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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1885
Page
6
A digest of recent federal sessions covering Dakota statehood memorials, Washington Monument commemoratives, and key appropriation bills. Highlights include Senate votes on rivers and harbors, Army and Post Office funding, and postal rate changes.
A scattered list of incidents includes an undertaker exhuming a child for a mother unable to pay two dollars for interment, a Geneseo Brewery fire causing $125,000 loss, three drunken men found frozen near Loomis after a night out, and legislative action in Michigan to curb tobacco use. Also noted are suicides in Kentucky, family deaths in Hammondaville, widespread factory closures in Yonkers, prison disclosures in New York and Philadelphia, large snow disruptions, rail wrecks, and multiple executions from Arkansas to Oregon. The piece compiles municipal, criminal, weather, and industrial updates from various locales with no single unfolding narrative.
Joint congressional assembly confirms Grover Cleveland of New York for President and Thomas A Hendricks of Indiana for Vice President with 219 electoral votes for Cleveland and 182 for Binne Logan. Civil Service Commission 2nd annual report covers 1884 to 1885 with 16 examinations, 4347 tested, 261 above grade, average age nearly 30, last President Arthur reception noted.
The text notes Miss Eva Mackey wedding in Paris to Italian Prince Colonna on the 12th. It marks the 80th birthday of David Dudley Field in New York at Cyrus W. Field’s residence on the 13th. It reports Colonel Buyonio’s death in an Anchorage lunatic asylum after killing Judge Elliott seven years earlier. Ex Governor Alexander Moulton dies at his Lafayette Parish plantation at eighty one.
Advices from London report the capture of Khartoum on January 27 with General Gordon stabbed to death and a brutal massacre of his troops. Eyewitnesses describe horrific mutilations and abuse of women amid the retreat and pursuit across the Nile.
A wide range of events fills the brief with political and crime notes. Only Haines votes for Morrison in Springfield while a strike note spreads in Lith. Tragedies include Joan Heaver and son killed by a Bee Line engine in Cleveland and miners in Alta, Utah losing sixteen lives to a snow slide. Banking magnate Francis Annexe dies in New York. Dynamiters linked to London fear trial of Cunningham. Floods hit Mazatlan, Mexico and a Paris obituary for gun inventor B B Hotchkiss. Senate considers Agricultural and Indian bills while the House passes Postal Appropriation with higher pay for letter carriers.
Feb 11 dispatches describe General Gordon slain while leaving the government house as El Medhi forces treacherously enter Khartoum. The massacre of garrison and civilians is detailed with horrific injuries and mass executions. Colonel Wilson and Wortley, by Beresford’s rescue, reach Gubat after desert crossing.
Fire ravaged the Brockley alms house insane wing, trapping and killing many inmates. Attendants recused fourteen, eight survived, while eight perished. Names and ages of victims listed as investigators assess the catastrophe in the city’s history.
The Senate received the second annual Civil Service Commission report. It lauds the Civil Service Law as practical and effective with 61687 examined and 2206 rejected. 3222 appointments made from the pool. over 70 percent had only public school education. examinations include workers from all states except Idaho. no discrimination noted. classified service expanded to include 14 000 places, now adding about 6 000 post office clerks and most custodial officers.
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