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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1890
Page
1
The athletics committee of Harvard has ruled after the 1869-00 season Harvard will participate in no athletic sports outside New England. A report claims an official robbed the Cuban Treasury of $00,000, suggesting the first sign in years of money in the island government.
Jacon H. Scuifr of New York has given $10,000 to Harvard University to establish a museum dedicated to the study of Semitic literature, history, and remains. The gift supports a new institute at Harvard for research and preservation.
Frederick Baldwin and his cousin Mrs Petiitpierre stand behind a bold city real estate transfer valued around 4 million dollars. The deal centers on a portion of St Francisco in the downtown district and involves a major urban property sale.
Thany Trosas died in West Haven Connecticut at ninety seven. He was born and lived his entire life in the same house where he passed away, a residence believed to be around one hundred fifty years old.
Ean Carnas known as Viscount Gar moyle faced a breach of promise case from English actress Miss Fortescue who received 59000 dollars in settlement years ago. He died recently in London.
The report notes Groner WwW. Davis recently added iron tide docks to the Apa and reveals a plan to maintain a large holdings in one area. The update mentions a figure near eleven hundred feet and describes the new dial and side arrangements for operations.
A fragment notes that Tur native Australians do not accept natural death, attributing any death to a cause, real or remote, with the phrase the other blacks used to refer to such fate. It also mentions an unnamed agency said to cause lightning, thunder, and rain.
The notice questions whether the urge to explore fades as many abandon homes to seek an unknown land by dangerous means. It laments the trend of departures by pistol, steel, or poison and asks if the spirit of discovery remains alive.
William Ararny Parser, once believed missing at sea for thirty three years, traveled to Montreal and learned his wife had remarried. He had earned a fortune in South America, left her a substantial check, and then departed.
Da Anice Bexnert, resident physician at the Pennsylvania State Hospital for the Insane in Norristown, Pa., has been elected president of the Montgomery County Pa. Medical Society. It is believed a woman physician has rarely or never held this office in a male dominated medical society.
The text notes Justice BREWERS as the youngest on the U S Supreme Court at fifty two, with the Chief Justice and Justice Harlan at forty seven, and others aged sixty five to seventy seven, listing Miller Field Bradley and Blatchford with various ages.
Goopr told the American Historical Association in Washington that the Morrill bill granting land to colleges for agricultural schools and experiment stations represented the move toward advancing science and scientific methods more than any other act.
In Boston the opera baritone Alonzo Stoddand recently died after an event in hospital where he sat up and sang a favorite song to his attendants. He sang from start to finish with notable feeling and tone, then collapsed back onto his bed as the last notes faded.
A strange report from Stonington Connecticut describes ice cold water issuing from a spring in a high rock. The veins of a man allegedly rise from the water though some say this tale is only superstition. A Boston laboratory has been asked to analyze the water.
A massive gas explosion in a Columbus Ohio building at Noble and Wall streets last evening killed six and wounded about thirty. The blast sent bricks and debris across the alley and burned many, including a woman whose clothing burned to the waist and a mother carrying a seemingly lifeless infant. The cause was a natural gas main leak in Noble alley with no scent detected. the catastrophe damaged two houses and scattered debris over twenty feet while responders tended the injured and searched for the dead.
Dr Edward Walther of St Paul Minnesota owns a silver dollar dated 1604 one of four minted that year. Its whereabouts had been a mystery for years until an old Norwegian in southern Minnesota produced it from a stocking. The doctor paid 150 for the coin whose face value is 800.
Green pester of ue county, teas aed aie nee from a strangulation. The
A severe wind storm cripples Denver streets and rail lines in eastern Colorado. Monuments, Manitou, and Pike's Peak areas report homes blown apart, fires raging in mountain camps, and several deaths possibly. trains halted as crews battle sand and winds.
C J Jones of Garden City Kansas, famed buffalo hunter, visits to advise on preserving buffaloes from extinction. He proposes reserving No Man’s Land Utah for grazing and sending full blood and crossbred stock to continue the species. He notes crossbreeding yields five distinct types and outlines buffalo wool experiments with Hartford manufacturer to create robes and fur skins.
Three masked men entered the North Alabama post office at dawn the day after an event, locked the interior, and robbed cash totaling about 600 dollars. They also took several valuable letters and a registered envelope from Santa Fe fontaine containing 34,000 Lincoln County Current Expense bonds with coupons attached. The job is valued at 10,000 dollars, but selling the bonds is doubtful.
Fragmentary read shows W W StreFar and the younger son of WoW Mackarland involved in a river incident where a boat drew in and both were drowned. No clear dates or locations remain readable.
A Monon Railway through passenger train derailed on a Wilkinson creek trestle near Carmel Indiana. The through coach fell into the creek and burned with at least three fatalities including Mrs Nellie Eubank and Madge Oldham while twenty others were wounded. Survivors recounted the scene and rescue efforts by nearby farmers as the sleeper escaped fire and the engine stalled with front wheels on the rails.
Mr Curran MP of Montreal urged in the House of Commons the incorporation of the Canada Cable Company to lay a cable from Treland to Greenley Isle near Belle Isle and then to the mainland. A London firm has a contract and work would start soon after incorporation.
Mrs. Corsa Scales Morris of Reidsville North Carolina was acquitted today in Daxviniy Virginia on charges of murdering her husband by poison. The trial drew wide interest across the region and highlighted a young woman from a good family presenting a notable case.
The Cincinnati and Memphis packet De Soto burned after catching fire about two miles below Owensboro Kentucky. All passengers and crew survived except one firefighter Brown Richardson who is missing and presumed lost. The boat valued at $30,000 with $10,000 insurance. officers and crew managed an orderly evacuation.
An oxygen experiment at Lexington High School led to a terrible explosion. Prof I Jess and several teachers and students were seriously injured including Wertie Farrell Cora Kemp Hattie Barnard Russell Stevenson and others. Fire and debris caused significant damage to the room.
In Sexpury Pennsylvania on January 29 a mixed group of Italians Poles and Huns blasting the Shamokin Sunbury and Lewisburg railroad bed near Paxinos caused a blast sequence. Only two of three charges exploded as workers returned. the third blast killed one man and fatally injured four others while many more were injured with uncertain recoveries.
Charleston South Carolina January 29 The strawberry crop which held promise of a large yield has been seriously damaged by the frost Friday morning It killed the blossoms leaving only undeveloped berries on the bushes Experienced berry growers say no new flowers will form before spring as further frosts threaten.
Fragmentary OCR mentions an explosion near Alton with references to chemical agents and unnamed parties. Details are unclear, but the report ties the event to Brown and Pittswveck with an alleged use of unidentified substances.
Senate advances for a St Paul public building 1.5 million and a New Orleans site 800,000 while approving Missouri river snag removal and Oregon river projects. House orders patent law inquiry and considers a national bank note bill. Senate discusses immigration, census ownership of farms, and a Silver coinage repeal proposal.
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