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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1882
Page
1
A long compendium notes an assassination attempt on the President of Hayti. It also reports chilling events from 1881 such as a seven-building fire in Atlanta with half a million in losses, brutal mob justice in Lebanon Pa, and a sensational shipwreck near Balize. It mentions breadstuffs export decline and political moves in Madrid about a Rome pilgrimage.
Scoville fumes at a supposed conspiracy against Guiteau, naming the District Attorney Judge Porter and five government experts. He reads the indictment, accuses perverted testimony, and derides Garfield era politics as he pushes for a guilty verdict. Guiteau then rails about insanity law and defends his actions in a dramatic jury address.
A German woman living in Chicago died last week after contracting trichine from eating raw pork several weeks earlier. The case highlights risks tied to undercooked meat and food safety.
A historic report notes 63000 insane persons in the United States, about one in 177. The Foreign Emigration Alliance announces it will stop sending Jewish emigrants to America as part of a broader emigration policy.
A renowned stallion named Harold, brother to the famed Iroquois, has died. His owner declined a $15,000 offer for him last summer, underscoring his value and renown in the racing world.
Lees report the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers overflowed causing heavy property loss and human suffering across affected areas with widespread damage and relief needs.
Berlin issues proclamation stating the cattle plague has been eradicated throughout Germany. Official sentence confirms nationwide success and signals end of widespread livestock disease concerns.
The Senate Pension Committee agreed to provide Mrs Lincoln with 15000 dollars in cash and raise her annual pension to 5000 dollars.
A large fire at Pittsburg last week destroyed Hilliard and Stewarts foundry, a major establishment, and ten three story tenement houses. The incident caused extensive damage and impacted local industry and housing without reported fatalities.
At the Army of Northern Virginia reunion in New Orleans Jefferson Davis declared that the Confederate cause was not lost but only sleeping, asserting the spirit remains alive and future revival possible.
Miss Anna Dickinson appeared as Hamlet in Rochester last week delivering a notable performance with a touch of effeminacy and earning strong praise for the interpretation and success.
Inquest into the Spuyten Duyvil disaster indicates the accident was partly due to drunken passengers who tampered with the air brakes. The finding points to human interference as a contributing factor to the wreck.
The dead body of Walter Powell the lost aeronaut who vanished after being carried to sea from England on December 10 has been found with his wrecked balloon in a Spanish mountain region.
Walter E. Malley James Malley and Blanche Douglas of New Haven Conn indicted by the Grand Jury for murder in the first degree for killing Jennie Cramer on the fifth of last August.
During a bullfight in Matanzas Cuba a scaffolding collapse sent about 300 spectators to the stalls below. One person died and several were hurt in the accident that struck as the fight was underway.
The New York Board of Aldermen directed the Hudson River Railroad cut at Spuyten Duyvil to be sighted and patrolled with a flagman placed at each end after a recent terrible accident.
Chas Berryadge of Bradford Pennsylvania employed by Roberts Torpedo Company in Bolivar New York was carrying two cans of nitroglycerin when he stumbled and exploded into atoms the incident destroying him and scattering debris.
In Leadville Colorado E Wade and John Lacy contested a $500 side bet. Authorities tried to intervene but Lacy won after thirteen rounds. Both fighters were severely exhausted and confined to beds.
Three to four hundred employees of the Simons Anderson Steel Company in Pittsburg offer to work a month without pay to aid Mr. Anderson amid his financial troubles.
A suit has been brought against William T. H. English the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1880 by William D. Murphy of Albany New York to recover 1180 dollars for services rendered and money advanced during the Presidential campaign.
Report says when Bradlaugh appears to take the parliamentary oath Sir Stafford Northcote will move to bar him. The Government plans to oppose with the previous question motion.
General Carr is under arrest in Tucson Arizona by order of the President. The cause is not fully ascertained but reports cite facts revealed at the recent trial of the Indian scouts as the basis. The item notes authority but does not provide specific charges or further details.
A party of ten cowboys attacked Long Pine Nebraska on January 17 disabling lights and breaking windows and walls in saloons. The raid caused terror among residents and prompted police inquiries into the incident.
William Bullencamp of Brooklyn is ordered by the court to pay Dr E M Small six thousand dollars for seducing and alienating the affections of his wife. Mrs Small, now Mrs Bullencamp, is described as very beautiful, a factor the report notes softens the price.
West Virginia imposes river quarantine points to control smallpox. Boats will be inspected at Wellesville New Cumberland and Wheeling as the Executive Committee of the National Executive Board of Health declares a smallpox epidemic and orders inspection of major quarantine stations to ensure enforcement of regulations.
The Nashville region suffers extensive flood damage with about two thousand houses submerged and many ruined or swept away. Three thousand residents lose homes and rely on charity as water reaches levels not seen since 1847.
