24 Feb 1869
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Newspaper
Mineral Point Tribune
Location
Mineral Point, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1869
Page
1
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An elusive solicitation from Brigham Bishop & Co offering agent opportunities and a range of purported patent medicines. The dense copy promises samples, price lists, and a mailed response by prospective dealers, urging readers to request complete catalogs and terms.
The New York Herald summary notes a steady immigrant stream to the United States, with Castle Garden's emigrant depot tracking arrivals by nationality and age. Germany provides nearly half of 1868 arrivals, while the Great Western states absorb most settlers. the labor exchange aided over 15 thousand men and 13 thousand women in finding work, mainly as mechanics and house servants.
The Colorado River runs perilously low at Fort Yuma, shifting channels confound pilots, and cargo moves slow due to shoals and sandbars. Miners northward face supply shortages as 600 tons wait at the cuibarcadera. Browne coyly urges a congressional grant of half a million to seal the river bottom, a jest at improvement that would earn voter loyalty.
Allman in the oil region attempted to scrub his floor with benzine, not soap and sand. A stove in the store ignited the benzine, producing an explosion that hurled him out of the doorway, blew the stove roof off, and wrecked the premises. Moral is to never bring benvine near fire.
The article notes that a salary of twenty five hundred dollars is the top pay for any professor at Harvard College. It argues this level is so low that replacing current incumbents would be hard, fueling concern that competent replacements would be unlikely if vacancies occurred.
The Terre Haute Journal reports a young New York woman, Pamelia Robinson, found wandering crazed in Otter Creek Township. She was taken to the poor asylum after freezing feet endangered amputation. Once recovering, she recalls a trip from Oswego, New York, intending to visit a Parke County sister. She has $400 in a bank check and a baggage check, with a trunk at the depot. Her Parke County friends are being contacted for aid while asylum staff provide care.
A reader from Rainesville, December 24, recounts a long history of crime in Fenton County led by a gang of cut throats. The account details Shafer's murder by a hired party, Shafer's daughter killed for revealing a thief, Shafer’s prior crimes, his wife’s delirious death, and the retaliation that left him shot and dead while neighbors flee similar fates.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court held that a father cannot reclaim custody of a child adopted by others when the child has formed deep ties and become emancipated by circumstances. If the father left the child destitute and absent, the court will not disrupt the child’s established life.
A Reno California mother traveling with four children met a swarthy man who claimed to be her husband. The man recognized a daughter and asked her name, then led a stunned mother to reveal the man was not the father until hair and whiskers were shaved. The ruse exposed the family reunited after doubts.
The Boston Post claims New York has grown corrupt and must widen its gate, while The New York Times counters that the widening serves to widen the road to Boston, suggesting a partisan interpretation of urban growth and regional rivalry.
A digest of regional notes including 1400 bales of cotton in Columbus Georgia warehouses, violet blooms in Hillsboro North Carolina yards, a dead negro woman found near Columbus tied to starvation, and quotes on land, railroads, and large land sales. It mentions the Jane Fish ship clearing for Liverpool with 4703 bales, and Eagle mills Columbus Georgia producing thick cotton blankets. Also includes Providence Journal urging prompt payment of small bills and a New Year resolution to avoid running up little charges, with moral commentary on debt and commerce.
A critique of King Christian IX daughters Alexandra and Dagmar married to the Prince of Wales and the Grand Duke of Russia. The piece laments perceived misfortune, melancholy queen mother, and questions the wisdom of arranged royal matches amid claims of unsuitable marriages and deteriorating health.
An old Dutchman bursts from his shop to ask what is wrong as a crowd gathers. A bystander declares a man is killed. The vendor reacts with disbelief, thinking perhaps it is only a dog fight and that more may be needed to explain the event.
