26 Feb 1891
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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1891
Page
1
A fragmented complaint about misleading advertising and guarantees for a medicine. The text questions the efficacy and trustworthiness of sellers and dilemmas customers face when faced with “faith in a medicine” and guarantees. The pieces mention Dr Pierce and assurances of results.
Mr James J McCalley of Monet Missouri says he suffered dyspepsia for eight years causing a wrecked health. After trying remedies and doctors he stopped treatments and used Swift s Specific. He gained from 114 to 188 pounds and became healthy again.
Brief survey notes rapid Nicaragua canal work, the Mexico tunnel plan, and assorted items: O'Reilly funds, Earl of Portsmouth, Newton, shoe string paper method, Savannah settlement 1733, Berlin monument fund, Arbor Day timing, patent office growth, Duke of Bedford suicides, tobacco costs in Missouri, Wales royal wedding anniversary, Admiral Porter succession, Piedmont Company, Wales root gourd, olive factory California, a Lowell clergyman paid one dollar, Russian royalty counts, tea consumption per head, Bombay rainfall act, New York surgeon quotes, ocean temp at 3 500 feet, Mrs Garfield mourning, Norwegian tourist stats, Arkansas census, Stuttgart housing firm, Narragansett chimney cap, widower marrying sister-in-law bill, Sherman sleep habits, English concert erratum, Koch lymph tuberculosis research, yellow tea prices, Columbus statue funding, Brazilian tariff talks, Henry Cabot Lodge candy habit, New Haven judge slot theft case, Irish rebel Lennon's pike, Morissonier anti-American notes, 1888 Congress changes, Rome population surge.
Ohio state news from the Fifty first Congress covering senate and house actions in Washington February 17 to 23. It details credentials, amendments, appropriation bills, pension measures, canal debates, post office and judiciary actions, and Ohio state items including county bills, appointments, and notable local incidents. Named persons include McKinley Payson Cannon Sherman Bracket and multiple state officials.
Desolation spreads along the Ohio and Little Kanawha fronts in Parkersburg West Virginia as the gauge reads 44 feet 3 inches at 8 a.m. and climbs one inch per hour. Skiffs and rafts ferry families from homes on second stories while uptown refugees crowd the streets. Riverside is completely underwater, rail depots flood, mills and factories along the Kanawha face massive losses, and thousands are left homeless and financially ruined as water levels rise.
A Friday morning crash in the middle railway tunnel of Fourth Avenue near Eighty-fifth Street New York between two New York New Haven and Hartford trains killed six and injured several workers. The New Haven local departing Grand Central at 7:02 struck an empty-car train bound for Mott Haven yard, the blaze spreading due to a strong tunnel draft. A second collision followed as a northbound light engine struck the wreck.
Reports from towns along West Virginia rivers detail flood damages near 500000 dollars. New Cumberland floods drown out major brick and pottery works, Wellsburg and New Martinsville see fifteen foot waters ruining dozens of homes. Eureka field losses top a heavy toll with sixty oil derricks washed away.
National City Bank in New York failed to open its safe Friday morning and needed to borrow money to operate for the day. Rumors of solvency arose but were dispelled once experts finally opened the safe after five hours of work, confirming the bank’s strength.
A sled with fifteen riders coasting down Howard street Burlington Vermont ran into a snowbank near the railroad track. A projecting switch rod pierced Mrs. John Fennell's left eye and entered the brain causing instant death. Mrs. Lizzie Wynne suffered a broken jaw and collarbone, with three others slightly injured.
The House Coinage Committee on Friday voted 8 to 4 to report the Senate Free Coinage Bill adversely with a recommendation that it do not pass. The four dissenters were Messrs. Garter, Martine, Bland and Williams. No compromise could be arranged in committee.
The Governor of West Virginia approved several measures including a bill banning employment of children under twelve in mines and shops and a bill prohibiting sale of cigarettes and opium to minors under sixteen.
At Adgar Mines near Birmingham Alabama Ben Jefferson four miner was killed when slate fell his son in law Bill Thomas was fatally hurt in the same accident.
A Baptist minister in Davidson County Tennessee has been arrested and charged with illicit distilling. The case outlines serious accusations against the clergyman, with authorities pursuing legal action and potential penalties.
Miss Annette Leech forty eight housekeeper for Henry Kimball Illington died Friday morning of hydrophobia from a cat bite last November. Spasms began February tenth and she had suffered terribly since. Woodruff's Shortage Made Good in Little Rock Bondsmen paid sixty four thousand three hundred twenty three dollars to Treasurer Morrow to cover the currency fund shortfall, totaling ninety six thousand eight hundred dollars.
