Edward Stokes Guilty of Murder in NYC
Edward 8 Stokes was found guilty of murder in the first degree for killing James Fisk Jr in New York. He was sentenced to be hanged on Friday February 28 after being condemned on Monday. Other items note various society and political tidbits from the era including Longfellow, Sumner, Havemoyet as mayor, and a surge of steel works in McKinney Station with a $3 million capital. The epizooty and odd anecdotes about marriages and coffee pots appear alongside nautical and political notes.
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Edward
Stokes
James Fisk, Jr
New York
Massachusetts Senate Contest Narrowed Between Boutwell and Dawes
Political circles view the contest for the Massachusetts Senate as a showdown between Boutwell and Dawes with General Butler as a possible third. If Butler does not run, he is said to back Boutwell, whom he prefers to Dawes. A draft of the internal revenue law proposes abolishing assessors and assistants, shifting duties to the Bureau. Taxes would be collected by stamps except for distillery, deficiency, and banks semi annual tax. The Commissioner expects to manage the work with 25 more clerks and the same number of agents, replacing 230 assessors and 1,300 assistants at substantial saving of about 2,060,000 dollars.
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Massachusetts
Messrs. Boutwell
Dawes
General Butler
Boutwell
Congress
Bureau
Young Man Jailed After Unlawful Marriage Warns Youth
A 21 year old and his father clash over a marriage leading to the son’s confinement in Mittsburg’s House of Refuge. The article notes the father’s claim of incorrigibility and the husband’s underage status, with the wife unable to join inside the facility. The piece ends as a cautionary tale about early marriages and parental authority.
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Mittsburg
House of Refuge
Cass
Washington City Street Bill Sparks Tax Debate
Washington correspondents discuss the Danderog Bill, urging retrenchment and arguing against lavish Capitol beautification. Horatio Hitchard of Illinois opposes the $1,241,920 urban improvements, criticizing the five sixths US-asset cost share and proposing a center-street charge to save nearly $500,000 for the Treasury.
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H. O. Hitchard
Washington City
Washington
Chicago
Illinois
Board of Public Works
United States
City of
Burchard
Notes from the State Teachers Association in Springfield
The association met in the High School Building on December 25 with J B Roberts chairing. Speeches covered teacher qualifications, school laws, county supervision costs, and reform schools. A Governor Palmar welcome, lectures by Perkins and Wynes, and papers by Hewett Patton Edwards highlighted the need for robust public schools. A New Year’s program, sleigh ride, Lena Band concert, tax concerns, and prayer week followed in Lena.
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Springfield
J.B. Roberts
Galesburg
Massachusetts
Boston
Coffeen
Willard Woodard
Chicago
Reform School
Mahony
Association
Hewett
Normal
S. H. White
Peoria Normal School
S.A. Forbes
Fowler
Northwestern University
W. W. Patton
L.L. D
Patton
Advance
Edwards
Our
State Normal University
Ac T
N. Linsley
Nick
Lena National Cornet Band
McEathron’s Hall
Lena
Oll” Steinmetz
Waddannig
Board of Supervisors
Lena churches spread holiday cheer with Christmas trees
Lena's Lutheran Methodist and German congregations held Christmas trees during the season with good attendance and joyful gifts for the Sabbath School scholars. A Baptist Sabbath School entertainment at McEathron's Hall on December 27 drew a large crowd and featured music and tableaux.
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Lena
Aaron
The
Baptist Sabbath School
McEathron’s Hall
Fatal Shooting in Daxora Ill 1873
Newton Myers about 17, son of Daniel Myers, died after being shot during a quail hunt near his home. Butterfield’s rifle discharged while running to a brush pile, the hunter not at fault but warned on gun safety as gunfire accidents rise. Community mourns, calls for vigilance with firearms.
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Daxora
Eprvor Jougnau
Newton Myers
Daniel Myers
Messrs
Myers
McGilligan and Butterfield
McGilligan
Mr. Butterfield
Death ends royal line in Sandwich Islands dynasty
Death visits the royal house as Kamehameha II dies, ending the reigning Sand wish Islands’ royal line. The notification frames the event with a curt, impartial tone, noting the extinction of the monarchy and the loss of the island chain’s traditional ruling family.
