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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1890
Page
4
The influenza like grip spreads across major cities and public institutions. Hospitals, police, theatres, and stores report high sickness. officials including mayor and police chiefs fall ill. Reports detail widespread cases from Philadelphia to Cleveland with numerous deaths and varying regional outbreaks.
The ICC reports since December 1, 1888, 95 cases begun with 507 railroads appearing and 447 notified to intervene. Total rail mileage is 149,901.48 miles with 1,465 corporations owning lines and 735 operating roads. Passenger earnings 277 million. freight 615 million. total operating income 910.6 million plus 89.5 million other income totaling 1.0002 billion. Accidents show widespread fatalities and injuries among passengers, employees, and others, with 5693 deaths and 27,808 injuries if all roads reported.
A disastrous fire at a London boys home in Forest Gates trapped twenty six upper room residents who suffocated before rescue. Fifty eight boys escaped amid panic as staff and railway workers aided evacuations. The blaze started from an overheated stove in a clothing room under the dormitory. the female department remained unharmed.
Bradstreet reports 11 719 failures nationwide in 1889 with liabilities totaling 33 535 698. The Middle States show the highest liabilities at 41 723 083, followed by the Western 27 035 347 and Southern 16 494 623. Eastern and Southern regions report varied failures and rising liabilities across the four sections.
A scattered report notes Caranne the great Spanish tenor dies of influenza. Tite Prince and the Pauper to be produced at the Broadway Theatre New York. Tuk Academy of Music in Milwaukee sold for 45000, oldest theatre in the city. Lloyd presents The Senator in Washington to a brilliant audience. A Zurich fire disrupts a performance with no injuries. Italian Opera Troops in Chicago suffer flu affecting four singers. Barham's Signor Ross shows receipts fall in London theatres. Tubius Casar? at the National Theatre by Romp draws mixed success. Christine Nilsson's daughter trains in Norway for singing. British The County Fancy considered for a summer engagement. The Old Momestead’s train sails across the water. Epwann Straess journeys with an orchestra to the U United States. Joan of Arc rehearsal sparks a fire. Bernhardt uninjured but helped by others. Josem Inry N remarks on family. Contarces R. Pope as a government representative actor. Heil United States Consul at Toronto discuss mayoral power under a professor.
A March of fatal accidents spans multiple states with the AMAL train wreck near Tyrone killing two including the dispatcher, another Beloved Pennsylvanian line rider. Wellsboro bridge collapse claims Wellsboro residents Grant Milliken and Daniel Howard. a Turkish freight collision near Malcolm. a Lima Ohio oil refinery blast injures ten. and a Gibraltar landing collision fuels Zanzibar fighting as Major Wissmann advances.
Treasury report shows December debt drop of $3,128,003 and a $23,093,710 reduction for the first half of the fiscal year. Total debt minus cash on January 1, 1859 stood at $1,154,072,959, down from $1,052,959,011 a year earlier, with a calendar year decline of $51,100,347 and a prior year decrease of $91,130,144.
Reports show capitalists planning a 1 million dollar steel works in Parisawne with workers’ wages and regional steel production under strain. Colorado coal mines shut by strike while Erie's labor accord reduces tensions. A German gun maker funds worker homes and US bridge crews face iron shortages. Victoria plans a 23000 dollar monument to eight hour day victory. The Sailors and Firemen union expands wage duties and the Federation of Labor aims for one million members. Wyoming Valley’s Sheldon Axio Works bought by English syndicate. Chestnut Hill furnaces repair to blast, child labor bills face employer and parent opposition. North Carolina to Mississippi trains carry over 1000 colored workers under labor agents.
A deadly snowslide at Sierra City California killed six women and a boy and injured two others. The avalanche ripped through houses and the Catholic church, overturning trees and sweeping debris down the valley from the Sierra Buttes flume. Rescuers recovered several bodies while others remained trapped with fears of further slides.
