23 Jul 1891
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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1891
Page
1
The advertisement touts Figs as a pleasant tasting laxative that cleanses and relieves constipation. It claims rapid action and broad usefulness, urging readers to buy the product from leading druggists or order through the company offices in California, Kentucky or New York.
Mr Frank ale of De Witt hotel in Lewiston and the Brunswick hotel area praises Boschee’s German Syrup for pulmonary consumption and recurring colds. He says he has suffered lung trouble and coughs, yet Boschee’s Syrup cured him, and he has advised many others to use it as the best cough syrup on the market.
A wide collage of brief notes from a 19th century periodical touches on public pensions, steamships, coastal fisheries, and notable figures. It mentions Majestic steamship costs, New York public salaries, a Pennsylvanian Historical Society charter, Calfornia heat records, Waterloo veterans, and various curiosities from Cheboygan to Ireland, with social and technological snapshots.
delegates crowded Murfe Hall in Cleveland for the July 15 convention as the party unveiled its slate led by James E. Campbell for governor and William Vance Marquis for lieutenant governor. The program featured Allen W. Thurman as temporary chair and fiery anti McKinley rhetoric from Doc Norton and Thurman supporters.
fragmentary note lists a name and address request for a person in the United States and Canada. mention of P. Harold Hayes and M.9 appears in the scribbled text, but details are unclear.
In Cleveland the Ohio Democratic convention adjourned after debates over reciprocity with Canada and Europe, anti monopoly calls, and a platform opposing protectionism while championing a tax on incomes. Nominees for governor and other state offices were chosen, with Gov. Campbell renominated and Bailey winning the attorney general nod after multiple ballots.
Reports from Stearns Sherburne and Benton counties detail a tornado accompanying a hail storm that ruined 2500 acres of wheat, worth 50000 bushels, across towns from St Joseph to Haven. Superior Wisconsin saw a flimsy hotel collapse and several buildings blown down with five deaths at West Superior.
Wealthy Kansas City financiers organize to deliver cold air through city conduits. Franchises granted to build mains and works by city council. Project aims to remove impure atmosphere at low cost per square foot. Laying of mains to start immediately with first supply by next summer and heated air in winter.
Two companies from Lookout Mountain guards and Moerlein Zouaves stand on duty amid imminent peril as officials dispute Gov Buchanan's authority. Eminent lawyers contend the governor acted illegally unless the state was in rebellion or invaded. Militia lacks tents blankets or rations, only ammunition provided.
A torpedo man named S. K. Bigley was transporting two hundred pounds of nitro glycerine to the Mt Morris oil field in a two horse wagon when the load exploded near Washington Pennsylvania. Bigley was blown to atoms, the horses were killed, and nearby dwellings owned by Lee Milton and Mark Hughes Jr. were wrecked. The blast shook the entire town and caused widespread alarm, yet several people in the vicinity escaped with only minor injuries.
The Stockholm native Jos Leuvenmark became the world’s champion high diver by plunging from an 83 foot 138 inch platform into the lake at Washington Park near Kansas City Missouri. He surpassed the previous record set by G A Blake at Lambeth Bath London in October 1888 at 75 feet 7 inches.
The Minneapolis Evening Journal reports a forthcoming city directory will show a population well up to two hundred thousand. The St. Paul Dispatch notes the new St. Paul directory contains 80 403 names, indicating a near two hundred thousand population.
In Buffalo Putnam county Mrs Dan Hedrick presented her husband with girl triplets their combined weight totaling sixteen and a half pounds All are living and doing well Hedrick and his wife have twelve children in fifteen years the husband receives sympathy from friends
Striking coal miners in Spring Valley Illinois reach agreement to return to work after a stoppage that began in May. Negotiations led to a resumption of operations and normalization of mining activity in the district.
The article notes a record surge of pauper immigrants sent back to Europe Friday. It cites the Marsdam from Rotterdam with twenty three passengers, the Circassia from Glasgow with five, and the Netherland with three, highlighting a historic repatriation spike.
Thomas P. Courtney of Clarksburg West Virginia was fatally injured Friday while operating a buzz saw in front of the machine.
