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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1897
Page
1
Local church notices list weekly services for multiple congregations including First Presbyterian Methodist and Evangelical, with Sabbath school times, prayer meetings, and monthly or quarterly gatherings. Other entries cover Salvation Army events, WCTU business meetings, and fraternal lodge activities at the Bank of Sewberg and Masonic Hall.
East and South visa timetable lists departures from Shasta Route hub on the Southern Pacific. Includes line segments to Salem Albany Eugene McMinnville and other stations with times like 4:00 PM and 10:15 AM for Salem, Corvallis and McMinnville. Mentions Mount Angel Silverton Browntown Natron Springfield and dining cars on Ogden Route.
Notice explains ticket access from Third Street to all points in the East Canada and Europe at low rates via B. Kirkland Ticket Agent. All teams arrive and depart from Grand Central Station at Fifth and Irving Streets.
Passenger depot at Jefferson street area with tri weekly Airlie malt schedule and arrivals at Newberg Abie and other points. Times list Portland to Newberg line departures and connections via LY and MLA routes with notes on daily service and manager roles KOEHLER and ROGERS at Portland office.
A westbound Great Northern train wreck near Wenatchee Wash injures three. a Pennsylvania capitol building fire destroys the structure and prompts a new plan. Berlin bidders eye Oregon Railway stock. ex congressman James Wilson accepts McKinley cabinet offer. Portland China town fire causes heavy loss. Naglee brandy shipment to Europe valued as historic.
Senator Thurston of Nebraska resumed his Pacific railroad debt speech as Morgan of Alabama questioned data on expenses. Thurston argued Union Pacific never earned enough to cover interest on first mortgage bonds. The Senate approved several bills then debated Cuba independence and electoral vote counting arrangements. The consular appropriation bill was reported and consulates at Horgen and Alexandretto extended franking privileges. The Elections Committee affirmed Black’s seat over Watson after a close contest.
Representative Ellis says the George Hughes pension bill has passed the senate and been reported from the house committee at 50 dollars per month. He expects final passage and presidential signature before Congress adjourns.
Mrs Cleveland hosted a farewell public reception at the White House from 8 to 5 in rainy Washington. The venue featured red and white roses emilax and garlands with the Marine band playing. Mrs Cleveland wore violet and white moire silk with cream lace and violets, assisted by Mrs Stevenson and cabinet ladies.
A Tribune special from Butte reports Mrs. John Cort and her three children drowned in the Yellowstone river at Big Timber this afternoon. The four bodies have not yet been recovered.
United States Marshal Hall received a telegram stating John McDonald alias Black Jack, leader of the border bandits, was captured at El Paso by the police. The gang had robbed Southwestern New Mexico and Southern Arizona over the past year. two members were killed recently by marshals, and McDonald was reportedly seeking new companions on the Texas border.
In Hamburg on February 0 dock laborers voted to resume work today after leaders announced the strike had failed and funds were exhausted.
In Astoria Oregon on February 9 the fishermen's union meeting saw about 200 members vote to set the season price of fish at 449 cents per pound. The decision follows recent market conditions and reflects union negotiations.
President signs order cutting U S pension agencies from eighteen to nine to save at least 150000 dollars annually. Law change requires pensioners be paid by mail checks starting September 1 to reduce delays and errors. Consolidation unites current agencies to avoid new roll creation.
A northbound Oregon express collided with a southbound train at Nord eight miles from Chico. Five men were hurt including one deserter with a broken arm. seven deserters were among the passengers in a damaged tourist car that slipped into water.
The ship Senator, loading amber and wheat in Tacoma, will sail to Delagoa Bay carrying three tons of nickel in the slot machines from San Francisco. The cargo will be distributed from Delagoa Bay across South Africa.
Five men in sleighs and seven horses were overwhelmed by an avalanche on the road from Duvesdah to Engadine near the Fluela hospice in Berne Switzerland. In California T A Siddall is jailed on a poisoning charge after his wife, found unconscious by neighbors, is said to be dying from morphine overdose. Siddall admits giving the drug but blames the physician.
Telegraph report from Shelby Junction Mont details a gang of drunken cowboys attacking the Columbia Opera Company in Spokane era rail lines. They fired shots at arriving trains then assaulted patrons and staff, threatening the station agent and instigating a sheriff’s arrest after a three hour spree of terror at the depot and hotel.
A mass meeting at the Medford opera-house gathered farmers to test beet cultivation in the valley. About seventy-five will plant a quarter acre each to gauge soil yield and sugar content, with San Francisco backing a beet sugar factory if results are favorable. In Tacoma a new lumber combine may control the Northwest cargo mills and foreign trade, excluding J Paul & Tacoma and New Whatcom firms.
In Caliente California today John Hardesty age 22 from Newport New York and Miss Cora Akers of Freano were killed crossing a trestle when a light engine struck them. Hardesty died trying to save Miss Akers and both legs were severed. Two others escaped. the train wrecked the trestle. Alameda reports a funeral procession accident where a local train hit the hearse, injuring five mourners. Driver Herbert Crowe was thrown and kicked by a horse but survived with injuries.
A head end collision between freight trains on the L&N near Myere’ awiteh twenty miles from Montgomery occurred due to a telegraph operator’s signal omission. Engineer Link Kirkland, 24, of Montgomery, and brakeman Weller of Middleboro Kentucky, were killed. the fireman was fatally hurt and the operator fled into the woods. Occasional native iron has been found in meteorites.
Washington date recalls four completed schedules for the McKinley law replica in the tariff bill. The agricultural schedule restores McKinley rates, including $5 a head on cattle over one year and 25 percent ad valorem on cattle above $20, with other live stock rates returned to McKinley. Barley remains at 60 cents a bushel, preserving Canadian grain access. hay protection rises to $4 a ton.
In Washington the senate session featured sharp exchanges as Morrill pressed a ban on alcohol in the capitol and Hill defended liberty. Lodge led immigration bill talks amid a heated exchange with Chandler and Gorman while Vilas extended his Nicaragua canal critique before adjournment. Glasgow shipyard fire at Fairfield Company destroys most facilities with 250000 dollars in damage and four thousand out of work. Canton telegram informs Connecticut delegation of J Addison Porter accepting McKinley offer as private secretary.
Official returns show 6,000 plague cases and 8,641 deaths in Bombay to date, signaling a severe outbreak. The figures reflect a grim public health crisis as authorities monitor progression and response efforts.
The text urges Oregon and Washington to adopt beet sugar bounty laws modeled after Washington. It cites Nebraska Utah California and Washington incentives, asserts profits of $50 to $100 per acre in Nebraska, and pushes 1 cent per pound with 5 per ton price minimum, detailing inspection auditing and five year payout to new factories completed before November 1, 1890.
Jefferson City Missouri February life bill becomes law punishes a married man convicted of infidelity with five years in prison. Representative Rood introduces by request a bill making flirting with female passengers on trains by conductors and brakemen a misdemeanor with railroad fines of twenty five dollars per conviction.
San Francisco reports Bill Winkle former Marysville police chief and waterfront worker drew a black ball from a death by own action club binding him to self harm within three months He killed himself by asphyxiation last night In another note Frankfort Kentucky reports James a Singleton an eight year old boy begins a one year sentence at the penitentiary after admission this morning
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