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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1875
Page
3
Paris dispatch reports a blaze at the Brest Arsenal causing about 200000 dollars in damage. The article notes preparations for the Channel Tunnel project with a shaft sinking planned near Calais as a preliminary operation.
Cullary Lonpon Oct 21 Rev William Edward Jeff Died. Rev Walter Farquhar D D also reported dead. Lancashire Warwickshire and other areas hit by extensive floods. Midland Railway between Sheffield and Doncaster submerged in spots five feet deep. Traffic halted for miles. Birmingham low-lying areas inundated water seven feet deep on Walsall tracks.
In Berlin on Oct 20 the Supreme Court affirmed the Kammergericht verdict in the Count von Arnim case. The Count is ordered to pay costs.
Heavy rains flood Cork and other districts with extensive damage. Water fills streets and homes, floats debris and cattle, and sinks foundations near Wellington Bridge. Reports confirm multiple drownings, ruined crops, and widespread disruption across Longford, North Tipperary, and surrounding areas.
Destructive floods flood the lowlands along the Shannon with Clare and Limerick reporting gloom while Newry, Warrenpoint, Rathfriland, Castlewellan, Rostrevor and nearby routes suffer major damage. Bridges swept away, roads impassable, livestock perish, and mills halt as waters rise and spread across the countryside. A separate report notes horse exports from Britain and a Sheffield carriage worker narrowly survives a savage horse attack.
A London cab and cab-horse show at Alexandra Palace features working animals with long service in the shafts. The report covers diverse items from the Ceylon Times on a breach of promise case to arsenic in soup linked to printing processes, and notes about royal marriage talks. It ends with Victoria Magazine on children's rights and parental duties.
Reports from Oct 20 describe heightened Indian unrest at Lower Butte Agency as a government survey is ordered. Fort Thompson telegram notes Indians armed and ready for conflict amid Denman survey efforts. Cheyenne and Arrapaho buffalo hunters head toward the plains with escorts to deter crooked whiskey sales, planning to stay until April. Enoch Hoag departs to pay tribes and report progress, noting advances in civilization, crops, and self-sufficiency. Major Knox is allotting Potawatomi land in severalty as a trend toward individual farms and improved schooling.
A fragmented Texan report covers a series of sensational crimes. It notes a sheriff attacked by masked men in Arkansas, executions and a hangings in New York, a fatal shooting in Scranton, a brutal murder in Craven, and a German painter’s family killings in New Jersey. The item also reports a Joliet area burglary halted by Marshal Fowler and Officer Clark, with suspect Charley Johnson captured. Additional details describe a macabre murder mystery in Dallas area and a brutal gun violence incident.
Three boys from Macomb aged 16 9 and 12 12 ran away by train on the C B and Q line leaving home yesterday about 10 am. They were well supplied with money and it is believed they visited this city before their disappearance. Berkshire Dribble and Mammer are being sought by their father who has reported the truants to authorities. No location or return sighting yet.
The bark Draco, built in 1824 at Duxbury by Reuben and Charles Drew, is described as the oldest U S vessel. A 25 ton bark altered from brig in 1854, she has sailed in freighting, South American, Australian, and whaling trades, and notably passed the Straits of Magellan on a copper ore voyage from Valparaiso to Swansea in 1836.
In a Santa flows report from Guerneville, authentic details describe a Cranus mine scene on Austin Creek three miles from town. Workers in the wine area heard ghostly music and the sounds of mining activity from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., with machinery, bellows, and pulleys seemingly operated by unseen hands.
Three nights of work followed by quiet. Abe Steratt confronts a miner dressed figure in an active shaft space. The phantom vanishes upward after Steratt strikes at it with a drill, leaving noises but no return sighting.
A Cincinnati Commercial feature tells how Frank Foster, separated during the Corinth Mississippi burning and pillage in the Civil War, was found by Union Captain Hickenlooper. Foster, raised in Ohio, learned his family’s names only recently in Cleveland. He and his brother Paul or Frank, reunited with their mother after years of searching and letters.
Oct 18 report from Camp Point Illinois notes a whise ball game on Payson Fair Grounds between the Red Stockings of Camp Point and the White Stockings of Payson. Also covered are a counterfeiting case heard by United States Commissioner Smith involving multiple defendants and stamps of foreign governments, plus a claim of gold discoveries in the Beauce valley near Quebec with plans for operation aboard a barge.
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