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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1894
Page
3
Mrs. Frank Roadson of Abilene lived six weeks with a six penny nail in her skull. An operation removed the nail and an abscess. she had driven it in herself to end her life, doctors say this is the most remarkable case on record. Christmas shop sales are reported as notably small, with only cheap goods moving.
A Buffalo man with part of the left chest removed exposing the heart travels to cities exhibiting himself to physicians. The hole in his chest measures about three inches square with skin covering the heart, and a similar opening exists on his back. He was examined by a College of Physicians and Surgeons professor who offered a small payment for his case.
Prominent Chinamen on the Pacific coast predict a mass migration of Chinese abroad to attend a grand fair in the Celestial empire within a year or two. Interpreter Ponce of San Francisco says hundreds of thousands or millions will be present, with all nations invited, for the centuries old event held every 60 years.
Citizens in Wilmington North Carolina reported a curious phenomenon between 6 50 and 7 am described as a meteor or a comet. Eyewitnesses noted a large star with a tail about 100 yards long and a burst ending in a colorful fire trail. A colored astronomer claimed to see the letters W W W clearly outlined and another said the word Prepare was visible.
The Berliner Zeitung reports severe shortages in German industry with factories that once employed 20 men now down to two. The article notes widespread unemployment and a grim mood across the labor landscape.
Fifty carloads a day are moved from Jackson park by multiple lines and at this rate three months more will be needed to remove the exhibits. The railroads will not take revenue from this traffic as they agreed that exhibits brought to Chicago at full rates should be returned free.
A stage between Rosario and Mazatlan stops at Agua Caliente at 2 a.m. Four men hold up the coach and abduct Carlotta Newman, daughter of a poor Mazatlan blind woman, tying her to a saddle. Jose Valdez, her former lover, identified by the girl, leads the capture with two cousins and another man. Rurales search Concordia for Valdez, mother in Mazatlan devastated.
English clergymen debate incense in parish worship amid declining incomes from agriculture. Growing numbers of altar servers and thurifers plan to form the Thurifer Guild to study incense history and improve manufacture and use in a economical way.
A Congo railway section from Matadi to Kenge signals Belgian enterprise. British traders foresee vast trade ahead and plan to tap the route to Stanley Pool. Freight charges are listed in European ports and three lines, two British and one German, call Matadi. A Congo boom is predicted and King Leopold may soon reap rewards.
Jabez English a sheep herder near Tombstone sees a puma attack his unfinished cabin. His wife in Santa Anna returns with a lantern, shatters the puma’s glare, lures it off, and the village shoots the animal. They rescue English, then she claims the puma skin for their new home.
The government awards a $10,000 contract to build a wharf on the Potomac near Wakefield in Westmoreland County Virginia to access the burned Washington birthplace site. A steamboat landing will ease tourist access and the area will receive two monuments marking the historic spot.
Six young ladies from St. Leo's Catholic church study class wore white chrysanthemums and acted as pallbearers for Mrs. James McGiven, manager of a local shorthand school. They escorted the casket to the church and remained in charge of the remains through interment.
A Paris correspondent reports a beggar who hung himself to entice children near a play area. A letter in his pocket explained the planned death as a statement of his destiny. In Montreal, 116 St Martin Street, Charles Prenderyust, 0 years, died after snow house collapse left him buried eight hours, with a broken leg and internal injuries.
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