02 Nov 1886
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1886
Page
1
Readable ad copy lists sugar varieties priced at $1.00 per 16 to 18 pounds, Mg Granulated Sugar, White Extra C Sugar, and Brown Sugar. Also promotes winter apples from growers direct, candy selections at 10 to 28 cents, canned goods, and Good Roller Flour at 85 cents per sack. Addressed to buyers at 67 and GY Stephenson Street.
Louis Boral, an ex customs inspector, shot Gen. Beattie the port surveyor at noon Wednesday. Boral surrendered after a failed attempt to draw a pistol, with Beattie gravely wounded in the groin and hand. Authorities label Boral a longtime bad character with a California murder and Boston killing rumors.
A New Year tragedy in Nuevo Larola Mexico as Vicente Rucendex killed his wife and wounded their two children then fled. The mother died within an hour, the young girl survived, and the husband was captured after the attack amid jealousy claims. Separate items describe a detective case in Indiana tracing a farmer’s poison death and a Chicago suburb homicide with a bloodied scene near Rogers Park.
The will of Cornelia Stewart, wife of a dry goods merchant, was probated with Horace Tussell as judge. It divides income among her brothers and sisters and their children, names Charley J. Clinch and Henry Hilton as executors, and allocates substantial sums to long-term trusts. A codicil revokes part of a bequest to Hilton and creates a trust to fund the Stewart Memorial Church in Garden City, Long Island, with schools and endowment provisions for the cathedral and related institutions.
In October the public dot shows debt totals at 815,201,014 with a decline from prior months. Cash balance fell to about 0, and the government reports large shifts in bonded whisky, pensions since 1865, and rising silver reserves. Revenue for four months of the year surpasses 8123,057,407, with expenditures higher than the same period in 1485. The piece also covers Supreme Court ruling on Pacific National Bank stockholder liability, naval smuggling questions, and spolls of claims and mint activity.
A Cleveland era gossip item reports Mrs Lowell, widow of Lord Lyttleton, entangled in a public dispute involving Mr Hawthorne and the Lowell family. It details alleged confidentiality breaches and comments on Hawthorne's actions while mentioning counterclaims and social repercussions.
The Herald details harsh labor conditions at Hyde Park, where German overseer Henry Schroder allegedly forced men to work in blasting and dye operations. A cramped, foul two-room shack housed workers with damp floors, poor bedding, and contaminated blankets, while pay and withholdings sparked tensions. Local health inspectors were called. some bodies were buried per orders. Schroder allegedly recruited workers from Castle Garden New York and used a wife coadjutor to push early rises and long hours.
Industrial unrest grips Chicago stock yards as 4000 to 6000 workers walk out over eight hour demands and reinstatement of discharged committee member Matthewson. Swift Morrison Armour face potential broad action unless terms are met. police on duty. conference planned to arbitrate with manufacturers.
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