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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1888
Page
2
A chaotic mix of market notes and political commentary dominates the page. Reports discuss labor movements and anti anarchist sentiment, plus a British Portuguese sovereignty issue over Macau. Financial items show wheat, corn, oats, and egg prices with slight fluctuations.
Damaged sentences report fires destroying cotton and grain stores in Rump Brothers Philadelphia and Daly Liming Chicago, with losses near 125000. A coal pit fires unseen at Pittsburgh, a railroad collision near Cincinnati causes multiple deaths and injuries, plus fires ruin homes in Sioux City and Portland. Shipping, banking and emigration notes, plus political snippets from Ireland and England fill the page with brief global incidents and figures.
A flood of telegraphic items details earthquakes, stock market battles, labor strife, and political tensions. Reports cover Bronx to Milwaukee relocations, railway accidents in Massachusetts, oil monopoly price shifts, and European war warnings amid volatile economies and floods.
Reported indictments against Haddock defendants have been dismissed. Five Americans are arrested in Peru over a jewelry burglary that netted 525,000. Grant Warren of New Albany, Indiana, tied to the case but money recovered. A man hanged at West Union. Elivon T. Smith accused of instigating the murder plot and offered money to kill Abram Leonard. A Lafayette man, Cunningham, attempted suicide after a gun incident. wife stopped him. A separate attack on Mrs. Cristinan’s family near Cortland results in a shooting and injuries. quick aid arrived but the assailant fled.
Washington reports nominate Josefh Bl aor of Cleveland for Consul at Bady Bulb and Edward Bragg of Wisconsin for minister to Moxive. Interior affairs move, tariff debates simmer, and fiscal bills forecast deficits. Budget bill cites 2,081,853 deficiency, total 4,278,023 last year, with omissions for postal deficiency and other claims.
A fragmentary letter from General Kanibace, once a Russian agent in Baile, claims unwavering Russian resolve on concessions. It cites 1886 Bulgarians talks and asserts tensions over future Russian policy. A separate vignette notes Mian Winslow, an American girl, thrilling European circles at Bucobary, prompting royal reluctance to dance.
The fragment argues for vast overpopulation and overproduction across professions with life expectancy rising nineteen years and population figures rising from 8,000,000 to 8,400,000 between 1861 and 1877. It warns stock burdens rising to 400,000 per year and fears stock degradation as prices and values are cited, noting a decayed state and a 1343 death of Dr. Faure.
Reports from Verlons Fointa and Yankton D.T. describe a historic blizzard that stranded rail lines and roads. Dozens of people and children froze to death or perished in the storm, with many found near schools, farms, and farmsteads. Civil and agricultural losses are widespread across Minnesota and Dakotan towns as residents recount freezing conditions and several missing persons.
Senator Sawyer leads post office and telegraph committee discussions. Bills include road rights for the Grande and Rio Grande railways, state debts, and civil building projects. Debates cover war taxes, national debt refunding, and rail commissions. Executive confirmations completed. various reforms proposed for funding, immigration, and public works.
A long reflective piece recounts a Union soldiers’ reminiscence and a Confederate officer’s visit, detailing a cigar smoking culture as a window into character. It blends anecdotes from a Civil War night of song, parody, and social gesture with musings on memory, identity, and the era’s campfire comparisons.
A long, sensational piece traces the history of Africans living as the so called negroes of the woods in Dutch Guiana and their forced migration to America’s plantations, detailing their origins, culture, and resilience while contrasting them with freed and enslaved Africans in the New World. It discusses their isolation, huts, crafts, and customs, and notes their persistence in a remote forested region.
Bandits robbed the Central passenger train near El Paso Texas, about 00 miles south of the city, seizing treasure from the express car after ambushing the engineer and guards. Eight men fired up from woods, terrified passengers, and escaped into mountains. robbers reportedly American, heavily armed, leaving behind some silver as they fled. No passengers were harmed, but the incident halted the train briefly and disrupted the trip as authorities investigate.
Early morning crash on the Eris Road leaves one dead and nine injured as a coal-heat celebration turns to tragedy. A broken rail caused a passenger train wreck near Biustor Ohio, killing Albert Gilbert and injuring nine others. Weather worsens in the Northwest with record cold and heavy rain in Tennessee.
Reported fatalities from last week’s storm mount as the toll nears two hundred with new finds across North Dakota Minnesota and adjacent counties. Names include Sarah Delen a teacher near Goodwin Hugo Scheff a farmer near Altamont and Edwin Kylliogy a rural boy with several missing children feared. The tragedy spans towns from Alexandria to Canton and Lennox with schools reporting vacancies and a teacher forced to defend a locked classroom amid the crisis.
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