Two Indiana localities in sheriff hands and accidents toll
A lengthy rural dispatch covers sheriff stakes in two Peru printing houses, deaths from a tree fall near Martinsville, a lightning strike on Wm Hackathorn, and multiple local incidents including burglaries, overdoses, and a killed robber. It also notes Pope County editor pursuit, a French Dutch sermon tale, and various letters and anecdotes from Philadelphia to Kokomo.
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Peru
Attica
Flowers
John Kinney
Richmond
Morton
Navy
Thompson
Terre Haute
Wm. Hackathorn
Steuben County
Thomas Butler
Martinsville
West-Lebanon
Millersburg
Goshen
McLaughlin
Carrie Falkenstein
Kokomo
Bolan
Rush County
The Influence of Thiefs in France
A long excerpt discusses journalism during the French Republics, noting Thiers and McMahon, then shifts to a curious Ohio child Grace Gilbert, praised as a living curiosity. The piece continues with anecdotes of Niagara Falls onlookers and a funeral merchandise advertise, ending with undertaker Mr John Bradford's services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
New York World
Europe
Marshal McMahon
Thiers
Paris
Grace Gilbert
Barnum
Steuben Republican
John Bradford
Gc. Carruthers
Docks and basins of Liverpool and election notes
The passage notes Liverpool docks covering over two hundred acres and recounts California election results with Democrats and Republicans winning 10 senators each and 10 assemblymen for the former plus 23 for the latter, predicting a 28 vote majority on joint ballot. It also includes a bird’s eye view of a Russian war correspondent and a Burlington Hawkeye quip about proposals and hatchet violence, plus a Prospect Mountain moss pond near Addison described as a floating island with safe moss matting spreading over three quarters of an acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
San Francisco
Prospect Mountain
Addison
Foot Race Offers Meant to Impregnate Peaches With Ipecac
A bizarre and dangerous proposal involves giving boys ipecac soaked peaches before a race around the block. Officials caution against such harmful acts, urging protection of children and prompt reporting of any attempt to distribute unsafe items.
Deathbed Wisdom From a Doctor on Happiness at Death
Deacon Rathiel asks his family physician which dying people are happiest. The old doctor replies that among those he has observed, the happiest deaths occur for those who are hanged, citing extended experience at deathbeds and numerous cases observed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayfield
Democrat
Ballard County
Rialto
Deacon Rathiel
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ULLAL
Ues
Doram
Indianatems
Peter Cartwright
Lee
Philadelphia
Louvre
le Petit Saint Thomas
Gath
Ascalon
Beau
Tubal-Cain
The
Congregationalist
Andover Theological
Brigham Young
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roscoe Conkiine
New York
America
Long Island
Brooklyn
Hempstead
Spain
Asia
Buffalo
Quincy
Chicago
Indianapolis
New York State
Republic
Alleghanies
West
Clint
Niagara Falls
Goat Island
Wileeling, W. V
1810
Columbus
EO. Carruthers
Grocer
Harry Rockafield
May's
Armstrong & CO
South Meridian Street
Vbuidti
Indianapolis, Ind. Hi
Lowell Flour and Hawpatch Hominy Mills
Owell Mills
Lowell
Caff & Thomas
H. Daily
J. F. Wright
Chas. McCalla
Too. Dahn
Thos. May
Robert Hendricks
Joseph Mounts
Chas, Kisling
D. Stein
Samuel Gaddis
William Gaddis
James A. Smith
Indiana
Horee Kitzinger
East Side
Washington St
Columbus, Ind
Washington Street
Crump
Claney House
Nashville
Brown County
Court House
Evgene CuLiy
Schwartzkopf & Habig, Proprietors
Columbus, MD
Cincinnati
MOAL
Gane Company
Pittsburg
Vogel
Trade Palace
J. I Johnson
Cloces
F. Donner
CFO
P. Emig & CO
B Greenwood
Liverpool
Burlington
Hawkeye
Burlington Free Press
Crab Orchard Springs
Kentucky
Crab Orchard Aprines Company
Pax Smith
Walnut Street
Washington
Jackson Streets
Ind
Dan Smith
Pathic
Mount Sinai
Briety
Liberty Street
J. B. Gaylord & Co
Calia & Co
FOR
Frank Wilt
Frank
OLD McEwen
Chandlers Taylor Itenteve and Manufacturers
Iis
Ina
Censtantey
Bain
Dr. Wright
Harper's and Scribner’s Monkhifes
Leslie’s, Gody’s and
Peterson’s Magazines
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