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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1887
Page
2
A weekly note reports rising tax overhead totals and large treasury gold and certificates after Congress adjourned. It cites February losses in the United States and Canada totaling 7.5 million dollars, with observers noting widespread demand for money from the treasury and waning government support in Washington.
Winter wheat belt reports indicate crops are emerging from winter in better shape than last year though still at risk from storms and bad weather. Overall outlook appears more favorable than at the start of March last year.
General Warner in a speech on the dependent pension bill states the Civil War cost $3.35 billion, this sum has been paid with about $3.3 billion in pensions issued, and an additional roughly $3.3 billion will be needed for future interest and pension charges.
An army officer notes a high desertion rate despite good pay and rations. Many enlist to be sent West then desert, a stubborn class difficult to pursue due to regional sympathy for escape from perceived slavery. A second group is young, dissipated men from good families driven to enlist in despair. The most curious class is described as the final unexplained group.
The record enumerates measures discussed but not passed by the last congress including bills on education tariffs silver coinage bankruptcy congressional ethics rail subsidies Pacific railroad refunds timber culture pensions statehood canal arrears consular service woman suffrage reciprocity free ship labor arbitration postal telegraph copyright and financial regulation proposals.
A sweeping note in several papers claims Baltimore and Ohio assets may join Reading and Western Union in a large syndicate. Reports also hint at Postal Telegraph and Commercial Telegraph consolidations, with broader telegraph control rumored across major lines and cities.
Henry Ward Beecher dies at 9 30 am after a long illness. Dr. Hall to conduct the funeral with Plymouth church committee overseeing arrangements. A large Brooklyn crowd and national figures send condolences as ceremonies and guard of honor are planned at Greenwood cemetery.
Mayor McClure arrives in Pierre to assume immigration duties about April 1. L. D. Lyon to publish a Watertown weekly from April 1. Reports on breed trouble at St John contested. Chicago visit ends with robbery of Otto Koegle. bartender and two women involved. Winona line wreck cleared. first through train reaches Huron. Col Thompson resigns from Bismarck penitentiary board. Legislature passes Collins public examiner bill and militia reorganization. Fargo revival reports 400–500 converts. Moorhead shaken. Interior confirms Blanchard land decision. Wood and Havens case. Dickey relative of ex-Congressman convicted for selling liquor to Indians. Deaths noted in San Francisco and Deadwood. Sackett accused of attempted rape. Farley Co. in Deadwood assigns assets. Whiteside nomination blocked. possible recess commission. North Dakota Firemen meet set for Wahpeton June 14–16. Prize tournament planned for Northwestern Minnesota and Dakota. Surgeons remove a 30-pound ovarian tumor from Mrs. J. M. Dickapp in Sioux Falls.
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