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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1889
Page
6
In a startling incident, a group of vagrants were driven along a gauntlet by local shopkeepers after a confrontation over shop rights. The mob dispersed without major injuries, and authorities opened inquiries into the conduct of the waitlisted participants.
Rain storms sweep California for two days ending noon Wednesday with a washout on the California and Oregon Railroad in Placer County. An express train plunged down an embankment while Theodore Roberts and John Johnson, inmates at Sing Sing, fought in a gallery and fell to the floor.
Across the state line from Missouri the consolidated city of Kansas City Kansas fights saloons and gambling dens. Prosecutor Joseph Fife vows to suppress dives as grand jury results indict 50 saloonkeepers. Courts sentence numerous violators, totaling $9,100 in fines and about 2,730 days in jail. dozens more await trial.
The report covers 1889 coal shipping volumes and rates from Pittsburg to lake ports, Kanawha region outputs, and Cumberland region figures. It notes Findlay Iron and Steel entering receivership, J B Williams coal operator's New Orleans house failing for 75000, and large Montana coal veins along the St Paul Minneapolis Manitoba line. It cites dull Clearfield trade, South St Louis mills restarting, and Ottoman Morroco tensions prompting British naval moves to Tangier. Coal output details include Northern Alabama at about 14000 tons daily and coke usage, with anthracite the sole exception.
Virgil Jackson was executed by hanging in Ulies New York on Thursday morning for the murder of Norton Metcalf in Augusta Centre. The killing followed a dispute over Jackson’s relationship with Metcalf’s wife after Metcalf ordered him to stay away. Jackson shot Metcalf three times as they faced off near Metcalf’s house after a church visit. His self defense plea failed at trial and on appeal the judgment stood. The governor refused commutation to life imprisonment.
An explosion at KR Munroe & Son's West Point Boiler Works at 23d and Smallman streets in Pittsburgh killed five and injured about 15. The blast devastated the building, hurled debris across the lot, and damaged nearby houses as fire was quickly contained. Victims named include August Lingelbach engineer and Charles Aulenbacher. several workers were among the injured with varying head and body injuries.
In Columbus the Miners and Operators Convention failed to agree on a scale for Ohio and Pennsylvania. An arbitration committee was defeated and the afternoon session saw efforts toward arbitration blocked by operators. Proposals ranged around 60 to 74 cents per ton across regions, with the miners seeking year round 65 cents in the Hocking Valley. The meeting adjourned sine die as inter-State agreement dissolved amid unsettled opinions on the outcome.
February reports from Shanghai show a mob of about 6000 attacked the Chin-Kiang area. The British sent a warship for protection as the British Consulate and several homes burned. The American Consul’s office was gutted looted. Jones and family escaped harm. A later rumor claimed more missionary residences were destroyed.
Advices from Samoa deny any engagement rumor linking the United States ship Nipsic with the German Corvette Olga. German martial law is withdrawn and searches for contraband are halted. Foreign residents at Apia approve and tranquility prevails while Mataafa commands about 6000 troops and Tamasese about 700. German American and English forces remain in Apia for emergencies.
The President sent numerous nominations to the Senate on Monday naming W. E. Budd Deacon as Marshal for New Jersey, John S. Barton for Northern Mississippi, Edwin J. Kurnheadt for Eastern Louisiana, and others to posts in Nevada Nebraska New Mexico and beyond. The Senate confirmed Kassons Phelps Bates and Cyrus Buss y for Samoa Berlin talks and Interior and more White House nominations included Whitelaw Reid to France and Julius Goldschmidt to Vienna with several associate justices named for territories and districts.
State news reports six miners entombed at Mount Carmel's Black Diamond mine were rescued unharmed after heroic efforts. Community joy followed earlier grief. other items include suicides, deaths, canal resume, fires, company expansions, and legal sentences.
The past week saw no major events as copper prices slump and trade remains slow. Prices for copper and wheat ease, stock markets drift with easy money rates, and a faint uptick in iron production contrasts with blanket weak demand. Minor incidents include a Vienna store egg barter and a St Augustine bird rescue, while Sir Julian Pauncefote stands tall as Britain’s new ambassador to Washington.
Miscellany of historical curiosities and urban curiosities including a Ticino tomb altar dedicated to Jupiter and Mercury, Vigo County Bible shortage solved by porteur, a Baltimore deer horn collection worth $10,000, Indiana soil fertility loss, state land value, and a rash of vivid anecdotes.
A Harlem man recalls buying a live crawfish at Fulton Market three months ago. The pet crawfish learned to move in time to Yankee Doodle, write its name with a pen, and nap curled in a ball after meals. A later eel attack ended the creature’s life in a vivid, if grisly, ending.
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