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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1894
Page
2
A 25 cent offer touts Hamon's Tonic Liver Pills and Pellets from Brown Mfg. Co. New York as a cure for biliousness and constipation. It argues medicine is not necessary for many ailments and promotes self care with the two boxed remedies.
From Sullivan, The Comet, farmers hesitate about planting corn while asserting wheat and winter oats are damaged but may still yield a fair summer crop. Sullivan County holds more corn, wheat, hay and bacon than in years. debt and money scarcity hinder progress. local politics and deaths cast a gloom as horses are marketed and stores cut prices amid cautious optimism. April 10, 1894.
Jackson Tennessee April 8 J W N Burchett president of the Jackson Banking company reports receiving anonymous threats from a self styled league member and ally of Penderzon. He is asked to comply with demands or face dynamite and death. The note demands 500 dollars and sets a deadline for payment.
Miss Alice Maloney of Warrensburg Teen graduates from the instrumental department after six years of study. She received high praise for a recital in the college chapel and will perform with Minnie Dobson at Washington College next Friday and at Tusculum College on the 14th. Large lumber shipments and carloads of horses and produce are moving from the area as local merchants report improving times. April 9, 1894.
April 8 at Wheeling Cathedral Rev J P Donahue was consecrated bishop of Wheeling in a grand Catholic ceremony led by Cardinal Gibbons. An enormous assembly of archbishops bishops and laity attended with Papal delegate Archbishop Satolli represented by Monsignor Sharetti. Cardinal Gibbons presided from the throne as Archbishops Ireland Williams Ryan and Kain and Bishops Phelan Keane Northrop McDonald Van de Vyver Maes stood in the sanctuary and Charles Park assisted.
A Prosperous dentist Brenizer was found dead in his Ithaca boarding house, with police ruling suicide. A letter to Charles W White claimed innocence regarding recent Cornell banquet chlorine tragedy, asserting no involvement and denouncing false accusations.
A plan aims to stage the Corbett-Jackson bout on the Cattaraugus Indian reservation near Salamanca New York. State law may not apply on the reservation and officials have not commented on jurisdiction. An athletic club in Salamanca has formed and secured funds to build a 10,000 seat arena two miles from town on the reservation.
A Texas journalist, newly back at the helm of a weekly, issues a hard edged self-promotional manifesto filled with bravado and threats to opponents and critics. The note declares commitment to a bold, undaunted paper, promising blunt obituaries, aggressive voices, and unwavering public service through tough standards. The piece foreshadows a volatile start for the revived publication and its relations with rival factions. The report also notes a legal sale schedule for South Carolina’s railroad assets, with Judge Simonton setting a fixed sale date of April 12 after a petition for delay.
The body of poet and humorist Ben King was moved to St. Joseph, Michigan, with Opie Reed, after a hotel supper where a guest mentioned thirteen at the table. King, reportedly excited, refused to sit until another guest arrived and recited his poem If I Should Die Tonight.
Memphis report states a brick three story building at 154 and 156 Beale collapsed at 7 20 this morning. Four persons were killed and five wounded with two more believed trapped. All victims were Black laborers. Built in 1860, the structure was deemed unsafe due to poor materials and persistent water in the cellars.
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