20 Aug 1891
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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1891
Page
1
An old advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a remedy for functional disorders and weaknesses with a promise of guaranteed satisfaction or money back. It also markets Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as cleansing and renovating the liver stomach and bowels to relieve headaches constipation indigestion and bilious attacks.
A mosaic of reports covers immigration sentiment in Mexico, female bus conductors in California, opinions on electrocution, and a tally of financial assets in California banks. It cites speed records, new patents, factory builds in Japan, Chicago mail leadership, statehood talks for Arizona, and swift horse and train performances. Other notes include Australian gold output, Chickasaw Nation policy, Australasian trade, and vast sums in Armour’s 63 million dollars in transactions. The list also references imperial visits, Russian and French ties, weathered longevity claims, and notable figures such as Senator Cameron and Mona Carlo.
Miss Alice Morrison woke to find a man in her room but he fled when she leveled a revolver. Mrs. Robert Piper fought off a burglar at 71 South York Street, later injuring him with a heavy jar and wash pitcher. Neighbors described the fleeing suspect as the scene left Mrs. Piper hysterical and later insane.
San Francisco Examiner Alaska correspondent notes on August 7 that during a cruise near the seal islands H M steamers warned six sealers including the Pheasant U S Mohican Thetis and Alert. Several were fired upon to halt. only one schooner escaped. About fifty schooners have been warned and a future warship cruise may pose serious consequences for poachers. On July 28 the Corwin seized the sealing schooner Ethel of San Diego.
A Pekin dispatch notes that the Powers intend to compel China to safeguard foreigners within its borders. Representatives of several Powers sent a fresh note to China condemning outrages by Chinese mobs against missions and missionaries in the Yangtse Kiang valley and demanding immediate protective steps.
In Leadville's Bohn shaft near Harrison Avenue miners struck a rich vein of silver ore after drilling to 812 feet. Assays show ore ranging from 200 to 300 ounces of silver per ton, marking the richest find in the district for years.
Over two days fourteen convicts fled from Tennessee Coal Mining Co. mines at Briceville Tennessee. The break follows a miners' plan to release prisoners in small groups to avoid bloodshed or militia deployment.
The five year old son of Charles Adams of Ashland Massachusetts died after being treated at the Pasteur Institute in New York for a supposed mad dog bite. Authorities believe hydrophobia caused the death though the children were discharged as cured around August 1.
The acting secretary of state received a telegram via the British minister from the Marquis of Salisbury. The queen expresses regret at the news of Mr. Lowell’s death. By presidential direction a copy was sent to the deceased’s family.
Acting Postmaster-General Whitfield ruled that postal cards altered by trimming edges for advertising cannot be mailed. Citizens must stop mutilating cards or the department will treat them as unmailable.
Henry P. Wolcott, physician to Mr. Lowell, states the death was caused by a liver tumor. The ailment appeared about eighteen months ago, and after a gallant fight the poet succumbed to the illness.
Baron and Baroness Von Schroeder sailed for Hamburg on the Fuerst Bismarck Thursday. They reside in San Francisco and New York bound travel set a record pace for regular trains, covering 2900 miles in four days sixteen hours and fifty minutes.
Agents of the anthracite producing companies met in New York on Thursday and ordered a fifteen cent per ton advance to take effect September.
A massive blast at a Central City powder mill near Catlettsburg Ky killed three men and injured several others. About 14 000 pounds of powder burned, with debris and bodies scattered over a wide area. J W Bales of Huntington disappeared, later parts found. George Wells suffered a fractured skull. The blast obliterated the mill building with most traces gone.
Simple but impressive funeral rites for James Russell Lowell were held at Appleton Chapel Cambridge Mass at noon Friday. Bishop Phillips Brooks and Rev William Lawrence led the service as a large gathering of literati and professionals attended. Honorary pallbearers included Dr C W Holmes Christopher P Cranch John Holmes Charles Elliott Norton William Dean Howells John Bartlett and Harvard President Charles W Eliot.
Telegram from City of Mexico says ashes ceased to fall but fire column remains. Lava streams several feet wide burn everything in their path as Colima’s governor sends a commission to study the eruption. Also reports brig Acbar ashore off Tuxpan with complete crew saved.
Lake Benton and Fulda areas suffered severe hail storms. In Lake Benton a 4 ounce hail shower shattered glass for ten minutes, likely costing up to 2000 dollars. Uncut grain was ruined countywide, and crops across the region including corn flax and small grains faced major damage. Fulda reports hail larger than goose eggs, hundreds of windows broken, trees stripped, and most crops devastated with less than a third of the wheat oats and barley remaining.
The counsel for Martha Millen, a colored woman slated for hanging in Chester South Carolina Friday for poisoning her husband, has secured a stay of proceedings and carried the case to the state supreme court.
The funeral of Mr. George Jones of the New York Times was held Friday from All Souls Church on Madison Avenue. Rev. Dr Heber Newton officiated. Floral decorations were notably beautiful.
In Abingdon Virginia Dr. Baker was found guilty by a jury Friday morning of murdering his wife by poison. The verdict ends a high profile case and will lead to sentencing in the coming weeks.
Police in Moscow have received secret orders that will expel every Jew from the district within two months, signaling a sweeping anti Jewish crackdown and forced relocation across the region.
