23 Feb 1888
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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1888
Page
1
A hunting party camps in the Big Horn range are attacked by a grizzly. Four men killed and two bear dogs mauled as Sagebrush flees into the pines. The survivors recount a moonlit chase, with Sagebrush rescued after warning others to take cover and climb to trees.
In moonlit pines near Fort Custer the Englishman and Hank fend off seven grizzlies. Winchesters bark as bears clash, flee, and fall wounded, while Sagebrush helps subdue the pack from a tree. Dawn finds the survivors scattered and the explorers safe in the branches.
The article argues for ample clean wash-cloths in every home and offers practical steps. It recommends Turkish toweling split into twelve cloths per yard, bound with red work cotton for a pretty finish. It emphasizes teaching boys to use and care for wash-cloths and keeping used cloths in the weekly wash.
A cyclone struck Mt Vernon Indiana at 4 35 pm wrecking half the town and causing massive fires. Engineer Cummings of the L N railroad was killed and at least forty eight bodies were recovered with around 250 injured. Relief trains were sent from Evansville and St Louis as the town and surrounding area faced extensive destruction.
In the Osage hills a mixed cavalry troop endures its first battle on a July afternoon. The clash reveals raw fear and moral courage as men fight, flee, and one brother kills another. the survivors reflect on fear, shame, and bravery in combat.
Pottsville Feb 20 Large miner gatherings report no break in railroad ranks despite talks of a Reading railroad employes convention. Eighteen local assemblies refuse to resume under the Lewis settlement while some engineers and freight hands threaten to refuse Reading traffic. Shenandoah and Mahanoy City workers resume. others stay out amid deep divisions between Amalgamated and Knights of Labor miners over resumption terms.
Paupart, a Cotton Exchange employee and treasurer's access, robbed the office of $20,600 with help from George Puser. They pledged securities and used the funds for gambling, then fled to New Mexico and Mexico after faking illness. A letter to the treasurer disclosed the theft and substitution of papers.
Cr Arleston February 20 report says Hon F W Dawson of the News and Courier did not sue Mr Dana of the New York Sun. He states no suit has been entered and none is planned.
Halifax on February 20 reports Billy Maloney clerk of the New York doodle Aldermanic Board sailed aboard the steamer Vancouver to Liverpool.
A Boston correspondent describes a humorous scene where Mr B attempts to introduce his friend Mr C to Miss A who is not Miss A. The piece notes a New Jersey deer hunting law that fines the killer and rewards the informer, with an evasion scheme where two hunters frame each other to split fines.
A regimental historian describes the tedious and dangerous process of digging intrenchments under fire. Soldiers crawl close to the lines, dig with spades, and form protective pits while sharpshooters harass them. The effort lasts hours, with relief by night after shared exhaustion and constant danger.
A Sixty-Third veteran, in Dalton campaign service, visits a rear hospital. He jokes with the surgeon about his injuries and mentions marching nearly thirty miles. He recalls a bomb shell passing over their company, illustrating wartime ordeals with a touch of levity.
The monument at Gettysburg for the Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers will be a tall shaft on a base bearing the state coat of arms and a clover leaf badge of the Second Army Corps. Nathan Day of Atlanta recalls wartime service with the Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania Regiment and a rare speech loss recovery story after a bumble-bees nest incident.
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