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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1884
Page
8
Miss Jane Warp and J. R. Dorsey were lynched in Center Alabama for complicity in murder. Dorsey was Alpine postmaster, aged 75. Fire damaged Southern Barbed Wire works in St. Louis at a loss of 50,000. Various reports cover arrests, storms, a comet sighting, and a large range of local incidents across the nation.
The article lists political nominations and offices across states, noting appointments like William P. Dunwoody to the National Board of Health, and details on Democratic and Republican nominees in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Ohio. It mentions Rhode Island party conventions, tax proposals on luxury articles, and local election results including West Virginia constitutional changes, plus a long note on age facts and a New York mayoral nomination.
At St Louis the Woman's Christian Temperance Union held a session where Miss Frances Willard was re elected president receiving 327 votes of 343. The meeting discussed Prohibitory law cases with fines of 1000 dollars or less.
A Norwegian canoe Neptune reaches an English port en route to New York with Captain Johnson aboard. In Ireland a Liberal meeting ends in a mob attack. Canada plans eight hundred barrels of relief as Gulf coast fishermen suffer distress. A Grand Trunk express collides with stock cars in Quebec, killing an engineer and injuring others, with 120 sheep killed and $1,000 value. Cholera deaths rise across Europe with 13,150 total by late July. Ontario snow, British Parliament extra session, and a $4,000 cholera relief fund theft loom. Newfoundland and Jamaica floods, Westphalia and Oran fires, and Bay Quinte drownings mark a turbulent day.
Forty three new coronavirus cases and nineteen deaths in Italy, Naples most affected. In Adairville a farmer, John M Gilbert, was shot and killed by a unknown assassin. A heavy snowstorm hit Cheyenne and vicinity on the 21st. Garfield statue unveiling at Lower Grove Park St Louis dedicatory address by Dr POSCO Reilly. Letters read from President Arthur and Governor Crittenden. Adams & ALurey woolen dealers of New York failed for 150000. A colossal procession of nearly one hundred thousand marched near Hyde Park London demanding abolition of the House of Lords. A West Virginia woman Johnson poisoned two step-children and herself. New York City voter registration reaches 24095 this year, highest in history. Old John Street Methodist Church centennial celebrated in New York. Spalding & Brothers sporting goods store in Chicago burned, loss 117000. Miss Emeline Burguer killed in a Columbus runaway crash. Mrs Connell injured. Sir Moses Montefiore centennial celebrated at synagogues nationwide. Editor G W Cheyes shot Captain T H Picket in Dawson Ga. A cattlemen convention delegation requested for St Louis in November. Nominations include Platt Stewart O Beirne Kennedy Law and Foster.
In Center Alabama on October 22 a mob of thirty masked men overran Cherokee County Jail and seized J R Dorsey aged 74 and Miss Jane Ward aged 60. They were taken to a ravine on the Coosa River where they were hanged by ropes and left to die. The crime cited was the slaying of Mrs Mary Davis and neighbor CC Jones on October 5. Authorities had previously relocated the couple to Alpina Georgia. Dorsey was described as jealous of Mrs Davis. Ward as a spinster with a violent disposition.
The National Convention of Soldiers and Sailors met in Indianapolis to push for broad pension reforms. Delegates from eleven hundred organizations backed resolutions to raise widows and orphans pensions, extend disability benefits, and ensure predictable payments, urging lawmakers to support these measures.
In Dent Que on Oct 25 the Iowa Supreme Court affirmed the Burlington District Court ruling in Albertson vs. Krrchbaum. The decision holds a Justice of the Peace lacks jurisdiction under the Prohibitory law to imprison beyond thirty days, as the new law allows sixty days, with costs possibly added as imprisonment. The ruling signals saloon cases will not be tried before Justices of the Peace in Dubuque.
From Commissioner Armstrong’s year end report, the total indebtedness of subsidized Pacific Railroads is given. Covenant including Basis de Princip shows 6,629,066. Central Pacific with Western Pacific lists principal 27,855,880 and accrued interest 26,792,145 to 55, etc. Sioux City and Pacific accruals 681,996. Central Branch Union Pacific 3,245,808. Grand total debt 24,858,222 with US balance due 102,994,783 not payable until 1895 and 1899.
In Wasmerton on October 25 the Post-office Department reported for the year ended June 30, 1884 receipts excluding money order revenue at 42,919,685 while expenditures reached 46,411,772 leaving a 8,505,187 deficit due to the reduced postal rate. Last year showed a 2,553,190 surplus though this year's shortfall will shrink by about 100,000 from money-order revenues. The outcome supports President Arthur's message to Congress.
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