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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1887
Page
1
The fragment notes a weekly publication titled the Register published every Friday by company noted as WwW Slater. It references a periodical distribution cadence and the publisher credit in a terse newspaper line.
Thomas J. Truscott named Administrator de bonis non of the Mary A. Elliott estate in Posey County Indiana. The estate is presumed solvent and administratorship granted as official notice.
Peter McCartney once the most dangerous counterfeiter in the region was freed from the northern prison after serving 15 years. He was immediately rearrested on a charge tied to $2000 in counterfeit money from eighteen years ago intended for use in southern Illinois. He is 67, and relatives have seized his property during imprisonment.
Charles H. Moore, a Chicago & Atlantic telegraph operator in the dispatchers office during the Kouts Ind wreck, has gone insane after resigning. He recalled officials and staff weeping as news of the massacre and burning passengers arrived, and said heart failure struck him each time he entered the office. He related these events before his lapse into madness.
Jeffersonville reports 630 convicts with 440 able to work. Daily earnings reach about 220 dollars, yielding 42 cents per inmate while maintenance costs 40 cents. Institution remains within its 80 thousand dollar annual appropriation.
In Indianapolis Nov 7 reports show typhoid fever rising across Indiana amid cold, bad water. Epidemic conditions hit Wayne Randolph Elkhart Floyd counties with wells dry or unsafe. Milton sees fifty fever cases and high mortality as residents haul water miles and pay rising prices.
Southern Indiana endures severe dry weather with streams springs and wells drying up for the first time in history. Farmers sell stock and fear crop losses while Evansville relies on the Ohio River for water, with cold spells threatening to freeze the diminished supply.
In Indiana towns the rivers run low and navigation halts raise water scarcity and coal shortages. Rich in anecdotes, the piece notes Gen Warren relics in Hendricks county, a divorce case, a sharp swindler, bird purloins at Atlanta, and gas strikes in Fulton county, among other regional concerns.
Washington D C November 9 Unusual interest marked state elections including New York Maryland and Virginia with results shaping the presidential race next year The Labor party faded in New York boosting Republican prospects while Gorman in Maryland and Mahone in Virginia faced decisive defeats Iowa showed Democratic gains amid mixed statewide results.
Virginia voters backed Democratic candidates in a state legislature election that will determine who chooses the next United States senator to replace Riddleberger. Early returns show about 96 Democrats to 45 Republicans in the legislature, signaling a strong Democratic majority.
Boston November 8 governor state officers and legislature were chosen today H B Lovering a shoemaker and former congressman and Union veteran led the Democratic ticket Oliver Ames the millionaire governor was the Republican nominee Ames is reelected by about 17000 votes
LeRoy M Wade denounces misrepresentation about driving well royalties in Posey County Indiana and announces he will stop collecting. He had been appointed in September 1887 as agent to collect royalties for the drive-well patentees, noting US Supreme Court support for royalties and predicting lawsuits by Indianapolis lawyers to enforce payments. He urges prepaid settlement before suits proceed and warns of costly costs and accountability for advisers. Mt Vernon Indiana November 8 1887.
The Mexican government has contracted an American to plant 2,000,000 trees in the Mexican Valley with ash, poplar, acacia and cedar varieties. Reports also note a black small pox outbreak in parts of Mexico reaching into Arizona, while 933 convicts are housed in Kansas penitentiary as expansion is planned.
President Cleveland sent 1000 dollars to the New York Democratic committee. The private secretary contributed 250 and Secretary Whitney 7600. October debt reduction was about 16.5 million dollars. Indiana education spending last year totaled 1,095,579. Governor Semple of Washington Territory reports a population of 144,000 and urges admitting the territory as a state at once. Most New York government employees have returned home to vote.
The car in which Abraham Lincoln traveled from Buffalo to Albany for his first inauguration remains in use on the Auburn branch of the New York Central road at Avavan New York. It features a ceiling draped with the national flag and portraits of Lincoln and Washington, having been new in February 1861 and decorated for the presidential rail journey.
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