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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1885
Page
6
Reports from late February show the Senate advancing measures on Oklahoma land purchase for Indian title and soldiers claims while the House passes the Deficiency and Sundry Civil Appropriation bills. Naval and river projects receive debate as pension bills tally in the evening.
A hobby of brief notices reports many incidents from late December including deaths from illness and accident, embezzlement sentences, a fatal wood chopping accident in Erie, Bungham men committing suicide, a coke trade uptick, Chicago charity appeals, a dye-house collapse in Lowell, a hermit found dead near Dayton, a wagon accident near Reading, mass weight loss from fasting, and fires destroying Norfolk warehouses and the National Theater in Washington.
Summary of disparate reports including a pedestrian completing a 100 day 6100 mile trek in New York, a fatal runaway horse incident near Raleigh, a brutal murder in Union County Kentucky, an explosion at Steubenville Ohio injuring Thomas Paxton, and various business, legal, and crime notes across the United States with scale on railway strikes, insurance retirements, and national failures.
Reports from Lansing Bay City and Minneapolis detail party conventions and nominations for state supreme court judges and university regents. Governor and presidential ties surface with Wyoming governor nominee Francis Warren. A Republican Illinois Legislature joint session and Cleveland’s tariff notes appear amid broader temperance and prohibition debates.
A Michigan Senate vote defeated a joint tax amendment resolution aimed at restricting state finances. The measure needed a two thirds majority and drew 18 Republicans voting yes and 13 Republicans voting no. A New York dispatch noted General Grant in poor health, with physicians saying the public lacks awareness of his deteriorating condition.
Advices from Korti report hot kamsin winds and blinding sand in the Soudan forcing troops to shelter prone. A Hungarian temblor near Temesvar causes no damage. French deputies raise flour duty to six francs. News from Cape Coast Castle cites executions over murders at Winnebuh. Snow slides disrupt the Canadian Pacific line. Irish evictions occur at Abbeyteale. An explosion at the School of Gunnery in Roobury Ness kills three and injures many.
Fred Grant and physicians state General Grant is very ill with a cancerous tongue growth and failing sleep. He has had teeth extracted to ease neuralgic face pain and can only take liquids, with little chance of permanent recovery. the Susquehanna River ice spans forty miles and fears rise of a freshet when it breaks.
Read excerpts from General Gordon to the Home Government dated November 4 and December 14, arguing the Wolseley expedition aimed to relieve Khartoum’s garrison. He warns of starvation, urges reinforcements, and conveys dire conditions near Berber and Metemneh with updates on steamers, guns, and Mahdi forces.
In Albany on February 24 1880 President Cleveland urges Congress to suspend silver purchases to preserve gold reserves and the dollar standard. He warns that continued silver flow risks displacing gold and triggering a severe national monetary and economic crisis. He appeals to lawmakers to maintain both metals in tandem.
In Union County near Smiths Mills Mrs Caton is beaten and hanged by Mose Caton and his sons after refusing to deed land. The family body later exhumed confirms foul play. A posse shot Mose Caton and John Caton. daughter shot while shielding her father. All five suspects jailed. mob unsuccessfully attempts lynching en route to Morganfield jail.
Civil Engineer Menocal leads the expedition to survey the Nicaraguan Canal route reporting to the Navy Department from the San Juan River area. He arrived January 22 near the San Juan Serabiqui junction and began surveys on the river left bank amid Costa Rican objections seeking instructions. He finds raising river waters by a canal dam at the mouth impractical and notes encouraging survey progress.
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