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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1874
Page
1
In Roanoke a group of locals gather at a club for poker with a stranger and two players. Jim Ward pressures the greeney to bet big and wins with four kings as the crowd loses their cash and the town feels the sting of the night. The tale ends with the drummers collecting debts and the village expressing regret.
A graphic account from the London Telegraph describes Brummy the dwarf and a bulldog named Physic staging a brutal prize fight in a Hanley sporting den. The combat features repeated blows and gashes as both combatants sink to the roped arena amid cheering backers and chaotic pandemonium.
The match ends with the bulldog severely injured and the dwarf gaining a dramatic win in round eleven after a powerful chin blow. The crowd witnesses a horrific spectacle and the narrator questions the purpose of such carnage in future Hanley contests.
A Chicago Times reprint laments the impact of a sexual scandal on Miss Susan B. Anthony, describing how an elder woman and Mrs. Stanton discuss marital infidelity with the innocent young reformer. The piece condemns gossip and calls the contamination of youth a lasting harm.
A Chicago Times communique to the Evening Star reports a July 1845 account of a traveler finding white skinned women and children in a remote Rio Grande canyon near Santa Fe. He describes armed white men guiding him, a trek past 30 miles, and an Indian village where the chief warns of the evil spirit.
The Chicago Times reports weeks of bitter street bus racing and vulgar language by Jehu drivers. A clash between Gen. Grant on his own hook and bus 294 led to a street brawl with obscenity and injuries. City officials ordered heightened surveillance to curb such behavior. Hearth and Home praises H. F. Keenan for his health related resignation and journalistic merit.
In pursuance of the intent to run to Indiana when bailed, W G Terrell of Covington Kentucky, held on $10,000 bail for the murder of Harvey G Meyers, appeared on Indianapolis streets Tuesday.
Citizens of Cincinnati invite Hon. Hugh McCulloch to visit the city and address the public on finance and taxation. They note his experience as a Wester banker and Secretary of the Treasury, and his current residence in London. Signed by Ed Sargeant and others.
Mrs. Woodhull argues that Tilton and Beecher and the public have no right to intrude on Beecher Tilton matters. She champions Beecher’s magnetism and the intimate life as noble, and says public opinion wrongfully persecutes individuals while a new social republic will form around them.
Two workers on the great bridge, Fred Wagner and John Campbell, leaped sixty five feet into the Mississippi to win a ten dollar bet about reaching the eastern shore. After a tense two minutes they surfaced and reached the bank, landing to a crowd of about two hundred. they refused help and kept their wager. A rattlesnake bit Mrs. William Herrick in her home, and a severe windstorm battered Jackson and nearby counties, toppling trees and flattening corn fields.
An old Beecher sermon titled The Seducer and His Victim, delivered in Brooklyn in 1856, is reprinted from a Minneapolis scrap-book. It condemns the seducer in scathing terms and portrays the betrayed woman’s ruin, poverty, and social scorn with vivid biblical and moral imagery.
Olive Logan recounts Paris corset maker Gringoire who served Empress Eugenie and English nobles. The Empress paid high prices for contil corsets, wore night corsets to preserve her figure, and Gringoire's business expanded to London with a grand sign still reading Gringoire.
Beet growers near Brighton report a massive army worm outbreak sweeping three miles of fields. Worms two and a half inches long dark brown with black white stripes devour beet tops and beet itself. In response 2,400 turkeys were released to combat the pests but suffered heavy losses and limited progress as worms spread in millions.
A Louisville Courier-Journal reminiscence surveys Judge P. A. Major on the Circuit Bench in Kentucky’s Eleventh District. It recalls his controversial decisions allowing bail for Col. Terrell who killed Harvey Myers and a separate incident involving the Ku Klux Smoot case. The piece notes Cincinnati Enquirer criticisms, an invitation to Canada, and mentions General George B. Hodge as gubernatorial hopeful amid Major’s pending succession by Democratic selection.
A Cincinnati Enquirer feature on Joan E. Neff, a rising political figure from Winchester, touted as brave and sharp. It recalls his 1872 congressional race against John Peter Cleaver Shanks, the contested result, and Neff’s law studies under Gen. Tom Browne. Browne praised Neff as bold and capable, noting his blunt campaigns before large crowds and his ability to back claims with records.
A Minnesota farmer fought grasshoppers on a fifty acre wheat field by lighting straw in movable fence strips to create smoke. The hoppers rose in a swarm but perished under the prolonged fumigation, saving his crop. The aged Virginia resident who died at 134 recollected events before the Revolution, yet certain historic claims about Washington and Lafayette are questioned.
A Cincinnati Gazette column recounts Tilton and Beecher feud edged by a gun accident amid sensational rhetoric. It moves to a dramatic 1874 clash near Three Mile Creek as emigrants defend stock against ten attacking Indians, yielding seven deaths and two wounded, followed by notes on Mississippi valley drainage, mound builders, and a Philadelphia post office inquiry.
A New York gentleman of ample means offers $20,000 for the return of Charles B. Ross to restore a child to its parents. He seeks a reasonable exchange plan to save his wife who is distressed by the alleged abduction.
The Indianapolis Journal reports Mrs. Gilbert Sloan and sister in law attacked a young woman in public over alleged infidelity. After tearing hats and wardrobes, Mrs. Sloan pursued Finch through Johnson's Block, threatening a lash while Col. Rose urged restraint. Sloan’s husband allegedly favors Maude Hoffman, prompting the drunken marital feud and property destruction on Virginia Avenue.
New York correspondence describes Mr Tilton and Mrs Tilton as aged yet powerful in presence. Tilton walks with a leonine tread, resembles Charles Sumner, and often travels by ferry or between his home and The Times building in New York. Mrs Tilton appears fragile yet sympathetic, with sad eyes and evident suffering.
A party trolling for bluefish off Rockaway beach killed a stranded young black whale with a pocket knife. The whale weighed 2,160 pounds, measured 14 feet long and 6 feet between the eyes, with 18 feet girth. The carcass was hauled to East New York for weighing.
Salem Church of United Brethren in Lancashire township burned last Wednesday morning causing about 2000 dollars in losses. Incendiarism suspected. Thunder storms harmed Wells county corn. Huntington County notes cover Grange picnic at Markie with three thousand attendees, nominations by People’s Convention, and various local incidents from lightning deaths to school openings and canal talks.
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