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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1882
Page
2
A transcribed notice reports a legislative measure allocating about 20 million dollars for harbor works and related appointments. It mentions the Pembroke port project, a pay plan, and specific allocations with references to officials and parties involved.
The piece reports a spectrum of political maneuvering with nominations and defections. Ex-Auditor Massey faces a contested race amid protests against Republican governance and calls to remove officials. It notes court cases, autopsy findings, and shifting party lines, reflecting a volatile prewar political landscape.
Reports of freight rate hikes from three to ten cents per hundred pounds amid railstrike tensions. A brick-building attack in Ark. leaves about thirty dead. Apache Indians capture horses near Globe City Arizona while citizens return home. Tornadoes in Pratt County Kansas injure and destroy property. Detroit and Chicago crime tales include a Stockholm murder confession.
The dispatches describe Britain’s treaty with Corea, Shufeldt’s US mention, Skobeleff’s Moscow events and mass attendance at his burial. It notes a Mexican duel killing one officer and a later death, a jail assault in Tes Vekss, an English banker’s loss, a German lynch attempt, a fatal jail fire, ship traffic clearances, Kerry assassinations, rail disasters with casualties, and John Bright’s cabinet resignation amid political strife.
The Alexandria dispatch recounts Arab Bey and troops retreating inland after widespread looting and mass killings of Europeans and Christians as British forces landed to protect the city. Fire rages, courts and quarters suffer ruin, while Arab defences sulk and Turkish premier condemns Arab Bey as a rebel.
Several items describe military and political turmoil in Alexandria and Cairo with Arabi Pasha, British actions against Egyptian forces, rail disruption near Lake Marqutte, and reprisals. Other notes cover Montreal customs seizures, New York labor politics, and obituaries.
A mother scalded son and failed attempt to save him ends in the child's death. A board of trade leader is shot by an Italian woman after a quarrel. Illicit revolver incidents, a suicide note, burglaries, a major fire, and local political and social notes fill a sprawling Illinois crime and society roundup.
A collage of industrial notes describes steam heating pipes efficiency, hammer capacities of ten and five ton classes, and a New York cloth moisture device that emits fine mist to avoid liquid droplets on machinery. It also mentions micro-telephone listening in Germany and a London chemical ventilation gag for tunnels tested by 14 scientists with a mobile “lung” unit.
The article discusses a fish, likely Itdianus black forges, recently popular for table use. Described by Professor Gould in 1878, it is a firm, sheephead flavored catch from Florida and Gulf waters, caught by hand, averaging twelve pounds, with a 32 pound example exhibited locally. Prices averaged fifteen cents per pound.
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