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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1883
Page
6
The text notes claims about a past slayer of Carey, reports Minnesota wheat exceeding average yield and proportionate crops, mentions a telegraphers strike stirring Canadian debate over government control of lines, and cites JepeE BirpsalL of Hartford asserting Hancock was defeated by Tilden.
Drouin has materially injured the cotton plant in Texas, and serious injury to the crop has been worked even under the most favorable future considerations.
In Raymond Mississippi a fusion agreement followed a hard fought session in the Democratic and Republican Conventions. The Democrats proposed a plan which the Republicans unanimously adopted ending party opposition and creating a united slate for local races.
The Agricultural Bureau in Washington reports July crop data showing corn planted at 68,304,685 acres with an average condition of 88 up from 85 in July last year. The year over year area increase is 2,500,000 acres.
A rap dog near Lincoln Nebraska bit cattle causing high mortality in the herd. Some call the affliction hydrophobia others deny that label, claiming a mysterious disease spread havoc among stock regardless of diagnosis.
Complaints from Eastern manufacturers prompt the Treasury to seek a uniform tariff. The Commissioner of Customs asks collectors to send the duty rates charged on steel wire fencing to decide a standard rate. Massachusetts manufacturers lead protests against current customs practice.
A Treasury official says over ten years more than 86 million dollars’ worth of opium entered San Francisco by a systematic smuggling ring aided by government officials. The scheme allegedly allocated 70 percent to smugglers and 30 percent to insiders, with bribes between 2000 and 5000 dollars. Wealthy residents are named as profiting from opium smuggling, unless the government acts to stop it.
In St Louis a cantatus of John W Steith reveals a will giving $1.75 million in property to charities, including four blocks in the city. It earmarks $75,000 plus interest from Broadway Savings Bank for orphans on St Joseph’s Day March 19, 1910. The Court House goes to Capt Davidson for a bethel mission with a smoke attachment atop Market street chimney. The hermit testator died recently with only fifteen cents. funeral limited to fifteen dollars, which the city honored.
A New York syndicate prospecting oil lands sent an agent to Maramoras in 1864 with about $50,000. He stayed with Ward, later vanished with funds while Ward’s persona changed. Ward died suspiciously, and James West died confessing a plot with Ward and Kirkbride to murder the agent, rob him, and throw the body in an old well. The well revealed a skeleton identified as the victim and Kirkbride was arrested.
The Church Guardian editor D. D. Richardson aged 73 was found dead in bed in New York City. The Georgia Legislature passed a Bengal Local Union Law. The State Department denies knowledge of a sensational report claiming a German Empire Mexico alliance.
A Telegram from Tacoma reports customs officers and the Walcott steamer captured a sloop running Chinese across the line from British Columbia. Nine Chinese passengers escaped. Nearly one hundred Chinamen landed on the Northern frontier in boats and canoes, with the collector seeking greater force to prevent further landings. Other items describe a Missouri knife murder, a Pittsburg nail mill meeting, a destructive Nishnabota hailstorm, and multiple fires and crimes across the country.
Springfield Missouri hosts a large Wilson Creek veterans reunion with seven hundred survivors from North and South registering at the Courthouse. The event features drill contests, remarks by ex governors and senators, and unveiling ceremonies for the Lyon monument drawing thousands.
August 10 Springfield Missouri reports the closing day of the Wilson Creek veterans reunion at the battlefield ten miles southwest of the city. Thousands arrived by omnibus farm wagon and three Frisco trains to Brookline then ground transport five miles south. Leaders included Lieutenant Governor Campbell Arkansas Governor Berry Col Merritt Col Woods Gen Pearce Capt Jones and other Confederate and Union figures. A Surviving Soldiers Union League was formed with officers from both sides, aiming to unite veterans under a common flag and country.
A roundup of brief items notes bootblacks fined in Salt Lake City, a Ohio judge ruling murder in the first degree for aiding a drowning man, and sharp quotes about cloral. It covers stock meetings, weather quips from Oregon, a horse dying after a bee sting, dining cars in France, a Georgian fined and crusading for law, a diving accident, a long-delayed letter, a mule lightning strike in Detroit, and wage differences for New York piano clerks, among other items from Chicago to Boston and Washington.
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