04 Nov 1887
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1887
Page
1
A fragment from Longman’s Magazine presents Scythe blades whispering to grass and clover. The verse repeats a wordless chant about hush and sleep as time passes.
In the Sandwich Morning Bugle editor Mr Russell hires Julia Finch daughter of Thomas Finch Ayres town for a month trial as a female reporter. She handles exchanges and news with mixed success while adapting to desk life and office humor in a male dominated staff.
The Bugle chief plans to dismiss Julia Finch, a capable clerk, but she resigns to pursue other interests. Months later a surprise novel by Julia reveals she staged the whole affair as social study, turning the staff into characters in her book Three Progressive Girls. The experiment succeeds as a romance.
Mr. Cole of Bitlis describes a four day journey from Harpoot to Bitlis where a remarkable deposit of manna fell. Peasants gathered the sweet crystals from oak leaves, boiled the branches, and used sieves to separate the manna before pressing it into cakes for daily use among Oriental Christians.
In India the ragged brown fowl stands as a crucial staple for Anglo-Indian households where beef and mutton are scarce. The khansamah at bungalow inns navigates meals with fowl as the ready option, offering fowl soup, cutlets, curried fowl, and diverse preparations when other meats are unavailable.
An eight year old girl in Troy Missouri is described as rapidly turning exactly gray with an iron gray tint. Her mother notes hair loss and regrowth attempts without success after a town fire fright three years ago. Experts are not cited in the account.
Report notes Mexican laborers receive 18 to 25 cents a day for farm work and are frequently paid with produce rather than cash, highlighting harsh conditions and low earnings in agricultural areas.
The steamship Superior arrived at Milwaukee with news of the total wreck of the Vernon, a passenger propeller of the Northern Michigan line. Twenty two crew members were aboard plus unknown passengers, all presumed lost. Capt Moran described rafts, a small boat with a woman and three men, and a desperate effort to rescue amid high seas.
Noted desperado Owen Manning alias Obed McReedy terrorized South Carolina and North Carolina stealing horses and a church organ. Cornered in Beaufort County he fired on pursuers, was shot in the stockade escape, wounded again, and died at about 1 PM while serving a twenty year sentence.
Report from Wheeling describes a violent Sunday clash among Methodist women in Horse Neck, Jackson County. Amanda Gault and Mrs Matheny argued in church, Mrs Malone intervened, a pocket knife was drawn, a severe cut inflicted, and both women fought until several men and women separated them. Bonds were posted to keep peace and Mrs Matheny faces possible assault with intent to kill charges.
Thomas M. Walter of Philadelphia, a leading architect and president of the American Institute of Architects, is dead at 84. He helped plan the 1850 Congressional extension of the Capitol, designed the Girard College building, the patent office wing in Washington in 1851, the 1855 Treasury and Post Office extensions, and the National Capitol home.
The Convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in Chicago concluded its officer elections by selecting Nicholas Leng of Chattanooga Tennessee as grand chaplain.
A telegraph pole across the Rock Island between Menooka and Morris Illinois wrecked freight No 16. Engineer John Mills and Fireman Orff were killed instantly and the head brake man fatally injured. The obstruction aimed to wreck the Kansas City express due at 4 20 am and investigators pursue a suspected gang with large rewards posted.
A New Orleans dispatch reports a general strike by Negro laborers across much of Louisiana s sugar belt led by Knights of Labor. Workers demand a 25 cent daily raise from $1 plus rations, resorting to work stoppages as violence erupts. Governor McEnery orders militia. artillery with a Gatling gun heads to Terre Bonne to back civil authorities.
The steamer Independent from Mediterranean ports, touching at Palermo, carried over four hundred steerage passengers to New York. After a day and a half’s detention they were scattered nationwide. Surgeon General Hamilton ordered alerts. cities fear contagion and news prompts protests against New York health officers. Now ships from cholera ports may be sent back if lawful.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad confessed judgment in Richmond Circuit Court to president C P Huntington for 1 765 034 for money advanced to redeem coupons and pay employes. The bill is filed in Henrico County. Gen William Wickham, second vice president, appointed receiver after formal answer deemed unsatisfactory. Bond posted at 200 000. The line runs 510 miles.
Commodore Harmony reports the Norfolk navy yard is strategically important with mild climate and ample resources. He urges full equipment, requests 825000 for railroad extension, and proposes 875000 for a permanent iron and steel shops building to shelter the armored vessel plant.
Secretary Fairchild ordered the removal of sixteen clerks of the $1,600 grade in the New York Customhouse who failed to pass the civil service examination for promotion.
A St Paul letter reports the nuptials of Secretary of State Bayard and Miss Sophie Dallas Markee. The Markee family has deep Washington ties with Dr J C Markee and relatives in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Miss Markoe, born in Washington, has worked in the State Department since the 1870s alongside her sister Mary who translates foreign letters.
R G Dunn & Co reports a softer weekly and monthly trade in October with some sectors lagging last year's month. South and West demand for accommodations remains, money requests decline after balances are drawn down, and exchanges show fair activity while cotton goods stay firm. US and Canada business failures total 216, up slightly from the prior week.
Reported on good authority that the East St. Louis Bank under Newman and Farr and recently transferred to N. H. Knox has creditors agreeing to take 45 cents on the dollar. New York creditors led by the Importers and Traders Bank resisted. Chicago creditors may or may not join. Depositors are to be paid in full.
An explosion at the Toplitt Carriage Hardware works near Cleveland Ohio killed two men John Buchner age eighteen and Alfred Steinbrook and seriously injured five others. The company makes a patented bow socket for buggy tops varnished and baked in ovens. The blast destroyed one oven and caused extensive burns.
Knoxville Tennessee voters approved a $100,000 allocation to support the Carolina Knoxville and Western railroad project, signaling backing for regional rail expansion.
The Miami to Lake Worth mail run ended in tragedy as James B. Hamilton was killed crossing the Hillsboro Inlet to reach Beige Station. Waring reported witnessing a huge shark attack that split the boat and threw Hamilton overboard, with witnesses unable to save him. The incident has left the coast in mourning and sparked fear among local carriers.
A New York dispatch reports Henry Jackson, the paying teller, absconded with ten thousand dollars of Sam’s money from the sub-treasury in Canada. He had access only to his cash, not vaults, and no deficit was found when funds were rechecked after illness. The loss, not covered by bonds, echoes a past treasury failure of $185,000.
Chas Moore a Huntington Indiana telegraph operator resigned after the Kouts wreck news, saying his heart failed him entering the despatcher's office as officials received word of deaths and horrors. He reports officials wept and the chief despatcher grew ill while Moore was called to the key.
In Ling and it is always a study to peem of 4 glare of the Sun. The passage describes a Portuguese window in India using pearl oyster shells cut into panes, about an inch and a half square, noting the light obstruction from shells and the framing needed, implying significant opacity and light loss.
The Baltimore Democratic Party elected Mr Latrobe as their mayoral candidate and secured twenty of the thirty council seats in the recent vote.
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