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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1885
Page
2
The London Times remarks that the government of Ireland is leaving or already out of the control of Her Majesty's ministers, signaling a significant shift in governance and political influence.
Gen Hazen publishes A Narrative of Military Life praising some generals while criticizing many others including Sherman and Sheridan. He is described as capable with literary flair yet compared to a bull in a china shop in parts.
Registrar General 1884 shows 118 875 births and 87 154 deaths in Ireland. Natural increase 31 721 but emigration 75 863 yields a net population loss of 44 142.
The text notes rapid industrial diversification in India with the 1857 establishment of Bombay’s first cotton spinning mill, followed by weaving. By 1882-83 there were 62 mills mainly in Bombay Presidency, with 4.5 million dollars invested. Calcutta housed 20 jute mills in 1883 and 54 coal mines produced 1.13 million tons in 1882. These sectors employed many natives.
In Toronto, Chairman Powderly urged a paid representative to monitor arrivals at Castle Garden to protect workers and oppose harm to labor. He said America should not become the world’s poorhouse and urged countering anti worker rhetoric from abroad.
Gen. Howard issued an order to move troops from Rock Springs and Evanston Wyoming, where tensions have eased with no anticipated new trouble. Separate items note court action denying reinstatement for J A Manning, and various federal appointments and regional office moves amid ongoing political and administrative shifts.
The column items include Henry W. Shaw earning about 100000 from literature, Eugene Hale gifting Hebron Academy 100 for scientific apparatus, and Mrs. Belle Hawkins with Mrs. Hawk ins of Shasta County winning a 600 pound bear. It mentions Mrs. James Brown Potter’s ongoing stage appearances, Gen William H Irwin's violence, Col J F Casey defending Grant fund trustees, and a wedding where guests fell ill after potted ham sandwiches at the reception.
A blaze in Doylestown Ohio leveled McCormick's drug store Gauncker's dry goods store and Oddfellows hall with losses estimated at 35000 insured. A great Atlantic coast storm days earlier drove tides high washing away hotel piazzas platforms and bathing houses along Rockaway Beach.
A Minneapolis jury awards Martha Ward six thousand dollars against William Duan for seduction and breach of promise. Perry Harrington is killed in Geneva Ohio with a December murder sentence for Lewis Webster. John Walsh fatally shoots W H Dawson in Savannah after being ordered from the hotel office while intoxicated. Frank Mohier, indicted for robbery during Coles circus visits to Butte Montana, is convicted and sentenced to a year in the penitentiary. Judge Foster at Leavenworth remands Greenwood county commissioners to jail for contempt of court until a bond levy pays a judgment. davantage notes on conspiracy indictments against John D Archbold of Standard Oil and other scattered items follow.
Fragmented note reports possible annexation of Burmah by England as negotiations unfold. Other garbled items mention fires at Lane's block and stores in Dutton Ontario with losses estimated at 22600 dollars, partially insured, and unclear references to Armagh and Iceland.
Random 1880s item listing include fine winter apples in New Hampshire at 1 25 a barrel. New York Court of Appeals voids checks altered date. Owatonna academy fund gains 25000 from Baptist convention. Harrisburg elopement scandal. Glanders reported in Montana Dakota Indian Territory Arkansas Texas. Lt Henry T Allen returns to San Francisco after Alaska tour. Ada Gray manager fights in Griffin Georgia over a ticket. Nicholasville Ky merchant sells drug business before death from consumption. Ohio election solidifies November status though tenable changes noted. Flood Rock explosion claims island sinking and many fissures found. A fastest American run claimed on Indianapolis to Springfield line. Export values for cattle hogs beef dairy shown. No cattle shipped to England. Cork line disruption noted. Loyalists send threshing machines. cattle boycott planned. Wheat exports Chicago Duluth totals reported. several figures shown.
At the seventeenth annual meeting in Minneapolis the American Woman Suffrage Association reaffirmed free representative government and demand for women's voting rights. Resolutions urged federal and state action, urging territorial suffrage, a constitutional amendment, organized state societies, and petitions in legislatures. Thanks were given to Maj. J. A. Pickler and Dakota lawmakers for extending suffrage in that territory.
Five thousand gathered inside a New York cathedral as Papal Zouaves in gold lace led a solemn procession to the catafalque. Priests and boys chanted the office of the dead while a chancel choir, Benedictines, and a large organ provided music. Archbishop Corrigan celebrated the pontifical mass with Archbishop Gibbons delivering the sermon on Ecclesiastes.
Bishop Ireland announced he will return November 11 as directors of the new national Catholic university meet in Baltimore. An adjournment will move to Washington to pursue incorporation, with $600,000 on hand and a $1,000,000 goal by year’s start. A wing is planned to begin soon and construction to continue in coming weeks.
The plan envisions a winter start with a $250000 outlay for a vast university building. Directors will allocate funds and form a nationwide committee to research the university question and select faculty in Europe. The first faculty will be philosophy and theology for clergy education, with admission limited to diploma holders.
Mason City reports Rosecrans arrived after a week seeking horse thieves who work near Boone. A dense forest of over fifty acres north of Boone shelters gangs of desperadoes and counterfeiters, eluding Des Moines officers. Hundreds of stolen horses traced to the forest remain unrecovered, save for a militia raid years ago that recovered thirteen. Citizens fear civil authorities are powerless, and locals consider appealing to the governor for military aid to recover horses and arrest the freebooters.
Gen Nelson A Miles notes a telegram from Lieut Henry T Allen reporting a safe return from a major Alaska expedition. Allen traversed the Tennah and Taken rivers to the Arctic coast, crossing Alaska Range on snow shoes for hundreds of miles. He reached Fort Michael and returned aboard the Corwin with a small party and Native guides.
President selects James Mc Laughlin of Dakota as Indian agent at Standing Rock agency and J M Walton of Corning Arkansas named special agent to manage the Cheyenne on Tongue River near Miles City Montana. McLaughlin praised for practical reform and self sufficiency at Fort Totten and Standing Rock. His wife is noted for strong support of wards.
Washington special reports clerks have tallied 701,094 acres of Winona and St Peter land likely not entitled under new grant adjustments. A fight over land grants is expected in Congress this winter as Land Commissioner Sparks prepares a reformist report. The railroad division overhaul has yielded data that could trigger suits and further reforms urged by Sparks. President and Secretary Taft are ready to support the commissioner as far as their powers allow.
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