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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1896
Page
1
A garbled text fragment discusses bread types and processing. It mentions a concept of refined grains and a lighter, more palatable result when ground, attributed to Goer grinding.
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A fragmented notice describes an artistic event in London with references to gowns and mood lighting. The text is largely unreadable though hints at fashion themes and a nighttime aesthetic without clear names or dates.
Fragmentary text describes a contested serivice and alleged pollination by Meath workers at a plant. The passage mentions Leoip, Phr. Tester, and Meath slives with cryptic references to hydrates of olive and trian fo St.
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Spain awakens to reforestation as the king visits a village near Madrid and plants a pine sapling. Schoolchildren from Madrid plant trees, medals bearing First Arbor Dus and Alfonso XIII rise from the event, promising yearly festivals and ongoing public forestry education.
Lot Russell and Sir Frank Loeck wood prepare to leave England on August 5 for the American Bar Association meeting in Saratoga. Lord Russell recently succeeded Lord Coleridge as chief justice of England and played a key role in major cases over two decades. His income once reached 150.66 dollars annually. He defended Parnell before the Parnell commission with a three day speech. Sir Frank Lockwood is noted as a witty figure of the English court.
The common snail, though an air breather with lungs and heart, can live without inhaling air for extended periods. It retreats into its shell as winter approaches and seals its mouth. Experiments by Spallanzani showed a snail sealed in a nearly airless tube survived four years and resumed activity within an hour of air exposure.
Indianapolis awaits a large Democratic representation as committee members from about thirty five to thirty nine states gather at the Commercial Club to decide whether to back a pet convention. Eastern and southern factions back a potential third ticket while northern and western states lean toward sound money Democrats and the Republican ticket.
Kies. Tail, charged with administering poison to his wife, appeared in municipal court after arrest Wednesday evening. The case was postponed without bail. doctors say the wife is insane with long marriage history and arsenic poisoning suspicions. The physician says he warned of danger for three years.
Maj. Thomas Garzon reports 30 Cuban guards accompanied crates of arms from New York into Cuba. A 150 mile march to Puerto Principe province preceded a clash with 1,009 Spaniards. Three days of combat left 69 Spaniards dead or wounded and Cubans with two dead and two wounded.
Sir Knight Jas. Tippetts slipped during a Ben Hur Division drill at BP. of this city on Thursday night at Lake coil, running a sword into his nostril and causing a serious wound.
William Wells, a 47 year old Black man living at 13 Dercode Street, collapsed and died Thursday morning while working in a tobacco patch owned by Garland Bullock. Coroner Mol ey ruled the death caused by heat.
In Lindell hotel incident Mrs J B Tucker, grieving widow of a man who killed himself Wednesday, fled the scene and became violently distraught. Police have not located her as she roams the area in Aug 7 fr. Louis report.
Two youths charged bayonets at marching juveniles on St. Clair Lewin streets causing a near riot. Citizens and Company F Fifth Regiment under Capt Zimmerman intervened. Pickets cleared the street, a vendor and others were threatened and prodded before the crowd dispersed and order restored.
A freight train wreck on the Chicago and Rock Island at Leighton Mahaska county left multiple dead and injured. Early Friday reports tallied around 20 fatalities but officials later revised the number to seven or three, with several crew members and Liverpool-Des Moines Packing Co. employees among the dead.
A Pittsburgh land fraud leaves over one hundred residents without title to their homes after forged deeds and certificates were exchanged for cash. J F Vansmith, a principal, has papers for arrest issued by Judge Porter. he was last seen in Alexandria Virginia and may be captured soon. An undercover detective agency traced the scheme through fraudulent land exchanges across Chicago California and Seattle and links to a prominent local resident.
Washington officials discuss the Chinese viceroy Li Hung Chang arriving August 29 and the use of the foreign intercourse fund to cover entertainment costs. The president may spend without vouchers to ensure proper courtesies to the distinguished visitor.
Reports from Florida claim Capt. Gen. Weyler has agreed with Cuban insurgent leaders to begin negotiations toward a truce in Cuba on acceptable terms. The Cuban junta in New York has received dispatches from Cuba via emissaries as talks at top levels reportedly proceed.
The obituary notes Chae W Lester of Berea Kentucky died Friday morning at his home in Berea. He along with Rev John G Fee and Prof J A Rogers founded Berea College and donated land for the institution.
The Washington heat wave plagues the capital with Sunday being the hottest day of the season. Thermometer readings reach 74 at 3 pm atop the weather bureau, with streets and crowds sparse as residents flee to rivers and suburbs. One man, Charles F. Walter, 50, dies after collapsing on the street. another hospital death linked to possible poisoning is reported.
St Louis endures ten days of extreme heat with 100 degree readings on surface thermometers. Contractors halt most outdoor work and quarry activity due to the heat. City hospital records 47 heat prostration cases in the 21 hours ending noon Saturday as regional reports indicate near 100 degrees in neighboring Missouri Illinois and Arkansas.
