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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1882
Page
3
A freight train on the Burlington & Quincy line was ditched last night near Ferris. A moulder from Keokuk was killed in the incident and the man’s name has not been learned.
The sudden death is announced of Charles Baldwin of Princeton Bureau county Illinois. He represented that district in 1881-82 and was recently nominated by Republicans for re election. He died Wednesday night at Block Island at age 58.
MInWatnek faces a severe funding shortfall with SE201,57010 needed for city expenses. Even at the maximum tax raise of the largest permissible amount, the shortfall leaves about $205,000 in the budget with a $100,000 overdraft in the city treasury. Municipal authorities fear an imminent financial crunch.
The wife of Wetton the bigamist, who died by his own hand near Princeton, had his remains brought east for burial. She claimed he had only been married a few times, though in reality he wed periodically under impulsive liaisons. She jested about his conduct and suggested he be turned over to the Mormons.
MoD Pater asserts he has not withdrawn from the sheriff race and remains in the field. Hauberg expresses confidence in carrying Rock Island and Moline counties with an expected strong showing locally.
At a Boston convention on Friday the Greenbackers nominated Gen Butler for Governor. First ballot gave Butler 67 votes, Andrews 52, Devine 23 with Devine withdrawn. Second ballot showed Butler 74, Andrews 46, Devine 13, Sarcent 1, declaring Butler the nominee.
The Georgina State convention favors a majority rule for candidate nominations, moving away from the longstanding two thirds standard. Major southern papers praise the change as democratic and likely to promote harmony, citing the Republican precedent since 1856 and its alleged stability.
A Provident Chicago saloonkeepers group ridicules distillers resolutions for Sunday abstinence and high license. They charge the distillers pretend to back liquor taxes for educational school aims to aid their own cases, while mocking the temperance push.
The Superior Intelligence presiding over the Rock Island Union presses for war among Republicans and defends McClaughry against Marsh. It claims the McClaughry and Marsh factions are evenly balanced, despite a later committee hearing and ongoing ill feeling in Hancock county.
The piece urges reconciliation within the Eleventh district after a Hancock county dispute over seating, noting the contest was decided by other counties. It praises Mac McClaughry for deploring precipitous actions and calls for unity to prevent intra party dissension while Col Moaraig's service to constituents is highlighted.
The Rock Island district delegation conducted a lengthy convention to nominate Marsh for Congress after disputed Hancock County representation. Delegates from Henderson McDonough Mercer Schuyler and Warren supported Marsh, while McClaughry and Geat vied for the seat amid procedural debates on delegation seating and voting. The resolutions urged a national government with free ballots, fair counts, railroad and telegraph regulation, and tax policy supporting home industries.
A district committee was appointed to support the Hennepin canal construction by the United States government. Members named include Wm. Baird Hancock E. A. Hale Henderson J. A. Chandler McDon ough Wm. McCormic Mercer Morris Rosenfield Rock Island B. H Hampton Schuyler and John Porter Warren. The convention then adjourned.
The Chicago Journal notes three of the best Republican lawmakers have been renominated. It names Co B F Marsh of this district, serving a fourth term, as one of the three. The piece praises their fidelity and the voters' appreciation of their faithful service.
Reports from Mississippi describe temperance advocates pressuring Democrats while warnings of a split party emerge. The suspicion centers on a potential new party formed by temperance democrats threatening the Bourbon bloc's grip on state politics.
The Missouri Prohibition Alliances president argues Democrats supported temperance, noting Maine Vermont and Missouri court histories to claim the whisky wing risks German votes. He cites a Democratic legislator's wife pressuring a vote in Kansas that aided a pro temperance amendment passage.
The Chicago Herald reports three charges against Senator Conkling alleging acting as Gould’s agent to push tax relief for the Pacific Mail Steamship Co and to aid the Manhattan Elevated Railway. Gould defends Conkling and attacks Cornell. The dispute centers on Senate ambitions, political favors, and stock manipulation claims.
A newspaper note warns that many new clerks from several states who gain Washington posts may lose vitality and usefulness. It argues such positions turn capable youths into mere machines, stifling practical growth as they age.
Dispatch from Pittsburg reports a murder plot to wreck a train near Allequippi station on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie line. A beam placed across the track at the first trestle narrowly halted the returning train before it plunged fourteen feet to the ground. Authorities offer a $500 reward for information identifying the would be wreckers.