A Jersey City shoemaker died of smallpox leaving a wife and five children. The fumigator burned the bed and the family was left to lie fate. Days later the mother was found ill with the disease, a dead child by her side and a dying boy in a corner. The two other children huddled by a cold stove. The dead were ordered buried and survivors placed in a pest-house.
The Cumberland River flood on the 21st overwhelmed Nashville leaving ten thousand homeless as Edgefield and North Nashville were cut off by floodwaters. Sewers burst, gas supply failed, and the Memphis and Louisville railroad lay submerged for fifteen miles requiring rebuilding. Clarksville saw river levels surpass 1847 highs and Johnsonville reported a nine mile-wide Tennessee River.
The Iowa House by 56 to 40 adopted a resolution urging the Railway Commission to report by February 15 on whether free trade transportation should be limited to certain classes and whether elected officials, journalists, and political convention members may accept passes, and whether railroads should be barred from these practices.
A Lewie area home near Clinton Missouri burned at 3 am on the 19th, killing five inmates Elizabeth Smith seventeen Rachel thirteen Ella six Theodore sixteen and the mother forty three. The fire may have started from clothing by the stove or a coal oil explosion. Mrs Smith woke her husband who escaped with a neighbor's little girl and his own eight year old daughter. Smith and his daughter were badly burned. The house was a story and a half and the family slept on the second floor. Mr White a suitor of Elizabeth was there until after 1 am and believes the fire started in the kitchen from cloth by the stove. Elizabeth was to be married soon.
A Ragusa dispatch reports a broad insurrection across Austrian controlled Herzegovina. Insurgent bands form near Nevisinje and Trebinje while the Zubei clan burns homesteads and joins guerrilla chief Vulkalovich. Austrian ports are strained as national movement grows with the watchword Death to strangers.
John Wagoner, jailed in Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio, charged with murdering Dr. Joseph Beggs last November, was taken from jail by fifty masked men on January 19 and hanged to a tree in the courthouse yard. The crime, regarded as atrocious and unprovoked, was believed to aim at robbery. Dr. Beggs was the victim.
A roundup of late 19th or early 20th century items notes a subzero reading in Toronto on January 23, a process server shot dead in Castlereagh Ireland, and a fatal TAG-BOILER explosion in Havershaw New Jersey killing three crew. Additional items cover the Canada Press Association urging postage abolition, a Buffalo trial ending mysteriously due to juror illness, and various crime, political, and business notes including Kentucky governor granting a reprieve to Hicks, the Ludlow murderer, on smallpox grounds. The report also mentions murder convictions in New York City, consolidation talks between Pullman and Wagner sleeping car companies, and asset reports for Nugent & Co. Newark.
The piece weighs Edmunds and Colfax proposals on Mormon governance, noting political maneuvering over sound policy. It also reports Scoville’s courtroom address in Guiteau’s trial, criticizing prosecution actions, lauding Porter’s rhetoric, and recounting Guiteau’s interruptions and self defense.
Four students at a Wisconsin college stole a farmer s gate for fun. The faculty offered them the choice of leaving or accepting punishment. They chose the latter and were ordered by the farmer to chop four cords of wood and deliver it to a poor widow, doing so to the music of a band as onlookers applauded.
On day four of Guiteau’s trial, Scoville resumes and attacks Dr. Gray and government motives, accuses Grant Conkling and Arthur of responsibility, denounces District Attorney tactics, and clashes with Corkhill. He questions head diagrams, reveals petty witness disputes, and ends by arguing for mercy and abolition of the scaffold.
A garbled 19th century column narrates President history from Washington to Garfield with humorous and critical notes, mentions a Mozambican death by suicide aboard a French ship near Marseilles caused by a fracas about color, and lists assorted bills and clerks in a state legislature session including labor protection, express charges, school support, sobriety laws, and guardianship bills. The report names several figures like Mr. Barger, Mr. Brunner, Mr. Deverux, Mr. Walker, Mr. Conrad, Judge Littler, and notes allocations for common schools and state debt payments while highlighting reformist measures and inquiries into constitutional amendment costs.
The Ohio Legislature sees bills to require County Commissioners to fund bridge building with city entitlements, and to let Union Township settle an old county claim. A liquor tax measure with added assessors duties heads the session, while canal, sinking fund, and judiciary pay provisions surface. House and Senate clerks are named, and resolutions on asylum management and St Clair papers advance.
In a vivid tale from the Senate, Thurman reappears with a bandana and snuff-box provoking reactions from Davis Hoar West and Beck. The din is dismissed as Thurman blowing his nose. A Jersey farmer anecdote notes goats can deter dogs, with two goats driving off twelve.
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