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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1869
Page
2
Leaders in St Louis push a 100000 dollar joint stock company to buy grain and shift traffic to Mississippi river routes, aiming to restore St Louis as a leading grain market and attract supplies from Chicago and other centers, with potential expansion to a 1 million dollar cap. The plan foresees other river towns sharing the benefit and hints at rival ports like Quincy and Keokuk.
Thirty three marriage licenses were issued in Hancock County in March. Elections in the township wards at Peoria carried all wards except the Fifth. The Hancock County Teachers Institute opens in Hamilton on Monday evening, April 12. Col G P Smith of the Jacksonville Journal announces sale of the paper to new proprietors next week. An orphan boy, 12, died at Pontoosuc from eating a root thought to be wild parsnip found in a garden. Peru votes 312 to 114 to subscribe 30000 to a bridge company’s capital stock over the Illinois River. A son of the late Mr Spicer of Tazewell county lost an eye when a knife slipped while cutting a shoe string. Carthage and Burlington Railroad work progresses with W S Wood arriving from the East to supervise iron work and a new contractor, Mr Salisbury, taking charge. Mrs E B Dunwell of Gilman committed suicide by chloroform Sunday evening. she reportedly took two large swallows and died about five hours later.
S P Jewell named postmaster at Oregon. Three frame buildings on Third street St Joseph burned Tuesday morning, loss four thousand dollars. Fires were spotted in time to prevent damage. Incidents include assaults in Kansas City and attempts to set fires in North St Joseph plus a county pioneers meeting in Hancock.
A letter urges the Democratic party managers and the Quincy Herald to reveal which of fifteen municipal candidates are Irish and why Irish applicants were blocked, noting one-third of the city’s voters are Irish and demanding factual names, times, and places to address alleged favoritism, race, and deception in the party’s leadership.
A Quincy Whig special from Omaha dated April 1, 1869 condemns the Central Pacific and Union Pacific route to California as a swindle. It cites 400 miles of staging, high charges by Central Pacific at ten cents per mile, stage line at 25 cents per mile, and 45 cents per pound for baggage. The writer claims a Wells Fargo–UP collusion and urges travelers to go by sea and warns the public against using the route.
The Times reported the steamship Mexico, captained by Pitfield, steamed for an hour and a half through a dense mass of snakes of all sizes off the Tortugas. Snakes ranged from two feet to fourteen feet, with larger ones rearing and striking at waves. Onboard discipline broke as passengers and crew watched this unprecedented sight, prompting scientific curiosity about snakes living in salt water.
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