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Newspaper
Sauk County Standard
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1854
Page
2
The Sand Co Standard reports the death of Jacob Ambler editor of this paper and Hillsdale Gazette. He died in his forties from typhoid fever after moving from New York to Michigan and then to Wisconsin seeking better health. He is praised as a principled editor and family man. laid to rest with Masonic rites and a sermon by Rev. Boutman.
Baraboo Lodge No 34 reports the death of Jacob Ambler of Fidelity Lodge Hillsdale Michigan. Masons from Baraboo Portage City and others attend burial and adopt preambles praising his character as a husband father and citizen. Resolutions express sympathy to the widow Orphans and relatives and note his maugnanimity integrity and service to the order. A copy of the preambles and resolutions is to be furnished to the family and published.
War A Rocetts Co have bought Kirks stock and opened Cheap Corner offering a large range of goods. Lancrisuz Arnates Company arrived with Don Cesar De Bazan and Family Jars to be performed at Sumner Hall, with casts led by Atwater Plato Boswell Wright Langrishe and Miss Allen. ALEXANDER L. CAINS is named as best man for the 9th Judicial Circuit election. Indians gather berries on Lemanweir and Yellow rivers. Rev Thomson to preach at Presbyterian Church next Sunday evening. Subscrib ers asked to pay in wood. G Wyman Spooner nominated for Congress by the Amalgamates.
The paper urges voters to back A L Collins over Thomas Hood in the Ninth Judicial Circuit race. It praises Collins as a capable Whig lawyer and condemns Hood, a Democrat, as unfit for judge. Also notes a New York Chamber of Commerce resolution urging abolition of usury law restrictions with specific rules for bargains and unsatisfied judgments.
A reprinted Sun communication promotes a quack cure for cholera diarrhea using tincture of laudanum cayenne pepper and other ingredients. It urges wide publication to save lives during the cholera season. An Albany Atlas item describes a man in Starks and Pruny’s Iron Works dying after illness, with a noted hand movement indicating life briefly.
An 1854 letter from Kansas Territory describes staking five eighty acre timber lots on the Kansas River near a future city. The writer seeks settlers, offers to stake claims with 820 dollars, asks for a saw mill and a house for emigrants, and notes awaiting an agent's return. Also mentions a state fair preparations and local notices.
The column bundles varied notes from politics to local incidents including remarks on Mr Washburne as a Republican congressional candidate with brothers in Congress, a complaint about egg stealing, a Virginia invitation to President Pierce, a gold discovery in Bridgewater Vermont, and railroad and railway-related updates in Illinois and Wisconsin.
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