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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1891
Page
2
A raft voyage from Canton to Paducah ended in tragedy as six men, Curtis Noyd and five others, were swept away and drowned after their raft broke from moorings in a fierce gale on the Cumberland River near Princeton, Kentucky. Rescue attempts failed.
Testimony spans seven hours in the murder trial of Chief Hennessy with about twenty witnesses. Wolitz identified as delivering guns to an Italian grocery and present at the shooting. Tolltz claimed innocence and quantified meeting money but gave few names. Beafedi, Benfredi, Politz, Sincerl, and Mittell named as involved in the escape. Separate Buenos Aires-style note reports Brownsville raid arrests, Jay Gould fined, a steamer grounding near Cincinnati, and other scattered incidents including a fatal drowning in Buffalo and a fire in Madison Wisconsin.
A Yuma dispatch reports devastating floods in Gila Valley with over 950 houses ruined and 1,400 people left homeless. Bridges down, telegraph wires cut, and reports vary on deaths, while the Southern Pacific feeds 1,000 daily and rail blockades delay eastbound traffic for days. Prices rise as many lose wealth. cotton low and trade unsettled. Also, John Copeland of Parnassus, Pa, wounded wife and attempted to kill his two children before being restrained and committed.
Miners in the Elk River region report breaking into a 20 by 20 foot hollow inside a ten foot coal vein about 1,000 feet underground. There they found a skeletal human remains crumbling to dust upon touch, with rude wall sketches and inscriptions. The find, termed an underground mystery, awaits explanation.
A sleigh load of merrymakers in Huntington Michigan narrowly escaped death when a team crossing a lake swerved and fell through a hole cut by ice harvesters. Horses and sleigh plunged into the water as spectators watched. 32 degrees below zero chilled the scene and the incident caused a dramatic near-miss at the lakeside concert route.
The President accepted United States Treasurer Huston's resignation and named J. A. Lemcke, former Indiana State Treasurer, as successor. Lemcke, born in Germany, came to the U.S. as a boy, commanded a transport in the war, then served as paying teller at First National Bank Evansville and later as bookkeeper. He held city roles in several offices.
The Standard Air Company's steamship Chester arrived off Sandy Hook from Kotterdign with the Warren Line starship crew of seventy nine aboard. The ship sprang a leak after being stranded by drift ice and was abandoned before sinking. all on board were saved and brought to New York.
A heavy snow slide at Bullion King Mine Irwin Colorado buries the boarding house and homes of Superintendent Ropeil and Ed Clarke and child. four people perished including the enginesr B. B. Emiley. A Dubuque special notes a Leycott battle between the Farmers Alliance and the State Business Men's Association as they push cooperative stores with small margins.
Two Alliance men from Cresco sought groceries worth 2000 dollars from Dubuque suppliers but were refused. Alliance members vow to boycott members of the Business Men's Association in retaliation. Several unrelated items follow including jail escape from Dayton Ohio and various midwest and national news briefs.
Sergius Stepniak argues in Chicago and other cities that Nihilism in Russia began as a religious reform movement seeking a constitutional monarchy like Italy and England. He describes brutal Siberian punishment, lack of trials, and mass exiles including children, and predicts a future uprising with army support against the Czar.
The fragment critiques fairs as picnic flaws and says a blundering world misses moral lessons. It notes reformers are many but the reformed can be counted on one hand, and that true realization leads some to feel overworked. The text traces two constants: self-satisfaction and a casual arrogance.
A detailed Senate and House report covers daily actions and debates in the nation’s capital. Highlights include shipping and military appropriation discussions, conference reports on land courts and court jurisdiction, appropriations for post and foreign mail, and measures on Indian depredations and drought relief. Contending committees and party talks shaped the pace of bills, with key actions in both chambers and cross-chamber concord on sundry civil and military matters.
A preacher tell a tale from a Fast-Hide church about a traveler who asks why a man lying in shade does not move. The lazy man replies he did lie there but the shade moved away and he cannot follow it. The teller adds a quip about a quarter earned through the jest.
Northern proverbs warn of cold weather while the north also signals ary weather. Summer hints predict thunder with two events. July thunder harms wheat and barley, and a mild open winter is linked to a fell. Southern or southeast tips imply foul weather, while northern or northwest hints foretell fair weather.
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