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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1887
Page
1
The Register advertises weekly publication by Slater Real Estate Co with annual, half and quarter column rates for different column widths. It specifies advance payment for all ads and job-work due on delivery, with renewal terms if arrears occur and discontinuation rules.
A Kentucky to Indiana wartime era crime is recalled by the death of Mrs. Sarah Hubbard at the Indianapolis female reformatory. The 1855 scene near Wabash involved the French family slaughtered by Hubbard and his wife. Hubbard was executed, while Mrs Hubbard spent decades in prison, maintaining innocence. A separate note reports Miss Mary Baker, the fasting girl of White county, abstaining from food for eighty nine days amid medical attention. She is 18 and severely emaciated, with doctors calling her case remarkable.
The seventh ballot for senator in the joint convention produced the same result as the first with no prospect of an election. Republicans debate breaking the agreement and seceding to force a Harrison endorsement, but many favor restraint. Turpie support grows, with Democrats standing firm unless he withdraws. Also reported: Old Babe the horse dies in Madison born 1840 claimed oldest in the world. various local notes include a Crown Point horn from 1759, a Terre Haute distillery fire story, a giant Montgomery poplar log, a fatal goring, and legislative temperance activity along with other regional items.
Nils Haugen wins the 8th Wisconsin seat by 700 over the late W T Price as Republicans note the district’s usual 8000 edge. Hearst and Dawes win Senate seats in California and Massachusetts. Petroleum found in Palestine Texas and a southern West Virginia volcano reported. In Georgia Newsome plantation curious fertile field yields 700 from watermelons in 1885 and a strong cotton crop last spring.
A parade of Illinois notes reports a dog in Olney that drinks from saloons, a country editor suing subscribers, a boiler explosion near Hawthorne, a diptheria case in Decatur with frostbitten feet, a noble doll gift for a girl in Piper City, Armour and Co. meat production figures, a Cairo bridge project, and various local oddities including a rabbit-hunting dog, a pharmacy board tally, and postal money and railway notes.
Oakland Iowa January 19 over a thousand men and boys organized a grand wolf hunt in Sargent township Douglas county five miles north of the city. Four lines under captains were formed and three hundred hounds released with no firearms allowed. Wolves destroyed sheep and hogs last year with packs as large as twelve. several were killed and one escaped. The hunt was deemed a decided success.
Washington Letter reports the anti Mormon bill passing the house, its impact on religious and political power, and varied public opinions. It notes Mrs Voorhees's death, Rep Cox's ill health and recovery, the 19th annual woman suffrage convention, and comments on Washington winter, Mormon lobby costs, post office naming refusals, and 115000 government appointees with $80 million in salaries.
New Harmony Lodge No 87 A O U W notes the death of Bro J J Upchurch on January 18 1887 founder and active member. Resolutions honor his memory as founder builder of the society and express fraternal sympathy to his wife and children. Charter to be draped in mourning for thirty days and copies sent to family and New Harmony Register.
A professional hunter in Calcasieu parish reports that in two and a half days he killed 226 snipe 20 prairie hens and 21 ducks. He nets a handsome sum from selling game shipped to New Orleans. From sixty six days last season he netted 511.
Harry Uvsnanns sold his stake in the Corner Grocery to John Wilhelm who will run the shop solo going forward. Mrs Suerteer of Louisville is visiting her sister Katherine Kilbinger. E E Mianway of Lyne township were in town on Wednesday. Ice runs thick on the river for the past two days. Howand Jonxson is resuming residence at New Harmony. Wn M Ford visited Mt Vernon last Tuesday.
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