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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1881
Page
5
The opening of the criminal trial features Guiteau denying sole responsibility for Garfield's death, claiming divine command. Witnesses including Scoville, Reed, Logan, and Morse discuss his mental state, family ties, and community beliefs, while court actions escalate.
Coroner's jury views Maxwell's body in Durand Wisconsin and returns a verdict that he died by falling from courthouse steps, breaking his neck. Also included are brief notes on federal revenue totals for the year, state receipts comparisons, and other assorted items.
Reports claim Mrs Lincoln faces need. friends insist she is well provided for. Her annual income fell from 8100 to 5000 after bond conversions. Though not in peak health, she is described as not neglected and under tender care by her friends.
Reports from diverse locales describe arraignments at Toronto University for hazing freshmen, a Philadelphia tax office probe into treasury theft, Ton Hatton Garden post office robbery links to Americans, Tunisian policy declarations, legal maneuvers over Coutts Bank interests, maritime disasters with deaths and missing persons, a Allegheny City tannery fire, and a pigeon shooting match near London with Carver facing Even over a pound stake.
A collection of brief items notes Irish land workers urged redress for evils by farmers, including dwellings, amid rent refusal moves. Other items report Berlin health issues, cholera in Egypt and Mecca pilgrims, a British gale damaging coastlines, and political notes on Germany and Roumania trade, plus a murder confession in England and various incidents abroad.
The report lists eleven Bribery convictions in English parliamentary elections with six months’ imprisonment and notes several other items including Boyron’s release on health grounds, Killen’s arrest, a major dairy convention in Cedar Rapids, Navy vessel staffing, a Samoan coaling station, Virginia and New York election results, a Jewish Nihilist in New York, a National Tariff Convention in New York, the Brighton murder and Guiteau’s testimony in Washington, all reflecting a broad patch of world events and trials.
Indiana Auditor Ilon E. Wolfe urged Attorney General Baldwin to rule on graveyard or mutual assessment groups that bypass state insurance laws. Baldwin cites statutes targeting foreign and unlicensed insurers, calling out penalties and enforcement to curb these schemes and protect citizens.
Superintendent Bloss asked C H King Wells County for guidance on doors opening outward as required by statutes. Violations carry 10 to 1000 dollars fines and possible imprisonment. Grain quotes from Indianapolis and Cincinnati appear, noting price figures for wheat corn oats rye and barley. Charlies A Wilder an agent for Thames Loan and Trust Co Connecticut was arrested for embezzling 5000 dollars. The State Board of Education now admits graduates from several Indiana schools to the State University without examination. An exam for State license is planned for June 1882 at multiple cities. A Board of Visitors for the Terre Haute State Normal School was appointed with Dr Harris, Prof Payne and Prof Tarbell.
A long column of assorted notes covers global crimes, royal trivia, a Naples suicide pact, medical and legal cases, Welsh waterworks plans, tax disputes by Chinese merchants in Victoria, a dramatic elopement, a shooting scare near Saratoga, heavy railway damages in France, a Smolensk murder of a detective, and a Derbyshire family rumored to read thoughts, with mind reading debated by scientists.
An overview of Gypsy life across Europe noting nomadic habits, cottage dwelling, and settled colonies such as Kirk Yetholm. It dismisses the myth of a Gypsy king, outlines language and craft, traces origins to 1417, and recalls English experiences from 1480 including accusations, persecution, and persistent nationality.
Janni Boyardji, a naturalized British subject, deceives two Thessalian brigands by inviting them into a boat promising liberty for 200 lires. He upsets the boat, swims to shore, leaving the brigands to drown. He seeks protection from the British Vice Consul.
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