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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1881
Page
3
Friday August 19 1881 report notes the burial of Gen Rost Partsergon after 8p years service with pallbearers including Generals Grant Sherman Porter and Hancock and other notables such as Jos Hattergon John Welsh Judge Bidille and W H Wrayton in attendance.
A two year old girl in Chariton ingested fly poison and died soon after. The incident prompts calls for criminal negligence charges against a parent who left poisons accessible in the home.
In and around Philadelphia are sixty silk factories with nine spinning mills and the rest running looms. They produced, for the year ended June 30, 1981, about 7.25 million dollars in value of manufactured silks, reflecting a broad range of varieties.
Hon Uo H Browning the former Illinois attorney general senator and interior secretary died at his Quincy home on Thursday night. The Atlantic mills at St Louis were struck by lightning and burned with workmen feared dead. Future City oil works and a resin warehouse also burned threatening the Iron Mountain depot. County counts by state show Georgia Mississippi and Kentucky leading in counties. Jacksonville sheriff bungled a murder hanging. second attempt succeeded.
The Signal Service reports sixty three new signal stations since Gen Hazen took charge and eleven new cautionary storm signals on lake, ocean and gulf coasts. A major military telegraph line extension is underway under service officers. In Missouri 259 miles of lane will connect isolated posts.
An account of Spotted Tail the Lakota leader ambushed by Crow Dog after a July council. The chiefs clashed over privileges to visit officers, with Crow Dog accusing Spotted Tail of favoritism. Spotted Tail, unarmed at 46, was killed as U.S. officers move to arrest the killer.
The past weeks extreme heat peaked on the 12th with rains following in many areas. Cleveland reports the latest day since the signal series. Indianapolis records 101 degrees, Atchison sees a shower and soaking rain, Louisville hits 105 with dryness and wind, St Louis notes 103 to 106 and few sunstrokes, Lincoln Nebraska forecasts heavy rain and corn yield two thirds.
An Irish World note reports a $150 contribution from the Molive Land League to the general fund, raised by the 4th of July celebration in Moline. The letter lists officers, thanks two orators, and prompts questions about fund distribution and beneficiary use.
A travelogue from August detailing a trip from Moline to Chicago and Milwaukee aboard the Peerless. The writer describes hotel, transit costs, sights along Lincoln Park, the Home for the Aged in Milwaukee, and observations of residents, staff, and aging inhabitants, noting wealth and hardship.
A travel notes piece surveys Portland Maine detailing harbor wealth, water works from Sebago Lake, granite Custom House, City Hall, Lincoln Park and Evergreen Cemetery. It notes churches, schools, Maine Charitable Mechanics Association, and a bustling trade with the West Indies and Europe. Several railroads terminate in Portland, city valuation, and fire losses in 1866 are noted.
The writer recalls Portland settled by English in 1632 and destroyed in English French and Indian wars. Formerly Falmouth, town incorporation in 1760 and city in 1842. Forts Preble and Scammel guard the harbor with a casemate on Hog Island. A worn Ordnance Sergeant and family would lead guarding the fortifications. Steamers run coastwise to Portland, with Allan Line ties to Quebec and Montreal in winter. The Great Eastern trade port once planned but failed. The author, Ws. G. Morris, visited Mr. Roberts’ Portland resident family and boarded the Grand Trunk homeward.
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