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Newspaper
Joliet Daily Sun
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1875
Page
1
The Daily Sun notes a fair editorial on Beveridge’s attack and criticizes the paper for withholding pardoning details at the prison. It points to numerous recent pardons and calls for fuller disclosure of circumstances surrounding them.
Citizens of Joliet urged an academy or seminary to boost prosperity. Leaders cite abundant suburban sites with beauty and access and note liberal donations from prominent residents to start the project. A regional influx of farming families seeking education for their children is anticipated.
Near Jerseyville and Seneca two fatal accidents followed gusty conditions. A man named Atkinson died when a coal shaft smoke stack blew down on him. A wind toppled a small barn trapping two workers who perished. Local Baptists finished a meeting and planned work on a centennial Baptist history. An Irish doctor billed a lady for “curing your husband till he died.”
The piece notes Pennsylvania and Ohio Republican platforms, a Cleveland labor union platform, and Dr. Casey of this city adopting one. It recalls a historic Casey lineage, mentions past election losses to Dr. Campbell, and describes Casey’s public policy platform as clear and accessible on VanBuren street in a ten by fourteen foot plank display.
The column surveys a mix of notes from France England and Germany. Topics include re election at the National Assembly of France and leadership roles, wreck ship Schiller her undiscovered specie, French and American family name parallels, arrests in St Nicolas over a religious procession, expected low U S presence at Philadelphia centennial, Vienna/Berlin reports on Chancellor Bismark, a French foot amputation case over burial scraps, Bishop Odelheimer’s European trip and health, Normandy savior by river rescuer awarded, a Maine cotton mill family with 24 children all at work, and a Montreal wife with 25 children in another household.
Large crowds from Hazleton marched to Mahoney City and surrounding collieries urging suspension of work. About 1,000 men moved from colliery to colliery prompting federal troops to prepare as Shenandoah residents sought protection and authorities mobilized in Williamsport and nearby towns.
The consecration of Rt. Rev. John M. Henri as Arch Bishop of Milwaukee occurred yesterday with a gala civic day. Bishop Ryan of St. Louis delivered an eloquent sermon. General Sheridan undertook another historic trip, this time with a young wife, as he married Miss Irene Rucker of Chicago amid generous gifts and high honors. The article also notes a failed Louix chieftains mission to Washington and unsettled Black Hills questions, plus a New York Masonic celebration and a Woodburn breeder selling two short-horns to Mr Fox of England for 30000 in total.
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