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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1889
Page
6
Serious politics have recently erupted in the provinces of Ninas Geras and Bra. Conservatives disrupted Republican meetings and attempted to kill their speakers, reflecting a volatile political climate and rising violence.
Five French tourists were reported murdered in Yellowstone Park with authorities split between Indian attackers and outlaw bandits. Guide Hank Ferry, who led the party from Canon City, survived with injuries and later vanished after recounting the dawn attack in Rattlesnake canyon. Miners support theories of outlaws or cattle thieves. no expedition planned for weeks.
A gang terrorized McClellandtown region nine miles from Uniontown torturing victims for money. J Ley, 63, was burned with oil after revealing 28 dollars. Mrs Kener, 50, and grandchild visited. Joseph Anderson and wife faced revolvers as $35 was taken. Bandits fired at Harvey Grove scene. Grove’s grandson fired back, possibly wounding one. They fled with a young mare from Benjamin King as farmers and constables pursued toward Uniontown.
The Weavers' strike for higher wages in Fall River Massachusetts idles about 6000 workers across fifty mills. Most refuse to strike, yet sentiment is unanimous against concessions. Managers expected limited impact, but a broad wave of stoppages is changing production plans. The Board of Trade discourages wage increases, forecasting a bitter clash as mills resist a raise.
In Forbes, Missouri, a daring attack by three masked men occurred at S A Young’s general merchandise after eight o'clock Saturday night. They threatened the crowd, tried to force the safe, pistol whips, took about 250 dollars from patrons and till, then fled on horseback after ordering everyone to stay put for ten minutes.
The widow’s illness postpones interment plans as Townshend family mourns. A Tuesday funeral occurred amid eulogies from Townshend supporters at Willard's Hotel. Separately the Supreme Court grants a new murder trial for Andrew Colton in Salt Lake.
In the Pennsylvania Senate the final bills were passed, including transportation for indigent patients at the Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Ezra. The House approved the Senate amendment on the timing of the special election for the constitutional amendment. Both branches honored General Cameron on his ninetieth birthday as crowds and telegrams poured in, noting his continued vitality and social warmth.
The Fifty Congress stayed in session longer than any before it. Of 17 000 bills and joint resolutions, 1791 became Iowa. About 30 percent were public. the rest private. Key acts included admitting four new states creating the Department of Agriculture adding a cabinet post and approving the Nicaraguan canal charter. Many major measures failed including tariffs revenue reform the Educational bill and the Dependent Pension bill.
A boiler 90 feet long in the forging department exploded at Cleveland Rolling Mills in Cleveland Ohio. A fragment hit Hugh Graham's house 300 feet away and buried itself beneath a neighboring foundation. Mrs Colaga and Mrs Ca'ajs were hurt. a child, Mary Vergo, age four, suffered a broken arm. Two workers were killed and eleven injured among about 30 near the boiler.
A Kentucky Webster county epidemic is described as mysterious and fatal with about thirty five known cases and daily deaths feared to be in the dozens, likened to the New England black death. In Kansas City a stable fire at Metropolitan Cable Company kills three men, Henry Steele surviving in a farming condition as debris is cleared.
A report notes Nicola Joseph Seadie, an Arabian, was naturalized in Fayette County, becoming the second Arabian to gain American citizenship there. Other items list school superintendent vacancy in Butler County, fire losses in Centre Hall and Meadville, liquor license battles in Meadville and Titusville, and idle miners in the anthracite region. Additional notices include a wrongful death suit in Youngstown, a fatal firearm accident in Fayette County, political support from Col W D Moore, strikes and industry news in Hazelton, McKeesport, and Duquesne, plus a burglary with $500 stolen in Fayette County.
A boy walking the track between Chicago Junction and Plymouth Ohio spotted boulders and ties placed to wreck a train. Three tramps threatened to cut his throat if he flagged the engine but he warned the engineer in time. The would be wreckers fled to the woods. the boy gave a description but they were not yet caught. The incident occurred about thirty miles west of Mansfield.
