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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1883
Page
6
A rumor claims Apaches, under a flag of truce, sold jewelry taken in the assassination of Judge McComas and his wife to Mexico. A mass meeting in Waterford, Ireland drew thirty thousand people in support of the Irish National League with resolutions for an Ireland government like Canada’s.
Coster, former Atlanta Postmaster, asked the Postmaster General why he was removed. The General replied that Conley had retained and promoted dishonest clerks he knew to be dishonest.
In the southern Dakota region electing delegates to a Constitutional Convention, the assembled body at Sioux Falls aims to draft a constitution and seek statehood. Prohibition plays a prominent, well-supported role in the proceedings and has many advocates among the delegates.
A sixteen year old and a seventeen year old disputed a young Miss of fifteen in Richmond. Their rivalry led to a hostile field of honor encounter. Both youths wounded the Miss’s affections, ending with them missing each other and the dispute cooling.
The Commissioner states all tobacco, snuff and vigour tax rebate claims amounting to £3,639,039.58 have been filed. Scheduling work is accelerating and Congress may act promptly. No appropriation was made initially since the eventual total was unknown.
Governor McDaniel signs a bill allocating 1,000,000 dollars to build a new State Capitol at Athata on City Hall Square. The project must be ready by January 1, 188. It makes Capitol Commissioners forbidden to have any interest in contracts. Marble and granite bids are open to all bidders.
About two hundred gentlemen from all sections of Massachusetts gathered in Boston to map strategy for the upcoming campaign. They adopted an address urging defeat of the current Chief Executive and warning parties that a third party can be averted only by steadfast civil service reform tax reform state economy and prudent legislation.
John Roach shipbuilder told a New York Senate Sub-Committee he employs about 3,000 men across twenty five trades. He urged workmen deserve home ownership and supported government action for workers. He noted millions of dollars leave the country to sustain Irish landlordism.
The Utah Commission recommends Congress enactment requiring all Territory marriages be public and witnessed. Officiants and parties must avow not polygamists and file affidavits. Public record of every marriage including witnesses and parties. Heavy penalties proposed for violations.
The Hartford estate of Daniel Wadsworth, died 1848, valued at 233000 at death, has been distributed to heirs. Over 135000 paid in annuities. latest distribution totaled 786000. Trust held during lives of the testator’s nephews and nieces, last dies 1882. Wadsworth was son of Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth. Ephraim Blaine followed as Commissary General, grandfather of James G. Blaine.
The President appointed James F. Legate Elihu Coleman and Edwin H. Dike to inspect 150 miles of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in Arizona. A broad tally follows with political assassinations riots fires and rail wrecks across the US and Mexico including a Kansas surgeon turned Missouri citizen, a pineville killing, a Norfolk postmaster becoming a state senator, and a Wabash railroad collision near Kansas City.
A late incendiary fire at the Lexington Street Car Company stables in Kentucky wrecked the facility. The blaze consumed fifty mules, fourteen cars, the entire harness stock and feed, and the new stables. Per the era, it notes other national items including pension fraud allegations and various disasters.
The State Board of Agriculture report notes 81 counties with only ten reporting poor corn prospects, all in the far west. Elis and Sheridan counties post total failure, while others yield modestly. overall Kansas aims at a record corn crop with 444 bushels per acre and about 206,000,000 bushels, aided by favorable rains and fewer insect issues. The oat crop suffers less than feared, grasses improve, sorghum looks strong, and livestock numbers rise, boosting butter, pork, and cattle figures across the state.
The report covers the Proteus wreck near Cape Sabine and the Greeley relief effort. It notes the Proteus crushed by ice on July 23 and sank, the crew's 31 days in boats, and the Yantic rescue bringing Capt Pike and the crew. Gartington reports all well in the relief party, though provisions were lost with the expedition.
Acting Chief Signal Officer Capt. Caziare said a telegram had been sent to Lieut. Garlington asking what stores, if any, he had deposited on Littleton's Island and what could be done to send relief to Greeley this fall. No reply had been received. He stressed the department would do all possible to relieve the party.
A New York disaster near Hunter's Point Depot leaves two men dead and eight injured when a Flushing train collides with a Manhattan Beach train. Engineer Ernest Cretzner survives with minor injuries. several passengers suffer severe leg and head injuries. The Parlor car telescopes, windows shatter, and amputations are performed after the wreck. Bodies are sent to the Long Island dead house for inquest.
Eight cowboys gathered at Agate Station for a weekend revelry at McLain Ranch, Ebert County. A dispute between Rositer and McKeever escalated into a brutal melee in darkness when pistols fired. Rositer died. two Jones men wounded fatally, three others injured. Rollins and McKeever fled and remain at large.
Clarence Hite’s posthumous confession recounts the Winston train robbery plan with Jesse James Frank James and accomplices. He describes boarding the train at Winston, pulling the bell rope, stopping the locomotive, robbing the express car, and shooting the conductor who tried to draw. The gang divided tasks, took $126 each, and fled toward Crooked River after a night ride.
Cairo Sept. Ld. Mr. A. Boren, a commercial traveler for Alter Prichard Co. of Cincinnati, was found dead in his bed at Bower's European Hotel early this morning. He retired in good health and was to be awakened for the 3 a m train. No struggle or agony appeared. The jury ruled death from apoplexy.
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