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Newspaper
Syracuse Register
Location
Syracuse, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1896
Page
2
Syracuse Register notes a new confederation among the Central American republics with a central government and includes Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. It also mentions sensational gossip about American girls marrying royalty, Ellen Terry’s medical orders, Bell’s sunbeam telephony, and Maine lobster factory closures due to storms this season.
A novel revolver has been created with twelve cartridge ridges built into the handle. The mechanism fires each round in sequence as the trigger is moved, enabling rapid successive shots.
A society of young women in New York forms pledges not to marry into families plagued by string drink. If a member meets a young man with a billion dollars and a bottle, she faces a life long struggle to keep the pledge.
The text states national per person sugar use around 60 pounds for adults and up to 175 to 200 pounds for youths who consume chocolate caramels and ice cream. It notes the sugar cost to the accompanying young man as 45 to 60 cents per pound.
The passage notes holidays start as celebrations of events but quickly become chances for public enjoyment. It observes people favor leisure activities like bicycling and athletic meetings, while few remain faithful to the original idea, a small minority.
The article warns parents to be careful and remove matches from reach of small children to prevent fires and deaths. It notes fires caused by a slender cause have destroyed nearly an entire town, citing Tignish on Prince Edward Island as an example of the disaster.
A column recalls the stove pipe hat once popular in Paris since 1797 and notes its odd popularity despite impractical design. The piece questions how such an ungainly headpiece survives fashion trends and jokes it may soon be replaced by a cocked hat.
The article predicts a large Japanese influx to northern Australia as overcrowding in Japan drives expansion. Officials fear conflicts from colonization while noting the historic pattern of peoples moving to open lands, suggesting a major exodus may begin toward the north Australian coast.
A brutal thief known for firearms misfires and a deadly arson prank in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He had previously claimed ignorance of loaded weapons as he fired at people, but he escalated to pouring kerosene on a black man and setting him ablaze, dying in agony while the crowd watched.
At the funeral of Mrs Helen Gillson Hissam wife of Rank Hissam residents noted an unusual sight as six women from Roxas Templars of Temperance served as pallbearers. They carried the casket to the hearse church and grave performing duties traditionally reserved for men.
The article reports eight month totals: US merchandise exports 567,259,457 dollars up from 489,360,551 in 1895, imports 471,222,434 down from 535,737,019 in 1893. Mission board receipts 743,104.59 with expenditures 627,969.58 leaving 115,135.01 balance. August silver coinage 2,656,000. Clearing houses week to 16th at 506,208,255 vs 759,029,234 prior week. 317 business failures in seven days to 18th. Washington marked 100 years since Washington's farewell address.
Coffin Atemus & Co one of Philadelphia's oldest wholesale dry goods houses collapsed with debts totaling 400600. Wreck off Kovincetown Ma resulted in drownings including Captain Louis Generio and two crew who died by their own hand. four others perished.
Official returns from Arkansas show Jones 71,645. Nemmet 24,410. Files 11,280. Miller 1,643. Jones leading by 45,034. A live-firing voting machine test in Miller, Indiana, succeeded. Congressional nominations listed include Larson in Wisconsin seven th district and Hurst in Michigan two district. Falls and wreckage injure spectators near Crush Texas. Freelandville Indiana sees destruction of business district. Chicago Indiana & Eastern Railway suspend operations. Knudson named in Illinois ninth district. Grienewald in Wisconsin sixth. Sum Warren lynched in Georgia. Midland state bank at Omaha closes with over $200,000 liabilities. Crane and Ward fell 150 feet at Oroanega Missouri.
The record lists congressional nominations in several states, governor election results in Arkansas with Jones leading, and major incidents including a bank closure in Shellsburg and fatal accidents from a sink hole in Kentucky to a mine explosion in Colorado. It notes a man shooting his wife and himself in Stillwell Oklahoma and dynamite attacks on toll gates in Kentucky.
Reports describe Cuba eyeing tobacco harvests of up to 45 000 bales this year, far below 147 000 last year. In Europe Germany and Austria press France toward pressuring the Turkish sultan to abdicate. Amupla delegates plan to ratify a fusion of San Salvador Honduras and Nicaragua into Republica Mayor de Central America. A Canadian rail wreck near Hamilton kills James Facer and fireman George Johnson. In Constantinople 200 die as Albanian guards are disarmed at the Yildiz palace and seven more die trying to reach the sultan's apartments to assail him. Frederico Errazuriz inaugurated president of Chile.
A furious Atlantic storm damaged property along the New England coast and caused multiple fires. The National Bank of Troy closed with liabilities of 449000. Reports note deaths in Missouri and Texas as well as record August tax collections. Troops confronted miners in Leadville after starvation-driven unrest. a salt refinery fire in Moncton caused 300000 in losses.