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Death
Vorace
Water-street
Fifth Avenue
Kamehamesha Y
Sandwich Islands
Treasury debt drop and cabinet shifts noted
Washington reports a drop in public debt last month amid a strong money market, boosting customs revenue by about two million dollars. A cabinet meeting gathered all members except Delano as Secretary Fish plans to leave March 4 and Evarts is being prepared as his replacement. The Post Office will test new mail handling to speed newspaper deliveries direct to depots. An unpublished embassy letter discusses German emigration policy and a shift from encouraged emigration to prohibition.
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Washixaton
Treasury
Delano
Postofice
New York Herald
Fish
Wm. M. Evarts
Washington
Evart
Evarts
Washinoton
Schloezer
Germany
Annual Meeting of Stephenson County Agricultural Society
The 1872 annual meeting in Freeport opened with officers and directors elected by ballot under the new constitution. L K Scofield was named president and O D Blanchard vice president, with directors for 3 years P H Kaufman S J Davis Wm Young Robert Little and John H Adams and for 1 year M M Mayer C T Kleckner B P Bellknap John Swanzey H Diemer. The society voted not to sell its property and adjourned sine die with plans for a Jan 2, 1873 directors’ meeting to appoint officers and address finances.
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Stephenson County Agricultural Society
Board of Supervisor
Court House
Freeport
J.M. Bechtel
L. K. Scofield
P. H. Kaufman
C. D. Blanchard
Geo. Thompson
Colby
S. J. Davis
Swanzey
Messrs. Blanchard
O. D. Blanchard
Wm. Young
Robert Little
John H. Addams
M. M.mayer
C. T. Kleckner
B. P. Bellknap
John Swanzey
IH. Diemer
Marshall
Thoupgon
German marble-cutter sues dealer for wages over tombstone
A German Albany marble-cutter sues a well known dealer for pay claiming he cut a tomb-stone inscription. He was told to inscribe Let her soul rest in peace but space forced him to shorten to Let her soul r i p. The orderer rejected it and the dealer deducted his costs from the wages.
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Albany
Stephersvon County court terms and docket notes
An OCR derived summary lists Stephenson county court proceedings with names such as Richard Rowley Oscar Zigler J. Duryea and John Stoskopf. It records indictments larceny and various verdicts fines and jail terms, including ages minor defendants, and multiple civil assumpsit and garnishment actions with damages totals and attorney representations. The document also notes appeals bonds defaults and divorces with associated costs and judgments.
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People Va
Richard Rowley
Stephenson County
Oscar
Zigler
Tippling House
People
John Duryea
Also Mentioned on This Page
Freeport Journal
India
Longfellow
William ¥. Havemoyet
A. Oakey Hall
Tammany Warriors
Military
Naval Academies
Fay Gould
New York Tribune
Tiffany’s
China
Kentucky
Cuba
Manitoba
Pennsylvania
McKinney’s Station
Pittsburgh
Penn
Toledo Blade
Washington Monument
State Teachers’ Association
Stephersvon Country
William Brown
Anta
Hall
Olerley Ede
Bingey
Cotinonhaw
Propln
John Kerch
Henry Gr
Meitiff
Bright
Abrams & Shuler
Bailey & Neff
James Wager
John Stoskopf
Plainie
Orain
Brance
Henry Settley
Isaac Haas
Kean
Neleneny
Heesohn Kleckner
Michael Gil
J. M. Smith
Adm'r
Barton & Barnum
City of Freeport
W. C. Clark
Et al
Winnesheik Ins. Co
John Stassen
Neff
Hill
Dibell
Cochran
Same
John E. Pelton
Geo. Walters
Assumpsit
Bernard Conleir
S. Hewes
Elijah F. Barney
Henry Hobman
John Lange
Philip File
Patrick Brockman
A. H. Stahl
Andrew Conway
Crain
Bailey
Jas. Durst
Abrams
Geo
Paul
Wm. Paul
Petterhoff
Meacham
Chas, Baumgarten
W. A. Keefer
Bright & Agney
Henry Phillips
James Garritt
Thomas F. Kiernan Va
Michael Cahill
Geibe Va
Harman Minert
Abrams .& Shuler
F. C. Taylor
Luther Lighthart
Hyde
Goodhue
D. B. Phelps
Catharine Steffen
Channery
Richard Meyer
Adm’r
Nelo Janssen
Dutcher
Emma G. Ware
Ira H. Vore
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