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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1891
Page
1
A quip questions whether curing onions would be worth a cure for diphtheria suggesting a playful link between food remedies and disease treatment. The remark invites skepticism about traditional cures and medical claims.
A Hebrew language edition of the United States Constitution with explanatory notes has been published in New York, offering readers a Hebrew text alongside interpretive commentary. The release highlights accessibility of foundational law to Hebrew readers in the city.
A German union of bicyclists reports more than 1,490 members, signaling growing interest in cycling alongside the United States.
A 63 year old woman named Jean Angelo, described as a kind friend of pears, contributes from the proceeds of her books through regular charity dinners she calls copyright dinners.
Miss Elizabeth Billand married Charles W. Wetmore in New York. Wetmore serves as attorney for the firm building the whaleback ships. The ceremony was attended by local acquaintances and noted for its charming bride.
A Denver mining expert plans travel to Africa to pursue the legendary Solomon mines for an English syndicate. The tale hints at a hidden part of a book by Hider ifargurd.
Fragmentary text discusses territorial rights and religious liberty within a republic. It references contrasting governance concepts and emphasizes the tension between state authority and individual beliefs. The readable portions hint at constitutional themes without concrete events.
The fragmentary note recalls ceramist Testy ceramisan of Patrick Henry and Jola’s Ty Hichmond delivering a speech that made the orator famous. The original seat where he spoke reportedly remains on display for visitors.
A consorted girl of Fi who planned to elope with her lover escaped by making a hole in her father's house. Authorities feared doors and windows were watched. It is described as a pity for a young woman of talent to be wasted on an ordinary man.
Crestiny Gray, inventor of a wire with core conductivity, argues telephony is practical beyond the Atlantic Ocean and across vast distances from New York to San Francisco and Hawaii. He asserts the system could connect the United States with Europe via the Atlantic Ocean and extend to wood miles from New York to other distant locales.
A shellacked horde item reports the discovery of a coin in Galveston tied to Simeon Macca beus dated 142 years before the Christian era making him about 2083 years old. Experts appraise the mummismatic value at 35000 dollars while intrinsic silver value remains under one dollar.
A total of 508 500 of nine feet of space in the world fair buildings was assigned to the governments of England Germany and Denmark. England receives 65 000 square feet Germany 210 000 square feet and Denmark 20 000 square feet in the main building. They also have 15 500 more for a dairy exhibit.
PatTt is noted for paying high sums for parrots. She once paid five thousand dollars for a parrot that remains a feature in her winter garden at Craig-y-Nis. The birds include a Welsh parrot, a French parrot, and others from England.
Doctors discuss if la grippe will recur this winter with weight of testimony suggesting not severe. A writer notes grippe germs thrive in arctic cold and a long hot summer may destroy them, yet la grippe is likely to persist as a fixture among diseases for years.
A significant deposit of vanadium, a rare and valuable metal used in dye setting for textiles, was found in Mendoza Province Argentina. The metal previously came mainly from a small Ur a mountains deposit and commanded prices up to 1509 dollars per ounce, making the new Mendoza discovery highly important.
A farmer in Delaware named Alarich sold land with a contested history and a seventeenth century title raised by Sneed. The property descended within a family before the U S government sought to rectify the record, leading to months of legal trouble before the claims were settled.
A St. Petersburg dispatch to the London News summarizes visits by U.S. immigration commissioners to Russia. They described a Jew with hydroncephalopathy marched by a gendarme to his birthplace, poor Jewish workers in Gradno earning under fifty cents weekly, and widespread bribery observed at a Russian police station.
Mrs. Parnell the ex-Irish leader's mother in Heardentown New Jersey is prostrated and feared to be going insane after her son's death. She has been under care of Edward Slevin and Mrs Knoad with frequent emotional outbursts and a plan to travel to New York then Ireland to see her son.
