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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1897
Page
1
A compact roundup lists Sunday services and Sunday school times for multiple churches including Jriens Church Baptist Evangelical and others. It notes meeting schedules, prayer gatherings, and society sessions with pastors' names and weekly variances.
Rail timetable fragment shows east and south route alignment with Shasta Line notes. Sparse OCR hints at schedule changes, possibly including express and local services and a 10 4 M marker. Officials may issue clarifications as events unfold.
A digest of city and national items reports hotel fire deaths in Fort Smith and a Seattle brewery wagon driver drowning. San Francisco painters fall from a scaffold and a Joliet steel plant worker is decapitated. Olympia harbor work widens dockage. Indiana debates football bans and Arizona Indians aid bills mix with Quijatoa well funding. Port Townsend ships Alaska weather and mining plans mix with a Madrid flood alert and Odessa military buildup. A Madrid drought fuels bread lines in Andalusia and a San Francisco youth dies in a lodging house accident. Chicago relief after Mayor Swift appeal saves many, aiding 1,200 families with food and fuel.
Washington dispatch notes definite Senate majority for a tariff bill with Republicans optimistic on securing votes and some Democrats abstaining. McBride reports favorably on Indian lands and mineral land measures. Herrmanns pension bills pass in the Senate for Oregon Indian War survivors Dan Giles and James T. McKinney in Dodge County.
Philadelphia reports the U S steamship Brooklyn struck Schooner ledge rock near Marcus Hook Delaware River. Hull damage widespread. inner compartments held. crew safe. Court of inquiry to determine cause. vessel tied to icebreakers awaiting repairs.
Reports from Havana describe insurgent actions near Pinar del Rio and Artemisa, including a January 29 bombing of a military train that killed engineer Genaro Rodriguez and fireman, wounded soldiers, and damaged the line. Other raids near Barrera and Crete are noted along with Cuban crossing efforts into Havana and renewed violence.
Three representatives of a London syndicate visit Cincinnati to acquire sixteen Diguest breweries with options on additional local plants. The deal, valued at 0 million, would be paid half cash and half in preferred stock. The plan is to consolidate them into one corporation under estate law, with other local factories also eyed for purchase.
A Milwaukee dispatch reports maltsters claim barley malt has fallen and corn and chemicals are replacing barley in beer. Aug A Busch of Anheuser Busch notes the company does not use corn and insists top quality beer cannot be made with substitutes.
James A Learne actor and playwright spoke at First Congregational church on theater as it is. He argued the theater educates and should partner with the church to uplift society, noting greed and vice but urging collaboration for humanity’s progress. The talk drew the largest church audience in city history.
The Langley report notes experiments advancing toward success with mechanical flight. A steel guided model powered by steam flew over half a mile on May 26, with further near doubles since, without external support, weighing over a thousand times heavier than the air. Bell reported results to the French academy.
Henry Heitfeld, Populist, won a Idaho Senate seat as the fusion candidate after Democrats and Populists allied against Dubois. Heitfeld secured 30 votes to Dubois 80, with cross party support including four Democrats and one Republican. Heitfeld, born January 1859 in St. Louis, left school early, becoming a farmer, fruit grower and cattleman after moving to Kaw and Washington.
Washington January 30 open senate session was brief with most time behind closed doors. Debate on the international monetary conference bill featured Chandler supporting and Stewart opposing. Pettigrew may delay with a scheduled speech while Nicaragua canal and bankruptcy bills saw little progress. Early debate on Allen's resolution tested president foreclosures against Pacific railroads. In the house Grosvenor attacked Altgeld and DeArmond ridiculed Secretary Morton over a finance pamphlet.
South Norwalk Conn Jan 80 five men were slain by a freight train while working on the road bed near East Norwalk station. Foreman Powers leads the crew and James Powers died on scene. John Griffith John Shea Spleen and an unknown man all perished instantly while Shea lived five minutes.
In St Louis on February 1 officials anticipate Coxeys parade to Washingtons birthday with about 16 000 union members and 20 000 idle men factoring in 2000 unemployed union workers and more than 15 000 additional unemployed clerks and unskilled laborers not in unions.
Reports indicate a Swiss artillery regiment is crossing the Coldesmosses near five thousand feet, marching from Agile to Than. No word from the troops in five days amid three days of heavy snow, raising fears of disaster. An English scientist notes blushing is a disease.
Judge George Turner of Spokane won the United States senate seat after a long fusionist backed contest in Olympia. He secured 68 of 87 fusionist votes and 25 Republican votes, with 19 fusionists abstaining and 14 for Westcott while Squire and Kreitz received scattered support.
Carson Nev February 1 Assembly bill 8 becomes law after Governor signs it to allow Corbett and Fitzsimmons to fight in the state. The governor says he acted to reflect public wishes and will not comment on venue. Wheelock in San Francisco declines to discuss location while Carson and Reno vie for hosting the bout.
The Jennie A. Stubbs captained by Door arrived at New Slaven from Rumsey via Port Rico after a rough voyage. The crew alleges Spanish officers at Porto Rico confiscated American newspapers and kept the ship under close scrutiny during the stay.
Canton Ohio February 1 General Russell A Alger confirms tender and acceptance of the war portfolio after an interview with a press reporter. He and Major McKinley finished the formal exchange and returned to the parlor before train time. He plans to renew talks in Cleveland and then go home to Detroit. Edward Ivory and associates sail to New York after acquittal in London. One third of Britain's land is owned by Lords.
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