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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1881
Page
6
A collection of brief items notes epidemics in Cincinnati and frost damage in Vermont, population figures for Atlanta, rail consolidations, political shifts in France and Massachusetts, and varied hints of national events from pensions to stamps and comets.
A broad survey of items highlights religious and political issues including a Chicago revival claim of 1000 converts by Rev. Thomas Harrison, school attendance gaps in Cincinnati, and a call for charity for Michigan sufferers. Various political shifts and incidents follow, with notes on railway finances, crime, and Garfield memorial discussions.
Cleveland committee announces lithograph certificates for Garfield monument fund contributors. Certificates come in $1, $5, and $10 or larger amounts and may be obtained via authorized solicitors, bankers, postmasters, and other agencies across the country. The certificate bears President Garfield’s lithograph and photo and certifies the donor’s contribution.
A donor has contributed a specified amount to the Lake View Cemetery monument fund in memory of James A. Garfield. A Philadelphia dispatch reports the alleged inwardness of the English infernal machine plot. Peter H. Foye, a Philadelphia saloon keeper, built the devices and sold details to the British. He took $10,000 for information leading to a Liverpool dock discovery and later fled U.S. detectives.
The Journal of Education warns Western schools must slow their push for rapid curricula and exams while Gen Fremont proposes a drastic solution to the Indian question by purchasing Lower California to relocate tribes. Indiana temperance delegates adopt a pro prohibition platform and pledge to support candidates backing it.
Howard county reports 100 school houses with 125 recitation rooms valued at 95 525 dollars.
Pennsylvania plans to dispatch 700 troops to the Yorktown centennial celebration. A wide mix of political and social notes follow, including assessments of fraud reports in the Pension Bureau, remarks on the Garfield biography project, and various local and international incidents and proposals.
Reports cite quakes at Gallipoli and Adrianople and a Yorktown Centennial letter. News items note Prendergast named Cuba governor, Bank of Germany rate rise, Irish land struggles, and local crimes, floods of thefts, arson, and disappearances across Indiana communities.
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