Serious disturbances erupted in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday night starting at the Italian theater and spreading to surrounding streets. Police arrested rioters, cavalry charged to disperse the mob, and several people were killed while many were injured. President Fonseca’s health remains precarious with reported improvements but continued weakness amid succession intrigues.
The census bulletin reports 1889 iron ore output in the United States totaling 14,515,041 long tons valued at 33,551,978 dollars, averaging 280 dollars per ton. Leading states Michigan Alabama Pennsylvania and New York produced 10,254,258 tons, about 70.4 percent of total. Capital invested reached 109,766,199 dollars.
In Abington district court Judge Paul presided over the case of Jack Mullins of Buchanan county who was found guilty of intimidating voters at a Buchanan precinct during the last presidential election. He received six months in jail and a 500 dollar fine, the first federal conviction in Virginia under the protection of the elective franchise laws.
Don Cameron Peterson, nephew of U S Senator Cameron of Pennsylvania, was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary at Marshall. He went to build a railroad and forged checks totaling over $2,000. He vanished, then was arrested at Helena Montana.
Secretary Mohler of the state board of agriculture issued the final crop report for wheat and oats. Kansas wheat yield is 58,899,619 bushels and oats 9,668,045 bushels. The probable corn production is 14,485,918 bushels.
Ex president revealed on Thursday that the name Ruth has been chosen for the newcomer in his home. He explained the name honors Mrs. Cleveland's grandmother, a favorite choice for the family.
At Leavenworth Kansas John Williams of Company D Ninth Infantry and Peter Cush, a veteran, were killed when a rapid train struck their group. The incident involved inmates of the soldiers home and was witnessed by others at the facility.
Parnell's public funeral in Dublin ended in violence as mourners clashed near the grave. Police and bystanders restrained rioters who beat those near the coffin, with over 40,000 viewing the remains and Mrs. Parnell absent due to illness.
Mrs. Fannie Decker and an accomplice confide to police in Scranton about criminal operations. Decker allegedly performed a lethal procedure on Lena Brersin after a broken engagement, with Brersin later marrying the same man. Brersin’s condition worsened. confession signed. Decker faces murder charges if Brersin dies.
Rumors say Secretary Blaine may not resume duties in Washington. If he stays away, Harrison names a successor for the vacant post. Gen. Joan W. Foster is cited as next in line for the state department, with Mr. Miller likely leaving to become a judge. Indiana would then lack a cabinet officer. Proponents argue Foster could quickly continue Blaine’s work and push it to a swift finish.
At about 1 a.m. Saturday the St Paul depot at Watzein Wisconsin was broken into by burglars who rifled express and mail sacks. Thieves sought valuables but total plunder is unknown. A stranger passing by was shot by the burglars, believed mistaken for an officer.
A partial OCR snippet mentions a death and references a daughter, but lacks clear details on identities, dates, or locations for a fuller notice.
In Wilkes County North Carolina Reverend Greer was killed by his drunken son Sherman Greer after the minister ordered the men to leave. Sherman and Francis Watson fired on the family as pursuit followed. Fayette Walsh was badly wounded. The pair fled toward Tennessee where a battle occurred before authorities captured them.
The Napa California quake at 10 34 Sunday night was the heaviest felt there. Chimneys toppled. several buildings shattered. the Masonic temple was damaged. At the state insane asylum patients were excited and a building cracked. Water gushed from springs at Polpula ranch near Sonoma.
A 8:50 AM explosion at Park Brothers Black Diamond Steel Works Pittsburgh killed F C Ebling and injured several workers. Debris destroyed equipment, and sixteen hundred employees faced temporary layoff pending repairs. Part of the plant at Thirtieth and Smallman streets suffered catastrophic damage. West Pennsylvania Hospital treated the injured.
Melbourre of Melbourne's Proposition in Goodland Kansas presents a plan to bring rain to twenty counties next spring at ten cents per cultivated acre. He cites over two million cultivated acres and says speakers will be sent to interest people. He expects strong opposition from irrigation companies but is confident of success.