A detailed necrology lists prominent individuals who died in the last year. Names include Samuel A. Allibons author in Lucerne aged 78. Roy Barnard president of Columbia College in New York aged 80. editor Mary Louise Booth in New York aged 58. ex-Senator Gatston in Lancaster aged 90. chemist Michael Eugene de Veaster in Pauls Apple aged 103. and many others across science, politics, religion, and arts, with ages and last-known locations.
The Department of Agriculture notes corn area at 78 519 051 acres up 25 percent from 1888, wheat acreage at 44 123 859 up 21 percent, oats at 27 462 316 up under 8 percent. West of the Mississippi Iowa leads in output with 340 900 000 bushels at 305 per acre, wheat yield about 13.9 bushels per acre. Total product estimated near 1 560 00 0 bushels with oats at 691 015 000 bushels, and overall average around 27 bushels per acre.
A wide array of figures and notes from the era reports on Paris detectives, Mormon population in Utah, Bank of France gold, Kansas sorghum sugar output, English land purchases in Florida, Russian emigration, and U S congressional veterans. Mentions include the City of Paris steamship record, Carnival ice palace plans, Seattle funds, hog cholera in Friend Ned, and German military service policies.
Reported fragments show Senate and House activity with petitions from Kansas Texans and others about Chicago St Louis World’s Fair sites. Measures include army chaplains pay, sinking fund, Cuba policy, and DC appropriation debate. Emigration talk and executive nominations noted amid procedural clashes.
Reports from Europe describe a severe plague sweeping continents, with Paris listing 42 deaths on Thursday and Riviera doctors overwhelmed. Telegraph offices close in Amsterdam, Hessian schools shut, German towns pause entertainment as two hundred officials fall ill. In England the outbreak accelerates through Hatfield House as Salisbury’s household suffers illness.
Five Bernalillo County villages of Puelo Indians gathered at the camp in war paint and armed, riding four abreast to oppose the Rio Grande Irrigation and Colonization Company project. Engineer Wiggin was ordered to leave. a suspension of work followed as negotiations stalled. The engineer telegraphed Governor Prince in Santa Fe as tensions remained high.
A collage of 19th century figures and events featuring Durrato Dinu valued at $4.00, Havyoun on horseback, Boulager denying an American lecture, Beran I. Burens law income, Paunnit Irish leader, Rosk and the Chinese minister, Liage Ghesitami’s arrest, Scraton influenza case, E. J. Potts returning to Yale, Wirenaw Rem visiting Rome, Don Pepno’s honorary NY Society membership, SGHARTAN FR-Ones 100 published books, Depew wine abstention, Douglass amid Port-au-Prince server, France’s president distributing decorations, Monk Twain’s $100,000 typesetter venture, BAYAnp invited Charleston address, Missouri orchard plans, Jorn Cianouen Uncle Remus, General Hasamann Price new Hayti minister, Speaker Kern newspaper portraits, Srenovoux rheumatism, Andrew Carnegie funding Johnstown library, Tutt and Grady reports, Emmorokot Ching marriage, and Catus Sweeny’s political shift.
A colossal squid or king cuttlefish carcass washed ashore at Dugort on Achill Island Mayo after months on reefs near Blacksod Bay. Described as forty-foot tentacles and sixty-foot body circumference, the beak and suckers decayed, with only a cartilaginous spine remaining. The sighting mirrors rare prior appearances in British waters and fuels sea monster legends.
A miscellany notes the alligator’s tail as a deadly weapon on land and a grip in water, then shifts to New Zealand crop areas and coal output growth. It also mentions birthdays in Genesis, a Swiss animal cruelty stance, Buffalo Bill in India plans, syrup of figs ads, and ear cure claims with Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
A medical ad extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for liver derangement and a wide range of skin and scrofulous ailments. It promises guaranteed benefit or refund, emphasizes no alcohol, and claims superiority over substitutes. The ad cites the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo, New York.
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