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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1882
Page
6
A jumble of short items reports varied topics from crime to industry. Mentions include a New York bank, Ireland jails, Chicago navigation, Wisconsin rape verdict, a 112 pound tumor in Philadelphia, canal lighting, Chinese hanged in Nevada, smallpox in Cincinnati, and many scattered notes on politics, transportation, and local curiosities.
In the Senate the Ingalls pension repeal resolution was debated, and several non-controversial bills including port of entry creation were passed. In the House the tariff commission bill moved from Ways and Means to the whole House, Peele’s postmaster loss claims bill passed, apportionment discussion continued, and memorials for late Representative O'Connor of South Carolina were adopted.
Journal entries cover bills debated and advanced in Senate and House from February 9 to 10 and subsequent sessions. Topics include apportionment, pension arrears, Morrill tariff, five percent state claims, civil service reform, naval efficiency, and disputes over Irish imprisonment cases.
The report notes twelve barns burned at Laporte by an incendiary fire on Monday night. Wayne county townships Harrodsburg and Boston report no delinquent taxpayers. Shelbyville butchers Werner and Frankle arrested for selling meat from a three day old calf. New Albany produced two million cigars in 1881. Rockport merchant T R Hardy bought 160000 pounds of tobacco last week. Madison livery stable keeper Barney Birney died of tetanus after a splinter injury. Monroe county elder Robert Houston hanged himself fearing liquor sale indictment. Terre Haute Captain Sam Shoemaker unveiled wild rice seed for sowing in the Wabash river to feed wildlife.
Reports detail a fatal fall near the Crawford county line involving Alexander Odel, a prominent Harrison county figure in milling and farming. a sensational elopement in Fort Wayne. a revived lottery law for Vincennes College. and a various array of crimes, health moves, and civic notes including a vaccine farm plan near Evansville, a dealer in Scotland potatoes, and revival conversions at Elkheart with 500 conversions.
Elizabeth Dandurand and husband H C Dandurand heirs to about $250 000 estate of late William Ley of Binghamton New York discovered in Virginia City. A letter from Ley’s niece kept with his belongings led to her reward for reuniting family roots and legacy.
In the San Francisco News Letter Charles Dall and Harry Colton of the Olympic Club duck hunting party were stranded in a mudslough at low tide. Dall used a five foot gas pipe to reach Colton, who breathed through it for four hours as the tide rose, then Dall returned with ropes from a distant drawbridge and rescued him before death.
A compiled list of brief items notes hat sizes, population counts, legal and local curiosities, landmark projects, and accidents. Topics include Pennsylvania blind counts, Georgia convicts, Florida towns, England sleigh customs, Puritan churches, and a Cincinnati skating tragedy.
A dealer and scholar discusses mourning colors and their cultural meanings. He notes black remains common in the U S but other regions use white in Italy China and blue in Turkey Syria and Armenia. The article highlights how colors reflect concepts of life and loss.
The Lyvians viewed mourning as effeminate and wore women’s clothes to signal weakness. The Thracians held feasts to celebrate the deceased’s passage to felicity. Black mourning began with a French queen, replacing earlier White Queens who wore white.
A South Bend Telegraph report describes a well to do farmer's wife near Woollverton with two additional breasts on her left leg. The leg breasts, about the size of a hen's egg, have nipples and have lactated for her children. Dr. McAllister plans an examination and medical report.
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