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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1887
Page
1
A Bloomington dispatch notes broad support for using the $200,000 appropriation for a Indiana State soldiers' home rather than building a monument. Adjutant-General Koontz cites many letters from old soldiers urging the home as both monument and relief, with possible legislative action ahead.
A catfish weighing eight pounds and measuring about eighteen inches was pulled from Abbott's Lake by G H Berger. Inside its stomach lay a live water moccasin over four feet long. The fish was opened and the snake retrieved. Nearby reports tell of a blue racer found under a Tuscola pillow, a man dying near Centralia from poison in a well, and various local notices including lives, laws, and community events across Illinois towns.
The cor report from Washington on June 26 discusses July and August receipts and a surplus near 37 million after debt payments. It notes 18,000 Mexican pension claims with 250 daily certificates, the large current pension workload, Guard involvement in Logan remains, and critiques Republican tactics. It also covers President Cleveland’s schedule, health concerns about government buildings, and a new cap on Mexican pension attorney fees at 10.
Gen John Newton criticizes politicians posing as soldiers arguing they used veterans groups for political gain. He cites efforts to hijack veterans associations to back parties and warns such misuse threatens democratic principles and public trust.
A compendium of brief items covers a fishing mishap in Mississippi a pension official being knighted in Italy and land restoration plans. Other notes mention Harvard illiterates Michigan fires immigration figures New York women workers gas shortages and diverse curiosities from across the country.
Coast reports reveal inexhaustible beds of tio tuminous paving rock near San Luis Obispo and a $300,000 contract by a Los Angeles company. San Diego notes a nine by five by eight foot sea turtle captured outside the bay. Calaveras county houses the oldest tree, about 2,565 years. Inyo county yields a high quality marble, tested at 26,900 pounds per square inch, far surpassing Vermont and Italian marbles. An Ante-Beltram Proceeding in Georgia involves a storekeeper and a farmer using a mortgage on a negro for debt security.
Ovancock Virginia June 27 Wharton B Broadwater has returned home to Temperanceville in a severely dem ented state. Doctors blame excessive cigarette use for his mental decline and foresee possible asylum placement with slim chances of recovery.
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