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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1882
Page
2
The Senate discussed a Wisconsin memorial on Mississippian waterway improvements and debated a North political measure. It approved a resolution on monuments and pensions, authorized funds for postal and education needs, and considered bills on railroad and military service claims with frequent references to Mississippi flood relief.
Domestic dispatches report a twin tragedy near Llano Texas where Rounrs burned the house of Josiah Modgus on the 14th killing Mrs. Ben pon and two grandchildren. Other items note floods receding in the South.
A chaotic 1862 dispatch lists fires destroying a mission school in Indian Territory killing four children, levee breaks flooding 1000 miles of the Mississippi valley with thousands dependent on government rations, a bank collapse in Pennsylvania, ship looting at Gloucester, and multiple rail and legal developments across the United States, including stock exchange suspensions and jail sentences.
The Garfield Chase-Roacrans letter is deemed a forgery by the Gazette. Arkansas Democratic committee calls for a gubernatorial convention at Little Rock on June 15. Names and dates cover nominations, naturalizations, bank embezzlement fallout, habeas corpus plea, Star route hearings postponed, and party campaign leadership changes.
Report notes a Republican caucus debating whisky and tobacco tax cuts and renominations in Rhode Island. It mentions Sergeant Magon's habeas corpus bid, Linobin promising case consideration, Guiteau autograph sales, and Tennessee Governor's call for a special legislative session without debt settlement remarks.
Reports from Europe and the Americas note mine disasters in Spain and Austria moving toward annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Arrests and trials include Russian General Bakoloff, Dr Lamson in England, and postal thief Avren Dames in Montreal. Queen Victoria’s departure to Mentone and Czar clemency talks also feature amid broader tensions.
F A Patan former Auditor of Newark New Jersey was sentenced to state prison for twenty years for forging warrants on the Treasury. Reports note other ills: Mississippi Valley relief funds eyed at one million over sixty days, and notable disasters from Brooklyn to Newcastle with fires floods and avalanches.
Delegates met in Springfield on the 15th to denounce railroad monopolies. Speeches by Streeter, Armstrong, Bryant, and Bishop led to resolutions urging enforcement of Illinois railroad laws, condemning bribery, and calling for a state committee to prosecute railroads. The convention formed an executive committee of Harding, Streeter, and Ball.
Rev John H Milholland won five thousand dollars in a slander case at Bloomington. The Inn of Illinois sets dog owners liable for any damage to sheep or livestock. Bloomington’s Rev John P Brooks withdraws from the Methodist Church. A Swiss man near Calro was decapitated by a train on the Illinois Central. Springfield bank plans to start in May. Subornation of perjury charge against C M Winslow tied to Bloomfeld bribery trial. Chicago school attendance nears sixty thousand. Springfield Post Office income rose to thirty three thousand. A Gilman butter factory sold butter at fifty cents a pound, paying farmers forty cents in cream. Decatur incident: bandits stole a hand car and spiked it on the Illinois Central. Vandalia foreman L L Claxton defrauded the State Treasury via forged requisitions, sentenced to eighteen years in Chester. West-side Chicago depot air brakes damaged nearly one hundred Alton Burlington and Fort Wayne coaches. Arrowsmith farm hand Barney Dieter drowns while tending stock. James Burke, Chicago murderer, dies in penitentiary after five year sentence. February smallpox deaths number 108 in Chicago. Decatur resident Charles Athens survives paralysis, then dies again soon after. Jerseyville house of blind veteran William Owens burns, loss three thousand nine hundred dollars, insured one dollar. Owens blinded by army explosions years earlier.
The article notes American bred racehorses like Iroquois and others owned by Lorillard and Keene racing in England. It highlights Iroquois winning major stakes at Ascot and Doncaster, Lorillard as top owner with several Derby efforts, Gerald's strong season and Derby prospects, plus other American runners such as Mistake Passaic Wallenstein and Dakota achieving various prizes in Britain.
The Salt Lake Tribune argues Gentiles form a sizable minority in Utah, estimating about 31 to 31.2 percent of the population in 1880 with roughly 6 percent annual mine profits and large Gentile ownership in property and railroads. It credits Gentiles with substantial charitable and institutional investment and dismisses the idea of a Gentile governing commission as unjustified. The piece notes Gentile wealth and influence in mines, railroads, trade, and social institutions, contrasting it with the Mormon majority.
Kansas forests cover 93 600 acres with cottonwood as the leading species and about 6 000 acres in black walnut. The Scientific American describes an instrument called the gastroscope for illuminating the stomach interior, a delicate device showing potential on anatomy. It lists sixteen American inventions of world-wide adoption, including the cotton gin and telegraph, and explains a new car brake system enabling simultaneous train braking via extensible rods and pulleys. It notes a debate on coastal uplift with Dr. Mitchell arguing salt marsh levels remain constant, while chart comparisons show regional depth changes east of 64 deg 13 min.
A stitched-together column blends wry quips and stray anecdotes from readers and papers. It weaves jokes about childhood spankings, eloquence, heroism, domestic life, and a humorous tale of a man snagging a bag while fishing under the Howard street footbridge, illustrating everyday quirks and curiosities in a bustling New England scene.
Mrs. David Schnanffer of Sandlake alleges she swallowed a snake after drinking from a brook behind her village meadow. Physicians doubt at first but now believe her claim and plan to remove the alleged reptile from her stomach at Albany Hospital.
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