Hipolito Gonales Fermin Perez and Bonifacio Valdes were executed in Havana on Thursday after being convicted of kidnapping.
A Bar Harbor planned spectacle will simulate a shipwreck to test life saving service, using the schooner S. P. Adaw as the sacrificed craft. W. G. Milliken leads the event with Cranberry Island crew ready to rescue, drawing praise and concern over risking lives for entertainment.
W H Ellis of Texas promotes a scheme to move Afro-Americans to Mexico to own and prosper in a state within five years. He cites favorable reception among many and cites potential labor losses as a race-solution, noting six thousand names seeking departure from southern states and discussing cotton land concessions and higher prices.
A balloon ascent at Manhattan Beach near Denver on a Sunday afternoon drew thousands to witness Prof King and a newly married couple riding in the basket. At eight thousand feet a storm struck, the craft burst and plunged. The silk parachuted to slow the fall, but the trio were hurled to a corn field seven miles away and lay unconscious for hours.
A controversial figure described as the so-called Negro Messiah preached Sunday in St. Pauls London to a large attentive audience. His sermon urged equal Christian status for the descendants of Ham, with pointed appeals to their historical role in the world.
Frankie Lavelle, a female parachute jumper, died Saturday afternoon after detaching from a balloon above Coney Island. She fell several hundred feet and suffered fatal blunt force injuries. her death ends a balloon ascent act common at the summer resort.
The French wheat crop is put at ninety million hectoliters with a deficit of thirty two million. As a result the customs surtax on wheat will be suspended for one year.
Lieut. Schriven, the commissioner to Central America for the Latin American departments, reports that the government of Salvador will erect its own buildings at Jackson Park.
Following a wheat surge in Rochester, millers raise flour prices by about seventy five cents. Major mills rely on western wheat and are buying sparingly, predicting the rise may be temporary. Local wheat fetched one dollar last week.
Treasury department shipments to western points total $3,840,000 this month for transporting crops. Overall moved funds exceed $6,000,000 since the crop movement began, reflecting substantial support for agricultural distribution.
Describing Salton Sea in Southern California, reports indicate the desert lake is becoming permanent with water rising three-fourths of an inch daily. Government figures show Colorado River flow increasing to high levels, diverting vast volumes toward the gulf and desert.
A Cullman county citizen reports the white mob known as White Caps hanged Monroe Evans and his son John Evans at Baileytown, near Cullman, fifteen miles west of town, after arrest for an alleged shooting. The pair were captured Saturday night, overpowered guards, and strung to a tree. The incident sparked intense countywide turmoil and fear.
Ohio items report 26 001 school children in Columbus and requests for address information by Mrs Fannie Rapp of New Castle Ind for soldiers of Company D 165th Ohio Volunteers. Several accidents and crimes are noted including a union township man severing a leg in a saw mill accident near Newark, Judge Carpenter’s fatal fall in Akron, and a forgery pardon for William McDonald. Additional notes cover oil wells in St Marys and Hancock counties, Springfield gas service, and local civic events from Wooster to Cleveland.
An Italian ascent at Macerata ends in tragedy as a balloonist plunges from the craft over the Adriatic. He falls into the sea and drowns, while the balloon rises after shedding weight and drifts beyond sight.
Two deaths and twenty four illnesses followed drinking water from a foul well near Milwaukee Wisconsin. John Engal died on Thursday and a daughter of Jacob Bassai, who owned the premises, also died. A nearby marsh is suspected as the contamination source as water may have seeped into the well.
Iowa unveils an unprecedented cereal harvest with oats the star. Expected yields range from sixty to seventy bushels per acre and up to one hundred bushels in places, with oats weighing thirty four to forty pounds per bushel. Railroads race to add grain cars to handle the anticipated volume.
The Platte river valley from Oakland Mills north and east appeared like an inland ocean on Monday as the river rose out of its banks for nearly a mile on both sides. Waters moved swiftly, trapping many farmers who could not save their livestock or relocate to safety.
The Russian minister of finance states rye yield at 711 million poods with demand at 994 million poods to meet people’s needs and sowing needs. To cover the deficit, the country must rely on potatoes and maize.
Belvedere Illinois endures a heat wave as sun baked ground turns hard. Corn in the milk stage shrivels and stalks dry under the dry weather. Officials fear the yield may be less than a quarter of a crop.
Monday evening Rev. William T. Currie rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church his daughter Ruth Currie thirteen and Miss Dora Van Kirk fourteen were all drowned while bathing in the Red river at Grand Forks North Dakota.
News from Berlin reports a government plan to purchase wheat meal for the army and large contracts with American grain dealers, following a recent advance in cereals that Monday failed to hold.
A Florida resident named William Allibone keeps an alligator that scavenges household refuse, while a barn near Portland, Maine was struck by lightning and set ablaze. The bolt also broke a water pipe feeding a main, and the ensuing water flow helped extinguish the fire.
A collage of brief jokes and witticisms drawn from various papers. One item notes a man losing his voice after singing, another quips about a vanishing flavor in marriage, and a dental bill anecdote ends with a humorous portrait of a husband reacting to his wife chewing with a dentist’s teeth.
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