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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1887
Page
2
The Standard Oil Company bears responsibility for a tax proposal in Tennessee aimed at retailers of refined petroleum. The plan risks driving small merchants from business and would grant monopoly control to a single provider.
A plan to erect an equestrian statue of General Forrest in Memphis is noted amid broader remarks on the national craze for statues. The article comments that many monuments may fade with time, with a wry note that the “Hood of tears” will wash away both the celebrated and obscure alike.
The Irish emigration this year to America threatens to be the largest on record. In the south many able bodied people are leaving or preparing to leave and emigrants camp in Queenstown streets awaiting ships. April emigration from Queenstown totaled 12,000 versus 6,550 the previous April.
Mrs Anthony sues Miss Jean nette Ballou for fifty thousand dollars claiming Ballou stole the love of Temple Court lawyer Mr Anthony. Ballou jailed at Ludlow Street Jail on $2,500 bail for the alleged theft. Mrs Anthony says her distress over potential loss of her husband, but notes Ballou may gain from a dead grandfather's estate if she pays the demanded price.
Complete returns from the late German elections indicate a total vote of 7,527,601 out of a population near 46 million and at least 10 million legal voters. The contest between Bismarck and his opponents drew a lighter than expected turnout, with minority parties collectively polling about 300,000 more votes than Bismarck’s forces.
The text notes April debt reduction of 13,053,098 and March decline of 12,808,497, totaling 25,861,566 over two months. The debt stands at 1,305,170,459 versus 1,889,136,883 on July 1, 1886, marking an 83,965,924 decrease in ten months and a yearly rate near 155 million.
The Sanitary Journal cites Dr. Charles Smart comparing typhoid deaths in New Orleans with no sewerage and pure rain water to Philadelphia with a sewer system and contaminated supply. In 20 years to 1885 deaths fell to 16 per 100,000 in New Orleans from 65, while Philadelphia ranged 41 to 98 per 100,000, averaging about 100,000 in 10 years. These figures point with an emphasis on sanitation differences.
The statue of General James A. Garfield was unveiled in Washington on the 12th in a ceremony attended by President Garfield’s family and Cabinet members. Notables including President Cleveland and various generals witnessed the unveiling as Gen. Sheridan introduced the orator Gen. J. Warren Keifer who spoke on behalf of the monument committee.
The event closed with a benediction by Rev. F. Dower of Gen. Garfield's church in this city. Troops were dismissed and the ceremonies concluded.
Members of the Sixth Army Corps travel from Richmond to Spotsylvania Court House on May 12 to unveil a granite Sedgwick memorial. Gen H Wright presides at the opening. Gen J W Lotta delivers the address, with ex-Gov Pingree of Vermont and a letter from Cleveland read.
Miscellaneous news notes recount a murder at Boonton involving August Hable and John Kelly after an attempted intrusion. other items include Massachusetts election law ruling, fires in Michigan and Philadelphia, a Buffalo millionaire will, Irish politics in Montreal, postmaster appointments, and a seafood of legal and financial notices.
A farmer near Grand Forks died when struck by his plow while plowing. A separate fire at Mrs. Leed's farm six miles southwest of Lenox destroyed two granaries and a cattle shed, valued at about $2,000 and insured. The Dakota Supreme Court opened in Yankton with around 100 attorneys present from North Dakota and Minnesota.
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