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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1894
Page
1
In a Detroit era tale a widow and her sick son Tom struggle in freezing rooms with rent unpaid and scarce food. A local high roller reforms after a chance encounter, pledging to quit cards and drink as he helps the family and a druggist refuses medicine, revealing Tenant hardship and charity.
An imperfect verse from Annis Chase in Boston speaks of the Old Year slipping away under a tattered hood. The poem imagines the crown of thorns as perhaps precious beyond a king’s adornment while asking if the future prince will bring more joy to the people.
A dialogue from the Indianapolis Journal quotes two girls discussing Freddie Twigginns on New Year’s Day. One asks if he was seen. the other says he had skates on and repeats “Skates,” noting the remark as “snow shots.”
Gen Yamagata's second division pursued Chinese forces from Kai-Ping to Kung-Wasai, where 10,000 Chinese defenders under Gen Sung held against five Japanese batteries. Oshima's brigade reinforced, and after five hours of fierce fighting Katsura ordered three bayonet charges, driving the Chinese to flee toward Ying-Kow with heavy losses.
Police jailed John E. Bush and E. C. Crick after finding seven rifles at their home and arresting Joseph Nawahi on the same charge. W. F. Weed Emil Kiemslo ugh and others were involved as searches recovered weapons and ammunition. Bail was refused as authorities prepare to present evidence against the conspirators.
Sub treasury officials report exporters using schemes to move light weight and counterfeit coins to obtain gold bars stamped with government fineness. With 46 million dollars in gold, the treasury refuses to redeem paper in gold, while bankers and exporters contend with the loopholes. A private detective sought help tracing two gold bars alleged smuggling from Mexico.
A posse pursuing Waverly Pike killed three more Black men ten miles above Quitman, raising total victims to seven. The mob holds Pike’s wife, believed to know his location, as a wave of deadly vengeance follows the Isom murder and related white man killings. In Augusta, a Black man named Wigging killed and wounded, then a chase ended with the capture of the gunman after he wounded and killed several, while police stopped a lynching and thanked a new criminal law for safety.
A brief moralative note quotes Sam's Horn on deceit and virtue. It urges avoiding what bad men favor and keeping God’s tasks within easy reach, presenting a concise, aphoristic reflection rather than a narrative.
Wueat has been cultivated in Exro since prehistoric times as shown by ethics era monuments testifying to grain cultivation.
Harold G. Butt a 26 year old cashier for Hammer slough Bros clothiers at 698 Broad Way was a prisoner in Tombs court on Sunday charged with embezzling 16000 of the firm's money. The firm trusted him as stock taking revealed a short cash balance.
From Brazoria Indiana December 24 report says three miners were fatally injured Saturday morning when slate fell at the shaft. The incident details a fatal mining accident with all three workers reported dead.
George Wilson of Cincinnati arrived in Wurresixe on December 24 and is walking around the four borders of the United States on a wager with the Nonpareil club of Cincinnati. He is footsore and weary but intends to continue the journey for a year.
Dec 24 Lospex reports Mrs William Waldorf Astor has died at Cliveden on the Thames. The body will be embalmed and transported to New York for burial.
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