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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1887
Page
1
TheRegister publishes weekly at 150 dollars yearly with advance payment required. Rates include local notices at 10 cents for 10 lines and 6 cents each subsequent insertion. Columns priced by size with monthly and yearly options. all legal ads charged by law. Transient ads prepaid. job work paid on delivery.
Indiana items report lawmakers arriving for session amid fierce speakership fights in the House and senate contests. Republicans push to unseat Democrats, Knights of Labor oppose Harrison, and the lieutenant governor race seats go to the senate. A parade of state data covers fruit yields, prison conditions, coal production, and a remarkable funeral.
Indiana statistics show the female and girls reformatories housing 188 inmates with 11 life prisoners and 3 yearly deaths. Fiscal year funds totaled 2756? with 1153 for materials. 39000+ appropriations allocated mostly for maintenance. Separate note from Innranavous cites $51872 paid for dogs murdering 29543 sheep in 1885 and a total dog tax of 185872.
A sleigh carrying twenty youths en route to a dance was struck by a train at a crossing near Fort Wayne. Two girls died and most others sustained injuries with varying severity.
A buffet of 20th century Illinois notes covers politics with a Springfield legislature of a Republican edge and talk on Senator Logan’s successor. Reports include carp distribution demand, meteor damage near Metropolis, counterfeiting near Cairo, a Bloomington badge law for petty criers, silver band fashion, and wide local concerns from saloons to insane asylum census and a Reading Room for Murphysboro.
A Montana tale recalls Shotgun Jim Brown famed as a stagecoach messenger. He guards treasure boxes and once courted a young woman in Virginia City who later threatens him with a pistol during a stage run. The driver and agents flee. Brown survives and wears a gold tassel from the woman’s watch. Also, Minnesota governor race results show Ames leading McGill with contested counts and vote discrepancies.
A Washington interview with Texas lawyers and politicians discusses steady rapid growth in Texas, incoming settlers mainly from older states, irrigation plans, drought impact, and the likelihood of Texas remaining Democratic. It notes about 575,000 voters, with potential majorities near 250,000 to 275,000 in presidential contests.
Indiana residents received several patents in the past week, reported by C A Snow & Co. The list includes devices for measuring car wheels, door attachments, electric lamps, wagon springs, toddler chairs, nut locks, garden plows, velocipedes, and plows from inventors in Terre Haute Indianapolis Evansville Lafayette Logansport Kempton Waterloo Middletown South Bend. In Wyoming Territory, voter fraud and sale of votes by women are described as widespread during the suffrage experiment, with women reportedly selling votes for 2 to 5 dollars and sometimes voting under both married and maiden names.
Cor of the New Harmony Register reports on Logan's death observances in Washington, the bier in the Capitol rotunda, and the Rock Creek burial. It notes Illinois political chances, Indiana maneuvers for the Senate, and Congress's brief adjournment with a debt reduction of $9.4 million last month.
Notes and News report a fast East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia train encountering a giant bald eagle near Chattanooga. The bird fought the fireman as the train reached 45 mph, finally being secured after shredding overalls. The eagle measured 7 feet tip to tip.
Two New Year cards from F W Cook Brewing Co Evansville hailed as dandies. H P Owen drew a $30 oil painting in a raffle. Miss Arnott arrives as new high school teacher from Bloomington. The dancing club plans another ball at the opera house tonight as Tuk river freezes and a cold wave looms.
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