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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1889
Page
6
A garbled poem fragment questions worldly praise and decay. The speaker laments corruption and misplaced virtue, imagining a distant, ideal realm while critiquing present life and fallen humanity. The text shows broken lines and misspelled phrases, reflecting OCR corruption rather than a coherent narrative.
Emily Kendal marries John Bowerbank, a precise, steady businessman, after her failed attachment to Edward Knowle. Emily, pale and passive, endures a loveless marriage to a rich, aging man who provides comfort but little affection. John remains practical and dutiful, while Emily's yearning for meaning and love remains unresolved.
The week features profiles of two incoming United States Senators. Anthony Higgins, a 41 year old from Delaware and former U S District Attorney, is described as the first Republican senator from his state. William D Washburn of Minnesota is noted for his Maine birth in 1831, diverse early work, and long career leading to and serving in Congress.
Report notes the principal participants in the grana show wedding conducted with overall satisfaction and success, except for a small, common omission in such ceremonies, described as trifling by observers.
The notice reports on the Christian Temperance Union’s efforts, Italian evangelists in Newcastle, and legislative moves in Missouri to prohibit alcohol. It highlights women organizers, local option laws, and social pressure on saloons with references to nationwide temperance groups and demonstrations.
German Minister in Washington forwards notes to the State Department amid Samoa crisis. Dispatches claim Germany declared war on Mataafa and Samoa under martial law. Berlin and Apia correspondence discuss neutrality and German military withdrawals. Consul and German officials in Samoa maneuver around American property and sovereignty concerns. The North German Gazette denies a formal declaration of war.
Chinese New Year observed in New York City with red and yellow decor in Chinatowns, celebrating the 5973th founding anniversary. The Thirteenth Regiment was reviewed in Brooklyn by Governor Hill. Senate invites a committee for the national constitution centennial. Various local incidents and state notices follow in brief.
A massive fox chase in Piice County drew hundreds from nearby counties and featured many dogs and hunters. The hunt included Hardin Township participants and some family involvement. The event ended with several foxes and coons recorded as the spoils.
Editor O'Brien has been taken to Cleame Jail Dublin to serve a sentence under the Crimes act. He resisted authorities during a forceful confinement and grew weak, prompting a priest to be summoned as jailers feared a fatal outcome from the rough treatment.
The report notes 104,000 deaths statewide in a year with half in July August. Typhoid 1464, scarlet fever 2452, diphtheria 445, diarrheal diseases and acute respiratory diseases common. Smallpox appeared outside New York City, mostly in Buffalo Lyons diphtheria lower rate, scarlet fever high. Whooping cough unusually prevalent, especially late year. Diarrheal deaths remained a near uniform share.
The report shows consumption caused 2.92 deaths per 1000 in cities and 2.15 per 1000 in the state. Of total deaths 79,80) occurred in 28 cities with 3,955,000 population, rate about 24.2 per 1000. Outside cities the rate was about 13.10 per 1000, statewide about 19.10.
The Senate, on day 16, considers woman suffrage at municipal elections and exempts the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals from collateral bequest laws. A banking act fix passes, and two or more people conspiring to restrain production or raise prices faces felony liability.
The assembly discusses a governor appointed commission to study moving Sing Sing Prison and considers bills including two new state assessors from New York City. Experts for a ceiling study are named as Ches ter, Russell, Brash, with Stanford White later added. Multiple bills pass or are reported from committees, covering penal code changes, public facilities, and education initiatives in New York.
A collage of disparate items notes Iowa teachers, chili shipments, Texaspox activity, English beer control, British animosity toward Germany, Washington state clubs, Tennessee convict wages, rail earnings, wheat yields in Australia, Oxy Fdo Indians education, and fleets in Russia France Germany. It cites population tidbits, naval totals, and proposed public school instruction spending in New York.
A Washington dispatch reports President Grover Cleveland will become a New York resident on March 5 and join the law firm Bangs Stetson Tracy MacVeagh as counsel. He plans to live in Manhattan, maintain health by walking to his office on Williams Street, and will be joined by Secretary Fairchild and private secretary Lamont in New York for new business ventures.
A massive early morning blaze in Buffalo on the Root & Heating structure at Carroll and Wells began at 2 45 am on the fourth floor and swept across Seneca Street. Winds 30 to 35 mph fanned flames, destroying forty buildings in a seven to eight block district, injuring Fire Chief Hornung and trapping firefighters as the Arlington Hotel rear wall collapsed.
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