16 Aug 1879
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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1879
Page
1
Weleetla residents rally around Fermisky Chief Isatle Sipremeg as the Fourth Street area undergoes changes on Welelss end. Community members name Williams and Welel Lass as key organizers amid local transitions.
The report covers clashes within New York political factions led by Tilden and Robinson, with Mayoral and police board tensions and possible bolt threats. It also notes Arizona depredations, migrant violence in Kansas, a mail contractor murder near Vinita, and ensuing lawlessness debates.
Reports from Memphis and neighboring areas detail a growing yellow fever outbreak with dozens ill and several fatalities. The Strand area sees crowds fleeing as authorities isolate cases and residents seek refuge in rural areas.
A Vientin dispatch reports a crisis within the Austrian ministry continuing into the evening edition. The brief note flags turmoil at high government levels with no further specifics provided.
Telegraph reports from June describe Col Gordon’s forces in southern Egypt killing eight slave leaders in Bargizelle, seizing a stronghold and booty, with nine ringleaders hanged. Gordon plans evacuations after disarming locals while frontier monitoring and commerce support continue.
A fractured jumble of notes mentions fractional currency, jokes, artists in the Adirondacks, a retiring wheelwright, a dying recluse, and various quirky observations. It also recounts a Boston wife attaching a pedometer to her husband, a professor quip, and a Lancaster child who spoke after an accident, with hopes for recovery.
A temperance lecture recounts a fatal lightning strike ten days ago on Pikd's Peak. Iris, wife of Limy, rode beside him when a bolt hit and fire streamed from telegraph wires into his head. The horse shied, Iris was knocked down, and the couple endured a long ascent to safety.
Describes a newly established fortress fortress fortress Ushbonambi and a surrounding six mile march of military kraals in rugged defiles. The Drekenaburg range stronghold Hasu fis is a natural fortress requiring bloodshed to reduce. The mountain fort has walls eight to nine feet high and cross fires from rebels atop the ridge. Field guns arrive to hasten surrender, though starvation could prolong siege.
An old gray rat at Rockville woolen mill evades traps until workers lure it into an extractor. The cloth-drying basket spins up to 700 revolutions a minute before a belt breaks and the rat dies, ending the perilous mill caper.
Reports detail a July 31 ceremony laying the cornerstone of a monument to Gen Anthony Ware at Erle. Other items note mishaps, mining activity in Buckskin and Mosquito districts, and various local incidents including a Cheyenne restaurant shooting and a severe Union Pacific storm damages.
A 23 year old man and a 19 year old Port Jervis woman fall in love but split over atheism and belief. Both reconsider their views after time apart. The man joins a church and the woman later adopts liberal views, ending with a final reattempt that fails as they remain unequally yoked.
A dubious in town advertisement promises easy unpenalized earnings for private tech and other tasks with pay per hour. It directs readers to mail to IS HSL ETTACO in Portland, Maine and urges no questions or deadlines.
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