Conviction of a Minnesotan Judge In an Impeachment Trial
News notes serious injuries following an incident. The report references criminal matters and a Minnesota judge facing impeachment proceedings and related criminal issues.
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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1882
Page
4
News notes serious injuries following an incident. The report references criminal matters and a Minnesota judge facing impeachment proceedings and related criminal issues.
Advices from Bismarck Dakota report a March 21 disaster near Soapstone cut Sweet Briar creek and Sweet Briar Station. A snow plow passed safely then a work train derailed after a wheel broke, sending flat cars and sleepers into the river. about fifty men were aboard with nine killed outright and many injured. The coroner’s jury ruled the wreck accidental and the dead were buried at Mandan.
On the 20th orders directed the homeward return of company D of Columbus and company K of Central City. Federal troops from Sidney were ordered back to their post, leaving seven militia companies in the city and federal troops at the Omaha barracks.
The impeachment court convicts Judge Cox of drunkenness on seven charges by a wide majority. Miles McPadden touts Knights of Labor growth in Chicago, praising nonviolence and criticizing violence. Longfellow is reported ill and then dead from peritonitis, with details of his decline and Cambridge reactions. Red Cross flood relief calls are issued by Clara Barton and others. Omaha politics and Cambridge events are noted with local election talk and a proposed Jefferson city hall plan.
W T I Phillips, a Rock Island road yard worker at Council Bluffs, was instantly killed when crushed between freight car bumpers. In Pittsburg the first execution in six years, Edgar Frank Small, hanged for Nicholas Jacobs murder on March 24. Small proclaimed innocence. John A Navling, convicted in Samuel Pennington murder, was hanged at Clearfield on March 24, after exposing a concealed knife.
Jonathan Mayor was hanged at Middleburg Pennsylvania on March 24 for involvement in the December 1878 murder of John and Gretchen Kuengler. He claimed innocence until after the act. The Crow Dog murder case yielded a guilty verdict and the defendant appeals to the supreme court.
Ann Eliza Young wife number nineteen of Brigham Young visited the city on a lecture tour from Dubois to Coshocton Ohio. She accused Delegate Cannon of cruelty to wives and described four spouses with accounts of neglect, control, and coercion.
A skeptical take on the Revised Version of the New Testament notes public fascination with the translation, argues it alters beloved phrasing, and cites clergy and scholars including Bishop Wilberforce and Dr. Vincent. The piece contends the new text harms the familiar cadence and invites widespread resistance among lay readers and church leaders.
A Toronto Globe note quotes Arthur Fisher of this paper recounting a severe rheumatism attack after a cold. He bought St Jacobs Oil and after two weeks of use he recovered fully. The testimonial emphasizes quick relief and restored health.
Oscar L. Baldwin the former Mechanics National Bank cashier of Newark serving a fifteen year sentence is employed as a gate keeper at the west gate of Trenton state prison. He assists in weighing and requested visitors be restricted though several have since seen him. Director George A. Halsey and State Senator Stainsby discussed bank affairs with him. He would not be placed in shops due to space and skill, but could serve as a fifty cent a day clerk.
The Carson City Appeal notes an advertisement praising St Jacobs Ointment as good for rheumatism neuralgia and a thousand ills. The claim centers on its wide healing reputation amid period skepticism and consumer remedies.
A witty remark notes that some people intrude because they lack business or, if they have any, lack the mind to mind it. It frames meddling as a lack of both purpose and awareness.
A rough moral compares a merchant selling four quarts to a Galion with Christian virtue to an idle street corner prayer struggling to enter Paradise. The line suggests action and faith are judged by deeds over words.
A promotional note extols a vegetable based remedy Dr Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla as strengthening the body and calming the brain. It lists ingredients Yellow Dock Sarsaparilla Juniper Tron Buchu Celery and Calisaya bark and claims to aid digestion and exhaustion without harsh cathartics.
