22 Apr 1886
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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1886
Page
1
Radway's Ready Relief is promoted as a remedy for throat irritation influenza rheumatism neuralgia throat asthma and breathing difficulties after reading a promotional claim. The advertisement emphasizes fast action and broad symptom coverage aiming to reassure readers seeking relief from multiple ailments.
A fragment notes a June 25, 1885 date and a Free mailed treatise offering cases—vegetable topics—via 1c Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. The unreadable text preserves the postal request details and the sender’s address.
A fragment notes Union Publishing Company of Newark New Jersey offers a book about courtship titled A Book Worth 210. The snippet hints at free delivery or a promotion and mentions the publisher’s city but provides limited details.
Heirs of a deceased wealthy benefactor push plans to expand New York as a leading medical center. The effort seeks broad institutional support and funding to advance hospital and research facilities in the city.
In St Louis on April 18 a boycott scheme targets Gould lines via Eastern manufacturers. Knights of Labor District Assembly No 30, with about 40 000 shoe and cotton workers, plans to halt shipments of goods to Gould routes if Boston approves. Meetings in Districts 77 and 78 may follow with similar action.
April 19 reports describe three Weaver brothers and Adel Shearer killed by mob action after a Danville Virginia incident. In Axton Virginia a negro named Kellis Moorman is lynched after a forged note led to a card game dispute. In Corpus Caristi ranch country two Mexican horse thieves are hanged by ranchers along Los Alamos Creek.
A wedding near Rice Station Minnesota ends in tragedy as a Tuesday cyclone destroys the home of John Schutz killing ten guests including the bridegroom. The bride survives with slight injuries while many others are injured and later died. Survivors gather at the local schoolhouse for the victims.
London April 16. Text of Gladstone’s bill for Ireland outlines power limits for the Irish Parliament. It bars legislation on crown status and succession, foreign relations, war and peace, military matters, religious endowments, customs duties, and major state functions. The Queen retains prerogatives to summon dissolve and veto laws. Ireland may tax only with the Queen’s recommendation. church property remains with the Irish people. The Lord Lieutenant will govern with appointed officers and councils and grant assent to Irish bills.
New York April 18 Dr Louis Sheffield who pardoned his former servant Arthur Williamson after he served a year in Albany for stealing a team and clothing now has him back in custody on charges of stealing from the house. Williamson allegedly loaded goods worth about 900 into a Saratoga trunk and a hamper and fled with them and stole Mrs Sheffield sealskin dolman and fur. Detectives traced him to the Cosmopolitan Hotel where the bulk of the goods were found in his room, leaving the dolman and fur coat unaccounted for.
Vienna reports a great catastrophe as Stry in Galicia is almost totally destroyed by fire. About 600 houses burned and hundreds killed. A high wind aided spread with one street collapsing killing a hundred. Town hall station and telegraph office ruined. Many wounded sent to Lemberg two miles away. Numerous missing. relief funds and food collected locally.
In Fart River Mass on April 18 authorities investigated Mrs. John H. Cook who lost seven children twelve years ago. She roams Radway Street seeking the dead, muttering the children are hidden in walls and burying food beneath the floor. Food was found hidden under the floor and the odor was strong. She is likely to be sent to the asylum.
ScRanton reports Mr Powderly will travel to Washington to testify before the Special Congressional Committee investigating the strike on Gould's Southwestern railroads. General Worthy Foreman Griffith of Chicago will also go to Washington to give live testimony and will establish headquarters in Philadelphia until the end of Powderly’s term on January 1.
On April 19 New York all street car lines except the Eighth and Ninth avenues were tied up by an Executive Board action of the Empire Association in sympathy with Third Avenue strikers. The board accuses line presidents of league with the strikers to defeat each line, aiming to force Third Avenue to yield. Confusion and bitterness follow as service halts extend and workers protest the widespread tie up.
A general cholera scare grips Southern Europe and reaches England as The Lancet and medical journals urge British seaports to tighten sanitary defenses. Quarantine services must be vigilant to prevent the spread, with authorities warned of imminent arrival in the coming days or weeks.
About 100 afternoon newsboys gathered in front of the Evening News office demanding two pence per paper, up from one. They attacked a boy who tried to take papers, tearing his papers. few papers are being sold outside the office, while The Journal reports no trouble.
New York reports a Japanese man’s misguided love pursuit exposing a private detective service guarding the Vanderbilt Astor and Gould residences. Three years into existence the system uses twenty detectives per family, with eight hour shifts and coordinated patrols along Fifth Avenue between Thirty third and Fifty second streets to prevent approaches by cranks. William H. Vanderbilt initiated the scheme after receiving numerous cranky letters.
In Wasson Tennessee on April 18 William and Daniel Kent accosted Miss Soards. Her brother Lewis aged seventeen learned of the incident and shot at the two Kent men. Dan Kent was mortally wounded and the other lost his left arm before being jailed.
