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Newspaper
Fort Smith Elevator
Location
Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1884
Page
2
The notice lists county offices including Clerk Assessor Surveyor Coroner and Township appointments made by PPGasnier. The document names each role and records the official designation for the county administration.
Fragmentary text suggests a note about appropriations from Congress to protect a harbor. Names and clear facts are unreadable. no specific dates, places, or entities can be confirmed for a precise card.
The text notes emancipation events celebrated by the colored people of Texas, highlighting a general observance by Black Texans. It references a sense of communal pride and historical recognition tied to liberation.
A blaze at the North Shore Lumber mill in Parry Harbor Canada on Friday caused a loss of about 100,000 dollars. Fire crews battled the flames but the mill structures suffered extensive damage.
A fire in Pace Falls Pennsylvania on Saturday destroyed nearly an entire news publication. The blaze caused extensive damage to manuscripts and printing materials, with losses reported around seventy five dollars and six cents in value.
In Galveston Texas Clinton League accidentally shot and killed his 13 year old brother Samuel last Friday.
The annual rental from university and asylum lands of Texas is 118000. With 44000 acres yet to be added.
John P. Lowery has retired from the editorial chair of the Arkansas Methodist and Horace Jewell occupies the same.
In the Monongahela Valley at least five cco miners remain idle as operators refuse to meet their wage demands. The labor dispute intensifies with no immediate settlement in sight.
The text notes a U S railroad record of S1 miles in 61 minutes on the New York Central and an English speed record of 13 miles in 16 minutes, highlighting transportation performance achievements.
Five hundred Mormons arrived at New York on Monday morning from Liverpool England and immediately departed for Salt Lake City.
A sundry civil appropriation bill reported to the house on Saturday last earmarks seventy five thousand dollars for improvements on Hot Springs creek.
David Hughes of Nashville Tennessee was sentenced to sixteen years in prison for abducting a fifteen year old orphan girl. The case centered on a local crime in which Hughes took the minor without consent and faced federal and state authorities.
Charles Wallace undertakes steady collecting in Franklin county to assemble fruit grain and related produce for the New Orleans World’s Fair showcasing regional agriculture and industry.
The cotton firm Gardner & (ates based in Mobile Alabama and its New Orleans branch Gardner Copp suspend operations with liabilities of 165000 dollars and assets of 230000 dollars.
Citizens in Hot Springs approve the recommendations of the investigating committee and favor transferring management to the War Department.
Judge Isaac B. Sharp of Wyan dotte Kansas shot himself at his home on Saturday morning, ending his life. The prominent attorney died at the scene, leaving the community shocked by the death of a well known legal figure.
A sundry civil appropriation bill amendment proposes $500000 to fund an exposition showcasing the capabilities of the colored race, to be held in Chicago in 1885.
Moody’s mission work in London ended Monday. Conversions there since last fall total about 34,000, with uncertainty if Moody will return to England due to Sanity’s illness.
John Burns the Tay blower and three fellow convicts bolted from a Fort Smith road stone quarry. Guards fired, recaptured all but Burns who allegedly escaped. His body was later found nearby in the brush, about 75 yards from the breakout site.
Gov Berry issues proclamation offering 200 dollars for the apprehension of a portrayed offender described as a white male from Scott county about twenty years old, five feet six inches tall.
OCCASIONAL. Little Rock, June 24, 1884. The writer outlines how Congress granted Arkansas vast lands for internal improvements and seminary use, the costly mismanagement in sale and chancery actions, and calls for reform to stabilize titles, fund debts, and attract immigration and railroad growth.
Ozark Democrat reports a 17 year old son of Isaac Gab bard drowned in Mulberry Creek near John Kelly's. After running to cool off he stripped and plunged in, crying How cold He sank to the bottom in two to three feet of water. He was found face down with two or three small boys nearby.
The state announces new postmasters Charles Fierce Pitkin James H Atkins Hanover Tramer M Rea Onset Owen B Slaughter Aquila Charles RK Beloate Corning John N Trimble Amos James T Crippin Driggs and Thomas Dowell Jonesborough with a new post office established at Stone Marion county.
White county peach sales in St Louis at six dollars a bushel. Whooping cough widespread in Lite Rock. Berhe shipped ripe tomatoes and squashes last week. Cane FR College in Washington county closed its eighth year. Sheriff A Sadler of Franklin county seeks re election. Over 35 900 bales of cotton freed at Texarkana this season. Numerous items describe legal cases crimes and local happenings across the state with school, church, and community notes.
Corn corps near Pauls Valley and Chickasaw country show promise. Whisky case at Atoka. deputy captures peddler Wud Pill, escapee Bulmuade. Denison man wavey Karmon killed on a stock car at Limestone Gap. Sans Bois courthouse burned. culprits fled to Cherokee Nation. Green-head flies threaten travel and cattle. Wire fences being cut. militia horses stolen near Arnolds. Lightning kills Mrs Kelly and her son at White Bead Hill residence. Ground Hog case in Koo-wee-scoo-wee district eyed as major.
A tank holding 35 000 barrels of oil at Coal Grove Pennsylvania was struck by lightning Sunday and its contents destroyed.
Paragraphs report on residents moving businesses and homes like Capt J P Leake and Lt McCord's stone shop now Tate Brothers. Wheat harvest near finish with very good yields. D Milam and Capt W H Bell grow fruit profitably. Crops better than since 1874 and Buckner College president Dr AS Worrell plans to leave. Mrs EL Cantbron dies aged 35.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions colonel, Hagen Ayer, and Catharile with scattered phrases about years, costs, and pilgrimages. The text is incoherent, lacking clear events, dates, or identifiable entities to summarize into a full news item.
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