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Newspaper
Freeport Republican
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1882
Page
1
The fifth great Warren County Pa. oilfield well yielded 3600 barrels the other day. One well caught fire with flames towering fifty feet causing about 1000 pounds daily loss while burning and several men injured.
The Greenbackers nominate Rains K Garland for Governor. Lidd renominated by Greenbackers of Mine. Pennsylvania Republicans meet in Harrisburg where Judge Tessup urges a new State Convention but is defeated. Marriott Brosing named for Congress at large. Vermont backs John L Barstow for Governor. Tennessee Democrats nominate Gen William B Bate for Governor amid a debt split. Des Moines plans Aug 2 town convention. Michigan Democrats call Jackson convention Aug 23. Rosecrans renominated for Congress by California Democrats.
Sixty thousand Chinese laborers finishing contracts in Cuba seek passage through the United States homeward but are refused by the Cabinet, to return via England. A special Cabinet session on June 24 condemns Guiteau’s potential reprieve, and a disjointed telegram from spiritual adviser Dr. Hicks conveys a conditional pardon offer and divine backing.
A garbled curation notes a Hamilton Ontario incident a homeowner tragedy with two deaths and a suicide alleged. It also mentions the sixteenth National Encampment in Baltimore and references President Arthur and Gen. Sherman. Other items touch shipwrecks off San Francisco and political rhetoric during a California Democratic convention.
A chaotic report from Vasnila island describes a nihilistic lodge found by Russian police with forty nine arrests and seized dynamite. The London desk notes an impending panic in Britain over Fenianism, with extraordinary security at arsenals and forts. Ongoing Ireland unrest rumors are deemed unfounded while government predicts armed resistance. In Parliament, the Alien Act extension spans the UK. Arabi Pasha vows resistance to interference in Egypt. In Ireland, hundreds march at Armagh singing disloyal songs. A Meath pensioner is fatally shot by a disguised assailant. The land company plan in Ireland seeks £750,000 capital. Three Egyptian moneylenders are killed, and the U.S. Galena captain offers evacuation for Americans in Egypt.
Latter news items report 200 eviction decrees against small tenants in Contemara Ireland risking 2000 people becoming homeless. Irish MPs clash with the new land company in the House of Commons. Government urged to restore calm. Yrevelyan says landlords and tenants will be left untouched if lawful. Dispatch from Alexandria notes consular advice to stay near news hub. Arabi Pasha claims punishments only for those Europeans who fired first.
In Missouri a reader, Mrs. Tania Dainty, hosts a reception where a guest who talks only about horses recalls a Michigan city he once lived in. The exchange features a punning exchange about horse talk and a misfit social moment, leaving the crowd unimpressed as the tale ends.
In a June congressional session the Senate approved a bill authorizing public buildings at Lynchburg Abingdon and Harrisonburg Virginia. Debates covered bank charters silver certificates and internal tax changes with votes and committee referrals noted.
After a debate over internal revenue taxes the committee bill passage corrected the error. Springer moved to recommit seeking to abolish all internal taxes except bank circulation and distilled spirits but failed 56 to 126. Hewitt Dunnell Kelley critique the bill while the Bank Charter bill advanced with most Senate amendments, save the gold certificates clause. A conference report on the Consular Appropriation bill was agreed to.
An eye witness recounts the Grinnell tornado catastrophically shredding buildings and lifting debris, with the City Hall turned morgue, doctors racing to identify mangled bodies, and houses crushed like eggshells as a night of relentless wind and lightning left a landscape of ruin.
Fragmentary report describes a wreck scene in Grinnell with a damaged residence and injuries. A young child and others were harmed as debris and mortar were propelled, a house lifted from its cellar, and residents displaced. Names and precise details are unclear due to OCR errors.
A 1882 tornado season devastates the central United States, with upward of 300 killed and millions in property damage. Reports detail severe windstorms from Texas to the Missouri Valley, Georgia to Dakota, and Iowa to Kansas, with Grinnell and Grinnell-area towns hit hard in May and June. The piece discusses death tolls, injuries, destroyed churches and farms, and urges improved warnings and shelter in cellars to save lives.
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