28 Jan 1882
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Newspaper
Freeport Republican
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1882
Page
1
A sprawling, error-filled recap notes events from Massachusetts Governor Bullock’s alleged death to murders, accidents, trials, fires, political messages, and unusual diary-like incidents across the United States and abroad. It catalogs a rash of crimes, disasters, arrests, medical tales, and political developments without clear cohesion.
The Oneida Community in New York and Mormon issue draw attention as Congress discusses policy. National Board of Trade meets in Washington urging Reagan’s Inter-State Commerce bill and uniform railway contracting publicity. Treasury inquiry nears end with recommendations to itemize contingent fund purchases. Adjutant General confirms service entitlements for soldiers enlisted from 1881 to 1861. Utah citizens in Washington seek a DC-like territorial government.
Senator Lamar wins election as United States Senator by both Mississippi houses. James F B Wilson named long term senator for Town Legislature, with Judge McDix filling the Kirkwood vacancy. J A Emerson testifies before Treasury Committee on leave and alleged use of patronage for 1886 presidential support. Emerson claims 100 Treasury employees attended the Chicago Convention. New York stalwarts consider nominating Ex-Senator Conkling for governor. Postmaster Pearson of New York, son-in-law of Postmaster General James, may be removed amid President’s friends’ influence.
British cabinet finds Lish suspects not deserving special treatment as Balkan unrest spreads from Merzigeviny to Argenta border districts. Reports of riots near Nuwealnjo, prisoner releases, and fatalities on both sides accompany tensions in Egypt, Herzegovina, and St Petersburg plots.
Reports from Belfast and Nepaul detail court reversals and conspiracies. Fires destroy Kremaior in Bucharest with many lost. Melville’s Jeannette dispatches claim logs and records found, while search efforts continue near Irkutsk. Irish political arrests and imprisonments are noted, plus Austrian post positions in Herzegovina face pressure amid rising revolt.
Forty seventh Congress reports bills and measures in both chambers. Senate actions include pension reform debate and a plan to retire Justice Hunt, with nominations for postmasters and Indian agents. House items cover internal revenue investigation, land laws inquiry, and rules committee reports, plus a 6000 dollar appropriation for protecting export sectors. Eulogies and library additions accompany a brief session pause.
A literary digression extols a head waiter as a sublime, almost mythic figure. The piece mocks grand titles and social hierarchies, elevating a service role to cosmic stature with playful hyperbole and ornate language.
Forty seventh to fiftieth day of the Garfield assassination trial report Scoville defending, noting alleged prosecution unfairness, demonizing Conkling and Grant, and asserting insanity as motive. Guiteau interrupts, protests, and is restrained as defense details the prisoner’s life and mental state through testimonies and excerpts from his speeches.
Fragmentary OCR depicts a courtroom scene with dramatic rhetoric and a reference to John Brown's body. The text captures taunt and defiant lines amid a jury setting, invoking a martyr's march and historical allusion without clear context or modern framing.
A large gathering of delegates and visitors attended the annual Grange meeting in Mattoo County. Horace H. Clark opened with a welcome on behalf of Matiod Citizens, followed by an address from Ortimer Waitehead Master of the New Torney State Grange. The Wisconsin convening Grange delegates spoke on the Alma and Objects of the Order, with the next meeting planned for December 1899 in Botleville. The annual treasurer’s report showed receipts of 4,002.87 with a balance of 430.06. Four subordinate bodies were organized, officers elected included Master C.P. Carr Broward and others, and J. E. Williams served as Trustee with A. K. Nifty noted as Avont.
A farmer James A Wilmot in Garrard County Ey suffers debt induced insanity leading to a family massacre. He and his wife Elizabeth and two daughters are killed, with Elizabeth and James found dead, and Elizabeth’s son surviving. In Washington Territory a mob hangs convicted murderers Jenica Sullivan and Willie Howard after a courtroom attack, while a safety committee threatens broader vigilante justice.
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