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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1882
Page
2
The Senate and House of Representatives held memorial services for James A. Garfield. A concurrent resolution thanked James G. Blaine for his memorial address and adjourned after the ceremony. Other actions included bills on immigration, education, and infrastructure, plus committee reports and nominations.
The report covers bank law limits on extending corporate life, wage cuts at a telegraph company, and factory fires in New York and Texas. It notes statewide fire relief funds, import and export balances, flood impacts in Mississippi County and Arkansas, and a spate of accidents and crimes nationwide.
The president nominates Philip T. Vansile of Michigan to be United States Attorney for Utah. Ma Booville writes Sen ate protest over Roscoe Conkling’s confirmation as Associate Justice. A late Washington court finds many star route conspirators on trial. Ex Minister Farraim mip sends condonence to Mrs Garfield from the Queen of Spain. Iran nominated to Chill as minister to Chile. Court martial adjourns in Washington for Sergeant Magon. House passes $150 gold medal purchase for Kate Shollow.
The Senate confirms an Associate Justice by a vote of 89 to 2 with eight Democrats and four Republicans opposing. Grand Jury in Washington indicts James Henderson James Donohue William Jackson Albert Boone and Samuel Cabell Star-route agents for conspiracy to defraud the United States. Oregon Democratic and Republican conventions scheduled for April and Portland. A dispatch from Secretary of State to Minister Lowell conveys U S condolences for the Queen and public relief at her safety.
Reports from Europe Asia and Africa describe Austrian battles with Balkan insurgents tallying 116 dead, a British case of Kilmainham jail solitary confinement after a bribery attempt, and Egyptian Cabinet backing slavery. In Northampton Parliament election Brapiataun wins 3793 to 3087 over Corbett. Queen Victoria survives a pistol attack by Roderick McLean who claims hunger triggered the act. McLean previously released from Wells and Weston-Super-M Mare asylums. he faced Windus Borough Justices. London Stork Exchange opens with God Save the Queen and Canada- Japan tensions rise as Fort Erie faces thefts from across the border. Bank of France lowers discount rate to 4 percent. Extradition gaps spark talk of towing a jailbreak gang to Buffalo.
The governor urged increased flood rations for Missouri with eight days already sent and a request of 16 000 rations for forty days. Senate actions included district court terms in Wichita and a debate over adulterated goods. Separate items note deaths of notable figures and other incidents including a train collision near Earleslie and a shipwreck near Louisville.
London March reports a man fired at Queen Victoria as she entered her royal carriage near Windsor. James Burnside seized the weapon, the assailant Roderick MacLean was captured and later remanded. Past near misses are recalled, tracing a line of attempts from 1840 to 1872.
The article reports State Department statistics on Illinois corn for 1881, noting reduced acreage since prior years, high first-hand prices except select years, and overall value rivaling or exceeding earlier records. It cites weather impacts in September and rains, plus six-year yield trends and county by county averages from 1876 to 1882.
The article records Thomas Johnson of Springfield found deceased near the town branch on the Ohio and Mississippi line after washing from high water. It notes Johnson, 48, leaves a wife and many children, and mentions other drownings, a dugout overturn near Cairna, and multiple local losses from floods. It also cites Chicago death statistics, bank vault explosion, penitentiary prisoner counts, and various oddities and jokes from PITH AND POINT sections.
A diverse science roundup covers mental health calming effects of light, yacht voyage sketches, California ore discoveries near Tres Pinos with 50 000 tons estimated, and lime treated ends preventing wood splitting. It also reports a war locomotive test by Count Moltke, Seychellois clove cultivation concerns, archaic nail weight terms, and a platinum catalyst device to prevent fire damp explosions with a wire gauze lamp system.
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