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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1887
Page
1
Drummers exploit a loophole in the interstate law on excess baggage charges. When luggage exceeds 150 pounds, they buy multiple tickets to their destination, check the baggage on those tickets, then sell unused tickets. This allows them to avoid excess charges and appear compliant.
The King of Corea has sent a memorial to the Chinese government asking it to abolish the kingly office and substitute a Governor-Generalship. Noble families plot with Japanese and Chinese adventurers, and the King fears assassination as the country remains too poor to profit from rule.
A medical student sentenced to twenty years hard labor for concealing explosives is aided by the owners daughter who testified against him. She bribed guards, helped his escape, and fled with him to Switzerland where they married after a planned convent retirement.
In Hartford physicians investigate a French gas treatment for consumption using sulphuretted hydrogen. Dr. Johnson and Dr. Root conduct experiments and treat several patients at the free dispensary with an apparatus for making the gas. Results are encouraging but not claimed as a cure. treatment will continue for longer, perhaps a year.
A strange report from Odessa describes Major Majoroff, once believed dead, buried with honors forty hours after death. After a fortnight in the grave, workers found the coffin opened, the face mauled, flesh gnawed from the hands, and the corpse bleeding as the discovery was made.
Bar Harbor Maine reports a surge in land and building speculation rivaling Western booming towns. Prices rose sharply with gains from 209 to 500 percent in some cases. Notable deals include 40 acres sold for $100,000, and James G. Blaine paying $109 per acre for 30 acres, now commanding higher offers. The market features out-of-state investors and local wealth, asserting a lasting boom driven by millionaire buyers.
The German Crown Prince, whose illness casts doubt on his future throne, is fifty five, ten years older than his brother-in-law the Prince of Wales. Few heirs apparent wait so long for succession as these two princes, reflecting a lengthy delay before any potential transfer of the crown.
The British Museum binds books by color to indicate their origin: red for purchased, blue for copyright, and yellow for presents. Each volume part bears a color stamp to distinguish property, with historical works in red, theological in blue, poetical in yellow, and natural history in green.
The Hofer Tageblatt reported Count von Holstein received a decoration but an exclamation point at the end of the sentence caused authorities to seize the issue and sue the editor for atrocious libel.
An English journal notes that Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show at Earl’s Court in London has sparked extensive republications of Fenimore Cooper’s Indian novels. It claims nearly every visitor to the exhibition will soon be familiar with The Last of the Mohicans Leather Stocking and The Pathfinder.
The text warns that loose money drives railway and land speculation, risking a coming crash. It cites the 1836 real estate boom causing 1837 collapse and the 1855 1856 boom preceding 1857 failure, urging immediate restraint in many cities and regions to avoid a similar mash.
The remaining six survivors are General Greely as Chief of the Signal Service, Second Lieutenant David L. Brainard at Fort Walla Walla Washington Territory, Julius R. Frederick ill at Indianapolis, Henry Biederbeck a messenger in the Agricultural Bureau in Washington, Maurice Connell a private in the Signal Corps in San Francisco, and Francis Larg a sergeant in the Signal Corps in New York.
A thunderstorm in Binghamton killed one boy and left another unharmed in the same bed. In Stamford a dozen years ago three brothers huddled in a barn. the middle survived while the others died. A circus tent struck by lightning killed Black patrons but spared white attendees.
Europe welcomed Dr Oscar Lenz after an African trek marked by marsh fevers, agues, and smallpox. He traveled on foot with no medicine, crediting diet and habits for immunity. He avoided raw fruit, boiled all water, and kept rice, chicken, and tea as staples. He abstained from alcohol and dressed in flannel to stay warm.
An iron skeleton lighthouse is planned for Anclote Key between Cedar and Tampa Keys on Florida's west coast. It stands 106 feet high with a six foot diameter central shaft and a concrete four foot deep foundation. The octagonal lantern chamber, made partly in France, will be reached by a spiral staircase and assembled in Florida in three weeks. The structure weighs seventy five tons and costs 11009 dollars, and can be moved if its foundation is eroded.
English crowds greet Queen Victoria during the semi centennial of her reign. Kings princes and nobles parade via London streets with sunlit scenes at Westminster Abbey. Royal family members diplomats and prominent Americans attend ceremonies and a palace banquet.
