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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1889
Page
6
Reports detail a sudden hurricane at Apis harbor wrecking the German warships Eber Adler and Olga, the U S schooner Nipete and the Vandalia. Many sailors perish or are saved after chaotic efforts to reach shore as night falls and dawn reveals wrecked vessels and fallen crews.
N D Wasusvens reports that M A Williams and his brother Tom Williams, veteran trappers in Mc Kaen county North Dakota, were attacked by 15 Indians at a cabin where they had found refuge after a long trapping trip. Tom acted as a lookout and was killed. Williams killed ten attackers with a Colts and buckshot, then wounded, helped his brother to the Little Missouri river and fled toward Fort Stevenson.
A prairie blaze swept Mt Pleasant North Dakota destroying all public buildings and most homes. The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul depot and about twenty freight cars and four elevators were burned. Loss is estimated at 300 000 with little insurance leaving around 200 families destitute. A relief train from Mitchell brought aid but a strong wind hindered firefighting.
Cincinnati chose a mixed ticket with four Republicans and four Democrats. Moeby led for Mayor as Republican by about 500, while Horstman and Ziegler won City Btor and Treasurer respectively. Democrats Stevens Ermston Corcoran and Hocker won key posts. Stone led for Mayor with about 7,400 votes. Other cities reported varied majorities and shifts by party.
Severe gales and sand blizzards hit Dakota and Minnesota with dark skies and a 16 degree temperature drop in two hours. Prairie fires burned livestock enclosures in Yankton and Jackson County, destroying Lucius Heine’s farm and a residence near Andover. Charles Johnson’s house in Sacred Heart burned with Johnson perishing in the blaze.
The President sent nominees to the Senate on Monday including Janes N. Huston for Treasurer of the United States Ellis H. Roberts for Assistant Treasurer in New York City Wm F Watson for Assistant Secretary of State Geo H Shields for Assistant Attorney General Drury K Burchett for U S Marshal Kentucky Major Charles C Byrne for lieutenant colonel and surgeon Captain Curtis E Munn for major and surgeon Captain George B White for Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks L Bradford Prince for Governor of New Mexico Louis A Walker for Secretary of Montana James E Kelly for Receiver of Public Moneys Bloomington William W Jurkin for Indian Inspector and agents for Indians Charles A Ashley at Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency in Indian Territory and Charles A Scobey at Fort Peck Agency Montana.
Havana advices report a probable decline this year in the Cuban sugar crop by about 23,000 tons from the previous crop. Sugar-house operations are not active yet but expected to rise in value in upcoming deals. India has exported 84,190,000 bushels of wheat since April 1, 1888, versus 25,672,000 the year before. California shipped large quantities of canned goods dried fruit ripe fruit and raisins since January 1. Lake freight rate for coal from Buffalo to Chicago fixed at 63 cents per ton. A record corn crop of 1,936,000,000 bushels has yielded 62.4 percent harvested by the first of the month with total crop value calculated at March and December price bases.
Aman interviewed First National Bank of Denver president J C Wells described a plotted robbery by Wells using a pistol and nitroglycerin mistaken identity. The robber escaped as $21 000 was cashed after pressure. Moffatt lowered the reward to 2000 with no clue to the culprit.
Mrs Margaret Kinsein and her three children perished in a Milwaukee home at 554 Fifteenth Street in a self inflicted blaze. Kitchens lower floor held three rooms. the father’s family upstairs survived. Firemen found Mrs Kinsein and two sons burned in the middle room and infant Richard in the basement. Evidence indicates the mother set the fire and all occupants were killed by smoke and flames. Mrs Kinsein recently supported herself by taking in washing after her carpenter husband died ten months prior.
A fire starting in a defective post office in Ashton Illinois burned 21 business houses and several dwellings, with contents. The loss reached 90000 with light insurance. wind aided spread as Dixon and Rochelle sent aid. Only four businesses remain, including the Ashton Bank and several stores and restaurants.
Porto Principe and Sanita Spiritus papers call cattlemen to export surplus to the United States where markets are said to be remunerative. A Havana butcher plans a Key West shop selling Cuba meats and other Havana staples. The districts list 912,678 cattle plus horses, mules, hogs, and sheep totaling 433,720 head across all livestock.
A Wednesday night disturbance at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Rockford involved Beekmanites who follow Rev. George J. Schweinfurth and claim he is the returned Christ. Tension with pastor Dr. Condee led to expulsions and a planned forceful assertion of belief by the group.
Dun and Co reports a mixed trade outlook with some regions improving while others show dullness. Kansas City Chicago and Cleveland see stronger activity yet profits shrink. Leather metals and glass show weakness. coal and rail demand falter. wool demand rises modestly amid wool tops import limits. Special telegrams are less encouraging. New York grocers and hardware rise about 15 percent from a year ago.
