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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1881
Page
2
The Republican stance backs Gen Mahone of Virginia noting his war outcomes and aim to lift the South from decline. They support free elections a full ballot and honest counts and praise his pledge to improve public schools for colored people alongside white neighbors.
The article challenges unfounded fears that Gen Grant and allies aim to conquer Mexico to build a southwestern empire. It cites Thomas C Allan arguing no imperial scheme exists, asserting only commercial conquest through railroad development and trade. Allan denies personal financial stake and notes Grants plans are not about invasion.
The newspaper lambasts the Census Bureau for sending eight four page circulars detailing state populations in part. They argue the material is worthless, flood the mails, and duplicate prior batches sent in ten days. They urge Census Superintendent Francis Walker to stop such expenditures.
Reports list extensive fire damages including Greenville California one hundred thousand, Mandota Illinois thirty thousand, Shamokin Pennsylvania thirty six hundred, Indianapolis fifteen thousand, Boston fifteen thousand, Fire Lake Michigan fifty thousand, Denton Texas forty thousand, Salt Lake Utah twelve thousand, Newcastle Pennsylvania twelve thousand, Buenaventura Panama one million with three deaths and 1500 homeless, Detroit flouring mill twenty five thousand. Secretary Buenaine seeks to grow trade with Mexico.
The Missouri River nears peak at Omaha while tributaries still melt and threaten weeks more of high water. Farther downstream the Mississippi has breached the Say levee near Quincy, flooding 44 000 acres of wheat and washing out a trestle on the CB&Q line. The surge prompts warnings of a possible 1511 scale freshet if warm weather persists. A Farragut statue in Washington was unveiled with a large ceremony and speeches.
Telegram reports MoX St P train plunged through Meradosia crossing on Thursday. Engine and cars went downstream with eight or more feared dead including engineer West and fireman Egan. Several passengers rescued while others drowned. freight train had crossed minutes earlier.
Discussion favors extending a canal from Hennepin to the Illinois River, connecting to Rock Island and Davenport to Reach Toledo. A Rock Island Hennepin link could bypass Chicago, creating a direct Mississippi to Lake Erie route. Also notes pension fraud and a widow case in Corning New York. Plus LaSalle iron bars shipments to Memphis.
President Garfield delivers an eloquent short address at the unveiling of the Farragut statue in Washington. He extols art bridging generations, honoring sea heroism and sixty years of national life, as crowds applaud.
In graphic, folksy prose the piece portrays the Mississippi as a mighty calm father of waters who only acts when pushed, threatening to flood entire farms, mills, bridges, and belongings if angered, as it swells and roars along its banks.
Strikes erupt in Milwaukee as Sentinel and Republican compositors demand higher wages but are refused and quit. Detroit sees 230 Pullman cabinet makers seek a ten percent raise. Cleveland newsboys and laborers strike, St Louis street car workers halt service until pay rises, while Cincinnati Chicago and other cities report settlements and business mostly normal.
A powder magazine near Bridgeport Connecticut containing 1000 kegs exploded Thursday morning, shaking buildings as if in an earthquake. The blast caused $5000 in damage, no lives lost, and was heard for miles. In Binghamton New York two simultaneous powder explosions at Dittman and Co. shattered buildings, blew windows miles away, toppled trees, and injured one man.
Tax Northern Pacific Railroad has endured many problems from food shortages west of Bismarck. Over 20 pile bridges are gone with washed out track in places. Mandan still has water and ice on its streets as the railroad company uses pile drivers to repair bridges and approaches.
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