Edward Bell also known as Ivory, the alleged dynamiter arrested in Glasgow, reached London on Thursday at 10 o'clock under Scotland Yard orders. Paris reports note P J Tynan, the Invincible, has appealed to US envoy and President Cleveland for protection as an American citizen. Paris also says extradition of Tynan over the Phoenix Park murderers may be barred by the statute of limitations.
Uradstreet reports gradual trade upturn with Wool purchases rising and stocks trimmed. Buyers in the South Atlantic Bull states show confidence, while dry goods sales shock Boston Chicago and St Louis. Northwestern centers report gains in hats shoes and drugs as cotton crops move. Wheat raisers in Willamette Valley sell freely. total weekly business failures reach 313, up from last week.
New York Democrats nominate John Boyd Thacher a gold Democrat for governor at the state convention in Buffalo Sept 18. The ticket includes Wilbur F. Porter for lieutenant governor and Robert C. Titus for the Court of Appeals. Electors named are Robert N. Bush and Benjamin Wood among others. William Sheehan resigns from the state committee.
A fragment notes an occasion to honor nominees of a party and mentions Palmer and Buckner being notified. The context and specifics are unclear due to damaged text.
Reports detail William J. Bryan’s campaign stops from Sept. 15 to Sept. 19, with speeches in Louisville Kentucky Canton Ohio and surrounding towns. Crowds greeted him despite rain and fatigue, while officials such as Maj. McKinley and Governor Hastings spoke at various events.
A severe windstorm hit Ogden Utah on Friday causing extensive damage. A large three story warehouse owned by Kiesel & Co. burned after a collapse and electric wires sparked the flames. Losses exceed 100000 dollars as surrounding warehouses were destroyed. A Utah and Northern passenger train was halted by fallen debris and repairs were required. Local communication lines were down hindering news.
Rioters and mine defenders exchange volley after volley as flames engulf mine buildings. Militia under arms for 60 days mobilizes from barracks to confront a ten thousand strong crowd of wage earners in a tense confrontation.
A canyon cloudburst southeast of Rock Springs on Sunday flooded the town three to four feet, submerging cellars and several businesses. First National Bank, Tim Kinney & Co., and eight leading houses were affected, with Union Pacific tracks covered. Estimated damage about 50,000 dollars. no lives lost.
Heavy and light frosts reported across the West and Midwest with Chicago seeing the season's coldest night. Fortnightly frost damage noted in Miles City Moorhead Huron Valentine North Platte Duluth St Paul Des Moines and in Nebraska water froze in Jefferson and corn lands suffered damage.
The uniform rank of the Knights of Pythias in Cleveland will be renamed Knights Loyal after the supreme lodge session. They will be organized by companies instead of divisions. The uniform remains. the motto changes to Honor Justice and Loyalty replacing Honor and Purity.
In Camden Missouri on September 21 two young brothers Garfield and Victor Vanhorne ages six and seven were killed and 14 year old Ora West fatally wounded when a Wabash work train struck them as they watched a Santa Fe freight pass beside the tracks. The coroner's jury exonerated the railroad.
Dispatches from Hong Kong report rebels captured the Cavite monastery and killed monks with knives. Over 100 captives held by Spaniards were jailed in a Manila dungeon. 54 were found suffocated next morning. Spaniards publicly execute prisoners to terrorize rebels' supporters.
Lansing Sept 21 Michigans Methodist conference again favored electing women delegates to the general conference by a vote of 220 to 4. The resolution was met with loud applause as delegates reaffirmed the stance amid other church issues and political discourse.
Fragmentary OCR text appears to reference names or phrases without clear events. The readable parts mention persons or items but lack context, dates, locations, or actions to form a coherent summary. No definite news item or outcome is discernible from the fragment.
A survey of quirky notes includes Leonard Hartman of Dubuque adopting his brother’s daughters, a Chicago groom gifting a costly bicycle to his wife who eloped on it, a Marquette biker hitting a porcupine, a Newark schoolboy naming canals, and a Lowell wife’s letter praising the reinstated husband after legal action.
A collection of odd notes on tobacco use and cholera, ear trumpets for hearing, wedding rings on the left hand, public park benches in Memphis, electrically heated plates in London restaurants, suicide epidemics sparked by press notices in Berne, spring for freckles in Lawrenceville, a flea infested Baltimore house, a Chicago man doused with ice water in his garden hose leading to a wife’s alarm and fainting reaction.
Gossip from abroad reports Parisbrooke castle, once a jail for Charles I, will be turned into a museum of Isle of Wight curiosities and antiquities. The piece also notes a serum plague cure by Dr Gersin at the Paris Pasteur Institute and a collapsible two story steel house under construction by an English car maker.
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