The New York ship Elizabeth ran aground on the rocks at North Head near Tennessee Cove, fourteen crew and four rescuers drowned. Captain, seventeen sailors, and others perished as lifeboats capsized and tides overwhelmed efforts. Tugboats searched the beach while Port Point lifesaving crew faced heavy seas. Captain Henry drowned during rescue. The vessel broke apart by dawn, leaving a total loss four miles north of the harbor.
Five miners trapped eighteen days in Slope No 1 at Janesville Pennsylvania were rescued alive at 11 30 Monday. Names: John Tomaskusky Joe Mastuskowich John Berno Bosco Frinko and an unknown Hungarian visiting Berno. Thirteen bodies previously recovered bring total to eighteen. Medical aid, blankets, and careful extraction followed.
The Mississippi River at Memphis rose to 33 feet 4 inches Sunday night, nine inches above danger line, and climbs four to five inches daily. Over three weeks the level gained sixteen feet, higher here than upstream or downstream due to Arkansas railroad embankments. Banks overflow may reach Cairo with four more feet, while locals build livestock mounds. West Memphis faces backwater threat.
Jack Daum of near Columbus Indiana reports a rabid dog attacked his stock after he chased away another dog. The fighting animal bit Daum’s dog and a valuable milch cow in his barn, both later killed after going mad. Hundreds of dogs and cattle in the area have been bitten and killed in recent days due to rabid dogs.
At Pittsburgh Pa late Saturday night James Blackstock shot Mrs Edward Thomas in the breast inflicting a probably fatal wound He had lived with the woman since her husband died from an alleged overdose of chloral Mrs Blackstock wife of the shooter exclaimed dreams preceded the event with household witnesses confirming the detail.
The forged telegram claimed to be from Secretary of State J. G. Blaine read at Fair Haven spike-driving ceremonies on February 14. Investigators traced authorship to Garrish and P. D. Harkness of the Pacific Postal Telegraph at Blaine.
At the Des Moines coroner's inquiry into the death of Protzman the Christian Scientist patient, testimony showed attendants fed the delirious patient with large sausage pieces raw turnips crab apples sauerkraut and pigs feet.
Edward Davy a 60 year old man in a drunken state wandered from a nearby area into an open field near Indianapolis Indiana where he undressed and lay down to sleep. He was found dead the next day having frozen to death.
Frank Holland, 21, mistook his sister Laura, 23, for a burglar in Philadelphia early Sunday morning and fatally wounded her. Though alive Sunday night, her death was expected. He was arrested but released after bail was posted.
A blast at the Casterline and Castell magazine one mile from Findlay released forty-eight gallons of nitro glycerine. The shock was reported felt as far as forty miles away, with no further details on casualties or causes.
A bitter feud between the Sunday Capital and Sunday World in Columbus, Ohio, led to a shootout on the main thoroughfare after 1 PM during a Washington birthday parade. W J Elliott and Al Osborn exchanged fire in a hat store, killing Osborn and a bystander, injuring others. Patsy Elliott and Elliott brothers fled to the station house.
A U S marshal and posse found a robbers cave near Tishomingo in the Chickasaw nation. Inside lay stolen goods and a chained white man named Wm Henderson from near West Union Iowa, starving after over a month of captivity. He was said to have been kept for ransom and was last fed five days before the robbers left.
Five lives lost near Kansas City in a Missouri river flood caused by heavy snow and rain. Frederick Warner, a German fisherman, lived with his wife and three children in a riverbank house undermined by rising waters. Neighbors rushed to assist but could not save them.
A great revival is under way in Clarksburg Virginia with crowds filling churches at every service. Many converts are reported and engaged in exuberant reactions. Sunday night a young woman named Delworth fell into a trance and remained unconscious for hours until doctors revived her early Monday morning.
Richard W. Walker of Huntsville Alabama was appointed Monday as the fifth justice of the state supreme court by Governor Jones under the new act. Born in Florence Alabama on March 11 1857 he graduated from Princeton College and practiced law in New York City. The appointment is described as highly satisfactory and he is regarded as the ablest lawyer of his age in the state.
Senator Blair Monday announced amendments from the agriculture committee to create a division of silk culture within the agricultural department. The bill aims to develop and promote the silk-worm industry across the United States.
The house committee on census denied New York City's request for a recount. The decision halts further efforts to adjust the official population total for the city.
The nomination of Charles Foster to be secretary of the treasury was laid before the senate Monday and referred in the usual course to the committee on finance.
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania reports say at the next Knights of Labor executive board meeting territory leader Powderly will resign and retire. His doctor warned another heart attack like Omaha’s could prove fatal. He has suffered two heart disease episodes to date.
Acting Secretary Nettleton amends Treasury sugar rules to require samples representing shade 14 D. S. for examiners to determine which sugars may be delivered free at the wharf and which require further examination, affecting entry of sugar.
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