The report describes a quiet organized relocation of thousands of African Americans to Arkansas by Southern agents. Families are moved from Raleigh area counties near Goldsboro, with promises of 40 acres, a brick house, a cow, and labor pay, while the destination remains unknown. Plantations lose hands as canvassing expands. cost borne by the agent. Nominations to Senate list several diplomats and officials including Palmer to Spain and Washburn to Switzerland.
Ira Campbell moved to a farm near Wichita Kansas when a White Caps gang of about a dozen men crowded the house at night. They fired shots, forced him to flee with his family by midnight, and his wife died after the fright. A warrant has been sworn for a suspect. outrage sparked lynching threats. Dispatch from Huntingburg reports White Caps activity in Indiana as locals push back. Ireland incident: Joseph Serwersheim received thirty lashes for failing to heed a work warning. Additional notices left with others.
The Signal Service weekly weather crop bulletin notes favorable conditions across the central valleys Texas to Minnesota and Dakota. Moisture droughts in winter wheat regions are offset by good weather, spring wheat ground in fine condition, sowing underway in Dakota and Nebraska. Tennessee Arkansas Gulf States report favorable farm work. South Atlantic states a few days late with cool moist ground in New England and New York. New Jersey and Pennsylvania report wheat not materially injured.
A North Dakota dispatch notes farmers began field operations last week but a recent cold wave may have paused plowing. Mason City reports North lows farmers preparing for spring work with snow off and sowing to begin later. California reports 10,000,000 bushels of wheat on hand, 7,500,000 exportable, while Odessa freights limit shipments. Wheat receipts are light and stock likely to fall short soon. Duluth may see 200,000 bushels flour in store by May 1, and lake movement could reach 2,000,000 barrels, about 10,000,000 bushels of wheat.
A collage of notable figures and events spans rulers, poets, politicians, and socialites. Mentions include the Czar in Berlin, Pope Pius IX’s birthday, Queen Victoria’s tour, Grover Cleveland with a moustache, and James Russell Lowell’s retirement. References to Wanamaker family, Harvard’s Bancroft class survivor, and Kuve Orro of Bavaria appear amid fragmented notes on honors, travels, and political figures.
Hunters in the Everglades pursue alligators as the main quarry while rattlesnakes yield smaller profits. They live aboard shanty canoes, trapping and skinning, with hides selling for up to ten dollars and teeth a dollar per pound. Fire hunting at night lights the shoreline to stalk the huge saurian, with successful shots followed by skinning on the raft. The piece also touches on Native dances and compares them to a waltz, noting varied postures and rhythms among the Baquimac girls of the Iwilik.
The article notes New York City elevated railroads moved over 170 million passengers in the year ending September, nearly equal to Germany’s total rail traffic and behind France’s 205 million. Across the United States 428 million passengers rode 149,912 miles, with New York’s intramural traffic making up about 40 percent of national totals.
Abraham Gesner coined kerosene from coal in Prince Edward Island. A 1694 patent sought extracting oil from bituminous substances, but no practical results followed. Over more than a century, oils were mainly medicinal, with the first illumination patent granted in 1832.
A resourceful woman named Miss Anderson guides nervous female travelers through New York. She escorts clients from train to hotel, arranges rooms, arranges theatre seats, finds dressmakers and libraries, and even offers private gallery access. She leads tours to sights, shops, parks, factories and summer or winter trips, sometimes showing the city’s seamy side or historic mansions above Harlem. She employs several assistants to manage growing demand as American cities expand.
A young girl read through medical journals in the Astor Library beside Webster and Worcester dictionaries. She noted down rare terms, checking both dictionaries for meanings, and then proceeded to prepare entries for a new dictionary. The article identifies Edith Thomas’s sister, involved in the Century Dictionary project, as the reader.
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