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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1881
Page
6
A chaotic digest reports lynching in South Carolina, fires in Milwaukee and New Jersey, floods in Hungary and Dakota, political shifts in Georgia and Michigan, a transit wage push in Boston, and economic notes on bonds, currency, and industry.
The Legislature adjourned with no extra session. Rushville teen Nellie Ridenbaugh is near death from rope jumping. Covington man Port White drowned after a seizure. Washington man Charles L. HonaAnp killed by a westbound train. Seyour resident Mrs J W Keira died after house fire. Electric Lighting Gas Heating and Illuminating Co of Frankfort filed its articles. Crawfordsville’s Montgomery county recorder James Wolfe seriously injured from a fall. Liberty township’s Alexander Campbell of the Union Brethren church reportedly insanity. Wabash man John P Mackey won a West Point cadetship from the Eleventh district. Lifontaine’s John Thomas, despondent over love, shot himself. Ridgeville pastor Rev Coons lost money to two sharpers. The People’s Advocate edited by F Barnett and Mrs E E Covert appeared in Franklin. James Boyer of Wells county missing after traveling to Fort Wayne with 600 on him. Hvansville considers a ten to fifteen acre land grant and 25000 cash to lure a car works plant employing Hiberoen.
A Detroit Free Press fable tells how a hungry fox lures a hare into a trap by promising to show a rival, then feasts on the hare. The tale ends with the moral that every neighborhood scandal has three lies to one truth and warns hare and fox alike about tale bearing and reputation.
The article recounts Joe Jefferson performing to a single paying spectator in Columbus Ohio. The man stayed through the show, encouraged the performers, and the audience grew into a packed audience by next night earning over $1200.
A reader asks if spring plowing is overdone and cites a corn field tilled without plowing using a different implement with satisfactory results. The article notes soil condition, season, and soil type influence on whether plowing is necessary to prepare seedbeds and save labor.
A convict named Whroehen Gunn escaped from a state prison by hiding in a coffin with a dead inmate. Gunn, sick with another prisoner, swapped places as guards prepared a burial. He fled the cemetery yard, was tracked to Greene county, and is to be returned to his cell.
Jacques Lamavert, known as Father Lambert, veteran of Kleber’s corps who joined eight decades ago, died at 106 after a life of African campaigns 1805 1806 1812 and long service under multiple regimes. He collapsed at a friend's house while recounting campaigns, ending a long convival evening.
The Inter Ocean recounts a scam by a so called mining expert from the East to fleece mine owners. He takes fees from investors and promises to improve mines while applying grand geology terms to beguile owners, often leaving mines unsold and condemned.
A brief proverb echoes a contrast between the enduring poor and the transient rich during summer, suggesting social disparity persists seasonally.
A New York Times discussion describes Mormon tithing as a mandatory tenth of income and produce paid to the church. It claims widespread compliance among workers, with examples from farmers, stock breeders, and railroad laborers, and notes alleged church influence on railroads and Gentile workers.
The line opens to Tracy and Marshall in Minnesota on the Deawood and Watertown lines. Masses of solid ice and snow, up to fifteen feet deep, blocked the track, and work to clear and open the road to the extreme western terminals is being pushed with vigor.
A professor asks who will see Mr before next Monday. A nervous female student replies she will likely see him Sunday night, triggering amused giggles from other women students.
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