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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1889
Page
2
A jumble of opinions and quotes spans topics from law making to war history. It references Lord Wolseley, a civil war, a 1892 World's Fair aim, Queen Elizabeth on lies, Niagara navigators, Chinese Highbinders in San Francisco, Boston’s fleas, and stormy gales described as the heaviest in twenty five years.
A famed heavy dragoon remains a mystery after Victoria appoints a colonel in one of her grandson Billy's Prussian horse regiments, fueling speculation about royal influence and historic lineage.
Reports from France say hides are tanned by electricity in a revolving tannin cylinder at half the cost of traditional methods. The alligator becomes a traded commodity. hides, teeth, and flesh are used, with the tail a delicacy for certain groups.
The Austrian Emperor discovered from a review of Spaundan that the smokeless powder praised for its efficiency was invented by an Austrian apothecary who offered it to the government but was declined.
The noted actor Sol Smith Russell is praised for prudent money management. The remark links his success to wise financial habits and hints that many can achieve similar stability by careful spending and budgeting.
A debater argues that struggle is preferable to stagnation and loss of liberty, while reporting Paris strict street paper disposal enforcement. An American who tore an envelope and discarded scraps faced arrest risk under a rigid city ordinance, illustrating tension between liberty and order.
The passage argues women as a class are not great logicians but praise their taste and intuition as superior to men. It suggests an unbroken community of logicians would be as undesirable as a penitentiary and posits logic is good but not essential for world progress.
The Reading Railroad tests a new use for electricity replacing sand on wheels. A small dynamo feeds current to the drive wheels to increase friction at rail contact, and officials call the experiment a success.
A German writer denounces university crowds for shaping youths to dislike labor and overcrowding the professions. He warns this creates a growing dangerous class with rising strength, and notes there is truth in his view.
A Milwaukee special reports President Colby of the Wisconsin Central railroad writes to Northern Pacific stockholders about a sweeping cross continental merger. Henry Villard seeks control of Northern Pacific, backed by Charlies and Joseph Colby, aiming to install Villard as president and reshape transcontinental rail traffic.
An Ontario detective returning from northwestern Ontario reports a tribe near Abittiber Lake where a grandmother killed and ate seven children. The chief ordered her execution after the head of the last child was found boiling. An old warrior was chosen to carry out the sentence. At Quinze Lake a full-blooded warrior killed and ate four sons before being killed by his fifth son.
The Atchison directors unanimously approve a plan of reorganization presented by a special committee. Details remain to be perfected and the plan should reach security holders within a week. The plan emphasizes a simpler, higher-rate income structure with the first 4 percent mortgage likely under 160 million dollars.
In Port LaBelle Oregon a loaded pistol discharged while two Shelton children played with it killing one boy. Nearby McMinnville man John Silvers 25 committed suicide by shooting himself after asking how to use a pistol and then firing the weapon to his chest.
The Bates house, famed hotel in Indianapolis, caught fire in the engine room at 1 o clock. Guests escaped with difficulty as smoke enveloped the building. Fire under control. total loss from fire and water estimated at 10900 dollars.
A light frost was reported from all sections of Arkansas this morning, with Little Rock and surrounding areas experiencing the cooler conditions as autumn settles in.
A desolate dispatch from Haynesville in Lowndes County details a desperate duel and ongoing violence with limited corroborating facts. Local authorities urged caution as investigators pursue leads in the Montgomery region.
Last night Eaton Haynes, county sheriff, and Allen Austill, a prominent citizen, dueled after a drunken friend urged Haynes to drink. Haynes was wounded in the shoulder and Austill in the left arm with a bullet lodging in his breast. The fight began after insults were exchanged and continued as guns were drawn while the intoxicated man stood nearby.
Rev. James Kelley of ONbisoDA NL OY fell ill during mass after drinking wine at a rink altar. Witnesses report arsenic traces found on the table and altar, with a theory that someone used a false key to access the area.
Articles of consolidation filed in Kansas unite McPherson Texas and Gulf railroad from McPherson Kansas to Hutchinson Oklahoma and Gulf railway from Hutchinson to Indiana Territory. The new line named Hutchinson and Southwestern will be built from Hutchinson and Kingman toward Oklahoma with capital of 750000 dollars. It remains a Union Pacific enterprise.
