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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1887
Page
4
A New Orleans correspondent notes Creole influence permeates Louisiana life, from social customs to Mardi Gras festivities. Creoles shaped regional speech, festivals, and even grave decoration practices, with French code lingering in law and government amid widespread English adoption.
In Worda Dahomey the Temple of Serpents houses over 1000 serpents tended by priests. Serpents are fed with offerings from locals and some giants may hang from beams while others coil to suffocate prey. Killing a serpent intentionally carries death. Europeans are spared only by the king. Unintentional harm requires priestly purification annually.
Steamer reports attempted assassination of Premier Baker of Tonga by Wesleyan converts. Arrests, trials, and executions followed at Suva with British officials unable to intervene. Wesleyan missionaries faced mob violence. many natives brutalized. Tonga’s history notes Cook’s visit, missionary influence, and the spread of Christianity across 182 islands with three main missions and a central king.
A Springfield rumor recounts a 22 year secret exhumation and reburial of Abraham Lincoln and Mrs. Lincoln. The remains were moved from a north monument vault to a hidden grave beneath the obelisk base guarded by the Lincoln Guards of Honor and Lincoln Monument Association.
A dispatch reports fifteen people burned to death as prairie fires, driven by high winds, race across Nicodemus Graham County to Norton County. Thousands of stock, hay, corn and buildings destroyed across a sixty mile belt and more fires threaten additional areas in Dakota.
News notes report diverse topics from labor to fires and legal events. A new independent union in New England aims to settle disputes by arbitration. Other items include fires in New York and Maryland, hangings in St Louis and Nashville, and political shifts in Michigan.
Six men die and seven are injured in a premature blast at a railroad camp near Buena Vista Colorado as a 60 foot cut was blown. A 20 foot pole into the blast area released twenty kegs of powder. Foreman leading the charge had fitted ten kegs when the charge exploded, flinging rock into the trench. Names include Timothy Sullivan William Conway W. S. Corpera William O'Neil William Kopps and one firm employee Bernard among the wounded.
The survey highlights young performers and contracts. Mia to England prepares for a season on stage. Louis Aldrich ends PartNew in spring. Clara Louise Kellogg plans a New York State tour. Ripley Woolfetter touted as memorizing 400000 verses. Princess Beatrice composes and publishes music. Muss Marzel Engel debuts in London. Gayarne signs to sing 50 operatic appearances for 70000. Mrs. Lawlor closes season in San Francisco then summer in New York. Theatre attendance estimates and deadheads cited. E Wilhelm gains recall in Vienna. Miss Decca debuts in Manchester as Feline. A London magazine critiques English and American stage comedy. Enwanp Hanlon tours Europe before returning to America next August. A Clermont County, Ohio man bets a pot-wearing record for months.
A London warning allegedly foiled an assassination aimed at the Russian royal couple on March 13. Conspirators were arrested after a staged sleigh incident. a factory and explosives were uncovered. Sophie Labkowska, tied to the case, killed herself in grief after the affair.
A powerful afternoon tornado devastated areas from St. Clairsville Ohio to Martin's Ferry and across the river in Bridgeport. Buildings including the First National Bank block and United Presbyterian Church were damaged or destroyed. Losses in St Clairsville and nearby towns exceed one million dollars with numerous injuries and several fatalities reported alongside emergency relief efforts.
Two men claim an 1865 Indian buried iron pot near Fort Worth holding $1,000 in gold. A farmer and worker later uncover 252 twenty dollar pieces totaling $5,010 in a field, triggering widespread digging. Local resident Bowley suspects more gold and posts his farm warning trespass.
An elderly Cherokee Nation member, aged around one hundred, travels from his farm to Tahlequah several times weekly, walking miles there and back and returning in good health with few signs of aging despite recent dental changes.
Reports describe a blast on the schooner George killing Mato-Nuta and another seaman, with a third badly burned. The remaining crew fled by yawl and were rescued by a passing steamship bound for New York.
A construction train on the Ohio River Railroad near Willow Grove WV derailed, tumbling ten cars down a slope. Many workers suffered severe injuries including severed limbs and head wounds. The Valley Belle transported twenty crew members to Ravenwood. a few were moved to a nearby farmhouse. The crash was blamed on the engineer’s recklessness.
A collage of 19th century items spans weight loss via Indian clubs, a mad wolf attack victim, Senator Reagan of Texas backing liquor prohibition, Prince Agaxander’s U S visit, Attorney General Garland abstention, David Hostetter noted as paddler and wealth, Mrs. Hexpnicks denying a husband biography, Henry Mason-Governor to speak at New Haven Soldiers Monument dedication, Count Vox Moerke as the Reichstag elder, Prof Richard A Proctor to Germany for an August eclipse, Gen Greevy’s Signal Service burdens, Aupack F Wanken of the ICC at six feet two and 250 pounds, the President and Mrs Cleveland inaugurating city walks near the Washington Monument, Miss N B Cusamycs Librarian and Pennsylvanian justice kin and oak authorities.
A jumble of short items reports bonds in Los Angeles area finances, hotels planned in the county, opium smokers forced to clean streets in Carson, a fast torpedo boat at twenty four knots, and a New York morgue average of five thousand bodies yearly. Montana’s first white child born died aged twenty. A Livermore vineyard owner keeps pests in check with thirty four cats. An Omaha divorce suit for eleven year old Lucy Wictraus cites cruelty. Piute Indians name children after whites hoping interest will follow. The Sultan of Morocco punishes a smoker by severing lips. A bald eagle near Santa Rosa measured seventy eight inches with seven and a quarter inch talons. France’s oldest mayor Jean Froimaux dies at ninety two after fifty one years in office.
Alver Mitchell president of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad Company dies of pneumonia at the Hoffman House New York after a short illness. He had wintered in Florida with his wife at Villa Alexandri near Jacksonville and traveled north recently in his private car. He left a son John and an adopted daughter, with a fortune estimated up to 25 million dollars. His career built a powerful railroad conglomerate and he previously served in Congress.
Proponents of Roxie Nerve Food tout it as a remedy for liquor habit nervous exhaustion and overwork. They claim the nervous system is life itself controlling body functions and that strong nerves ensure proper nutrition and purification of the blood.
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