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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1887
Page
4
Diary recounts December 23 1864 execution of Dixon a deserter from First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. Describes trial suspense and formal firing party ritual with coffin procession, blindfold refusal, and forced kneeling, marking a solemn Potomac Army event.
The account recounts a sailor known as Lee from New York who feigned an illness to escape naval service. Tests failed to reveal his deception until after Key West, leading to his discharge six months later. He later confessed he feigned incursions to avoid service and avoid desertion.
Thomas Broxton of St Simon's Mills Georgia reports a remarkable case where a heifer that has never calved treats a neighbor's large dog as its calf. The animal displays strong maternal anxiety and distress when separated from the dog, illustrating unusual cross species attachment.
Six citizens of Portsmouth New Mexico assert their participation in the engagement at Hampton Roads where they say they played havoc with Union forces. The claims, if verified, would shine a light on a contested Confederate coastal action and the individuals involved.
A Civil War reminiscence recalls a battery at the North Anna river where a support soldier died from a leg shell fragment, a rifleman was torn open by a solid shot, and a Union picket was killed after a head wound. The passage describes wounded soldiers judging their fate, bracing for death, and the grim toll of battle.
Joseph Niners, an oil refinery worker at Negley’s Run Pennsylvania, was struck by a flying rivet head. It tore his cheek and blood flowed as a physician failed to locate the object until a lump on his back, between the shoulder blades, was opened and the rivet head removed. The iron traveled along neck muscles for about a foot.
A claim notes that all modern high explosives are now almost universally exploded by the agency of pleodolty, suggesting a central controlling body or method. The statement implies standardization across explosive use and a single authority overseeing detonation.
Miss Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, heiress to a vast New York estate, dies of diabetes at 60. She left about 20 million in wealth, much of it real estate, and funded charities and art. Her will funds included hospital and church-related buildings and the Newsboys Lodging House. Funeral set for Grace Church with Bishop Potter possibly presiding.
Ohio State Board of Health reports from 76 observers across 50 counties show prevailing diseases for the week ending Friday noon April 1, Iss7. The table includes figures for the previous week based on 71 observers, with last two columns showing prior values.
The Sioux City report details defense testimony in the Arensdorf murder trial. Witnesses claim the alleged killer was not at the scene and was seen two blocks away. A Norfolk witness described a heavyset man in a rubber coat who ran toward Water Street after the shot. The piece also recounts a Beecher anecdote and various advertisements and notes from the Brooklyn Eagle.
Post office officials in Cincinnati report finding torn postal notes, checks, and drafts along Pike Street on the route from the depot to the post office. Among the items are envelopes with Buffalo N Y postmarks and a mutilated check to M A Dauphin of New Orleans. Investigation continues awaiting tangible leads.
In Cincinnati on April 6 the carpenters strike shows no serious threat. Mutual goodwill prevails, with workers easing demands to twenty eight cents per hour for nine hours on weekdays and for Saturday, and accepting nine hours on Saturday as well. Fifty nine employers have agreed and about 700 workers resumed work, signaling a quick end to the stoppage.
A wealthy city family member and a companion had their photos taken in a Thomasville bar room while an Avisodes display offered extra copies. After one man seized a negative at the photographer’s gallery and was convicted of malicious mischief, the photographer’s arrest followed.
A fragment argues that speaking people outlive others while the talked-to perish early, citing statistics that clergy average sixty seven years against thirty two for a day laborer, attributed to a misquoted name.
A Boston Traveler account describes a stop at Bermuda’s Devil Cave a gloomy site bordered by a stone wall. Inside a steep descent leads to clear water where fierce fish snap at bread while angel fish in blue hues tempt curiosity. A dow fell in and was promptly devoured by the feeding fish.
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