Illinois News: Tragedy and Legislation Across Chicago and State
Facts span a shooting gallery death in Chicago, a jail suicide attempt in Springfield, and state fair travel rates. Reports cover courtroom rulings on damages, robberies, warehouse fires, and a broad slate of legislative moves in the Illinois Senate and House including taxation, rail, insurance, and licensing bills.
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Senate
Kankakee Insane Asylum
Illinois Industrial University
Ith
House
Representative Thomas
Senaite
Judiciary Committee
State Law Library
Chicago Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Kankakee
Board of Railway and Warehouse Commissioners
State Reform School
Anna Insane Asylum
State Entomologist’s Office
Etcc
State Normal University
Illinois Guards
Chester
Jacksonville
Carbondale Normal University
Harper
Messrs. Crafts
Sexton
Haines
Fuller
Morrison
Abrahams
Vaughey
Chicago City Hall
Rice
Messrs. Morrison
Stimming
Linegar
Gregg
Mitchell
Quinn
Calhoun
Chicago
Remedy for Headache by iodide of potassium
Dr. Haley of Australia reports that small doses of iodide of potassium can relieve frontal headache with languor chilliness and nausea. A two grain dose in wine and water taken in ten minutes may fully remove symptoms and restore appetite and cheerfulness. He claims several cases improve quickly and urges medical testing.
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Haley
Lee Crandall's Southern Outrage and a Mock Letter
Harrisburg Patriot reviews a Washington letter by Lee Crandall alleging a Southern outrage campaign linked to election cases against South Carolina. The piece mocks the letter, questions its authenticity, and labels Crandall a partisan tool in 1883 political maneuvering.
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South Carolina
Benjamin Butterworth
Ohio
United States
Eliza Pinkston
Hayes
J. Hendrix McLane
Columbia
Washington
Lee Crandall
S. R. Mason
McLane
D. A. and
F. F
Beaufort
Hamburg
Butler
Harrisburg
The Cold Shoulder to the Negro
A delegation of colored men asked Secretary Folger at the Treasury for an important office. He refused, saying their claims were unreasonable and more colored officials exist than whites. The piece argues Republican leaders ignore African Americans, who remain loyal voters, and condemns Folger’s reception as a sign the negro belongs outside the aristocratic party.
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Folger
Treasury Department
Democratic Principles Amid Party Posturings in Columbus Enquirer
The Columbus Ga Enquirer argues Republicans push for Democratic policy outlines and Speaker choices to weaken the opposition. It contends true party aims go beyond office, stressing the need for clear, unmis takable reasons for changing administrations to avoid empowering a do-nothing party.
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Republican Party
Columbus (Ga
Enquirer
Foregoing Notables and Literary Threads From the Era
The passage cites personal and literary remarks about Theodore Lilton, Joaquin Miller, Henry D. McDaniel, George Alfred Townsend, Representative Holman, Keppler, and Postmaster-General Gresham. It notes wealth, careers, and health, plus a timeline of Indianas cabinet leaders and a reflections on American novelists from Cooper to the present trend of plentiful fiction.
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Theodore ‘Lilton
Sun
Joaquin Miller
Daily
Henry D. McDaniel
Georgia
George Alfred Townsend
New York
N. Y. Graphic
Holman
Dearborn County
Indianapolis Journal
Keppler
Europe
Y. Times
Gresham
Indiana
Caleb B. Smith
the Interior
John P. Usher
Interior
Hodgh McCulloch
the Treasury
J. N. Tyner
R. W. Thompson
Cooper
Leatherstocking
Irving
Vienna Company Formed to Wash Windows and Clean Fronts
A Vienna company is organized to conduct general window washing including scrubbing house fronts vestibules mirrors and show cases. With proper guarantees the undertaking could be profitable in any city according to the Chicago Journal.
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Vienna
Chicago Journal
Not the Man Nominates Arthur Again in Republican View
In a St Louis Republican opinion piece the paper argues no good reason exists to nominate President Arthur for re election and asserts Republicans will not back him. It criticizes his cabinet choice and New York governor bid while noting the party lacks a clear alternative.
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Arthur
Ours
Congress
Andrew Johnson
Conkling
New York
St. Louis
Centenarian Shoemaker From Holland Fought at Waterloo
John Nethoff, a centenarian resident of East New York, born two years after the Declaration, is a Holland native and shoemaker. His age is vouched for by his son and great granddaughter. He fought at Waterloo, came to the United States soon after, and now relies on his grandchildren for support and tobacco, which he consumes in large quantities.
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John Nethoff
New York
Holland
Neihoff
Waterloo
United States
N. Y. Tribune
Lightning Strike Wrecks House in Florida Incident
A Florida man was struck by lightning and felt a burn along his leg to the knee. The bolt split into two streaks reaching his foot as it apparently ignited powder. The blast knocked another sick man from bed but cured him of chills during recovery. the house was left a total ruin from the explosion.
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Florida
Chicago Herald
Yankee thrift ends with crow bounty in two states
A Massachusetts youth shoots crows near his home and sells them for seven cents each to his father in law. The man then takes the heads to New Hampshire to claim a ten cent bounty from Granite State officials.
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Newbury
Mass
New Hampshire
Granite
Boeton Herald
Witty Fragments and Puns From Various Papers
A collage of humorous snippets and quips from New York and regional papers. Jokes touch shipowners and auctions, social manners, parish aisles, iron ships, railroad puns, editors, epitaph requests, sportsman mud trials, and travel wit.
Family Jars
Mr and Mrs Hubnagel discuss a man who killed himself. He jokes he would hire a friend to do it. She questions self murder and he argues it creates prejudice, then he leaves for a divorce filing with a lawyer. Texas Siblings
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Dixvorce
Texas
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