This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 37 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1889
Page
6
The Adventist followers in Eaton town New Jersey wander the streets in melancholy hope that the world will burn on October 7. Pastor Exekiel Wolcott urges patience saying the day of destruction is near but not yet revealed by the hour or day.
A blaze at Oliver Bros. & Co. iron and steel works on South Tenth Street Pittsburgh destroyed the mill including offices, presses, shops, and labs. Damages estimated around 30000 with insurance covering losses. 230 workers left unemployed as flames overwhelmed the building despite rapid fire response.
DeVault, a day laborer, unearthed a stack of Concord Bank of New Hampshire notes totaling $20,000 near Red Bank New Jersey while grading Lincoln Park. Seventeen other items matched the cache, including sixteen plates. Believed to be buried by bank robber Sherman who perished in a steamboat wreck 25 years ago. Lincoln Park is owned by Robert Patterson and the Lincoln Association, who claim the money.
Charles F. Orvis shot his mother, Mrs. Mary King, in their third floor Buffalo apartment then fatally cut his throat. A note found in his vest expressed fatigue with life and ending his mother’s suffering. Orvis, a sergeant in the Sixty-fifth Regiment, had court martial proceedings pending last September.
excitement runs high in Mexico Missouri as four incendiary fires erupt within six hours. police surprise incendiaries in barns after midnight. two black girls are arrested for complicity but released for lack of evidence. motive linked to earlier gang burglar arrests and boasts of retaliation.
General Casey, chief of engineers, will tour river and harbor projects to review expenditures now exceeding 62 million yearly. He will report to the secretary of war and propose recommendations to the President. The trip will cover the Kanawha, Ohio, and Delaware rivers as part of tighter supervision of appropriations.
United States Consul at Kingston W G Alien files a Sept 2 report on the Navassa riot. Accounts from Navassa phosphate workers claim bosses fired, several wounded and two bosses killed while workers held the armory. British Commodore Hand and Capt Charles of the Armorette credited for first news and aid.
HM ships Icarus and Acorn moved from New Westminster to Esquimalt when Icarus ran aground at Mayne Island near Plumpers Pass. Acorn failed to pull her free. Icarus lists and remains aground. Authorities sent aid with hopes of refloating. The Norcross carried Capt Dunbar and part of the crew of the abandoned Wm Gillory, wrecked July near 49°S 78°W after leaking from Pisagua to New York with 1700 tons nitrate. The Gillory crew, total two survivors, were rescued by ships including Indian Empire. eight later were taken off by British ship Norcross. consulate aid provided.
A severe storm struck England and Ireland on Monday causing widespread destruction. Houses collapsed across counties. many occupants were buried under rubble and rescued after hours. Fatalities and numerous serious injuries were reported in several cities including Bradford where a warehouse collapsed and surrounding homes were crushed.
In Wilson County Tennessee, Mormon elders were driven from the area by a vigilante White Caps group. Forty robed men warned residents against harboring the elders, who had already fled. several local converts claim they are quitting Mormonism. A woman who returned from Utah to Bowles Kentucky warns others about the faith.
A two story restaurant owned by R E Lott on First Street in Winona Miss burned rapidly. Nine men slept on the upper floor. five escaped but four prominent citizens were burned to death. They were en route from Memphis to Rome to buy goods. Firemen fought the flames as walls fell and adjacent stock was saved with heroic effort.
The Navy Department orders the Pensacola to take Prof Todd and colleagues to Africa to observe December solar eclipses. They depart New York for St Paul de Lonods then sail along the West African coast. Plans include stops at Cape Town, St Helena, Ascension Islands for magnetical and pendulum observations during a four month trip.
Snap shots from a wide page note J W Dean a railroad worker in Packet County West Virginia on trial for bigamy and fleeing with a young girl. Other items report a pistol duel near Peerless, a perjury sentence in Illinois, smallpox in Socorro New Mexico, and various political and crime notes from Chicago New York to San Francisco.
Robert Ray Hamilton files for an annulling divorce from Evangeline Hamilton now at Mays Landing New Jersey alleging fraud in their 1889 marriage to induce consent by false maternity claims. He asserts her pretense of pregnancy and a child from Elmira misled him and he did not cohabit since learning of the deception. He also states she had a living husband at the time of marriage.
Reports from the era recount a Bellefonte Furnace elevator fall killing a Hungarian worker, a murder in Erie with nine suspects, and various local crimes. Other items note a nine-year penitentiary sentence for Hebb, seven for Frans, and a resort to revival meetings affecting Hattie Barrett. Fire destroys a Washington barn. a massive grapevine grows in Germantown. Corry mail carriers surge. a centennial sounding at Salford. several fatal accidents and infrastructural incidents across multiple towns.
Advices from St. Jago report the loss of the Earnmoor with 19 crew dead after a cyclone near the West Indies. Captain Richard Gray and remaining crew abandoned ship on September 5 after days in heavy gas. Officers Painter and Meldrum with five seamen arrived at Nassau in a boat, in grave condition and starved for ten days.
In a Hatfield McCoy feud renewal a wedding at Peter McCoy’s farm ended with a volley through a window killing the bride and groom and mortally wounding the minister. Three more lives are said to have been claimed in the seven year vendetta as pursues the murderers.
