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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1881
Page
2
An autobiographical account of early 1800s settlement along the Wabash and Little Wabash rivers in Indiana and Illinois. The narrative covers frontier farming, fort life at Vincennes, attacks by Indians, family migrations, suspected murders, and survival using crude tools and cornmeal substitutes. Fort Compton and fort life, encounters with McCalley, and a boyhood close to Native tribes color the battles and daily hardships.
A bill before the state legislature authorizes corporations to change the number of directors from even to odd. It requires a special stockholders meeting, notices, and a majority vote, with certificate filing to effect the change. The act proves an emergency measure taking effect after passage.
A Tucson dispatch reports Saye Tidians preparing a general revolt. They drive ranchers from about 250 square miles of fertile land and mine rich country. The Mexican government plans 4,000 troops to protect settlers. 2,500 depart Guadalajara, 1,500 to be recruited at Guaymas and Hermosillo. Yaquis number about 15,000 with 3,000 to 4,000 warriors. They favor stock raising farming and mining and will not concede their lands. Cable firms face possible opposition to Western Union merger. Jay Gould may buy them.
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