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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1889
Page
6
Brief items report cannibalism on the Solomon islands with captures and killings, a Texas boy’s accidental shooting, New Jersey liquor law changes, storms and wrecks on Chesapeake Bay, and legal and political notes. Other items note hangings in Minnesota and Kentucky, railroad finance, and regional engineering projects amid general 1887 era turmoil.
Report notes a capital of 10 000 dollars for forming a prices paper by Foren at the Beevers era in England. The Russian Government weighs a 120 million roubles naval fleet expansion. Germany's Spandau steel rifle factory costs 1.5 million marks. A man near Winton North Carolina killed his child and burned another in the woods. He was arrested, likely insane.
Commanders of the Vandalia and Nip pon report from Apia on February 23 that the harbor is calm with Nipsic and Calliope present alongside German vessels Adler Olga and Eber. The Trenton has not arrived, Samoan Times resumes, and Tamasese party loses ground as Washington’s birthday anniversary is celebrated by ships.
Thomas Woods of Donnelly's fork Lincoln County West Virginia lured his stepmother Mrs Woodrow Woods by claiming a neighbor was ill. He shot her in the left breast then again in the neck and dragged her to a cliff. She died after naming him as her assailant. Dispute over property division cited as motive. Woods in custody.
Warrants issued by Alderman Sherwood on J K Wentzes oath for Codorus and Manheim Insurance presidents. James and Howard Stump ages 9 and 11 arrested for arson at Lewis Millers barn in North Codorus Twp on Feb 9. Mrs Elizabeth Weaver, Mrs Auralis Miller, Missora Reible named for other barn fires with dates in 1868 1888 1889. Mothers protest innocence as families face prison.
In Terre Haute Indiana a mad stone was applied to the leg of an 11 year old girl bitten by a pup that later died with hydrophobia. The stone adhered for 11 hours and the girl’s wounds drew blood while two sisters and a brother were also bitten or scratched. The stone’s longest recorded adhesion was 14 hours, and no death has occurred where it has been used, with the mad stone dating back over 80 years.
A government blue book on Samoan affairs shows 56 dispatches from April 29, 1885, to February 24, 1888. It records England's cordial accord with the United States, her refusal to aid Germany in restoring order without U.S. views, and Salisbury noting German claims of alliance while asserting shared future governance but not other matters.
In Lee County Kentucky near Beattyville Deputy Sheriff Abert McClancy was killed when Bob Powell resisted a warrant serving by Sheriff Walker Jamison. Jamison then subdued Powell and Powells jailed in Beattyville. Powell has long been known as a desperado.
The United States Supreme Court Justice Stanley Matthews died at 10:05 Friday morning after a period of decline. Surrounded by family including Mrs Matthews and children, his long career in law and public service is recounted, from Cincinnati beginnings to service in West Virginia, the Army of the Cumberland, and a 1881 appointment as Associate Justice. The court adjourned after learning of his death.
A blast at the United States Dynamite Company mine in Lakewood New Jersey killed Thomas Haggerty and William Nicholas of Manchester. Nicholas was blown to atoms. Haggerty died within an hour. The explosion shook towns up to 20 miles away. three explosions have occurred here with five dead and three maimed previously.
The Maine Lower House revisited a bill that would turn drugstores into liquor saloons after a near party line vote. New Hampshire and six other states show varied results on prohibition amendments with margins listed for Michigan Texas Oregon and West Virginia. Notable pro amendment supporters include Whittier and Garrison Jr while opponents feature ex Gov Rice and President Eliot of Harvard.
At Beranton Pa the Pennsylvania Coal Company plans to close all 15 collieries at once affecting about 2090 men. Old miners note eleven years of heavy downturn with the last six months of quarter-time work and earnings below $15 a month, some as low as $6 a month, while rents in company houses run from $6 to $9 with little or no relief for families.
The Department of Agriculture reports the average wheat weight at 56.5 pounds, the lowest in six years. In the spring-wheat region, weights range from 53.5 pounds in Dakota to 55 pounds in Nebraska, with an estimated crop of 391,000,009 bushels of 60 pounds each, about 25,000,000 fewer than measured bushels.
Announcements posted at all collieries in the Pitts notify a six week suspension affecting about 10 000 men and boys from the Pennsylvana Coal Company Lehigh Valley Coal Company and smaller operators. workers face months of reduced hours and poor conditions amid the stoppage.
