19 Apr 1870
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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1870
Page
1
A cluttered page lists wholesalers and retailers for stoves tinware upholstery and related goods on Hampshire and Malone streets near Washington Park. It also notes legal notices about case postponements, international events, and recent political items, followed by Springfield procedural summaries including railroad highway debates and a death announcement.
The document outlines where expedition members may start, allowed routes, and limits on travel north of Wyoming's Big Horn range. It forbids seeking petitions or protection for settlements or mining ventures they establish, under imperial oversight. Napoleon attends races at Long Champs. public plebiscite meetings planned to discuss constitutional precepts.
From Puerto Principe Havana April 18 the Captain General reports insurgents led by Maximo Gormaz and Mordesto Diaz attempted to pass the lifeboards of Valmazedaz division at Cuento Absje to invade Coyamas. They were met by two Spanish battalions and repulsed with 170 killed or wounded as rebels fled in confusion.
Washington April 18 The argument on the legal tender question in the Supreme Court has been postponed until Monday In the same dispatch Gen Butler proposes a bill to abolish the income tax and tax interest on vested capital including banks loans over one year and dividends of banks railroads and mortgages also taxing legacies deeds of gift and to tax whisky and tobacco with stamps replacing assessors and internal revenue offices and repealing other internal taxation
New York on Easter Sunday featured impressive ceremonies and majestic music across Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches. Notable operatic voices joined choirs, with Carlotta Patti singing at St. Peter's in Brooklyn and Henry Ward Beecher delivering a strong sermon on official corruption. The McFarland trial opened amid a crowd and tight security, while chatter noted possible acquittal despite public sentiment. The Female Brokers column announced Woodhall Clafflin & Co planning a weekly paper on women’s rights and suffrage, and an excursion from Columbus to Washington drew about 502 travelers, mostly ladies.
New York reports a widespread panic over a Fenian invasion with sensational dispatches from Ottawa and Montreal. News claims of troops moving, volunteers assembling, and alleged Fenian raids surface while the Toronto Globe questions grounds for alarm. Halifax protests Granville over troop withdrawals as Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia election issues dominate colonial debates.
A young woman living on West Harrison Street died after a kerosene lamp exploded while she carried it through a room. Her clothing burned away and she suffered severe burns. Two other women were badly burned by flaming oil from the blast.
The Scott Williams & Co banking house is described as robbed of fifty to sixty thousand dollars with twenty thousand belonging to the bank and the remainder to special depositors. A mob in Curcaco freed and hanged Joseph Ramsey from a farm near Hennepin, Illinois, while Ramsey faced poisoning allegations. A disturbing case notes a fourteen year old girl assaulted, followed by a summary of Mary Conbiy’s suicide in Iowa City jail.
A fragment notes a communication from General Sherman regarding the contemplated Big Horn to Game concerns. The wording is incomplete but indicates military or administrative discussions on the two regions and related plans.
A fragment from the April 1830 session notes the Public Lands Committee, with Williams, reporting amendments to a bill authorizing constructing a railroad and telegraph line from the river to the Salt region.
Senate moves to indefinite postponement of a bill to prevent prizzifighting and considers land grants for river works and railroad construction. Debate centers on Supreme Court judges, a constitutional amendment on domestic violence, and protection of settlers rights. House approves amendments and discusses tariff on iron, with adjournment after a long day of votes and speeches.
Telegraphic items report the Ohio Legislature adjourned sine die. Other notes mention two unidentified bodies found in a river near Chicago, a postponed slander trial in Iowa City, and Wm. B. Ogden likely becoming president of Northwestern Railway. Navigation notes and various regional items follow, including a lay delegation vote in Central New York and a mailboat voyage on lakes.
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