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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1897
Page
4
The piece muses on knowing the weather and the futility of certainty, promotes St Jacobs Oil as a common remedy, and ends with a humorous note about a Maltese cat and a mother partridge engaging in a bold rescue, as reported by New York.
Gannimox's New York dispatch reports the worst New York Central disaster since 1871. On Sunday before daylight a Buffalo and New York special wrecked between Garrison's and Highlands, killing at least nineteen and injuring many more. Passengers were rescued as the engine and six cars plunged into the mudson. News describes rising horror as the wreckage floated downstream.
Tononro Canada special report notes the World WCTU biennial convention opening at the Horticultural Gardens pavilion. The hall was crowded before the start as Miss Frances E. Willard called the meeting to order, with executive members and officials present, including Miss Willard and Bilse.
A Hudson River wreck leaves 17 dead identified, 15 seriously hurt, 36 rescued. Officials state the track embankment slumped into the river near Albany after the Buffalo to East Albany run. Engine and fireman perish. many cars sink, with three sleepers remaining on track. Witnesses describe a sudden lurch and a massive steel and stone spill into the water. Names include Agnes Sliack of England and Mrs Barker of Chicago among passengers.
The report lists married EH A Green of Chicago and William H G Meyer of Pasanto New Jersey along with Albert G McKay a 23 year old New Yorker and other individuals from Saint Louis East Albany Albion N Y and Buffalo. Eight Chinese men are described as wrecking tug assistance arrives and bodies are recovered as search continues.
Former champion MWelpa Roemayo and James J. Corbett with The Naval Cadet company aided in rescue after a wreck on the Qrat South Bound train. Corbett and McVey climbed a convhes roof to free injured. they removed a Chinaman and two dead passengers. Andrew Bryson of the American Society of Civil Engineers investigated the scene, attributing the disaster to an uncemented retaining wall causing an arch failure. Sixteen consumptives showed improvements after treatment with Dr Hirschfelder lymph. his veal lymph injections are cited with a costly three year effort.
Federal officials probe over 290000 alleged fraudulent warrants tied to the Creek Nation. An old chief and a government official are said to be involved as Todlan Territory is visited for inquiry. Union Pacific Reorganization Committee opposes adjournment of the main line site and vows potential action.
Frank Moon aged fifty and Mrs D Wells were found dead at the bottom of a thirty foot well on Voon's farm near Derby Kansas. Moon appeared overcome by work and Wells, worried by the late absence, investigated and also fell to her death. Fire reports describe wild conditions in multiple regions and a string of disasters from Havana to Newport News, with widespread damage and evacuations.
Reports from 374 state and private banks to Commissioner Briedenenthal show deposits totaling 22,000,000. When added to national bank deposits, the total nears 240,000,000, marking an increase of over 6,000,000 in one year.
A Spanish note on ending the Cuba war is cited along with a mixed set of dramatic details. Dervishes in the Sudan allegedly avenge a tribal refusal by attacking the Jaghn, depopulating riverbank areas and abducting women. California weather damage is described with heavy rains causing substantial crop losses totaling over 100,000 dollars.
A garbled report notes greamer Barnes Ayrey King and others dying while invasion decimated a unit of 1200 troops. It mentions dying en route, wounded, and dying condition among arms and soldiers. Claims scarce food and clothing and aid from a society, with references to disease and monkey-related crises amid turmoil.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Angles and a city in California with distorted names and dates. No coherent events, persons, or organizations emerge to summarize into a factual card.
Boston marked the anniversary of the frigate Constitution's 1797 launch with closures of public schools and offices and a program including two literary exercises at the Old Secretary Wilson to Try to Improve the System and Consolidate Two Bureaus. Senator Lodge delivered the historic address. Governor Wolcott presided and a naval parade followed with veterans and ships in the harbor. the ship’s history featured victories over Guerriero and Java and the 1815 Tripoli bombardment.
The report notes arbitration in Nashville, Chicago denouncing Memorial Day involvement by anarchists, and a surge of unions from China to California. It cites Brooklyn and New York groups, eight hour claims, and Pullman porters organizing, with wage and housing concerns rising amid citywide labor activity.
Dispatch from Leyte reports a cyclone nearly devastates the area killing many and causing widespread property damage. It says Tagloban and Hernani were destroyed on Leyte with several villages erased. Later reports claim Cari sara Boruyo on Leyte’s coast wiped out and waves swamped inland. Samar island also hit. damage estimated at 7,500,000 pesetas.
Information received notes that Saporita Cisneros, recently freed from a Spanish prison in Cuba, will travel to Washington to join the Georgetown convent and retire from public life. The Cuban chief Assocation urged Consul-General Low to fund her comfort upon arrival, with warm sympathy from the sisters. Meanwhile at Newcastle Pennsylvania, 200 workers strike after a kiss led to Richard Kissinger’s discharge, union says kiss theft not valid cause, strike continues.
Benjamin Rich, nineteen, a Tyrone football player, died after a game at Bellwood Pennsylvania. He was tackled and thrown on dry turf, fell under a mass of players, and was found unconscious. He died shortly after removal from the field.
Achilles Felker, 24, shot and killed Cora Gress, 20, at Bouldsborough Pennsylvania after she refused his marriage proposal following his divorce request. He fired twice in view of her mother, ending her life instantly. In Alaska, Tsauo Dietrich, mine owner from San Francisco, reports a gold bearing region 000 miles long by 200 wide that could yield profit with proper work.
Fort Gaines Georgety, a town of 2500, witnesses its first wedding in seven years as Joseph Culpepper breaks the drought. The town plans to run him on the matrimonial platform in the upcoming mayoral race amid community buzz. A Chicago trial of Adolph Lud gert ends with a hung jury and discharge by Judge Tathiil.
Senor Gullen, head of the Bogasta Foreign Office, responds to a note delivered to the Duke of Tatuan by General Woodford. He states Spain has done all within its power to end the Cuban conflict, with evidence attached.
The New York World notes a small Grand Army post at Notre Dame where all members are either brothers or priests of the Order of the Holy Cross. Commander is Very Rev. William L. Corby, famed wartime chaplain and current Provincial of the Order in the U.S. The post has twelve members including General William A. Olmstead who will become a priest. vice commander is Brother Legader. Also cited is a statistic on railway fatalities: France one in 19 million, Britain one in 28 million, U.S. one in 2.4 million travelers.
Cyclomotors for cabs and Solan care are used in Berlin Leipsic and Dresden. They record the exact miles traveled and the legal fare of occupants.
The report notes South African diamond mining firms lost about 6 million dollars in a year but recovered roughly half. It also mentions St Martin'sle-Grand as the world’s largest telegraph station in London with about eight thousand operators, including a thousand women. A Ballston Spa resident, Benjamin Bissel, claims to have voted for eighteen presidential candidates, none of whom won.
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