10 Jan 1889
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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1889
Page
1
A fragmented timetable lists westbound trains from Washington to Wheeling with multiple departure and arrival times across morning and evening hours. It shows connections, numbers, and station references, indicating a historical rail schedule snippet.
Readable portions list various times and route designations for westward and northward trains from a Marietta area timetable. Entries include multiple time stamps such as 6 45, 7 18, 9 20 pm and notes on directions and numbered services.
In a Time magazine verse, a narrator recalls a ritual courting scene set among a crowd. He seeks Kate and Gertrude in a playful yet charged memory, describing scents, disguises, and the thrill of a forbidden kiss in a bygone era.
A telescope observer spots two men in a distant wood carrying a heavy trunk then digging a hollow beside a granite boulder. The taller man directs the operation while the other, a laborer, aids and later both depart as a servant approaches with the observer hearing footsteps on the observatory stairs.
A tale of robbery at a riverbank estate leads to a fatal discovery. Mr Hammond and his foreman uncover a buried trunk and a dead man thought to be the gardener, then reveal a hidden brother’s murder and a vanished jewel collection tied to a family mania for valuables.
A Minneapolis Tribune item reports a Yellowstone soldier noting that tourists drop handkerchiefs into Old Faithful, claiming the geyser’s soaplike waters wash them clean. Most knots are expelled during eruptions about every 65 minutes, with some handkerchiefs retained and later ejected.
After a supper following a Japanese wedding in New York a servant in livery brought a two spouted kettle. The bride and groom drank together from each spout while kneeling. The bride lifted her veil and both fathers presented gifts to the newlyweds.
An inmate, Alexander Conly, sick with fever at the Marquette poor-house, crawled to a narrow stream for water after attendants refused more, and drowned when he could not lift himself from the water after drinking.
In Indton and Washington the fortieth congress debates tariff measures and river and harbor bills. Senate actions include resolutions on Haiti, Panama Canal, and foreign relations. House considers pensions, civil service pay rules, Idaho and Arizona admission, and Nicaragua Canal amendments. Adjournments occur around 5 p.m. daily as sessions proceed.
A fragmentary collection of witty exchanges and literary quips from various sources. A Boston dealer questions a shopper about a thermometer while a Picayune note reflects on wartime heroism. A California debating club ponders vacuum chimera and second intentions. A Pittsburgh bookseller defines edition de luxe.
New York reports Henry C. Friend and associates swindled capitalists out of over a million dollars using an alleged electric sugar refining method. Only sugar cubes and a chemical process were produced, while raw sugar was never refined. Mrs. Friend and others disappeared as investigations narrow on accomplices in America and England. London stockholders rush to verify losses as the scheme unravels.
Knight and Union men clash near Seattle and twelve miles away in 1890s Washington Territory. Knights attack Miners' Union. telegraph lines cut. rifle fire erupts on trestle and at coal creek mine. Foreman Duncan Ross injured. three Miners' Union men killed. militia called. latest word says trouble subsiding with one corpse aboard a late train.
Letters from President Cleveland Secretary Bayard and Senators on immigration stir debate. Cleveland notes the subject deserves deep study, Bayard cites propriety in not offering opinion, Morgan endorses Central European immigration with safeguards, Blackburn urges strict Chinese exclusion and questions Italian benefit.
The canal work slows daily and a total suspension is feared. The Colombian government issued a circular to consuls asking for instructions to move foreign citizens from the Isthmus if order collapses. In Cariaco at the Burlington strike talks end. The strike is off and terms kept secret with no blacklisting and rapid reemployment promised.
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