A Baltimore and Ohio freight train derailed near Harts Run bridge five miles from Cameron Marshall County West Virginia. The engine crossed the burning bridge but collapsed into the stream as seventeen cars plunged. Three Philadelphia tramps were trapped and roasted to death while two others died in the wreck. Conductor Dean Brakeman Very survived, others injured. Loss to railroad estimated at 60 000 to 80 000.
The Columbia Iron Works in Lancaster will shut down indefinitely on April 6. A search for the McClelland town robbers near Cool Spring yielded no trace. Reading Iron Works assigned to Reading Trust Company and may resume under the assignee. A Greensburg tea agent, William Kelt, received about 15000 from an English uncle. Jermyn promoted to a Presidential post office with 30 others. W Calvert’s barn at New Sheffield burned with three horses. insured for 100. Revival of Lehigh Valley industry expected as idle capital and labor join a boom. At Sharon, Murphy fined 10 for kissing a young woman named Newman on the public street. Bethlehem Iron Company rails resumed with full force. puddlers’ wages cut from 850 to 345 per ton. Daniel Dugan of Shenandoah drew 2400 pension, then was robbed of much of it by a saloonkeeper and conspirators. police seek the gang. Yellow fever and smallpox reported aboard the steamer Horrox under Captain Rendle from Rio Janeiro with port reports of pestilence in Sintos and Rio Janeiro. Forty miles off Barnegat light Rendle observed a mast protruding from a sunken vessel. Constable killed by cowboys.
James Bubbert of Indianapolis celebrated his 104th birthday with descendants greetings. The article also notes stockholders of the American Waltham Watch Company approving a $1,000,000 capital increase to $3,000,000 and a 50 percent dividend.
The Crozier Steel and Iron Company refires Roanoke furnaces and repairs. Montgomery Alabama attracts $50,000 for a stove foundry with $50,000 in Hartwood Switch Company capital planning a Birmingham plant. Birmingham Furnace and Manufacturing reports a new 100 ton per day blast furnace in Trussville. Riverside Iron Works Wheeling resumes double turn operations employing about 250 workers after six weeks idle. No. 8 Thomas Iron at Lock Ridge yields 407 tons pig iron weekly, largest ever. Niagara river Iron Furnace near Buffalo to start April 15 with 100 tons daily capacity. Altoona Pennsylvania Railroad orders 15 new class A anthracite locomotives, with more expected. Alabama Car and Foundry Company planned at Anniston. Atlantic Bridge and Azle building an iron bridge for Central of Georgia near Columbia Alabama. Warren Tuba Company in Warren Ohio appraised at $30,000 and up for sale April 13. Philadelphia and Reading lands contract with Pullman Car Co for 50 excursion passenger cars and 530 hopper bottom coal cars plus 50 freight cars.
The Senate in secret session debated Murat Halstead’s nomination as Minister to Germany. Republicans led the attack citing his criticism of their peers during the Payne election investigation. The nomination was rejected with Democrats voting against it. Sherman switched to negative to seek reconsideration. Adjournment halted further action.
Market fairly active with prices for prima at 4 to 4¦ for prima, 81g to 38{c for fair to good butchering, 234 todyg for stockers, buys and dry cows.
Madison New Jersey hosts 85 greenhouses employing 150 people in a thriving rose trade that ships about 40 000 cut roses daily to New York City and coastal resorts. Roses reach Manhattan by Hoboken crossings, with quick, orderly transport and evening wearers a daily city sight. The industry supports many growers and several thriving establishments beyond Madison.
A narrator in a rural scene recounts a yellow hammer woodpecker attacking a makeshift cross in a Catholic cemetery. The bird leads other woodpeckers to peck away at the cross, then dies beneath it after a final clash, leaving the narrator amused and puzzled by the strange events.
In New Algiers North Africa the Rue de la Lyre hosts rich Moorish bazaars where vendors lure buyers with half price offers. Antique embroideries faded colors and Kabyle wares with turquoise inlays captivate, while intricate metal filigree and stone inlays reveal the region's bygone splendors, as described by the New York Observer.
The highest price ever paid for a piece of Chicago real estate was by Mr J H Robbast for the northwest corner of Dearborn and Madison streets. The lot measures 28 by 40 feet and the price was 150000 dollars equal to 7500 dollars per front foot and 18750 dollars per square foot.
The Netherlands regions Friesland Uroninser Zeeland Gelderland Overys sel and Flanders have long celebrated five milking cattle breeds. Holstein-Friesian cattle, famed in the United States for immense milk, stem from this lineage. Flanders cow and Guenon selected lines highlight best milking traits. color variations range from nearly black to pearly white. The Dutch and Friesian cattle influenced early English Shorthorns, shaping heredity for high milkers and deep-milking lines.
Fragmentary notes describe a Samoan hut with cocoa mat sleeping surfaces and tamboo stick handles. Mats are spread over the hut day and cocoamat curtains drop in windy weather. Hut shape and thatched legs are sketched in brief.
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