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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1889
Page
3
Fragmentary report cites sinking of six ships through a fierce storm affecting three nationalities. Numerous officers and sailors perished. German vessels and American ships reported wrecked or driven onto reefs while low visibility and high seas hinder rescue attempts.
Disjointed excerpts describe ship wrecks, political notes, and military mentions across places like Havana and North York shire. The text mixes names, dates, and events in a garbled fashion with references to governors, pensions, and international incidents, yielding little coherent narrative.
A collage of assorted notes touches on international affairs, banking, new charter grants, a Boston area hotel sale, a Canadian harbor railroad project, and famine deaths in Shan-Tueng China. It mentions transfer requests, an elevated railroad, and widespread unrest.
Nominations by Peastient Harrison to the Senate include Francis B Warren for Governor of Wyoming Territory, Benjamin F L White for Governor of Montana, and Lat Noorehoue for Treasury role among others. Also named are Hobart Vl Boatlaf as Inland Affairs assistant, Oscar Mo Spelman for Marshal of the United States Eastern District, and Charles Wo for Martinsville post. The slate lists postmasters and ambassadors with several individuals condemned for navigation postings by the Senate.
The outbreak drives a two thousand monthly mortality in a city of three hundred thousand as families flee to highlands. Infants and children suffer most as rains fail and water scarcity worsens, while even eminent physicians’ households face decimation.
An excursion party of seventeen people on Lake Chalpa in Jalisco Mexico was capsized by a gale and all drowned. The report notes two Spanish coasting steamships Min dao and Visayas collided off Manis with thirty crew lost and the vessel sank.
The text records a Senate debate over a nomination with a 25 to 1 vote against reentry. It notes party lines with Democrats largely opposing and Republicans supporting. Several named officials and districts are listed, including ministers, marshals, and receivers across multiple territories and states.
Fragmentary notes indicate Lincoln linked to England mission support and Egan associated with Chile pension duties. Mentions include references to Ted Lincoln and Harvard context, Harlan and Woe, plus a nominee linked to A. W. Fisher of North Carolina. Details are unclear due to damaged text.
A chaotic, fragmentary report outlines a challenge to the New York Yacht Club for possession of the Americas Cup, mentioning Farles Danrave, Valayrie, and several named figures. The text also references accidents, legal actions, and maritime disasters, with scattered names and places across nations, indicating a broad, troubled historical update.
A fragmentary account describes three abducted men captured by a group identified as Indians. They were tied to stakes, fires built around them, tortured with sharp sticks as the bindings burned, then shot with rifles and cremated. No clear dates or locations are given.
A garbled obituary notes the death of John Bright an English statesman after a period of illness. It mentions his family and describes the impact on his relatives and associates.
The readable fragments trace a Confederate era speech and political debate touching on Civil War memory, Reconstruction sentiment, and postwar governance. Names and precise events are obscured, but the text hints at tensions over national unity, former leaders, and policy priorities in a volatile period.
Harvey bookkeeper Jirm Lyon is charged with embezzling 404 from plover and banished by Dr Lett. An afternoon visit led investigators to a grisly scene with a twelve year old girl dead and his wife gravely wounded. Lyon, former superintendent of a church Sunday school, was pursued after fleeing toward station. Local postmaster general wired updates to Philadelphia. a cabinet clerk accompanied Lyon in the city.
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