10 Apr 1891
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1891
Page
1
The Register advertising terms lists pricing for a one month three months six months and yearly options with all transient advertisements to be paid in advance job work must be paid.
Gov. Hovey refused signature to abolish the old State board of agriculture and may oppose the new board, which includes notable Marion, Gibson, Knox and other county leaders. The old board demands agricultural funding but the state auditor withholds. Indiana Pots notes Hovey receiving letters about a $750,000 direct tax refund, clarifying that funds belong to the state and will mostly aid benevolent institutions.
Danville a April 5 Thomas L Bedford reputedly the world’s oldest Odd Fellow at years of age. He received a jeweled veteran badge by the sovereign grand lodge. A charter member of Philanthropy Lodge No 15 in Philadelphia at 21 he helped establish Ohio Lodge No 1. He joined the local lodge in 1853 and has been an Odd Fellow for 63 years or more. Also notes a local student exhibition at Ovid and a close Evansville election with Democrats and Republicans splitting council seats.
George W. Warble, a leading merchant, died after using a galvanic battery for his feet during a Sunday bath. He was not discovered until 8 a.m. the next day, with the room in disarray and the battery broken. An Owensville item notes a Friday accident at Bird's drug-store where a bottle explosion injured a bystander and possibly the eyes of Mr. Bird.
Mrs Frances Leet of Crawfordsville sues Nancy Martins estate for 100. Nancy had hired Leet in 1884 to edit sentimental letters with a wedding payoff. A Fort Wayne dispatch hoax sparked an April fooling by officials. Tales include a clever cat using a latch, a carnival with electric nets, a Bechtler gold dollar pin, a two yolk eggs case, and telegraph writing tested between Crawfordsville and Indianapolis.
Vernon Indiana April 4. A real estate dealer and a buyer found a deep cavern with glittering stalagmites and stalactites. A six foot hairy creature appeared, snorted, then vanished. Reports of nocturnal noises, missing farm produce, and a possible wild man from Kentucky’s Trimble county link the mystery to our Jefferson county area. Explorers plan another expedition to study the cave occupant.
Workmen digging a cellar in the eastern city found a well preserved human skeleton. It is unusually large and believed by experts to be the frame of an Indian buried about a century ago. The remains were in a sitting posture with the face toward the south.
Amos Zelman of this county owns a 36 year old horse that served through the Civil War, was wounded in several battles, and still works on Zelman’s farm. The animal was purchased at a Federal horse sale in 1805.
Report surveys a Chicago physician claiming the grippe germ grows rapidly and could threaten nations. It records a Chicago election tally with Cregier, Washburne, and Harri son figures, a fatal track incident near Bloomington, a tiny infant death in St Clair county, and multiple local happenings including smallpox in Chicago and a panther sight in McDonough county.
In Rhode Island Davis the Democrat won with 22 249 votes while Ladd the Republican received 20 995. The tally signals Democratic strength in the state’s gubernatorial race as other results, like in Ohio and Colorado, show mixed party momentum and a national debt rise of 440 126 18 dollars.
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