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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1881
Page
6
A garbled 1881 newspaper fragment discusses temperance politics in Georgia and Minnesota, water shortages in Paris and Lox von, and a poor peach crop in western territory. It mentions the Supreme Court clerk payment, wheat yields, and a court vacancy as Associate Justice Clifford nears appointment, with scattered notes on cyclones, emigration, and gun shooting matches.
Reports note Episcopalian Bishop of Indiana gravely ill in Indianapolis after a paralytic stroke with fears of a fatal outcome. The Cincinnati Gazette links heat deaths in that city to alcohol. A Wisconsin wife uses boot soles to gain evidence for a divorce case. Englishwomen form a movement to wear home made goods. Nebraska voters to decide on a constitutional amendment restricting women’s votes. Upcoming Fat Cattle Show announced by the Illinois State Board of Agriculture. Stockyard figures and local oddities recounts from Palatine and Bound Rock New York with livestock losses and a color change in a horse after sun exposure.
The New York Sun reports sulphurous flames bursting from Long Branch sand near high tide and the hissing smell like hell. In Britain a number of infernal machines sent from this country raise a great sensation and demand government action to detect and punish the villains behind the plots.
The Indianapolis Journal reports Aly. Conkling said he is done with politics and will devote himself to the law. He refused a potential Supreme Court vacancy, naming Ex-U.S. Senator George Lapham as his successor, who is 67 and from Canandaigua, NY. Warner Miller’s term ends 1887, and Hayes-Tilden commission notes and train robbery gang rumors are discussed alongside New York state elections and Garfield era cabinet remarks by Captain Henry.
A Washington special reports Mrs. Garfield and Colonel Rockwell at the president's bedside reading newspapers. She reads a vivid account of the first day after the shooting, and he answers with a remark about Crete being a people worth dying for.
A fierce storm damaged property in the vicinity with a straw board mill burned by lightning causing an estimated 15000 dollars in losses. Mrs John Minton and her two children witnessed a lightning flash pierce the window but escaped injury as they sat near a lamp during the dark storm. Reports from farming counties describe widespread storm damage.
Reports from Europe and beyond note heat and drought impacting French crops while Germany and Britain discuss politics and laws. Incidents include embezzlement allegations in Cuba, a deadly duel in Berlin, and fires in Ontario as global tensions and public notices unfold.
A jumble of brief items mentions a slave escape near Macon Georgia dying after fleeing, a 250 foot chimney planned at Lasane Fil for a soda factory, a Boston woman Catharias Lillebell and her three children, Vienna city politics, and a chaotic mix of names, numbers, and stray sentences. The text is readable in parts but largely incomprehensible.
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