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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1888
Page
1
The New York Star notes about 1.7 billion cigarettes sold in the United States over the year ending last June, an enormous rise from the previous year. It jokes that at this rate the small boy may vanish from history by January 1, 1898.
The passage argues Washington is the southernmost capital among great Northern Hemisphere nations. It compares Madrid Constantinople Rome Paris London Berlin St. Petersburg and others, placing Paris near Newfoundland, and noting St. Petersburg lines with Greenland and north of Washington by about 1 460 miles.
A Stockholm crematory burned its first body Kjellerstedt on October 15 and nineteen more were incinerated by December 6. Crematories are planned or under construction at Zuneh in Switzerland Basel Hamburg and Berlin with societies securing sites for future facilities.
The Directory to the Iron and Steel Works notes thirty furnaces under construction with nineteen in Alabama. Seventeen coke, two charcoal. Other builds: three in Tennessee two in Maryland two in Ohio and one each in Pennsylvania Virginia Michigan Wisconsin. Overall twenty five of the thirty are in the South. Additional projects expected soon.
Several shop owners in New York report more laudanum drinkers and less effort to hide the habit. An incident at an apothecary shows a well dressed young man asking for forty drops of laudanum in “thle vichy” and being refused without a prescription.
The New York Mill and Express reports the first winter shipment of Florida oranges to Enope, about 1600 boxes sent in November and December. With European markets short of oranges, prices covered transport and commissions, yielding higher net returns for growers and proving sweeter than European fruit.
J Hatch, famed engraver in the Washington bureau, resigns for higher pay with the Western Bank Note Company in Chicago. The Star recalls his rise from a Salem New York apprentice to a leading engraver, credited for portraits of Garfield and Grant on currency and silver certificates.
Otis P G Clarke ex commissioner of pensions is dead Major Clarke followed Dudley as commissioner and was later succeeded by General Black He entered the army from Rhode Island and rose nine times at the pension office becoming chief. The post office department plans to shift postal clerks west of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers due to mail train robberies. Senate confirmations include Postmasters Ellis Hunter Jacob W F Little Buena Vista Wood and others W N Nixon U S Marshal for the Eastern District of Tennessee and P F Cogbill Collector of Customs at Petersburg Va President Cleveland plans a Florida visit to Jacksonville for the Sub Tropical Exposition leaving Washington on the 21st returning promptly with minimal layovers Congress may adjourn for Washingtons birthday and Cleveland will not extend visits beyond Jacksonville.
Greensboro Patriot notes Prof. F. Blair of Summerfield and Prof. J. M. Weatherly jointly managing Liberty Academy. Waynesville News reports Alexander Thompson turning 90 and walking ten miles from East Fork of Pigeon to Waynesville. Raleigh News Observer covers arson at Harrison's Hotel and Episcopal rectory in Plymouth with 3000 dollar loss and 1500 dollar insurance. State farmers' alliances rise to 330 members. A local banker cites strong savings deposits but warns of dwindling deposits from a key class.
Passengers arriving in Gastonia report a fatal shooting at 3 p m yesterday near a jeweler’s shop. The victim, Otto Levi, was struck in the head by a stray bullet fired while a resident claimed the act was accidental during cat shooting. Levi died at 9 p m after medical aid failed. The shooter awaits investigation as authorities pursue facts.
Officers of the North Carolina State Guard conferred with Governor Scales in Raleigh concluding that all troops will receive overcoats and twelve handed will be requisitioned. Cloth for uniforms will be issued to four unserviceable companies with rapid action. An encampment is planned between mid July and mid August near the coast, with exact location to be announced. Adjutant-general and regimental officers proceed to Wilmington to inspect camping points.
Raleigh completes payment of eight thousand dollars to secure the State Agricultural and Mechanical College location as a bonus. Work on the college starts in thirty days with large quantities of material being hauled to the site.
Detectives trap two youths on Meeting street in Charleston South Carolina after a six month terror spree. Authorities recover a roomful of stolen goods and hear a confession detailing robberies at over fifty houses in three months.
Laborers unearthed a skeleton on a public road in Alexander County. The body lay seated with knees drawn to the chin. It is believed to be a colored man who vanished from Taylorsville twenty years ago, when he was said to have had $400 in gold and silver. The case remains a mystery.
A pair of Mormon elders passed through Raleigh en route to Davie county and shared little about themselves. The article notes missionaries target ignorant backwoods communities and predicts several Mormons will visit the South this year to seek converts. It recalls three near-lynchings of Mormons in Western North Carolina.
The Southern Christian Advocate reports the death of Mrs. Wolling wife of Rev J W Wolling of the South Carolina Conference. She died at her post in Piracicaba Brazil after a twelve day illness from malaria fever and a heavy hemorrhage on December 27. Her loss is deeply mourned by friends in South Carolina and Georgia.
The Guaymas district prefect reports potential large scale trouble from Yaqui Indians near Punta del Agua where a band of fifty or more is said to have arrived, devastating ranches and taking livestock. General Guerra, at San Marcial, is ordered to Punta del Agua with reinforcements ready if needed. Officials believe many bandits may have joined the Yaquis.
Six children of Lester Singletary, a Black man from Clarendon county, D C, perished when the family home burned after the parents left for a local church revival. The house fire trapped the siblings, the eldest a teen girl and the youngest a thirteen month old infant. all were buried together in one grave.
