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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1898
Page
4
An exhibit before the French Academy describes a new microphone that can detect armored vessels or torpedo boats at great distances and warn clearly. Tests are planned at Cherbourg. Earlier, Commander Banaro proposed a hydrophone to hear distant ship vibrations via a water tight receiver and long wires.
A letter from Mrs Popp describes severe headaches and pain from shoulder to waist, claiming Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved her suffering after doctors offered no help. She praises the product as a safe potent medicine and urges other women to use it.
Washington Aug 27 Last of Shafter s army will sail from Cuba to morrow The dispatch lists units embarked or departing including First Illinois Berkshire Ninth Massachusetts convalescents and others with locations Montauk Point Orizaba Montana Point and the fleet vessels involved SHAFTER Major General remains in command.
Acting Secretary Allen stated the North Atlantic squadron will remain intact until peace is declared. Rear Admiral Lampoon will command the fleet, receiving repairs but staying in commission for emergency use. Ships will not be dispatched abroad. Oregon stays with the Atlantic squadron for now. Officers from the war will get leave when feasible.
Washington August 27 A supply of 1,000,000 government rations is fleeing from Tampa to Havana for distribution to Cuba's starving population under US Army officers led by Lt. A D Niskern and Captain Lotus Niles. Distribution will extend to other provinces as needed.
Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn plans a new line of transports from New York to Havana Santiago Ponce and return. The service should begin next week with scheduled departures and arrivals. Havana will be added to the route once the port opens, then the transports will touch it like other ocean steamships.
A lightning strike during a heavy storm on the Second Avenue traction line near Greenwood avenue fatally injured B. B. Feare and seriously wounded several others. The 12 passengers aboard fled as the coach burned after the bolt exploded the motors and the car halted amid panic.
Washington August 26 Orders issued for mustering out volunteer infantry and artillery units including First Vermont First Maine Fifty second Iowa Sixth Pennsylvania Fifth Indiana Second New York Second Nebraska One Hundred fifty seventh Indiana Ohio light artillery Lincoln volunteer cavalry and Georgia artillery batteries A and B Twenty-seventh Indiana light battery and New York and Pennsylvania cavalry in Porto Rico Other orders will follow as soon as a definite decision is reached Porto Rican cavalry to be mustered out includes troops A and , New York Philadelphia city troop Sheridan troops and Governor a troop of Pennsylvania
General Flagler reports from Santiago that about 25 000 Spanish arms were captured along with several million rounds of ammunition. The weapons are Mausers and Remingtons, mostly rusty and poorly stored, and will be sent to New York and Springfield for cleaning and evaluation for potential army use.
London Times mulls American politics and calls for stable civil military administrators if the United States seeks empire. Utica storm damages total 300000 in property with bridges washed away. Washington negotiates Spanish cooperation to remove Havana harbor mines before the commission arrives. Paris gossip centers on Vicomtesse de Henriot leaping from a window in Rue Blanche with no hope of recovery.
Washington Aug 26 The president has asked General Merritt commander at Manila for his recommendations on operations that led to the surrender of Manila and on promoting officers who merited conspicuously in land fighting at Manila as done at Santiago.
A Herald special from Santiago reports the entire clergy headed by Archbishop Crespo sent a monthly imprese to Customs Collector Donaldson for salary payments, echoing the Spanish regime. Archbishop Crespo earns 13,000 dollars and other claims from school professors, police, and related bodies were also presented. Reports seek reaction from Washington amid the dispute. Gloves made of frogskin are a new fashion note.
A Jackson Michigan case praises Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People curing chronic rheumatism and dizziness after thirty years of pain. The article also explains Carlism in Spain detailing succession disputes under Ferdinand II and Basque support for Carlists amid republican sentiment. A health notice promotes Musterters Stomach Bitters as a remedy for insomnia and nervous disorders.
A survey of diverse facts spans physiology theories on electric shocks to death, glass cutting diamonds, voices heard from balloons, unusual animal trades, metal discoveries, wagon wheel materials, Niagara River flow, Persian royal crown form, eternal fires near the Caspian, Africa crossing launches, plaster-embedded toads, German paper teeth, cotton bale improvements, cane sugar scum product cereste, and English copyright acts since 1735.
Pintsch gas now powers 83 582 cars in multiple regions with Germany leading at 31 535, England 16 854, the United States 10 809, and India 6 856. It has been applied to 3 184 locomotives, 8 121 in Germany, while none in the United States use this gas.
An old advertising blurb touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder to soothe tired feet and ease pain from tight shoes with many testimonials. It sells for 25c or ships by mail, with trial offers. Nearby, a Maine man on Sabatis Road sells bait fish by lowering a pail into a well to catch shiners for customers.
A trade brief reports improved Broughton wagons boasting better performance with three more carloads en route. An agent listed as Jobe at Morrison Street in Portland, Oregon is cited. A separate note mentions a Sanibel Island Florida well changing from fresh to sulphur water after a windmill was erected to utilize the water.
Advertisement claims Dr Kilne's Great Nerve Restorer cures nervousness with no other issues after that day’s Pog. Free trial bottle offered. address listed as DR BL in Arch street Philadelphia Pa. Also mentions matches on ships and Schilling's Best tea. Discusses London petition for municipal opera house and vast Galician rock salt deposit in Hungary.
The Bangor dispatch reports U S fish commissioners schooner Grampus collected 1 750 seed lobsters yielding 18 000 000 eggs hatched at Gloucester Mass. Fry release totals 5 000 000 in Casco Bay with more to distribute from Portland eastward as a hatchery may be established along the Maine coast.
The note describes a portable oil burner weed control machine with an oil reservoir on wheels and an air pump to gas the oil onto weeds. It mentions the Bay Psalms Book as the first book printed in the United States in 1640, with rare copies fetching high prices. It also notes Krupp in Essen producing nickel steel street car axles and hollow locomotive axles, and steel with up to 25 percent nickel for fire boxes.
In fifteen years Russia has banished 624000 people to Siberia. About 10000 relatives of prisoners accompanied them of their own free will. The figure highlights the scale of forced relocations and the social impact on families.
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