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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1884
Page
1
A collage of disparate items including property values in Paria, a 30-year-old editor in London, a controversial bill in Macsathu nette, and various 19th century trivia. The text covers housing, industry, agriculture, crime, marriages, and miscellaneous anecdotes with numerous spelling errors and invented place names.
The Senate approved a bill to authorize a $25,000 reward from the Secretary of the Navy for discovery or accurate ascertainment of the Greely expedition's fate. Provisions limit liability beyond the reward and bar pressuring unprepared vessels into peril, with Hoar's proviso making Navy Secretary's decision final.
A Senate joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to extend suffrage to women was favorably reported by the Committee on Woman Suffrage led by Senator Palmar. The measure asks state legislatures to ratify an amendment granting universal voting rights and empowers Congress to enforce the provisions by appropriate legislation.
W. C. Pouler shot and instantly killed John Rutherford nine and a half miles from this place after Rutherford and associates were engaged in rocking Bouler. Bouler fired into the crowd and fled. no arrest reported.
The piece recalls the Guiteauense verdict when the prisoner yelled a prophecy against prosecutors and jurors. It notes associates turning to drink, jurors and experts suffering misfortune, and reports J W Tilden the chemist who found the bognet point in Mrs Scoville’s letter has gone crazy and entered a government asylum.
A Yonker paper jokes that kissing is aroused by electric current through nerves lips and teeth. A Pock’s Sup writer quips that kissing would be cheap, require no machine, and resemble a central office with a kissaphone, mocking Edison era tech costs.
A farmhouse near Clarksville Maryland burned after a morning blaze. John Burgess his wife and five children were inside along with William Groony a colored man and his wife. Groom awakened the household but died attempting to rescue the children. Burgess daughter Cirtech aged eight or nine perished as walls collapsed, one boy died in the ruins. The cause of the fire remains unknown.
March 28 reports remote executions including Fran dike Perres for the murder of Willian and Jacob Witwer in Cal, and William BR. McDonald for Maggie O'Brien’s murder on January 30, 1883. Also hanged at noon were C W Bample Dan Dowd Willan Delane and Dan Kelly for the Bish ee murders in state C. A Sumter dispatch notes Joe Howard colored hanged for the murder of Simon Geskins in March 1888.
An obituary note from Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia honors the late Anos Walter a devoted member and Freemason. It recalls his Christian life and family devotion, and announces lodge resolutions in his memory with a 30 day mourning period and publication request to the local newspaper.
A micrographic exam of a piece from Mrs Mary Sehulters’ leg, who died with trichinosis symptoms in Westmoreland County last week, shows parasites at all development stages. Livhwig Schulters and the Galle family, six in number, who ate pork at the same time, are in precarious condition and likely to die. The husband is in a semi coma, unable to swallow solids, and unable to open his mouth or move his arm.
The belief grows that Charles H. Rugg, indicted in Long Island City for the Maybee murders, killed Rose Ambler in Stamford Conn. She died in the same manner as the Maybee women and Rugg is said to have frequently visited Stamford though he denies involvement. Detectives pursue the theory.
In Norfolk March 28 the Mahone investigation agents circulated the idea among negroes that dynamite should accompany ballots. A Mahone meeting produced an impassioned speech urging loyalty to Mahone, ending with the line that ballots should be reinforced with dynamite. Tensions rise between black and white factions as the speech sparks uproar.
A Vallejo Times article recalls a Friday morning scene where a rooster got its head caught on a spur while attempting to fly, as three roosters strained to free it amid twenty hens quietly feeding. The incident is described with humorous, romantic flair, likening the scene to famed gallantry and predator humor.
A sharp looking passenger on a Detroit bound train swindles a traveler by offering a fake four dollar fare and a secured watch. The man with the counterfeit bill tests the watch then pays twenty dollars, and the deal collapses as the watch proves fake. Both involved belonged to the "Profosh."
A well informed Boston girl speaks with icy tone as she rebukes a companion for staying away, notices a friend named Tom in the foyer, and turns her attention to the stage amid the evening’s performance.
A fragmented Civil War era dialogue shows a private from an Ohio regiment seeking an interview with his Captain to report a proposed military campaign aimed at undermining Pope and Bob Lee. The exchange reveals miscommunication, mockery of plans, and a grim quip about waiting for others to act before the buckeye regiment proceeds.
The passage depicts confusion over money and a bank building plan. Queries about a 47,000 sum at the Paves Bank on Saturday night appear amid genannted chatter. The dialogue hints at motives and possible candidacy, with debate over who may be a candidate and what moves lie ahead.
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