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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1882
Page
2
Disjointed excerpts discuss murder in the first degree, Guiteau, Garfield, Porter, and political maneuvering. The prose blends condemnations, opinions, and rumors about trials, sentences, and citizenship questions, with references to congress, delegates, and Confederate bonds lingering in a hazy historical fragment.
Details the 19th century romance between Ella Herndon and Capt. Arthur St. John, noting Herndon’s choir connection at St. John’s and the captain’s famed career from the Mexican War to the Central America disaster. It recounts their meeting in New York, the lasting devotion shown by flowers at the White House portrait, and Ella Herndon’s death in 1820 with burial in Albany.
An exchange proposes holding a National Convention in Chi a to discuss forest preservation. Delegates would include government, state societies, and associations to deter wasteful destruction. Forests are thinning, fires destroy vast tracts, and long time for new growth. The piece urges action, noting climate impact and need for practical plans.
Reports indicate smallpox cases in Dowagiac with vaccine demand rising at Benton Harbor. New Oposa house in Benton Harbor opens at a cost of Y000. Miller Bera Carpenter of Orion killed by a train near Friday night. Rev L L Nobile dies at St John’s Grama church Lenin. Two local fatalities and accidents noted: Hotchkiss killed in South Lyon. Ja McNally run over in Ann Arbor. Ice across the straits strong enough for teams to cross.
A scattered bulletin from Detroit area papers details plans for Xan Arbor’s wholesale candy plant and a 4000 capital stock. Reports from Flint, Kalamazoo, and Lansing cover jail swindles, deaths, church growth, forest fires relief, and a famed charity controversy, highlighting local figures like D.H. Caprow, Bishop Harris, Mrs. Owens, and Captain Hartington amid a flood of small town events and social concerns.
Reports to the Stave Board of Health from observers across the state list prevalences for bronchitis influenza tonsillitis membranous croup typhoid fever typhus malarial fever and diphtheria among others. By January 28 1882 bronchitis influenza tonsillitis remittent fever and diphtheria declined in some areas while smallpox cases persisted.
Citizens' letter columns blast unsafe classroom conditions and heavy stairwork, urge better lighting and large rooms for students. They call out lax enforcement of vagrants and praise local Grange activity, noting its push for farmers' rights, patent law fairness, and driver wells cases. J L Ken vyer signs.
Tenesa Carbene and Pietro Ferranti write from Chicago thanking Mr. Leland and staff at his prominent hotel. They praise attentive service, comfortable rooms, and exceptionally abundant meals, stating no hotel they’ve visited in fifteen years compares. They wish continued success.
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