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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1891
Page
1
Local notices discuss Dead Shot for hog and chicken cholera, farm ads, mayors and bankers, a legal suit, and taxes. Names include Bloomfield Indiana officials, Crawford county matters, and residents such as Henry Fields’s daughter birth, W. Osborn, J. Corbin and Moss & Axtell.
The Indiana Farmer extols its value to farmers as a practical source on improved crops varieties markets and cultivation. It invites agents to send for a free sample copy and the premium list for 1891 92 with a promise of a Farmer subscription worth a year upon selling $100 in ads or copies.
The joint institute met at the Kellar school house in Washington township on Saturday December 19 1891. Cushman principal of Lyons schools presided with Prof Hilburo as chairman. Papers on Page's Theory and Practice and The Quarae of Suty were read. Ball game followed and afternoon sessions discussed opening exercises literature reading and language taught by several teachers.
A mixed stream of names visits and returns to town this Monday week. Local figures, including students, doctors, and officials from Owensburg to Purdue, stop by for holidays and errands. The column notes acquaintances like Simon Pickard, Theo Pringle, and Jeb Ball, plus mentions of town events and public offices in Washington and Sullivan counties.
A digest notes Butterworth praising the Columbian exposition and forecasts Colquitt’s retirement opening a path for Speaker Crisp to Senate. Colquitt weather clashes with Colquitt. Wholesale insurance rates rise nationwide amid fire and burglary losses. Sherman weighs Elkins appointment and Blaine candidacy implications. Black migration to Oklahoma grows. AFL bans Milwaukee beer. Lincoln rumored to resign. Washington offers no definite word. Alger to gift 600 Detroit newsboys uniforms and coats. Rubinstein to tour US for $125,000. Jones foresees grim American disease post la grippe. Davis Monument group plans funds for Richmond memorial. An onion and ale cure hiccups. cotton acreage may shrink to lift prices. Buffalo mills donate flour to Russian peasants. exceeds 1,000,000 pounds pledged. Grant Monument committee faces internal_row. new structure debated. Watson of Ohio a leading solicitor-general candidate. Deaths include Connor, Griffin, Hand, Harrison, Kenley, Devonshire, Stafford, Gibson, Case, Wilbur. Crimes report shootings and robberies. duels and accidents noted. Foreign items report Egypt crops up, China massacre, Li Hung Chang ill, Belgian-Chinese tensions. Personal notes mention Dalzell’s senatorial bid, Whitman rumors, Baker court appointment. Fires report Habbeman tin factory damage and Porter millinery blaze.
An advertisement promises an easy job with expenses paid for those out of work and no experience required. In Anderson Indiana, Dec 22, reports note Sam Burnett began eating dog meat to cure consumption with initial improvement but now declines. physician say only days remain. Charlie Fisher, who tried the same remedy after Burnett’s claim, has stopped.
Richmond Indiana December 23. City council refuses to revoke price controls and rejects company compromise in the natural gas dispute. Case reaches courts January 1 and will go through the supreme court regardless of outcome. Also New Albany Indiana December 23. Louis Wagner dies after ladder contact with live electric wire at plant. Fellow worker Marcus Rutherford also struck and may die from shock.
About one hundred striking miners from Coal Bluff and nearby areas gathered in Braz, Indiana, early yesterday to deter others from going to work. Although fears of violence were spoken, the day passed without incident as nonstriking workers returned to their jobs.
Miss Ella Ray testified that Edward Kisner’s wife was married in July to Fred Hipp son of Fort Wayne councilman Hipp. The quiet wedding at Fort Wayne was kept secret to influence Kisner’s breach of contract suit, which Kisner had been paying off.
In Vincennes Indiana William Higgins and Charles Sellers Jr suffered severe burns after a spark ignited powder during blasting at Freeman's coal mines. The accident left both men badly burned. In New York City on December 24 six deaths were reported from grip and one hundred forty two policemen reported sick.
Telegraph tidbits from Indiana and beyond report deaths from jail escape, mine collapse, and suicide. shootings in Indianapolis and Vincennes. labor strife in Muncie. a saloon raid in Charleston. a tramper murder attempt. a double elderly couple death near Crawfordsville. cholera in India. and various local incidents including arrests, lawsuits, and robberies.
Two Liberian families on the Hamburg American steamship Dania arrive in New York. Mose and Warne Davis and relatives, eleven people in all, fled Gainesville, Georgia for Liberia seeking farming success. Money vanished, conditions grew desperate, and they returned to Gainesville after touring Monrovia.
An explosion occurred aboard a French trading vessel in Antwerp harbor on Wednesday morning. About twenty sailors were aboard and all are believed killed or drowned. No bodies have been recovered and the cause remains unknown.
Last week the Central Co operative Gas company drilled a strong new well in Center township Delaware county near Muncie Indiana. The Trenton rock proved solid and high gas pressure followed nitro glycerine explosions. A steel pipe burst under 400 pounds pressure and debris flew four feet from the trench. A second and third explosion occurred, pipes and dirt hurled skyward, frightening residents as gas roared through the city. This is the last of over one hundred wells drilled in the township.
Inspectors from the Bureau of Animal Industry uncovered a Newton Creek abattoir on Long Island devoted to slaughtering broken down diseased horses including many with glanders. Cars were found exporting meat as family beef until Secretary Rusk intervened and seized seventy five tierces to prevent shipment to Antwerp on the Lepan. Also notes a death en route to the poor house in Frewant New Mexico.
A reported case describes a husband abusing his wife at a Wabash Indiana gathering. Police intervened during a church service as a confrontation escalated with a man named Ryan, who fled after a Tasering and a subsequent gunfire incident. The scene disrupted the sermon and drew a large crowd.
A damaged report describes a Yester left Amati violin found near Richard Jackson in Ricwwono Indiana. Experts call the instrument genuine and among the finest in existence. The item ties to a death linked to a bay of miners and a back pay dispute.
An uneven OCR recap lists deaths including Rev Oscar Coenlal and Joel B. Mayes and references to officials like Judge Joseph Otis Glo Thomas Li Payne. It also details fires at Mechanics Mill Seattle causing 140000 loss with 28000 insurance and other urban fire damages and damaged businesses in Cincinnati and Philadelphia area.
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