The heaviest locomotive in the world weighs 160000 pounds and runs on the Canadian Pacific. The second heaviest is the Southern Pacific at 154000 pounds. The third weighs 145000 pounds on the Northern Pacific, and Brazil owns the fourth at 144000 pounds.
A five state Inter State Farmers Camp opens in Spartanburg on August 2 and runs to August 6 under Patrons of Husbandry auspices. West Carolina reports emphasize exhibits, stock exchanges, and machinery displays with no admission on grounds though small fees for exhibitors. Col. J N Lipscomb heads the state board with John W Wofford secretary promising no political use and an experience meeting for farmers to share knowledge and boost profits.
Fire at Chicago packing and provision company ruins main building at stockyards. Loss estimated $1.25 million with pork stock and plant values detailed. 2,000 workers affected as flames subside and salvage proceeds. Firemen injured amid lard-rendering explosions.
In Cleveland Mississippi a bifurcated river ford became the scene of a brutal ambush. J G Reid was wounded then fled, Turner died after a second attack, and Manning died from three shots. Both men left widows and children. Reid and Turner were respected locals with no known enemies.
A Greenville dispatch reports lightning set Camperdown Mills cotton warehouse ablaze. The 150 by 450 foot frame building stored over seven hundred bales, nearly the entire supply for the mill, and was destroyed despite rain and a rapid fire response. Estimated loss $28,000. 200 workers likely left unemployed. A nearby store caught fire but was put out. the event began with a strike from a dead tree top fifty feet away.
Russia enforces a policy against Armenian Christians mirroring its Baltic approach. Private Armenian schools close, Armenian instruction is replaced by Russian, and a ukase mandates military service for Armenians while Muslims are exempt. The aim is to shift Christian Armenian youth to other regions with only Orthodox churches, eroding their faith. Armenians protest loudly.
An American witness detained ten months in jail in Havana after witnessing a man’s murder. The judge ruled the incident a case of self-defense. The Detroit Free Press cites Cuba as a place where a blind man can get by well.
M Berthelot French Minister of Public Works suggests a Douai school for brewers to purge German beer from France by degrees. The article also claims Georgia chartered and ran the first female college in the world.
General News Notes cover a wide set of items. Col S P Ivins, longtime editor of the Athens Tenn Post, dies. Albert Tarborn, a Black man, is hanged in Oxford NC for a grave crime. Wheat panic ripples through Chicago with failures and lawsuits. John T Crawford named receiver of public moneys at Gainesville Fla. North Carolina Teachers Association, about 1000 strong, meets at Morehead City. Two Chicago boodlers convicted. Mrs Cleveland returns to the White House. A mortgage on a Black man offered in Atlanta as debt security. Rail and ore finds across the Carolinas. New post office named Payne's in Edgefield. Heat kills fish in Buford’s Badge pond. Rail orders and railroad progress in SC. Crumb and Bassington fail in Cleveland. Victoria thanks subjects for Jubilee celebration. Kentucky residents resist US tax collection for unbuilt railroad. Chicago line burning at Watertown WI lays off 200 workers. French army service clause passes. An unknown man, likely F Trigg, plunges from Niagara Falls bridge.
A New York Chronicle summary of five years ending February 1887 records 8226 personal crisis reports in the United States from local papers. Summer peaks, winter lags, ages 25 to 60 most affected, chief cause insanity, with farming most afflicted and males dying at 3.6 to 1 rate over females. An Indiana center and Oregon coast area noted as suicidigenous zones. A Chicago incubator story concludes with a $200 insect anecdote.
A National Academy of Sciences expedition to observe the August 18 total solar eclipse will travel to Nikko Japan under Professor David P Todd director of Amherst Observatory. The team will include 12 to 15 members with cameras from San Francisco and Japan and funding from government Lick Observatory and England.
Chicago figure Long John Wentworth plans a $20000 mausoleum marker at Rosehill Cemetery with no name on the stone. He explains that future curiosity will keep his memory alive.
Spent hop leaves are to be utilized for papermaking with analysis showing they can be transformed into a cheap brown paper.
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