A jumbled OCR passage lists diverse roles such as Lawyers, Bankers, Miners, Railroad officials, Civil Engineers, Merchants, Farmers, Clergymen, Physicians, Mechanics, and Professors of politics. It reads like a roster or index of representative groups without coherent context or narrative.
A London Sanitary Record summary compares vitality across nations. It notes Norway achieves higher survival to age twenty and seventy than England Ireland France or the United States, with stark differences in average life spans and the proportion reaching key ages.
Samuel Dedron of Loveland Ohio reports long standing kidney pain and dyspepsia improved after using Dr Guysett’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. He notes the first dose helped and he no longer experiences backache or sour stomach.
Readable fragment recalls a private asking his captain if they would sail into battle at Fair Oaks and whether he might die. The captain replies that they enlist to take their chances, prompting a wry remark about Uncle Sam not caring where recruits go after being shot from service and a finish with a proverb about great thoughts needing no trumpet.
An old newspaper blurb advertises Dr Foote's Health Monthly at fifty cents yearly from Murray Hall Publishing Co New York City inviting free samples and a list of nearly a hundred premium books. It promotes Carter's Liver Bitters as aiding digestion and liver function and Caswell, Haz, ard & Co Liver Oil as pure and preferred by patients and physicians.
An assortment of patent medicine claims for urinary issues and kidney diseases with quick cures. Also offers Lyon's Metallo Heel Stiffeners for crooked shoes and a pest control product Stouch on Rats. Includes contact details for ES Wells in Jersey City and mentions prepaid Express shipping.
A promotional letter montage extols Allen's Lung Balsam as a safe cure for pulmonary consumption, bronchitis, coughs, and colds. Testimonials from JEREMIAN WRicut of Marion County WV and others claim dramatic cures, urging mothers to use the remedy for croup and whooping cough, with physicians and ministers listed as endorsers.
An old journalist recalls Bayard Taylor as a loyal, generous man with broad sympathies. He valued friendships, supported others, and remained strict with his own faults while honoring Taylor’s literary achievements and enduring character. A drawing by his daughter captures the moment of praise from peers.
A range is a row of townships between meridians six miles apart. Townships are numbered east and west from the principal meridian, and north and south from the base line. Example: Township No. 5, N., range 7, W., from the third principal meridian.
An advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female ailments and a strengthener of the stomach nerves kidneys and urinary and genital organs. Readers are urged to request circulars from Lydia E Pinkham Lynn Massachusetts.
An 1831 advertisement touts CARBOLINY de odorized petroleum extract to regrow hair and prevent baldness. It also promotes Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar for consumption, Pike's Toothache Drops, Pise’s Cure for quick consumption, Friz Fr brand axle grease, and Cutler’s Little Liver Pills as superior products. testimonials claim cure and long-lasting effects.
A man from Moston, at 8 W corner 7th and Forest Ave in Kansas City, long suffered from bleeding silks until under care of Drs Dickerson and Stark, the surgeons in charge at the Kansas City Surgical Institute. The paper notes prudent neighbors should imitate this example in time of drought without using slang.
Advert says doctors may disagree on constipation and organ cure but users of Kidney-Wort claim it is the best medicine. It promises prompt and thorough action lasting results and urges readers to obtain a box or bottle and try it.
Three main raisin varieties are sold by merchants the small sultana the large red and the large black. Sultanas go mainly to puddings in England and Germany three fourths of the red raisins go to Trieste Germany and Holland while the black fruits supply Constantinople Salonica and the Danubian provinces. Growing raisin wine production in France increases imports to French ports and large quantities are taken by distillers across Europe.
Reader learns of Dr. R V Pierce promotion urging consumptives to send two stamps for a pamphlet. Claims hundreds cured and men diagnosed incurable by physicians now healthy. Advertisement by World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo New York.
A mixed page of early 20th century ads and notices includes medical claim letters for nervous debility and female restoration tonics, a horse for sale near Omaha, tailoring and stock updates, a Grand Union Hotel solicitation in New York, and various household remedies.
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