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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1883
Page
2
The item lists government transportation costs rising to 19.23 million with rail and steamboat increases, a Clinton Falls Indiana couple murdered for fifteen dollars, lottery crackdowns, arson and burglaries, shipwrecks, and various legal and labor developments across states, including arrests, suicides, and economic reports from Washington.
The piece catalogs a Massachusetts Democratic repudiation of Butler and support for the Republican candidate for Governor. It also reports pension attorney suspensions ordered by the Interior Secretary, a Boston Democrat nominating letter, and various political and legal items including Iowa returns and a New Orleans Supreme Court docket entry.
The notice mix mentions a Baltimore death on the 2nd, a veteran agriculture official in Washington nominated for Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, and Judge C C Poon, Elizabeth City customs collector, nominated for Congress by Republicans in the First District. The deceased’s brother is Congressman Walter F. Pool.
Reports tell of twelve year old Ingus drowning after ice broke on a pond in Elkhorn Manitoba as three siblings perished before their mother. Other items note Egyptian victory over El Mahdi, a Dublin jury list copy, fever threats after earthquakes, Limerick planning one thousand cottages, a Chicago connected private detective swindle in Montreal, yellow fever deaths in Mazatlan, cholera in Egypt, four foundrymen killed near Le Creuzot, American remains found in Mexico, Socialists arrested near the Ural, a child burned in Rio del Chihuahua, and cholera reappearing in Fayroom and Zifteh with Moravian treason trials ending in acquittal. American registrations in Europe reach 130000.
Cholera deaths in Alexandria and plague return in Cairo spark alarm. President Arthur designates November 29 for National Thanksgiving. Fears for Marquis of Lansdowne amid Irish violence. A man arrested in Indiana confesses to plotting Zora Burns’s murder. In Texas a knife attack kills Montzinger. a mob in pursuit. James B. Smith sentenced to 75 years in Hillsboro. A jewelry-store theft in Springfield exploits a $12 000–$15 000 haul. Joliet Crossing wreck kills four and injures several. Betta Lockwood suspended for illegal fees. Mabel Stone suicide in West Newton. Mrs Moss buried in Baltimore. body theft attempts. Edwin Benson home burns for $100,000 loss. Grand Junction rail collision injures many. three fatally. Lox Colerper sails to England. Pene Hyaciyke arrives in New York. Severe earthquakes near Smyrna hurt hundreds.
President Arthur issues a proclamation designating Thursday November 24 as a day of national thanksgiving. The message lauds divine goodness, harvests, peace, learning, civil and religious liberty and urges worshipers to rest from labor and give thanks. Signed by Chester A. Arthur with Secretary Frederick T. Frelinghuysen.
A fogbound 5:40 AM collision near Shelbyville Ind. between a Pan Handle passenger train and a Michigan Central freight killed the flagman and Norris the Pan Handle engineer along with the Michigan Central head brakeman. The freight engineer perished after leaping free. fire and wreckage destroyed both engines and baggage cars. Passengers survived with non fatal injuries. The report ends with agricultural notes from Country Gentleman on brood care and disease prevention in fowl flocks.
Hundreds gathered in Baltimore to witness the funeral of Blanche Moses a five hundred pound bride from the Freaks touring museum Only museum staff reporters admitted The coffin a large black walnut box was carried on a cooling board to Mt Olivet Cemetery with aid from ten men The procession included Maxwell the white Moor the Aztec children and other Freaks performers Revs L H Pearce conducted services Moses the widower appeared distraught and the pall lowered the coffin with ropes and eight men
United States District Attorney Corkhill discusses an ongoing investigation into pension attorney frauds in Wilmington. He cites hundreds of letters alleging deceptive circulars and fraudulent practices, estimating soldiers and relatives lost about 1 million dollars. He plans to present details to the Grand Jury and asks for tips.
The article notes woody and leathery fungi, especially pobypores, as early tinder and tool material. It suggests fires were started with these fungi in ancient Swiss lake dwellings, with common tinder polypore found at Lochee in Ayrshire. It adds that ancient folk may have ground polypores to dust and inhaled it, as some Northern Asian peoples do today.
A San Francisco Chronicle note describes a California lady who uses a pair of scissors that have been in her family for seventy six years, passed down from her mother and used by both.
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