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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1881
Page
2
A wide range of measures dominated Congress with bills to retire General Grant, extend franking rights, curb extortion, and regulate imports and postmasters. Senate and House discussions covered the Army Appropriation, funding of bonds, and Indian affairs, while other reports note railroad and crime incidents and local accidents.
A compiled Old World and American incident roundup reports extreme events including a Michigan woman severing her tongue with a razor, a three-year-old killed in Philadelphia, Indiana captives frozen near the river, and ongoing negotiations with Sitting Bull. Fires devastate mills in Detroit and Newburyport while explosions strike Reading and a New Jersey move prompts a union pool. An East St. Louis death, a Minnesota asylum death, a Cook County verdict, a Wabash Avenue ejectment, and a Watson-era railroad accident in Illinois are noted along with a fatal domestic arson and a Oshkosh murder-suicide case. The Western Union and American Union telegraph merger details close the item.
The report lists multiple legislative actions and nominations across states. It notes Connecticut Republicans naming General J. S. Hawley for the U S Senate, Kansas House electing J B Johnson as Speaker, Ohio pool selling bill passing, and President-elect warning against race-based tensions. Indiana and Ohio legislators nominate U S Senators, Nevada and California elect senators, Maine reports fusion governor Harris M Plaisted totals, Delaware Democrats renominate Bayard, and Wisconsin and Arkansas movements on state leadership and rail grants.
Absent members from the United States Senate due to a party agreement followed by General Gnant being elected President of the World’s Fair Commission and signaling acceptance. Supreme Court Justice Swaing resigned effective January 24. H M Prattstep inaugurated Maine governor on the 18th. Hamilton Fisa elected President of the Union League Club of New York. Baxter McMillan renominated for U.S. Senate by Minnesota Republicans on the 13th. New York Republicans nominated Thomas C. Flatt for U.S. Senate on the 18th.
Foreign tax authorities at Portsmouth received anonymous warnings of an attack. Vienna dispatches note renewed alliance among Austria Germany and Russia. NRA declines British soil competition. Rail collision near Chateau Thierry kills two and injures thirteen. London reports Ireland opposition to coercion with Irish Land reforms demanded. London warns of assassination plot against Bradiburgh. Turkey buys arms in the United States per Vienna telegram. Peruvians place dynamite outside Lima. Chilean army encamped at Lura awaiting battle. Irish mail-car overturned. rents reduced in London. Cronstadt theater fire kills the director and seven others. Lancashire coal strikes. San Domingo revolutionary leader shot. Ejectment notices served on Lord Gravard tenants. Dublin state trials evictions. Boers proclaim British fired first shot. Montreal rail wreck near St Ann’s. Riots among Strixine minors at Wigan. Mitchell Henry to quit Ireland amid Land League denunciation. Parnell amendment against coercion rejected in Commons. Arran Islands Leaguers drive cattle over cliffs. Tax anti Jewish agitation spreads in Germany and beyond.
Summary of wartime mint distributions totaling 101,084 dollars versus 7,000 the prior year, plus congressional dispatches to Maine Governor, wool industry meeting outcomes, proposed District of Columbia animal farm, Land League arrests in Ireland, British court rulings on ritual writs, Bank of England discount rate up to 8 percent, a tragic case of trichinosis from tainted pork, large cattle barn fire in Pennsylvania, and details on the Funding bill proceedings in the US Senate and House including bond plans and committee actions.
A Brookpoint man hosted a feast with bear meat allegedly from a dog slaughter for the occasion. Guests departed sad and later reflected on the eerie scene. Rock Island bridge traffic counts show 251, one way and 20,769 the opposite. Pulaski County seeks a state legislative push to fund a new courthouse at Brown City. Bloomington reports seventy-two retail groceries with 1880 sales near 992,000 and fifteen dry goods stores near 1,000,000.
The Senate met and adjourned, with House not in session. Bills discussed include canal cession to the U.S., probate jurisdiction, and office expansions. Inauguration events occurred with Gov Cullom delivering the address. Committees and rules reforms were noted, with daily journal print orders set for member use.
Hartford Times reports a 20 year old ticket on a Springfield to Hartford train. Nine passengers earlier bought the ticket in October in South Framingham Massachusetts and had it stamped in Springfield before continuing to Hartford by a different route. The conductor took up the ticket, noting the oldest prior record was eighteen years.
New York January 12 Pro GEORGE Henry Fox lectured on skin diseases at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and exhibited the Leopard Boy, a young negro with white patches appearing since age three. He noted color variation comes from skin pigment and predicted continued whitening. The boy, about eleven, said he was black at birth and suffers no pain.
A tropical rainstorm devastated Blumenau in September, drowning or missing over twenty settlers and causing widespread destruction. In nearby areas many perished, homes and bridges were ruined, and a once-vibrant diary and papers of Dr. Blumensu were damaged, leaving most colonists destitute.
Mr WalliAm H Levercoop principal of Boys' Secondary School in Wrightsville endured a remarkable incident Saturday morning when a pitcher in his mother’s sleeping room blasted, shattering into about fifty pieces. The heated room and unfrozen water suggested no ordinary breakage, as fragments flew across the chamber from an apparent explosion.
Lizrie Clara Brepy died at ten in Orange New Jersey after diphtheria symptoms appeared on New Year’s Day. Her father James M Beede, assistant principal, fell ill and died a week later. Beede was a Wesleyan graduate and former mathematics professor in Carmel New York.
The Chinese treaties were sent to the Senate and referred in executive session to the Foreign Relations Committee. They cover immigration and commerce, affirming U S control over Chinese immigration and noting protections for Chinese in the United States while allowing movement for labor, study, and investment. The commercial treaty bars opium imports and promises duty relief for U S cotton fabrics, complementing the Burlingame framework.
The De brott Free Press reports a lively meeting where Brother Gardner denounced neighbor disputes. He urged harmony and practical standards for good neighborly conduct, cautioning that quarrels breed more quarrels and suggesting shared civility over fences and dog noise.
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