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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1875
Page
2
The report notes ongoing but diminishing violent demonstrations in Pennsylvania as workers face a likely resumption of duties. It mentions the Pope marking his 88th birthday last Thursday and being in continued possession of his duties.
The President denies rumors that Secretary Fish and Secretary Delano plan to resign. Beech er trial witnesses finish testimony after four months, with summing up to begin, likely taking a week. Revenue officers crack down on distilleries in Chicago and Western cities, alleging collusion causing $1.2 million yearly loss. St Louis ties to frauds. Numerous Milwaukee, Chicago and St Louis establishments cited as targets.
News by telegraph reports half the Powelton miners stopped by strikers in Tynoxt Pa. Silk conspirators swindled the government of 1.506 million in New York. Whisky seizures worry Pronto and Pekin distillers as investigators press on. Four prisoners seized engine at Sing Sing and fled toward Tarrytown. New Attorney General Pierrepont assumes duties in Washington. Alfred Spear kills wife then himself at Rockland Maine. Indian delegates arrive in Washington for reception by Indian Commission.
A sweeping government raid targets sixteen distilleries and sixteen rectifying houses in St Louis Chicago Milwaukee and more as part of a nine week undercover operation led by Secretary Bristow and the Solicitor of the Treasury. The probe reveals collusion among officials, forged stamps, and a vast illicit whisky network with plans to seize additional firms and extend into New Orleans and other cities.
A Grand Rapids banker lost 2500 dollars at banks in Chicago the other day but saved his position by stopping payment of the check drawn on the Hide and Leather Bank.
London dispatch says rumor of a Liverpool steamer ashore on Breacher Island in the Scillys is untrue. Fog and passing ships caused steam, whistle, gunfire and boat practice to be misread as distress. In Afghanistan Peegawar had a destructive conflagration half the city laid waste before containment.
In Cane Ridge near Paris Kentucky on a farm dispute a quarrel over harnessing horses led to 80 year old Jacob Ammerman being fatally stabbed in the stomach by his son-in-law Allen 65. Allen surrendered to the Sheriff and claims self defence.
List of new U S patents issued to Illinois inventors reported for the Journal by Cox and Cox with dates April 27 1875. Patents include Coal Hod N C Alexander Chicago Automatic Fly Brush 8S L Long Keithsburg Upholstering Apparatus A Stercke Chicago Umbrella Supporter for Vehicles A J Hood Warren Steam Pumping Engine O H Hudson.
A list of farm tools and supplies with names and vendors. Items include box scraper, cultivator, seeders, pumps, seeding machines, glue joint maker, spring bed bottom, heating stoves, single-tree hooks, lamps, percolators, windmills, shot charges, and band cutters. Names span Quincy Chicago Mendota Champaign Warsaw Earlville Cazenovia Parkers Corners Nashville and others.
Residents note a thriving farming season with corn and grain prospects in excellent soil. Dakota merchants renew their stores, offering a wide range of goods at competitive prices, while temperance gains support and a no-saloon stance reduces alcohol trade. The column highlights Rock City’s anti-license stance, and praises humane stock care, animal welfare, and Illinois livestock strength led by Shelly’s short horn herd plans at Chicago’s Dexter Park sale.
Baileyville Illinois May 15 1875 hunter Abe Green found a petrified wild goose standing upright in adobe soil near Cache Creek. The bird appeared alive at first, then was found dead with a weighty stone body and a hollow breast from which pure water flowed. Feathers looked lifelike. artifact moved to Green's cabin for viewing.
Journal notes visit to J R Shelly near Shannon Illinois to view his Excelsior Herd of short horn cattle. The herd totals 160 head with aristocratic lineages and proud rosettes to reflect quality, as Shelly travels seeking premier specimens to improve his stock.
The Northwestern Railroad Company plans to finish its shops just outside Chicago on the Galena division. Improvements cost 250000 dollars and are to be completed this summer. Four brick buildings, each 80 by 300 feet, will be erected making them the largest railroad shops in the world.
Sheridan releases the final Black Hills detainee on parole after giving counsel about not seeking gold. The boy, named Johnny, swears to quit prospecting, receiving leniency described as generous compared with others.
Marriages listed include Millet and Blyler in Stephenson County Iowa connections, Pool and Salter in Forreston, plus Gilman and Klock in town with a wedding trip. A death notes Charles Henry Jeffrey, six years six months and eighteen days, died of typhoid pneumonia in April 1875.
Market prices and notes from Freeport Markets as reported in the Journal of Tuesday May 18 1875. Names and figures appear for provisions and goods though the text is fragmentary, listing grains and produce with occasional traders’ initials.
Flour firm amid fair local and ship inquiry while wheat and oats move with uneven momentum. No. 2 spring wheat May at 1.024 and July 1.074, corn active but irregular, oats 0.83 bid for May, 0.64 bid for June, rye 1.0614, barley 1.33 to 1.85 cash or seller May. Pork around 21.25 to 21.85, lard 15.07 to 15.25, beef cattle active and steady, hogs opening strong then closing weak near prior week levels.
An 19th century patent medicine advertisement extols Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure all improving mood and benevolence. It claims benefits for sedentary Brooklyn jurymen and judges, a tonic effect on liver and circulation, and moral uplift through increased cheerfulness. It cites Miss Anna Dickingon and Mrs. Stowe as testimonials and directs readers to purchase at druggists with the 406 Common Sense Medical Adviser as supplementary reading.
An OCR fragment declares sickness is widespread and promotes Green's Avaust as a remedy for liver complaint indigestion sour stomach and related symptoms. It urges readers to consult druggists for a sample bottle and claims relief from a regular dose.
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