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Newspaper
Central Catholic Advocate
Location
Nelson, New Hampshire, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1881
Page
5
A noted religious woman who founded convents from 1842 to 1858 across Canada the United States and Pennsylvania died at Manhattanville after a life of devotion. She was famed for music sewing and making artificial flowers for the altar and remained active up to her final Mass despite deafness.
Travelers agent Geo Bridges visits Loogootee Montgomery and Washington Indiana seeking reader assistance. Local notices include church event at St Louis Bertrand, a funeral in Cathedral, court cases on tobacco wars and shooting with intent to kill, and city officials appointments. Also reports deaths switchmen from railway yards, amputations after injuries, a libel suit, a tailoring shop opening, and a Louisville ad for affordable men’s wear at J Winter & Co.
Kentucky items report Capt J B Harris becoming postmaster at Franklin and death of Samuel W Wood in Mayville. Merrill alias Fox sentenced ten years in Paducah U S Court. Moore tried and acquitted for Lincoln county murder at Stanford. A Negro named Sam Phillips injured by a moving train at Mt Vernon. Doss murder trial at Madisonville ends with two years. Levi Lancaster acquitted in Glasgow for 1875 Gant murder. Sallie Carter sentenced nine years in penitentiaries for Rena Fowler killing at Cynthiana.
Various Kentucky items from Wolfe to Bath counties cover court actions taxes railroads and fires. Notable mentions include a Democratic convention nomination in Shelby County, Frank Sutton challenging Dayton tax listing, an area wheat crop failure in Clark County, a Danville fire destroying a Kimberlin home, Fannie McGreary suing Ohio Packet Company, disappearance of $14000 in bonds at Fayette National Bank, a May sville mill accident, a stabbing aboard a steamer at Paducah, livestock starvation in Bath County, Covington’s Widows and Orphans Home donation plan, a Larue barn fire, vs Paris Glasgow and Princeton elections, and county tax disputes over railroad and streetcar ventures. County races for mayor councilmen noted with mixed outcomes.
INDIANA Republican leaders of New Alban hold a mass convention to nominate a city ticket on Saturday afternoon. The Senate approved a bill allowing the L N RR to build a bridge over the Ohio River at Evansville. Fireman George Smith of the L N depot yard in Evansville was killed when run over while uncoupling cars Thursday night. Robert Duncan seeks a change of venue for his case against Peter Piers in Jeffersonville. Eliza Hilton, a fourteen year old colored girl, fell from a switch engine at the C M yards in Jeffersonville Thursday after leaping off.
The report details rapid evictions in Ballina with over 100 police aiding the sub-sheriff as thirteen families are displaced. Many tenants lack food, few are allowed to return, while rent disputes continue across estates including Guy Lloyd and Colonel King Harman, with nearly 1,090 rental processes to be heard.
A London issued report lists 170 agrarian outrages across Ireland for February 1881. Totals by county show varied activity with Kerry leading at 30 incidents and Galway West Riding at 25, plus counts for murder, arson, assaults, extortion, and other offenses across regions.
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