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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1889
Page
3
The Register notes the collapse of Boulangerism, rising anti trust concerns in Indiana politics, and a tally of political and social insights. It cites English rent rolls, Canadian emigration, Japan’s political parties, New York voters, militia sizes, and German officer suicides. The piece ends with a fabled suggestion Canada join the American Union to solve fishing and sealing disputes.
Finance Minister Dublan says Mexico’s financial outlook is at its best, with rising business activity and customs receipts on imports from the United States reaching record highs.
The American Economist extols the New York Exposition of 1892 as the world’s most attractive and important industrial fair, promising unprecedented splendor.
The writer of Home, Sweet Home, and George W. Allen of Ohio, famed as author of the Homestead law, both die threatened by destitution. The note recalls Allen's lack of a personal homestead and looming poverty as his life ends.
The Baltimore Sun highlights Maryland's growth as a fruit growing state with banner melons and large shipments of peaches and pears. It discusses diversified crops boosting land productivity and adaptive farming practices. Captain Wissmann praises horse use in West Africa and suggests mounted infantry could scout over tall grass and reach targets with less fatigue.
A Popular Science News fragment speculates that a mild winter with many thunderstorms is not a reliable indicator of upcoming summer electrical disturbances or related political events. The piece warns that local conditions drive storms more than past weather or presidential cycles.
A strong farmers movement uses The Alliance to purchase all needs under contracts with about ten percent profit for storekeepers. The New York Tribune notes many Indiana shopkeepers have been forced to abandon business as competition shifts locations.
The State Department reports from Cape Town discuss risks to Americans visiting diamond mines. It warns about thieves and smugglers pairing with diggers, and notes tension at Breakwater convict station amid heavy rain and unrest.
The August 1888 Agriculture Department report shows corn at 94.8, spring wheat 61.2, oats 92.8, barley 90.6, buckwheat 93.2, potatoes 94.3, hay 94.5, and tobacco 84.4. Corn rose 41.2 points in August but remains near last year’s level. wheat fell about three points while oats and other grains hold relatively high values amid drought and heavy rain in parts of the Midwest and Northwest.
Information from the New York Coffee Exchange cites Brazil as the sole traded product with a 5.5 million bag crop seen as moderate. Poor quality arrivals and labor disruption lower expectations, with 1.5 hundred thousand bags below earlier estimates. Rio shipped 2,343,882 bags to the U.S. from July 1, 1888 to June 30, 1889.
Emperor Francis Joseph arrived in Berlin to a cordial welcome from Emperor William and Prince Henry. Notables included Count Herbert Bismarck and generals Moltke and Bülow. The visit featured a grand procession, artillery salutes, and crowds along Unter den Linden as both courts met. The Reichsanzeiger and North German Gazette hailed the alliance and European peace efforts.
War Department officials in Washington fear rising desertions from the army. Over the six months ending June 30 there were 185 more desertions than the previous year, totaling 1467 this year against 1209 last year. Most desertions occur in the first enlistment year, and officers advocate articles of war modification and reducing extra duties to curb the exodus.
In a burning mine, reporter Mike The Mexican steamboat Alejandro arrived in San Francisco from Guaymas with word that a fire started in the early part of July. Details on the 1500-foot level and the Dante shaft remain unclear.
The Clan na Gael annual athletic show in Philadelphia drew about 25 006 attendees. Profits will fund arrests and punishment of Dr P H Cronin murderers. Also reported: Dr Alexander Browne Mott, notable surgeon and son of Valentine Mott, died near Yonkers from pneumonia. Other items include ship record set by City of Paris, New York, court annulment of Mary A Flack divorce, Danbury arson fears, and storms widening damage along New Jersey coast.
After the Kansas school elections, figures say about 50,000 women voted. Reports describe murders in Indiana and Virginia, boiler explosions in Kentucky, a university professor’s death, mob violence in Texas, and destructive storms across Nebraska and New Mexico. Recounts include political nominations, lynching in Washington, and a large cyclone in Colorado.
