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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1889
Page
3
Illinois affairs note Vollinsville cow bells production daily output and a corn palace exposé plan by Col Murphy. Also reported are mine development in Galena, pardons, deaths, court rulings, temperance union events, and local marriages and elopements.
The Notea special reports Justice Stanley Matthews of the U S Supreme Court died at his Washington home on the morning of the 22d after more than a year of illness. Born in Cincinnati in 1824, he rose from schoolteacher to jurist, with a career including Ohio politics, military service in the Civil War, and service as U S district attorney and judge before his Supreme Court tenure. He died from exhaustion of the heart and kidney congestion, surrounded by family and faithful servants.
The Supreme Court adjourned at noon on the 22d in memory of Justice Stanley Matthews with Chief Justice Fuller announcing the death and orders to drape his seat in black. The Senate also adjourned after receiving notice from the Chief Justice via the Vice President.
The family received many condolence messages including one from President Benjamin Harrison. The letter expressed profound regret at the death of the honored husband and the shared sense of loss felt by the nation. Harrison recalled knowing Justice Matthews for years and lauded his character and learning. He offered sincere prayers for comfort.
The Barrett brothers Timothy and Peter were hanged in Minneapolis for killing streetcar driver Thomas Tollefson during a July 26 1887 robbery after Henry Barrett testified against them. Tim and Pete fired the fatal shot and took the cash box, with $20. Henry Barrett had provided evidence leading to their conviction.
A Pig falls into a pit and calls for help. a Cow rushes to assist and collapses the bank, smothering the Pig. The dying Pig laments that calling the Bear would have been worse, and the piece ends with a cautionary moral about whether to call the Doctor or the Lawyer.
Illinois legislature reports minimal Senate action on the 15th with several bills introduced and a Chicago annexation measure passing the House 115 to 4. Firemen pension reform and other measures move through committees or face extended debate, with multiple bills read a third time and a drainage bill advancing. A broad slate of new proposals includes railroads duties, liquor prohibitions by locality, contagious swine diseases, and Soldiers' Home residency rules. The joint committee visit to state charitable institutions is noted, and executive confirmations accompany daily business.
A dialogue on press writing ends with praise for reporting. The excerpt then explains lobster early life stages noting hatchlings feed voraciously at the surface before developing walking limbs and settling on the sea floor.
A Springfield committee reports State charitable institutions in excellent condition but crowded. Inmates exceed capacity at Lincoln, Normal, Kankakee, Elgin, Chicago Eye and Ear, Quincy Soldiers Home, Jacksonville and other sites. They propose multi hundred thousand dollar appropriations for enlarging hospitals and a separate asylum for the criminal insane.
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