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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1889
Page
8
A Washington dispatch reports a drop in Texas patent grants, only three issued that week. It also notes Texas pensioners totaling 9575 drawing 100,475 quarterly and 400,000 yearly, with Bexar County lacking pensioners in sixteen counties.
A girl Selma Holmes at Alfred Meyer’s Billings residence started a stove fire with gunpowder scraps from her brother’s truck writings. She ran ablaze after a match ignited the powder, suffering severe burns and possible fatal injuries. In Minnesota a fourteen car derailment on the Duluth and Iron Range line left engineer Charles Cutler and two others badly hurt after brakes failed and the train left the track.
Newrera New York report states Lieutenant Towne of Lowell Massachusetts and in charge of Salvation Army in the city died after stepping into an open cellar trapdoor while selling the War Cry in a Broadway grocery. Also notes ex Postmaster Henry G Pearson dies of stomach cancer hemorrhage. James Pearson acts as Postmaster General Wanamaker informed.
Two men die and three hurt when a wheel breaks on a Central Town railroad train over Cedar Creek bridge. Cars plunge into the creek and fire consumes the bridge. Conductor Calyin (name appears incomplete).
The article notes Lord Brownlow will replace Lore Londonderry as viceroy of Ireland. It also covers evictions at Palcarrh, clashes with police, a nationalist demonstration at Piltown near Wiltown, and police tactics. Additional items include Rome inviting officials to a banquet, Sudanese-Egyptian combat at Haliab, and economic reports on France and general prosperity in Europe.
Frank Lanier a Sterling saloonist was arraigned in Wooster on charges of selling liquor on Sunday and to minors, selling on election day, and violating township local option law. He pled guilty. fined 435 and jailed 30 days. Mayor W C Yort pledges strict enforcement of all liquor laws.
About ten cadets from Orchard Lake Military Institute near Detroit arrive as the first military unit for the centennial. The group includes sixty cadets who previously won the first prize at a national drill in Washington. They will escort Gov. Luce and assist all Michigan events. The Twelfth regiment armory is set for their drill and rendezvous.
In St. Josepf Mo on April 26 County Judge Keene found ex-Collector Tony H Trice paid 17884 17 more than his collected report. The treasurer's figures also showed 602 17 less than claimed creating a 1165 224 surplus discrepancy. An investigation is asked for though other judges declined to join.
At a recent meeting of the Natchitoches school board several schools were established and sessions continued. The Natchitoches school will open May 5 with Miss Della Ezernack as principal and Miss Essie Pussell as assistant. The free school will be largely attended under their supervision.
In Chattanooga on April 2 a full gathering of Southern stove founders met to form a permanent organization under the National Stove Makers Association, with plans awaiting ratification.
Minneapolis report says the street car company tried to start the motor line but the boilers were filled with soup soda and vitriol by new workers. Cleanup took the rest of the day to restore operation.
Hon. Caleb Boggess, renowned as a leading attorney and influential public figure in the two Virginias, has died in Parkersburg on April 6.
St. Paul Minn April 26 the street car strike persists with four officers assigned to each car yet the company kept street cars running all day no major incidents reported
The Volunteer Southrons forfeited their planned journey to New York due to high Pullman Car company charges, canceling the trip.
Columbus Georgia April 26 Farmers' Alliance men of this county decide to oppose the bagging trust by using only cotton based bagging in their operations.
Poem fragment depicts a dying speaker asking not for pity but for a peaceful homegoing. The lines evoke a baptism of suffering with religious imagery, referencing Jesus and heaven as the late hour nears. The speaker imagines a starless crown as a final symbol of fate and hope.
After a secret Munich marriage Beatrice and Frank Carruthers return to London with Beatrices son and a loyal nurse. The Talberts learn of the union and forgive her, while Beatrice and Frank plan a new life amid social scrutiny as a hidden past is revealed only to a deranged servant.
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