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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1895
Page
1
The piece surveys diverse topics from Switzerland divorce rates to patents for pneumatic shoves and horzeless carriages. It notes beer and poultry markets, rail demand, and a European thieves league. It also discusses bicycle innovations, patent office standards, and a massive 1891 vs 1892 US corn yield forecast with potential wealth gains exceeding a billion dollars.
A footnote style verse fragment shows whimsical lines about a cat, a Vittie spot, a little heaven bath, and a contented heart. It mentions a little wife, a fife, a song, a sigh, and a reference to Roby with a grave where violets lie.
An English traveler and a New Yorker ride a lost mountain trail in North Carolina. They shelter with Old Man Swansee, whose distillery days and estate shadow his plea to protect his daughter Ad from fortune hunters. After a raid wounds Swansee, the Englishman vows to guard the girl and fulfill the old man’s dying command to secure her future and rightful inheritance.
A fleeing English suitor discovers the woman he sought is Miriam Frances Leo, now bearing a different name after a wartime separation. The scene centers on the hut where old Swansee lies dead as the revelation shocks the Englishman who had pursued Miss Swanlee.
A roundup of varied scientific notes from propulsion and lighting to anatomy and materials. Topics include Chicago electric lines, dyes, herring muscle effects, Armastodon skull finds in Texas, early lighting methods, handwriting ID by pulse, rapid transit protests, air freezing a hand, blind peoples brain cells in hands, slag brick chimneys, and eclipse season eye irritants from ostrich-like creatures.
An amusing industrial anecdote shows a six point picker nesting inside a malleable iron ferrule after tumbling in a barrel. A New England screw wrench maker turned the incident into a puzzle, selling two party lots under contract and earning about $1700 in profit.
A poor woman Dorothes Brakn asked a local pastor to conduct a child’s burial service in Dassow Germany. The pastor did not appear and the woman recited a hymn at the grave. A zealous police officer charged her with violating an ordinance against discourse at an interment. The court found her guilty and fined about one dollar with a day in jail for non payment.
The Sonth American Tea from Paraguay known as yerba mate is widely used as tea in South America. It was recently found that adulteration occurs in its commerce and preparation. The Paraguayan Minister of the Interior has taken severe measures to detect and punish those involved.
A historical note recounts Captain Samuel Brady of Pennsylvania who endured a brutal Indian gauntlet during a Beaver River expedition. Surviving by leaping the hill and evading a large pursing force, he later continued fighting in frontier conflicts along the Ohio frontier. This account cites the Cincinnati Commercial Cinzetts.
A berserk elephant during a Tambramini festival attacker at Alvarthunsgari mauls a child carried on its neck. The mahout saves the child, but the elephant kills the child later and fatally injures the mahout. The enraged animal then attacks the mahout's house, kills a calf, and is finally shot by police.
A rambling local column reports a thrash shark near shore measuring about eight feet drawing crowds to view the creature. It recounts a string of improbable survivals, whale encounters, and a Madagascar spy incident with credibly dull details while noting a Ramapo bear encounter and cub sale to a traveling circus.
A San Francisco Post account tells of two young women on the Milla Building roof. One walks to the edge and glares down fearless while a male observer praises her courage. The other shrieks and clings, then collapses down the stairs after a mouse distracts them, provoking taunts about women and bravado.
In a morning session Judge Joachionen and Prosecuting Attorney John Dare clashed over seating. Dare resisted sitting, proposing a general order for all to be seated, while the judge demanded he take a seat as proceedings resumed.
An American missionary describes the August atrocity at Hwasang near Kucheng China. He recalls British subjects killed four houses burned and plans a protest with local magistrates. Western figures debate responsibility and call for an American appointed inquiry member and marine escort. British Rainbow moves to Foo-Chow. U.S. Detroit reaches the scene for protection.
July brought a sharp drop in cotton condition, from 79.0 to 73.0, the lowest August average on record. Corn shows a three point uptick, spring wheat dips, and tobacco falls steeply. regional state readings vary with Virginia at 81 and Mississippi at 83 amid moisture and drought concerns.
A dispatch describes a brutal attack by the Vere tians in Kucheng City killing and burning several residents including Mr and Mrs Stewart Nellie Saunders and Lena Pollow. Miss Mabel Hartford survived the assault after being struck and dragged before escape. The report criticizes China for lax foreign protection and calls for stronger action.
Rugister Barco and Receiver Wainwright of the U S office rule that 44 260 acres in Alachua Levy Lafayette St Johns Suwannee on Santis Roun Counties are opened for homestead entry. Previous transfers to Interior and squatters staking 160 acre tracts prompted investigation into Swamp Land allotment.
Eyewitness Miss Mabel Hartford reports mobs attacking the English Mission at Hwasang during a massacre. She recalls being chased, a trident spear grazing her head, and family members wounded or killed. Rioting spread to nearby missions with churches and hospitals damaged as 22,000 vegetarians and Chinese troops clash amid escalating violence.
Consul William Seymour in Valermo writes to the State Department that the US fruit-raising industry seriously threatens Italy’s fruit exports. He notes roughly one to one and a half million of five million quintals exported reach the United States and fears rising US production will squeeze Italian output.
A band of nearly 109 Yaqui Indians attacked the Santo Rosa hacienda of Don J una Bojorquez thirty miles from Guayama Mexico. They looted the place, set it on fire, and have harmed peace for ten years in Sonora. The Federal Government plans action to suppress rum and protect widows and orphans from their depredations.
The article notes Eastman Johnson’s portrait of ex President Harrison hung in the Executive Mansion as an excellent likeness and a notable addition to the White House gallery. It mentions General Albert Pike’s heirs, a United States Court of Claims claim against the Choctaw Nation, and various political and diplomatic items including China outrages, missionary schools in Asia Minor, Navy vacancies, and a prize rifle approval. It also covers a prisoner release in France and a Washington bail outcome.
Domestic and international items include league records with team W L and percentages, embezzlement plea by W. W. Taylor, Bank of Shelby suspension, a NYC transit crash, suicide of Edward Miller Coreron head of Hygela Distilled Water, fires in Philadelphia and Pendleton, lightning deaths in the Northeast, a trolley wreck in Norfolk, and various political events in Ireland Cuba China and Britain.
Comptroller Fitch released figures showing NYC debt rising with July notes totaling 159 063.44 due, trimming fund balances by 258L and leaving December 1 obligations near 104 078 720.81. In a separate item, a Marshall man killed his brother in Cann, N.C., triggering investigations into local violence.
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