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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1883
Page
2
A roundup of incidents across the United States reports imports of Chinese laborers into California via British Columbia, emigration prosecutions in New York, fires and floods across several states, lynchings in Texas, and political actions in Massachusetts and Arkansas. It notes miners’ stoppages, railroad washouts, and a ship canal bill, plus personal tragedies and criminal cases, with widespread weather and flood damage.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music overflowed for Henry Ward Beecher’s seventieth birthday event with congratulatory remarks from Rev. Fulton Rev. Collyer Hon John Barry and Mayor Low Beecher gave a stirring response. The day also carried a flood of political and civic updates from across the country including a major internal revenue district reorganization and notable legal and ceremonial events.
A misspelled note indicates Mrs Lancray of the Sérdky tb tity has secured a cottage at Long Branch for the summer season.
Fires destroy buildings on a Neva island in St Petersburg causing 1.6 million rubles in losses. Yellow fever kills at least daily in Vera Cruz with high fatality. Java fears rice famine as 200000 acres ruined by disease. A fishing boat sinks off Trepassy with six dead. Thunderstorm in Chatham kills four soldiers. British in West Africa report brutal treatment of captured soldiers. Damietta massacre of 73 people in a siege. Egypt reports cholera deaths at Damietta Port Said and Ironsgrad. A New London cable firm plans two transatlantic wires with 1.5 million pounds capital. Negotiations Russia-Vatican nearing completion on church-state matters. Irish Chief Secretary Trevelyan denies paupers sent to America. Melbourne party to annex New Guinea. German arrests in conspiracy to betray army secrets. Lords rejects marriage to deceased wife's sister bill. Cholera deaths flood Damietta and three French ships report losses. An English minister survives stabbing on a Calais-Paris train. attacker captured.
Reports describe drowning in the Ohio River near Madison Indiana and widespread flood damage across Illinois Missouri and Kansas. The Mississippi and Okaw rivers rise surge through Chester Kaskaskia and surrounding towns with hundreds of thousands of acres submerged and thousands displaced.
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