02 Apr 1891
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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1891
Page
1
The piece reports that the leader of the Samoan revolt has been banished, German and Austrian relations strain, and various scattered notes on politics science and society. It mentions a weather bureau retirement, a recovering Anna Dickinson, Canadian ammunition orders, and diverse curiosities from across the country.
A vivid preview describes the 1893 Columbian Exposition site in Chicago. It outlines grand plans for foreign and state pavilions, the Illinois and arts buildings, a vast lagoon, government exhibits including a 350 by 20 foot U S building, a 1 700 by 800 foot Manufactures and Liberal Arts hall, and the Proctor Tower rising higher than the Eiffel. It details grounds, avenues, and rail loops, with themes of architectural grandeur, landscape, and visitor spectacle.
The Ohio Senate failed to vote this session, adjourning after appointing Messrs Soncrant Morrison Carpenter Adams Reed Ryan and Van Cleaf to the conference on the Rawlins bill. Bills passed include monuments funding and county and city improvements in Hamilton, Toledo, Cleveland and Clermont among others. A March 24 Senate session approved multiple measures including bonds for public works and site purchases, while March 25 saw bullets for agriculture bulletins and street improvements undertaken.
A compilation of brief Ohio notices covers quail and squirrel seasons, factory safety concerns, overcrowded Belmont County, Prohibitionists fielding a ticket, a $3,500 personal claim against Lima Electric Light, looming coal mine closures in Coshocton, and a clash between workers and operators. It notes a fatal burn to a five year old, embezzlement suits, a Bellefontaine death in a grocery, eye injury from a nail splinter, Noble County grand jury indictments for murder in Caldwell, a man attempting suicide in Alliance, post office actions against a fraudster in Zanesville, a Bloomville temperance riot, a fatal crane accident at Nelson Sewer Pipe, libel damages for Arnold Green, the death of Rufus Kine, pork packing reports, a Park Place explosion injuring a wife, rifle captaincy for ApolPH Geiger, a tax refund claim in Washington, Newark memorial hall plans, a Middleport worker ground to pieces, LEE’s Civil War role death in Toledo, epizootics in Washington, D. C. water ambitions in Van Wert, Owens steel heat, maple syrup production, a Martins Ferry ticket agent buying a 130-year-old Cremonia violin, a Canton hanging death linked to insanity, and Put-in-Bay fish hatchery boasting 150,000,000 white fish.
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