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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1895
Page
4
The plains stretch to the horizon with distant mountains. After recent rains the dry flats briefly bloom in purple reds, with Compositae flowering boldly. The scene highlights the transitory life of African flora amid a vivid, dawn-lit landscape.
The Providence Journal notes Bath ship sunk by a spray of sweet peas replacing the usual champagne bottle, a debate between it being prettier and more wholesome versus deemed less proper than the old custom. St Louis is called the queen of lying ocean liners by its trial record.
Dalton States Martin Lonnan of Tela ware and a party were arrested near Penn's Grove New Jersey and Wilmington for alleged violations of neutrality laws. The twenty Cubans, mostly from New York with two claiming American citizenship, faced $940 bail each after arraignment. authorities warned of a possible Wilmington expedition to Cuba and urged vigilance at port posts and customs offices.
Havana dispatches report Colonel Patanea and his command clashed with rebel bands led by Buaroz and Zayas at Caribinnea. The rebels were dispersed and their camp captured. Government troops pursue the insurgents as losses remain unreported.
Arlen C. Atewadt of Greene County reports Mrs. Stewart, a forty five year old Springfied woman, asserts she will seek the sheriff’s office. She says she can run it with her son and challenges current gender norms amid vague Missouri law on women in office.
Workmen in Colorado digging operations were overwhelmed by water when walls between abandoned tunnels and active shafts broke. The Bob Tall tunnel area near Sleepy Hollow and Americus mines flooded, trapping thirteen miners before any warning could be given. An investor from Haverhill Massachusetts had revived part of the property, prompting further expansion that led to the disaster. Two unknown Italian workers were pulled from the Americus and Sleepy Hollow shafts after the breach.
A long inquiry into the August 8 Ireland building collapse in New York City concluded that six men connected with the erection shared criminal disregard for human life. The jury charged architect Bebrens builder Farker master mason Murray general superintendent Walker Bebrens assistant Yondale and Building Inspector Buckley with responsibility.
Mrs Alexis Chaplus of 678 Main Street Paterson New Jersey was struck by a trolley and a brilliant light under the wheels blinded her temporarily. Medical aid partially restored sight but doctors fear permanent loss of full sight. Two Romanian bear trainers Debreczlyn Haulduck district were arrested for cruelty and violence against youths. A new penitentiary building for female convicts is planned at Juliet, with fifty one inmates currently confined in unsanitary conditions.
President Cleveland signs a new commission appointing Ransom of North Carolina as minister to Muzic. He will lose 17,500 a year’s pay for the interim period until reappointment. Auditor Holcomb blocked July accounts while de facto minister in Mexico. Ransom to appeal to Congress for back pay and expenses. Weather Bureau chief Moore endorses a new plan improving chart work and public benefit.
A New York and Bonoh Railroad locomotive ran wild in Bay Rage yard before 4 p.m. on Labor Day, abandoning its engineer and fireman. It struck a line of seventeen cars at Woodlawn Park four miles from Day Street, injuring seventy people and harming several passengers. Surgeons likely to treat the injured.
A brief morning quake was felt along the Atlantic coast from Delaware to Long Island, with New Jersey and eastern New York reporting the strongest effects. No damage or disruptions were reported, though some residents reacted with fear. The event came two days before the anniversary of the Charleston quake.
The Board of Engineers concludes the Chicago drainage canal would affect Lake Michigan and connected waterways and that Congress consent has not been sought. It warns that lake levels could drop and navigation on the Great Lakes and Chicago Harbor could suffer, with monthly flows rising to 600 000 cubic feet per minute after opening.
Foreman David P Williams and two Cottrell Printing workers were removing an old press from Knickerbocker Press Company In New Rocello when a large frame toppled. They struggled to hold it but exhaustion caused the frame to crush Williams, who died at age fifty leaving a widow and three children.
The mountain ascent by a 22 member Methodist group to Mount Tacoma reached 11 000 feet before Reverend T Miller and another preacher turned back exhausted. Miller died from blood poisoning after lingering in the cold. He was fifty three and served as chaplain in the Ninety fourth Illinois Regiment during the war.
The United States Treasury reports corrected government receipts totaling 919,990,075 11 derived from customs interial revenue and sales of public funds among others. Expenditures reach 990,195,203 with pensions at 141,395,227 and a recorded deficit for 1895 of 45,011,599.01.
The State Department plans to replace watches and chronometers given to American sailors with a tall vase style award. If the experiment succeeds, the vase design with wave motifs and no eagle or shield will become the standard gift for meritorious seamen.
In Bido Alch District Algeria a cloudburst devastated the Arab village of Huatingy washing away homes. Four teens died and sixteen were severely injured with eight drowned as floodwaters swept the valley. Lightning struck a flock causing further farm losses. Meanwhile in New Jersey a storm killed livestock under a shed and a public notice urged delegates to a Cotton States event in Atlanta on October 1.
Secretary Herbert ordered court martial for Captain Sumner over the Columbia docking incident at Southampton England. Treasury August receipts total 28 052 600 70 with Customs 615 039 047 10 Internal Revenue 12 172 104 06 and mining bonds 81 141 644 64. Fragmentary items note McDonald death, Me Quin appointment, increased gold exports, and Washington area notices.
The column lists standings across major teams including Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland Cincinnati Philadelphia and Brooklyn with win percentages and totals. It also reports on the death of former U S Senator John F Lewis, a capsized rescue tragedy at Greenwich Point, lynching in Georgia, a fatal foul tip in New York, a quarantined Portland port over cholera, and various Labor Day celebrations and public notices from across the country.
Consul Tinglo reports rising German demand for horse meat as prices for beef stay high. European workers struggle to feed families while horses become a cheaper protein. supply strains push prices up. Germany pays $35 to $50 for worn horses, and some anticipate profitable live-animal shipments from America despite tariffs and transport costs. Zurich to form a bank for electric enterprises with capital of 1000.
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