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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1886
Page
1
A murky page review exposes fraudulent health imitations selling health, energy, and vigor through dubious journals and secret meds. It warns readers about impostors posing as medical experts and urges caution against these misleading claims amid widespread sensational promises.
A collage of quirky items and brief notices from a New Jersey and New England region. Tales of tobacco quitting, new words, oysters killed by weather, strange fines, and curious local anecdotes. Included are figures on royal households, public works plans, and assorted curiosities from multiple towns and states.
Floods raise the Tennessee River to fifty two feet by eight p m with millions in disruption. Five thousand homeless in Chattanooga as Fifth Ward sits underwater. Rail lines on the Chattanooga side submerged up to ten feet while washouts hit Cincinnati Southern and Western and Atlantic lines. Charleston Kanawha area recedes after submerging half the city. damage still uncertain.
Charles Stephens, longtime Wilmington & Ver milion Coal employee, confessed to embezzling 23000. Routed by Pinkertons from Detroit, he pled guilty in Judge Collins court and was sentenced to three years in Joliet penitentiary, with immediate imprisonment.
The schooner J. H. Congdon was wrecked off Point Reyes forty miles north of San Francisco on Wednesday. The crew is believed lost. The wreck shows midship damage from a high speed impact, likely a steamer. The incident mirrors the Oregon disaster, with fears the other vessel also sank with all aboard.
In Arroyo Grande Valley San Luis Obispo County two men Peter Hermine and his son shot Eugene Walker and his wife. Mrs Walker died after fleeing with her child. The attackers were jailed then hanged by masked men on a railroad bridge. motive cited as land dispute.
An early morning explosion ripped through Swift & Co packing firm’s new three story brick tank house on Center avenue near Forty-fifth street. Night watchman David Morefield was buried in the wreckage on the third floor and rescued after about half an hour. he is in a precarious condition at the county hospital. Fire loss is estimated near 12000 dollars.
Naval officials in Athens report ongoing private trials of the Nordenfelt submarine torpedo boat. A torpedo boat with four crew submerged for six hours and descended to a depth of thirty five feet.
Rev. William Hammond of the Free Will Baptist Church in Franklin fled with 3000 belonging to a newlywed bride. He was later arrested in a Boston bank while cashing the check.
At the Jefferson College commencement in Philadelphia 223 graduates were conferred the degree of M D. A banquet in Natatorium Hall collapsed a floor drop caused several people to plunge nine feet into the basement. One man John Gee of Ghia suffered serious injuries from a heavy piano fall.
St Louis April 1 A committee from Assembly 3650 presented 52 names to Master Mechanic Bartlett at the Missouri shops. Bartlett reemployed 16, rejecting 36. Executive Board says the road will not take all back and will use discretion. They report seventeen of fifty return rate across the system and vow to strike until all are recalled while supporting sympathetic members.
Greece vows to fight with ministers declaring no other option as the country braces for war with Turkey. Athens reports frontier defenses efficient while preparations mount for independence anniversary. In London, Bryce says Greece has not accepted foreign advice and may pursue war. Constantinople notes the Powers await a shift in the Greek Ministry before naval action.
Wooster Ohio April 1 James Henderson Hindman left Wooster in 1844 and was believed killed by Indians after travel through Indiana Iowa and Wisconsin He later resurfaced as a United Brethren minister in Minnetonka Minnesota and proved to be the missing heir intended to receive $400 from an uncle now age seventy and serving as church pastor He arrived to claim his inheritance, ending a decades long search.
An 18 year old, Isadore Seidenbaum, shoots 15 year old Annie Rosenstein in a Milwaukee home at Vilet and Sixth, then kills himself. The couple die from gunshot wounds. family awakes to the deadly scene as relatives scramble for explanations.
Wasuixeton April 1 The recapitulation of the March debt shows bonds at 4 percent totaling 250 000 000 with interest 11 832 323 etc and total debt principal 5 067 865 00 plus interest bearing items. gold and silver certificates and fractional currency contribute to a total debt of 1 804 603 463 00 after reductions 210 230 128 00 and cash in Treasury 76 381 099 00. net debt after cash is 1 417 992 238 00 with a decrease of 14 087 884 for the month and total cash in Treasury 495 997 711 00.
The article reports diplomatic language from the United States promising retaliation if Canadian cruisers interfere with American fishing vessels. It notes a US fisherman was refused entry in Halifax and suggests US ports could be closed to Canadian shipping as leverage, given Canada’s reliance on winter imports through US ports.
Fort Worth Texas reports quiet as seven companies of state troops and one artillery company arrive from Galveston. Troops, led by the adjutant general, total 326 men with two artillery pieces, moving trains south on the Missouri Pacific and Texas Pacific with no resistance in city or county.
Cincinnati reports the Ohio River at 54 feet at 9 p.m. with a pause until 11 p.m. then rising again at half an inch per hour. Snow falls from Parkersburg to Cincinnati while Pittsburgh and other areas see rain. Upstream tributaries are full and still rising, signaling another foot or two increase before the flood subsides.
Topeka April 5 Secretary Sims of the State Board of Agriculture reports March figures show Kansas winter wheat area at sixteen percent below last year. Late snow and cold weather killed at least forty percent of sowing, with the heaviest losses in middle counties. Probable yield set at eighty percent.