A local syndicate has purchased all the best Colorado tin mines for five hundred thousand dollars, signaling a major consolidation in the regional mineral sector and potential shifts in production figures and local employment.
Five men including Ed Brown Walter Strader John L Meador Dick Eaves and John T Brame drowned while seining in the Tennessee river near Murray Kentucky. The eight man party tied a seine to the bank and entered swift cold water. Brame Brown and Strader were entangled in the net and drowned while Meador and Eaves were swept under. Search for Eaves and Meador continued. All victims were well known Murray citizens from old county families.
Thirty Russian Jewish immigrants await emigration decisions at the Barge Office detention bureau. Most likely to be sent back under the assist ed emigrants law. Mendel Rogalski, 20, a carpenter, recounts escape from Russia after torture and capture in Riga, then Hamburg to America, robbed of funds and papers.
Dr Ernest LaPlace of the Medico Chirurgical College Philadelphia says soon the world will hear again from Koch and that he will make an important scientific revelation toward a cure for consumption. LaPlace keeps informed on European studies and knows Dr Koch personally.
Eight thousand miners in the anthracite region near Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania threaten to strike as coal companies refuse to pay bimonthly wages per a recent law. Companies prepare for trouble as thousands of European laborers have been brought into the coal regions within the past week.
At about 7 o clock Sunday, Jesse Streitt awoke and spoke to doctors after four and a half days without food or drink. He had slept from 11 30 a m Tuesday in Miller's grocery, Seymour, Ind., and then slept five days with no nourishment before waking.
The London Chronicle Rome correspondent reports the pope told the Austrian ambassador on Saturday that the dreibund must refrain from intervening in papal conclaves even if the cardinals elect a pope outside Rome. The remark underscores tensions over the location and process of the next papal election.
An air ship by Aeronaut Bartholomew rose in Jackson Michigan on Saturday afternoon using a newly improved suction wheel design. The ascent was described as very pretty but no conclusion on the success of the experiment could be drawn. The balloon was sighted at Adrian at 7 o clock.
In political circles rumors suggest Mr. Mercier may declare support for Canadian independence, arguing the time has come to choose between independence and imperial federation as the country debates its future.
At 2 o'clock Sunday morning John Farmer, the Negro charged with assassinating Dr. C C Buckner near Dermott Wednesday night, who had been bound over to await the grand jury, was taken from the calaboose by an armed mob and died in a related incident to a tree.
James Bowman of Litton Indiana Hendricks county died by suicide Sunday after taking Paris Green. Domestic trouble is noted as the suspected cause in the brief report.
Rumors of a miners revolt and troop withdrawal at Coal Creek Tennessee prompted a peaceful transfer of 1800 to 2000 troops and around 125 convicts. Miners forced the surrender, then escorted convicts from the Knoxville Iron Company mines to a railroad depot amid orderly crowds and military discipline. Adj Gen H. H.
German authorities studied the electric chair used in New York and plan a report favoring its adoption in Germany. Electrical experts and investigators deem recent American executions highly successful and believe objections to gallows and the scaffold are removed by electricity as a method of capital punishment.
The New Orleans Mint began coinage of dimes on Monday for the first time since 1885 and will produce about 100,000 dimes daily. The move follows the dime pocket savings banks locking up large quantities of coins, limiting circulation. Output shift reduces standard dollar production and increases employment as the workload rises.
At Clay City Illinois on Monday morning the James family five miles west of town was found dead in their burned ruin. The family included husband wife son daughter and grandchild. Authorities believe the son or father killed the others then killed themselves and set the house ablaze. The son drank whisky and had threatened the family. the father suffered periods of insanity.
Jin Anderson also known as Morgan, a noted burglar, escaped Cincinnati jail Monday morning after a prior capture on Price Hill following a fierce confrontation with police. The escape appears aided by an inside jail official, a detail investigators likely will pursue.
Louis Walker Martinez aide-de-camp to Gen. Monat, a top financier for the congressional faction, arrived in San Diego June 24 from Iquique and then went to San Francisco after handling the Itata affair. He states the steamer Myope reached Valparaiso July 2 with ten thousand small arms and eight million rounds of Sar tion, deemed ample for the congressional party's needs.
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