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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1890
Page
2
A New York Supreme Court ruling holds stableowners liable when a horse known to have a dangerous habit injures a customer. The decision notes the stable keeper should have warned buyers about the horse’s kicking and biting tendencies, reflecting broader concerns over public safety and regulatory consistency amid ongoing debates on law and governance.
A string of telegrams reports strikes, union and non union confrontations, and wage disputes. Workers threaten reduced hours and pay in Minnesota Wisconsin and other regions while employers resist. A major ceremony in New York honors Major General Fremon. Weather and crop concerns rise as storms threaten farmland and irrigation remains strained.
A string of fires and accidents leaves several dead or injured. In Mov Seuren Arkansas two bulklines were damaged, causing a loss of about 1000 dollars. Wisconsin, Kentucky and Ohio reports describe fatal railroad wrecks, lightning strikes, and a severe cyclone damaging businesses and homes. In Pacific Junction a cyclone destroyed two blocks and injured a single railroad worker. In Noblesville Indiana a house fire killed Mrs Hamlett and her two children. In Missae Island an enormous warehouse fire destroyed a seven story storage building, killing two proprietors and trapping residents nearby.
The President on Wednesday sent nominations to the Senate including Allan B. Inge ten to be Assistant Attorney General for the Treasury and James Roswell Seeley to be Assistant to the Navy. Other names cover registers of land offices in Montana and Washington, with envoy John Hicks listed among senior diplomatic postings. The misspelled text hints at Pan American congress discussions and hopes for western development and unification of interests across North and South America.
A Pasuescen boat sank on June 26 near Hong Kong with seven drownings reported. The incident adds to maritime disasters in Asian waters, with authorities investigating the cause and rescuers continuing search efforts.
The July congressional session sees Senator Sheeman's substitute on national bank bonds, limits on deposits, and a cap on withdrawals. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill faces amendments, with surveying funds cut to 400,000. House debates journal approval, land grant forfeiture, and a railroad land forfeiture bill moves toward final passage. The Senate later est the Ghirnanangi battle site as a national military park and confirms several presidential appointees.
July 16 Senate session features a vote to cap irrigation amendments at five minutes, with Allison opposing continuing the irrigation survey due to cost. House discussions center on the original package liquor bill, with Adams and Reed advocating substitutes, and a debate over constitutional limits and state rights. Train wrecks, storms, and obituaries follow in later items.
A severe storm with wind and lightning struck multiple towns causing property damage and casualties. Reports from Norristown and Lock Haven mention damaged infrastructure and stranded vessels, with several vessels capsizing but all on board saved. In Pea Shore terra cotta works damaged by lightning, while Hellertown and nearby towns reported roofs blown off and telegraph lines toppled. Citations note injuries and at least one drowning alon g with widespread damage to trees, roads, and buildings.
A detailed industrial process shows a factory cutting room producing match splints. From initial cutting to eight small knives, then choppers, drying in drums, and a complex dipping frame with forty four movable laths, engineers systematize over two thousand splints per frame and millions dipped daily. The narrative ends noting the high efficiency and costs in the matchmaking operation.
A forty year diary recounts four children raised on modest wages in a homestead. The husband notes assets around 2500 and income about 40,000 in twenty six years, detailing expenses from doctors to shoes. The piece contrasts hardship with pride in work and mentions a rural traveler’s remarkable Okhotsk exile tale.
A garbled NCR style text touts a mysterious tonic claimed to cure nervous diseases and combat wartime fatigue. It lists ingredients and benefits, praising a stimulant mix for nerves, digestion, and energy, while noting supposed mood and vitality improvements in users.
A Washington dispatch explains how Porter, superintendent of the census, praises new counting machines that process up to a million names daily. The devices resemble upright pianos with electric dials and a schedule system, operated by young women in white dresses, greatly speeding the national tally. The article notes provisional returns from districts and anticipates faster final results as counting continues.
The article outlines competing explanations for how glaciers calve into the sea. It describes a slope failure model where the ice front tips and breaks, a lifting effect from water, and a newer differential movement theory. It also notes dramatic phenomena: explosions, spray, and roar as ice breaks and a berg calves into ocean waters.
A late 18th century account discusses animal lifespans across species. It cites an eagle in Lapland with a tin box bearing a captive note from 1782, claims elephants to 300 years, camels forty, horses thirty, and fish such as salmon not living long, while noting dogs and birds vary widely in lifespan. The passage mixes anecdotes with dubious authority and questions the veracity of extreme longevity stories.
The article discusses labor, pleasure, and reform ideas from Fourier to Bellamy, noting artists and workers who find joy in work when conditions are fair. It cites a carpenter content with house-building if compensated fairly, and paralleled by artists like Gibbon and Ruskin in contemplating labor's rewards and risks. It also mentions a king of Dahomey embracing exotic gender roles and planning to display Amazon regiments in London as part of a broader reformist spectacle.
A humorous medicalward column estimates yearly world births at tens of millions and calculates the overwhelming scale if babies lined up or marched endlessly. It toys with astronomical figures to illustrate production rate and its colossal implications.
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