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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1873
Page
2
The article notes a misstatement in the courthouse report claiming the railroad company, not W. J. C. Taylor, seeks damages. The court records show Taylor sues the railroad for damages, clarifying the plaintiff status.
A Springfield, Missouri letter from Rev W B Leftwich praises local springs for health recovery. He describes his wife’s general nervous debility and consumption symptoms improved by the waters, his rheumatism and dyspepsia, a measles case among two colored servants, and his granddaughter’s scarlet fever lingering effects resolving after attendance. He notes prior Boonville origin.
Correspondence praises Ohio Republican stance on transportation and anti corruption. It contrasts party strength with Democratic hopes, mocks rivals and highlights a Washington elite neighborhood around Fifteenth Street and I Street, ending with a note on Caesarism rhetoric in the New York Herald and Grant’s potential third term.
An extraordinary and daring robbery of a railroad train occurred last night four miles west of Adair on the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Report from Des Moines notes the incident connected with a planned effort to avert disaster and mentions an engineer shot at during the attempt.
Superintendent Boyce recounts a late night attack as six armed men in Ku Klux style raided the Chicago Rock Island train 55 miles west, firing into the express car, taking about $2000 from the safe, injuring three, and riding off on horses before fleeing southward. Authorities pursued by telegraph and train crews.
Charles R Davis chief editorial writer for the St Louis Globe died in St Louis after a brief illness of cholera. Born 1826 in New London Connecticut he studied at Marietta College and joined the St Louis Democrat before moving to the Globe editorial staff. He leaves a wife and son and an aged mother in New London. The obituary praised his purity, gentleness, and Christian character.
In New Orleans on July 15 a mass meeting drew about 1500 attendees, two thirds white. Resolutions urged civil rights for all citizens, tax reform, debt reduction, elimination of costly offices, and the creation of a patriotic state government with an executive Unity committee to expand the movement statewide.
A Georgia governor invited southern leaders to Atlanta on May 20 to discuss internal improvements and interstate transit from the Mississippi to the Atlantic. The gathering, dominated by Democrats, excluded Republicans and many officials, ending as a partisan failure with calls for republican solidarity in Georgia.
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