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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1887
Page
1
A cheerful beggar was hanged in Vienna for the murder of a man who refused alms. He endured the ordeal with stoic calm and even laughed as the rope was placed. His final request was for a new pair of boots to avoid appearing shabby before witnesses.
The Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Railway implements a profit sharing arrangement marking a notable advance in cooperative practice. While several U S firms have used the system, this rail line appears to be the first American railroad to do so.
In Zanzi bar circles, women wear gold dollar nose rings to mark status. More dollars signify higher exclusivity, with twenty five to thirty dollars indicating an aristocrat from afar and the power to snub others.
A new and extraordinary asparagus variety has been discovered on the Akhal Tekiz steppes, recently annexed by Russia. It grows wild to heights of five or six feet, with stalks nearly as thick as a man's arm. The tender stalks are said to be delicious and plentiful, feeding many soldiers from a single stalk.
Mr. Moody prepares a training school in Chicago to educate female missionaries for local application. A total of 250000 dollars is subscribed: 50000 dollars to erect the building and 200000 dollars to form an endowment fund.
General Sheridan spoke in New York about the army, noting 22 500 enlisted of a 25 600 full strength. He argued for at least 50 000 men, saying the country is large yet the standing army is small and citizens are quick to take up arms.
The list shows diverse given names such as Jehu Hilary Adoniram Knute Cherabusco Beriah and Welty along with trades represented by Baker Fisher Weaver Cooper Mason Glover Hunter Miller Brewer Granger Turner Taylor and Lawyer. It notes the absence of any Robinson in Congress and mentions colors White Gray and Brown with only one Hogg among members.
A three year old boy from Waterbury Connecticut underwent a notable operation at New Haven City Hospital. The surgeon straightened and reset deformed legs after breaking them several times under ether. The child recovered well and now walks long distances with a slight limp that is expected to vanish.
The Bengal divisions report 11 22 killed by wild animals and venomous snakes in 1885 86 the highest in five years. Nine tenths of deaths were from snakes. Of 2222 cattle only 811 died by snakes. Sheep goats pigs and monkeys are not counted. The hyena is credited with 773 cattle destroyed.
The essay questions long held legends as Rondos of truth. Professor John Phin claims clear water is near free of microscopic organisms and accuses popular lecturers of artificially introducing microbes and displaying them to frighten viewers.
Michael J. Adams reflects in the Current on the burden of life choices. The verse contemplates hunger, poverty, wealth with misery, and enduring trials across days and years. It emphasizes patience, moral bearing, and eventual rest among the good.
In Maryville a stern judge known for harsh court demeanor and culinary vanity faces a case connected to a forester murder near coal works. His misgivings about a missing coal-man daughter and a dramatic arrest unfold as he prepares for a breakfast with a trout dish and court colleagues.
A judge, clerk, and a visiting cure host a hungry sixteen year old girl named Meline Sacael in a court room. She testifies about a murder near a coal furnace while defending a friend, Gustin. Her plea and the judge’s softened heart hinge on an eaten trout shared with her.
A selection of epigrams on marriage and life from The Home Journal contrasts brides and grooms, jokes about fees and women, and a Russian verse on the span of life. Notable quips include a Spoke joke about a painting lacking a tongue and Rochester’s verse on Charles II.
The writer tours London noting its vast size population and diversity. London covers fourteen by eight miles with about four million residents including many foreigners and varying wealth. Daily life hinges on three hundred thousand servants while some elites employ twelve each, and consumption of oxen sheep oysters and other foods underscores the city’s abundance.
New York report: Budd buys and stores newspapers for later sale at high profits. Kansas men led by Senator Ingalls seek a complete two year Leavenworth Journal file for the Kansas Historical Society, offering $10,000 for the collection. The episode ties to the Lecompton era and Kansas free-state agitation.
Dispatch from Asheville notes rising interest in local mineral deposits. A seven foot wide black slate vein near Webster in Jackson county is being developed by a Baltimore company close to Hall's station on the Western North Carolina Railroad. Iron ore displays and diverse mineral specimens attract visitors to city collections and hotel exhibits.
Dispatch from Yazoo City Mississippi reports Captain A J Landman murdered by Walter and Ben Collum after a business dispute left 75 cents unpaid. They lured him to a corn crib and killed him with buckshot rifle and pistol fire. a companion named Vickers was shot at but escaped. Walter Collum was captured at Pocahontas. Ben Collum remains at large as a posse pursues him.
