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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1896
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR mentions Podbdins Fredric soap Wea fret and a price 185 ft cost 0 cents. references a grocer and preserving clothes. Also notes Pater gon New Jersey Common Council appropriation of 25000, totaling 33000 for an unemployment program.
A devastating tornado and waterspout ripped through Gerome Oklahoma and Lincoln County Friday, killing multiple residents including John McLaughlin and Mrs. McLaughlin, B S Towers and John Seabright, and damaging homes, the post office, and crops. Postmaster MT Mullin and his wife perished, others were injured as the storm left widespread destruction across a 100 yard by several mile area.
A cyclone struck New Orleans area causing widespread destruction. In Lake St. George parish and Locust Land areas, cabins were demolished and several residents killed or drowned. Electric wires failed, plunging districts into darkness.
A eastern Lafayette County cyclone demolished farmhouses and uprooted trees, shredded a buggy carrying Hon W W Sullivan and T Harkins, sparing the men, and struck Ox ford near Deay destroying houses including Milton Eskridge's while his wife and several children survived. Not a tree remained in its path.
An explosion of gas in No 3 shaft of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company killed six men and injured two. Fire boss William R. Jones and assistant mine foreman John W. Josephs led a rescue party, dying after reaching the scene. Victims named include Thomas Owens William Lacey James Herrlog Joseph Worth. Injured laborers David Williams and John Davis were overcome by gas.
Reports from Kansas and Eastern Colorado note cattle losses and drifted snow as a blizzard blankets western Nebraska. Snow from Oklahoma to McCook drops, with rain followed by frost forming a heavy snow cover. Ludell McDonald Potter areas report two to ten inches, strong north winds, and thinning toward the east.
Advices from Washington report Moorish pirates attacked another French vessel near Morocco. They were pursued and defeated by a Spanish steamer. President appoints Isme NM. Elliott as consul at Guayro Venezuela and Horace L. Washington at Alexandria. Also recognizing Carlo Magenta in New Orleans and Emile Jaquies Retthmann in Denver as consuls. Colonel Heywood urges expansion of brigadier generals and officers as Congress increased corps only modestly. Reports of Austrian duty on glucose to affect American exports, and a Venezuelan boundary commission volume. Delays in shipbuilding and materiel cited by Commodore Hichborn. A bold armed attempt to "boll the Katy" at Alvaredo, Texas, fails. Local crimes, fires, and accidents populate the rest of the day’s briefs.
George Crocker, a five year total abstinence tenant, is awarded five hundred thousand dollars from bonds left by his father Charles Crocker. Charles Crocker died September 29, 1801, leaving the bonds in trust for George with a condition of sobriety for five years to receive the principal. If abstinence failed, the bonds would go to Charles Crocker’s grandchildren. Executors were instructed to transfer the bonds upon proof of sobriety.
Aggregate yield stands just under 59,000,000 barrels for the United States with New England New York Michigan and parts of other states reporting a phenomenal crop. Central West notes insufficient supply for home needs while Atlantic exports exceed 1,000,000 barrels. Canada reports a record crop and foreign markets show capacity to absorb more.
Professor George Burr of Cornell University, a historic specialist, arrived in New York aboard the Teutonic after a mission for the Venexdeta Commission. He spent months in Holland at The Hague researching Dutch colonial records for Dutch Guiana. He said the visit was scientific and aimed at uncovering previously unsearched archives.
Panic swept the Nogatea arena as a bull killed a horse and pierced picador Jose Angulo with horns. Angulo was caught, tossed, and died within minutes, while spectators reeled from the brutal scene and shouted in fear.
Obie reports a navy of 110 vessels including 30 armored ships and 13 single turret monitors all active. Three battleships under construction and new cruisers, torpedo boats, gunboats, and tugs expand the fleet. Secretary Herbet and Engineer Melvils call for 85,925,502 to cover existing contracts and authorize two composite sailing vessels.
General Craighill chief of engineers reports on approved artillery defense projects at eastern Long Island Sound and New York a push for fortification repairs seeks 1000000 funds with emphasis on New York Delaware River and Charleston. He notes rivers and harbors program saves costs and limits annual obligations to 22 778 053 funds.
The coast’s 3000 settlers in scattered villages face starvation as cod stocks fail. Dr Grenfell reports a food aid effort delivering flour tea sugar and molasses in exchange for woodwork, highlighting dire bed clothing shortages and overall hardship. Isolated communities rely on river communications and aid delivery amid broader European upheavals. The Treasury reports October deficit of 87.75 million and year-to-date shortfall of 33 million.
The text lists a dense catalog of foodstuffs and prices including beans, peas, cranberries, apples, grapes, vegetables, poultry, and grains. It reads like a historical market sheet with item names, origins, and per unit prices, featuring items such as Lima beans, cranberries from Cape Cod, Baldwin apples, Concord grapes, and assorted vegetables and farm products.
A smaller acreage and lower yields produce a smaller potato crop. Total harvest about 2.805 million acres with 245.49 million bushels, down over 50 million from last year. National yield averages 86 percent per acre, down from 93, while Canada also reports a sizable drop. Prices to farmers look firmer amid global shortages and weaker European crops.
A collage of light humor and snappy gibes from various papers. Bits include a judge quip about bicyclists and record times, a roguish highwayman line, and jokes on cooking, folding beds, and buying a hand. In prose bits, a niece greets Aunt Gotroke amid family troubles and illness.
Rev George B Spalding pastor of First Presbyterian Syracuse installed speaking tubes and a built in megaphone to aid deaf parishioners hearing sermons. The system spread to every pew, letting visitors hear clearly and one elderly woman cried upon hearing for the first time in twenty five years, according to the New York Journal.
Japanese postage stamps issued on September 11 feature heads of notable individuals for the first time. The set was planned as a war commemorative of the fight with China, but Prime Minister Ito blocked the samples, arguing the design would constantly remind Chinese of their defeat.
A Russian electrician named Vil uschevsky claims a telephon that minimizes distance. In a Moscow Rostoff test 890 miles apart the end receivers clearly heard talking singing and music. A land wire and Atlantic cable experiment between London and New York is planned.
Post authorities in Colombo Ceylon use Dumler type motor carriages to move mail bags between the post office and railway station saving sixty per cent compared with wagons drawn by horses. The Royall mansion, 160 years old, is restored and opened to the public showcasing colonial relics and furniture as part of New England history event.
The passage describes the Arctic ice as the chief barrier to reaching the North Pole. It details ships advancing into fading daylight, then crushed by ice as summer ends and the explorers face peril, leading to ruin and desolate journeys southward with many losses. A second tale humorously recounts thieves trapped by a lariat in a Mexican inn, witnessed by travelers. Japan shows fifty five railway lines totaling 2067 miles with capital invested around 106,806,000 yen.
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