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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1889
Page
3
The Register notes Treland’s population fell nine percent since 1881 and almost half since 1841. It reports 22,000,000 acres owned by those owing allegiance to other governments and mentions England’s plan to convene a conference on Behring Sea status. It cites Canon Wilberforce and Russia's law re adapting marriage restrictions for heirs.
The Chronicle notes Tadisn reservations seem inflated compared with early tax collections. A government report shows U S mineral output exceeding 500 million dollars, far surpassing rivals. European tensions trigger stock shrinkages while Minnesota lumbermen’s denudation alarms critics despite forest fires.
In a brief forecast, Goodall's Sun predicts the Sioux Innis will be opened to poorer immigrants. The piece notes Oklahoma has few homesteads while the Sioux reservation is five times larger in area.
The New York Voice notes a claimed victory in a strange matter while Wisconsin Central tests a new smoke burner. Observers say the device appears to work satisfactorily and promise lasting gratitude from the civilized world.
A century transition left twenty two railroads unable to interchange due to gauge issues, with Maine cars now seen slipping on Texas tracks. A Seattle resident offers 20000 toward a new settlement naming Edinburg or Smith City to honor Seattle after a recent disaster.
The New York Commercial Advertiser reports in Baltimore Charles Randolph Uncles, a colored man, has been ordained as a Roman Catholic priest. This event is described as a potential epoch in religious history for African Americans.
The Buenos Ayres city authorities report in six years ten million expended on sixty fine school buildings for 600 pupils apiece. Argentina ranks second to the United States in education spending per capita. Cotton trade notes a high-water mark of 5,300,000 bales before the war, rising to an estimated 8,000,000 bales this season with large value implications.
The Greek government proposes a vast railway expansion worth about 100 million dollars across Peloponnesus and Pirens. Despite inviting minor and noted figures, the plan faces government financial difficulty with many entwined interests, causing skepticism about undertaking the project.
President Harrison with Secretarys Tracy and Noble and Gov Bulkeley joins a Woodstock Connecticut celebration. The event includes speeches by Hawley Miller Reed and Hiscock, a tree planting, and a sail to Newport after a noisy reception with 1500 attendees. Rain interrupts the program but the day ends with a naval torpedo celebration.
Governors of the thirteen original states met in Philadelphia during the centennial era to plan a $1,500,000 memorial. They aimed to seek congressional action to return the funds for erecting a Philadelphia Fairmount Park memorial marking the first century of American independence.
The Reading Iron Works plant, shut down after a failure, sells for 150000 with a 500000 mortgage to a Reading Railroad representative. Yale ex president Taxoport Dwiest Woolsry dies in New Haven at eighty eight. Yearling sale near New York nets 3700. Farmingham Massachusetts marks normal school centennial. Waterspout hits Altoona Pennsylvania. heavy rains flood streets. New York Assembly opens sixteenth session. A fatal quarrel on a farm near Lockport. Self-inflicted death in Williamsburg after mother’s funeral. Conemaugh River flood threats loom. Woodstock holds July Fourth commemorations with national officials.
A report lists several calamities including William Sons and Charles Schroeder two sixteen year olds drowning at Riverside Illinois while boating on the pirnie ground. Fires destroy af T Cohen M Sternberg and TB Buck stores in Savannah with total loss 1504 dollars. A New Orleans official Captain William Pierer commits suicide. A Brashear Mills Ark explosion kills Thoms Brashear and two others. Heavy rains injure crops in Minnesota and Dakota. Three colored men drown in Alabama ferry sinking. Four locks burned in Idaho. Durango fire loss estimated at 3 000 000. Governors from three states oppose a prize fight between Sualliyna and Kilrain. Gaston Jones shoots wife and commits suicide in Kemper County. Two colored men hanged for murder in Mississippi.
President announces new ministers resident and consuls general to Roumania Servia Greece Berlin Rome and Cairo with a money order increase between Germany and the United States. Secretary Blaine Rusk and others attend to debt totals and appointments as July events unfold.
Officials in Paris and other foreign cities attended the unveiling of a replica statue titled Liberty at Tredea. Addresses were delivered by Minister Reid and M. Spuller.
