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Newspaper
Daily Logansport Pharos
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1875
Page
3
Publication notice states Pogansport Daily Pharos issues each evening at 4 o'clock except Sundays from the southeast corner of North and Fourth Streets. Advertising terms show yearly advance payments and weekly rates for single copies.
City Directory lists City Offices at Broadway 27. Council meetings set for the first and third Wednesdays. Officials include Mayor Samuel L McFadin Treasurer Allen E Taylor Police Judge Anthony F Smith City Attorney Hittle Nelson Street Commissioner P McGaughey ward councilmen and police department with Chief Uriah Stuiseler among others. Engine houses and hose companies are named with locations Tipton Champion Summit Upton Logan and more.
A transportation timetable lists arrivals and departures for routes including Pittsburg Cincinnati St Louis Loganport Chicago Indianapolis Richmond and Louisville. It shows train names such as Chicago Express Ta nisville Richmond Mail and Columbus Exp with specific departure and arrival times from Logansport Indianapolis Louisville and other points.
County offices listed with officials including Commissioners Jamie Fogle and John Hynes. Court and circuit court meeting dates stated along with figures for auditor clerk sheriff treasurer recorder surveyor and other posts.
Society notes present a directory of lodges meeting on various Fridays and Mondays at Orient Hall and other halls. It lists officers including W M, Scribe, Treasurer, and Trustees for Tipton Jantge, Orient Lodge, Chapter No 2, Logansport Council, St John Commandry, Lagan Lodge, Gas Encampment, River Lodge, Porito Lodge, Logan Tribe and others with meeting days and locations.
The organization holds meetings on the last Monday evening each month in their Hall at the corner of Bridge and Market streets over M. Frank & Bro.'s. Michael Wagner serves as President with Adam Wecht as Vice President. Contac Gross is Secretary and John Wolf is Treasurer.
The text lists meetings for two lodges: Onward Lodge No.201 meets Fridays and Thursdays in halls on Market and Fourth streets with officers named. Shultztown rooms above Logansport National Bank host services each Sabbath at 4 PM with G. Shepard as Superintendent and J. K. H. Samunis as Secretary. Rev C M Robertson noted for Onward Lodge.
Terrible disaster at the French Catholic Church in South Holyoke Massachusetts during an evening service. A candle ignited the draperies causing a rapid fire that trapped hundreds on the gallery stairs leading to a deadly crush. Sixty six deaths reported with seventy five total casualties.
Abraham Jackson, a Boston lawyer accused of forgery and defalcation totaling nearly $800000, has arrived there accompanied by a detective. He denies the charges and asserts his innocence.
The Levant Journal reports a severe earthquake in Beginning Boronssa Asia Minor destroying six hundred houses. At least one hundred lives are confirmed lost with one hundred eighty seven injured. Total fatalities remain unknown. A Carlist battery at Mt Rico fired on the Spanish squadron, killing the admiral and wounding officers.
Dr L A Alford delivered a lecture in St Louis and left for an evening performance. The Opera House expects a packed house with two cannon on stage for the night production. A Rockfield man died drunk in custody after a spree, while the T W A W railroad clocked 41 miles in 42 minutes. Martha Washington tea party will feature authentic Revolutionary and 1812 costumes. A Buckeye traveler lost one third of his fortune to three card monte and land schemes before ending up in a Kansas City saloon. Colfax to be heard at the Opera House. T L Cheek moves to Terre Haute. street pratfalls and runaway horses disrupt Broadway.
A New York letter notes Bessie Turner spurned a $100 per night and all expenses offer for sixty lectures in major cities after leaving the stand. An afteroffer raised by 50 percent was also refused. The piece mentions others profiting from Brooklyn scandal and references Mrs Bloomer and temperance work in Iowa.
A sprawling satirical poem mocks the oncoming hopper grass infestation through biblical and prophetic language. It references a relief committee praising the pest, compares its march to a Democratic victory, and ends with a note about President Juarez and a joke about a poet laureate.
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