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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1889
Page
2
A noisy, garbled page from Marshfield prints a scattered mix of legal notes, international tensions, economic worries, and local observations. It mentions Denmark law nuances, prohibition opinions, the Panama Canal debate, and reactions to the Johnstown disaster, plus market chatter on Cambria Iron and Conemaugh.
A scrambled dispatch reports fierce electrical storms causing extensive damage. Kansas, Cedar Vale, and Arkansas City areas suffer deaths, drownings, and dwelling destruction. Local floods, bank troubles, and wind damage tally wide impact with several injuries and missing details.
Reports from Armagh Ireland recount a fatal excursion wreck killing many Sunday school children as a storm rages along the coast causing high tides and damage. In Vienna and London leaders attend events while the Montenegrin government scales for war readiness and conflict in the Balkans continues. The Prince and Princess of Wales visit an exposition, and questions are raised about Gladstone’s speeches in London.
A jumble of late 19th century items covers Mormon membership 163,911, large charitable donations for a named town, archaeological notes, navigation woes in Chesapeake Bay, an attempted Sunday murder in New York, an upcoming American tour by an actor, a political misstatement, a boxing figure’s wealth, agricultural wheat stocks, a Danish post, labor payments, religious tensions in Illinois, defamation and damages cases, a California dog grave incident, and assorted obituaries and local curiosities.
A batch of city and regional incidents unfold across pages: Doorox, Irwin, Ferguson and Hanes, three physicians who performed the autopsy on the late mind-reader Bishop, indicted for sanitary law violation. In Arizona, Sxvzx men held for a Paymaster Whaw robbery. Mannowrr and LaDonald freed in New York for lack of evidence. Cincinnati sees a Sunday melee near closing hour injuring several. a white man brought before a colored judge sparks the fight. A grand jury prepares to hear testimony in the Grogln murder case. multiple suspects in custody. A missing teenager Maggie Thompson’s body found in Cincinnati. Lincolns’ tragic family massacre in Nebraska. Leavitts murdered in Ohio with war-like threats. Canton criminal cases yield 15-year terms for Frank Baddle and Frank Ryan. Kansas robbery nets $8,615 in bonds. Bonds vanish during broker Waters’s office heist. investigators seek leads.
The National Capitol lists six new consul general appointments including Wakeffald G Eyre Maine to Halifax and Joseph A Leonard Shanghai. reports highlights a flood hero dog Romeo who saved his mistress at a ruined house, risking his life for her. The piece also mentions a shipment of four million seven hundred thousand dollars in gold and notes John L Hallivan’s prize earnings of five hundred thousand dollars.
A Chicago to Pittsburgh Limited express during a May flood neared Johnstown as waters raced down Conemaugh and South Fork valleys. Passengers faced rising danger from a reservoir and bridge collapse. the train crossed the barely standing bridge and pulled away toward safety, with many memories of terror and relief as the wrecks and rescue efforts unfolded.
Witnesses measured the dam break and flood arrival at Johnstown noting a first wave traveling about twelve miles in nineteen minutes then likely one mile per minute on impact. Debris and heavy material rose as the torrent grew from thirty to sixty feet high, with water marks reported up to thirty feet at Cambria iron works.
Reports from Oshkosh to Pennsylvania reveal a sweeping anti prohibition push as the amendment faces heavy turnout. Early tallies show large margins in many counties with Philadelphia and Reading among areas reporting strong opposition.
The Wisconsin Anti-Prohibition Association opened in Onoxose with Mayor Stevens welcoming delegates and F A Desaler thanking the city. The president did not deliver an address. key notes covered campaign work, party lines ignored, and opposition to temperance. Ex-Congressman Guenther to speak tomorrow as temperance groups plan prayer meetings to counteract perceived evils.
A danger of going down grips naval observers as the U S training ship Constellation runs aground eight miles inside Cape Henry. Three hundred cadets aboard with Commander Harrington, life saving crews deployed, ships from Baker salvage and others race to aid, while weather improves and salvage chances hinge on tides. Meanwhile resignations ripple through federal offices with George S Peters and Peter S Knight quitting as US attorneys, and E M Boysen resigning as South Carolina marshal.
