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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1880
Page
2
Greencastle Republicans split over U S Senator candidates Harrison Cumback and Porter. Indiana opera season announced with Cincinnatti Music Hall staging Moses in Egypt Lohengrin Fidelio Mefistofele and Magic Flute by the Maple son troupe. Season tickets seven performances twelve dollars. Hog market outlook and Chicago price discussion. Severe Milwaukee storm described with high winds and a fleet of vessels affected.
Dispatches from La Crosse report the severest storm in years along the Southern Minnesota Railroad. Passenger and freight traffic are blocked by ten to twelve foot snow drifts. relief teams and provisions are sent from several points. A train from La Crosse last Saturday remains missing after Fulda. Snow fills cuts west of Fairmount. livestock losses reported but no human fatalities yet. The storm is described as the worst in Southern Minnesota and Eastern Dakota history.
A Chicago Inter-Ocean report recounts Mrs. Mom Patrick McClennan pleading for food for herself and two children at Mike McDonald’s gambling house on Clinton Street. Her sailor husband, once earning around $50 per trip, has fallen under McDonald’s influence, losing nearly all wages to the house. Despite county aid, she and her children face starving conditions as she nears confinement.
Oliver Herring son of Squire Herring in Little Rock launches a preaching plan aimed at the colored community. The 16 year old borrows from Lorenzo Dow's sermons and contemplates memorizing vivid metaphors to draw crowds, drawing sharp scrutiny over sincerity.
A boy, posing as an evangelical preacher in a cottonwood church, attracts crowds with staged sermons. After dramatic offerings and a second visit, authorities uncover the ruse when he falls through the pulpit, is whipped, and vows never to return to a colored church.
D Lathrop & Co presents an expanded holiday catalogue with new editions and series for home libraries. Highlights include Fireside Library now available, Ella Varman Pansy and Julia A Eastman titles, Mrs Amanda B Harris How We Went Birds Nesting, American Artists Series volume, New England Story Book, and Nineties era children’s works.
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