The bark Praecis arrived from Port Natal Africa with thirty six ostriches for breeding purposes. They are large specimens, some reaching ten feet high, shipped by C. J. Sketchly of Los Angeles California to Galveston.
In Washington on April 5 the Mexican Pension Bill was approved by the House. It grants eight dollars monthly pensions to all surviving officers soldiers and sailors who served in the war with Mexico for any period during 1845 46 47 or 48 and who were honorably discharged, and to their surviving widows.
In Petersburgh New Jersey a two mile walk in tight shoes and red stockings led to swelling of feet and legs, mental disturbance, spasms, and death. Doctors diagnose blood poisoning caused by coloring in the stockings as the likely cause of death.
At the Pittsburg area meeting the Cabinet-makers Union decided to cut working hours on May 1 from ten to eight. Piece workers demand a twenty percent wage increase.
Flood conditions near Pownal Vermont raise the Hoosen river to flood levels washing over the Troy and Boston railway line. Five to six feet of water and debris cover the tracks blocking trains and knocking out wires. East bank landslides slow travel between Troy and Albany.
Boston mass April 5 Mrs Emma A Coolidge who pleaded iry to conspiracy to murder Mrs Millen was sentenced to three years in the Woman's Prison in the Supreme Criminal Court this afternoon.
Chattanooga Tenn April 1 One third of the city without tender water from the Tennessee river system Four hundred tameites have been diver from theip habe XioMme PeNAeieg
A lady boards a horse car with a young girl and gives the child a phrasing task. The child repeats a formal line about being regaled and receiving a souvenir, highlighting a quaint scene from a past era and showcasing curious dialogue.
Fort Worth Texas on April 4 endures a fierce confrontation as officers are shot and two die with a third wounded. State troops volunteers and militia respond as depots and yards are guarded. Knights of Labor threaten to halt trains while citizens prepare fires and patrols.
United States grand jury indicts eight wealthy California citizens for suborning perjury in fraudulent redwood timber land entries in Humboldt County. Names include Jos Evans, Russ Evans, David Evans, and Charles Hine, with a $5,000,000 capital group and five others not yet named. Investigations by Special Agent Bergen show a California Redwood Company link, Scotland syndicate funding, and bribe-driven land purchases at 20 per acre versus 382 per acre government cost. Government to sue to void entries and patents covering 96,000 acres.
In Washington March 30 to April 5 1885 Senate and House debate army efficiency labor arbitration and pension measures. Highlights include Logan and Plumb on army reform and a vote to lay aside the free silver coinage bill while advancing the arbitration bill with limited witness protection. House passes several pension and public building measures.
London reports an imminent cabinet breakup as Lords Kimberley Harcourt and Mundella join Childers in opposing any home rule plan granting Ireland customs control. Morley seeks landlord buyout tweaks while J Gladstone stays firm. Councils set for Monday and Tuesday with a Tuesday climax. a ministerial agreement appears unlikely. Gladstone may speak Thursday without ministry approval.
In St Louis on April 4 an inquest ruled the servant quarters at the Planters House fire traplike. The four girls died as guests slept, and investigators found the sleeping area inadequately protected by means of a fire trap. The hotel, nearly a century old, had drawn patrons from those seeking top-tier dining and lodging.
Sam Jones closed his Chicago tour with four weeks of religious exhortations at Dr. Goodwin's church and Casino Rink Drawing large crowds. Morning service drew a huge audience while the afternoon and evening crowds filled the rink. Collections at both services went to Jones and Small, netting $3000 each after guaranteed salaries.
Cincinnati reports the Ohio river rising three and a half inches from early morning to evening, stopping at 53 feet 8 inches. Meanwhile the Miami and Kentucky rivers swell further downstream, with expectations that the Ohio will not rise much more at this point.
In New York on April 4 a group of five hundred journeyman bakers voted to strike starting May 1. They demand twelve hours of work five days weekly, fourteen hours on Saturdays, and the right to board where they choose.
New Orleans reports Mrs Maria P Evans once prominent as legatee in the Gaines estate was arrested last night on charges of uttering a forged will. She was jailed in default of $2000 bail.
Grand Rapids Michigan April 4 sheriff arrested Nicholas Hall for counterfeiting catching him at work Hall wore a badge of the North Woatery Detective Association and claimed he was Panutertejte's Rinine in a bold counterfeit plot.
A tiny Manchester slide in the Manchester Philosophical and Literary Society holds the Lord's prayer inscribed in a 405000th inch speck. Found only with powerful lenses, locating the exact focus spot proves exceptionally difficult for observers.
March reports from Cotumaeus and Columbus cover Senate actions with multiple bills. Measures include taxation of express property, higher NG pay, primary elections in Cincinnati, street piping, infirmary duties, and Morgan raid claims. Resolutions urge Congress for Marietta monument funding. typhoid inquiry at penitentiary. reforms on ditches, juror pay, and G A R encampment travel.
A Springfield court sentenced Frank B Jones, book-keeper for Champion Malleable Iron Company, to ten years in the penitentiary for embezzlement. The report catalogs further local crimes and legal actions, including shootings, burglaries, and a grand jury selection, alongside notes on gas strikes and railroad news.
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