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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1881
Page
6
A collage of short items notes Prussia Vatican tension, coin prices, Daddy dollar demand, Arkansas train robbers reward, New Orleans gender ratio, roach infestation, 1861 New York deaths, Garfield era politics and figures, immigration, finances, crops, and rail damage with multiple named places and people.
A collage of scattered items notes ages of outlaws, Secretary Windom may retire to run for Senate, Jacob Marsh claims hog weight gains, Chicago names Garfield avenues and schools, London Americans plan Garfield memorial, a Michigan hurricane kills two and damages lumber areas, Jesuit leader Mather Beckx ill in Rome, and Bloomington jailer killer Charles Pierce hanged by a mob.
Garfield’s diary volumes preserve daily notes, six by eight inches. The last entry dated July 1 reports Secretary Brown returning from Europe, the death of cousin Cordelia, and ends with Retired at 12 o'clock.
Levi Willson dies by self inflicted throat cutting at Crawfordsville after a life marked by legal talent and preaching, survived by wife and child. Colored schooling in the South shows 181 million population with thousands of teachers and pupils across normal schools colleges and seminaries. Mrs Garfield contemplates burial at Lake View Cemetery for the late President, burial questions closed. Engineer and Signal Corps win top prizes at the International Geographical Congress in Vienna for maps and weather forecasting.
After the achievements of Dr Bill Roth of Vienna in removing stomach cancers comes Dr Schinzenger a Freiburg University professor. In one case a section of intestine was cut out and the ends sewn. In both cases recovery was rapid. For the sixth time in U S history the President of the United
The piece notes several presidents and spouses, listing Jefferson as a widower and Buchanan as a bachelor, with Chester A. Arthur's wife deceased for over a year. It also reports the New York Clearing House year transactions totaling 50 341 836 373 and daily average 165 055 201, plus Raum's tax ruling on bankers and brokers to tax hospital and deposits.
At Maynooth college the Irish Catholic bishops praised the land act for tenants and called on clergy to shield communities from violence while urging laity to aid in eradicating stigma against the people. They urged patriotism and faith in the nation’s welfare.
An eminent veterinary surgeon details Pink Eye spread in St Louis and Chicago and outlines fever breaking treatment with anconite belladona and arsenicum. He advises feeding adjustments and frequent watering while cautioning against hot foods as the illness threatens to spread nationwide. Also notes post mortem horse body parts preserved at Army Medical Museum and expert reviews confirming preservation quality and accuracy of initial autopsy reports.
Rev Henry Ward Beecher spoke on Garfield's death urging ambitious youths to seek office with honor. He likened government to a mansion where entry should be earned openly not by back door graft, stressing that integrity and political advancement can coexist and imitate Washington.
The State reports 14 regiments joined 3000 veterans and 10000 visitors at the Richmond reunion. In other items a saw mill theft near Wabash. Charley Rudile 19 attempted suicide after heartbreak. 545 convicts in Michigan City prison in good health. Rushville sues for 10000 over slander. Mrs. Mollie Miller demolishes saloon. Edward Oats Englishman dies by suicide. child dies from morphine after mistaken dosage. Norman stallion of Col. Bridgeland dies suddenly.
In a Barnum's menagerie cage seven anacondas and two boas clashed in a deadly struggle. The largest boa swallowed a smaller anaconda while another anaconda died. The keeper was sprayed with slime as the snakes fought, and fourteen chickens had been fed to them the day before.
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