Full Stock of Cook and Heating Stoves and Boilers
We are now receiving our full stock of cook and heating stoves, furnaces, and steam boilers. The firm assures the public of having the best and most complete selection ever shown.
21 Sep 1887
Page 1
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1887
Page
1
We are now receiving our full stock of cook and heating stoves, furnaces, and steam boilers. The firm assures the public of having the best and most complete selection ever shown.
Bartlett Hardware Co located at 75 and 77 Stephenson Street is noted in this brief item. The entry lists the business name and street numbers without further details.
In Texas a Bath Francisca line express train was boarded by robbers near Raybrook. They took packages and the mail car contents valued at about 810,000, harming no one. The robbers escaped after forcing the engineer to continue, while a second section saw the mated express car broken into and valuables seized. Local reports also describe a separate stabbing at the Surgeon General's office and other crime events across the nation.
Crocker, former host contractor on the Central Pacific railway, testifies before a pacific railways commission. He says the company faced debts to the government and hints at political meddling, proposing a conference among interested committees to settle disputes. He denies full detail but acknowledges significant past actions and limited payments.
Pagewide report from Renoaville on September 21 describes a massive turnout at the Reunion on the Ohio and the Wine and Gray Gathering. General Shackelford delivers a pro-unity address invoking Lincoln and the Civil War memory, urging blue and gray to pledge unity and keep freedom for future generations. Albion Pellowsa reads an original poem titled The Shin and Gray. Numerous ex-confederates and regional organizations occupy camps and quarters as Governor day Conrad’s staff arrive amid broad public interest.
Fragmented review of a Philadelphia centennial celebration noting the adoption of the Constitution and the Civil War’s human cost. It calls Americas to honor the nation’s founding ideals, while contrasting past sacrifices with modern reverence and public sentiment.
A chaotic Mitchelltown inquest hearing saw heated exchanges between counsel witnesses and enraged spectators. The crowd outside hailed Tlarrington after a likely murder verdict against several suspects, while a later report covered rail disaster fatalities in Iowa and a spike in early fiscal year tax receipts and a major knit goods firm’s insolvency.
Reports from Ponapenrara Wisconsin recounts at length the American party’s national convention with debates over immigration and Prohibition planks, while Bla and Gray reunion preparations at Brangvilte Tennessee promise large attendance. Also coverage includes Irish land rent advocacy, grand Army of the Republic remarks, labor strike talks, and rail construction progress with local political notes.
The dispatches describe international funding for a “tianyl” tunnel project with Franco British support, a dynamite discovery near Koy Woat Illinois linked to Cuban agitators, a Memphis court sentencing Fanny Davenport’s dine monds theft, and Midland company liability for a Doncaster disaster. Fires, injuries, arrests, and political protests across Europe and America accompany notes on birth rates, divorces, and a pending Indian war in Arizona. A Chicago judge sentenced J J Love for embezzlement linked to the Dols ware & Shilson Canal. A German incident at Vagny arbors the tricolor with a placard. Glencoe Ireland reports a boycott of Bishop Monly’s confirmation service amid anti homo rule sentiment.
A large Union Square Unite Labor party rally heard speakers including John McMackin James Quinn Henry George and Dr McGlynn about 5000 in attendance. McGlynn condemned Archbishop Corrigan over church interference with politics declaring he would not submit to church demands and that God welcomes all to his altar.
Acting Land Commissioner Stockslager issues orders to carry out Secretary Lamar’s restoration of indemnity lands for the Northern Pavillo railroad. About 1,000,000 acres will be restored to the public domain under the final order from Washington City dated September 10.
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