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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1887
Page
1
The Register lists subscription terms five years and rates for squares and columns. It states publication is weekly, advance payment required, local column notices priced per line, and ad spaces priced per quarter, half, and whole column with advance payment for transient ads and delivery payable for job-work.
Indiana dispatch reports a dynamite bomb on the L N near St Phillips might have wrecked the town. A man in Evansville details a case where laughing gas left a patient unable to speak or move. Other notes cover natural gas firms formed in multiple counties, a 109 year old death, a prison escape, flood effects, and regional incidents across the state.
A roundup from across Illinois notes a gray 89 year old man walking to Albany after leaving California, and a Macon county grand jury reporting 174 indictments with 1,253 witnesses. Other items include a lamp caused fire in Rockford, a wolf thief in Ford county, a curse of rattlesnakes blown up in Marion, panthers roaming Winnebago, a horse stolen from a Galva minister, a ghost in a Galena lead mine, and a 24 pound baby born in Cairo. Also listed are Indiana patent grants for various tools and machines across several towns.
Cor Cor of the New Harmony Register reports on Daniel Ruggles Virginia brigadier general proposing a $100,000 rainfall and cyclone defense scheme. He calls for torpedo balloons and artillery cooperation to disperse storms, citing battles like Waterloo and Gettysburg as precedents. The piece also surveys nineteen years of the National Woman's Rights Association activity and notes congressional resistance. It closes with an analysis of Republican attempts to steal Senate seats in California Indiana and New Jersey, likening it to carpetbagger era tactics.
Special dispatch reports in Indianapolis that Turpie won 76 votes to 74 for Harrison in a joint convention, securing the U S Senate seat. Republicans vow to ignore the result and plan their own election, arguing Turpie will not take the seat. The clash shifts to national politics as they threaten actions in Washington.
Notes and News item reports Jacksonville Florida boasts the largest artesian well globally, currently 760 feet deep and outputting 7,000,000 gallons per day. Other notes cover Brownsville mosquitoes, New York lap dog doctors, European armies expected by April, and various curiosities across the U.S.
Mrs James Sampson, one of Poseyville’s oldest residents, died yesterday at about 77 after months of frailty though she was active until last Monday. Funeral is at 2 this Friday. Also notices photo work by B G Lawrence at Thrall and Mumford, political dispute over Sunday theater events, Poseyville News sold to J J Brydon & Co, Bitty Mynrs returns, new Valentines at J C Miller, Winkler’s ferry launches a horse boat, river rising after rains, severe thunderstorm, town wagon lot adds twenty stalls, thanks to Representative Whitworth, steamers A Carey and Experiment visit, wild geese reported on the cut-off island, lock-up weatherboarding.
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