28 May 1892
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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1892
Page
1
A lyrical passage recalls the gentleness of nature and family bonds in spring. It describes pines, flowers, crowns, and garlands as symbols of reverence and shared love within a household, with imagery of brothers and a mother’s care.
In a Kansas plain, Hester Lang rescues a wounded runaway shown as Jim, a former prisoner, from a ravine. She nurses him back with help from Dr. Flester and a minister, while memories of war and loss surface, ending with their renewed bond and plans for a settled future.
A quirky transcript shows Dr. Jalap declaring retirement and Bo ton quotes a new motto while discussing a fish diet said to be general. The fragment hints at a school setting and humorous exchanges about retirement and living.
Mearns Tennessee May 25 Pemiscot county Missouri is three quarters under water with three families drowned and hundreds of thousands of acres submerged. Upstream the Arkansas line sees wheat and cotton losses while Arkansas City is fully flooded and rail traffic halted as rivers rise.
At Toritland Oregon on May 25 the Presbyterian General Assembly heard the standing committee on home missions report. The year opened with a debt near 100000 pounds, with last year’s appeal near a million dollars and about 845000 dollars available. Current debt stands at 367000. Immigration boosts foreign work at home as 1479 missionaries served 98500 members in churches and 141000 students attended schools. fifty two churches became self sustaining. Leading home mission states include New York 140 missionaries, Iowa 113, Minnesota 74, Dakota 12, with others smaller.
In OmAua Nebraska on May 25 the Methodist conference debated adopting a league constitution. Discussion centered on lay representation, with the committee ruling the term layman means men only and excludes women. Chaplain McCabe noted a 10,000 gift for a Rome headquarters. Dr. J B Berry was named Epworth Herald editor. Local young people societies face possible trouble amid forecasts of discord.
George Westinghouse Jr., head of Westinghouse Electric, wins a contract to supply 92 622 lamps with alternating current for the World’s Fair at Jackson Park. The deal, worth 599000 dollars on a 1 million bond, follows a four week bid battle against the Edison-Thompson Houston combine.
In Paris a 24 year old woman, Madame Reymond, killed the wife of an official by repeatedly firing a revolver after discovering an alleged liaison with her husband. The murdered woman, Madame Delaporte Lassimonne, was a niece of Jean Casimir Perier. The affair led to a fatal confrontation in the Quartier L Europe as police were summoned and the killer surrendered.
James Edgar of Minneapolis returned to New York after delivering American food to Volga district peasants. He says agents were set up in major towns and travel through villages revealed extreme hunger with black bread the only staple, a brittle compound held together by ground sawdust and other pulp ingredients.
In Bilna Russia trials concluded for over thirty men and women charged with wholesale systematic infanticide. All convicted and sentenced to six to thirty years in fortress imprisonment. Sixty five bodies of mostly newborn children traced, with blood curdling details of methods used to dispose of the victims.
Dr Bortellette, world's fair commissioner for Argentina, reports the Argentine commission is actively at work seeking 3 500 square metres of space. The office has opened and is sending papers and circulars to officials and newspapers nationwide. The mining exhibit is described as large under Haskold the chief of the nationak.
A disaster follows a blaze in the Coosa mountain tunnel halting all Western Railway trains near Alabama on May 24. Reports from Eiesinghan indicate extensive damage and expected delays.
Portland report on Dr. Briggs and Union Seminary as Presbyterian unity frays. The assembly debates control of seminaries and possible lawsuits over endowments while Briggs counters with a liberalized creed.
Basro, Louisiana May 25 report details an unprecedented crime in which Isham Bliss Brigham, manager for Col George C Phillips, was shot in the field. A Black man confessed to the murder and requested execution, with Phillips personally aiding the lynching by rope. The condemned man died hanging from a tree while Brigham’s killer rode to the residence.
The American Baptist Union began its seventy-eighth anniversary meeting in Philadelphia with D. D. Hugo Northup presiding. Treasurer E. P. Coleman reported a treasury balance of 66,754.31 and total receipts of 59,772.98 including 278,724.24 in donations and 130,956 in legacies plus 32,070.70 from the Women’s Foreign Mission Society of the West and an $11,048.28 government grant to schools.
New York May 25 A juror collapsed in the corridor as a breach of promise case involving Miss Esther Jacobs and Henry B. Sire was called in superior court. The third juror died within minutes, and the court adjourned until 1:30.
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