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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1891
Page
1
Governor Hovey urges revision of the existing election law insisting on free ballot access, opposes candidate fees, and calls for a railroad commissioners board. He backs free school texts, stronger penalties for bribery, and improved road and prison oversight while detailing state finances and proposed tax shifts.
Paris installs street kiosks with a faucet a five centime coin slot and a button. Five centimes heat water through a pipe coil from the city supply delivering up to nine quarts. Useful for poor districts and for hackmen who supply bouillottes to warm patrons’ feet in cold weather.
Four men from Green Springs near Fremont Ohio died in a railroad accident as a bob sled drawn by two horses crossed the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern track at Green Creek Crossing four miles east of Fremont. Charles Reems Milton Gilmore William Babcock and an unknown man perished after the train No 21 struck the sled and horses. The incident left two others unconscious and the bodies were transported to Clyde for aid. The cause remains uncertain with theories suggesting misjudged crossing or sled on the track. The sled was reportedly driven by Charles Reems or his son Charles.
A Reading locomotive exploded on a side-track near Gordon two miles from Ashland Pennsylvania. Engineer Martin Saeger and brakemen John Smith Irvin Bolich were killed. Nicholas Dumpstre, or Dumphrey, and the injured man were left. The fireman escaped while away for water. All aboard were married with children.
Emma Abbott's maid removed the deceased singer's shoes underwear and sealskin sacque and, with the hotel fireman, burned them in the basement furnace per the artist's dying request. The maid stayed to ensure they were consumed as directed.
Peter Broderson of the outskirts of Burlington Iowa recovered a nugget of gold from a chicken’s craw, about the size of a pea. The tale has sparked excitement and a search for more gold along a nearby stream.
Wyoming becomes the first state to appropriate money for its 1893 exposition exhibit after Governor signs a bill. The Legislature allocates $30,000 to support Wyoming’s presence at the World’s Fair, marking a pioneering state action.
A dispatch to the Memphis Appeal Avalanche reports Grenada Mississippi ablaze with large stores and warehouses destroyed or imperiled. About 100000 dollars in property may be lost with ten fire companies rendering aid.
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