Job Work and Advertising Notice
The Herald reports a new complete outfit for job work including the latest material styles. The office promises to execute all kinds of job work on the shortest possible notice.
24 May 1883
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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1883
Page
1
The Herald reports a new complete outfit for job work including the latest material styles. The office promises to execute all kinds of job work on the shortest possible notice.
The National Board of Health begins summer operations along the South Atlantic coast with a $100,000 appropriation for epidemic prevention. The President may direct disbursement via the Marine Hospital Service. a decision is expected within six weeks as the new fiscal year starts.
Obituary notes Hiram Smith of Wheatland N Y dies at ninety four. Explosion at Moosic Luzerne County Pa injures a worker and causes damage. Cave in at Allegheny City Pa kills John Smith, injures two. Parrott Varnish Co factory Bridgeport Conn burns, suspected arson. Sherman W Pyatt of Newton Conn sleeps continuously since Christmas. P B Smirh alias E W Follis arrested in Pittsburgh for mail fraud. Steamer Granite State burned off Goodspeed s Landing Connecticut River five missing. Jury acquits Alexander Kier in Freehold N J man slaughter case. Pennsylvania liquor amendment defeated in Senate. Weekly business failures total 171 nationwide. Distribution by region and Canada noted.
A special session of the Choctaw Indian Council met at Armstrong Academy to decide on emancipating and granting citizenship to freedmen per the 1866 treaty with the United States, after years of delay and noncompliance by the Choctaws and Chickasaws. The session was called by principal chief McCarlin.
The Dublin jury found Fitzharris guilty as an accessory after the fact to Cavendish and Burke’s murder and sentenced him to life of penal servitude. Separately, O'Brien Hynes and Slatter were arrested on charges tied to circulated circulars threatening jurors’ goods.
Advices from Illinois report 63 deaths and about 200 injured after a cyclone. Lapeer Michigan sees six burglars seize the city marshal and loot 8000 dollars. EsScanaba snow with cold temps. Kentucky Knights Templar elect Edwin S. Haut as Eminent Grand Commander. Brigham Young’s nineteenth wife Ann Exiza Young marries W R Denning in Manistee. A ninety-two year old man is struck by a locomotive in Columbus. Suicide and hangings follow in Michigan, Indiana and New Hampshire amid crimes and business collapses.
Disaster struck Racine Wisconsin on May 19 as a cyclone ripped through the city and county. At Western Union Junction seven miles west several homes were ruined and a large brick house was destroyed. The storm killed at least twenty five people and injured many, with one hundred homes demolished and vessels feared lost on Lake Michigan. The dead lie in the city as doctors and priests assist the injured and an inquest is planned.
Severe wind and funnel shaped clouds ravage Sangamon and neighboring counties. In Chemung Lawrence Alden and Patrick Kennedy area homes barns are demolished. William McGuirk killed, Kennedy injured, three children hurt. Springfield reports widespread ruin with injuries. Chicago expositions stalls blown down injuring five.
The steamer Granite State burned as it neared Goodspeed's Landing forty one miles below Hartford. Five lives lost including Mrs. C L Maine of New Haven. The ferry saved most aboard. nine horses burned. cargo mainly freight to Hartford. Vessel cost 325000, overhauled to 30000, insured for 40000.
Dispatches from Illinois and Iowa describe extended rains causing much of the newly planted corn to rot in the ground. The reports warn of reduced early yields and potential impact on farmers' plans.
The United States moved 1,100,000 tons of sugar in the previous year, reflecting a large domestic intake and import volume as market demand stayed robust.
The Bishops Conference released a detailed visitation plan for the fall, listing each conference, meeting place, date, and presiding bishop. Notable entries include Alabama Edwardsville and Georgia Atlanta with bishops Edwards and Foss, among many others across the United States and abroad.
A Baltimore Herald report describes Edward Hanson, 33, killing Charles R. White, 60, at the Hanson farm near Ichester Maryland. Hanson fired six shots and stabbed White after White visited the barn seeking him. He declared it the will of God and claimed motives tied to a sister and a kingly dispute before being jailed at Ellicott City.
Texas acting State Treasurer W B Wortham raises a major issue by rejecting a 75000 tender for land tied to railroad certificates and alternate school sections. Despite legislative validity of railroad surveys he will not treat alternate school lands as fifty-cent parcels, prompting new bidders led by Judge Hancock to press the bulk purchase of both land types.
An unidentified man entered Phipps and Lichtenstein's wagon shop on Larrabee street Thursday morning and was fatally injured when a circular saw nearly severed his head. He died almost instantly.
Orgus Dean, a leading Indiana peach grower, predicts a robust harvest this season after favorable growing conditions. He notes projected fruit quality and quantity should support strong market demand for peaches statewide.
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