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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1892
Page
5
The Royal Baking Powder Company claims its powder is oldest and purest with superior leavening, healthful results, and no injurious substances. It notes in house refining of cream of tartar guarantees constant quality and that over half of U.S. cream of tartar is used in its production, unlike competitors.
The Elliston bus moves on runners and White River freezes for first time in years. Worthington and Bloomfield areas announce school days and terms, land offers, and public works including bridge teardown and graveling streets. Political notices, appointments, and local business ads fill the page with community updates.
Numerous local items report on a Bloomfield Democrat editor William M Moss chosen to serve on the Democratic state committee for the second district. The column notes births deaths marriages licenses and political maneuvers including judge candidates and local civic notes.
A 1880 Indiana act limits loads on thawing or wet gravel roads. No narrow-tired wagon over 2000 pounds or bread-tired wagon over 2500 pounds per load may be hauled on turnpikes during thaw conditions. Violators face a fine from five to fifty dollars per load.
Greene County Central Agricultural Society reports a plan to offer premium cereals to Indiana growers for the 1905 World's Columbian Exposition. Receivers pay shipping to Indianapolis, with a certificate confirming first premiums. Proceeds go to the exhibitor, per the board of managers of Indiana. The Democrat urges earnest farmer participation.
Several Cass township residents and nearby dignitaries visited the town Tuesday. Attendees included trustees, prosecutors, and committee members from Smith York and Jackson townships. Local officials announced plans and noted community activity amid political campaigning.
Long obituary notice lists deaths in January 1892 including Joseph Eveleigh from Bloomfield Ireland born 1911 and emigrant to Canada with seven children. Burrel Smith of Bedford dies at 30 after illness. Ellen Mackall in Taylor township aged 61. Martha Butler of Linton 65. Jas H Price Center township. Ethel Neal daughter of J H B Neal four years old. Lucinda Wright age 71. Dr Edward S Roberts Sr 84. Henry D Scott West Center. Mrs Wm Stockham near Linton. Mrs Thomas Plummer noted. Funeral details and church affiliations noted for several.
Died at her home in Fairplay township last Saturday of consumption and buried in Castle Hill cemetery. Mrs Eliza Anderson, widow of a Union soldier, receives appointment as postmistress at Castleton Marion county. Rev A N Elrod unable to fill appointments due to grip and cannot begin revival at Scotland. Three lety in Newberry for 60 dollars inquiry at Gratitude office. Heartfelt thanks to neighbors for kindness during sickness and death of child Echel. Brownstown Banner notes Brownstown Canning Co dividend over 22 percent. Catarrh cure claims to cure and promotes testimonials. Moss & Axtell offer farms or town property listings.
Greene County friends push Samuel W Axtell for lieutenant governor amid Delta state ticket talk. Axtell, former Greene County superintendent and prosecuting attorney, is a State University and law graduate and a Democrat. Local attendees at the Shoals convention backed the idea.
Snowbound slang of southern states spurs a deadly spree of coasters in Nashville and Cincinnati. In Nashville a sled collision near the union depot kills a man and injures several. Miss Mary Duncan dies from skull fractures after being thrown against a water plug. Henry Farrow dies from head injuries after colliding with a buggy. In Cincinnati Charles Ortman dies after crashing into an electric car on Parson street hill. Jacob Kleine is severely injured by a temple strike from a fellow sled. Austin Byrens and James Smith crash into a streetcar and are badly hurt. Multiple lesser injuries are reported across the incidents on Saturday and Sunday evenings.
The procurator fiscal report on the Baltimore affair outlines multiple conflicting origins for the riot between American sailors and Chileans. Witnesses differ on whether the clash began in a tavern, during a street insult, or from drunken Baltimore sailors striking a Chilean, with police and defense witnesses disputing each other. Several defendants are named with varying punishments, and testimony is described as inconsistent across many accounts.
A Wabash train hit a sleighing party of twenty two from the Clover Leaf Fishing Club near Forest Park, killing nine and injuring eleven. The four horse sleigh was struck at Sarah Street crossing by a special train returning from Ferguson, with two horses killed and occupants thrown from the sleigh. The dead and wounded were transported to Union Depot and St Mary's infirmary while investigators processed the scene.
The Pacific Steam Navigation mail steamer John Elder from Valparaiso for Liverpool wrecked on Caranosa rock in the Straits of Maellin. All passengers and crew saved. vessel likely a total loss. Refugees had escaped to safety via the steamer and may now be arrested in Concepcion, Chile. Mails aboard lost.
News came at noon Tuesday that Representative Henry P. Camp of Medina County died at his Somersville residence. The Republican was advanced in years and was ill with grippe. Two years earlier an epidemic claimed two senators and two representatives the same early in the session.
In Cucaco on January 20 a counterfeit scheme using gold plated twenty five cent coins has begun. The altered pieces resemble ten dollar gold coins and are being passed to shopkeepers by careless recipients.
Clinton I. Dison, a private at Fort Niobrara, was convicted of the murder of Corporal John R. Carter and sentenced by Judge Dundy to be hanged April 2. Dixon, Pennsylvania, was cited as his home in the report.
Beanin dan vO A describes Bishen, a convict confined in Posen prison, killing a warden with an iron bar from a bedstead, then donning the warden’s clothes, seizing keys, and escaping. Col Melville McKee of Chicago, injured in the Monon wreck, died at 7 Tuesday morning, a Chicago board of trade member.
A New York report notes the Revision Committee of the General Assembly debated infant damnation, adopting substitutes that include infants and others not guilty of actual transgression in receiving grace. The discussion also shaped changes to sections across chapters 18 and 4, concluding with a broader statement on God’s will and mercy toward the wicked.
Washington Jan. 19 The president begins work on his congressional message after reviewing all Baltimore affair testimony. He plans to ask Congress to empower an ultimatum to Chile and warns that no immediate apology may trigger a war declaration. The process includes deciding between full testimony or a detailed abstract to inform the public.
Washington January 19. Joseph C Taylor introduces a joint resolution to amend the constitution. It would move the start and end dates of congressional terms from March 4 to April 10 for representatives and senators and from March 4 to April 5 for the president and vice president.
A blast at Phoenix powder mills in Kellogg West Virginia on Monday killed five workers and injured two more, with concussion felt ten miles away and the mill itself wrecked. Other items note Missouri recruiting plans and a land grant bill for Civil War veterans.
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