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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1889
Page
3
A weekly digest from Columbus to Kentucky notes a Columbus fire at the German Mensions Company causing 150 in losses. It reports a farmer John Schmidt beaten by a mob near Sibley Iowa. various fires, drownings, suicides, killings, and accidents across multiple states with dates around the 17th to 23rd. Also mentions elections, stock market, and notable legal cases.
A series of brief items report proclamations and rewards in Iowa for murder arrests, Prohibitionist nominations in Virginia and New Jersey, notable deaths including Joan Morrow in Louisville and Oxnard area figures, and appointments such as Nicolls to the Treasury mail division. Other notes mention Jenny Logan’s arrival in New York, Leo Scuwas’s philanthropy, and a Massachusetts Prohibitionist state convention set for September 4 in Worcester.
A string of distant disasters and incidents is reported including a major earthquake felt on Arran and mainland Scotland on the 17th with severe damage. a fire in Constantinople on the 18th destroying two hundred houses. six men drowned near Ottawa attempting to shoot Roche’s rapids. widespread hardship in the Canadian Northwest and along the Dakota line. the Queen of England allegedly placing state papers on the Prince of Wales. a Mexican customs house collapse at Lassily Sonora killing twelve and three rescued. Paris Hungary fire destroying four hundred homes. Pontarbor mills in France burned. a London jury verdict favoring Lord Salisbury for slander. a cowboy raid near Kelly NM. the schooner Alpha arriving at French Village badly damaged by a swordfish. Port au Prince attempts by General Hippolyte thwarted.
Advices from China describe a Lu Chow fire lasting twenty three hours that destroyed eighty seven thousand dwellings and killed over fourteen hundred people. In Colorado a heavy rain damaged crops on the 23rd. A New Jersey woman, Mus. Many Brapy, was fined twenty five dollars for public misconduct. A Little York Illinois fire destroyed seven of ten stores. A former Jonesboro Tennessee resident, Mrs Heron, was said to have been sentenced to death in Corea for preaching Christianity but denial followed. An Indiana octogenarian in Pike township endured months without solid food. A Cincinnati police court case about selling ice cream on Sunday ended with a demurrer. Brazil Indiana miners faced destitution with nearly six thousand affected. A famous New York trotter trainer Joan Munpur died of consumption. US pig iron production for six months reached 4 107 800 net tons. Vanderbilt control of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway was secured on the 22nd. Epison testified on electrocution methods at Kemmler case. Marion NC lawyer Jioorn J. Paoz was shot and killed. Pittsburgh steel makers denied plans to sell to English capitalists. Sullivan came into possession of 20 000 dollars as stake money. France weighing civil rights changes for Bou langer Dillon and Rochefort, with potential ineligibility for office.
Notorious cattle queen Kate Maxwell and James Averill were lynched by stockmen near Independence Rock on the Sweet Water river in Carbon County. Their bodies dangled from a cottonwood limb after a raid on their cabin by fifteen to twenty men responding to rustling thefts. The pair, long accused of cattle theft, faced vigilante justice as a boy present in the cabin survived. Kate cursed the lynchers. Averill pleaded innocence as the crowd dispersed.
The note lists elections planned in 1889 across states Kentucky August 5 for treasurer. November 5 sees Iowa Maryland Massachusetts Mississippi Nebraska New Jersey New York Ohio Pennsylvania Virginia and others elect governors, treasurers, attorneys general, state officers, and judges. Newly admitted states North Dakota South Dakota Washington Montana frame constitutions and elect full governments and eight U.S. Senators with South Dakota also choosing two representatives.
A blaze at midnight destroyed the Bat Cloud Hotel in Mzapviiz Pa. Guests escaped unharmed but several servants were badly injured by jumping from the third floor. Maggie Ebrich of Youngstown jumped from the third floor and may die. Susan Derby broke both legs. Barbara Hillman burned and leapt to safety on an awning. Archie Carman, a fireman, fell from the second floor and is critically injured. Loss estimated at $10,000, fully insured.
Historic Pilgrim monument near Plymouth Rock prepared for dedication on August 1. The $200000 granite structure rises forty five foot octagonal pedestal topped by a thirty six foot Faith figure. Morality Education Freedom and Law figures accompany Faith with related tablets and reliefs. Corner stone laid in 1839 and completed by 1887. dedication events include a Masonic ceremony, a governor, militia, and a long list of notable speakers and performers from across the country. Boston report notes President Harrison hopes to attend.
Columbus July 2-3 John Hill and James Davis escaped Ohio Penitentiary by drugging a guard and waking patients. They dug through the kitchen ceiling, climbed to the roof, slid to the ground in bandage muslin ropes, and donned clothing seized from prisoners before fleeing the yard. Davis is a government convict for counterfeiting. Pittsburgh July 2 The Pittsburgh Salt Company refuses to sell to the North American Salt Company, prompting the latter to threaten drastic measures to crush the rival firm. The central salt district firm says it will defend itself if the North American Salt Company moves to ruin it while seeking consumer patronage.
A garbled roster lists numerous authors with ages such as Bret Harte 49 William Black 43 Lucy Larcom 68 Rose Terry Cooke 1 Lew Wallace 8 J T Trowbridge 61 Mise Braddon 58 George Bancroft n ee Howe 35 Margaret Wade Deland 8 Joel Chandler Harris 41 H H Boyenew 40 George W Cable 44 Julian Hawthorne 43 Mary Mapes Dodge 151 Walter Besant 71 James Russell Lowell 70 James Payne 50 Moncure D Conway 57 Thomas Bailey Aldrich 83 Celia Thaxter 53 Charles Dudley Warner 60 Marion Hoeland 50 Jennie June 57 Edmund Clarence ted man 56 Edith M Thomas 35 Marion Crawford 35 Brander Matthews 87 James Whitcomb Riley 7 Julia Ward Howe 70 Edward Everett Hale 67 Francis Parkman 66 George William Curtis 65 Blanche Willis Howard 43 William H Bishop 42 Frances Hodgson Burnett 39 Sarah Orne Jewett 30 William Dean Howells 52 Edward Eggleston 51 John G Whittier 80 Oliver Wendell Holmes 80 Donald G Mitchell 67 Richard Malcom Johnson 67 Edgar Fawcett 43 Constance Fenimore Woolson 4b Frank R Stockton 55 Harriet Prescott Spofford 54 Harriet Beecher Stowe 77 George Ticknor Curtis 70 Robert Louis Stevenson 80 Mrs Humphrey Ward 33 John Habberton 47 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward 45 Louise Imogen Gurney 27 Amelie Rives-Ca unlessg 25 Thomas Wentworth Higginson 65 Richard Henry Stoddard 64.
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