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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1886
Page
4
Reports from across the country describe labor unrest in Lehigh Valley and New Hampshire political shifts. Indicted city officials flee abroad while demographic upheavals, disasters, and elections dominate headlines with executions in South Carolina and Alabama, earthquakes in Somerville, and a mob of counterfeit ten-dollar notes near Chicago.
Report recounts a fatal gunfight between the Dillard and Reed brothers at Mount Pleasant Texas. James Reed and John Dillard are killed in the exchange.
About 12 000 workers across pork packing houses walked out on May 8 at Chicago Stock Yards to resist a proposed shift back to ten hours for ten hours pay. Knights of Labor leaders organized walkouts as Pinkerton guards arrived. Armour and Morrell plants faced scarcities of 4000 and 12000 heads of meat. Both sides prepared for a lengthy standoff amid fears beef workers may be pressed to quit.
Sovernon Hrnu grants pardons to New York city workers jailed for boycotting a concert hall. Ex-Senator Yulee of Florida noted for Civil War role, Dies in New York. Tammany Hall backs Abra Hewitt for mayor as Bribe cases surge in Chicago. A farmer near Mineral Point Wisconsin kills wife then himself amid mania. Supreme Court opens with docket 1103 cases. Justices honor the President at the White House. Spanish priest Faben Gaurorg convicted and sentenced to death. Bulgarian elections favor Russian party. Incidents at Chapel Hill yield student deaths and injuries. Henry L. Sayles, New York alderman, flees to Canada amid bribery probes. Rear Admiral Nichols dies in Connecticut. Edwin Boreace missing with accounts short. Severe Gulf storms cause damage from New Orleans to Mobile. Hendricks will contest in Indianapolis over mother’s estate. Freight collision at East Liverpool kills a brakeman and injures a foreman. Chicago threats against jurors in anarchist trial prompt authorities to intervene. Indiana quarantines cattle from Illinois over pleuro pneumonia. Louise Michot discharged from French prison.
In Delhi a sectarian clash erupted after a Hindu tied a pig to the Jammu Mosque, provoking a Mohammedan mob and killings. The incident follows rising religious tensions and claims of adulterated butter as a catalyst, with Bombay seeing a society formed to propagate anti Muslim sentiment.
A Memphis dispatch details the reception of the Taylor brothers Bob and Alf in Tennessee as they canvass the state for governor. The twins travel together, speak from shared platforms, and draw large crowds across cities from Carter County to the Mississippi. Bob wins warmth with a hour long speech as Alf charms the crowd with a strong impression and bouquets from ladies.
The October report from the Department of Agriculture confirms a rise in wheat yield per acre to about 12.34 bushels on 37 million harvested acres, with an expected overall crop increase near 160 million bushels from last year. Oats average 26.6 bushels per acre, barley 22.4, rye 11.8, and corn prospects rise after warm weather with forecasts around 32 bushels per acre and total near 1.65 billion bushels. Potatoes average 81 to 82 in condition, tobacco near 87, buckwheat slightly below average, with New York and Philadelphia near the general average.
Congress funded the Commissioner of Agriculture to test improved silk cocoon processing in Washington. Six Serrell automatic silk reels will operate for a year as cocoons arrive in small lots from raisers. Experts note some cocoons rival European quality and domestic production could boost farmers' income and jobs.
A compilation notes figures like Prince Bismaree tall and married rumors about Sir Richard Hanson. Admiral Porter shows health gains. Mrs Hamntet Beecher Stowe recovers enough to attend Hartford church. President’s son James A Garfield nears law finish in Cleveland. General Hamley joins National GOP, Mrs Folsom to stay at White House, General Sherman to reside in New York. Lieutenant Gneemy regains strength. Miss Harner Goopwig, relative of Stonewall Jackson, active in Alfred Maine Shaker Society.
Shelburne events unfold after Captain Landry hauls down the American flags aboard the Grimes, while Captain Quigley and armed guards confront the dispute. A British cruiser Terror shores the vessel and a heavy fine follows, with Consul-General Phelan denouncing the act as high-handed.
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