gotlieb Kraut and Frank Bradford clashed after rising tensions at Muhlig and Holcomb’s sawmill. Bradford struck Kraut with a cant hook, Holcomb’s foot was severed by the saw, Bradford fled but was recaptured and imprisoned.
A printed exchange urges a mechanic earning twelve dollars weekly to sleep with a servant girl as soon as she enters the house. The wife would then observe what is proper to be done, reflecting on domestic standards and conduct.
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