Register Friday Edition by C. W. Slater
The fragment notes a publication caption The Register published every Friday by C. W. Slater. It provides no further details on content, dates, or events.
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1887
Page
1
The fragment notes a publication caption The Register published every Friday by C. W. Slater. It provides no further details on content, dates, or events.
Bent Jones a life convict from Orange county at State prison in Jeffersonville has secured a folding table patent, claiming the iron castings alone are worth at least 100000 dollars if he were free to market them. In Indianapolis a gastronomic contest ended with John Reider defeating Josephus Blakey after a feast at a restaurant run by a colored woman featuring the sign As You Can Eat for 20 Cents.
A June report from Vincennes notes two coal veins struck while drilling for natural gas, eighteen feet apart. One vein is three feet thick and the other five to six feet, prompting elation though gas access remains uncertain.
New York June 12. Russell Newton of Steuben county a veteran Republican voices concern that the party lacks positive principles and may renominate Blaine despite opposition. He predicts Cleveland likely to be renominated for the Democrats and notes machine influence in Blaine’s support. Washington patents granted to Indiana citizens listed in New Harmony Register.
A Louisiana letter from Sinsporo La notes progress in education agriculture and urban development in northwest Louisiana. The writer praises New Harmony and Prof Richard Owen’s honor, urges immigration capital and notes timber lands rail and irrigation prospects. He describes a forthcoming railroad boom linking Fort Worth to Anatapapery Alabama boosting regional traffic.
A survey of notes cites diverse items from 150 acre corn fields destroyed by black crickets near Sylvania Georgia to wagons for a gypsy camp ruler in Stratford Connecticut. Other items include a Detroit women’s journalism school, a cat in Elliotville Maine killing rabbits, Ohio’s surge of gas and oil company formations, and political shifts such as Massachusetts blacks seeking a GOP ticket place. Additional notes cover Los Angeles crematory toll attractions, national prison counts, prohibition vote hopes in New York, Wm E Chandler’s NH Senate election, a palmetto fiber plant in Jacksonville Florida, Brooklyn Bridge earnings, Mobile shipyard plans, Adairsville Georgia’s marble bed, New York’s colored physicians, and Georgia’s convict totals.
Items of interest report votes among Republican members on presidential preferences after Senator Sherman's speech. Harrisburg coal mines commit to 30 000 tons for the Texas Pacific railroad. Phillipstown School to have one teacher next season due to low attendance. New state law bans tobacco sales to under 16. Petrified trunk found on a Mattoon farm. Knights of Labor assembly forms in Fairfield. Mt Carmel council funds city advertising. Carmi coat company drills to 400 feet. O and M railroad to add 600 box cars. Saybrook women form fishing club. Enfield plans a Fourth of July celebration.
Washington Letter from June 12 details the Treasury cash counting method using weighing in a secure underground vault planned to hold up to one hundred million dollars. It notes a prior theft incident, the new vault’s iron-lined sixteen-compartment design, and complex access controls. It also covers Lieut. J. W. Graydon's experiments with a powerful new explosive for blasting and military use, plus political notes on Sherman, Wheeler, Vilas, and party faction tensions.
John Short, respected Point township farmer, died after his son carried his body toward the city. On a bridge a man named Robert Short leaped into a slough and stabbed himself, then fled and was recaptured later. Short’s throat wounds were not fatal. Also reports from Washington discuss a pension reform offering twelve dollars monthly to veterans with disability, allowing choice between old and new schemes, and penalties for pension agents who overcharge.
The Julia Bennett Dramatic Co. played at the opera-house with moderate business and one strong actor in Louis Warwick. An Episcopal church excursion will bring a group from Evansville for a picnic at the fairground. The gas stove and Mrs. Cleveland portrait won by Link Ford and Fred Wiley aid church funds. Harvest began with good wheat prospects. G A R adopts a charity notice urging prompt local support. Evensville visitors, school board re election, and church services are recorded with various town notes and a river level change showing falling waters.
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