Moonshiners rounded up after raid near Somerset Pa
Internal revenue agents seized a still site in a ravine about fourteen miles from Somerset Pennsylvania on the 6th and captured four moonshiners along with one hundred fifty barrels of whisky.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1881
Page
3
Internal revenue agents seized a still site in a ravine about fourteen miles from Somerset Pennsylvania on the 6th and captured four moonshiners along with one hundred fifty barrels of whisky.
Reports from Cincinnati recall the Society of the Army of the Tennessee reunion with General Sherman reading on Pittsburg Landing. McPherson statue unveiling and Dodds remarks. Hayes and other generals present. Tennessee debts settled at par plus 3 percent, Memphis debt legislation passes. Confederate graves in New Orleans honored with Grand Army floral tributes. Rockford railroad dispute heard in Freeport. Chicago & Iowa property dispute noted. Tennessee law and state debt issues feature, with a Cleveland coal firm suing railroads over freight discrimination. Public health, crime, and local incidents round out the week with assorted political and legal actions across states.
The 5 to 6 April sessions discuss the election of officers and an executive session vote. McPherson pushes a petition on Michael Boyton's imprisonment. Bat as talks trigger partisan exchanges. The week ends with adjournments and continued debate over Southern state debts and CarpetBagger governments.
In the House of Commons on the fifth, Mr O Connor urged action to curb evictions in Ireland. Mr Gladstone defended the administration's Land bill efforts. The Bank of England reported 15.5 million pounds in gold. In Leitrim, Ireland, twenty women attacked police, injuring several. one girl was killed and another wounded. Reports noted American lease of 12 hundred acres near Winnipeg for peat manufacturing. A Quebec college at Rimousky valued 660000 was destroyed by fire. Trappists expelled from Angers headed to Montreal were allotted 700 acres at Oka to start an agricultural college. The US Consul in Basle probed the trib)rium scare in France and Switzerland, linking it to infected pork misattributed as American. Mason cited no health issues from American ham, noting risk from fresh pork. from 1889 to 1881, large lard and pork exports were recorded.
A voyage report describes the Bark Tiger bound for Baltimore from Liverpool with four crew of eleven starving after a week on leather strips soaked in lamp oil and cannibal thoughts. Other items note Sen Schlitzman returning to Washington, bond calls, Senate quorum, Tunisian frontier clashes, and the Iowa fasting woman Miss Wartig’s death after forty seven days without nourishment.
A Keokuk resident Dr A T Bronson died after mistaking morphine for quinine. In Monona Gustav Relchtus was killed by two shots. his brother severely injured. Polk County reports 136 marriages 164 births 723 deaths. Mason Downing of Oskaloosa died at Colfax Springs. A man attacked by a Chicago Burlington & Quincy train at Lockridge. A hanging body found near Fairfield deemed suicide. Hilton postmaster Trostas Cla killed by Wabash train. Burlington sees Charles O’Brien shoot himself amid health issues and wealth. A Lanqh Gnhy Eagle shot by hunter near Fort Madison. Shokey at Lowa State Prison injured by a prisoner. Scottish American Company owns 100000 acres in Northwestern Iowa. O’Brien of Burlington dies by self-inflicted gunshot. A swindler preys on farmers with a gold-watch ruse. Poisoned horses in Clarion. Des Moines scientists test glass-sand Deposits. A German Carl Welson commits self-destruction in Marion Township. Wheat and corn quotes listed. Divorce trial notes critique collusion. surge in divorces alarm. Fisherman battles otter after salmon. Atlantic cable talks rise.
The new House will decide if Chalmers Democrat or Lynch Republican won Mississippi Sixth District. Allegations claim Democrats used fraud and ballot disposal to defeat Lynch. Supreme Court decision upheld canvassing and ruled printer marks on ballots as distinguishing, fueling political controversy and accusations of party manipulation.
In a Senate discussion, Mr Kellogg of Louisiana claims four thousand freemen suffered abuses in Caddo Parish. He cites intimidation, whip ordeals, and school closures as Democratic acts. denounces the Louisiana Lottery Company as a Dem party creation funding the Packard government and predicts long term losses from its fifteen year operation.
The piece recalls Samuel J. Hayes as President de jure for four years, praising his energy and fidelity to the Constitution while noting limited duties. It reflects on Tilden's retirement, the administration’s past burden, and calls for forgiveness and forgetting as the world moves on.
A compilation remarks on Democratic weakness and infighting in Georgia politics. Senator Mahone vows to reveal facts about Ben Hill while William H. English predicts the party’s endurance and hints at a future presidential bid in 1884.
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