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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1875
Page
6
In a letter to the Globe Theatre manager she states her Boston appearance this month will be her final stage engagement. She notes her career began in Boston and ends there with this farewell reading sequence.
In the third quarter the total export of gold bars dust silver bars trade dollars and related forms from San Francisco totaled 18 682 200 with gold coin exports totaling 9 268 508. About two thirds of the gold coin did not travel beyond New York gold traders.
An attempt to modify the injunction against the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad to allow Legislature members half fares, as previously allowed, will be argued in Superior Court Hartford.
The Kentucky Democratic Convention met in Louisville and nominated Col. James B. McCreary for Governor John O. Underwood for Lieutenant Governor Thomas I. Moss of Paducah for Attorney General D Howard Smith for Auditor and J W Tate for Treasurer.
A prominent British MP urged Britons to make Yankees regret leaving their mother country. He proposed competing with Young America in arts, services, and industries at the centennial celebration. Census figures show Japan’s population rising from 33,100,825 in 1872 to 33,289,787 in 1878 with many youths studying abroad.
Late reports place the Younger and James Boyd in a Kansas village where a clash with a sheriff left one Younger brother seriously wounded. Chavez, Vasquez’s successor, continues as a terror to Californians, using a fearless French and Italian style of robbery when unchallenged.
Judge Williams, amid excitement, rules on the Chicago Citizens Committee bill seeking to enjoin the city council from acting under the 1872 charter. He notes the original injunction to stop vote counting was disobeyed and the bill became law, but he cannot halt government and will order contempt proceedings against the aldermen.
Mas Ranxay, former Iowa state treasurer and Union veteran elected three times, is on trial for embezzling funds from the Agricultural College into the state Treasury. His counsel portrays him as prematurely old and diminished in wealth and status, seeking a fair trial as Major Rankin was acquitted on the 7th.
Gov Trapaix vetoes the bill aimed at changing adoption law. The current rule preserves parent child rights and duties except inheritance, while the vetoed measure would remove post relation terms. The governor notes potential abuses of inheritance shifting between adopted minors and adoptive parents.
Washington notes report Ex Congressman Sweats of Alabama named sixth auditor of the treasury two months ago will be removed. Internal revenue receipts are expected to exceed estimates. Doveass removed as Internal Revenue Commissioner. Pratt named in his stead. J H Hester dismissed amid alleged political arrests in Alabama. Laborers on federal works strike for higher wages. Spanish minister Mantilla presents credentials. Baltimore to send Fifth Maryland Regiment to Bunker Hill centennial. Missouri sheriff arms a 150 man posse to capture James brothers.
Reports describe a $15000 jewelry heist at Benjamin J. Hood’s Albany store, a $21500 theft from Aston Hill’s safe led by a Massachusetts official, and a $3500000 incendiary blaze at Planet Carpet Mills in Brooklyn. Other items note Massachusetts Centennial funding, a Boston suit against the city, fires in Watertown New York and Wear Sutton Massachusetts, plus Connecticut legislature openings.
The Yankton grand jury indicts Wintermute again in the 1873 Gen McCook murder case. Gov Tuaver of Wyoming travels to Washington over Sioux lands and Black Hills. Utah chief justice Lowe rules against alimony in the Ann Eliza Young case. Iowa farmer H Kinkmay is hanged by vigilantes after a feud and arson charge. A Leavenworth opera house quarrel leaves D R Anthony mortally wounded. Northwestern AP meeting lauds Western Union. Fort Sill rations run dry and Pope seeks urgent aid. San Francisco hosts Gen Crook at a large banquet before Omaha departure. Leavenworth printer Joane Coulter dies by suicide amid financial distress.
The Democratic party in St Louis nominated Col James H Britton to run for mayor. Britton is president of the National Bank of the State of Missouri and a longtime prominent citizen. A Louisville physician recently presented a handsome pair of thoroughbred car.
MinGaETTI stated that Italy’s relation with Germany had always been excellent in the Chamber of Deputies on the 9th inst. The Prussian Diet passed measures on religious orders and Old Catholic Church property by large votes. A Berlin visit by the Czar and German Emperor was noted as shaping possible war or peace in Europe.
A Dunkirk New York letter reports a near fatal incident after a family ate preserved tomatoes. Charles Smith and his wife and three children suffered severe poisoning with lead suspected from the can. the children recovered quickly while the parents remained weak for days.
Excerpt recalls Lord Macaulay praising a mother's love and memory with vivid lines on a child's early bond. The passage notes a Boston temperance meeting where a speaker claimed many Boston women chew tobacco amid ongoing social reforms.
Reports detail the loss of the Eagle line steamer Schiller off the Scilly Islands after leaving New York for Hamburg on April 28. Captain Thomas led efforts under dense fog as lifeboats failed, many passengers and crew perish, with 44 saved and 24 bodies recovered by May 9.
The schooner Jeffer son Boden returns to London harbor May 6 with a mutiny aboard. American sailor Smith struck the first blow while Captain Patterson slept and the mutineers killed the second mate. Miller led the assault, wounding Clew and killing a mate, then took refuge in the deck-house. Seven days passed before help arrived as the captain and crew fought to quell the uprising and secure the mutineers.
Professor Peduzzi of Brooklyn leapt from his balloon near Glen Cove after a failed landing attempt. He was found unconscious, treated for scrapes and a wrench of his lower limbs, and transported to Oyster Bay for care with plans to return to Brooklyn that night.
Reports state the Blue Lead of California a bed of ancient watercourse ore extends over 700 miles through Northern California Oregon Washington Territory and British Columbia. If true, all gold from early placer and lode workings may represent only a fraction of the precious metal still in the bed.
In British colonies of Southn Africa a proposal seeks legalization of marriage to a deceased wife’s sister. The measure would adjust customary and legal barriers affecting widowers and kin relations within colonial legal systems.
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