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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1887
Page
1
Republican leaders vow to contest Turpie's election as Indiana legislators react to Turpie's victory. Reports from Indianapolis and Vincennes detail protests, polling splits among parties, and a mocked ramp meeting. Other notices cover water works, a fatal mill accident, and Sunday business prohibitions.
A stray servlite explosion damages nearby land near Vincennes with six mile reporting. Wheat prospects look strong and farming fortunes are noted as James Taylor forgives his wife amid elopements with fruit-tree agents. Crawfordsville council orders vagrants fined and employed at 75 cents daily. Indiana Senate elections remain by multiple ballots and Turpie last won on the 16th. Adthea Hoffman’s death follows a lover’s marriage news. Republicans seek control of benevolent institutions and prisons. Petersburg raises funds via home talent shows for street lamps. Gibson county poor-house stable struck by lightning and burned. Taporte opens a 1500 foot toboggan slide claimed longest in the west. Four Princeton business houses burned recently. Over 300 join Franklin church lately. Legislature costs run about 1500 dollars daily. St Phillips dynamite hoax denied. Terre Haute car works employs 650 men.
Uncle Jack Sprain, long-time postmaster at Big Spring Shelby county, receives a 170 government warrant for 54 years of service. A Fulton county mound yields giant skulls and a steel anvil. Springfield man repays 3200 for boyhood egg theft. Green county offers rewards for murder, manslaughter, horse theft, grand larceny and burglary. Cairo bridge spans two miles of elevated approach on the Kentucky side. Berry's Hall hosts late-hour dancing after services. A frozen rabbit derails a handcar, breaking a man’s leg. Decatur eyes 500000 for the state fair. An Alton man dies by lightning. Peru girls organize a toboggan club.
In Wartiorp Con Feb 6 Republican leaders faced anger after introducing a legislative bill aimed at barring inmates of hospitals and soldiers homes from voting in their towns. The move targeted Darien’s soldiers home where most residents favored Democrats, sparking internal backlash and public denunciation from old party hands who warned it would damage Republican credibility. The incident underscores political exploiting veterans and risks national scrutiny.
The Washington letter reports potential resignations of Manning and Jordan to join a new New York national bank, with Manning's salary noted at 20,000 a year and health concerns cited. It critiques a pension bill expanding benefits, mentions Indiana Senators Turpie Voorhees, and recounts Blaine politics, Navy and War Department costs, and Indiana patents granted in January.
Notes and news recount Knox county farmers dividing into two teams to hunt rats and mice producing thousands of tails. The report then surveys lobsters exported from Prince Edward Island, apple shipments from New York, an ancient ship biscuit, a long burning Nevada mine fire, a San Diego biblical order, Washington Territory ending woman suffrage, a century old pork barrel in Delaware county, a 416 pound Fat Man, bones found in a Waynesboro artesian well, cholera halting Buenos Aires trade, and tests of a new hardened steel process in Louisville with a blacksmith inventor eyeing Navy testing.
Local items from Mt Vernon report a strong turnout at the Posey County Stockbreeders meeting despite bad weather and several new members. Wheat growers voice worries as usual about a potential short crop while Posey county wheat is noted as timely. A Montezuma troupe performs at Evansville opera house next Sunday. Local commerce includes coal freight costs and a new stock of Valentines. News items mention earthquakes in Illinois, street improvements, hardware traders, physicians busy with winter weather, and a rising river current.
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