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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1889
Page
2
Greene county Democrats advance plans for a December primary nominating convention with polling from 8 to 4, each candidate paying one dollar for printing and nominees two dollars for poll books. The piece defends Trustee Bogard and criticizes a Democratic paper count while urging fiscal restraint and schoolhouse needs.
Eye witness recounts Mount Auburn incline disaster on October 15 as car 21 failed to stop at the top, breaking loose and crashing down to Main Street. Dozens injured, six killed, officers assemble wagons and morgue receives corpses. The Mount Auburn electric line. Goebel, the cabman, fails to stop the vehicle.
Very little was accomplished at the Socialist National convention in Cariaco Illinois. The New York faction quarrel dominated the day as Rosenberg Bushe and other deposed executives were reprimanded. Delegates passed a resolution endorsing Paris congress actions and committees on platform constitution and resolutions worked toward reports.
A workman named James Mu Haskey at the American smelter in Leapvinner Colorado fell into a pot of burning slag after slipping on the pot edge. He burned from waist to knee and to his arms hands and head. rescuers fear he may not survive.
A collage of incidents from Indiana and Illinois includes crimes, accidents, fires, and labor unrest. Notable items: a man burned to death during a fire in Pyra He. a cross-section of violent acts and arrests in Brazil and Knightsville. a gas well near Diamond with rising water and 490 psi. a wreck on Vandalia line near Terre Haute injuring engineer Miller. coal miners strike in Brazil entering its sixth month with calls for arbitration. and court actions including fines for Wells for theft and arson.
An early Wednesday explosion at Bentilee colliery in Lois ton Stiffennshire trapped seven men, eleven survived, and the pit lay wrecked. A large search party cleared debris as fifty bodies were recovered and workers fought to reach the victims.
In Ottawa Ohio on Oct 16 thieves entered LB Carmalan’s store room at Dupont county. They cracked the safe taking about 2000 in cash belonging to treasurer Mr Carmalan. They set the building afire destroying the structure and contents, plus Lee Marriott druggist and Willian Biddleman furniture dealer properties. Loss around 12000 with 6600 insured. No crew recovered.
Fire at The Tabernacles Brooklyn rages through the church and adjoining dwellings causing extensive damage. No loss of life reported as crews fight the blaze and salvage property. Insurance valued around 129000 amid plans to rebuild with community appeal for funds.
Tonry Waters claims to have resolved a twenty year dispute over Washington lineage. He traces the American Washington line to John Washington and his brother Lawrence, who moved from England to Virginia around 1657. Lawrence, son of Lawrence Washington of Sulgrave, Oxfordshire, reportedly studied at Brasenose College and served as rector of Purletel before being ejected as a royalist. He died in Tring, Hartfordshire, leaving a widow Amphalis and children in the 1600s.
Gustave Lindenthal, famed Pittsburg bridgebuilder, outlines a Hudson crossing with a 2850 foot main span and two 2500 plus foot side spans. The 140 foot roadway sits above high water, supported by four main cables containing 15060 steel wires each. Total length exceeds 7000 feet with six railroad tracks and ten centering Jersey City lines. Estimated cost 30 million dollars and a 10 million dollar federal appropriation is planned.
Maj George W Steele and his wife Mrs Steele were injured when a wagon wheel broke and the front of the carriage pressed on the horses in Mantox Indiana. He suffered a broken left arm just below the shoulder while she sustained a broken left elbow along with cuts bruises and internal injuries. Both are reported in favorable condition.
Brooklyn wins the pennant after the St Louis Browns are eliminated from title contention with a loss to Cincinnati. The World Series between New York and Brooklyn likely to begin Saturday. The season closes with Brooklyn ahead atop the standings. Axtell the great trotter sold for 2105 000 to Col Conley of Chicago, likely on behalf of a syndicate.
A vast railroad consolidation plan surfaces aiming to unite the Gould and Huntington systems with the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and select Kansas City Chicago lines. It would give west of the Missouri a direct Chicago outlet. Key players include Drexel Morgan Kidd er Peabody Brown Brothers and Crowell with Milwaukee and St Paul Denver and Rio Grande as principal assets. Market notes list October 16 prices across wheat cattle hogs and other staples from Cincinnati and Chicago.
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