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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1889
Page
4
A discussion on breeding versus common fowls stresses using available stock to improve flocks, housing and feeding practices, and the value of space. It also covers ship naming trends, noting feminine names, owner honors, and the ceremonial christening with champagne or whiskey in port towns.
Eastern and Middle States report New Jersey a Senate President George Werta and Assembly Speaker Hudepath with Gov Green noting last year’s receipts and disbursements total. Connecticut and New York milestones follow including discussions of sugar trust actions and autopsy-like casualty tallies across multiple states.
In every state distinguished electors met at capital cities on Monday to cast their ballots for the President. The November popular vote served as only a factor. electors sign sealed lists, deliver a package of results to the Senate president, and mail another set of documents. The process has long included pledged electors and occasional anomalies, but the modern system aims to ensure the proper transmission of votes to Washington. Benjamin Harrison is expected to receive most votes, with Grover Cleveland in second.
A catastrophic crash on the New York Ohio road east of Tallmadge, Ohio, between an eastbound express and a westbound freight, killed eight and injured about a dozen. Engineers Hobinson and Huntington died. the blaze consumed cars including a baggage car, smoker, and a ladies coach. A young girl burned alive, seven Chinese passengers perished, and a lawyer’s trunk of papers burned. railroad losses tallied around $55,000 with valuables incinerated.
Leading railroad presidents and New York bankers meet in New York to craft a plan for a new Interstate Railway Association. The group seeks rate discipline and uniform practices, with a board of managers from member companies, monthly meetings, rate committees, and strict penalties for violations. Members must post collateral in a banks controlled by managers. The association aims to enforce the Interstate Commerce Act and align with the Commission’s enforcement powers.
The December United States Department of Agriculture report estimates corn output at 5 to 0,000 bushels with value around 077,761, 34.1 cents per bushel, down 23 percent from 1537. It lists wheat at 414,05,000 bushels from 37,440,18 acres valued at 384,245,040 with average yield 11.1 bushels per acre.
A long list of 19th century world and U.S. items including deaths from an elevator accident at Hoosaic Falls New York, labor clashes near Scranton, naval yellow fever illness aboard the Yantic, Massachusetts and Nebraska senatorial caucuses, inaugurations in Indiana Illinois Missouri, cabinet dinners, and numerous political nominations. Also reported are a Venezuelan town destruction, gold yields in Queenstown, Eastern European snow stories, a Shanghai collision sinking, and a Paris duel between Rochefort and Lisagary.
Report covers a dramatic tracheotomy in Greansboro North Carolina after a boy ran into a burr and nearly suffocated. Also details Anna Riley, four, at Philadelphia Children's Hospital after swallowing a shawl pin, undergoing tracheotomy to remove the pin from her throat and eventual recovery.
Information from Central Africa reports Mwanga toppled, Christian officials slain, missionaries flee, and Uganda proclaimed a Mahommedan country. Kiwewa crowned, Christians ousted from offices, a wave of reprisals follows. Mission stations burned, letters destroyed, and Mwanga captured at Mngwo. Mwanga asks English missionaries for aid. revolutionists aim to erase missions as retaliation for anti slave policy.
Anthony Higgins of Wilmington wins the Delaware Senate caucus ballot to become United States Senator on the forty third try with sixteen votes on joint ballot. He is a Yale graduate and longtime Delaware Republican leader who served as United States District Attorney and state attorney general.
Chartea Casperdono, living ten miles west of Mandan Dak, faced three attacking wildcats while her husband was away. She struck the first with an axe, rendering it unconscious, fought off a second that bit her leg, and killed the third as it dragged at her clothing. She fainted from the injuries but a neighbor found her and her wounded child later. the boy remains sick from wounds and possible poisoning risks.
A garbled summary of diverse topics appears, mentioning Paris skating, rubber pavements in Brunsey, China apple saps, Duorkey school children, the Patent Leather Trust suspension, wolves killed in France, English cavalry, professional tramps in California, Connecticut deaths, Virginia peanut crop failure, Kansas railouts, lynchings in North Carolina, pig irons in the South, Southern Pacific Railway earnings, France winter severity, Maine fishing catch, incineration warning for Philadelphia, many 15 thousand New York weddings, Panama Canal stance, late New York summer notice, Oklahoma boom town growth, North Carolina legislature justices, and patents issued in Washington.
A long sequence of Senate and House actions on the Tariff bill is described, including debates over free list items such as fresh fish and roses, proposed bounties on sugar, and various amendments. Filibustering and procedural moves mark days 20 to 24, with concurrent resolutions and building reports noted.
A Boston Transcript correspondent from Fayal in the Azores describes circular threshing floors of hardened pumice near country roads and wind mills. Ox carts with high wicker fronts cross and recross grain, their squeaky wooden wheels a valued rite, once regulated by a now-repealed Portuguese law.
A fragmentary 19th century notice discusses Princess Helena Koltzkoff Massalk's will ordering cremation and ash preservation with Paris Florence and Bucharest ties. It mentions a Romanian legacy to Bucharest and a villa in Fiesole turned into an asylum for the deaf and dumb, while the Florence municipality faces aero-straits and legal hurdles to accept the legacy. Also advertised is Diamond Vern-Cura, a patent tonic claiming to cure indigestion, offered by Charlies A Vogeler Co of Baltimore with sample offers and rail delivery.
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