Farmers Laboring Classes and Independent Reform Party
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Newspaper
Will County Courier
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1875
Page
4
Panj Gov Opens Talks with Tribes Over Black Hills
The Panj government begins negotiations with Indian tribes who hold the Black Hills to vacate the gold rich region in favor of white settlers. The talks aim to resolve ownership and access disputes surrounding the territory.
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Black Hills
Auriferme
Missouri governor calls two day fasting and prayer
Governor Harpin of Missouri designates Thursday June 34 as a two day period of fasting and prayer asking citizens to unite in supplication for deliverance from a grasshopper scourge.
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Harpin
Missouri
Beecher Trial Nears Closing With Conflicted Testimony
Testimony in the Beecher case is finished and the trial moves to a foal summing up by opposing lawyers. Public expectations rose on sensational disclosures, but observers feel the defense focused on assailing Tiltap’s character rather than proving Beecher’s innocence, leaving the public misinformed about true facts once the verdict is read.
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Beecher
Government Secrecy Alleged in Liquor Tax Evasion
Secretary Bristow suspects a broad connivance between inspectors and manufacturers to evade duties. Revenue receipts drop as officials warn of schemes that reuse government stamped barrels and resell alcohol below tax values, indicating deliberate tax dodges.
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Bristow
Mysterious Prison Death Report Amid Guard Accounts
A convict named J. Dofy died after brutal labor at the penitentiary. Guards describe excessive workloads, solitary confinement, and alleged mistreatment before death. The report suggests harsh discipline and possible official responsibility within the prison.
Grasshoppers Devastate Kansas and Missouri Crops
Report from the region describes swarms of grasshoppers devastating vegetation across portions of Kansas and Missouri. Millions of eggs hatched as warm spring sun arrived, with fields like a fifty acre wheat patch in Missouri wiped out in days. Rail travel suffers as insects hinder movement. fires and devices fail to curb the pest, which reportedly heads east toward Illinois, though the intelligence remains uncertain.
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Kansas
Missouri
Illinois
Imprisoned man freed as court clears Grayson of escape plot
In a charge heard by Justice Doolittle two convicts Todd and Lopez wore citizens clothes and attempted to frame Mr. Grayson in an escape plot. Hall denied issuing orders to detain Grayson while guards testified otherwise. Grayson was discharged.
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Lopez
Doolittle
Mr. Grayson
Hal
Durance Vile
Hall
Grayson
Duffy
Mr. Hall
Justice Doo Little
Bloomington
Florida
Chisholm
Whisky rings exposed as government cracks down on fraud
The government allege vast whisky fraud in Chicago Milwaukee and St Louis with over a million dollars yearly lost to evasion. Secret service agents seized many establishments and internal revenue officers are named in the alleged scheme.
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Hlicit
Washburn
Secret Service
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Internal Revenue Officers
Liberal sewing machine premium offer to boost Courier subscriptions
Tur Courier offers a $60 Weed Sewing Machine to anyone who secures 28 to 32 subscribers. The plan targets small towns through clubs in churches lodges and societies with postmasters pastors and volunteers asked to enlist names. Subscriptions totaling 30 at $2 each would fund one year plus a $95 sewing machine as a present for a designated recipient.
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Weed Sewing Machine Company
Odd Fellows
Temperance Society
Grange
Courier
Joliet Extends Invite to Illinois Press Association Meeting
In a special Joliet council session Mayor Steel urged inviting the Illinois State Editors' Association, over two hundred editors, to hold its next annual meeting in Joliet. The council adopted resolutions tendering cordial invitation and promising hearty hospitality and city facilities for the May 1876 session.
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Will County
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