01 Jun 1897
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1897
Page
1
The New York Sun notes the season brings Parisian touches with tilted hats and tulle under the chin. It highlights ripe corn buff tones, poke bonnet resistance, velvet ribbons, and new belts and caps for cycling and travel.
Advertisement claims De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve treats piles and skin diseases with lasting relief. Names Emmert & Burrell H. J. Moogh C. P. Guenther & Co. are listed as providers or distributors.
A Brookyln based Baptist church party of twenty one excursionists was struck by a Long Island railroad train at Merrick boulevard crossing near Valley Stream Long Island. Five were killed instantly and fifteen injured including skull fractures and broken limbs. Eyewitness reports mention uncertainty over whistle and bell use and the coach being pushed along the rails after the collision. The wreck caused screams and dire injuries as passengers attempted to escape.
Dr Jeremiah B Selby one of Milwaukee s oldest physicians died at Emergency hospital from a fall of eight feet through an elevator shaft He was aged 15 years Oklahoma agriculturists harvest a phenomenal wheat crop yielding forty to sixty bushels per acre Richard Harvey convicted of burglary and sentenced to three years while handcuffed in Salt Lake City broke free and was shot by a deputy sheriff California man offers a steaming insect-killing process for fruit trees August Ebert an engine man at North Milwaukee killed by flywheel Conductor John Myers of Seymour Indiana aged 46 lost both arms after falling from a Mitchell train William Griffin Wall Street promoter using alias Jean Baptiste le Blanc found in Pittsburg John Athearn owner of Marion Mills refused 20000 offer for the mare Boston postoffice policy bans minors from chief clerkships and deputy postmasters John Ogden of Antigo named secretary of Wisconsin state board of immigration Thomas Marrin aged 70 killed driving a one horse cart Ernestine Miller arrested Green Bay charged with stealing a diamond ring from F A Hollman
Reports of Cheyenne killings at Lame Deer agency are unverified aside from a sheep herder Hoover murder. Settlers arm, women and children flee, troops deploy, and a clash between Indian agent Captain Stouch and sheriff’s officials stirs tension. Governor McKinley urged restraint. no battle yet. Separate items note Michigan tax bill opinion request and a Miles Center man’s suicide after a quarrel with his sweetheart.
Frank McAvoy, long employed by the L. N. A. & Ry., says he has used Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoe Remedy for over ten years and never without it in his family. He calls it the best remedy of its kind and recommends it. For sale by Emmert & Burrell.
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