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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1879
Page
3
Marshall remarks that the enterprise is as profitable as any in the country. Goldsmith Maid has cleared $350,000 in ten years, exceeding earnings of all men outside the newspaper, in the same period.
A fragile peace treaty is reported between the Government and Tennessee mountain moonshiners. Prosecutions are suspended if the moonshiners promise to abandon illegal distilling and “go and ain no more,” signaling a key settlement in a tense frontier area.
Capt Brown of the steamer Alaska says no alarm exists while Sitka’s Collector holds a different view. The discrepancy suggests tensions around Alaska and possible reluctance of Brown to view Alaska as a station.
The underground telegraph network has undergone a thorough trial in Germany and proved a complete success. The Imperial Post Minister General is extending the system throughout the empire, with completion expected in a year and a half.
Stopes Love of Ohio Normal College donned a mask and sheet to impersonate a ghost and enter Student Stout's room at midnight. Stout knocked the intruder down with a chair, fracturing his skull and displacing his nose.
Review notes Oxikes and living figures draw crowds across the country. It compares unfavorably with a historic Indian prince who played chess with decapitated child figures, an act depicted as rapid and brutal on the board.
A fashionable young woman, prominent in New York society, eloped and wed her coachman amid public sensation. She is the daughter of Mr Townsend, a publisher, and the event stirs gossip about the elite circle and her father’s household.
Mlle. De Macxerr, daughter of a rich Russian, is arrested in St Petersburg for complicity with Nihilist conspiracy. She lies in chains in the citadel of Kiev, along with the Countess Panin and Gen. Gerstfeld’s daughter, confined on similar charges. The young ladies say they got their revolutionary ideas from lectures at the State University.
In Connersville Indiana Miss Hattie Spangler visited James Monson’s home and after an evening of social talk she began her journey home. A playful prankster hid and jumped out causing her to faint and lose her voice completely unable to utter any sound.
In Louisville, Courier-Journal notes a small shop with the sign Blacksmithing by Nellie and Carrie Blair. The sisters described as young, pretty, well educated, orphaned, trained under a farmer blacksmith, then working by day and studying by night.
The Salt Lake City conference of the Mormon Church released its annual report showing 109000 members across 20000 families. Tithing income totaled 476000 dollars. One hundred members were appointed as missionaries to various States Europe Asia and the Sandwich Islands. Leadership remains under the twelve apostles led by John Taylor.
A discovery in Cleveland England's iron district could lower steel production costs. Previously high phosphorus in local ores hindered Bessemer steel making, causing the North of England to lose the trade. The new process uses magnesium limestone lining and added substances to improve yields.
A report notes that ore containing twenty percent manganese and five percent carbon can produce the very best Bessemer steel. The statement emphasizes the ore quality as key to superior steel output.
The French suppression of the New Caledonia revolt endured severe hardship with accounts that rebels faced famine, even consuming their own children. Native allies reportedly maimed prisoners. The insurrection is said to be fully subdued and French convicts safe from cannibal danger.
A young girl Susan Johnson of Uniontown Kentucky disguises as a boy and travels by packet toward Evansville with two pistols and a dagger. A rat spooks her on board while deck hands unload freight. she is locked in the ladies cabin and later vows to help at home as her parents demand better conduct.
A bunko man robbed a miner of 188 dollars after being identified. With six pistols at his head he surrendered, losing his watch, chain, pistol, keys and 480 dollars. The miner’s 188 dollars was returned, the rest given to the Vigilance Committee chairman. The culprit was set running with firearms firing behind him.
A Rochester woman, a Spiritualistic medium, says she is a spirit artist who, with friends, has taken many photographs of prominent Spiritualists on negatives and proofs. A leading Rochester photographer examined the process and says he obtained spirit pictures under her direction and found no fraud. The spirit faces fade from the negative unless printed promptly, at which time the faces appear distinct.
Following the attack on Gen Drenteln in St Petersburg, forty five people were arrested including guards officers court officials and councillors. Two unmarried daughters of a leading ministerial figure were placed under house arrest amid suspicions of a broader, serious threat beyond a simple Socialist plot.
The article warns that the Czar’s ukase declaring a state of siege in most of Russia marks a return to despotism, erasing gradual reforms. It fears brutal local rule, possible Nihilist insurrection, and accelerated spread of revolutionary ideas across Europe.
Daisy and L Our Daisy narrate a tale of Rosy a lame girl and Bella Saunders a blind visitor who become unlikely friends at school Rosy escorts Bella to classes and learns the pain of blindness from her companion Bella imagines a better future in heaven Rosy promises to care for her and the two part with a touching bond and hopeful faith
A report from Visalia Delta describes timbers found high in the Sierra Nevada between Mineral King and the headwaters of King’s River resembling a Chinese junk. Copper fastenings remain, bones nearby, shells on slopes, and petrified fish evidence. Geologists note ancient inland seas. the find fuels claims of early Celestial navigators and Chinese wreck legends in Tulare County.
Busch quotes Sheridan describing himself and Burnside with vivid details and German accents. He cites Sheridan advising hard blows on soldiers first to force civilians to urge peace and pressure governments to end war.
The Rentz company of female dancers performed in San Francisco. Police arrested Mabel Stanley, the leading can can dancer, who demanded a jury trial. Her counsel invited the jury to see the dance during a recess, but she was convicted and fined 250 dollars.
A newborn girl born aboard a Pullman car in Iowa was named Maro line Bert shortly after birth. Local officials and railway staff noted the unusual origin of the name as the family begins a new chapter.
In Erath County Texas deputies confront Rusk Holloway during a late evening prayer meeting. A gunfight erupts leaving Deputy W H King dead and several others wounded including Eli Keith and J T Ross. Holloway and kin capture the moment and the fugitives are pursued by a citizen posse.
A letter from a Seventeenth Lancers soldier describes aboard rations as execrable with sailors calling it disgraceful. He reports biscuit, chips, dust, salt pork and little bread three days a week, salt beef on the other days, while officers enjoy luxurious fowl and mutton onboard. The writer condemns the treatment of troops guarding England’s honor.
A young Frenchman named Laprade was condemned to death at the Assizes of the Lot-et-Garonne for killing his father mother and grandmother in deliberate yet brutal fashion. He shot his parents then his grandmother and mutilated the bodies to seize a small property. The unity of the crime is not questioned.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye comments on EK O Stedman singing in Scribner and questions why he would fear tasting the red lips as a gloomy old man with blood in his eye and a deathly cane may intervene if he acts while in reach.
Oxurve Logan, distressed by the omission of United States Minister Welsh from a royal wedding in England, hailed a cab and sped to the American Legation seeking relief or a resolution to the diplomatic snub.
A broad mosaic of items notes a Marxist bett ing nearly two pounds, a booming Lowell cotton mills summer, and a church memorial planned at Olney England. Reports mention Sitka whites, opium laws in Japan, a Texas jury request for no speeches, honey travel cost, and Pittsburgh riot relief funding. Obscure crime, politics, and social tales follow with police, postal, and court color.
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