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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1891
Page
1
A long list of scattered snippets covers science, geography, health, and culture. It notes ocean depths, plant and stock curiosities, language statistics, tobacco limits, and varied local tales from Smyth County to Ocean City.
Levee and wharf at St. Philip Dumaine Ursuline streets in New Orleans continue to cave Sunday with land sinking from three to eighteen feet across about five acres. Warrison Line wharf is cracking and the Louisville and Nashville abandons Canal street depot due to subsiding ground. Railroads shift to Pontchartrain depot as ground yields under tracks.
Muskegon inventor Earle V. Beales describes a two machine system. A keyboard perforates a paper strip to encode text and a second unit uses electricity to form type molds. The setup promises speeds of fifty words per minute and output equivalent to twenty workers.
Orthodox residents riot in Starosch Russia after a holiday, attacking Hebrews shops and synagogues. Police and priests fail to stop the violence as a fire consumes ten houses in the Jewish quarter, aided by locals from surrounding districts.
John Meinke a painter of St Louis shot fatally wounding his cousin Aliss Sophie Broecker in the parlor of her Springfield home after she rejected him He then shot himself in the head the wound not fatal and he survived the attempt to end his life
Secretary Blaine resumes his official duties in Washington after a five and a half month absence. The interim period featured several incidents where the secretary’s policy played a prominent role, but the homecoming is framed as a matter of national significance.
Children of farmer John Cummings near Pennetanguishene Ontario set fire to their house Sunday while parents were away. Three children died in the blaze. the mother reentered and saved a fourth child but was likely fatally burned.
The United States through Minister Egan formally demanded reparation from Chile for the assault in Valparaiso on Baltimore sailors. Investigations showed Riggan murdered, Turnbull fatally wounded, and sixteen bayonet wounds alleged. thirty five crewmen were arrested without cause as police violence occurred.
Cyrus R Teed, claiming to be a second Messiah and immortal, has won the support of the Celibate Society of Economites near Pittsburgh. He outlined plans for an equable ecommerce store in Pittsburgh, a central Chicago house, and a cooperative system to unite five other celibate groups, plus ambitious projects like a six track railroad and a fifty mile wide Rocky Mountain passage.
Reports describe the Moffat well on Rock Run as a tremendous gasser with near 1000 pounds per square inch. The Freeman well a mile away hit the gas sand and blew tools out. Six zig gas wells in three miles supply more than enough for a city of 1,000,000.
Government statistics show that French smokers spent two million francs on foreign cigars and 1.6 million on home cigars. They bought ten trillion francs of cigarettes, 29 million francs of snuff, and 91 trillion francs of pipe tobacco. Expenditure for ladies' cigarettes rose by 700 thousand francs. One tobacco society exists in France.
Lee Green is described as the colored man who murdered the Lowe family seven miles east of Ough City Texas. The account notes the vigilante killing by burning at the stake following the crime.
A northwest moving storm hit Conneaut Ohio Monday night wrecking residences factories and outbuildings. The George A Record manufacturing plant suffered major damage with roofs torn off and walls intact. Estimated losses include 10000 at Record plant 1000 at Ferguson 600 at Crouch 560 at Bell 500 at Patterson and 300 at the railroad depot.
A Birmingham and Atlantic passenger train of two coaches passed a burning twenty five foot trestle and was consumed. All passengers escaped through the windows unharmed. Engineer Northcutt and the fireman were pulled free by passengers. Northcutt and his brother the conductor were injured but not seriously. A tramp sleeping in a nearby cabin set it ablaze and the trestle caught from the cabin.
A letter from Iquique dated September 16 says many executions occurred in Santiago and Valparaiso over recent weeks. Victims were active opponents of the revolution, none of high prominence. Vicina, elected president in southern districts two months ago and tied to Balmaceda, is at Callao.
Grain Inspector Clausen reports wheat arriving at Duluth at 1.009 million bushels per day, surpassing all prior records. He notes a week of rising quality grades due to favorable weather in the past two to three weeks.
The steamship Teutonic of the White Line from New York arrived at Queenstown after a swift voyage. Despite rough weather a sighting off Brow Head occurred at 9:55 a.m. Tuesday, and the voyage time totaled five days twenty one hours and three minutes.
A grand ceremony in Atlanta marked the unveiling of a granite monument to Grady, with 20000 spectators. Miss Gussie Grady pulled the cord, releasing a life-like bronze statue of Grady addressing a meeting, flanked by statues Memory and History.
Indiana State News reports LittLe E May CHEeNner of Hobart aged five wins a liberal pension for her infirm father after writing to President Harrison. Other items include farmer JoHnN GROGG gored by a mad bull near Wabash and near misses, fire damage to Muncie pulp mills, and several court and injury cases across the state.
In Boston on October 22 two elderly sisters Margaret Breen aged 7 and Bridget Breen aged 78 were found dead in their attic rooms at rear of 61 Prince Street. Bridget is blind. Police forced entry after days with no sight of them. One sister lay dead near the door. the other covered by a sheet in the rear room. The report suggests malnutrition and charity refusal played a role in their deaths.
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