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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1881
Page
7
A fast spreading blaze at the State Hospital for the Insane in Danville destroyed the main building and east wing after cold weather slowed relief efforts. About 500 patients were moved safely to outbuildings. fire walls failed and origin remains unknown.
Washington March 7 All Cabinet members except Lincoln took the oath at the White House. Lincoln will depart Chicago tonight and begin duties Wednesday. Talks of an extra session circulate though no solid sources confirm it. Cabinet plans and Court of Claims vacancy rumors surface with Rogers opposed and Schofield eyed for the post.
An explosion at Central Pacific coal mine No 3 in Almy Wyoming last night killed twenty eight men and left many trapped. At ten o clock dispatches reported twenty five Chinese workers and three white men dead with around fifty five men in the mine at the time. Rescue efforts recovered one Chinese worker badly wounded and fifteen Chinese men from the fourth level are known to have been brought out alive.
Letter from Edward McCpehers on February 22 1881 in Gettysburg Pennsylvania questions official popular vote totals for president. He notes Garfield gains 8255 plurality after corrections from Nevada Texas Louisiana and Maine while Hancock loses 1702 bringing overall aggregate to 9220348 votes. He objects to cooked returns and urges fair allocation of state tallies.
A violent northeast storm capsized the Italian bark Anna C carrying kerosene from Antwerp to New York. Fifty crewmen were aboard. four men killed themselves. one survivor, Peter Tallace, was rescued near Manhattan Beach as kerosene barrels and wreckage washed ashore along the Coney Island coast.
Rush E Crissman writes a Longfellow celebration essay outlining Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's birth in Portland Maine on February 27 1807 his Bowdoin College years studies in Europe and early professorship at Bowdoin including his marriage to Miss Potter and ownership of Washingtons Revolutionary headquarters house near Cambridge The piece emphasizes his scholarly pursuits and historical interests from youth through his career.
A portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is sketched through memories of his home 105 standing as a beacon of his life. The piece recalls his blue eyes and kind nature and highlights his poems and travels. It notes his resignation in 1854 and his European tour that brought personal sorrow, including the loss of his wife.
Advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a cure for impure blood and diseases of the stomach liver kidneys and urinary organs. It claims nervousness and attendant ailments vanish with this remedy and urges purchase from Emmert and Burrell at fifty cents a bottle.
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