27 Nov 1886
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1886
Page
1
Winter Apples selling direct from growers with prices from 1.75 to 2.25 per barrel. Candy assortments including Good Mixed Candy, Gum Drops, and Cream Bon Bons. Flour offered as roller flour at 85 cents a sack. Address 67 and 69 Stephenson Street.
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania a firedamp explosion at the Conyngham shaft owned by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. trapped about fifty miners below the surface. Dozens were burned with many fatefully harmed, as workers carried to surface and made ready for hospital care. Names of the severely burned include Boyle and Elliott among about forty-three injured. twelve expected to die. The blast followed a miner’s open lamp near gas, spreading flames through the shaft as rescuers retrieved survivors.
A Chicago man Henry Jansen, long known as a violent drunk, stabbed his wife Laura Jansen and wounded her mother and brother after a confrontation over a supposed missing baby. He fled, was found in a nightshirt later, and was jailed as authorities pursued a possible insanity defense while Mrs. Jansen lay fatally wounded.
Bradstreet reports reduced movement in general merchandise with Chicago seeing stronger dry goods sales and grain speculation. Reports also cover a deadly arson case in Kentucky, a major liquor ruling in Dusque, Ontario religious demographics, Indiana ore finds, a Boston dynamite leadership shakeup, and a Mississippi lynching of three incendiaries.
Turbulent dispatches report Dillon pending in Longford and Murroe as government uses court actions and public meeting bans to quell anti rent agitation. Troops are deployed, Dublin and London newspapers discuss bail, warrants, and prosecutions while Irish leaders vow resistance and plan further meetings across Sligo, Tipperary, and Galway.
A disputed grand larceny case centers on a large elevator stock loss and alleged complicity by Campbell Kennedy Byther and other Richmond figures. Campbell claims the transaction was ordinary business. prosecutors seek recovery of about 840,000 in capital tied to the Frontfrontator enterprise amid indictments and collateral accusations.
A long OCR passage describes a proposed chemical for sugar production, linking saccharin and tar in New York led by Dr C Fabberg with claims of cheap glucose methods. It also covers police scandal, bank rumors in Davenport and dates from November, plus notes on various local officials and incidents.
Nov 27 dispatches describe a Republican insider doubting success on joint ballot while Democrats hold a two vote majority. debate centers on seating Meagher and constitutional eligibility. Also covered are an attack on Joli Baker in Belleville post office, a labor convention in Boston's McNull movement, Henry George's new party vows, Davitt’s militia talks, a New York Boston rail line update, a boxing match setup, and a Missouri train robbery attempt thwarted by a messenger and doctor.
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