The Tucson Star reports Apache raids across Sahuahupa with atrocities including killings at Lamesa Palona Arincahonda and Escarriel. Mexican pursuit near Turatue ranch fails to halt them as villagers flee and couriers warn settlers. General Fuero and General Regas mobilize forces with promises not to spare any aggressors.
Prohibition camp meeting in Bloomington begins Monday at the McLean county fair grounds with a large temperance tent from Lawrence Kansas. Gov John and party arrive from Lafayette Indiana and about 800 attend the morning session. St John speaks on prohibition and Republicism praising Kansas experience. Several speakers listed including Cantp wil Kansas Woodford Ottawa Mrs Chapman Georgia Miss Willard Chicago and others.
A retired judge meets an old friend and jokes he is a candidate for the kingdom of heaven. The friend replies with crude profanity, but the exchange ends with a nod to the judge’s candid truthfulness about his afterlife ambition.
Mr. Krux of Cobb County reports finding five gallons daily of water at thirty feet deep in a copper mine with a wine like color and puckering taste. The water darkens to ink with nit gall, resists freezing and corrosion, and costs about one cent per gallon to make. Citizens in Marietta were stirred by the specimen.
The fragmentary text mentions Americans and a stray phrase about a letter. It lacks clear events, dates, or named entities to summarize into a full news item.
Dispatches report British evacuations of canal offices and a temporary traffic halt as ships pass. General Wolsely promises safety for those honoring the Khedive, while Arab laborers and hostilities around Suez, Timafia, and Damanhour unfold with skirmishes and arrests.
At a Chicago meeting of the Linas Laguer Dealers and Brewers Association Western Distillers favor an orderly saloon removal while denouncing political meddling in liquor policy. Resolutions praise cooperation of convicts and cheap alcohol makers and oppose distillers interfering with national trade and state politics. The rift may shape Illinois politics.
An important device by inventor J2B Atwater secures patents for a unique motor. The principle shifts electro magnet poles to a equidistant point, producing a five to thirty inch stroke without interrupting battery current. The result is continuous, noiseless power with no larger battery, and a low cost. Exhibitions are planned as scientists note novel concepts that may revolutionize motors.
Fire swept the Hotel Hamrock in Scituate Massachusetts on Monday morning. About seventy five boarders escaped in nightshirts, losing watches and diamonds as guests fled. WA Miller died from burns, several horses burned, two teamsters injured while attempting rescues. Insured loss estimated at 75000 dollars.
A private telegram from London reports that Korea’s turmoil culminated in a general disruption and that the King and Queen were assassinated. The Japanese legation was attacked by anti foreign natives, and Japanese warships were dispatched to Seoul. The United States recently entered into a treaty of commerce with that country.
Tuk White House is being thorough, renovated and repaired. Sanitary improvements are made including a twelve inch iron sewer pipe with sealed connections and improved trap to replace the defective brick sewer. Ventilation work and habitability upgrades proceed. The entire front is to be scraped and painted while the East Room remains the only area open to the public.
A Philadelphia observer notes an enormous peach harvest from Delaware bays to Northampton county Virginia, predicting 35 million baskets as farms from Wilmington to Northampton county flood the market. The fruit is described as exceptionally good and prices are expected to stay comparatively low for the next four weeks.
The Western Distillers' Association in Chicago appointed an executive committee and adopted resolutions backing Sabbath enforcement and a well digested license law with a high license fee. They oppose conflict with any political party. Bo Mallor was elected president. A further meeting will be held in Indianapolis on an unfixed date.
The Chicago and Rock Island Gap Company cuts passenger fares from Chicago to multiple Iowa and Illinois cities effective September 1, 1882. Listed cities include Des Moines, Davenport, Council Bluffs, Coralville, Pella, and several others with varied reduced prices.
The family of Lieutnant Fitch son in law of General Sherman suffered another affliction as the remaining child died and funeral services were held in the evening. Both Fitch children fell ill with fever while staying with General Sherman at Oakland Massachusetts a week or two earlier and one died on the trains en route to Washington. A number of the Generals aides attended the funeral.
In Dakota at Pine Ridge Agency some residents urged the agent to offer a $50 reward for evidence leading to the conviction of a man accused of furnishing liquor to others. The line of questioning shows growing push by local Indians toward stricter enforcement.
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