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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1887
Page
4
An 18th century style account details how streams from fresh ponds spawn herrings each April. Towns auction the weir rights and distribute barrels among residents, with widows receiving priority. Prices and practices vary, with first runs fetching high sums and later runs expanding to neighboring towns through May and June.
A fierce storm drenched Maine with waterspouts and record floods across Kennebec and Penobscot valleys. Bridges, mills, and homes were wrecked as rivers rose beyond previous levels, with Augusta Gardiner Hallowell and Bangor area facilities especially affected. Railroad washouts disrupted service from Etna to Bucksport and Abbot Village.
A mob of about 500 men and boys gathered in Louisville at Fifth and Jefferson streets to lynch Patterson and Turner for assaulting a servant girl. Police and later troops dispersed the crowd after clashes and arrests. A mayoral proclamation urged order while public alarm rose near the jail.
An eccentric hermit Halo K Crazy died in a forest hut near Bugartown Catta raugus County New York from heart disease. Officials found a fortune of 75000 in bonds cash and jewelry among rubbish and relics in the shanty.
Vast jumble of short news notes reports a law in the New York Legislature for a half holiday on Saturdays, along with multiple calamities and incidents. It notes deaths by drowning and fire, a murder case in Ohio, a ship lost at sea, a dramatic oil explosion, and various political and criminal items. Names include James N. Taggart, Henry George, and Dr. McGlyan amid broader turmoil and accidents across several states and nations.
Emanuel De Freitas, nineteen and a Nova Scotia printer, leaped from the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River. A nearby officer and a bridge worker restrained him briefly, but De Freitas fell headfirst into the water, disappeared, and was later rescued by a steam lighter crew. he claimed the jump was to prove it could be done and faced arrest.
A fragmented report describes birds fighting over a nest site near Theatre Royal in London and other odd incidents. A California opossum is mentioned with nonsensical actions, a dog and farm bull are linked to midnight events, and crows are said to feed on raw meat while a dog is chased by them in a strange yard sequence.
The John Knox steamship from Glasgow to Quebec ran ashore near Newfoundland in thick fog and gale. All hands perished, with 29 crew aboard and sixteen bodies recovered including John McGuire of Cavan. A separate fire aboard the steam barge G. P. Heath near Sheboygan trapped crew. rescuers and volunteers pulled some to safety but flames forced further abandon ship.
Jupee Hitrov presented Meissonier's Friedland 1807 which fetched $6,000 at Mrs. A. T. Stewart’s sale at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. mine at Bucka Notch, Fenn, caught fire causing $260,000 in losses. flooding will be required to extinguish. The Louie O Neill collided with the Thomas L. Parker on Lake Erie. all aboard were rescued. Hawes (Republican) elected mayor of Asheville, N C. Public debt reduced by April, with total treasury outlays and receipts detailed. expenses include culinary, occasions, and interest. Revolutions in Ecuador defeated. Canadian MPs attacked government. anarchist Patro Grotzkat and followers convicted in Milwaukee riots. Severe heat closes factories in Pittsburg and nearby. a large dog show in New York. a gas well discovered at Fairmount, Indiana with enormous flow. Earthquakes shake El Paso. Governor candidates and veterans’ battlefield visits noted. Duluth storm damages near $100,000.
The article surveys the American Association and Southern League with notes on players like Boston’s catcher and Buffalo’s Grant. It highlights rising standards, managerial discipline, and incentives for hitting home runs, while referencing Spalding’s pennant prediction and Chicago New York race dynamics amid injury comebacks and treatment methods.
A correspondence from an Eastern paper highlights St Joseph real estate activity led by a Kansas City syndicate planning a $300000 cable system. Weekly deals show rapid gains: W A P McDonald buys 9 lots for 19500 and sells most at profit, others flip parcels with sizeable margins. The Directory notes population rise to about 60000, 170 manufactories, and 1018 commercial travelers.
The article outlines a hidden alliance of leading socialist groups in the United States. It cites the International Working People’s Association and related bodies, claiming they aim to incite widespread unrest in major cities and seize political power. Chicago is named as a potential uprising center with a timetable for revolution and labor reforms.
A Southern Pacific Express was robbed near Papago Station eighteen miles east of Tucson Arizona around 1230 AM. Five to eight robbers boarded the locomotive after forcing engineer Cal Harper to light the fuse. They opened the express car stole two money packages and all five postal packages, then fled toward Tucson leaving the engine at six the morning. Rewards of 1000 from Southern Pacific and Walls Fargo offered for each robber.
A Perth dispatch reports a hurricane striking the northeast coast on the 22d, destroying forty pearl fishing boats and causing 550 deaths. A separate Cooktown message claims the Kenton steamship from Singapore collided with a barque near Formosa, with 150 deaths. No Europeans were reported lost.
A Brooklyn man named Steve Brodie jumped from the Cincinnati Suspension Bridge into the river 82 feet below, after a quick ascent and a brief aerial display. He surfaced and was aided by a tug, suffering minor injuries but recovering the same night. a second jumper, described as insane, leaped earlier in the morning and drowned.
A collage of arts news notes: Anpenson tours England, Anna Dickinson set for Anna Boleyn, Londow theatres and music rooms listed, Liszt piece count given, Paris theatres criticized, CasneyE Band at a Chicago dime museum, Yevapa shines at Covent Garden, denoting Osnap comedic writing, Mur Risrord memoirs, The Old Homestead grosses 100000 in 15 weeks, Avocstix Day to perform in London, Princess of Wales duets, Mario Van Zandt to sing in London then US tour, Mapleson company in London with eight American women, a Massachusetts bill to bar under-15s from public shows after sunset without guardians.
A wartime tale recounts actor poetrie3 meeting Go Mortimer during the Wilderness battle. Mortimer, exhausted and hungry after hospital intakes, trades tobacco for hard-tack with Louis James, a Northern zouave who reveals his own acting ties. They exchange names and vow to reunite after the war.
The fragment recalls John Ruskin praising the trowel over bricklaying craft, notes 1886 medical cures with St Jacobs Oil, and reports the death of Jono the camel once a Woodward Gardens star in San Francisco, aged sixty one and leaving an infant.
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