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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1897
Page
2
Ex-Vice President Stevenson resumes law in Bloomington. McKinley calls Congress to meet March 15 in an extra session. Sagacity and satire thread through reports from Salem to Carson as grand demonstrations and pundits clash over politics and prize fighting. Local deaths and waterworks desires punctuate the Madison county scene.
A packed column rails at slow juries, praises a 75 percent refund bill for returned instument sales, and mocks a moonlit earth motion theory. It also lampoons public shows in Careou Nevada and forecasts McKinley’s bold course while recounting a Keeley cure exchange between Missouri colonels and a defiant anti liquor veteran.
Walter Wellman reports from Washington that Vice President Stevenson is happy as he retires. The senator receives silver service and autograph parchment, with goodwill from senators, while Wellman notes Stevenson's four-year tenure yielded only four appealed decisions, none sustained. Friends tease him about staying retired this time.
Mrs Henry Ward Beecher died at Stamford Connecticut on the 8th inst aged 85 Eunice Beecher born 1812 Sutton Massachusetts daughter of Dr Bullard a physician Her marriage to Henry Ward Beecher followed a romantic courtship and a swift wedding arrangement completed in four days amid a storm and a rainbow after the ceremony the couple departed for Lawrenceburg Indiana
The Stillwater Gazette notes Captain D. B. Loomis born 1817 who defended the Godfrey and Gilman warehouse during Lovejoy era riots in Alton. Loomis, who joined the 1838 exile, fought in the Civil War, later served in Minnesota legislature, and died after a lifetime of public service.
John Schmidt, convicted of murder in St Louis, is commuted to 25 years. He warns boys to avoid bad company and evil paths, urging fear of God and adherence to parental counsel to prevent future trouble. An editor notes the toll of unpaid dues and urges readers to settle accounts before trouble grows. A Missouri note prohibits booking and pooling on races.
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