Wheeling report describes ten days of heavy storms causing extensive damage across West Virginia and neighboring Ohio. Rail travel is disrupted as tracks flood and wash away, livestock drown, crops ruined, and timber felled. The Ohio River Road south of Wheeling and Sistersville lines face closures. A lightning strike wrecked the Methodist Church at New Martinsville.
General notes report a fire damp explosion at a Gelsenkirchen coal pit with forty one bodies recovered and twelve additional deaths suspected. Nearby Johnstown districts faced floods washing away houses and ruining lower stories.
In Boston, two or three Japanese students dined with a local resident. One guest excuses a missing companion by claiming he is very dissipated. Inquiry reveals the man is not drunk or gambling but has eaten sponge cake so thoroughly that he is "all broke up."
A ten year old colored boy at Bartlett Tennessee used a double barreled shotgun to kill an infant left under his care. The motive appears to be revenge for a flogging. He is jailed and reportedly risks hanging if charged.
Edgar Lee Vance comments in the Inter Mountain on wide peonage in Mexico describing vast areas where white men are rare and peasants toil under debts. He notes ancestral debts, ignorance, misery, and a system the powers there would struggle to reestablish if workers quit.
The Raleigh dispatch reports Paul Lineke a Beaufort County farmer shot asleep in his Washington bed. The killer is young lawyer William A Pelts Jatter who has confessed but will not explain his motive. Lineke, a German by birth from a respected family, came to the area seventeen years ago and married a local woman.
A Louisiana memory monument in Vicksburg was unveiled with impressive ceremonies. Prominent attendees from the South included Governor McKeeney and staff, while the Continental Guards of New Orleans and other military groups took part in the procession.
New Yorkers protest the habit of leaving carts wagons and trucks overnight in streets turning thoroughfares into stables With the problem worst around tenement districts below Fourteenth Street and extending to the upper city and even Broadway the obstructions hinder traffic and invite theft as noted by the Chicago Times.
Augustus J. Sutton, president of the Autun Cotton Mills, buys the water power on Saluda River at Ware's Shoals from Wm. Ganes for 4500 dollars. He plans to erect a 5000 dollar cotton mill ten miles southeast of Honea Path.
At Schulenberg Texas Col Dan Rice veteran showman marries Mrs M C Robinson a wealthy Lavaca County cattle ranch owner in a high profile ceremony with prominent local figures present.
A note from Little Folks describes how Le Vaillant the French naturalist used baskets made by the Gonaquas to carry milk and other liquids. The baskets are woven from reeds so tightly that no liquid leaks, even with a monkey as a companion on travels.
A two track bicycle dubbed the Victoria Tandem or military cycle was described as capable of attaching any number of cars. Ten riders recently left Holborn Viaduct bound for Aldershot for testing with a view to military adoption.
A Black man was lynched near Mansfieldy La on Monday, suspected of the usual crime, in a violent extrajudicial act.
In Rowan County Kentucky the Morehead town marshal John Mannion went to arrest Jack and Bill Logan. They fired from above wounding Mannion fatally. Mannion’s posse returned fire, killing the Logan brothers. The Logans sided with the Martin–Toliver feud.
The department of agriculture reports June cotton prospects nationwide with state averages rising. Virginia 20, North Carolina 90.5, South Carolina 98, Georgia 98.5, Florida 97, Alabama 100, Mississippi 100.4, Louisiana 102, Texas 100, Arkansas 102.5, Tennessee 100. Acreage up modestly overall, notable gains in Arkansas and Texas, totaling about 18 million cultivated acres.
A veteran officer recounts a ruse in a barracks theft case. Each soldier received a bamboo chip. the thief bites the end to avoid the longest piece, exposing himself when the colonel seizes the culprit by the throat and the Hindu confesses. The trick ends with admiration from an observing officer.
War department frames rules to carry out congressional act providing annual appropriation to arm state and territorial militia. Under a $400,000 allocation from last session, Southern states receive Alabama 9,216 Florida 3,686 Georgia 11,059 Louisiana 7,373 Mississippi 8,292 North Carolina 10,188 South Carolina 8,298 Tennessee 11,059 Virginia 11,059.
The entire band of Apache captives at Fort Pickens Florida joined in a medicine dance witnessed by over five hundred onlookers, highlighting a rare ceremonial event amid captivity.
Governor Lee of Virginia has received from Adjutant General Drum a letter about the return of captured war flags, similar to the letter received by Governor Richardson.
In Austin Texas United States commissioner discharged from custody four alleged train robbers Joe Barbour John Craft Cheech Craft and Ussery brothers after alibis were established in each case.
The text notes cotton blooms and falling bolls across nearly all Texas counties and projects about one and a half million bales to be produced this year.
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