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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1884
Page
8
Reports recount a violent mob looting Powell's gun shop, burning properties, and a siege at the courthouse. Troops from the Fourth Regiment arrive, disperse crowds after cannon and gunfire exchanges, with casualties and widespread damage across the city.
State Senator Griggs reports booming gold yields for next season in the Cour dAlene region. A miner previously unable to buy gear earned five thousand dollars from a six foot square claim. A five acre claim sold quarter share for ten thousand cash. A Rathdrum minor sent twelve hundred dollars to the mint and showed three nuggets worth 167000. Spokanes Falls merchants report ten thousand dollars in from the Miners Exchange for supplies. Most sites are active though some run at low levels.
The House committee on labor unanimously favors a bill making it a misdemeanor for any state or United States officer to hire out prisoners under contract. The report says the contract system harms reform and treats prisoners as debtors. The Civil Service Commission will hold May exams in Iowa Minnesota Kansas Nebraska and Colorado for government clerkships in Washington.
March 28 report describes a worm named grub causing rapid deaths in local flocks. Eggs are deposited in sheep nostrils in July or August by a fly, the grub then burrows to the brain, killing the animal with no known remedy. Mention of farmer Bros King of Rag alry.
A farmer says he lost thirty of his finest sheep and other farmers report nearly entire flocks lost as drought and disease strike the rural area.
The Queen received news of the Duke of Albany death this afternoon as the Prince of Wales learned of it at Aintree. The Marborough home fills with mourners while British ships sail the Alert to the United States. In France Gen Millett says Hung Hoa’s capture prompts troops to return home. Germany reports Bismarck to retire with Von Puttkamer succeeding as Premier.
A fierce prairie fire swept Castleton township during a high wind on March 27, destroying houses, barns, and stored grain over a ten mile stretch. One farmer reported losses of 600 tons of hay and 200 head of sheep.
The Californian Senate on Monday endorsed Summers' postal telegraph bill introduced in Congress. Two hundred males died on Sunday and Monday near Grenada Mississippi from buffalo gnats.
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