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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1888
Page
8
A Michigan State News item recounts Daniel O Day of Jackson being wrongly convicted of counterfeiting, later released after evidence from counterfeiters emerged. It notes Port Huron saloons, precinct Dry campaigns, crime sprees, and various local tales of Prohibition, entertainment, and social woes across Michigan towns.
Secretary of the treasury orders reduced expenses in public buildings for the rest of the fiscal year. Salary cuts at Chicago customs and multiple dismissals including janitors, elevator conductors, watchman, cleaners, and workers in Springfield and Dubuque. Damaged prose but key actions: budget cuts and staff reductions.
Fort Sheridan will be designated as Fort Bbsridan near Chicago to honor Lieut Gen Sheridan. The directive from the War Department cites the new posting and commemorates the general, while severer local notes report a Kansas telegraph from Mr Carlisle regarding his wife and health, with a suspended debt of 350 008 dollars.
Nebulous Washington dispatches summarize Senate and House actions in late February. Debates cover pensions, foreign policy, treaties, naval signals, and public buildings. Contested seats, sugar trust investigations, and district measures highlight the congressional agenda amid adjournments and committee votes.
A house debate considered reducing the iron ore duty and discussed a resolution urging the public printer to explain delays in printing 10 000 extra copies of the Pacific railways report. The measure was referred and reported adversely in committee as not yet passed by the senate. Public building appropriations were approved for several cities before adjournment.
Maggie Dugan a 15 year old worker at a shoe factory in Curtaco was found dead in a closet behind the plant with signs of brutal assault. Police sought a neighborhood Negro on track and Zeph Davis, later arrested in Illinois, confessed to killing though denying attempted rape.
The grand jury examining charges against Gould and Sage for larceny of trust moneys in Pacific railway deals asked Judge Cowling when the five year statute begins to run. The judge ruled the statute runs from the day of misappropriation, with one exception if the offender is outside the court's jurisdiction.
A ferryboat explosion on the Jutia Monday morning near Valitro, California, left between thirty and forty feared dead with twelve bodies recovered by evening and ten identified. The event follows a string of tragedies in Manius near Maniusy with diphtheria outbreaks, school quarantines, and multiple deaths. Postmaster nominations are announced in Washington with several confirmations across states.
A large log boom broke on the Palouse River near Colfax, Washington, killing Moses Ebert and an unknown man, with three others seriously injured. A Toledo fire at Blade Printing and Paper Co. caused 30,000 dollars in losses, fully insured. In New Orleans, the Isle of Martha crash damaged Valletta dry-dock walls and sank, with 16 people dead or missing in total. In Connellsville, Pennsylvania, rail and mining accidents killed two sisters, Julia and Kate, and damaged property. Missouri’s Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Fulton burned, causing 200,000 dollars in losses with 55,000 insured. Wellington, Wisconsin, fire devastated much of a business district. In Clinton, Kentucky, two men, one white and one Black, were beaten and robbed.
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