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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1889
Page
1
The fragment appears to identify Geo. W. Frixs as editor with truncated text referencing a role or title. No clear event or date is readable to confirm a complete news item.
A Johnstown dispatch details rapid ruin clearing under an organized committee. Seven thousand workers and M0 teams battle debris. fires from sparks cause $50 000 in losses. Relief by regular committees and the Red Cross distributes food, clothing, and shoes, with 100 carloads arriving daily but more needed.
John G. Parke Jr. recounts the dam near Pittsburg’s South Fork Club failing after heavy rain. He notes water rising to four feet below the top, flooding drives and woods, with logs and timbers washing toward lake outlets. Colonel Unger mobilized 30 workers including Italians and farmers to shore up the structure using a plow and earth to create a drainage path along the dam.
Reports describe widespread death and disease fears after the South Fork dam breach. Soldiers guard the city while relief funds approach 1.55 million dollars with clothing and provisions pouring in. Rescue efforts continue, with details on drowned trains, missing passengers, and heroic acts by survivors and families amid the flood’s aftermath.
Pulverized coal mills in Pittsburgh use coal dust to drive asphalt paving. sunspot activity noted with Schmoll recording 190 spotless days in 1888. Paris Exposition lighting equals 1,700,906 candies. Swedish electric Tang Pha Prosser locomotive claims noiseless power. A metal typewriter weighs sixteen pounds and uses nine springs. Colloidal coating may strengthen electric lights. Paris Academy studies colocasia tremor. many vibra tions observed per minute. A Russian officer seeks coastal ship watching by light. A mortar shell lights surrounding area on water contact. Nitrated celluloid spun into artificial silk surpasses glass in beauty. Paper doors improved with thick paper boards and waterproof coatings. Brereton Baker’s oxygen discovery causes a stir. charcoal fails to burn in its pure form. Lightning harms England and Wales coastal regions. 546 deaths in 1852–80 period. Arsenic detected in textiles and papers. warnings issued to curb its spread.
A Detroit Free Press report describes an improved cold rolling method for iron copper and brass wire. A continuous roll train with a friction clutch gradually matches wire speed, producing smaller wires from ½ inch wads with fewer annealing issues and improved ductility and conductivity in copper.
A Siamese police constable stands with hands bound behind his back near the station door. He wears a board accusing him of stealing a sword from His Majesty the King and notes a punishment is deserved for a serious offense. Passers by are asked if whipping is appropriate.
The report notes the United States Army totals 28 795 men with officers among them and cites a department annual cost near 83 million dollars. It mentions 675 retired officers costing 1.3 million yearly and active officers costing about 5.07 million annually.
The report assigns about 2600 deaths and $6 million in property loss across Mineral Point Franklinborough East Cone Maugh Woodvale Kerinville Cambria Minersville Morrellville Sheridan Coopersdale and Johnstown with total losses surpassing 34 million and 900 lives. Figures from F HEE Woodvale Kernville Cambria Minersville Morrellville Sheridan and others are cited, Johnstown’s death toll and financial losses estimated high. railroad damages near 10 million.
The narrative recalls a flood near a car where Miss Halford struggles in waist-deep water. Postoffice Inspector Spranger aborts the danger by lifting her to safety, with Halford showing relief amid the rescue. Separate dispatches report Johnstown Pennsylvania facing a spreading epidemic risk, with Surgeon General Hamilton coordinating rapid response and staged disinfection.
Mrs Halford and her daughter, wife and daughter of the President Harrison's private secretary, reached Washington after the day express on the Pennsylvania line was reportedly lost. The train was hopped at Conemaugh station from 1 to 4 p m until 3 p m on the fatal Friday. The conductor shouted warnings as the water volume rose.
A Railroad Gazette list details principal destroyed and damaged bridges across major lines. Pennsylvania Road reports Granville and Petersburg structures washed away. Juniata spans lost. Montgomery and Leechburg Hyndman bridges damaged on the Philadelphia and Erie Road. Many others across the Susquehanna Conemaugh and Potomac regions are listed as undermined, washed away, or severely damaged.
Richard Chandler of Irving Wisconsin suffers a rare condition closing his mouth to the size of a marble. Doctors have failed to halt the affliction and he fears dissolution. Chandler valued at 500000 with a single heir, an intellectually disabled son in an asylum.
A wide set of notes reports rising leprosy in Russia and France, French armor, counterfeit gold in Iowa, a Paris Eiffel Tower price, forest fires, cattle and crop prospects, vast wheat exports, Indian schools, cyclone damage in Texas, and rail and postal affairs. A scattered, era-typical compilation of statistics, curiosities, and brief events.
Composer Gounod to visit America. The Begans triumphs at the New York Casino. Helen Dauvray to star with Robert Hilliar. Julia Marlowe closes her tour. Osmund Teale to play Hamlet in London. A Paris concert will feature American composers. The divorce season tops theatrical history. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West at Paris Exposition. Stradivarius tablet in Cremona. Colonel Maplesen forms Italian Opera in London with Marie Titien. Gilpert advances another libretto for Sullivan. Durrist to revive Gilbert and Sullivan in Philadelphia. Buchanan adapts Marmion for stage. Von Suppe’s Clover a McCaull high mark. Monkeys exhibited in London. Bernhardt conducts at Paris Opera. Lauri Sr. dies. The Old Homestead ends in New York. Irving knighted after Sandringham show. Tomagno to be paid for fifty nights. Wagner’s new women’s opera discovered.
The Superintendent of Public Works in Albany issued a rule that the national flag will float from the Capitol building flagstaff every weekday from sunrise to sunset all year. Jangs M. Fann, nearly eighty and longtime teacher in the state, died in Monros. The text also covers hazing at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, births in Rosendale, and assorted state news including gubernatorial vetoes and Masons meetings.
Reports from Cleveland Osio and Laghor on coal and straw work wages and strikes. Municipal eight hour laws target Chicago contractors with fines. Yorkshire blacksmith patents yield employer profits. Pennsylvania car shops adopt piece work increasing earnings. Cambria Works supply and Paris Expos prospects for US mechanical trades. Donegal coastal poverty and new Georgia pine leaf industry employing women. San Francisco considers rubber goods manufacture as raw material cargo moves.
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