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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1889
Page
4
A St Louis Globe-Democrat correspondent profiles a band of French chloroformists who use stealth and narcotics aboard trains and hotels to rob travelers while avoiding fatal harm. The piece shifts to a US Army routine detailing early-morning drills, guard shifts, dress parades, tattoos, and a five-year wardrobe allowance of 220 dollars.
A Catholic church at the mouth of the Baginaw river in Tadouroc Canada is claimed to be the world’s smallest church with a capacity not exceeding twenty. It is reputed to have been founded by Jacques Castier.
A blaze swept through a five story tenement at 805 Seventh Avenue New York killing nine residents as they slept in their rooms. Fire started in the basement restaurant kitchen spreading rapidly trapping occupants. Police and fire crews battled the heat rescuing none by stair or iron bridge. The dead include multiple Wells and Glennon patrons and staff. thirteen families were left homeless with property losses under ten thousand dollars.
A large hunting drive in southern Wyoming saw hundreds of stockmen, cowboys, and sportsmen pursue coyotes and gray wolves. The action spanned from Cheyenne toward the Nebraska line with barbecues, dynamite blasts, and dramatic wolf drives ending in multiple den collapses. The event closed with heavy casualties among wolves and the death of several dogs.
The era’s brief items report Danbury, New Jersey, and Philadelphia fire incidents, shipboard losses, a Bayonne oil works blaze, and a Sandy Hook building destroyed. Also noted are political conventions, storms, drownings, a Yale professor’s death, and varied regional dispatches from New England to the South and West.
Coroxen Joan M Wilson engineer and late superintendent of public buildings in the district of Columbia is appointed superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point to succeed General John G Parker who was recently retired. Foreign news covers German Austrian rulers witnessing a steel battle at Spandau, Bulgaria’s throne anniversary, four thousand troops reviewed, banquets, and illumination. Other items report French Senate imprisonment verdicts, potential extradition, Crete suppression, royal visits, Totien riot response, Haiti crisis, and an earthquake in the Balkans.
Recent reports from Rio indicate Brazil's coffee crop may yield around 5.5 million bags amid drought and labor disruption. Uncertainty persists about quality, labor conditions, and future exports as arrivals to the United States show sharp declines from 1887-88 levels. The status of recently emancipated slaves, now largely self-supporting, could influence Brazil's coffee production outlook.
An explosion at Charles Dinsmore's farm eighteen miles southwest of Aberdeen Dakota killed engineer Frank Arhswoldt aged 29 and William Sheoler aged 23 instantly. A fireman died later and two others were seriously injured. The blast blew horses and scattered the threshing engine wreckage across the prairie. The accident is blamed on a cracked rusty boiler and occurred while a Russian crew operated the machine.
In early July a fire in the Triunfo mine near the town of Triunfo trapped ten miners. Eight Mexican miners were inside with two Americans, former San Franciscans, who volunteered to rescue them. The shaft filled with smoke and gases. both rescuers died as the bucket reached the top. The fire burned for several days.
A survey of labor activity reports wage increases and strikes across regions. Mentions German barber congress, US miners, Pennsylvania Railroad expansion, Scottish factory unrest, New York Jewish goldsmiths union, and Sweden pulp mills. Notes wage trends, working hours, and rising union activity with varied outcomes.
Reports detail Crantes Keller and two girls drowned after a boating incident on Easton Falls Penn and other drownings including Rev Faev A Bansitz and Charles H Carpenter from whirlpools on Swatara Creek. Also listed are railroad and mining fatalities in New York Ohio Indiana Wisconsin and England with numerous injuries and pensions and political notes.
Robert Marvel of Marion County died after abstaining from food and drink for sixty seven days. He was nearly eighty years old and became a medical marvel as crowds gathered from across the state. He consumed only a quart of liquids during the fast, endured torpid bowels, and emaciation while his eyes remained clear. Cause listed as paralysis. hearing was destroyed, speech gone, but eyesight remained. Born October 7 1805 in Susset County Delaware. worked as a sailor in youth.
War Department officials report rising Army desertions, up 345 in the six months to June from the prior year, with 1467 desertions this year versus 1209 last year. Most occur in the first enlistment year. officers urge reducing extra duties to curb desertion, with General Schoffeld advocating articles of war reform to Congress. Stevens, the bicyclist, returns to Zauiar after failing to accomplish tasks.
The article surveys players and teams including Banstex captaining the Toledos and Beaty of Chicago heading the pitchers column. It notes Brooklyn’s demoralized state with strong figures like Clark eon and Ganzel in Boston, and reports on trades and resignations across Hartford and St. Louis. Henry McConwick’s death is marked, while umpiring changes and a South American tour plan for Jur Hamr are mentioned. The piece highlights batting leaders, defensive standouts, and league-wide shifts, ending with a snapshot of the American Association standings.
An excursion train returning veterans from the lord Regiment reunion at Butler wrecked at Sarvers seven miles east of Freeport Pennsylvania. Two killed and many injured as rails spread on a rotted bridge. Survivors described scenes of wounded veterans and improvised care by train staff and doctors. Also reports of White Lead Company consolidation and Mataaya in Samoa amid international tension.
San Francisco dispatch details a sensational morning shooting at a railroad dining room near Lathrop California. Ex Chief Justice David Terry fatally shot by Deputy Marshal David Nagle after a confrontation with Justice Stephen Field. Field survives and defends his actions. Field says protection was ordered by Attorney General Miller.
A recent storm across the Missouri Valley is described as the season’s worst, with about twenty killed by lightning and damage to farms, formals, crops, and railroads totaling over 500000 dollars. Victims include a son of H H Sulver of Cortland Nebraska and George Warner of Dawson Nebraska, F Winkler of Winthrop Missouri, H Hunter of Yamin Kansas, and Fred Case of Olathe Kansas. Reports from other towns indicate many fatalities.
Reports describe widespread troubles including failed hops crops and war on trunk lines. Scarce perciles, rising anti table glass sentiment, growing Crete unrest, and electric streetcar favor. Salt trust collapse, heavy rains in England, Oregon forest fires, Vienna water famine threat, and Upper Egypt invasion ending. Savannah forms a new ice trust.
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