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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1877
Page
2
In Deadwood, three Texas men robbed a post office and fled on horseback. A vigilante crowd fired fifty bullets as sheriffs closed in, wounding two agents and a horse. the bandits were captured, with one in jail, as street chaos spilled across the town.
The Dramatic News recounts an amusing tale of Leonard Grover the playwright and his companion Ned Holmes after a hearty supper in New York. Grover discreetly slipped silver dimes into the pockets of hungry sleepers in Union Square, aiming to give a dollar to one last man, only to be disrupted when a man, awakened, cried Thieves. Grover held firm, offering a five dollar bill to silence the incident, preserving his plan and his reputation.
An errant servant girl Harriet Smith Fee is praised by Maidstone residents for a singular act of bravery. She presented a valuable gold watch after aiding a painter who clung to a ladder outside a three-story dwelling, risking serious injury.
Clothes pins, though humble, form a sizable American industry with factories across New England and other states. Pennsylvania and Ohio host large plants capable of 72 000 pins weekly. Quaker operators predominate. Birch and poplar woods yield best pins. machines cut and finish them rapidly, shipping to New York, Boston, the West, Australia, and England. Prices drop twenty-five percent due to a sluggish business climate, some New England mills halting production to source cheaper from the West.
J H Nolan, noted inventor, unveils a self propelling horse powered by rider weight. The simple machine claims speeds surpassing top trotters, with a ten to twelve mile per hour model for adults costing fifteen to twenty dollars and smaller child versions at three to five dollars. A recent hall demonstration showed a 60 pound boy propelling the device at six to seven miles an hour, proving practical value.
A Raygern monk near Brunn and Vienna built a self moving globe described by the Academy. The device revolves for three weeks with a twelve wheel mechanism driving a smaller sun moving globe. After over ten years of work the globe shows accurate geographic details including steamer routes railways telegraph lines mountain heights and ocean depths.
A Roumanian correspondent describes near Jassy a group of Imperial Guard Cossacks drinking at a village inn. One man threatens the landlord with a saber, a vatagel is slain by a saber stroke, and the mayor arrives with peasants to beat and bind the offender. The other Cossack watches, refuses to intervene, then safely departs after a show of force. The captured Cossack is later hanged by court martial, with his companion shot the same night.
Nearly 18 000 people filled the tabernacle for Brigham Young’s burial as sorrowed family and leaders viewed the coffin. An Indian chief bewailed the corpse in a vivid display while wives and children wept. John M. Young and other church authorities spoke as George W. Cannon read Young’s own burial wishes.
After singing ages and prayers the cortege formed at Eagle gate and moved east eight abreast, protected by ropes, along the Prophet’s residence grounds toward the cemetery on the hill overlooking the valley, then turned northwest at Eagle gate and proceeded through the grounds.
A Western paper reports Mr. T. J. McAtee of Dog Prairie Missouri faced an immense bat infestation at his home. He killed about 70 on the first day and 2 3 hundred the next morning, counting 4 103 bats dead by a barrelful of carcasses. By dawn the survivors had vanished and attempts to keep them out continued to fail.
A reported gathering of nearly one hundred Burschen from Erlangen Wurzburg Tubingen Heidelberg Basel and Strasbourg met at Konigshofen on the Tauber with surgeons and Pankerei paraphernalia for a blood feuding session kept private behind closed doors. Evidence of bloodied water and suspicions rose with hotelkeepers and local authorities inspecting the incident.
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