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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1889
Page
6
A wartime church committee discussed adjournment plans on January 2 noting progress among subcommittees. The group emphasized educational and evangelistic aims while avoiding partisan conflict and focusing on church work and future directives.
In January reports from Warkis ion ciry describe a warm to late December and January with limited rainfall. The month of December saw drought conditions delaying winter wheat growth while snow cover varied by region. Snow depths ranged from six to five inches in some counties, with one to two inches in others, impacting crop prospects.
Wastisaroo City reporters recount leaner boys who carried dispatches to Stanford yesterday receiving scarfs gloves candy and silver dollars as gifts. They paraded in small squads shouting Hurrah for Senator Stanford.
At Suakim a group from Handoub raided the town as Araic workers gathered wood near the walls, abducting several women. The incident occurred on January 2, with no immediate reports of injuries. Local authorities began inquiries and security tightened around the area.
Police in Borin detained a large number of press adherents yesterday for circulating inflammatory and zeditious pain. The arrests follow unrest and reflect a crackdown on dissent in Begutx.
Fragmented news item reports Mrs O Leary of Gurlity street and her daughter attempting suicide with carboho adid after marital strife with William O Leary. They were moved to hospital with little hope of recovery. Other brief notes mention Annal Siedler of Grand street in a drunken husband incident and a family hospital scene with a dying mother.
An Arkansas jail break frees condemned Bald Knobbers and five train robbers. Wiley Matthews and accomplices flee with rescuers, while Deve Walker and son Bull refuse to run. Sheriff leads bloodhound pursuit into the Ozarks as posse tracks the fugitives. The Bald Knobbers had previously slain Charles Green and William Edens in 1887.
William G Haas of the city was arrested by United States Secret Service Captain Porter on counterfeiting charges and placed under $5,000 bonds to appear before a U S commissioner next Wednesday. The arrest followed a July incident when a street car conductor found a hot silver dollar near 887 North Cle street and reported it. police surveillance then uncovered the contractor and plasterer known as Hards with an extensive counterfeiting outfit in the upper story of the same building.
Hansivan Missouri reported murder of A J Stillwell in his Hannibal residence. Burglar entered during absence, struck Stillwell with an axe, then fled. $35 and Stillwell’s bloody ax found nearby. Neighbors summoned. victim died from head wound.
San Francisco reports unclear losses from the departure of Ruanigs EF Merle. Estimates place total losses around ten thousand dollars, with Fairbanks & Co of Chicago cited among affected houses.
Dec. 81 telegrams report police believe they have traced the Jack the Ripper to a London resident named in the dispatch. Officers say their current inquiry will lead to the killer’s capture in London. Additional notes reference a January legislative meeting and a court action.
San Francisco reports a solar eclipse viewing with observers across Nevada and California. Prof. Louis Bwitt notes limited intra Mercury searches due to clouds while various observers record corona visuals and colorless protuberances. Reports include totality observations at Marysville Oroville Grass Valley and Bartlett Springs with temperatures dropping and multiple photographs taken for Amherst and Lick Observatory.
In Curiaco on January 2 the solar eclipse drew tens of thousands of onlookers as clouds and fog waned. Observers reported the sun's lower right edge darkening around 4:30 p.m. and the sun half obscured at sunset, resembling a crescent with a straight edge curved inward.
In Avousta Georgia and nearby farmers Sam Fielding Floyd Fielding Lewis Black Frank Brown fought over trespass. Black and Fielding were shot in the eyes and are not expected to live. Floyd Fielding was shot in the mouth and teeth knocked out. Brown escaped with flesh wounds. All are respected farmers.
The Sun reports from Santiago that a United States steamer is near Haytien waters to take aboard cargo and a crew from Port au Prince. A steamer bound for Boston and New York is expected to depart soon amid tense conditions in the Haytien Republic.
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