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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1888
Page
1
A vast project aims to turn Sandusky Ohio into the chief ore handling port on the lakes with a five million dollar investment. Twenty steel steamships will be built and a railroad line connected to the scheme.
The plan seeks to raise 100000 dollars for a Berlin church project. Subscriptions of 1000 dollars have been secured and pews will be offered to American colleges and other institutions at 1000 dollars each for the graduates to use freely.
During last winter about twenty four shipwrecked crews were rescued from death by life saving stations on the Cape Cod coast. Not a single man of the crews perished and property valued at nearly half a million dollars was saved.
Seventy seven pupils attend the Indian school at Wabash Indiana. thirty two are boys and nearly all belong to the Sioux tribe. They are diligent students and make as rapid progress as the average American schoolboy except in studies requiring close reasoning.
The Detroit Free Press quotes a grim view of medical training where a student is not deemed ready until he can amputate a leg without drawing blood. The article warns of the dehumanizing goal in surgical education and the surgeon who must forget himself to perform such acts.
Captain Robert B. Taylor, who died at the Asylum for the Insane in Lexington Kentucky, was the Souths first telegraph operator and the first operator hired by the New Orleans and Ohio Company which laid the first telegraph line south of the Ohio in 1847.
In Pekin China three newborn daughters escaped a fate prescribed by an imperial tradition that condemns three male siblings suspected of attempting to overthrow the government. The girls’ survival avoided a beheading penalty rooted in ancient law.
The Wing of Spain marks its second birthday with a grand fetch at the Madrid Hippodrome. All schoolchildren will attend and receive gold medals bearing baby Alphonse. The event features 12,000 cakes 12,000 rolls 12,000 cups of chocolate and 15 060 pounds of bonbons.
News from Berlin reports sixteen young men from the university forming an international total abstinence society. The group includes Americans, English, and Scots. J Warren Forbes of New Mexico is elected president. Their temperance doctrine relies on Professor Bunge's pamphlet Die Alkohol Frage as their handbook.
The Philadelphia Times notes that automatic weighing machines in hotels and public spaces collect substantial sums weekly. Canvass bags secure coin, closing the sack when opened so only authorized personnel access funds. In Philadelphia these machines average 20 to 25 dollars monthly, with Broad Street Station reaching about 100 dollars. The owning company pays a commission for placement.
The report lists the largest tracts owned by aliens including 4,500,000 acres by Holland Company New Mexico and 3,000,000 acres by an English syndicate Texas. Other holdings include 2,000,000 acres Sir Edward Reid Florida 1,800,000 acres English Mississippi 1,750,000 Marquis of Tweeddale 1,309,000 Philips Marshal London 1,000,000 German syndicate. Total lands held by aliens reach 20,747,000 acres with many smaller holders.
The article notes 401 House and Senate members employ about 400 staffers at $684000 total. Each member averages one aide, costing roughly 1600. Senate salaries amount to 380000 and House salaries to 1695000, totaling over two million dollars per year.
The Democratic National Convention in St Louis begins with parades banners and brass bands. California cheers the Thurman emblem while delegates fill the hall as rules are adopted and vice presidential nominations are debated before adjournment at 2 08 pm.
The convention adjourned to hear Grover Cleveland nominated amid thunderous applause after Colonel Collins was named chairman. The platform endorses tariff reduction and fiscal reforms while pledging faithful adherence to the 1884 platform and Cleveland’s leadership.
Notes report New Orleans finances strained for current expenses while other stories cover a Norfolk fire loss of 30,000 on 250 bales of cotton, a Norway Michigan blaze destroying 47 buildings and 220000 in damage, and a Washington DC post office site approved with 430000 appropriation. Also mentions Georgia negro Baptist centennial in Savannah and a Dakota family tragedy.
The Spanish Cabinet resigned amid political shifts. Italy abolished capital punishment in the Chamber of Deputies. Brazil's Emperor shows rapid recovery from illness. Prussian Interior Minister Von Puttkamer resigned after disputes with the Emperor. Upper Egypt reports a forward cotton crop. some delta provinces lag but remain healthy. London and Dublin host the Irish exhibition with civic leaders attending. Cold weather and abundant water noted.
