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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1891
Page
6
Indiana Progress reports a brutal Texan crime where two men attacked the Newberry home killing three children and injuring the mother. The assailants demanded money and fled, pursued by authorities as the mother clings to life with seventeen wounds.
Reading moulders strike while Harrisburg mills raise wages and add production. Unions reorganize in Pittsburgh district No 5 with new officers ready for business. Belgium miners resume work. Luxemburg population declines from emigration. cholera and storms disrupt Europe.
Shipping oranges dominates Pacific trade with Chile as Washington’s crop surges. A vast Michigan mill fire at Jennings destroys 18 mills and 18 dwellings, losses reaching 2 million with only 250k insured. Dozens of criminal and accident items follow from New Jersey to Colorado, including murders, drownings, a man killed by fountain gas, and a race of disasters.
In Greensburg a man named Jeremiah McGinnis loaded a Winchester and hid it under his bed. A four year old boy, alone in the house, lifted the gun hammer and fired the weapon. The bullet entered behind the ear, killing McGinnis within minutes. In Bolivar Albert Larmed was struck by a falling railroad stone, fracturing his skull and breaking his legs.
Columbus Ohio July 14 M J McInarna States Inspector reports to the railroad commissioner on the Ravenna week collision. He says a straight one mile track stretch caused the accident and finds the freight crew grossly negligent for not controlling the train. He also blames Fred Boynton flagman for poor judgment and fault in dropping a fuse as danger signal. The freight was traveling at 2 miles an hour.
In Brooklyn at the foot of Richard street the tramp steamer B. M. iooth was reloading when a box of dynamite cartridges exploded. Cornellia Haye and William Reagen were killed. four other employees were injured. The vessel is valued around 30,000.
The St Louis Republic reports a curious belief in Rapid City South Dakota where soil supposedly petrifies recently buried bodies into marble like statues. Tales describe the son of Eugene Holcomb and frontier figure Wild Bill becoming stone, with dozens later found preserved in solid rock across the Black Hills despite skepticism north of the region.
Balata or balata milk, the solidified milk of the bullet tree, emerges as a scarce natural product and potential gutta percha substitute. West Indian forest harvesters face swampy ground and armpit-deep water. women assist in gathering while men fell trees. Milk sells for a dollar a gallon, dried balata twenty five cents a pound, with daily earnings comparable to seasonal quarry work. Dried by air in oiled trays, balata commands higher prices than gutta percha and is treated by manufacturers as a superior gutta percha, though less prominent in name.
Henry Wagner, an elderly German gardener, dug up a rusted ancient sword in his Dubuque Iowa garden. The blade bore an engraved scroll with a date that appears as 1850s, a crouching hound above the hilt, a mailed arm with a drawn sword, and on the opposite side a papal mitre with crossed swords and lances, suggesting a historic relic of value.
The Department of Agriculture notes corn acreage up slightly versus last year due to drought, with potatoes and tobacco near prior levels. Crop conditions improved in Ohio and upper Mississippi valleys, but Kansas and Nebraska faced rainfall damage. Spring wheat gains in Minnesota and the Dakotas, oats show mixed results, and fruit prospects brighten in New England. In Chicago, five drownings were reported from boating and bathing accidents at Columbia Park and Pullman boathouse.
Fire destroyed two tenement houses on State street in Brooklyn. Maggie Bishop, age 1 percent, is missing and thought to have perished. Sixteen families lived there. many narrow escapes occurred as tenants jumped fire escapes. Four people injured seriously.
An article from Ladies' Home Journal extols seasickness as a beneficial illness. It urges not fearing voyage sickness, stating two days typically suffices to recover and advises gradual exposure, light diet before sailing, and walking on deck to adapt to ship motion. It dismisses remedies and promotes letting seasickness run its course.
Market notes list prices for oats has No 1 white and No 1 Pa and Ohio rye, various berries and fruits like whortleberries cherries and currants, plus hay and straw. Also includes live poultry and dairy terms, plus a large block of livestock and meat prices from New York Cincinnati Chicago and Philadelphia markets with cattle hogs sheep lambs and prices per hundredweight.
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