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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1895
Page
7
A town berates Hefley livery stables and a furniture emporium while praising Simmons Liver Regulator as the king of liver medicines. The nostrum is touted as a prevention and cure for malaria rheumatism chills fever constipation biliousness sick headache indigestion and liver ills.
Hefley and Hefley promote sales of Davis and White sewing machines on easy terms with part payment this fall. A Grand Deep Water Celebration is planned for August 10 to 12 at Rockport and Corpus Christi with a Grand Regatta, prizes of 300, 175, and 125, plus fish Chowden and sailing tube racing. Tickets from SA & APERKSSON, agent. They also advertise Fish Bro wagons and stock of buggies carriages and surries at low prices.
Reports from Formosa describe a clash where Japanese cavalry were overpowered by Chinese forces with only three escapees. Also noted are a knife attack in Sofia injuring Ms Stambulof, a German state lottery fraud order, a lynching in South Carolina, and a 68 day fast death in Kansas aged 72. Other items include Loyal American convention growth and Cuba artillery reinforcements, plus an arbitration hint between France and Brazil with Brazil’s Dr Blanco going to Geneva.
An 1895 era page lists C McBride attorney soliciting Milam County planters to weigh cotton while presenting estray notice details for a bay horse taken up by J L Reese before JP Ed English in M C Texas. Also promotes Hetty Hefley stock, a barber reference, and a medical testimonial from Lippman Bros Savannah and a Buffalo NY medical ad for P P P effectiveness.
An old liver remedy claim extols Simmons Liver Regulator as superior to pills. It asserts quick relief without side effects, describes it as natural and dependable, and urges readers to obtain the product from J. H. Zeilin & Co. of Philadelphia, with Red Z on the wrapper.
Pennsylvania operator Harry Bowden was killed by tramps in Bucyrus Indiana. His body lay on the tracks and was struck by an engine decapitation followed. Police suspect robbery as motive after Bowden received his monthly pay hours earlier. A separate dispatch reports a posse pursuing an outlaw leader west of Waukomis Oklahoma, capturing five horses saddles and three rifles but failing to seize the fugitives who compelled two women to walk ahead toward the timber.
A Havana dispatch reports Cuban rebels seized Andalusia on the 14th, killing Mayor Vigo, burning the town hall, and carrying off archives. Insurgents claim some prisoners were shot and say Santiago de Cuba doctors have joined Maceo.
A Santiago special says the liberal party unity ends the cabinet crisis as Balmaceda allies promise support. Currency conversion nears completion with $20,000,000 in reserve. Also reported is the lynching of Andrew Thompson in Mississippi after a brutal assault, and local discovery of three skeletons on a Oklahoma farm believed to be emigrants murdered years ago.
A San Francisco group received a Portland proposal seeking established rates for canned and pickled horse meat in carload lots between Portland and all U S cities. The same filing asked new live horse rate terms from Arizona common points to Oregon.
A stir runs through Pythian circles in Galesburg as College City Lodge, the city’s strongest unit with many Catholic members, resists leaving the order. A knight who met Mgr Satolli in Washington notes a movement to seek papal rehearing and revoke the decree.
Wm Hosea Ballou vice president of the American Humane Society will move to halt the Atlanta Exposition bull fight. He served notice on management demanding prompt denials from authorities or he will pursue legal action or seek arrests of involved parties. Nearby a 1 year old in Clearwater Kansas died from a medicine overdose after a patient father offered a penny per dose. Jessie Robinson of Indianapolis plans a 4000 mile bicycle run from Chicago to Mexico City in August to arrive by September. Four masked men assaulted John Milbin and wife near Ashland Ohio, binding, gagging and torturing them for $13 believed to be in the house. the robbers fled before identity could be established.
Reports list yellow fever and dysentery killing many Spanish soldiers in Cuba while Cuba campaigns burn with disorder. The piece notes lynching in Mississippi, strikes in Panama, a San Francisco murder trial, and other violent or unsettled incidents across the United States and overseas.
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