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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1868
Page
1
An advertisement from Green Day, Wisconsin, touts a large stock and plans to maintain first class grocery and provisions offerings at Washington Street, one door south of Schettler's Hardware, inviting a liberal share of patronage.
The anniversary of the American Congregational Union was held in the Academy of Music Brooklyn on the evening of the 14th. Other items note the Callicot trial starting in New York for defrauding the government of six hundred thousand dollars, and various local incidents including robberies, a self-inflicted gunshot, and the death of a long-lived English Elm on Boston Common.
Cheyenne dispatch says Generals Sherman Anger and Terry and Col. Tappan met at Laramie and concluded a peace treaty with the Crows Brule Sioux Northern Cheyennes and Arrapahoes to settle on a reservation The commissioners expect Man Afraid of His Horses and a large band to join at Laramie while efforts to move a large Sioux party to the Missouri reservation continue Also notes evacuations of posts and future meetings with various tribes along routes and locations.
Dusty streets and a new town pound near the Court House spark praise from most, yet hog owners laments. The keeper slept while hogs vanished through a jackknife hole, and a quiet search for the culprit begins as ads and notices fill the page with commerce and local updates.
The Senate voted 35 guilty and 19 not guilty on the 11th article, needing 36 for conviction. Adjournment set for Tuesday the 26th. Remarks urged crushing the rebels and forcing Johnson from power. Also reported: April earnings of the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne Chicago Railway at $77,420,319 with expenses $446,554.96. Newsboys of New York secure $100,000 from New York Legislature for a Newsboys' Lack House.
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