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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1889
Page
4
A messy clipping mixes jokes, wordplay, and anecdotes from various voices including a bevy of puns, misheard phrases, playful dialogue, and brief notes. It also reports a homicide in Charleston, detailing Captain Dawson’s murder by Dr. McDow with police shadows, a theater of civic shock, and surrounding commentary.
A. J. Darxen plans to found an industrial college for women at Wayne Pennsylvania costing $1 500 000. Tax on Isaiah Williamson estate admitted to probate in Philadelphia. estate valued at about $9 000 000 excluding a $2 250 002 gift to a mechanical school. Several brief items follow on rail, politics, trials, and incidents including a fatal explosion at Cleveland Rolling Mills and a royal appointment.
Ex Treasury head offered the presidency of the New York Security and Trust Company. Igatan V. Williams of Philadelphia dies. Ex-President Cleveland travels to New York with family. Readings Iron Works creditors report liabilities of 1,977,785.22 and assets at 2,430,095.09 with temporary continuation planned. Swedish engineer Entesox dies in New York. A NY apothecary clerk is murdered with an axe. Cameron turns ninety at Harr isburg. British schooner Gleanet seized at Boothbay for non entry. Bufferns Sons Lithographic Company suspends payments. Quakes felt across Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey. Siphtheria outbreak hits Cranberry Township and Gallitzin, with deaths and closed schools. A Berkshire blizzard disrupts New England. Accidents claim lives in Yatesville and Aubur n. A corpse found in Eagle Pass. A woman decapitates husband in Wisconsin. Benton, Ohio man commits suicide. Authorities report on other murders and hospitalities in various states. Congress and administration shuffle officers and budgets. The nation faces banking and circulation shifts and a wave of violent crime reports.
Tiny Milan of Servia formally abdicates the throne in favor of his son Alexander I, naming regents M Yovan listich and Generals Protiteh and Bolimorkovie during Alexander’s minority. Alexander is thirteen. Milan remains army commander during his son’s minority. The ceremony follows a proclamation service with ministers and diplomats in attendance.
The President sent to the Senate nominations for envoys to Spain Japan and Switzerland plus an assistant secretary of the treasury. Palmer Swift Washburn and Tichenor faced committee routing with Palmer noted Detroit born and lumber fortune. Second day adds Italy Denmark appointments and several Dakota Washington Territory posts and postmasters.
A long scrambled list notes Mrs Hankesox age fifty seven Tes Czar expected at Berlin Ourpa's first novel sold for 250 The Pops just celebrated his seventy ninth birthday Queen Victroris on a pressure tour to Biarritz Queen Pra of Portugal anxious to visit coin The Secretary of Agriculture's son Blaine Rusk Davitt Irish patriot nine years in prison Grover Cleveland Hayes Hamlin ex officials listed Many more social figures and incidents across Washington London and Europe including Minnie Wanamaker portrait and Consuelo Yanga marriage notes
John Ericsson, the famed inventor of the ironclad Monitor, died in New York in his eighty sixth year. Born 1803 in Sweden, he rose from a child tinkerer to captain and engineer, regaling nations with naval innovations including the Princeton and turret ships. His later plans spanned destroyer concepts and solar powered engines, with many other inventions said to fill volumes.
Mass weaving departments of fifty mills shut down. Between three and five thousand workers struck, leaving about five thousand looms idle and factories at a standstill. The movement began January 1, 1834, after the last general wage advance, catching manufacturers by surprise as the entire city saw a general stoppage. Three thousand weavers gathered in a mass meeting in the park to back union committees.
A bleak notice reports three double deaths following a family tragedy in Georgia and New Jersey. Joseph Ritter and his sister Lydia died after a streetcar incident. Daniel Harper was shot nearby the same day. A Jersey City undertaker describes a mother collapsing after kissing her deceased daughter and praying for death.
The Executive Mansion shows multiple changes to room allocations and staff roles. Private Secretary Halford departs a desk space once used by Mr Hendley, replaced by E F Tibbetts. A new clerk joins, and W T Sinclair resigns to relocate to New York with Mr Cleveland. Other rooms shift to the McKey children, Mrs Hartison, and the MekKee couple, with George Gartiell’s room noted.
Scattered listings show cattle and hog prices, weighed dairy outputs, and grain quotes. Includes references to flour, butter, cheese, oats, corn, wheat, barley, and regional markets in Buffalo Watertown Philadelphia with notes on dressed and live weights and farm goods.
Isaiah V. Williamson, the noted mill owner and financier, died in Philadelphia after a life of wealth and discreet giving. Born in Bucks County, he built a vast fortune and supported the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Jefferson College Hospital, and a planned Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades. He kept his gifts anonymous, signing only initials, and directed trustees to carry forward the school project with over 2 million in assets.
The Fiftieth Congress provided about ten million dollars for public buildings. Prior congresses showed varied appropriations, with figures ranging from six hundred sixty thousand to fourteen million one hundred thousand. In the first session, public building bills proposed about four hundred eleven thousand, while committees and bills signaled high totals. During the second session, aggregate public building appropriations were around——.
Duke McLachlan and Cora Carnahan eloped from Paw Paw Indiana. They arrived at Elmer Davis farm near Farlville TI Tuesday night. Neighbors heard two pistol shots. McLachlan shot Carnahan twice in the head and then killed himself. Cause unknown beyond fears of arrest.
The article catalogs a flood of stage news including actors, premieres, and finances. It notes Fanny Davefront and Mrs. D. P. Bowers, mentions Marie Loisenger and Prince Alexander, and references Othello and Macbeth productions, with incidents like a theater fire in Altoona and a fatal fall in Upper Sandusky.
The survey details widespread unemployment and labor activity from New York to London. It notes 1500 idle New York car strikers, 5000 in the Pacific Coast Seamen's Union, and 6000 New York cigar workers who are women and children. It cites labor labels, anti blacklisting measures, holiday status in Connecticut, and major factory shifts including Norristown wheels and Wilkesbarre axle works.
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