A roundup of sensational and social notes: the actor Rachel's son at a Dilson gas works. Napoleon's alleged illegitimate offspring. Times size. an English civil officer living within bounds. a London pauper denied charity garb. a tiger in Madras with many victims. a swift Australian horse. Patti-Caux in Berlin. Paris detectives guarding the Prince Imperial. heavy snow in St Petersburg. calcium bag theater explosions to applause. Japan's youthful Mikado. Anna Gargarin heiress in Moscow. unverified royal visit by Victor Emmanuel. Constantinople vizier’s high appearance but little ability. a noble marriage rumor around Count de Nieuwerkerke. a dressmaker fined for late work. Russian troop movements toward Odessa. Baltic fleet readiness. pope as oldest European sovereign. monarch ages average 45. Verona geological peculiarity near Monte Baldo showing signs of eruption.
In Caldwell parish three Duke brothers confronted J H Cain over a local dispute. Cain fired killing James Duke and mortally wounding Henry Duke who later died. Thomas Duke pursued Cain as the elder fled. Cain had not been arrested by the latest report. Locals deem these as neighborhood troubles.
A New York legislator introduced a bill to patent inventors of new kinds of fruit, a move mocked as absurd and dangerous. The piece warns about monopolies on varieties and predicts a flood of patents for animals and crops, arguing newspapers would shun such fruit.
A German merchant and his wife of his friend eloped, amid the United States and America collision. He allegedly stole $2,500 from a feeble mother. The wife survived the wreck and returned to her family. Also included is Charles Dickens correction about Mrs Dickens not being in Chicago and his Dublin note.
John Hoeck dies in a frozen river accident while returning from Amsterdam to Rotterdam with his father and others. As they fall through a weak spot, father directs rescue efforts. The son unbinds, kisses his father farewell, and sinks, perishing with his father clinging to him.
The article argues London’s charity totals thirty five million dollars yearly, contending vast aid fuels laziness and begging. It calls for regulated alms with appointed municipal officers to screen applicants, forcing able-bodied to work at fair wages and supporting the sick at home or in public homes, aiming for organized, efficient charity.
Yesterday afternoon children leaving a school on Third street near Plum found a large snake crawling over roofs. A five foot eight inch young anaconda was killed. Officer Crippen called it a genuine andy candy. The snake’s origin remains a mystery and the corpse is on display at Hartzell's marble dust factory on Plum street above Columbia.
A Virginia alms house inmate disappeared and was later found dead in a bushes area near the house. Authorities believe he wandered there and died, with local foxes suspected of feeding on the body.
A compilation of brief items notes protests against a salt tax, a 12 year old boy’s suicide at Sugar Creek Illinois, Dubuque shipping quail to Massachusetts, San Francisco real estate valued at 63 million in gold, Des Moines seeking the Iowa State fair, Kansas population doubling in four years, an around the world earthquake reaching India, Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railroad survey, Montreal water works strain, Boston apples stored, St John New Brunswick earthquake touch, Winnemucca hopes to be a future inland city, European coinage and postage plans, Suez Canal completion by October, a Cheshire teen tall for her age, London child destitution, Cincinnati opinions on speed, Mt. Albans butter sales, Boston annexation jokes, a Cincinnati hog bite fatality, Mansfields vigilantes, Chinese news via San Francisco and cable, Boston fire alarm mail mixups, British House of Commons Liberal majority, Montreal hay costs, Erie County wolves, Spanish spies in New York, Georgia tax deadline extension, Colorado name origin, invalid car on Norwich and Worcester rail, Malden rooster killing fine, Buffalo chicken dog, Southwick cat poisonings, Baltimore police pocket pick, Springfield chess match, Charleston plantation sale, Philadelphia carpet theft and exchange, Massachusetts mechanics expo, Liebig beer nutrition claim, Portland liquor charges, advertising as shopfront, Evansville kerosene lamp incident,Pennsylvania pocketbook theft, Gettysburg reminiscence, Merrimack House dog Darkness pumps water, Syracuse domestic conflict, Meridian boys severing a trapped arm, and a ten to thirteen year old rabbit hunting accident.
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