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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1886
Page
2
In Dallas on the 20th, Mrs. Wilson wife of Dr WB Wilson a prominent physician, killed herself with a razor and gashed her throat. She had recently suffered depression but appeared cheerful at breakfast. Two hours later she died from the injuries after surgeons attempted repair. The couple had seven children.
Workers on the Eighth and Ninth Avenue lines struck on the 18th to enforce pay and hours. Companies claimed new time schedules were not fully in force. A meeting of directors and the Empire Protective Association led to concessions, and workers returned to duty later that day.
A chaotic digest details arrests in West Picovington for saloon bombing, a boy smothered in a Kansas elevator, a Bloomington road worker found dead after a train fall, and a hoard of shootings, fires, and accidents. Other notes include a cholera worry in Ohio, a murder trial in London, and a Paris Texas fire with substantial losses.
In Manchester New Hampshire 5500 operatives at the Amoskeag Mills walk out after a 20 percent wage demand is refused. Mills shut down as strikers roam to other plants and police remove workers from the yard. John B. Gongle suffers a stroke while giving an address in Philadelphia. Two Americans expelled from Holstein for troublesome conduct. RK. A. Melyer of Detroit dies in a Hot Springs hotel from an accidental chloral overdose.
Strife at Chicago between McCormick Reaper Works and workers ends with 1300+ laid off. McCormick refuses to discharge non union men, while unionists demand the ouster of ten. The strike collapses after talks with three men and superintendent Spring. A separate NY Fourth Avenue strike ends with Skitt and Rayland dismissed.
Prince Alexander Amamen arrives at Phillippopolia as ruler of Eastern Roumelia and is greeted warmly by most consuls, with Russian officials absent. Crete Christians protest to Constantinople ministers over foreign intervention in Turkey Greece and a naval display at Suda Bay. A Vienna dispatch notes bans on recruiting Hungarian troops for Serbia and restrictions on exporting horses from Bulgaria and Merzagovina.
Mrs Waldo wife of Peck Waldo a Yale College professor suffering from nervous troubles disappeared from her room during the night of the 18th. A search party found her on a steep bluff near the college grounds where she jumped from the rocks after being shouted to. She died a few hours later.
A section of the Shipperies Exhibition Building under construction in Liverpool collapsed on the 10th. Dozens of workers were buried in wreckage with eighteen men having broken limbs. Some bodies remain buried as rescue efforts continue and others are alive in hospitals.
John B Gough the renowned temperance lecturer died at 4 40 pm at Dr B Burns residence in Frankford near Philadelphia after a recent apoplexy. He was born in Landgate England in 1817 and came to America at age 12. His life included early dissipation then public reform work and international tours promoting temperance. His last words were Young man make your record clear.
The article covers multiple days of congressional proceedings with amendments to pension bills for widows and dependents, relief proposals for missions and Indian reservations, tax and coinage debates, and various House and Senate measures. It notes passages, committee actions, and pending legislation affecting education, monetary policy, post office staffing, and land grants, with dates in February and locations including Washington and Texas.
Hyndman Burns Champion and Williams faced Bow Street on inciting riot charges. Prosecutors cited Trafalgar Square and Hyde Park speeches urging action. Bail was allowed as the hearing adjourned for a week.
The funeral for ex Governor Horatio Beymone was held at Old Trinity Church Cuia New York at 2 p.m. Rev Dr A B Goodrich officiated at the residence of Senator Roscoe Conkling at 1 30 p.m. The body lay in red cedar with glass cover and oxidized trim and a marble bust by David Richards is planned. Crowds viewed the casket at the Conkling mansion from 8 p.m. with floral tributes from Washington New York Albany and other cities.
On Tangier Island in Chesapeake Bay a coal oil fire among four children, all under 12, badly burned their clothing. Two children died and two others are fatally injured, as neighbors witnessed the blaze after the explosion. The children are from the families of William Pruitt and Lewis Cooper, two well known island citizens.
Strikes at Leicester hosiery works ended in a compromise after a riot at Bristol between British and foreign sailors. A Jersey City captain, seeking to hire foreign crew, faced a crowd of unemployed seamen who pursued and assaulted him before police quelled the riot. Bandersland shipbuilders threaten to hire unemployed workers if terms offered are not accepted.
