05 May 1888
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Newspaper
Odon Weekly Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1888
Page
1
The article reports that Den Jendie Fi Enger, a labor liaison, has ended all travel and trade connections between Moraesg and the United States. Officials confirm the action as a major shift in international relations and economic activity.
A report notes the Secretary acts at his discretion in the open market over United States bonds not yet payable. The brief highlights potential shifts in authority and impact on Federal financial policy.
Louis Kossety a Tanagarian patriot resides with his sister in Turin. She is eighty five and in good health while writing another volume of his memoirs.
The damaged text describes General Bour xcein as part English and notes a lawyer from Rennes who sold his practice and moved to Nantes to become an inspector for an insurance company. It mentions the General's mother and a woman of exceptional beauty, with reference to the general being very handsome.
The report notes near record wheat and oat yields across acres, with bushels per acre and total harvest figures. It highlights price trends and farm outputs including corn and vegetables, underlining rising costs and shifting market conditions for 19th century agriculture.
OCR text shows garbled valuation data for Georgia property. It references valuations, dates, and percentages with many misspellings. Key entities are unclear due to damage, but mentions a nine year period and percentages around forty four.
Fragmentary OCR text shows scattered phrases about individuals, yearly events, and social notes without a coherent story or clear facts. Names and places are partially legible but details are insufficient to identify a specific event or entity.
The readable fragments mention the United States and a national day, with garbled references to agriculture and cultivation. No coherent event, names, or places could be confirmed from the provided text.
An odd fragment describes a figure seeking relief from pains through a strange custom linked to the seas. A request for immediate aid leads to a surprising result when a one handed action appears to influence events. A three six months visit away from home is prescribed.
In this report the London authorities limit Jews to residents of record, while the Holy City sees rapid Jewish influx. Hussin forces push homeless, seeking new homes beyond the city. The Terhish government forbids nonresidents from staying beyond thirty days in the city.
A new vessel at Port Jaquios Nova Scotia will be launched in January. It measures 600 feet in length, 38 feet deep, and 40 feet beam, is built from 23,000 spruce trees with sticks averaging 28 feet. It will carry grants with 12 foot trails and spring stays. It is square rigged with fore and aft topsails and equipped with anchors rudder and sailing gear. A steamship will tow it with a strong tug as convoy.
Peterssons Virginia organizes a corporation with capital of £500,000 to attract settlers from across the Union and abroad. The Virginia Emigration Land and Improvement Company plans to buy farms and establish new profitable enterprises in the state, with headquarters in Petersburg.
A tragic accident in April at 3 50 p m in a crowded Broederman Hall causing a floor collapse from a fifteen foot drop into a livestock stable. Dozens of women and children injured with several listed as fatally hurt including Mrs J Alexander Miss Stewart Mrs Wo Drunian and Mrs Wanright. Names of others injured or harmed appear with local officials and emergency responders noting serious injuries.
A Tahumean man killed his wife after years of threats and attempted to gain access to his children. He then shot himself, leaving investigators to piece together the motive and sequence of events surrounding the killings.
Reports from the Pubian Territory describe multiple executions today in a private setting. Beings named Owen Jackson Crow and Geover Moss faced death for murders in a disputed region near the Potomac. Jasper Daves was banished there after conviction for wife murder following a brutal assault.
Memorial Day events disrupted business across Georgia with parades and ceremonies. Civilians and military personnel visited Oakland Cemetery and other sites to honor fallen soldiers. In Washington a twenty five foot monument to General Robert Toombs was unveiled, symbolizing wartime memory.
An explosion in a West Street dwelling in Teresa Kansas this afternoon damaged the structure. A domestic named Aunt Evans and a six year old girl Mary McLaughlin were killed. A English girl had been in the country only a short time.
A woman identified as Mrs. Nero shot her husband Stan Mas Hot back during a quarrel about attending a Salvation Army meeting. He died from the wound the next day. The article notes Mrs. Nero as a respected wife of Louis Nero, a local teaching businessman, and describes the couple as beloved.
