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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1885
Page
2
The Republican state convention will assemble at Harrisburg on the 8th of July. The house on Tuesday reconsidered its adverse vote on the bill to establish an agricultural experiment station at the State College and passed it finally by a vote of 117 to 42. It now goes to the Governor.
General Grant suffered rheumatic pains especially in his throat on Sunday night due to unfavourable weather from the storm. The Supreme Court recently ruled it unlawful to sell life insurance policies or engage in transactions based on the length of a human life. London dispatches report Gladstone’s ministry defeated in the House of Commons on Monday, suggesting resignations. Government adjourns tomorrow with plans for an extra session to discuss anti discrimination. The Grangers’ Inter State Picnic Exhibition 1895 will be held August 31 to September 5 at Williams Grove Cumberland Co Penn a crowd of about 100000 attended last year. The new administration shows reform pledges, reducing clerks and officials to streamline public service.
In Washington on June 6 a full reorganization of the pension system is planned under the new commissioner. Pennsylvania will be the first to see a rearrangement of Pension Surgeons with an entirely new list being prepared under Governor Curtin and endorsed by Mr. Sowden Mr. Randall and other Democratic Congress members. A call was made today to Commissioner Black and a letter endorsed General Davis for the Philadelphia Pension Agency.
The Harrisburg Patriot argues the Blaine faction’s mental faculties were impaired by their drubbing last fall, presenting a sharp comparative critique of the opposition’s judgment and framing the outcome as a warning to readers.
In a brisk exchange the Vermont GOP shows a divided stance over preferred candidate Blaine, with critics accusing opponents of aiming to block Edmunds’s re election. The piece portrays Edmunds as an abler and more honest choice than Blaine.
The Washington monument capstone was struck by lightning and shattered. Also, Buck Thorn Fence Co. advertises Buck Thorn Steel Barbed Fencing with J B Fisher in Penn Fall, Pa. A severe storm near Harrisburg killed a horse and lightly shocked two men. The Norristown Insane Asylum brass band performed in new uniforms. Abe Buzzard surrendered at Lancaster County Prison after a long manhunt, hoping a pardon. Also ads for Zingara Toothache Drops, Liver Pills, a Welsh Mountain thief, a cordials ad, and McDowall Worm Powders.
A severe storm hit Atchison Kansas causing widespread damage estimated at about 60000 dollars with city works alone reaching 50000. Water overflowed culverts and streets turned to rivers flooding cellars and halting mills and business. No lives were reported lost though the Beaver Park reservoir burst in Lonemont Colorado causing further destruction downstream.
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