Harrietta in Harrisburg arrested for prancing witchcraft. J C Hall of Meadville inherits 500000 after uncle J C Hall of Chicago dies in Houston. Standard Horse Nail expands capacity at New Brighton plant by 250250 feet. Lancaster hoteliers form anti Prohibitory Amendment group. Latrobe magnate D L Chambers dies suddenly at 68. L V Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades bought land near Media. Wyoming Historical Society title declared null in Wilkesbarre. Altona shop hours cut to nine with Saturday afternoons off. 3000 workers employed. Coultersville man clings to swamp discovery claim despite contradiction. Altoona fire destroys two large dwellings. losses 4000, insurance 1000. West Middlesex co op stores declares dividend. Erie county liquor licenses issued despite 50 refusals. Pottaville stove foundry sold to form Schuylkill Valley Stove Manufacturing Company. Columbia area mills announce iron purding wage of 8.50 per ton after April 4.
W A Harvey a keeper for J W Lyon and accountant for E R Clarkson was jailed for embezzling 40000 dollars. Police found Harvey’s wife and two daughters shot dead in their Toronto residence. The suspect fled toward Shaw station, with Toledo as a possible next stop. motive unknown. His son in Toledo warned to prevent further bloodshed.
Rhode Island Republicans at Providence meet to renominate state officials led by Herbert W. Ladd for governor and Daniel G. Littlefield for lieutenant governor. The platform praises national Republican victory and condemns President Cleveland’s vetoes, urging the General Assembly to allow a vote on any proposed constitutional amendment when demanded by a large citizenry.
The President transmitted a list of nominees including Wm A Mercer and Harry R Bullivan for officer and paymaster roles, Francis E Warren as Governor of Wyoming Territory, Benj F White as Governor of Montana, and multiple appointments across Indian Affairs, US Marshals, US Attorneys, postmasters, and other federal positions with names tied to states such as Wyoming Montana Oregon Maryland Arkansas New York Pennsylvania Virginia Texas Ohio and Montana. The document names numerous individuals and their respective jurisdictions, indicating a broad slate of appointments.
Two years of unrest in Wales over tithe distraint threaten violence, with emergency workers unsafe in Pen dryn. Police cannot ensure order, local militia sympathizes with protestors, and the government remains reluctant to use force in religious dispute.
William Kellam of Locustville, Virginia, confronted a gang of about thirty men wearing pillowcase masks and threatening him. He knocked the leader down with a single blow and whipped him, then chased off others, declaring White Caps cowards and urging residents to stand firm.
A collection of aphoristic reflections on self control wealth and reputation. It contrasts self deceit with external deception and argues that happiness lies on differing paths though the destination is shared. It warns against pride ill nature and shallow thoughts, urging honest behavior and refined conduct.
The 1886 Sheboygan County fire killed Abram Eble James Eble his wife and three children and a visitor. An estate of 10000 was left to Eble or his son and then to the grandchildren. After complex claims by siblings and in laws the circuit court and Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that the maternal grandparents were the heirs and that the mother’s kin were last to perish. The Chicago Herald notes the case as an unusual sequence of evidence and legal questions.
Samuel Humbert, a victim in the McClellachtown gang terror, died at Fairchance Pennsylvania at eighty. He kept a rumored fortune hidden from banks, reportedly tied to a box his dying words hinted at, as robbers tortured him at his house last summer. His death followed heart disease worsened by the trauma, and relatives search for the concealed treasure.
James Baker fired on Moses Gatliff after Gatliff confronted him over his wife who had run away. Gatliff was mortally wounded. Baker then shot Gatliff and surrendered to the sheriff.
The Ohio House passed a near unanimous Btranshan bill banning manufacture or sale of imitation butters or margarine substitutes. Penalties include fines from 100 to 800 dollars and possible imprisonment.
A British Association committee reports eighty five flowers now extinct or nearly gone in Scotland. The white water lily nearly vanished from the Dumfries rochs by a single individual warned off. A bog plant in Methven disappeared due to a flock of black gall insects. A bay of Nigg shingle plant was wiped out by concrete pier use. A Moray Frith grass perished after a tree was toppled. Extinctions blamed partly on botanists’ injudicious actions.
The article notes China’s people as semi-barbarians multiplying within limits, mastering arts refined by ancient practice, and using new scientific methods to cultivate soil with assiduous labor. It claims their methods enhance fertility and enable a simple harvest to sustain their increasing numbers.
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