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Newspaper
Nanaimo Courier
Location
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 27, 1889
Page
1
Jous Hy Wiverne offers suited attire near the Little Wonder Cigar Store and the Lion Boot and Shoe House, highlighting a combined shopping option for customers seeking complete outfits.
European news details a tense Birmingham speech by Chamberlain and a clash of reports over M Rochefort and General Boulanger. Reports from London Paris and Dublin describe arrivals plans and potential Irish visit amid stock sales and other European notes.
Special to the Cov Vancouver April 26 The adjourned abortion case resumes with witness Bunting confirming Mrs Hogg’s presence at Dr Langis office on December 5 and Mrs Hogg denying prior pregnancy statements. Court to hear further defense while Langis Sullivan claim innocence. bail terms to be set by Justice McCreight. ships Wellington and others move coal cargoes. arrivals from Comox and Victoria report cargoes and passengers. Vancouver steamer Dunsmuir brings freight and Salvation Army personnel.
A disconsolate farmer from another county came to Americus seeking fifty dollars but failed to secure proper papers. He returned home with bread and water, then found a crock containing two hundred dollars in twenty dollar gold pieces and about fifty in silver. Police encountered the pair in Jeffer son avenue as the tale of debt and cash unfolded.
A sensational suicide by Miss Josephine Mauser, 22, in St Paul followed failed attempts, poison ingestion, and fatal burns after setting fire to clothing. Reports note other incidents including a steamer wreck off Michigan Island, and a failed incentive to subsidize Canadian Australian steam lines. Also covered are legal actions over pole planting, opium smuggling indictments, a broken steamer trial, and railroad depot contracts in Omaha.
In Hoxton on April 26 Boston’s Johny Murphy vs Cal McCarthy of New York ended in McCarthy’s victory after Murphy broke his left forearm in the first round. The match drew about 250 spectators with trophies valued at 1000. Also in San Francisco Peter Jackson defeated Patsy Cardiff for a 3000 purse after a hard ten round affair with Jackson dominating late rounds. Other baseball scores indicate April games with Cincinnati beating St Louis eight to two and Indianapolis routing Cleveland and Pittsburgh, while rain postponed additional games.
Washington April 26 The Postmaster General asked the President to postpone the enforcement of civil service regulations in the railway mail service beyond May first. The President said he could not delay the order.
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