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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1881
Page
3
Fragmented verse recounts a past affair with a pure yet warning tone. The speaker recalls a girl of innocence, scenes in parks and a fancy hall, and a strained meeting with a duchess where class and propriety clash with desire. The narrator confesses turmoil and a threat to self.
An excerpt describes Nihilists in Switzerland visiting secret printing presses in Geneva and Berne, documenting Soviet era revolutionary materials. It notes printers, largely of Jewish background, and contrasts violence against the Emperor with lack of attack on his brothers. A report from Geneva mentions a Federal state department letter from Berne.
The account details Russian efforts to influence Swiss law via Geneva and Berne, with police actions limited until papers are published in Switzerland. It notes M. de Hamburger, Rochefort, and Nihilist ties, portraying a well funded, organized network and contrasting fortunes among refugees and locals.
The Pittsburg Dispatch reports Jol Sullivan and Michael Denimelec at Dallimore and Ohio track near Denimelec station sacrificed themselves delaying a heavy passenger train. They lifted a locked rail bar as a riverbound bend loomed, saving many lives as the train arrived with full headway but they perished.
The plan envisions 10 000 to 50 000 carcasses per voyage with beef stored in refrigerators and shipped aboard an event ship. It aims to lower high retail meat prices and disrupt a meat ring that profits from famine-level costs, drawing public interest.
Washington special reports Russellville Arkansas proprietor W C Renfrew has toured the capital with the Eureka Springs stone baby found October 1880. The 26 inch, 85 pound blue lime stone statue is finely carved and perplexed Smithsonian experts who await Philadelphia Academy of Science evaluation. Renfrew travels to present it as evidence of a peopling more advanced than North American Indians.
Brooklyn Center gardener Mr. Lin Picksley faced a wild reaction from a horse in his valuable team. The animal charged and bit whenever the owner entered the stall, making it dangerous to approach. Concerns led to removing the horse to the pasture with its mate placed in the same lot.
A horse team escaped in a city street chase, two horses fighting and biting as they ran four miles through Pearl street and Barber avenue. One horse finally calmed, the other rabid and violent, injuring Mr. Picksley before the animal was shot at 6 am. Veterinary experts deemed the animal rabid with no further danger from the other horse.
A staged duel in Deleville between singer Darcier and a theater manager degenerated into a pistol incident but ended without violence. Both principals and seconds retreated, debated, and ultimately returned to Paris as friends, avoiding a confrontation.
London dispatch says the government plan increases tenure stability without fixed tenure. Arbitration courts would set fair rents and allow free sales to tenants with landlord objections tempered by reasonableness. Measures also enable tenant purchase extensions, compulsory sale of waste land, and division into small farms to curb landlord power and aid peace in Ireland.
Rev J Edmund Cox recounts a Norwich rook trial with a male rook judged by a crowd of rooks and dispatched. Similar accounts follow of ravens flamingos and storks, each story detailing a collective verdict and brutal punishment for alleged offenses among birds observed by travelers and missionaries.
Mrs Mothe Utz of New Albany Indiana is described as a respected widow whose husband, a Georgetown township farmer, died about a year ago. Over eight years she suffered circulatory problems that progressed to complete numbness and gradual ossification of all fingers, arms, and facial tissue, leaving skin like alabaster. Doctors have failed to halt the process and she faces a prolonged decline as the disease advances toward her elbows and beyond.
In a Boston Western Union office during ISTU 71 a epileptic worker could not move or speak. A brother operator learned to read his faint tactile dots and dashes as words and relayed his feelings to a physician guiding treatment.
A humorous scene shows a man leaping about during a morning house cleaning while making odd remarks. His wife coins a joke about his circus rehearsals as he imitates carpet tacks, ending in muffled sobs under the bed covers.
A lengthy exchange between the bishop of Lichfield and Bishop Tainworth centers on allowing oratorios in parish churches with a fee of half a guinea or less. The Lichfield bishop condemns it as turning the house of God into a marketplace, though no statute bans such services yet. It remains to be seen if his injunction will be followed.
A collage of eccentric notices and stray facts including a penitentiary tally of 191 convicts, a Bowery sign claiming “Black eyes restored in ten minutes,” a Nashville coal seam found at 413 feet, Arkansas dirk ban, and Queen Victoria linked to Stoke Park. Miscellany covers bishops, publishers, telephones, and weathered lore with curious misprints throughout.
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