Dispatch from Fort Gibson reports Sergeant James White of Company C Eighteenth Infantry killed when a horse reared and struck a stake through his body as he held it. He died instantly, authorities state.
The dwelling of Louis Stroman near Springfield burned yesterday morning. Four of Stroman's children two boys and two girls sleeping upstairs perished in the blaze. Stroman's eldest son sustained severe burns while trying to rescue his siblings and may die.
On the sixty sixth anniversary of General Grant’s birth visitors came to Grant’s Tomb at Riverside Park in New York. A large crowd bore floral tributes and laid them at the tomb gate to honor his memory.
In Louisville on April 27 Arch Stolts a farmer near Richmond Kentucky died by taking Rough on Rats. His brother William reportedly ingested the remaining poison after seeing the corpse and left a note wishing both men be buried in the same coffin.
Dispatches from Kansas report copious general rains across the state. All grain crops are in splendid condition and benefit from the wet spell.
A 100 ton barge pipe layer tested near Bracken, Pa will lay a new oil line from Lima to Chicago. It can cover 210 miles with a single pump and 3 barrels per hour capacity. Eleven workers replace thirty by hand, promising speed but limited to level terrain. Oil stocks and tankage reallocation affect Pennsylvanian fields as National Transit Company ramps up new pipeline support.
A case of poison in coffee killed Mrs. Gofo, a widow, and sickened five others after a dinner in Nesta dia. Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Griffith, and a man named Clevinger attended. all but Clevinger became ill. Dr Chatham treated the patients. Mrs. Gefo died in the afternoon. others recovered. Officials suspect contamination in the coffee prepared during a visit at the Gefo residence.
An Anvilla-Cain family row leads the state in longevity. Four brothers and two sisters aged eighty five to eighty nine are living in good health. The family totals include Mrs Mary Heap eighty nine and Mrs Susan Frey seventy five. Their combined ages reach 404 years, averaging nearly eighty two per person. If months are counted, the average rises slightly. The oldest sister was drowned years ago and one brother died recently at eighty.
An eight inch test well near the Nickel-plate depot in Bellevue shows water within seventy feet and held at depth. Steam pumped six days at 60 eight barrels daily without decline, with potential to deliver daily near two thousand barrels. Water described as crystal clear cold and fresh as rain water, with believed connection to a cold trout stream at Custatia, Ohio. Local residents express great elation.
A heartrending accident at Jehuson City near Knoxville claims the life of Miss Jennie Leonard. Driving a bogey a frightened horse dashed in front of a passing train. The engine struck the vehicle tossing Miss Leonard under the wheels. She was soon to be married to a talented young lawyer.
In Cincinnati yesterday the Owen Sunday law took effect with widespread observance aside from concert halls and hill-top resorts. Police reported fifty six violation cases and made fire arrests at disorderly resorts. Warrants for offenders will be sworn out this morning.
Rawnsas City, Me April 20 Thomas M Turner died yesterday from glanders contracted while treating a sick horse three weeks earlier. The infection entered a finger scratch. Turner had been tried and acquitted for the murder of Mrs. Con Way and her daughter in 1913.
New York reports four steamships today landed 3999 immigrants at Castle Garden. Total for the week ending tonight reaches 21,773 with about one third from Ireland. An additional 399 immigrants are expected to land tomorrow.
Letters from Cardinal Simeoni and Catholic bishops discuss the Papal decree on campaign plans amid unrest in Ireland. National League branches vow not to be swayed by Rome while threats against innkeepers who aided authorities surface. Debates in The Star oppose the decree as dangerous, urging Irish self rule and political leaders to set the course.
A hunting party twenty miles south of town faced a fatal encounter when an Indian hunter wounded a panther during a turkey hunt. The panther attacked, killing the man in close combat while Indians arrived to find both combatants dead.