Negotiations are active between ex Congressmen H. Clay Evans representing the Army of the Cumberland officers and Orchard Knob owners. The aim is to buy Orchard Knob to make a public military park and host annual Army of the Cumberland reunions. The asking price is 30,000 pounds, with eight acres of low land excluded by the buyers.
Daniel Renner of Tuscola Illinois shot Royal Voorhees of Ladoga Indiana and Robt Creque of Crawfordsville Indiana in Champaign. Renner says he acted in self defense after the two men and a companion attempted to rob him. Renner surrendered and is jailed.
William H. C. Brotherton, who left San Francisco April 1, travels through Flagstaff Arizona Sunday en route to New York. After five months in a Los Angeles hospital he resumed September 20 and seeks to finish in 183 days, seven days ahead of time, on a $3,000 wager backed by San Francisco and New York sports.
Report notes about two million visitors to the Holy Coat in Treves with many miracles claimed though not vouched and profits from the sight are said to be substantial.
A 75 horsepower boiler exploded at A. R. Coleman’s heating factory in Tipton Indiana Tuesday afternoon demolishing the building and scattering machinery. Fifty workers were present with several fatally injured including John Weir John Purvis Orville Purvis Charles Cole and Charles Roth. The plant valued at 15000 was nearly wiped out.
Henry Jost was arrested in St. Louis on counterfeiting charges but released after Money Expert McCullough testified the New Orleans mint dimes were legal though struck with imperfect dies. He noted a rough rim on the coins as a suspicious feature.
A car used as a sleeping apartment for laborers on a side track at Ensley Alabama exploded after a spark from a passing locomotive ignited blasting powder. Six men were inside. all mangled except one with a slight burn. One is certain to die and the rest are in danger.
Edmund D. J aiders a wealthy retired Brocton merchant was found senseless on his daughter's grave where she died forty years ago. He says a highwayman attacked him and robbed him of money and valuables as he visited the grave Sunday. No clue to the assailant is known.
In Webster county West Virginia two timbermen killed over 500 snakes of a new variety clustered in a single tree near Drog Camp. The tree was felled, they were attacked and forced to retreat, then returned with workers to slaughter the reptiles and burn about 1000 Cees.
U S cotton exports in September reached 227,736 bales valued at 10,857,545 dollars compared with 410,790 bales worth 21,694,640 last September 1880. Bread stuffs exports in September totaled 51,462,021 dollars versus 7,199,348 dollars in September 1850.
The municipal election in Indianapolis passed quietly Tuesday but drew a heavy vote. Sullivan, the Democratic candidate for mayor, leads with a 2,000 vote majority. Other city offices were decided by smaller majorities.
Dr Joseph Henson an ex army surgeon jailed in Casper Wyoming for drunkenness set fire to the county jail and was burned to death He was well known in the west and had served for years as army surgeon at Fort Robinson.
In San Francisco Bernard Saville, who defrauded ex senator Fair of £500 using a forged introduction from ex secretary of state Bayard, was sentenced to three years imprisonment at San Quentin.
Shipments to the east from San Jose California last week totaled four million pounds the heaviest on record. Over a million pounds were green fruit with the remainder divided between canned and dried varieties.
A Shanghai dispatch reports that Chinese foreign ministers have broken off negotiations with the government and announced their own governments must act. The notice highlights escalating diplomatic friction and potential policy shifts in response to the breakdown.
Indiana state news reports deaths of Rupert Gray age 87 and James Whevington age 86 in Crawfordsville. Also notes a blind murderer Anowx to be admitted to the penitentiary, elopements near Moore's Hill, labor disputes at Ohio Falls car works, a fatal blasting powder accident, a hay-press crush, a church dedication, and various local incidents including thefts, arrests, and a notable pearl find near Martinsville.
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