Cambria City coroner announces the jury verdict: the South Fork Fishing Club members liable for Ellen Hile’s death and property losses after the Conemaugh Lake dam broke. Evidence showed inadequate waste weir and weak construction, with owners held responsible for the catastrophe.
A historic Hong Kong storm dumped 79.5 inches of rain in 33 hours causing widespread flooding and property loss estimated at 200000 dollars on public works. Eight people died from lightning and collapse. a man and boy drowned in a flooded house. one man and another drowned in a street incident. Fifteen lives were lost as the steamer carrying the news left for America.
Earthquakes along the Susanville area of Cal ifornia gateway to the Sierra Nevadas revive old recollections of 1850 volcanic disturbances. Reports describe Mount Susanville Hesomahich and nearby Cinder Cone with multiple craters, boiling lake, and blazing columns of flame as tremors increase and forests burn.
The Labor World reports on Bolivia’s active unions and Germany’s absence from a Berne congress amid a global wave of strikes. It notes Philadelphia carpenters joining rival unions, Havana cigar workers expanding their wage strike, and rising unemployment in London as glass and iron works halt for summer. It also cites Turkish emigration controls and American public works labor rules.
A midnight accident on the Norfolk and Western Railroad near Flaxton’s switch caused a washout after heavy rain. An express train at about 2 30 struck the washed-out track, boiler exploded, fire spread through cars, many killed and wounded. Names of victims include engineers, postal clerk, and several passengers. rescue work followed with physicians and officials aiding the scene.
A freight derailed and blocked a gate area with a broken wheel cited as the likely cause. The incident delayed passengers and transfers near ATL until three a.m. Local officials described the event as a mix of confusion and minor injuries, noting no major casualties and ongoing cleanup efforts.
Emory Herriet, master mechanic of the Sea Beach Railway, was killed while inspecting a car near Coney Island Road. The oldest employee on the line, he leaves a wife and four children.
Late Sunday an express train near Verrail Texas derailed over a defective bridge. One person died and several were injured as the engine barge car and one coach plunged through the broken span. Officials in their private car at the rear were uninjured.
Travel on the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad to Washington was interrupted as the line north of Stoney Run remained passable while the south faced a washed away track for fifty yards. From Patapsco to Stoney Run the area was submerged and construction trains worked continuously to repair damage.
Dispatch from Red Lake Falls Minnesota reports the first recorded trial of an Indian by a jury of Indians. Big Bird shot a fellow Indian. the case marked a landmark under 1855 US Court jurisdiction over Indian reservations. Indian jurors weighed testimony intently under government guidance.
The Joliet Penitentiary warden shipped nearly three hundred loaves of four pound bread to starving Braidwood miners families. The bread, baked in the prison bakery, marks a historic move as a warden supplies food to starving workers.
Emil Bronson a French national eight months in the United States committed suicide by stepping onto a railroad track as a fast train approached in Newark New Jersey. He faced the engine with arms folded across his chest and was crushed, dying within ten minutes.
The Tar Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor urges organized labor to support the 000 miners striking in Hindis and Indiana. The plea follows rising labor unrest as wage disputes ripple through several industries.
The Sing Bing camp meeting starts August 6 for ten days led by Thomas Harrison the boy preacher. Wallkill dairy plant yields 23,000 quarts daily with 75,000 quarts weekly bottled and shipped to New York City. rest condensed for market in forty-quart cans. At Mattea wan State Asylum for the Criminal Insane a 350-man force builds six structures plus infirmaries and officer building to house 500 inmates. total appropriations reach 575000 dollars.
The article details a vast land seizure and sale of 1.0 million acres in upstate New York, rich in white pine and hemlock, with buyers including RK KK Hewley and Dodge & Meigs. It notes the tract spans Franklin, Herkimer, Hazleton, Warren counties and compares its size to a path from the Battery to Harlem River. It also reports New York City tax department valuations of real and personal property, listing totals for corporations and individual owners and noting an overall valuation increase from the previous year.
A collage of items notes heavy grass crops, rising sugar prices, and rapid transit plans for Baltimore. It reports on Mexico's population, Russia Servia ties, Ohio state debt, Sheridan book sales, new comets, Chicago suburbs annexations, Mormon numbers, and Montana wool prospects.
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