In Greenville North Carolina John Page was attacked by his 17 year old son who cut his throat causing severe injury. The assailant had an infectious disease and had visited despite orders. The father rebuked him and was saved by the intervention of the mother and sister.
In Wilkes County North Carolina Joseph Green killed Martin Triplett with a rifle after Triplett allegedly pursued Green's wife. Triplett died within forty eight hours. Green and his wife fled and are at large. The motive cited is jealousy fueled by drink.
A Raleigh based printers and binders firm Edwards & Broughton reports extensive forgeries using its name on checks received at the bank from Wadesboro and Hillsboro and other towns. The note warns all business firms not to accept these forged instruments as more forgeries may follow.
Telegraphic items note Wake Forest N C College enrollment at 215 and a new national bank planned for Salisbury. Banks failings and assets are listed for Florence and Laurens, while a Charleston fire claims 1 800 bales of cotton. Other items cover crimes, deaths, and political notes across several states.
A string of incidents from Seattle to St Louis includes a Seattle fire destroying two sawmills with losses around 25000, a London bankruptcy of opera manager Colonel Mapleson, steel works idle in Troy and Pennsylvania strikes leaving twenty one furnaces idle, a Chicago hydrophobia death of 13 year old Earnest Brockoff, a Cincinnati trial of Hopkins at Fidelity Bank, Brown's Valley Missouri fire with 18000 loss, Cornwall Ontario strike among 1500 cotton operatives, gypsy band caught with 9000 in gold, Shenandoah riot wounding a policeman, Pittsburg mob attack on black miners with one dead, and a St Louis fire causing 155000 in losses plus listed firms damaged.
Adam Sebastian of Cincinnati is father to eight twins. The oldest tombstone in the German empire rests at Worms dating to A D 900. Naturists Peckham found wasps remember nest locations for ninety six hours. Arab cooks are praised for marrying fruit with hot fire. Sixty American vessels named Susan sweep the seas. A Pennsylvanian farmer killed two deer with a single shot at seventy five yards. The eye and pupil reportedly signal time to the Chinese. Long Lake in Michigan rises forcing a railroad to abandon a short line. Augusta Evans Wilson’s manuscript Vashti sold for fifteen thousand dollars. A San Francisco lady kept three canaries. after a death they mourned for thirty days before singing again. Idaho's dark chasms hide lava channels where streams vanish, with origins unknown.
Engineer Markham and his fireman halted their Burlington and Missouri River engine between Minden and Axtell when a six foot panther leaped from the wild and attacked. The fireman warded off the beast with a wrench, a fatal shot from Markham killed it, but both men were badly injured and to be laid up.
Fayetteville resident exhibits a curious gas phenomenon after a lamp incident. A touchy topic describes breath catching fire with blue flame and singeing facial hair. Physicians note the man's stomach acts as a gas factory, with an exact daily output yet to be measured.
Benjamin A. Ross, a well known resident of the Glass Mountain region, was shot and killed in his own home. He had been ill that day and lay resting near a fire before the fatal shot rang out through a window. The shooter, an unknown assailant, escaped without a trace.
The United States builds the largest ordnance, a ten inch rifle thirty feet long and four feet in diameter for the Miantoukom monitor in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The gun was cast in Pittsburg and is being finished after two months of work.
Rev. Dr. Charles T. Bailey editor of the Biblical Recorder of Raleigh has bought the Western Baptist of Asheville from Rev. Joseph E. Carter. The Asheville weekly will merge into the Biblical Recorder, expanding its church news reach.
A roundup of quirky 1887 innovations includes a round cash drawer mat with spikes, a swing knife cheese cutter, a high lightning rod balloon, an all Havana cigar vending and end clipping machine, a nose protector from Idaho, an electrical boot polish machine, a barber hair wash funnel and tube, a two man monster bicycle, a decoy duck with detachable heads, an oil pump from a ship tank, a fly deterrent baby carriage fan, a church pew with inside chairs, a bed rest restraint device by a Chicago woman, a battery powered gun with platinum coil cartridges, a rocking cradle, and a combined kitchen ventilator and clock winder.
The piece compares the Krupp hammer in Germany and the Washington Navy Yard hammer in America. It details how operators instantly stop the hammer with a lever or finger to save objects like a gold watch, illustrating dexterity, nerve, and control admired by observers including the Emperor and American viewers.
An extended tribute to cotton as a divine and global treasure. The piece celebrates cotton’s universal impact from banks to banners, praising farmers’ role and foreseeing enduring heritage and subsidies tied to this staple of national industry.
A Dallas man cracks nuts with his teeth at an Austin hotel prompting a bemused, wary remark from a nearby lady. The exchange highlights the man’s unusual habit and the humorous scene amid hotel dining.
Three million women work for money in this country and two women dentists are thriving in London. The piece surveys new trims from white lambs wool to silver threads, belt and garter fashions, and a rising number of suffrage societies in Kansas. It notes Mrs Astor and Mrs Burnett wealth and charity, new fabrics like ice wool, and Parisian dress trends including Directoire styles and the waggle in fur-walks.
The world coal output totals 400,900,000 tons with the United States at 106,000,000 Asia 6,000,000 Africa 200,000 and Europe about seventy five percent of all. The annual per head consumption averages 225 pounds.
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