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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1885
Page
1
International notes of apologies from Spain to Germany over embassy insults and the Caroline Islands dispute. Britain and Austria ponder arbitration and potential mediation as European powers weigh limits of sovereignty in the Pacific. Cholera reports rise in Nagasaki and Italian districts while mortality and evacuations increase across regions.
Report from St Thosas Can Sept 17 notes Jumbo the pet elephant owned by P T Barnum died after a freight train struck him while he was being fed along the Grand Trunk Air Line east of town. Barnum lamented the loss, valued Jumbo at two million for exhibition and breeding, and planned not to take the show to Europe next year. Obituaries across papers mourn Jumbo, aged about twenty four, born on the west coast of Africa and captured as a calf. He was elegant with children and weighed about ten tons with a ten foot trunk, requiring vast amounts of water and food daily.
The Wisconsin special election shows a strong shift to low license saloon fees with 21 875 votes cast and a 14 897 vote margin for the $200 minimum. Most interior counties favor higher licenses yet many cities lean toward lower fees for next three years, with multiple towns adopting the $500 maximum.
Carmi Sept 16. About nine o'clock Monday morning Finley a sixty one year old farmer living five and a half miles southeast of this city brutally murdered his wife aged sixty. There were no witnesses except two grandchildren aged four and six. After a quarrel he struck her and then repeatedly stabbed her with a butcher knife as she fled. She died after a few steps with twelve wounds including the chin head and body. Finley fled and is not in custody and may kill himself in nearby woods. He has five sons and two daughters. The Indian Frauds: it is believed that fully 000,000 of bogus...
The Puritan won by one minute and twenty four seconds after a long, windy race from New York around Sandy Hook and back. Genesta led briefly at times but Puritan gained and finished at 4 00 75, with rough seas and a squall challenging both yachts throughout the twenty mile windward return.
Ottawa dispatch reports the sudden death of Emery A. Storrs, famed Chicago lawyer and Republican operative born August 1, 1835, at Cultrausauga County New York. He died of heart paralysis in his Clifton Hotel room, two to three hours before doctors arrived. Storrs rose from Buffalo training to Chicago prominence and was a leading public speaker and 1868 72 and 1880 delegate at large for Nichols. He was widely associated with Grant era politics and was once considered for Attorney General in Garfield's administration.
The American Bankers Association will meet in Chicago next week with speakers from the South and West opposing silver dollar coinage. Topics include international silver questions, extradition treaties, Northwest growth, and West Europe fruit trade amid boosted banking facilities in the Mississippi Valley since the war. The session opens September 24 at the Grand Pudde Motel.
The Brewer ruling declaring 77,000 acres held by the Southern Kansas Railway Company to be public land provokes a frenzied land rush across Woodson and Greenwood counties. Men race to stake claims on lands entered by college scrip, despite prior patents, while shanties rise and stakes proliferate in the wake of the decision.
The Chicago branch of the Women's National Indian Association met on Monday with General C. Armstrong of Hampton University speaking on the institution’s work. He noted about one hundred forty Indian students at the school and discussed ongoing education for Native Americans.
Panama dispatches describe Colonel Torres defense of Canta against Anceres forces from August 16. Heavy fighting with Gatling gun, hand to hand street battles, no quarter. many government soldiers killed or captured. retreat ordered as defenders flee, with two officers dead and others escaping. Lima remains wary as authorities pledge loyalty and search for conspirators.
Wasmington Sept 17 Sergeant at Arms Leedom says the Indian Investigating Committee will recommend breaking the tribal system as far as practicable to curb chiefs power and aid young men with severance land allotments and government help to become farmers. Indian children show bright progress, especially those educated by Catholics. Grand Army Grant Monument Burdett orders 15 cents per member to fund a monument to General Grant, with post committee to finalize design and location. nonmembers may contribute. Vassar presidency declined. Rev Duncan declines presidency. Rev Renurick appointed Acting President until vacancy filled. Jere M Wilson, noted Star Route attorney, retained to argue Mackin case before Supreme Court. Cowboys open fire on passengers. Grant Wells kills one cowboy. Willow Dale Company, a maker of furs, fails with about 400,000 debt. assets near 200,000. capital stock 209,000.
A digest of brief items notes yellow fever abating at Vera Cruz, composer Frederick Kiel’s death, Mexican Congress meeting, and internal revenue at Peoria exceeding 100000 dollars. Reports mention a gas strike near Mendota, Buckner as likely Kentucky governor candidate, Grant memorials in Honolulu, and Fannie Whitherspoon’s trotting record at St Paul. Other items cover massacres abroad, Japanese exhibition hosting plans, Christian refugees, a strong earthquake near Tattal, Ishpeming mines resuming, Illinois State Fair attendance and finances, iron trade gains in Philadelphia, Harrisburg’s centennial, Quebec diphtheria toll, Nebraska State Fair opening, sugar refinery price talks, nitro glycerine stock, Wisconsin tobacco crop, and various political and legal notes.
Government engineers report on the upper Mississippi reservoir project forecasts about four feet of total water rise for Crow Wing and Sauk Rapids when full elevations are realized. They deem the work a clear proof of the project’s wisdom and potential success, noting that much work remains.
Judge Powers of Michigan, the new Utah Chief Justice, is in the city at the President’s invitation to discuss Mormon matters. He says Cleveland aims to wage a fierce war against the Mormons and to enforce the law rigorously. He notes polygamists fear the campaign and that the war is progressing. A Illinois colored convention is planned for October 15 to press for enforcement of the Civil Rights law.
Wasuisaros reports Sept 16 that arrangements are under way by the Illinois Democracy to nominate General John C. Black, current Commissioner of Pensions, for governor. Whelan Accepted by Canada. Sept 17 Montreal dispatch says Colonel Whelan of Fort Erie has been recognized by the English Government and will receive his exequatur, seen as tied to the president’s appointment plan.
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