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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1885
Page
2
A wide miscellany reports US public debt totals and September deficits, labor strikes in Peekskill, weather damage to Arkansas cotton, and a fatal attack in Ohio. It covers Princeton hazing, Maine egg crops, New York retail trends, timber forest concerns, and a large European gold shipment. Also noted are river mysteries, crime trials, and international tensions with Roumania Greece and Burmah.
A series of disasters reported include Elkerton Hotel and Moore's Livery stable burned at Dowagiac Michigan, St Croix Hotel demolished at Taylor's Falls Minnesota, and a cave in injuring workers on the Pittsburgh and Charleston railroad in Pennsylvania. Prairie fires near Traverse Oak burn thousands of tons of hay and grain. A crane accident at the Leland Hotel Chicago kills McKillopp, injures Foster. A wagon accident in Marshalltown Iowa cripples Sherman Nacks. Lafayette Indiana sees the Washington House roof fire at three AM. boarders escape, losses about 1000.
Pevuckle from Orange County recalls losing furniture to a sheriff's sale while his daughter Minnie fell ill. He later learned Minnie did not die, the crape on the doorbell misled him, and he avoided further instalment purchases.
A Boston man prices an old sofa in an auction room and claims it came over on the Mayflower. The boy and the bystander joke the sofa is alive with reminiscences. A New Yorker asks a Texan about Texas climate and longevity, sparking a witty exchange.
During the fiscal year ending 1885 the United States exported 80 locomotives valued at about 1.82 million dollars and nearly 10 thousand dollars each. Car wheels numbered 14 825 with value 135 thousand. Stationary engines 135 valued at 171 thousand. Total motor material exported likely around 3 million, roughly double 1880 when 133 locomotives were sent out for 1.46 million.
A lengthy Britain analysis foresees a hard fought election with large new voter groups. It discusses franchise expansion, political alignment, and potential shifts in policy and imperial direction amid a turbulent party struggle. It also notes England’s eastern policy alignment and the Servian question, plus a rising social purity movement connected to the Pall Mall Gazette and press activism.
The New York Wechs Club faced steep expenses defending the cup, with the Sir Richard Sutton challenge costing over five times as much as the prior race. Priscills and Puritan yachts are built to defend the cup at high cost, while public spending nears a six-figure total as 15,000 spectators attend each day paying for tickets and on-board charges.
The article surveys European imperial ambitions, noting Germany's quiet push to build a colonial empire under Bismarck while England watches a rival rise. It reflects on fragile colonial prospects, Zweitele Germany’s gains, and economic context with U S cattle and swine figures cited for comparison.
A vast neutral strip between the Indian Territory and New Mexico, bounded by Kaunas and Qatorado, is claimed by the United States, the Cherokee Nation, and Texas. The region lacks courts or authority, with cattlemen asserting occupancy and urging a prolonged legal standoff while Cherokee leaders eye $100,000 yearly lease prospects.
A deadly boiler explosion at William Clark & Co Solar iron works on the corner of Thirty fourth and Smallman streets injured seventeen workers with several fatalities. The mud drum failed under a six-boiler battery, tossing debris, scalding workers, and trapping some under iron and bricks. West Pennsylvania Hospital treated the gravely injured, while others were sent home.
The south central gallery showcases costly jewelry drawing admiration. Precious stones and diamond settings attract attention as Smiths and Silver Smiths of Regent Street display a corner allotment. The exhibit highlights intricate fabrications and machine tools in operation.
A Philadelphia Times excerpt describes a necklace trade with vast values and a ruby boasting global fame. It also recounts a romance where a hair switch funded a widow and led to a shipwrecked captain reuniting with his wife, aided by a jewelry broker's generosity.
A Rock Island brakeman recounts stopping a drunken man on a Garfield Boulevard bound car. The passenger staggered off near the tracks, nearly harmed himself, and then accused the brakeman of knocking his hat off. After a tense exchange the man forced a five dollar bill on the crew and fled.
Jim MsSoifier, a cattleman near Austin, was killed by a close acquaintance with a double barreled shotgun. The shooter Bob Suivarly faced the crime as questions arise over a debt and long range shot. Mose Schaumbarg relays the grim incident and notes the unsettled financial matter.
The World Champion Edwara Marian, once supreme in rowing, praises St Jacobs Oil after using it for muscular pains. In a letter from Australia before returning home he calls it a reliable remedy for arm and limb discomfort and recommends it strongly as effective.
A garbled exchange shows a boy called Jimmy and his mother scolding him for saying a rude phrase. The chatter shifts to family tales from a past visit and a joke about peaches. It notes a possible church name change and a San Francisco laundry industry detail.
Essays on character urging humility and conscience in daily life. It warns that spiritual forces can bless or curse, and that self-control shapes outcomes. It celebrates kindness, warns against jealousy, and notes wisdom from childhood stories guiding later life.
In a Washington Market saloon a famous Soult Street commission merchant bet $10 he could spell potatoes and proclaimed his spelling habit. The episode ended with the man winning the bet but a separate railroad crash near Swain Springs, North Carolina, injuring twenty people, three fatally.
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