06 Sep 1888
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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1888
Page
1
A garbled OCR fragment shows scattered time stamps such as 9 45 0 a.m. 7 05 7 52 and references morning and afternoon periods. The readable text offers no clear events, names, or locations to establish a fuller item.
Elizabeth Fontaine known as Lizzie is at Cranville with Anabel Gray and Lewis Frost. Ailing Grandmother Mrs. Frost reads a letter from Lewis promising to join her and, if wealth remains, to give it to an old age home. Anabel learns Lewis returns with tender plan for marriage and grandmother’s blessing.
Los Angeles Cor. N. O. Times recounts a visit to an ostrich farm with twenty adult birds, fierce keepers, and dramatic hatching. The article notes eight hundred dollar pair values, alfalfa diet, and a mother ostrich sheltering a newly hatched chick under her plumage, amid humorous misadventures.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee endorsed a Wilson Retaliatory bill substitute. It authorizes the president to suspend transportation of bonded goods from foreign countries via U S territory when needed to protect U S interests. It sets tolls on canals and allows customs to collect them or prohibit canal use until discrimination ceases.
English slot machines have advanced to the point of offering a chew of tobacco to anyone who drops in a penny, a novel perk in gambling devices.
A month long outbreak in Campwelll Ohio shows a typhoid like illness hitting nearly every family. Victims linger six to seven days with twenty five deaths so far. Outsiders avoid town due to fear of contagion. analysts suspect contaminated water and lack of drainage. Local merchants fear financial ruin as population declines.
Willard H. Moore, posing as a consulting chemist in Westfield New Jersey, was arrested in New York on charges of mail fraud. He sold fake analyses for ten dollars and up, lacked a real laboratory, and collected fees for favorable reports. He claimed ignorance of any law violations and was held on two thousand dollars bail.
In Montreal August 31 K Harris ran a Quebec clothing store with a woman posing as his wife. She confessed after two days in jail, admitting to luring wholesale buyers to extend credit for Harris. They planned to flee to New York after amassing funds. Implicated are a rabbi, a Superior Court judge, two financiers and two merchants.
The Journal challenges witnesses to oath and specifics for claimed statements that General Harrison advised force against strikers and set a dollar a day as the pay. The Aug 31 piece notes a reward claim and urges original statements with time place and circumstances.
In Howena Michigan on August 31 Mrs H M Dubois of Oak Grove is jailed on arson charges. Her husband says he found coal oil scattered over the house after lighting a lamp and fleeing with their children. An insurance agent’s involvement is suspected as both house and Mr Dubois life were insured.
A devastating blaze at No 109 Sharp Street and surrounding Pratt Street structures in Baltimore destroys seven four story front buildings and injures firemen. Nine are killed including seven from No 2 Truels and No 7 Engine. Losses exceed 1 million with insured amounts around 500 thousand. Fire raged from dawn until about eleven, with explosions from nearby firms and ongoing ruin clearance into night.
A Buckeye Pipe Line tank ruptured near Oil Center Ohio on a September dawn. Three men James P. East Charles Grace and Rendant Bransom perished as the oil caught fire and engulfed workers. Dozens toiled to seal the tank and rescue crews, but flames and smoke hindered efforts. The victims were formerly Bradford residents.
A fragment from the Chicago Tribune features dialogue about an engagement offer and a cautious parental reply. The menacing business tone is contrasted with a mother’s remembered faults, noting a large family play in the sand and local sentiment.
A boy offers a humorous charitable explanation for a militia officer unable to ride his horse noting the animal did not fit him. The piece plays with a proverb about a new broom sweeping and a street sweeper's impact on boot polish.
A Cincinnati detective A W Van Antwerp shot lies severely injured after pursuing train robber Frank Kline alias Julius Huston. Kline struck him with a blunt instrument fracturing his skull and escaped. Van Antwerp, previously wounded in Monticello Illinois, is hospitalized in critical condition.
The National Electrical Association convention opened with Prof. Van Der Weyde presenting Alternating and Continuous Currents. A Baltimore member's resolution backed Mayor Hewitt on placing wires underground but noted no practical method for high tension currents. A committee will seek practical underground solutions.
Hot Springs Arkansas reports a severe night flood from Thursday, floodwaters sweeping away homes and streets flooding to four feet in Arlington Ho_use office and nearby shops. Loss estimated at 100000 with multiple deaths including a white woman Charlotte Harrison and two children among others.
In Cleveland Ohio on September 1 the first ruling under the August 19 Sunday closing ordinance found Fred Diebolt a prominent liquor dealer guilty. He faces a heavy fine and county jail time. Other violators’ cases proceed next. Public sentiment against liquor dealers in the city is described as unprecedentedly strong.
In Atlanta on September 1 the tropical fruit trade announces a trust formed in New Orleans by six large fruit houses with $19 million capital to purchase all tropical fruit offerings. London investors advance $6 million to build rail links in Honduras to concentrate shipments at selected ports.
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