A woman from Adenborgh, formerly at the school of the Holy Trinity, leaped from a fourth floor dormitory window in St Louis morning hours of the 18th. She had shown domestic troubles and had recently been confined at St Vincent Asylum. No note was left to explain the act.
A Kingston Jamaica dispatch dated the 19th reports the West India steamship Saxon foundered near Jamaica after sailing from New York January 28 with a valuable cargo and $40,000 in specie. Captain Wyman, two officers and three crew were drowned. The 154 foot, 885 ton first class vessel is believed to have sprung a leak in a gale.
New York dispatch reports Alderman Fullgraft confessed a broad scheme behind Jake Sharp Broadway railroad favors and implicates other aldermen. Senate investigators plan further sessions as Conkling holds copies of confessions. Chain of evidence surrounds the ring, leaving flight unlikely.
Several hundred fishermen from Nowyenio gathered around Charles Robin & Co. demanding bread valued at $20. Mayor LeGrand activated special constables and the sheriff stood by as rioters eventually looted the store at gunpoint. Authorities warned of further clashes if relief was not forthcoming.
L A Hopkins, a trusted Chapin & Gore clerk, vanished after closing the shop on the 14th. The next morning the vault revealed about 3 500 in cash and 200 in jewelry missing. Hopkins left home on West Medigan Street and was traced to a depot where he boarded a train. He has served in the Army since 1872 and was seen as resembling President Cleveland. Authorities doubt his escape and suspect mental distress may explain the act.
A blaze in Wilmington North Carolina on the afternoon of the 20th engulfed Water Street three blocks, destroying churches, depots, mills, offices, and vessels, with losses likely over 1 million dollars. The fire started on the river steamer Bladen, fanned by high winds, wiping out numerous buildings and warehouses along Front and Second Streets.
A Detroit man nicknamed the Goat, Nathaniel Tingle, born in Georgia and recently married, reportedly has hornlike bone protuberances on his head. His wife also bore a baby described as horned. A physician says the horns are bone and removable without danger.
Doctors report progress in a novel graft method combining rabbit skin with human tissue to cover a head wound. Aiming to form a cohesive new surface, surgeons expect completion within a year as the skin edges merge and an island of mixed tissue forms atop the skull.
A devastating fire at the Ebte home on the Plymouth road in Greenbush, Sheboygan County, claimed Abraham Ebte 80 James Ebte 42 Ellen Ebte 40 and three children Mrs Kinney 70 with a hired man escaping. Fire seen as accidental, hundreds flocked to the scene as remains were recovered before noon. The Ebles, longtime local residents, were noted as a respected county family.
Four men and a boy were crossing the Susquehanna at Harrisburg when a boat overturned. The four men drowned, while the boy clung to the boat and survived, saved about five miles downstream. Names given: Joan Mast, Frank Mast, Lewis Dietrich, and Charles Mathies. The lad saved was Mathies’ son.
Local reports detail a fatal tree accident in Forest Richland County injuring a boy’s legs. a large Augusta fire destroying commercial blocks with $38,000 loss and $21,000 insurance. a Wisconsin Bar Association meeting elects officers in Madison. insurance payouts outline recent Windsor fire losses. state rail and county notices mention contracts, nominations and municipal issues.
The column catalogs various figures including First Infantry officer First Lim J who receives three months leave after Arizona hostilities, sculptor Mars Canourse Brooks and his marble busts of William H Macy and Tourian Weed, and political figures like J H Puleaton. It also notes General Saenaax’s liberal stance, Jesse Grant’s beard change, and a London Dock supper remark, with Egypt tomb scarabs and Paul Baudry’s Paris Opera relics.
Superintendent Eckert of the Metropolitan Telephone Company recounts a curious incident from Cincinnati when a clerk sent a $4000 payroll by telegraph while the telegraph and telephone lines ran near, the message arriving via telegraph just as Eckert dictated it to the Western Union. The phenomenon puzzled observers and was never explained.
On a bitter Tuesday in Georgia a man named C. Oliver and a Black servant hunted hogs near a pond when a six foot alligator lurked among piles of leaves. Oliver slipped on ice and the reptile pursued him until the servant intervened using a stick to keep the jaws apart. The two then killed the alligator.
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