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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1897
Page
3
In Maryland the state convention nominated Smith for comptroller and adopted a platform favoring bimetalism while remaining silent on currency reform. The era's other items include figures on tax receipts, strikes, accidents, and notable arrests across the nation.
Lizzie Glaw of Chicago wins the Glaws Anderson bicycle race at Toledo Ohio for the female championship of America. The report lists multiple disaster and crime items including deaths from a lamp fire and hangings, crop losses from hail, train wrecks, and strikes in various states.
James Henry and Emily Boynton, both described as colored, wed in Knoxville Tennessee. The article notes other political nominations in Des Moines Roanoke and mentions legal figures and disasters including an earthquake in England and a Central American republic treaty.
Dispatches report the sultan instructing Tewfik Pasha to sign peace preliminaries. Other items note rebels attacking Havana outposts before Spanish troops arrive, Greece resisting financial control, the Tasmania sinking near Napier with six drowned, and floods in Silesia and Bohemia causing large losses.
The column lists diverse events including bank note circulation totals and increases, tornado damage in Alabama, mints coinage totals, a McKinley reunion invitation, a carrier pigeon incident, multiple suicides and deaths, labor investigations, Cuban correspondents expelled, Nicaragua's congress, July government receipts and deficits, factory resumption, storm lightning fatalities, a stray bullet fatality, lightning deaths, a mill fire, a major railroad wreck, a steamer disaster, volcanic and flood tolls, immigration commissions, athletic records, Turkish naval movements, weather-related train halt, crop prospects, kidnap and drowning incidents, breadstuffs imports, Chicago gas company cap, Nelson Dingley's death, a Colfax statue, Nashville editor Schmidt, and drownings at Ottawa Beach.
A cyclone at seven Friday night killed seven people and seriously injured three in San Jose Hl. The McDowell homestead and barn were destroyed, with five McDowell family members and neighbors saved from the wreckage. Rescue workers rushed the injured to nearby farms for care.
Constantinople dispatch reports seven Turkish warships under Hari Pasha sailing toward Crete. Fears rise of a clash with the international fleet in Cretan waters as foreign admirals pledge to oppose Turkish reinforcements landing on Crete.
In Cleveland on August 4 83 year old Thomas Guah Ing Cushing attempted suicide by cutting his throat in a boarding house room. He fled to a hospital window and leaped 50 feet to the engine room roof where he fell through a skylight striking an iron bar. He was alive but not expected to survive.
Carlisle Indiana mourns four dead after a Sabbath swimming tragedy. Mr and Mrs Grant Hammond and Mr and Mrs Abner Morris drowned while trying to rescue a cramping woman. Clothing found later on the river bank confirms the deaths.
Terrific storms hit Ottumwa Iowa on Tuesday night stopping a Chicago bound Rock Island passenger train as hail piles damaged windows and tracks. Crops were shredded and windows shattered in the car during the wind driven hail beat.
The London Fortnightly Review cites Sir Francis Galton with a possible Mars to Earth signaling project. An observatory reportedly records three distinct Martian flashes whose varying lengths suggest a telegraphic code, though confirmation remains uncertain.
A Coventry girl prized a famous autograph tied to a prescription from influenza treatment. A nurse's warning revealed the signed paper could be misused as a harmful drug mix, as the family realized Li Jung Chang’s signature posed safety risks and a grave error in handling.
The article explains how Cambodian pupils choose a professor in Buddhist communities. A pupil serves the teacher, rests in a shared space, and may be heir if he supports his master. The bond is both family and religious, guiding reincarnation toward Nirvana.
A German inventor proposes a temperate house using water tubes in walls and floors. A pumping and boiler system circulates water to regulate interior temperatures, cooling in summer and heating to about 100 degrees in winter, then distributing 60 degrees through the structure.
Congressman Graff denies any bid for the Northern District of Illinois DA despite Washington chatter. He says he seeks re nomination and re election from the Peoria district and opposes Galesburg Bloomington aspirants.
A boy at the Sixth Avenue L line station on Wiftieth Street uses gum on a wooden rod to pull a lost quarter from between the platform edge and the raised curb. He returns the coin to its owner after a passerby tips a dime and five cents. The grateful traveler gives him the outfit and praise.
On Block Island off Rhode Island residents maintain 150 year old wool spinning and knitting traditions. Families cart wool to Oakdale Connecticut for carding and processing before spinning stockings and mittens to shield islanders from winter winds. The practice, begun by John Eld in 1708, preserves a self sufficient, historic rural routine despite harsh Atlantic conditions.
In a leap year a youth sings a bright ditty about engagement rings perhaps aiming to recover some pieces. The Washington Star notes a lighthearted tone and a hint of personal stakes amid playful verse.
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