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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1896
Page
3
Local residents describe serious illness in town with Mrs Townsend cared for at home. Indiana connections, church notices, and social gatherings appear alongside fire damage at Henry Doty’s home and school election updates.
The South Whitefield column lists holiday closings and social updates including visits by Mrs Alvin Fleetwood to Chillicothe, weddings postponed for 35 years, a horse euthanized after injury, and congratulations to Mr and Mrs A Rowe on their Christmas wedding. It closes with a lyrical farewell to the old year and a look toward the new year amid community events.
Local items report Miss Rogers leading Y P M last Sunday and visits from Mr Parker of Colorado. Many residents travel to Normal, Chicago, Cooksville, and Decatur for holidays. Grange Hall event, Christmas dinners, and officer elections at Magnolia Grange noted.
Emeline Clark Brown born January 12, 1832 in Putnam County New York died December 29 1895 after a long life as a widow and devoted mother. She moved with her parents to Bureda County and Illinois and raised seven children with faith as a Methodist. Brief services were held at Mr Hunters home officiated by Rev David McLeish before her funeral in Tiskilwa and Princeton with family members nearby.
Henry school closed for a holiday on January 1 1896 and opened after with few absentees. Victor Kays entered the high school. Charlie Worthington Fred Harney and Lee Smith visited. Miss Hull hosts sister Bertha from Decatur. Christmas programs drew many friends. New Year’s Eve party by OC E society at Rev and Mrs Bevans’ home featured games and a faux cobweb maze and a midnight meal. The Wyoming Post Herald notes Mrs Joseph Barton sold 2 Grnydor & Son goods for Christmas, praising their stock and local meat market. They bought yearling reds from Henry Ingram and claim to offer city-scale meat at bedrock prices and commend Snyder brothers for a neat shop and courteous service with holiday decor.
An old medical ad claims bilious symptoms and liver disorders foul the blood. It promises Herbine to cure liver trouble and dyspepsia, with a free trial bottle offered by Dr Powell and a price of 76 cents for the medicine.
A reader recalls a man who enjoys cod over oll and describes a physician tasting castor oil directly from the bottle. The anecdote contrasts personal appetite with a spouse’s reaction to the taste.
A fierce Atlantic gale battered New York City and Long Island Tuesday early morning, driving 50 mph winds and freezing temperatures. Reports describe shattered houses, iced harbors, washed out rail tracks at Little Falls, extensive Adirondack damage, and several wrecked vessels including the coal laden coaster og's Back Rock near Holl Gate and the schooners Emma Jane and Dunegill with crews escaping by rigging or shore.
Boston reports a devastating cyclone that struck Monday night into Tuesday morning. Winds roared as rain poured, with widespread damage from Cape Cod to Gray Gables. The Cape Cod Railroad roundhouse and other structures were leveled or severely damaged and coastal flooding reached three feet in places.
The January storm along the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay caused heavy damage. Rail lines near Providence Warren and Bristol were undermined delaying traffic. the government launch Casten was damaged and the Herreshoff shipyard railway wrecked. Along Buzzards Bay and the coast of Maine, winds slammed wharves and floodwaters inundated storehouses.
A terrible windstorm hit Buffalo on Monday night with gusts of 73 miles per hour. Basements flooded along the waterfront driving residents to seek shelter, Kellogg Iron Works roof blown off, Strawberry and Squaw Islands submerged, Niagara River roiling, and the Erie Canal flooding multiple areas. Also reported in Dunkirk with similar storm conditions.
A Monday night squall plowed through the area causing heavy damage to telegraphic and telephonic lines between towns and prostrating electric wires in the city. A heavy snowfall is reported to follow the storm, bringing further disruption.
Yesterdays storm battered Montreal and across Quebec with strong winds up to seventy five miles per hour and heavy damage. Wires down roofs blown off and the Gabriel Anglican church tower collapsed at 9:30 a.m. No fatalities reported though a barn was carried away at Valois and a new bridge at St Anne de la Fayade collapsed. In Ontario intense cold followed the high winds.
Niagara Falls N Y Jan 1 The river below the falls rose thirty feet above normal flooding docks and tearing a dock on the Canadian side from its foundation causing about 500 damage to abutments for the new arch bridge. The upper bridge trembled but showed no damage. water subsided by evening returning to normal levels.
Information from Donkey Virginia reports a drunken encounter over a woman ends in a prolonged clash on a public road. Bill Wells and Gua Orsborne die while Jim Cox is wounded. deputy sheriff is seriously hurt as the gunfight lasts over two hours.
Washington reports that the bond issue may be delayed for several days. Factors include reduced gold withdrawals for export and new orders for gold shipments abroad, while Treasury notes and syndicate actions shape expected government strategy. The deficit outlook and December receipts are outlined, with estimates showing a current-year gap near $17 million. Coal miners in Ohio and Pennsylvania see wage gains and altered pay schedules starting February, with a 6 cent rate in Ohio and a 5 cent increase in Pennsylvania set for January.
Very perceptible earthquake shocks were felt Tuesday morning in Metropolis Illinois and Cape Girardeau Missouri. Metropolis recorded 9 25 am lasting seconds while Cape Girardeau felt at 9 26 am about fifteen seconds with heavy buildings disturbed. The article notes multiple shocks in the region.
Washington reports the War Department, by presidential authority, dismissed Lieutenant Samuel B. Pague of the Fifteenth Infantry from the United States Army. Pague, stationed at Fort Sheridan near Chicago, was found guilty of shooting at his superior officer, Colonel Crofton, within the Fort Sheridan post last summer. Governor Morton Candidate for President. Albany reports Morton will soon announce his bid for the Republican nomination after recent statewide consultations.
In Henderson Kentucky on January 1 a 13 year old Black boy from Beech Grove is said to have stolen the father's penknife and while the family slept he pressed the knife against the father's temple and fired a shot, causing instant death.
The joint meeting of the American Economic Association and Political Science Association of the Central States began in the senate chamber Tuesday morning. The Political Science Association of the Central States elected Professor J. Aranen of the University of Indiana as president.
A rear-end collision inside a tunnel near St. Louis involved the Diamond special of the Illinois Central and the Chicago limited of the Wabash. Fireman Henry Rothweller was killed, engineer Milton White was badly bruised, and express messenger F G Chambers was burned and overcome by steam. None of the passengers were injured.
In Chicago the Illinois Steel company closes shops for an indefinite period. Four thousand workers planned a general strike at the JoHet and South Chicago mills and the Union mills on Thirty-first Street and Ashland Avenue. Officials cite low iron prices and the fixed sliding scale as factors.
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