Allen O Meyers is in Franklin County Ohio Jail to serve fifteen days for contempt of court and a $250 fine. The sentence followed a dispute over remarks attacking the integrity of the Court in the tally sheet trial reported in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Judge Pugh noted the Supreme Court remanded for a hearing on a technical point and no new facts emerged.
In Sam dusky Q Hartman shot his wife after finding her unfaithfulness in a letter then killed himself. In Mattoon OL R E Moor, a widower, hacked his wife with a hatchet, then took prussic acid and died ten minutes later.
Helena residents awoke to chalked warning 3-7-7 on street corners and in evening papers after four fires in as many downtown houses. Rags saturated with oil started fires in the business district, suggesting the same gang linked to Northwest towns and the Butte blaze. Vigilantes patrol the city.
In Sundays second ballots, France’s deputies favored the Republicans in districts with no first-round choice. The new chamber totals 362 Republicans to 205 opposition, with Moderates and Radicals among the majority. Monarchist and Imperialist factions are said to be beaten, Boulanger a back number.
Reports from Port Huron and other points describe a fierce Lake Huron storm. The propeller Oleg lost Mate Thomas M Fisher in the wreck and wheelman Tomas Rowland of the propeller Rosedale was killed as the wheel struck him. Several vessels damaged and ashore, Chemung arrived at Port Huron after its air pump burst and cargo shifted amid heavy seas. Also notes Episcopal Convention decision to keep the Nicene creed in the prayer book after debate about its authority.
Francisco Pedras and Tiburcio Mendez escaped Mathula prison and hid in a tree. Police shot them as they attempted to surrender. Pedras died and Mendez lay dying. A starving man Barrosa was beaten to death by a meat market owner for raw beef. Frosts ruined beans and corn. harvest halved. A Merida and Saluta Railway wreck killed several passengers as three cars were demolished.
Violent storms sweep Sardina Island causing hundreds injured and dozens dead. An estimated hundred people buried in collapsed buildings as Cortiari province suffers widespread damage. Cagliara town hit hardest with many homes destroyed.
A boiler exploded at the Indian Creek saw mill and lumber works in West Virginia. Several men stood nearby. Tom Leach and his son Dick were killed. Three others were seriously injured and Charles Anderson lost an arm. The injured names are not known. The cause remains a mystery. the boiler had recently passed tests and was in good repair.
Returns show a Democratic majority of seven on the joint ballot with one seat in doubt, likely increasing the majority. Close county results unlikely to change the canvass. Governor candidate Toose leads by about 800. Carter trails by about 1,200. Mail-robbing and fatal mill explosion incidents also reported along with new immigration aid efforts in Topeka.
The Bureau of Construction and Repair and Engineering will finish calculations for the official trial report of the Charleston in a few days. Once completed, the Navy Department will accept the diesel. Union Iron Works of San Francisco faces a 30000 penalty for short horsepower. contract required 7000 but indicated 6700.
Dun and Co reports a restrained money market with slower demand and mixed signals. Bonds disbursed, cereals dipping while provisions rise. Chicago shows strong orders but overall activity lags September. Iron and coal sectors vary as crops support farming demand and stock prices decline in Lager Trust and related markets.
Between Leaksville and Palestine Mississippi an 18 year old mail rider Willie Lott was held up by two masked men armed with a Winchester and a pistol. They took the mail sack bound and blindfolded him and cut open the sack in the woods securing its contents. Only two registered letters were in the bag and their contents unknown.
A collage of world notes reports floods in Mexico and tremors near Santa Amma California while a Berlin embassy arrival signals diplomacy. Cmds cover trade, arms, and industry with varied figures and suggestions of canal plans and imperial changes.
A miscellany of trivia covers topics from Jewish synagogues in New York to education in India, a rare Stradivarius violin in Maryland, a 1500 pound gold bar in Montana, and imperial court logistics. It notes oddities about telegraph ranges, train telephony, and the Empress of China’s wedding trousseaux in a rapid-fire digest.
Professor George Bartholomew compares training horses to teaching people highlighting affection as essential. He describes winning a horse's confidence, using a knee touch and a simple command, then rewarding correct actions while repeating the process until the horse understands the cue.
In Constantine Algeria a vast cricket invasion threatened homes, hospitals, and gardens. Citizens built a six foot cotton wall stretching over 36 000 feet to cut off reinforcements. Men women and children joined the effort to kill crickets, sweeping thousands into the river as the town labored for nearly a week to vanquish the pests. Subsisting on dried coca leaves, the Andes trade figures show 9 000 000 pounds imported before the measure ended.
A garbled miscellany of aphorisms and jokes. Vague lines touch on horses speed ocean vessels and electric charge. Passages reference a barber, a dairy owner naming India, a farmer with spring, and a beggar with a coat. A scene outside a villa shows a keeper and a gardener noting a loud screeching, guessing singing or an animal in a hen house.
A dairy cat in this neighborhood had kittens with a curious behavior after one was drowned. The mother later abandoned her nest and began nursing eight young kittens alongside her own, prompting Nature readers to consider the surprising tally of offspring and maternal care.
Mr. Brigham of Orlando owns a artistic dog that acts as a mother to newly hatched chicks. The dog defends the chick brood, whines when separated, and eagerly reunites when released, leaving the hen distressed and unable to care for the chicks.
Fragmented text discusses ornamental lamps, mentions twenty items, a new design, and a four-year-old acquaintance. It references buying a funny item, a frame, and showy air, but the readable content is garbled and lacks clear events or names.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.