First Comptroller Matthews rules the 600000 appropriation made March 2, 1889 for agricultural experiment stations may benefit only the forty stations for which estimates were prepared. The Census Superintendent named to report on census tabulation methods. New revenue marine vessel project noted. Local sale of Danny's brewery to New York capitalists price 400000. State Department lists delegates for upcoming conference in Washington. Mention of Angel Ortiz Monasterio and Nicanor Bolet Picraza. Civil service ruling on Census clerks upheld. Internal Revenue circular bans refilling distillery casks after weed event in Sacheenberg Germany.
A fragmented Riverside dispatch notes widespread ruin with half the town destroyed and the poor suffering. Mrs Mavanics in London faces hanging for murder, a petition for reprieve signed by Lincoln and American officials. Duchess of Fife withholds royal grant share. Simon Bardina held for ransom in Cuba. Edison at Paris Exposition climbs the Eiffel Tower and tests a phonograph. Italy’s Humbert elevates Edison to Grand Officer. A Polish succession marked by grand festivities and a German Austrian sham battle at Spandau. France sentences Boulangers allies. extradition efforts loom.
A large gathering of stockmen cowboys and sportsmen conducted a daylong wolf and coyote drive across Chalk Bluffs in southern Wyoming from Cheyenne toward the Nebraska line. Participants blasted dens with dynamite and smoke to flush wolves from caves driving many to death with lariats dynamite and gunfire.
A court in France convicts General Boulanger of conspiracy and treason. The State Council annuls elections in twelve cantons citing ineligibility. Co-defendants Dillon and Rochefort found guilty of complicity. Senate Court votes 198 to 10 that Boulanger engaged in treasonous actions linked to the Lyons depot incident.
A severe Missouri Valley storm caused extensive loss with roughly twenty killed and property damage above 500000 dollars. The fatalities include H H Silver's son at Cortland Nebraska and several others from Dowegon Winthrop Winthrop Kan Calne Nebraska with reports of more deaths across towns.
A compilation notes varied topics from crop failures in the hop season and scarce prices to the Cretan insurrection spreading and electric streetcars gaining favor. It reports floods, fires, water famine threats, and imperial budgets, with appointments in the U S Customs and Internal Revenue services, and Chinese rioting suppression.
The storm blankets Mammoth Pennsylvania, drowning two young brothers Michael and John Murphy after their boats drifted into the Morris Canal. Floods devastate North and South Carolina. Ex-President Allen of Forty second Street and Grand Street RR faces a 14 year State Prison sentence for stock fraud. Gas explosion in New York kills Jacob Morris and wounds twenty five others. Multiple political, legal, and criminal items from nationwide events follow.
A California dining car tragedy pits U S Supreme Court Justice Field against Judge David S. Terry. Deputy Marshal Nagle killed Terry after a slap at Field while protecting him. Field recounts a guarded confrontation amid a stunned crowd as authorities move to detain Field and Nagle.
An excursion train carrying veterans from the 1624 Regiment reunion at Butler derailed near Sarvers seven miles east of Freeport. Two killed, several fatally injured, and about twenty five hurt as rails spread on a rotten bridge timber caused the crash.
A threshing machine boiler exploded at Charles Dinsmore's farm eighteen miles from Aberdeen leaving three dead and several wounded. Victims include Pitt the engineer and Willian Sheeler. a fireman and Kritel suffered severe injuries as debris flew across the prairie. The cause is blamed on a cracked rusty boiler used five years.
A roundup of baseball figures and events mentions managers players and teams including Henry McCotanerat and Fred Dunar in Syracuse and Cleveland. It notes a lack of steady umpiring Captain Comiskey and Joe S Barnes’s sale of his St Paul stake for 15000 while Perse Haddock and Orse Gumbert are highlighted among rising young pitchers.
In McDowell County West Virginia Mrs Gillis and her two daughters were found dead after an alleged murder aided by suspects the Hollis brothers. A vigilance committee reportedly hung and shot them. A Catlettsburg Kentucky report claims the Hollis brothers were lured punished by the committee. The Standard Oil Company and white lead firms are referenced with large implied payments and a $4 000 000 Brooklyn sale cited.
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