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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1888
Page
2
A compact digest of domestic and foreign intelligence, political notes, railroad and commercial updates, along with brief reports on accidents, fires, crimes, and related events transmitted through the wire service.
Gen Joseph E Johnston, highest ranking living Confederate officer, is elected honorary member of Philadelphia's E D Baker Post No 8 Grand Army of the Republic. A letter from Johnston included a $10 dues payment and prompted swift approval amid cheering veterans. he is the only ex Confederate admitted to a Grand Army post.
News of the Blackfeet reservation opening spreads through Dakota and northern Montana as squatters set up tents in desirable valleys. Expectations surge toward Big Sandy hay-grounds and Bullhock Valley near Fort Assinaboine while reports note a silver lead lode in the Bear Paw mountains.
The first passenger train on the Chicago extension of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe system left Chicago crowded with passengers and railway officials. The vestibule car train is described as the finest yet on a track and will be a regular service between Chicago and Kansas City. This marks a continuous rail link from Chicago to the Pacific coast under one control.
Reports from Paris, Roumania, and St. Petersburg note revolutionary tensions near the Russian frontier and the Panama lottery passing in the French Chamber. A collision near the Isle of Wight sinks the ship Smyrna with thirteen drownings. German banks show high dividends, while European leaders warn of fragile peace as Ignatieff is elected in St. Petersburg.
A Berlin dispatch reports the Emperor shows relief and good spirits as the crisis eases. He is free from fever, enjoys a good appetite and digestion, and may avoid further complications for weeks, though the disease's progress remains insidious.
A New York and Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derailed near Olean New York as rails spread. The mail baggage cars and two passenger coaches rolled down a twenty foot embankment. About forty passengers were aboard and twenty were seriously injured. no fatalities were reported at once though some may die.
Claims totaling about 500000 arising from the Chatsworth railroad disaster have been settled by the railroad company. Lack of support forced the suspension of the anarchist paper Arm, once led by A K R Parsons. A group of four individuals drowned when a boat capsized on the Sultquamish River near Stanwood Washington. Fire destroyed a Berwick Pennsylvania house killing one woman and fatally injuring another.
A century of short items covers counterfeit currency in Erie and legal suits in New York. Boston hosts a dare for $10,000 while Depew and Goldwin Smith spar over Ireland. Accidents strike Yonkers sewers and Rushsylvania hall collapse. Fargo to Alma bridges fail.
A fire at the Centennial Hotel in Butte City Montana killed Jesse Gledder and Frank Lincoln and caused $50,000 in losses. In Iowa, M E Billings was found guilty of second degree murder after a disputed jury verdict. Other items include a Booneville anarchist death by self-inflicted gunfire, a St Louis machine company assignment, a slow-speed fatal shooting in Nelsonville, a devastating Pratt Kansas cyclone, a Milwaukee Road freight collision near Birnam Wood injuring fifteen, a vast fire destroying Central City Dakota, and life imprisonment for M E Bruuntmes of Waverly Iowa with wife reacting at sentencing.
Investigating commissioners report to the Kentucky Legislature reveal a 230000 shortage under Tate’s twenty year mismanagement. In Texas, Frank Nolan and William Jordan fatally injure each other in a cattle deal dispute. A Springfield DC home burns killing four children. survivor burns likely fatal. Fort Smith Arkansas hangs three men for murders in Indian Territory. Leonardtown Maryland executes John B. Biscor for murder on the Potomac in 1586. Columbia South Carolina hangs Jack Prater for murder. Orangeburg South Carolina hanged Jasper Davis for wife murder.
Washington dispatch reports the House Elections Committee confirms Gen. Post's title to Illinois Tenth District. The panel uses Illinois statutes as interpreted by the state Supreme Court and finds irregular votes for both sides, with Worthington doubts set aside for a fifty nine vote majority for Post. Also notes a federal appropriations bill totaling 20,472,394 dollars, 37,606 below estimates. In Bessemer Alabama, Hardy Posey, colored, was lynched after an attempted assault, with armed mob threats. Judge Thomas M. Cooley, chair of the Interstate Commerce Commission, is reported seriously ill.
The article outlines Argentina’s longstanding sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands and Britain’s interest in the islands for strategic reasons. It notes a heated exchange between Sir F Packenham and Senor N Quirio Costa and mentions a royal visit in Berlin with Queen Victoria and the German royal family.
The Queen met the Emperor at the castle with a calm reception and tears from the Queen on her daughter’s approach. Berlin crowds showed respect while the Emperors presence kept noise down near the palace. Parliament debate in London featured Gladstone and Balfour over Irish governance and local liberty.
World at large notes the death of ex Lieutenant Governor Lewis Catlin in Hartford Connecticut aged 90. The report also mentions a Cincinnati Methodist conference vote on a discipline amendment aiming to expand the list of forbidden amusements.
The Senate and House debated tariff policy and fiscal measures April 25 27. Speakers argued protective duties raise wages and aid industry while critics warned of surpluses and higher consumer costs. Legislation included a Grand Forks bridge grant and a Kansas City Pacific Railroad right of way.
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