John Carpenter, condemned for the in New York two years ago, killed himself in his Tombs cell by slitting his jugular vein and severing an arm vein. He was fifty years old and had twice previously made suicide attempts.
A Waco Texas special reports Tobe Jackson was arrested near Reagan Falls County and brought to Nashville. He is wanted in Barton County Iowa to answer for dynamite explosions at the residence of the county judge and at the home of evangelist Sam Jones.
A $20,000 shipment of gold bars to Europe was sent Saturday with little Wall Street reaction. Assay office engagements rose to $1,000,000 yesterday. The consignments are believed aimed at Paris and the continent. The export movement resumes amid the foreign exchange situation, drawing some surprise.
Michael Crowley of Pitts Street South Side attempted to light a fire with carbon oil this afternoon. The oil exploded, setting a blaze that consumed five dwellings before firemen could control it. Loss estimated at 16000 dollars with small insurance.
New York report states Miss Frances Folsom of Buffalo travels to America with her mother and brother and will sail May 18. Rumors persist that she will wed President Cleveland at the White House in June.
New York April 16. The business failures in the United States and Canada total 182 for the last seven days, down from 215 the prior week and 214 the week before. The decline is substantial and evenly distributed across regions.
New York on April 16 reports that Dr. Thomas Yavier of Merrick a wealthy resident and expert worksman attempted to shoot at a tomato from his coachman s lead and accidentally put a bullet through his brain. The accident alarms locals as authorities investigate the peculiar incident and the motive remains unclear.
Albany April 18. The New York Legislature passed a bill the Governor signed, mandating twelve hours a day for all horse car workers in New York and Brooklyn.
A lengthy April sequence shows Senate open executive sessions debated by Platt and Butler while House debated Hurd Romers case, property seizures from the Civil War era, and numerous public works bills. Bills on fisheries, Indian affairs, river and harbor, and tobacco manufactories dominate, with adjournments and executive sessions continuing through April 19.
The Rome sanitary board confirms Asiatic cholera in Brindisi and orders quarantine for all arrivals from Brindisi to Adriatic ports for one week. Elsewhere, Bavaria’s king halts palace building and plans debt repayments in annual £550,000 installments. Prussian authorities move to curb student political agitation. Germany refuses recognition of explorer Richard’s Tanganyika claim.
Reports from Montreal say the nuns on St. Pauls Island near New York are in a precarious state as floodwaters force them into attics and ice blocks all access. Rescue is hindered by the surrounding ice floes.
Leavenworth Kansas reports Prof Foster will tell tomorrow's Times that a hurricane will form near the Gulf during the great storm period from April 15 to 20 and move up the Southeast Atlantic Coast. A parallel cold wave will sweep the Northwest into the South, bringing heavy frosts as far south as Tennessee and Southern Kansas.
The Hartford Post notes that land in Connecticut where pine trees were planted years ago now carries timber value of one hundred dollars per acre. The report highlights the rapid valuation shift as timber gains appeal and markets respond to forest resources.
Two women in a doorway at a house eight miles from New Caste were struck by lightning and killed. Local authorities reported the incident occurring on a clear April day as residents described the scene. The tragedy adds to recent weather dangers observed in the area.
A darky preacher in Waco lines out a hymn from memory, declaring a plunge into a gulf of dark despair. He proclaims sinners must emerge from darkness as the congregation listens in solemn vigil.
Captain Cannon sues an ecclesiastical figure for twenty bone in delta damages for libel. The contested case centers on alleged defamatory statements and the seek for monetary redress.
Columbus reports show Senate bills introduced on April 13 including murder for killing during a felony and probate courts handling Boys Industrial School commitments. April 14 saw bills passed for roster publication and water works grants. Rowne named penitentiary manager. Irish sympathy resolutions. April 15 covered general appropriation work and National Guard laws. Payne charges hearings noted. April 16 added appropriations, candy adulteration controls, and penalties. Payne investigation findings approved. Harlan salary issue debated.
A long Washington and Ohio notices digest lists state bond taxation issues, political moves, and local incidents. It covers Wallaces death though mostly notes on bonds, elections, postmaster nominations, a murder case, a surrogate list of crimes, a insane verdict, and a long Governor Foraker letter arguing constitutional taxation of state bonds, with history from the 1850s convention and calls for uniform revaluation. The piece intertwines legal questions, local accidents, and political predictions from Ohio and beyond.
In a fragmentary account from Washe diyion Critic, a young man and woman discuss chores when a clock is absent in a hotel room. The man hints it is about nine o'clock, while the woman misjudges the time, thinking it later, and he departs shortly after.
A Dakotian, with little to do, sketches a proposed railroad in his woodshed using chalk on a single map. The announcement notes the usual number of new lines being declared, reflecting ongoing expansion in the region.
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