Remarkable Indiana items on stubbornness and travel
A Fort Wayne paper column reports John Bond a 50 year old Mitchell resident who refused to rise after his mother's planned farm move in 1864, and notes he has rarely left bed since. Other items cover Christian Brow vowing a 600 day walk from Aspinwall to Behrings Straits, Indiana paper history, and a flurry of county notes on politics, oil, fossils, weather, and strange local happenings across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lateu, Inc
John Bond
Mitchell
Orange County
Paoli
John
Fr. Wayne, Inc
Christian Brow
Fort Wayne
North American
Aspinwall
Behring’s Straits
Indiana
Troy
Indiana Gazette
Rachel Voorhees
Senator Voorhees
Veedersburg
Fountain County
Washington
James Hagar
Dayton, D
Steuben County
Hains, Hildebrand & Co
New Albany
Ben Hains
Mains
Hains
Terre Haute
Wm. Hendricks
Harrison County
David Wright
Jeffersonville
Lafayette Hewat
Wm. Vadidie
Verseilles
Cincinnati
Asher Werte
Crawfordsvile
John Pinden
Washington County
Alex Sencamigar
Plainfield
Air Line
Allen County
Pike County
Montgomery County
Evansville
Blackford County
Walter Tyner
Muncie
Chas. Wittemeyer
Columbus
Academy of Medicine
Air-Line
Dubois County
Anderson
Ponn
Farmer Alliance
Cass County
Indiana Prison Inquiry Ends with No Embezzlement Evidence
The northern prison probe ordered after Gov. Hovey's accusation that Warden Murdock embezzled $40,000 found no substantiation. The committee ruled the charge unjust and said all funds were accounted for though the warden overstepped by unapproved improvements. Political factions threaten GOP unity ahead of next year’s election. The fee-and-salary bill faces action, and boiler inspection and engineer licensing measures were defended in the House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis, Inc
StuOirauys
Harrison
Republican Central Committee
Gresham
Fairbanks
Hovey
Studebaker
Gresham-Fairbanks
Tndiana
Congressional Apportionment and 1892 Electoral Outlook
Washington dispatch reports the 1892 apportionment fixed at 356 representatives with Democrats likely holding a solid majority amid Republican gerrymandering in several states. It lists electoral votes at 444 with 225 needed to win, cites historical vote implications, notes party splits and forecasts involving Senator Stanford and the Farmer Alliance, and ends with a DC population of 220,379 including 75,027 African Americans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Dakota
Legisnature
Democrats and
Farmer Alliance
Oklahoma
Mexico
Durango
Harrison
Reed
Congress
Washington
Voorhees
Washineton
D.C
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Michigan
New Jersey
Nebraska
Iowa
Lllinois
Farmer-Alliance
Stanford
California
Ingalls
Kansas
Force
Wyoming
Idaho
District of Columbia
Swindler Tricks Butter into Fresh Look in Quiro
A passerby in Quiro advertised a process to convert rancid butter into fresh seeming product. He demonstrated in Smith Bros store, then swapped butter for a lamp, a ruse uncovered and he was seized by police. Nearby reports note new textile machines in Chicago promising 40 to 60 percent price cuts, a $1,000,000 company to rent them, Nathan Whitney’s 60th birthday in Franklin Grove with Mason ties, a bank mouse nest revealing a $100 bill, a war vessel project for the world fair, and the fastest Pennington airship time on a Mt. Carmel to Chicago freight run, plus bogus ten dollar notes in central Illinois. The Carmi creamery foreclosed, a Martingville firm shipped 24,120 eggs in 67 barrels, Richland county recorded 182 births and 42 deaths, and Grayville fining boys who jump moving trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quiro
Smith Bros
Chicago
Nathan Whitney
Ilinois
Franklin Grove
Lee County
Gen. Washington
Monmouth
Lake Michigan
Pennington
Mt. Carmel
Carmi Creamery
Martingville
Richland County
Grayville Finea
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John Waz
John Walz
Main St
New Harmony
Ind
U. S. Patent Office
C.a.snow &Coc
D. C
Co. Ww. Slater
GALE
H. C. Husband & CO
J. D. Owen & Co
J. A. Wilhelm
H. C. Husband
Queensware
Owen Block
Oliver
McCormick
Henry Husband
Postoffice
Jand Y
Nash
TV. W. Robb & Co
West Main Street
New Harmony, Indiana
Peter Weber
Merchant -Taylor, New Harmony
Peter Wheber
Ford & Bennett
Chase & Sanborn Goods
Stansbury’s
Baltimore
IP ‘Statay
FARGO
Lichtenberger & Co
Henry Hunsdon
Notary Public & Conveyancer
U.S. Pension Claim
Notary
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
William P. Edson
Mt. Vernon
Ffice
Fourth Street
Main
Court-House
Svil
Frank Lyon & CO
Fast Main St.,New
Ieee Proprietors Harmony
le B.rwill
The
Arctic
Church Street
Main & Brewery
Albert 8 Newsom
C.ty Exchange
Ford&walz
Kinhte
Ford & Walz
Jacob Breith
Breith
BANK
Jesy
Fulton County
Central Committee
Rochester
New York
New Republican
Journal
Daviess County
Sam Cornett
Lizzie Cuckers
Sellersburg
Terre Hante
Pigeon Creek
Delaware County
Conrad Garbig
Vanderburg County
Rufus DeWitt
DeKalb County
Standard Oil Co
Selecta
Ohio County
Floyd
Rayl
Tipton
Ela Jones
W.W. Smiley
Thorntown
Jackson County
Seymour
Dearborn County
Edinburgh
Geo. Casper
Shelbyville
Goshen
Greenfield
Gibson County
Lafayette
Elkhart County
Princeton
Marion
Washngton
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