23 Oct 1885
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1885
Page
1
Railway schedule shows Union Pacific lines with scattered times for inbound and outbound trains, including morning and afternoon departures. The notice lists further dates and mail close times for KC and Southern Kansas routes, plus general closing times for night mail and Sunday national mail.
The article reports on a publication claiming ex president Johnson's eccentricities owed to opium, detailing reactions from Gen Sherman and Gen Grant era figures, and notes accompanying discussions of Ward and Warner in court over defrauding the Marine Bank, plus Jersey City collision victims.
A Buffalo attorney, Bissell, once President Cleveland's law partner, is expected to be named Dakota governor within days, while Cleveland denies the rumor. Other items note a heroic railroad incident in Mississippi, Masonic officers elected in Missouri, and railroad accident burials in New York.
Exavorra Kas October 22 The Walkup case opens with John Thacker city council member as first witness. Libbie Walkup testifies she gave the poison found on the bureau. Dr Jacobs details treatment and argues arsenic poisoning as the illness cause while noting diagnostic limits and antidote timing.
Contingents of the Indian army from Madras and Bombay move toward Rangoon as an expeditionary force for Burmah invasion is assembled. Burmese defenses strengthen with earth works and river snags. Thelaman king's cabinet factions favor peace, while British officers expect a short campaign.
The Hamilton County canvass shows Hoadly 34527 and Foraker 33028 with a 599 lead for Hoadly. Officials note Democratic plurality may rise about 100 with one precinct included. committee of one hundred forms to guard ballot purity and enforce election laws.
Subscribers to the 250000 Grant trust fund met in New York on October 22 to decide reinvestment of the Wabash bonds guaranteed by the Morgan estate. The fund will be placed in the United States Trust Company with interest paid to Mrs. Grant for life, then to General Grant’s children per stirpes, not per capita. A subsequent meeting will occur once the legal transfer document is prepared.
The Inter Ocean reports F S Whit ley and his wife nearly died from morphine in their Lincoln hotel room yesterday morning and died this evening without regaining consciousness. The couple, newly married, apparently despondent over unemployment and finances, allegedly took morphine to end their troubles. Ex Federal and Confederate Soldiers gather in Owensboro Kentucky. Lovisviitz hosts three hundred fifty ex soldiers at fairgrounds starting a camp with a commissary. Capt W T Ellis to give welcoming address. Mrs Booth widow of Junius Brutus Booth dies at 83 in No Yous pneumonia ends life of notable theater family matriarch.
Mayor Moore offers 900 dollar reward for the murderer of Mrs. Conway and her daughter in Kansas City. Nathan Hall adds 100 dollars. One or two arrests made, others discharged. Coroner's jury to meet next Saturday to consider evidence. Victims to be hurried to burial. The case remains mysterious.
An effort was made today to avert a threatened war on rates south of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi. The Ohio river pool Hines are taking Tebs house products and seriously impairing the business of the Puriscott road from Kansas City, which has not been permitted yet by Commissioner Ridgely to meet the rebate. No settlement has yet been reached.
Garnett Kansas reports the new opera house opened tonight with an amateur troupe presenting the cantata Haymakers to a large audience. The program will be repeated tomorrow night as rail excursions along Missouri Pacific and Southern Kansas lines are announced. The city expects six hundred guests tomorrow night. Also noted is a Western Union meeting in New York where Dr. Green was reelected president and Fen Eckert is named general manager. Col. Clowry of Chicago becomes vice president and joins the executive board. Interred at Pittsburg Pa is the funeral of Hon Malcom Hay.
Market notes show prices for flour, oats, bacon, lard, tallow, butter, eggs, greens, potatoes, apples, poultry. Items listed include retail and wholesale bids with figures such as flour at 2.50 per unit, eggs at 12c per dozen, bacon and lard quoted, and poultry live at 14. The text reflects a historic ledger style with varying or uncertain OCR readings for some entries.
Grain and flour prices listed with bids and quotes for wheat, rye, corn, oats and bran. Receipts and store stocks provided with cash and futures bids, noting steady or quiet market conditions and varied quality levels across flour types and dairy products. Includes specific bid ranges for No 2 red wheat, No 2 cash corn, and bran and hay pricing details.
Stock Indicator presents receipts of 4,764 and shipments of 11,781 at Kansas City. Feeding steers strong in fair to good condition. Hogs receipts 18,835 and shipments light. weights mixed with prices around 4.40 for common stock. Sheep receipts 116, shipments none. market quiet with fair to good motional prices around 2.00 to 3.25 for various grades.
Market notes show flour and wheat prices slipping while oats corn and barley edge, butter and eggs hold steady, whiskey steady and pork provisions soft. Trading activity weak with several contracts for December and May shown in quotes from the St Louis market page.
Market activity at St Louis Livestock shows mixed receipts with cattle 1900 head, hogs 6900, and sheep 2000. Prices generally ease with specific bids noting hogs about 8.75 per cwt and cattle lower. lambs around 2.50 to 3.00. Texans quoted at 1.60 per unit, messages indicate demand modest.
Chicago Produce and Parmar listings show fluctuating grain prices with winter wheat flour and rye prices noted. Wheat and buckwheat figures appear alongside regional mentions of Wisconsin and Michigan markets and daily totals.
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