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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1889
Page
3
A jumble of names and notes across topics from Harvard peers to a bronze commemorative statue in Lexington. It mentions Whitney, Fairchild, Senator Gray, and Representative Low den as Harvard classmates, a 30 dollar Jackson memorial, and varied items from earache rumors about the German Emperor to coroners’ verdicts in New Rochelle. The report covers ships teakwood, court decisions, and a corny European society scene with scattered dates and places.
The Commercial Advertiser warns that if old world armies grow, Europe may go bankrupt this century. Texas reports under ten thousand mortgaged farms totaling about 10.66 million dollars, while Ohio shows much higher relative debt. Contemporaries note fat women in New York, funeral car hearses, a first woman Methodist preacher, and odd biblical-place rail routes. Japanese strain to close Sundays spreads inland. Strikes decline as workers gain fair play. Ausrian royal vaults hold Hapsburgs, while Jenner predicts a 1890s boom followed by panics and inflation through 1891.
The American Agriculturist compares agriculture in France from the 1882 census with the United States from 1830. It notes population growth and more farms in the U S, but France shows a higher proportion of land improved. Data include population, land area, farm counts, and farmed acreage for both nations.
The article profiles James G. Blaine born 1830 in West Brownsville and William Windom born 1827 in Belmont County Ohio. It traces Blaine through early political rise to Speaker, Secretary of State, and party leader, and outlines Windom’s Senate career, cabinet service, and later Minnesota business ventures, noting his nationality and influence in Vermont politics with Redfield Proctor’s ascent and Vermont marble industry ties.
General Benjamin F. Tracy, about fifty nine, of Oswego New York, a lawyer and politician, fronts a career from Tioga County district attorney to assemblyman commander of the 10th and 13th Infantry regiments and later the 12th United States Colored Troops. He served as United States district attorney for the Eastern District of New York and as a judge of the Court of Appeals. He is also a noted trotter breeder and co-owns Marshland stud in Tioga County.
General John W Noble, a St Louis lawyer and former army officer, is lauded for his dignified bearing and longstanding public service. His wife Miss Halstead, renowned hostess and literary patron, has hosted notable talents at their home and celebrated their February wedding anniversary.
The Attorney General William Henry Harrison Miller, a 50 year old Indiana lawyer, joins Washington with deep trial experience and strong mental powers. Jeremiah McLain Rusk, from Ohio, has a long public service record from Union Army brigadier to Wisconsin Governor and pensions reformer, previously offered roles by Garfield.
The Fiftieth Congress closes with a rowdy Senate scene as S Riddleberger, intoxicated, interrupts proceedings. he is dragged from the chamber by officers and held in the cloak room. Earlier, credentials for Mr. Kennedy are filed. conference reports on Sioux reservation division and veteran relief are approved. House actions include a Winona building appropriation boost and a Canada trade union plan. extraordinary session notices loom as members prepare to adjourn.
Traders faced belated winter goods stocks and slow collections while some regions report pockets of activity. Pig iron prices rise in Pittsburg with better demand for manufactured goods. leather, dry goods, and drugs show mixed strength. Coal output and Port Richmond stocks signal lingering market slack, while copper, tin, and lead move. rails and foundry prices fluctuate. Stock market activity stalls, currency remains steady, and foreign trade shows a sizable February import-export gap. Financials hint at higher currency in circulation and mixed business failures compared with last year.
A drunken man hurled his wife from a second story window in Williamsburg. Annie, 21, lay unconscious on the sidewalk with a fractured skull. Thomas Ryan and Sarah Riley were arrested after detectives found them in a ruined room. The assault followed a drunken quarrel. Annie’s condition is grave.
Governor Wilson certified John D. Alderson in the Taird district and James M. Jackson in the Fourth district as elected members to the Fifty-fifth Congress. He ignored Kanawha county’s 9000+ votes amid pending court cases and adjusted Pleasants county returns, prompting Republican disappointment and a likely contest in the Houses.
The Kansas Senate approved a bill to outlaw trusts, combinations and pools in imports and domestic production and sale. It declares arrangements designed to raise costs or control loan rates as against public policy, illegal and void with penalties including imprisonment and fines up to 1000 dollars for violators.
Reports from New Castle to Meadville and beyond detail a wife suing for assault and failure to provide, embezzlement sentences for a former Philadelphia councilman, warehouse thieves stealing whisky near Paintersville, and judges granting liquor licenses while Meadville presses for factory investment. Also noted are deaths, railroad accidents, and local property damage from coke-oven smoke.
President R. Carr of the West Virginia Senate and Union Laborite and General N. Goff, Republican, visited the governor’s office to demand surrender of the governorship. The governor refused, citing no election declared by the late joint assembly, and kept office under constitutional authority while the contest proceeds in court.
Cattle market remains active with prime cattle at 4 to 4.35 cents and fair to good at 3.4 to 4. Prices for common cattle and buyers moderate. Hogs show fair activity with most sales at 3.4 to 4 cents. Wool prices drop slightly. wool reduced to perite. Lumber markets show mixed activity with quality affecting rates.
A host of kitchen and home care tips cover stove cleaning and polishing with vinegar, sugar, and old newspapers. Instructions include whitening nickel with kerosene, cleaning mica doors with vinegar, dusting zinc, and using whiting for shine. Also includes scrambled recipe snippets for sauerkraut kettle, Creampot Paroma, bread gamp, croquettes, and apple preserve syrup.
The passage notes Gustaves Adolphus introducing light two horse drawn cannon and integrating them with cavalry, claiming his armies were largely infantry in two thirds and cavalry one third. It states the bayonet’s invention led to the abandonment of pikemen and mentions charges by angels as a misread fragment.
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