The Senate tariff sub committee heard cotton bagging interests claim the Mills bill would ruin the industry and favored a tariff cut if jute butts were free. The House discussed the tariff bill amid debates on salt duties and flax lines, with recesses and procedural votes marking the day.
A Boston student devises an odd budgeting method by converting his allowance into fifty cent coins and scattering them around his room. He spends what he can find, retrieves coins as needed, and lets the landlady and staff guard against losses, creating a systematic personal economy.
A early morning blaze at the Mundine Hotel in Rockdale Texas trapped thirteen occupants. Eleven perished with two escaping. Dr W A Brooks and family among the dead. Pemberton Tierce and D M Oldham among the injured or deceased. The building valued at 8000 dollars, insured for 1500, and surrounding property also burned.
A severe cyclone passed near Milton North Carolina at 4 o clock Saturday. The track stretched about twenty five miles with a width of five hundred yards. Destruction was vast with corn and tobacco wiped out. Hailstones as large as guinea eggs covered the ground and cold weather kept hail present. Woods scattered with green leaves resembled autumn. John Cunningham property about eight miles east of Milton in Person county suffered heavy losses on 15000 acres of newly planted tobacco land.
June 20 marks the completion celebration of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad Wilmington extension in North Carolina. A serenade to Maj. C M Stedman spurs support for Judge Fowle and state ticket. An altercation in Hudson results in John Jenkins dead. Larry Freeman is implicated. Jane Morrison, accused of murdering her husband near Charlotte two years ago, is arrested in Lancaster and to be tried for her life.
The weekly weather crop bulletin from Washington reports generally favorable conditions for most crops. Cool northern weather slows corn growth, Minnesota and Dakota wheat regions see rapid crop growth, and the Mississippi and Missouri valleys enjoy favorable weather though southern Ohio Illinois Indiana Missouri need more rain. Cotton regions fare well except South Carolina where cool wet weather delays growth. Harvest is favorable in Southern Kansas and Tennessee.
The text argues there are no almshouses or public institutions for care in China and claims if such facilities existed they would quickly fill with inmates. It contrasts Chinese subsistence with the luxury of U S almshouses, citing the Fouth's Companion as the source.
Dudley Porter son of ex Governor James D PortER is killed in a Paris Tennessee shooting that followed a previous clash in which Kinney Porter was wounded. Kinney, who had recovered, and Dudley were together when Kinney fired at Will Edmunds who fired back killing Dudley Porter.
The Chicago Times outlines six major financial achievements: U S war debt buildup and management, Bank of England power, American railroad investment and earnings, German war indemnity payments by France, U S treasury surplus, and the Rothschild family's wealth and influence. It highlights substantial figures and historical context for each.
A Chambers's Journal writer notes children’s dialogue sounds like a foreign language when written as spoken. Examples include phrases such as Ware ego last night and Jer find the ice hard’n good, prompting the Christian Advocate to lament modern substitutions for Yes ma’am and No ma’am.
In Little Rock Arkansas a four year old boy, son of W Stringer, was attacked by a game cock kept in the yard. The bird sudden turned and mauled the child, who was knocked down and badly mauled. He died of convulsions within minutes after rescue. Chicago.
A 1755 New York Commercial Advertiser notice describes British encampment near Albany awaiting militia for Ticonderoga. It notes Dr Shackburg composing Yankee Doodle, and includes verses recalling Washington, Uncle Sam, and camp life with vivid images of weapons, uniforms, and playful scenes.
The article describes frog catching as a booming business with frog nets on bamboo poles. A two-man team in boat and on shore drives frogs to shore, where a quick-poking improvised net traps them in air above water.
The American Bookmaker describes a printing machine that converts paper into fully bound books at 5000 copies per hour. Three six foot diameter iron cylinders weighing about three tons each drive quadruple printing, with two impression cylinders and automatic handling, folding and delivering. Eight tons of paper and ample ink produce a week’s output, requiring twelve box cars. Built in Philadelphia, the inventor’s shop runs six machines daily and nightly.
A young man visiting a Valdosta Georgia woman arrived late. She teased him by saying she was in the arms of Morpheus when he entered. He replied jokingly that he thought he heard a cat when he came in.
An old Vienna custom lets house owners charge porters a four cent toll on tenants returning after ten at night. The result is deserted streets after dark and a noticeable drop in late evening activity.
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