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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1887
Page
2
The Millheim Journal marks sixty one years since its founding and reports improved finances and a growing subscription list. Editor R A Bumiller praises local correspondents, reflects on 1887, and previews plans for a stronger 1888 while noting political coverage on pensions and the Blaine faction.
Two proposals in the Senate aim to curb immigration. Senator Morrill Vermont would require consuls to vet emigrants and deny admission to those deemed unfit. Senator Reagan Texas would require steamship bonds to guarantee immigrants are acceptable. Neither plan fully addresses the issue.
A Philadelphia Times editorial argues against granting the President power to expel anarchists without due process. It warns such authority could be misused for personal ends and urges legal, jury-based moves or future prevention measures rather than executive banishment.
Dr Kiemer and Co of Binghamton New York are operating a night and day force to supply druggists orders for their Swamp Root Kidney Liver and Bladder Cure.
In Washington D C on December 19 1987 the regular correspondent reports Congress has accomplished little as Speaker Carlisle delays committee appointments until after the holiday recess December 22 to January 4. The Elections Committee is the only major one formed, with Carlisle defending his seat contest while Reed of Maine attacks tariffs. Senate debates touch on federal election regulation, postal telegraph funding and nominations, with Lamar Vilas and Dickinson to be acted on after recess amid Irish parliamentary visitors expressing sympathy for Ireland.
President sent Andrew H. Dill's nomination for United States marshal of the eastern district of Pennsylvania to the Senate. Photographer Van H. Fisher offers photos at his MilIburg gallery for three more weeks at North Street with promise of satisfactory results and low prices. In Meriden Connecticut, Dr. Davis is re elected mayor with the city government now Democratic for the first time in twenty years. common council 24 Democrats to 6 Republicans. A testimonial from Kalkaska Michigan praises Kennedy's Favorite Remedy as life saving for liver and kidney disease, priced at $1.00 per bottle, six for $5.50.
London reports John L. Sullivan, touring Glasgow, issuing a challenge to either Smith or Kilrain for a $5,000 bout. The Canadian and Confederate pension bills advance while a harsh blizzard disrupts Erie streets and rail traffic.
The Reading railroad employes convention resolves to support Lehigh strikers demanding an 8 percent wage increase and urges local assemblies to provide financial aid. Over 100 Lehigh boats sit at Reading docks as loading stops. Demurrage charges of 10 dollars per day may be levied on two weeks’ delay.
Ernest K. Williamson, once trusted at Albert Moran & Co. of Fall River, is arrested in Nebraska after six years on the run with $40,000 stolen following his bride Tlattie Moran’s death in 1881. A photographer’s snap led to identification in Homerville, Illinois.
The Hall’s Catarrh Cure claims a constitutional cure for catarrh taken internally. It is said to act on the blood and mucous surfaces to destroy the disease’s foundation and build up the patient’s strength. The ad offers $100 for any failure to cure and invites readers to request testimonials from F. J. Cuerry & Co. Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists for 75 cents.
Physicians in New Jersey endorse Speer Port Grape Wine as pure and reliable for aged and infirm use. Speer’s Unfermented Grape Juice is preserved without spirits via electricity. Simmons Liver Regulator is advertised to treat dyspepsia headaches constipation biliousness chills and malaria without quinine or calomel.
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