Taussig and Taylor wool merchants of 112 South Front Street Philadelphia are embarrassed and seek extension. The firm, started in 1882, includes Richard A Taussig and Charles T Taylor and has western correspondents Taussig and Bros. of St. Louis. The partners decline to speak.
At about 5 pm the steamer U. P. Leathers suffered a midships fire on the larboard side while near Bouchinant's landing. The blaze quickly consumed cargo on that side until a calm allowed the captain and crew to jettison about seventy bales of burning cotton and extinguish the fire with hoses.
Wasumatox Oct 8. Roger Q Mills of Texas in the city says Democrats, though in the minority, are fully aware of their power and will use it. He adds the Republicans must not pass any measure without Democratic consent and that house rules will not be changed in any essential feature by the Republican majority.
Was withdrawn by the president who also denies a pardon for Frank Young in Indiana. Fearn, convicted of postal law violations, receives six months imprisonment as part of the commutation. Young, convicted of passing counterfeit money, remains denied.
At Mount Vernon G. T. Rice, performing with the Wallace circus, ascended a rope over the river and was dragged into the water when he became tangled. He drowned during his hundredth ascent.
A Commercial Gazette special reports in Barton Ohio John Devault Jr shot Miss Lulu Williamson wounding her slightly and then killed himself.
In Van Atatyue Texas this morning W B R Lantz was struck by a falling weight while weighing cotton mashing a toe. Cotton prices today rose with the market reporting prices as high as 10 cents per pound.
Louisville report says Pete Baker, a negro desperado, shot and fatally wounded Andy Glenn, also Black, in Owensboro saloon after a drunken quarrel. Baker escaped.
A blaze in Savannah Kills two com presses the Tyler and Lower hydraulic presses five cotton warehouses and 4500 bales of cotton. Loss estimated at 400000 dollars.
Rumors in Niles Michigan report Eliza Davis asserts the two women she believes are the outlaw Benders, Mrs Griffiths and her daughter Eliza Davis Coleman, live there. The elder woman claims multiple marriages and a hard life while the daughter denies being Kate Bender but knows Kansas killers. No direct proof ties the pair to the Kansas murders.
Blood feud between Bramfield and Hall families in Linn County unfolds over weeks. Floyd Dingess, husband of a Hall woman, is shot after quarrel and separation. Alfred Brumfiel, vow to avenge, fatally wounds a Hall brother. Brumfield and wife wounded. Burvis Brumfield shot. George Dingess shot in the leg during a clash.
Mrs McDonald wife of Chicago gambler and politician Mike McDonald who left home with rumors of eloping with Rev Father Joseph Moysant arrived Saturday on the steamer Chicago. She denies traveling with a companion and any conduct bringing reproach during her trip.
A fourteen year old girl was outraged on the way to school in Glynnwood. She was gravely injured and may die. The assailant named is Jim Glynn, a well known local figure and relative of the town namesake. A mob hunts for Glynn and threatens lynching if captured.
At a stockholders meeting in San Francisco on October 9, James G. Fair resigned as president and director of the Nevada bank to devote time to other business. James J. Flood was elected president to succeed him.
A private telegram from South Bend reports Clem Studebaker's house burned early today. Mrs. Studebaker was badly scorched but not in danger, with no further details available at this time.
In a Leesburg Mirror report a veteran, wounded at Winchester, faced larceny charges after taking a clothes to hide his nakedness. Judge Phillips moved to trespass, discharged the prisoner, and the courtroom rallied to aid him with pension efforts and clothing funds.
A verse reflects changing work styles from old fashioned pride to modern hustle. The speaker notes a salesman’s rise and acceptance of new “stations” with a whiff of regional sentiment from the Binghamton Republican.
The nine year old Berry H. Binford served as a Confederate soldier after his father Dr. Binford, a surgeon, aided his enlistment. Recounted incidents include a self made siege with a companion boy in North Alabama and a note on Binford’s earlier misidentification as a yellow fever case, later linked to alcoholism.
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