Illinois Cyclopedia News of October 10 1883 Briefs
Summary of political moves and national notes: Congress to convene soon. Logan and Oglesby reconciled. Illinois state affairs and electors. State Fair profits and stamp purchases in Chicago. various anecdotes on the Prince of Wales, Beecher lectures, Sherman and Sheridan, Tennyson sequel rumors, Paris omnibus plans, chain lightning railways, Lieutenant Greeley survivals, Illinois county surveyor election status, Garfield legacy bass tale, John Brown statues, Blaine cabinet suggestion, Kansas corn yield, Michigan Republican support, and the next U S House party composition with Democrats leading by 59.
Two lovers plan death pact in Milwaukee incident
The pair agreed to die by their own hands at the same hour the other night. They rose early next morning to read the paper and were deeply disgusted by each other’s conduct. The Womans' Christian Temperance Union of New York plans a legislative push on school physiology and hygiene instruction focusing on alcohol and narcotics effects.
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Milwaukee
Womans’ Christian Temperance Union
New York
Poughkeepsie
Vermont
Michigan
New Hamshire
E. Emmert
Pixon
Postal note bids fail to boom lottery firms
Justice sentiment shifts as Judge Gresham hurdles postal notes payable to bearer. Cincinnati district court rules churches held by Archbishop Purcell not subject to his debts, excluding St. Mary's cemetery and Cumminsville orphan asylum. The cathedral and school were funded by the archbishop, directing recovery to Assignee Mannix for creditors.
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Judge Gresham
Cincinnat
Purcell
Cumminsville
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Postmaster General Gresham to Push Postal Telegraph and Savings Bank Plans
Washington reports that Postmaster General Gresham will in his upcoming annual message advocate a broader adoption of the postal telegraph system and urge creation of a postal savings bank, modeled after England's system, to expand government services.
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Post Office Department
Washington
Gresham
England
Spain Presses France For Apology Over King Insults
The piece states Spain seeks a formal apology from France after insults to King Alfonso by Paris crowds. It notes international praise for Alfonso in Madrid and argues France’s republican government strains Franco-European relations with monarchies. The article casts France as a rebuke to absolutism and links recent hostility to political systems.
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Spain
France
Paris
Alfonso
Madrid
French Republic
Europe
The Republican Downfall in The New York Sun
The New York Sun argues the Republican Party cannot endure, citing lack of principle and honesty, its self-serving conduct, and waning public support. It condemns tariff and policy impacts on Pennsylvania slate production and recalls Gov. Butler praising self-made merit and rural beginnings as a warning to national unity and liberty.
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The
New York Sun
Association
Middletown
Gov. Butler
House of Representatives
New Hamshire
Boston
Commonwealth
United States
Michigan Supreme Court Defines Pool Selling As Gaming
The Michigan Supreme Court holds that betting on baseball games constitutes gaming under state statutes against gaming rooms. It rejects the idea that wagers must occur in the room and notes that betting on distant games, even if the room is designated for it, is still gambling.
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Supreme Court of Michigan
New York
Cooley
Railway managers meet in Chicago on standard time plan
A Chicago meeting of railway managers from 60 000 miles of line opened to act on a five time division system based on fifteen degree zones west of Greenwich The zones Intercolonial Eastern Central Mountain and Pacific would reduce time from fifty to five hours A further plan to adopt twenty four hour clock faces may also be debated to avoid morning and afternoon confusion
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Chicago
Southern Railway
Greenwich
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Prince of Wales
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Tennyson
John Brown
Illinois
Garfield
Queen Victoria
Balmoral
Prince Albert
Frogmore
St. George's Chapel
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Blaine
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Brubaker & Carpenter
Ke. Emmert’s
Cloaks
Dolmans
Misses’ & Childrens
Cloaks, Dolmans
Dolman
Ladies’ Dolman
Astrachan
Scarlet
Stern Bros
OPERA
Dixon, In
S. Rosenthal
the Peoples’ Clothier
Main Street
Isaac Means
the Star Grocery
Main and
Hennepin Streets
Dixon
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