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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1887
Page
1
General James S. Brisbin describes an Arapaho ritual display led by Chief Friday. Young riders perform extraordinary horsemanship in formation drills, including hanging with one hand, leaping, and shooting while galloping. The spectacle lasts two hours and leaves riders exhausted.
Exquisite river scenery on the Sampit shown in a tranquil evening setting. A brick column draped in crimson trumpet vines rises beside sedge and marsh as two oaks frame a view toward Winyah Bay and a distant ship with full sails. The sunset casts a glowing palette across the water, described in lyrical prose from the American Magazine.
Ex Gov Roberts now UT professor in charge of the Law Department. he demands attendance from students. He challenged a sick student who had missed a lecture, noting he had seen him at a theater, and warned him about lying before the upcoming examination and admission to the Tenax Sittings.
General News Notes recounts Piedmont Mills in 8. C. resuming full activity as Sa luda water recedes, Cheraw bank performing better than expected, and a wave of varied reports from politics to disasters. It notes an eerie power in Mrs. Lockaby of Greenville, an earthquake near Camden, cholera deaths in India, cattle disease in Oswego and Lancaster, and local incidents including a Danville streetcar opening and strikes in Augusta mills. It also covers political shifts, railroad matters, and notable deaths and crimes across several states.
The City of Savannah, from New York, arrived twelve hours late after a night of a gale off Hatteras. Winds reached seventy five miles per hour, waves thought to be forty feet high. First mate A D Porter was swept overboard and swam to deck aided by a seaman. two seamen injured, baggage soaked, passengers to present Capt Fred Smith with a gold headed cane for seamanship.
A Philadelphia report details Emil Schoenberg, once linked with John F. Betz, as a suspected forger tied to several enterprises. Betz asserts Schoenberg forged his name, with losses across multiple investors including Betz, Nestor, Stewart, Poulterer, and Yuengling. Assets barely cover liabilities, revealing a $175,000 gap from Schoenberg’s alleged fraud.
San Francisco reports Adolph Butro has won contracts to build a Liberty monument for the harbor. A 40 foot statue on a 20 foot pedestal will illuminate with a torch from a 1,000 foot vantage, depicting a 18 foot female figure with a torch and sword, tread Despotism and Anarchy, built of bluish sandstone at San Miguel ranch. Total cost about $5,000 with base work underway.
A 19 year old William Byers shot his father during a dispute over ploughing in Indiana Pennsylvania. The father ordered ploughing, seized a poker, and advanced on his son, who drew a revolver and killed him instantly. Byers was arrested.
The note claims wealth grows from steady work and prudent savings, linking diligence to financial gains and economic strength. It frames thrift and industrious effort as the path to lasting prosperity for communities and individuals alike.
Gossip lists Mrs. Mackay's 104 gowns yearly and Langtry's California acres for 100000. Eleanor Winslow dubbed ex-chamberlain in London. Belva Lockwood leads suffragists. Miss Ellis earns 18000 yearly guarding Queen of Corea’s health. Potter denies divorce rumor. Inez a succès. Walter, Austrian actress, riches via imperial favor. Ireland’s Daily League of Ireland advocates home rule for women. Conkling earns 100000 at the bar. Duke of Sutherland praised. Morosini from New York courting Grey Stone. Gladstone may skip Parliament. Judge Wellborne earns 25000 as attorney. Cincinnati plans Harrison monument. Harwood the steeplechase rider at Saratoga. Dawes, veteran senator, vigorous at seventy. Queen of Holland sends a birthday bouquet with daughter. Isch to host a family reunion for Emperor’s birthday.
The Interior Secretary received a Surveyor General report on Plaza Colorado tract No 149 in New Mexico. The claim may be confirmed for the legal representatives, reserving minerals to the US, covering about 18 240 acres, with possible actual cultivation area 1 000 acres. Separate naval and federal appointments are noted, including tool contracts for New York and Norfolk yards and William M Nixon named U S marshal for Eastern Tennessee.
The Fall River Steamboat Company plans a larger vessel than the Pilgrim for service between Fall River and New York. The Puritan will be built at Chester Pennsylvania with 404 feet load water line and 420 feet overall length. It will feature eight boilers and feathering paddles, 355 state rooms, and 7,500 horsepower. Construction begins within a week at the site of the late John Roach shipyard.
Lincoln special reports a tornado near Republican City Nebraska destroying buildings including a nearly finished large brick schoolhouse. Carpenters J.J. aonidg and Allen of Alma were killed, six others seriously injured, two fatally. Wetherells house torn from foundation, wife and children injured. Widespread damage and large hail accompanied the storm.
The article notes minimal popular demand for oleomargarine or imitation butter, stating the lack of interest persists even where laws mandating sale of the bogus article are enforced.
Jute is largely grown in parts of the South mainly to produce wraps used around cotton bales. The crop supports fiber needs and offers an alternative to other wrapping materials.
A tamer named Agop at the Hourges fair in Paris was knocked down by a lion, half his skull crushed and his spine broken. The London Standard notes growing danger from amateur tamers and warns of further shocking incidents. It also mentions hypnotised spectator feats at Folies Bergere and a woman entering a cage in Neuilly, briefly calming a lion with “two lovely black eyes.”
In Paris a lion tamer inside a boulevard cage faced an aggressive old lion. He struck the beast’s nose with a right hand, the punch echoing through the arena. The lion recoiled, dazed, while the tamer stepped out safely, the audience stunned by the feat.
In Wilkes Barre Penn a new method speeds ear-wheel production. Three men who previously made eighteen wheels daily now produce 720 daily by using a steel case instead of sand. When the case is removed the wheel is ready for the axle.
A New York letter describes Pier A housing the harbor police aboard the Patrol, a thirty-member force of captains sergeants roundsmen and patrolmen with an engineer and pilots. The steamer serves as home and fire engine, patrolling the harbor day and night, quelling riots mutinies and wrecks and rescuing crews while maintaining naval discipline and quick response across North and South River shores.
A guide from Popular Science Monthly explains observing lunar mountains. Start at the new Moon's crescent, then watch the sunrise line reveal rugged peaks as viewing height and distance alter perception. The article compares telescope and field glass views to describe apparent distances and perspective.
A Montana correspondent describes how gophers hold up in August heat and then freeze solid in severe winters. Miners report gophers curling like balls when dug from gravel, later awakening by a log fire. The piece notes fish also stiffen on ice and regain life when warmed, with anecdotes of revival hours after removal from water.
Keeper Henry Moest notes a gender difference in behavior toward plant care in the Erie County Almshouse. Males in the ward nurture potted plants and climbing vines, keeping them healthy and watered, while women repeatedly pull up plants and tear down vines, undermining the effort except in the cottage for mild cases.
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