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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1887
Page
2
A long, disorderly column surveys global finance, shipping, and politics. It notes Alaska U.S. attorney appointment, freight consolidations, English Channel digressions, and the aftermath of a toxic mix of strikes, rail and ore transport shifts, plus a Greek statue preservation project.
A patchwork of brief items from Wheeling to Boston covers rail plans on River road, mortgage filings, a preacher’s Bible tract in Tremont Temple, a poet’s health, and political shifts. Reports include court orders in New York, business assignments in Kentucky, and sports results from Minnesota to Ohio, plus a prison confession in Morris County.
Foreign reports note the British steamer Matthew wreck off Cape Finistarro with ten lives lost and sparse wreckage. Prices remain firm as Petersburg exchange rises. Odessa suffers wind and rain damage flooding villages. News covers Polish and Russian affairs, Greek and Chinese matters, and a Milwaukee market round-up with grain, pork, and cattle prices. An American rail commission hearing features John J. Blair discussing Sioux City and Pacific railroad ties and land grants, with broader commentary on bonds and road transfers.
Summary of Commander-in-Chief Fairchild address and fair report from the committee of pension. Bill adopted constants of the bill. Next annual encampment planned for Columbus Ohio with other notes and details.
Commander in Chief Fairchild delivers the annual address urging unity and nonpartisan use of the Grand Army of the Republic, supports improved pensions and a Grant cottage memorial, and backs continued recognition of national headquarters and an historian. He highlights a 12 dollar monthly pension target for veterans disabled from Union war service and lauds the Woman's Relief Corps. The encampment adjourns with committee work on pension reforms and a Logan monument cooperation. A separate veterans reunion reports speeches by Gen. Sherman and others, with plans for funding and a proposed veterans home endowment.
Reports from Iowa describe alleged land seizures by a British syndicate that purchased land from the McGregor and Western Railroad. Letters claim brutal evictions of elderly women, some wounded or restrained, with affidavits being collected for Washington. No official word has reached the interior department. other notices mention revolutionary threats and frontier preparations.
At Minnearaxis Oct 4 the Knights of Labor opened with few seats empty as debates loom over discipline and credentials. Reported friction centers on anti Powderly faction and nonmember staff at Philadelphia HQ while advocates press for uniting with the Farmers Alliance into a national district assembly and broader reform.
A Midland propeller Califormis commanded by Capt. Trowell, left Chicago bound for Montreal with 20,000 bushels of corn and 700 passengers. Near Helena the ship broke apart, lifeboats succeeded in saving some, but many passengers remained unaccounted as wreckage drifted ashore and search efforts continued through the night.
A sequence of disasters is noted including a large Fresno Ohio business building destroyed with many sufferers and damages around 600 000. A railway accident in Rochester Indiana left Tromison mortally injured. Elevators and breweries suffered fires and collapses. A Muskegon family lost two infants in a house fire. Diamond Match plant suffered a major blaze with 25 000 loss and no insurance. A flour mill boiler explosion killed four and a woman, with several injured. A tugboat collision scare caused by high winds and a steamship near New York. A Mobile and Ohio train derailed with over thirty wounded. Fire at an old asylum killed some inmates and caused fear for others. The Arc fire at Toledo injured none despite significant damage.
In a grim crime report the anarchist Opean Nuape is said to work at a barnear shop in the seis Ponitentiary. Convict 8,873 Conanca Potts and Deputy Bamilton of Dew Moiner Iowa face charges for shooting John Hartey and Edward Worth who had reunited arreal.
A secret conference of German socialists met at Et Gall Bellecrland. Speakers denounced the purged by socialist deputies and condemned cooperation with other parties. A report cited expenses of 170000 marks for elections and defense of prosecuted members.
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