13 Apr 1883
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1883
Page
1
Deputy Sheriff Campbell recovered a buggy left unattached after its horse moved off. The rig was taken to Donnelly’s stable on New Hampshire street for the owner to claim by proving rights and paying charges. Also noted are various patent medicines advertised at the end of the notice.
An 1899 news digest covers varied items. Letters praise Leis Dandelion Tonic for dyspepsia and other ailments. A Kansas court verdict convicts Bill Stover of horse theft, likely heading to the Supreme Court. Notices wave about theater, trains, and a playbill in Lawrence, with local ads and a cattle sale report at Riverside Park in Kansas City where 118 Polled Angus and Galloway cattle sold for over 62 thousand dollars.
Senator Sherman endorses Judge Lawrence as an able governor candidate for Ohio with Butterworth also in contention. He says either Lawrence or Butterworth will be the Republican standard bearer as CARTASS approaches.
Buffalo April 12 General Fitz John Porter received a dispatch from Major A C Doyle regarding Edwards horses and cavalry. Lynchburg April 12 a mob attacked Wytheville jail, released W M Crocket and hanged him from a mill beam, then shot the body to ensure death. Cleveland April 12 John Leiter, 64, shot himself in the head after threatening his wife and firing twice.
Milwaukee April 12 The Schiller case today yielded little interest. A bar shop cleaner described basement construction and material waste while no witnesses yet established Schiller's movements on the fatal night. Prosecution aims to prove Newhall fire was not from spontaneous combustion.
Chicago notices that the April 12 funeral service for Charles B. Lawrence ex Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court was held at St James Episcopal Church. Judiciary Federal and State court members attended from city and abroad with bar members. Interment to take place in Galesburg, his former home.
A heavy rain and hail storm late Wednesday night damaged crops near Camden Arkansas. The St Louis narrow gauge railroad roadbed north of town was badly washed. The Quachus river rose rapidly to thirty one feet on government gauge.
In London, April 12, the dynamite conspiracy case dominated proceedings as Poland, for the prosecution, alleged a transatlantic network aimed at destroying public buildings. Details linked Norman, Gallagher, and Curtin to Birmingham manufacturers and a planned nitroglycerine shipment, with further charges contemplated under treason felony.
The Flamborough sails from New York with about a thousand barrels of whisky from Pennsylvania and Ohio distilleries. Distillers ship large volumes abroad to avoid internal revenue taxes on excess production stored in bond warehouses.
In Bamford Connecticut on April 12 the prohibitory constitutional amendment failed to reach the required two thirds in the House. The Senate also rejected a bill compelling railroads to provide free passage for members of the legislature.
The Wylly of Central line struck Fort Gaines Bridge last night, tore away the cab, hit the pier, and sank with cargo. crew including first and second clerk, a negro child, and three deck hands are missing amid a total loss. Separately, Montgomery Supreme Court voids the late tax law, setting new rate at 51 mills, while in Little Rock a US jury indicts ex Marshal J T Brown for forgery perjury and false accounts.
Market report notes shipments and prices for April with 407 bushels offered and sales in No.3 cash. Mentions Fiat Mees May and June offers, No.2 bids, several barley and oats entries, mixed sash quotes, and a firm tracker. Also references eggs supply and overall market firmness.
Kansas City stock market recap shows weak activity April 12 with 1,737 cattle in trade and receipts around 6,459. Prices for cows and stockers ranged around 4.75 to 7.40 with food animals steady to lower. sheep receipts near 1,343 with steady to higher tone and 5000+ sold.
Fragmentary notes from the St Louis produce market show mixed bids and prices with references to No 2 red and cash quotes. The text also hints at timing markers May and June and scattered terms like opened higher and closing levels, but details are incomplete and names are unreadable.
CATTLE receipts 1 500 in Lota with slight export weakness and mixed prices. FLOUR and WHEAT markets show demand shifts. PORK and LARD demand soft. HOGS receipts 10 000 in Chicago with very weak market and lower prices. CATTLE receipts 7 400 with slow demand. exports and ranges noted, prices varying by grade. overall market softness persists.
Barber Bros drug store offers a free trial bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption to all with coughs colds asthma bronchitis loss of voice or throat and lung issues. The offer aims to prove its merits before purchasing a regular dollar size bottle.
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