A damaged text fragment reports a boy named Braveitis Omaberg killed by lightning near Edgerton and other scattered items. It mentions a Monroe accident, skeletons unearthed in Baraboo, Rockford High School accreditation, Milwaukee labor clubs, a methane gas incident at a Johnson soap factory, Salvation Army captains marrying in Oshkosh, and Prof Clifton Hodge joining Clark University Worcester.
P W Danone of Pekin Illinois, formerly Chicago, received a letter regarding the Irish National League of America and its stance on the De Cronin murder. Fitzgerald replies that the league respects law and condemns crime, urging authorities to find and punish the criminals.
James M Gabble a wealthy real estate dealer of this city was found dead in his bed at the Palmer House. Indications point to voluntary poisoning with carbolic acid after a night of intoxication. Gabble, a bachelor, had been involved in sensational affairs including a prior incident where he jumped from a window as a married man’s husband entered the room. Foul play denied by his business associates who say he was in good standing.
Jane 1 Swan Mag pusson was shot at Millersee and brought here yesterday. Wadene, the Indian involved, called him to the door at midnight Wednesday and fired without a word. Reports from Mora tre suggest Magnusson was the only injury and dismiss sensational claims.
June 17 18 The president makes appointments including A Johneco as surveyor of Atiscon Janes d Brokes repairer of public moneys Grand Forks Dakota Wiliam McKassox Indian agent at Bisseton agency and more Postmasters appointed list includes John Strveffald Mount Carmel Tih A Lorsjoy Taylor Spares Norman J Black Metropolis City St Henry Ankney Corning Le Daniel Beaman Correctionville W Otter Kramoty Borg Je George Walton Ida Grova ls Henry W Crow Bushville Nev Edwie Hershiser Quetl Nob A case of Money vs Honor The Star notes minister to China consideration for Admiral Shateld Further talks involve Kasson Iowa and theologians for Catholic University of America
A Tennessee Central line wreck near Bremmewowam Alabama at Pratt colpe destroyed a three-car passenger train and several ore cars. On board were 200 to 300 workers heading to the mines when the engine pushed the cars and struck a cow on the track. Carpenters Walter Beatty and Henry Mooseley were killed. about 100 others were injured but not fatally.
A westbound Milwaukee and St. Paul train yesterday struck the two year old daughter of Broven Muscorotoh a mile west of his home. The child lay with her head on the rail and the engineer, unable to stop the train, could not avert the accident.
June 18 report details General Huntings reorganizing a civil body with President Kennedy presiding. Provisional airurtrea structures proposed for public parks. Debris and a railroad bridge collapse killed eleven. Wheat and commodity prices from Chicago market and early cattle and hog receipts listed alongside national market figures.
Great preparations are made for the trial of the Curran brothers in Wanpace county Wisconsin for the killing of Willis W Haseltine last year following a dispute over alleged improper intimacy with Haseltine’s wife. Judge Aste will oversee the defense with possible venue change and involvement by United States Senator Dan Voorhees.
A June flood event devastates Kaw Territory with washed bridges and submerged crops. Reports say several towns flooded, multiple fatalities likely, and thousands of acres of wheat lost. Rescue efforts and river-bridge repairs continued as waters slowly receded.
A fire swept Geouel area at 12:15 a.m. and spread with the wind, destroying forty one buildings including Treat and Co elevator and the Herald office. Estimated damage runs to 250000 dollars, most structures partly spared. The post office inquiry reported two improper appointments within the Indianapolis post, and a separate death case attributes poisoning to wild parsnip root.
In Oazxeaz Wisconsin on June 16 Mary Kieske an 11 year old daughter of August Kieske attempted to open a real arbor seal with an axe when an explosion occurred a fragment of the infernal machine lacerated her. She faces likely lifelong injuries.
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