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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1889
Page
2
The DEMOCRAT boasts double the county circulation and invites advertisers to inspect subscription books. All business inquiries go to THE DEMOCRAT, not individuals. Subscription price is $1.50 per year. Entered at Bloomfeld Indiana Post Office as second class matter.
Notice for subscribers explains paid through dates noted with names, urges prompt payment, and states papers will be stopped for overdue or noncounty mailings. It emphasizes advance payment, credit limits, and that bills are due each Saturday night.
The piece questions tariff protection as a benefit for farmers and analyzes its impact on prices and wages. It cites wheat and sugar prices, a school book law, and patronage politics in Missouri while criticizing protectionist logic and calling out purported trusts and corruption. It uses regional voices like Albany Union and Bloomfield to frame the debate.
Pears Palls New York writer argues the infant industries of the past now loaf on taxpayer support while a "good government" needs money. He defends a limited tariff to fund government and warns against compulsory redistribution calling protection a legal robbery like the stamp act.
The passage accuses Thompson of equal status with Chavis over anti Chavis resolutions, questions the grounds for removing Chavis, and claims Republicans intend to force black voters into line while insulting them and relying on their supposed ignorance. The speaker predicts a tense political battle in the black community.
An quake shook Florence Outagamie county Wisconsin on Saturday. The Van Nortwick Rogers paper mill, a stone building, suffered severe damage with cracked walls and shifted machinery. An artesian well 290 feet above the mill stopped flowing after the quake.
A sudden flood of water from an abandoned adjacent mine rushed into the White Ash coal mine near Govey California, trapping ten workers. Rescue teams expect two to three weeks to recover the bodies, with three names already identified as John Murphy John Morgan and Allen.
In Fort Wayne Indiana yesterday Isaiah Slate of Akron entered a barn cage near W H Stewart. A gorilla escaped its cage through an open bar, knocked Slate down, and mauled him ripping whiskers out gouging an eye tearing a nose. Slate is prostrated by the fright as the animal is recaptured for Detroit exhibition.
The News and Courier reviews Charleston South Carolina trade for the year ending Aug 31. Total city business exceeded 376 000 000 with cotton receipts and truck trade down while wholesale and manufactured goods rose. Phosphate trade surpassed prior year by nearly 1 000 000, and agricultural prospects look bright. A separate report from New York notes violent waves at the beach causing beach route disruption and a grand midsummer marine spectacle.
A new rail project, the Cincinnati and Bedford, forms to build a line from the Ohio and Mississippi to the Louisville New Albany and Chicago, led by John H. Barnard of Cincinnati, aiming to open vast territory for the city. Freight train collision near Goshen on Lake Shore line injures no one. two sections damaged, estimated loss $175,000 and service halted.
Hon S S Cox newspaper obituary notes his death in New York from peritonitis after a long career as editor lawyer and legislator. Born in Zanesville Ohio he served 26 years in Congress and was later minister to Turkey. He was famed for wit and humor including a noted piece on Colored Fun. Burial plans were undecided.
A Coffeyville Mississippi dispatch reports violence in Leflore County with seven Black residents killed Monday and Tuesday. George Allen, who burned Ben Jamison's store, was hanged in Grenada. Overall fatalities are estimated at about 100.
A massive blast at a Antwerp cartridge factory near the bourse destroyed the building portion storing dynamite. 126 workers died and many more were wounded as flames spread to the crowded bourse causing panic. King Leopold visited the scene as authorities, aided by troops, fought the fire and cared for the injured. Corvillain, the factory owner, was arrested.
Reports from Carivaco Sept 7 indicate eviction of tenants from company houses may begin while the Spring Valley mines remain closed for six months. Other northern Illinois mines resume or near resuming, but Spring Valley workers receive no wage offer and threaten riot if forced from their homes.
Reports detail a string of rail attacks in the region. Aide f Death GosHEN, a nun from Millersboro, died in a derailment following a fall from a train. The incident marks the third such crash this week as engineers move to remove danger and restore service. Separately a rock-throwing incident near McCulloch crossing injured an Ohio and Mississippi train crew, the fifth attack on trains, with rocks piled on Silves creek bridge as a wrecking attempt.
Corrupt practices and incompetence allegations rock the Pension Bureau as Secretary Noble suspends James Tanner pending a Senate inquiry. Deputy Stith assumes control while the White House weighs removal amid reports of widespread re ratings and improprieties within the office.
Report from Daxven Col indicates eleven miners perished when floodwater burst through a shaft 730 feet deep and flooded a drift 80 feet from the bottom. Rescue work will take weeks. bodies may be inaccessible. The mine near Golden yields 50 to 100 tons daily. Also noted: presidents decline special session and a misadventure tale of elopement and threats in Indiana and Ohio.
A garbled but lively news clump reports injuries from a cannery or factory accident likely requiring amputation, a seduction case with arrest for counterfeiting, a vandal destroyed fence, and large financial losses amid faith in morphine for quinine. It notes typhoid overstatement, a fatal machinery accident in Winchester, a farmer hiding wealth, a death in a Wabash County mill, and Governor St John addressing prohibition in Brazil Indiana with proceeds to miners.
A chestnut tree scene shows a village blacksmith washing with a brimming basin. Ivory Soap makes his hands spotless and even floats on turbid water like a pearl white boat. The blacksmith thanks the benefactor, praising Ivory Soap as the best for hands.
An alert warns readers that many soaps imitate Ivory but lack its qualities. It advises to ask for Ivory Soap and insist on obtaining the real product, noting copyright held by Procter & Gamble in 1836.
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