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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1885
Page
1
A wide blend of curiosities and social notes touches on English and American life. Topics include women in various professions and fields, church pew pricing, schooling, and a pearly find on the Western Australian coast. Prominent individuals such as Joan Jervis and Ferdinando Ward are noted, alongside political figures, war anxieties, and cultural tidbits from theaters to parlor amusements.
Seventeen patients at the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane in Kanxakees were cremated as a furnace room blaze swept a pine infirmary at 4 50 AM. Forty five patients were inside along with six attendants and one night watchman. Thirteen bodies recovered. seventeen missing. One state senator’s brother, Thomas Herely, is among the burned. The hospital building is a total wreck and the fire exposed lack of appropriations for care and safety.
John Bishey and his two sons, near Hilliard Mo., poured whiskey and kerosene in an old Sisney house and set a cat ablaze. Miller exposed the scheme at a quilting bee. Charles Sisney assaulted him, then Miller fired a shotgun wounding Charles but not killing him. Sisney vanished from home.
The Boston Advertiser reports that soon 500000 volumes may fill the Congressional Library catalogues with many unbound pamphlets and papers. The current storage behind the Capitol causes waste through mildew heat dust and damage while awaiting the new building and its transfer under Librarian Ainsworth R Spofford. Congress delays action on funding.
Tremont Pennsylvania January 18 five men perished when a boiler at Abraham Ernst’s saw mill exploded near Good Spring Station on the Reading Railroad corridor. Victims included Alfred Ernst Henry Caller Jacob Gehres and two unnamed workers. Gehres the engineer died near the boiler with mangled remains scattered up to five hundred yards away. The blast was audible over five miles.
Miles City Montana January 16. The thermometer marked fifty one degrees below here at four this morning. Some small losses of sheep are reported but cowboys who came in today say cattle condition is about as it was this time last year. So today the thermometer averaged ten degrees below.
The article playful suggests the Duke and Duchess of Teck for the Congo throne amid American influence in Central Africa. It notes the Belgian royal couple’s appeal and the Queen's hauteur since her daughter wed the Austrian heir, while critiquing weak wire pulling by the King and Queen.
Maprim reports another earthquake shock felt in Granada on January 16 renewing panic among inhabitants. No casualties are listed, but tremors prompted residents to flee homes and seek safety in open streets and plazas. Local authorities advised calm and orderly shelter as aftershocks continued.
A farmer William Druse has been missing for a month. His wife and nephew Frank Gates confess they killed him, burned the body, boiled the flesh for hogs, and hid the ashes in a swamp. The boy aided, claiming the wife forced him to shoot twice and sawed off the head. Coroner and district attorney investigate three weeks after the discovery of odor and unusual smoke.
In the Philadelphia Times report Superintendent Walker describes telegraphers' paralysis from battery work and shocks. He details arm numbness, limited daily tasks, long treatment without relief, and notes veteran operators are often struck. Superintendent Gill confirms years of service heightens risk and that minor machine issues are blamed before acknowledging loss of touch.
London reports say the government will resist any Turkish move to occupy or land troops in Egypt. War Office orders disrupt naval bases at Portsmouth and Woolwich. Malta battalion sails to Alexandria aboard Poonah. Foreign talks involve Hassan Fehmi Pasha and Musurus Pasha as Britain weighs terms of possible intervention and withdrawal. The Times notes ministers face a pivotal decision on Egypt policy amid rising tension.
In Hornellsville Nevada Dr W R Champion of Cochran Station was killed by trains on the Allegheny Valley Railroad. The report notes she had recently married and was a young widow. A separate incident recounts a frightened woman fleeing from tramps to a neighbor’s house where she collapsed and died shortly after.
In Washington on January 16 the House Naval Affairs Committee formed a sub committee to study distributing the Greeley relief ships and Boutelle urged repairing the Alert and returning it to Britain with Congress’s thanks. The panel, by a tie, refused to probe Cadet Strang’s Naval Academy death citing lack of sufficient evidence.
In KaLaMazoo Mica on January 19 Geo and Ray Sweet sons of Officer Sweet played doctor. George climbed a clock to fetch a packing of powder his father kept there and gave some to Ray for a stomach ache. Ray convulsed and died after the remaining powder, identified as strychnine, was found nearby.
In Wheeling on January 19 James E. Craig, a young man from Claysville Pennsylvania, wandered six miles from home naked except for his underclothes. He traveled sixteen miles total, was found by a friend who cared for him as his feet were frozen. Surgeons removed dead flesh. Craigs condition remained dangerous. He has a history of insanity for some time.
Vienna report: a heavy avalanche overwhelmed a large part of Klagenfurt the capital of Carinthia Austro-Hungary. Twenty dead many injured as about three thousand dig for bodies relief efforts move victims to hospitals and shelters. Geneva dispatch: another slide buries a small village near Simplon Mountain ten feet deep.
The first of five balloon ascensions for the U S Army Signal Service was flown today. An officer carried instruments for meteorological observations. The balloon landed in New Jersey.
In Charlestown West Virginia on January 18, three Burns sisters Annie Blanche and Jennie living in St Albans fell gravely ill after breakfast using water from a barrel. Doctors confirmed arsenic in the barrel water and investigators seek how it occurred as the women remain seriously ill.
Washington January 16 The annual Department of Agriculture report in press records 1884 corn production at 1 795 000 000 bushels, wheat near 513 000 000, and oats 583 000 000. These totals are the largest ever recorded.
Louis Parsall, fourteen, at 274 Smith Street, examined a rifle thought unloaded and accidentally fired, hitting his sister Lizzie in the head. The boy was arrested and held for Coroner action.
In Grand Rapids Michigan on January 18 a court awarded George Huretein eight thousand dollars in damages after being kicked down stairs by Ransom C. Luce. Luce’s actions led to a sustained personal injury verdict.
Senate passed bill retiring General Grant with full rank and pay by 46 to 9. House debated Revenue Commission. pension raise for General Thomas’s widow proposed. DC officials seek 16000 for inaugural security. Mississippi bridge project approved. Oregon Central land grant. tobacco and spirits laws discussed. Anthony tribute and finance bills noted.
State lawmakers met in Columbus with Senate bills on public works and inspection reform. House measures included tax, school funding, and anti burglary provisions, plus debates on penitentiary inquiry and Hocking Valley troubles. Prominent items cite Ohio Coal Exchange disputes, canal usage for Cincinnati, and rail safety proposals.
The Pall Mall Gazette recounts George Smith's brutal early life as a bricklayer's son and his rise to champion 30 000 brickyard children and 60 000 canalboat youths. Through relentless campaigning, Parliament passes the Brickyards act of 1871 and Canalboats act, enabling education and escape to humanity for tens of thousands, though Smith faces destitution He is praised for selfless philanthropy amid a nation spending much on royal pursuits.
The Philadelphia elevated railroad venture adopts New York style safeguards. It bears a defined liability of 211 damages, must pay five percent of gross receipts to the city, and before construction deposits bonds totaling one million dollars with the City Treasurer.
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