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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1886
Page
2
A local report details an attempted poisoning of P D Armour in Chicago with buckwheat laced with strychnine. Investigators, including Pinkerton agents, traced a delivery to Armour and corroborated threats tied to striker sympathizers. The incident follows a separate report of severe winter storms delaying rail traffic across Colorado, Nebraska, and Iowa.
In Dexter Missouri on November 18, two boys Will Meyers 16 and Jonnie Flynn 15 vanished while nutting. Searchers found Meyers reduced to bones in a ravine ten miles away, with evidence of a wolf attack. Flynn remains missing as wolves roam Stoddard and Ballinger counties.
A fire at the James Johnson residence near Landesville destroys the house. His wife and two sons escape. daughters Ella 20 and Jane 18 perish. John Turner sustains burns while tending the blaze. Turner lit the stove at 3 AM and returned to bed. a stove spark is blamed. Both girls were teachers.
In Hagard Perry county Kentucky a battle between followers of Eversol and French left a man named Simons dead. A truce led to an arbitration plan with a final decision to be binding and hostilities to cease pending that ruling. The report notes possible end to Perry county feuds for now. Also in Delaware six negroes and two whites were publicly whipped at New Castle with six to twenty lashes each.
Cheboygan Nov 18 The Lake Storm produced one of the season s quietest days yet left a long list of ship disasters. Vessels driven ashore and wrecked include the barge Emerald near Kewaunee and F M Dickinson near Kewaunee with multiple fatalities, several schooners near Hog Island Reef Port Sherman and Two Rivers, and many crews saved or at least uncertain.
Snow began in the early hours and continues, with a blizzard locking streets and sidewalks. St Paul Minneapolis streetcars halted trains delayed 3 to 4 hours as a northwest storm intensifies, and Sioux City reports heavier snowfall than last winter.
One of the heaviest wind storms with rain to hit the city this forenoon. Tug King departed with twelve barges carrying at least two persons per barge. Reports claim the barges sank off Milford, but no confirmation due to lack of telegraphic communication.
New York on November 18 saw a heavy thunder shower and downpour with colder air and brisk westerly winds. Reports to the Associated Press indicate a severe storm stretching along the Atlantic coast.
Ex President Chester A Arthur died in New York City after a cerebral stroke in his sleep. The funeral is set for Monday November 22 at Heavenly Rest church. Governor Hill issued a proclamation of sorrow and flags were lowered to half mast.
A major blaze swept the Cincinnati business district this morning causing about 650000 in losses. The fire caused extensive damage to commercial buildings and is believed to be insured. Fire crews battled the flames through the day restoring some areas to safety.
A collage of wry lines and anecdotes from various papers, including jokes about umbrellas for ducks, aging, churchgoing, and domestic life. The item stitches brief humorous vignettes and dialogue snippets without a single coherent narrative.
An article from the Chicago Times describes how the British Indian Army uses an elephant battery in Burma to move seven pound guns on elephant backs along no road paths. Elephants unload artillery with a swinging arm mechanism and assist in logistics amid efforts against Dahkoits.
A local note recalls an incident where a Black man named Mose risked his life to save a boy from a locomotive on a tram. The man explains the boy is not his son, but a fostered pupil whose guardian boards with him and pays for his education, showing community ties in the town.
The Bulletin de la Ceramique cites M. De Grand Eury’s theory against the view that large trees formed coal. It notes that carboniferous flora lacked materials for coal and cites Gaston de Saports, Brogniart, Elie de Beaumont, Ponchet, and others. Grand Eury questions the mass and duration needed to form coal and entertains a liquid origin, suggesting coal beds may be former beds of naphtha and bituminous petroleum from decomposed aquatic vegetation.
A Boston Budget reprint argues that wealth and fame arise from long toil and self-control. It cites Demosthenes, Cicero, Newton, and others to show greatness comes from persistent study and sacrifice, not natural endowment. The piece urges wage workers to embrace effort as the path to achievement.
Captain Cr G Lyon woke to smoke in his Golden Hill residence when a cellar ashes box ignited. A hand extinguisher quenched the blaze with little damage. The annunciator circuit briefly activated, the bell ringing as heat bent a spring. In Lewiston rumors hint at romantic intrigue in the spindle city.
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