The Nashville area endures four days of extreme heat with a dull breeze. On Saturday the thermometer hit 97 degrees and the heat remained oppressive. Sunday held the same high temperature but brief relief came from intermittent light breezes.
Fire largely consumed the oil stills of Sir W. A. House & Co. and Rose's wharf mill in London. Estimated loss may approach half a million dollars, with extensive damage reported and authorities assessing the blaze.
A Washington report states Secretary Hoke Smith has offered his resignation to President Cleveland and a confidant expects the president to accept before the campaign gains momentum.
Albany reports three heat related deaths on Sunday. The victims include William J. Gannon a 45 year old policeman George Clifford 77 and John Payne 60 labeled as colored.
In Sluefield, West Virginia, Mary Anderson a white servant for Dr M T Stallard of Norton poured kerosene on a kitchen fire. The stove exploded wrecking the kitchen and she died within hours from severe burns.
A severe wind and electrical storm hit Saginaw Michigan at 2 a.m. damaging the Jefferson Street M E church spire and parts of the building. Several factories and a power house were unroofed, car service halted, and numerous factories damaged. Expected total damage around 100000 dollars.
Leroy Osborne a 20 year old white man was arrested near Versailles by Sheriff Thomas Jones of Richmond. He is wanted for attempting a criminal assault on Effie Simpson wife of Garrard farmer Leads Simpson on July 22. Intense local hostility reported as Osborne was moved to Richmond after days in the area employed by horseman James C Graves.
Port Stano Indiana August 1 The jail delivery attempt was foiled when Sheriff Linkhauer found bars sawed off The prisoners denied knowledge of the plot but the sheriff drew his revolver on Albert Pisher held for larceny and demanded the saw Pisher quickly produced it Prisoners then placed in close confinement.
The city records 24 deaths and 67 prostrations from the heat since the spell began. Temperatures climbed past 63 degrees at 6 PM, with a brief breeze offering little relief. In Indianapolis Elmer Thompson, 39, died from heat. Jessie Joice, 45, died by self harm in Ohio. Bishop O Sullivan of Alabama Catholic diocese dies in Mosine.
William J. Gilmore aged 73 former Ohio supreme court judge died at his residence 37 North Monroe avenue. Death attributed to general breakdown due to advanced age. Also note New York heat wave deaths about 106 with many prostrations reported hourly.
Aug 11 death of Mrs. Sarah Hudson age eight at the home of John A Brown closes a long lived Morgan County family line dating to early settlement. In Lonxpos Sir John Millais, president of the Royal Academy, remains in critical condition following a tracheotomy operation.
A trolley derailment outside Cotuemumbra Pennsylvania on the Columbia and Donegal line at 10 p.m. Sunday after a gear wheel breaks hurling a crowded car into a creek. Five passengers die at once and about forty are hurt, many gravely. The list of dead includes Chief Burgess WH Heiges of Columbia and motor man Adame Foehlinger. Dozens of physicians are tending the wounded from Columbia and Lancaster hospitals.
A Berlin dispatch says the vice chairman of the bundesrath has heard nothing in Berlin of Chancellor Von Slebenlohe’s resignation, denied any immediate change, but suggested a change could come later as the emperor remains in Wilhelmshoe media.
In Polk County Arkansas labor tensions between white and Black workers on the Kansas City Pittsburg Gulf railway grading near Horatio escalate. Whites with county backing raid a Black camp killing three and wounding others, with several leaders arrested as residents drive Black laborers from the county.
A Sunday excursion on the Spree near BeEr ix ended in tragedy as a steamer struck the party boat, sinking it and drowning sixteen young people. Four survived. The accident followed intense heat and a violent storm in other regions.
A Pittsburgh Bryan and Sewall reception committee and Richard P. Bland with his wife visited Maj. McKinley at his Canton home. Democrats praised civic respect as McKinley expressed gratitude and pride in the nation. The visit occurred as McKinley handled mail and photo sittings for a forthcoming acceptance letter.
In Cleveland the Brown Hoisting works strike nears closure as 500 of 809 striking workers have found other jobs while 300 stay in the union. The company now has 325 men at work and rejected 25 new applications. Brown Co. disclosed a contract with Krupp Gun Co of Essen Germany for three hoisting systems and three Walker Eiwell motors valued at £50,000 to be finished by September 1, 1997.
Hon Cyrus M Brown Christian counties Kentucky legislator dies in Hooxkinsville after a week of dysentery. The Republican was twice Sheriff and twice Circuit Court Clerk and famed as one of the legislature's finest orators. If no special election is ordered his death may affect the senatorial race should an extra session occur.
Fort Wayne Indiana reports intense heat prevailing as a crowd gathers amid rising temperatures and high crowding conditions during a summer day.
Family members gathered in Plainfield from Indianapolis Danville and elsewhere for a Hadley reunion with about 150 attendees. Other items include a $5000 damages suit over a May injury at a Davis handle factory, a Randolph county county reunion set for August, and various local deaths fires and accidents across Indiana with named towns and individuals.
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