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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1890
Page
1
A collage of brief items includes trivia on governors, travel, medical cures, a birthday note, a British almanac, and assorted anecdotes. It mentions past leaders, European events, prison releases, and cultural tidbits, with scattered names and places like Cleveland Detroit Fort Leavenworth and Rio de Janeiro.
An explosion in the dust room of the Armstrong Furniture Company factory in Evansville Indiana killed three boys Mike Weber Will Sachs and Will Cheatham and injured fireman Chas Shelby. The adjacent small brick building collapsed in debris causing total wreck and about 1000 dollars in damage.
A Lake Shore railroad wreck near Hamburg New York leaves six dead and eighteen wounded. Conductor error caused the second section to crash into the first. Among the injured is a newlywed couple Mr and Mrs Joseph D Baucus returning from their honeymoon their bride dying of skull injuries and the father her husband crushed with grief. Rochester's Mr and Mrs J F Stewart were also killed along with their eighteen month old child. A sobering scene unfolds as the child pleads for its mother amid the wreckage.
Andrews and Hood of Washing doid Smith of Virginia referenced in the fragment. The readable text names individuals and places but lacks a clear event or outcome to summarize further.
In Montreal area a early morning fire in St Michael destroys an entire lower floor trapping Mrs Colbrette and seven children. Francois Colbrette and a hired man attempt rescue. Colbrette suffers severe burns and survives, while all seven children die and the mother perishes with the youngest. Marie Colbrette, sixteen, survived by being away at a convent.
Miss Clara Barton of the American National Red Cross appeals to the public for cash subscriptions to aid destitute pioneer settlers in North and South Dakota. She states at least 5,000 people are dependent and many need feed for their stock. Funds will be distributed by H T Helgesen, State Commissioner of Agriculture in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Bishop Fink agrees to modify his ban and withdraw objections to Catholics joining the Farmers' Alliance after talks with State and County Alliance representatives. He states religious provisions will be removed from the constitution and writes to A. M. Thistlewaiter in Leavenworth Kansas confirming the withdrawal.
Shepherd was arrested Saturday in Kroxex Iowa for making counterfeit money. He confessed, claiming hardship for his family, and dies molds and tools were found. His children had been passing counterfeit coins at stores. Commissioner Leach held him to the Federal Jury in $1,000.
The readable text shows disputes over law affecting colored people and a legislative attempt to restructure an institute into a fanatic asylum. The wording suggests tension around justice and racial issues tied to a prior act or option.
At Mantox Indiana a 250 foot deep drill struck a vast water vein cased at 900 feet. A giant gas blowout lifted the casing letting water erupt as a geyser. An old man Jackson lit his pipe inside the derrick causing an explosion and near fatal blast. The well burns uncontrollably as crowds gather to watch the fiery fountain.
Osuxos Wisconsin March 11 Fritz Jabusch walks into his relatives home after nearly thirty years away. Enlisted 1862 served in Civil War letters stopped 1863 after a battle his regiment fought. Supposed dead found by Confederates placed in Libby Prison later exchanged and drifted to sea. He became a sailor in the East Indies and now plans to settle back home.
A massive explosion at Morse colliery in Glamorganshire, Wales entombs about 300 miners. Rescue efforts recover eight bodies and save many others, but rock falls and gas exhaust rescuers. Latest estimates put fatalities near 150 with ongoing danger delaying access to deeper workings.
A large five story free stone clothing house at Third and Vine streets in Cincinnati burned after flames broke out at 1 15 this morning. The fire spread rapidly due to an electric wire and gutted the entire structure within five minutes. Loss is about half a million dollars with light insurance. The Burnet House faced serious risk.
A New York to Washington special train carried the Madison Square Theater Company in four hours and seventeen minutes with a return in four hours and eighteen. The run set a record with one mile at forty seven seconds, aiding a matinee benefit for Actors’ Food at Albaugh’s Opera House and a Madison Square evening performance.
Four large cotton mills near Peters burg cut wages by ten percent to comply with a new State law limiting under sixteen to ten hours a day. The mills employ many youths and the wage reduction applies to them as well as others.
Chicago reports Comptroller Onahan recalls Charles H. Reid once a leading Chicago prosecutor and Guiteau’s counsel who later vanished from view. Reid drifted to New York and Jersey City, where he allegedly drowned himself but survived, then died by own action in Baltimore.
A Roachdale boy named Dodd swallowed a twenty five cent coin after putting it in his mitten. The coin lodged in his esophagus causing nine days of fasting until surgery in Greencastle Indiana. The operation damaged a tool but a second attempt succeeded. The boy, a dwarf with a congenital heart disease, is reported improving after the intervention.
In Burrato March 12 inquest into the Bay View accident that killed six, Conductor John W. Houghtaling testified he was behind time and the air hose connections were not completed to avoid delays. He admitted proper hose work and brakemen on the sleeper and day coach could have prevented the crash.
About 997 passengers arrived on the Elder in New York on March 13, with over eighty percent under contract to work in mines near Pittsburgh. Most travelers are Huns and Silesians. They cooperated, leaving authorities little room to detain them as Emigration Commissioners consider action.
Ex congressman Taulbee of Kentucky dies from gunshot injuries suffered last day of February. Correspondent Kincaid surrendered to authorities and will be held without bail until trial. Prisoners plead self defense.
Advices from Sonora report that on the 8th instant a posse of Mexicans overtook and fought six Apache Indians. One Indian and one Mexican were killed while another Mexican was wounded. The Apaches are part of a small band that has operated in Old Mexico for four years.
Congressional proceedings cover Senate votes on remonstrances against a Sunday rest bill, public building appropriations, and telegraph regulation, plus Arkansas election contest debates. House actions include pension bills, private calendars, and multiple public building measures with mentions of Blair and Sherman bills.
A woman asserts she served during the war under the alias Sumner and seeks discharge papers. The unclear text references a Senate action and ex-Gay WW context, with garbled phrases around veteran status and enrollment.
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