In New Yoas an alarmed bank reports a nearly $100 shortage after an elaborate leak through a staff member who has served twenty years. Directors acknowledge the shortage but withhold details. The incident occurred this afternoon and involves unknown parties.
The Sultan of Morocco hesitates to submit to mediation the dispute between his government and the United States over the imprisonment at Rabat of individuals under American consular protection. American Consul Lewis awaits further orders from Washington.
Melwile Weston Puller of Chicago was to be nominated by the President for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Fuller has never held public office or served on a bench, is fifty four, and has gained prestige at the Chicago Bar.
It is understood that at an early day Mr. Randall will introduce a bill appropriating 22,000,000 for the establishment of an army gun foundry at Frankford Arsenal for heavy gun manufacture.
In New York on April 3 Judge Marling imposed long terms on two young men. Michael Feehan aged nineteen and Michael O Donnell aged twenty were found guilty and pled guilty respectively. Both received thirty years hard labor at Sing Sing.
Atlantia Georgia April 3 Henry Pepe sentenced to be hanged at Summerville Georgia tomorrow has been reprieved again this time for sixty days.
Washington May 1 The First Comptroller orders immediate adjustment of all second class Alabama award claims to release 249,103 dollars held back for court decisions. Claimants without attorneys should send claim numbers to Comptroller Durham and attorneys must file copies of the Supreme Court opinion in Wim, S. Wield and others v United States along with a list of their original cases.
A petition to Governor Ogiesby for pardoning Anarchists Fielden Schwab and Neebe has circulated four days among Socialists Anarchists and radical laborers in Cinecagco. It reportedly has thousands of signatures and may be presented soon at a mass meeting for ratification. The text mirrors the petition circulated before the Spies Fischer Parsons and Engel execution.
May 1 report notes the Emperor Bert’s fever rising and more copious expectoration. He remains headache and languid with poor appetite. A new canula was inserted to aid relief. Doubt remains on Empress attendance at Elbe Provinas. No immediate danger shown.
A shocking Jackson tragedy amid Mississippi tension ends with the deaths of General Wirt Adams Jackson postmaster and J H Martin editor of the Yeo Mississippian. The shootings followed a Yeo Mississippian article accusing Adams of delaying mail.
After years of wandering Charles Rudolph a Philadelphia youth was found today in Asheville North Carolina Detective John Krider spent months locating him Rudolph had recently come into a considerable fortune The youth left home due to ill treatment and was about to locate in Knoxville May 1 190?
Atlanta May 1 Henry Pope a condemned black man under sentence for an outrageous assault was seized last night from Summerville jail by a mob. He had just received a new Governor granted respite on Saturday continuing his stay of execution.
William Willner, unemployed and heavily drinking, struck his wife with a hammer after she refused money for liquor. He then cut his abdomen with a razor. Both injuries are believed fatal.
J. McAllister, once serving a penitentiary sentence for attempted murder of Harvey O'Shields, is pardoned by Governor Gordon and returns to Atlanta as a reformed man.
Telegraph operator Fred Jones was fatally shot near State Line Indiana last Sunday by Edward Delay who surprised Jones and his sister during a clandestine meeting. Delay fired five shots, hitting Jones twice.
Jim Harris, a colored man, who assault ed Mrs Simmons in Vicessere Mississippi on Sunday night was lynched last night. Harris reportedly refused to confess to the end. He is said to have had two accomplices, but gave no information.
Mountians around Renova near Pittston Pa flames have burned for three to four days risking extensive timber loss. Foresters fear heavy rain is needed to halt the blaze and protect the valuable woodlands.
There is panic in the tin market as the French syndicate stops purchases. The cash price falls from £166 to £105 per ton, with little trading at the new level.
The April sessions report bills to expand Agriculture powers and aid navy deserters, plus a public documents bureau. Tariff debates dominate, with multiple speeches and night sessions. House actions include postmaster relief and several public building measures as the Senate eyebrows internal economy and federal projects.
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