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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1896
Page
3
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes how rapid scientific advances have shifted public astonishment. It highlights deafness remedies via hand sensory devices and Niagara Falls power redirected to distant wheels, asserting long feared miracles are now routine results of science.
The piece laments a season's drawing room novelty of bagpipe playing by ladies and notes opinions from The St James's Gazette on the craze. Criticism questions attire Highland dress and accompanying whoop and mocks the French mouth based physiognomy reading trend as a preferable alternative.
Fire at Mignolia Camden County New Jersey exhausted water supply. Firemen sought to save adjoining property. A resident offered two barrels of vinegar but the house was saved using apple juice to quell the flames.
An English steamship company plans a vessel for sole use of invalids with pulmonary troubles. The ship will be outfitted with a medical corps on board and chefs to cater to delicate tastes, promising expert care for passengers.
The Puritan is placed in commission under Captain John Bartlett at the yard of C J Riggieson. Naval experts hail it as a premier coast defense monitor with two heavy turrets, low freeboard, and high speed potential. The ship's dimensions and engines are described during the ceremony. Crowds greet officials as President or monarchs visit, and public attention turns to New York Aquarium opening at Castle Garden with displays of marine life.
Mrs. Sarah B Cooper renowned charity worker and abolitionist and her daughter Miss Hattle Cooper were found dead from gas inhalation in the Cooper House San Francisco Cal Both victims reportedly died several hours earlier with Miss Cooper suffering acute melancholia The tragedy caused a public furor as the two were longtime figures in charitable efforts nationwide.
Fourteen year old Barry Stockntill of Maplewood Ohio killed himself with a public safety item after his parents refused a request to accompany him to a neighbor’s. The incident followed another disaster in Labu West Africa where a deserter’s act caused a French launch to explode killing twenty people and sinking the ship.
A North German Lloyd steamer sailing from Bremen for Buenos Ayres was reported to have foundered off Villagracia near Vigo. Reports place 210 to 600 passengers aboard, including Galician and Spanish emigrants, with fears all on board perished. A search vessel was sent from Corunna as gale wreckage washed ashore.
The Rajab under Captain Bollmer, sailing from Barry to Hong Kong, foundered in the Bristol Channel. Two crew were rescued while seventeen others drowned. In a separate Omaha incident a 13 year old, Vernon White, died after a prank turned fatal as he hanged himself with a pillow string.
Report describes Havana lively with Spaniards celebrating Nacco’s death and Weyler’s perceived triumph over the insurgents in the western province. Attendees include those who had praised the Spanish arms and their campaign in Ploar del Rio.
Readable fragments show a bustling market listing varieties and prices for vegetables fruits and poultry. Entries include beans celery carrots eggplant cucumbers lettuce pumpkins peppers and many others with unit measures and price ranges. Also noted are fruits cranberries apples grapes and assorted domestic poultry items with stated weights and prices.
Pormtta Daddy Brunn, known as the Hermit Fisherman, lost his cabin near Boston when a fire destroyed it. Brunn, who owned the building, faces lease expiry as demolition proceeds. He asked for aid to remain self supporting and wrote to President Cleveland who suggested building on the President's estate with rights to revert when no longer needed.
The United States Treasury strains to provide small coinage pennies nickels and small tokens as heavy demand from New York Chicago Philadelphia Boston St Louis and even San Francisco depletes reserves. Old Nathan Webb Civil War veteran and pensioner dies at 100 in New York City.
American missionary letters to the World detail dire famine in India with millions starving. They note 2,090,000 bushels of American wheat shipped to India from New York and San Francisco amid high prices, and a British relief appropriation of 123,000,000. Officials warn of grain riots, desertion of children, and plunder as wells run dry and rains fail.
Captain General Weyler releases a signed denial asserting Antonio Maceo died from the insurgents’ weak state and the dangers of battle. Weyler claims Maceo led his band at Sao Quintin, died with part of his detachment, and was not killed in an ambush.
The First National Bank of Hollidayburg Pennsylvania, organized in 1843 with $50,000 capital, was compelled to suspend operations after a heavy run by depositors. News that Martinsburg Deposit Bank and Williamsburg Bank also suspended heightened the panic. these three banks are branches of the First National Bank and are not incorporated.
The Secretary of the Treasury sent to Congress estimates of deficiencies totaling 80,601,692 to cover urgent government needs for the current and prior year. The message lists departmental appropriations for Legislative Treasury War Navy Justice and others, and includes a statement of receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1696 including the postal service with total receipts of 109,475,409 and expenditures 434,678,654.
Ex Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii arrived in San Francisco from Honolulu aboard the China. The purpose of her visit is unknown but the prevailing impression is that she may proceed to Washington to appeal to President Cleveland for the restoration of her throne.
A Cuban insurgent leader General Antonio Maceo is said to have been poisoned by a follower in league with Spanish authorities. Reports claim an ambush disguised as a conference led to his death with most of his staff killed, leaving only surgeon Dr Maximo Zertuchs alive.
Maximo Zertuohn, once physician to General Antonis Mateo, surrenders to Colonel Tort of the Spanish army at San Felipe Cuba. He confirms rebel leader Maceo died December 7 at 2 p.m. after a battle with Major Cirujedas, noting a gunshot to the head jaw and a stomach wound. Bear Faced Charley dies at Blades reservation Indian Territory. He had been part of the 1873 Oregon conference incident where Canby, Dr. Thomas and Meacham were involved. Charley fired the shot that ended the conference.
The 1896 Baltimore Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution marked the anniversary of the Peggy Stewart fire in Annapolis Harbor. The 1774 act began when patriots led by Dr Charles Warfield forced merchant Alexander Stewart to burn his ship and cargo after refusing to return tea to Britain.
Astronomers estimate heat and light from the sun by tables of figures. Earth’s captured energy would illuminate 60,000,000 square miles of surface, though only the sunward side receives it. If 2,880,000,000 worlds surrounded the sun, they would form a shell around it, each receiving the same daily sunshine as we do.
A historical vignette describes Sultan Hamid II drinking only water, sleeping little, and signing documents by hand. It also notes a potato harvest town in Pomerania with crowds aiding the crop, plus health advice urging heat and St Jacobs Oil for neuralgia and a note on weekly cattle boilings in Bentos, South America.
Fragmentary 1898 advertisement references Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething and pain relief, a claim about Pisc's Cura for coughs, and a Dr Kine and Arch Street address, with scattered spellings and names. The text is garbled but shows early patent medicine marketing.
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