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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1882
Page
1
The passage urges thoughtful friendship and heedful advice during trouble. It emphasizes deeds over words and the value of small, consistent actions. The text warns that idleness compounds hardship, while supportive acts provide relief and meaning in hard times.
A law measure is reported as enacted while an audience in Milwaukee numbered under 300. The Irish Land League reserve fund stands at $287,000 secured. In St. Petersburg ten nihilists, including one woman, receive death sentences. A heavy Minnesota snow storm hits on the fifth, and in Bolivia New York a nitro glycerine explosion kills two men during wagon handling.
The once respected county resident Mrs Taylor faced renewed scrutiny as a long hidden sequence of missing items surfaced during an investigation. Neighbors reported gaps in vigilance over years leading to questions about her conduct and alleged misdeeds.
Jones and Miller were hanged at Aberdeen Mississippi for the murder last November of three young men, sons of Judge J. P. Walker of Russell County Alabama. The victims were killed while asleep for a small amount of money they carried.
The Grand Jury in Chicago indicts gamblers, gambling houses, their keepers, and individuals renting property for gambling purposes in the past week.
An additional appropriation of $400,000 is required to relieve the sufferers in the Mississippi Valley. The proposal seeks emergency funds to support aid programs and relief efforts.
William Will Hang, convicted of first degree murder in the Cincinnati courts for killing Hughes, has been denied a new trial. Belcham remains linked to the case as Wm. Belcham.
Charles A. Reade of Newton Massachusetts who died recently left a will providing $50000 to be used to help pay off the war debt.
A freight car loaded with brick derailed near Joliet Illinois killing two tramps and badly wounding eight others who were hidden in the car attempting to steal a ride.
West coast reports from Africa say a Lagos lagoon ferryboat carrying sixty people capsized during crossing. Forty seven persons are reported to have died or disappeared.
The Iowa Senate has approved a constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, sending the proposal to be decided by the people.
Im Hock reports George Hazard a private banker from Auburn Indiana was accused two years ago of stealing $18,000 from depositors. He was captured last week in Chicago and arrested on the outstanding charges.
Land Commissioner Walsh uncovers and halts a plot by Wisconsin and Michigan lumber and mill men to seize several million acres of pine land in Eastern Texas, thwarting the ambitious land grab.
Stickney, acquitted of killing M. T. Campana in Denver, Colo, was set at liberty after the jury deemed the Cam pan a murder unsolved. The defense argued the lady Mrs. Devereux's killing was settled by the acquittal.
Hessie Helfmann, known for eccentricity and once spared from a czarist assassination sentence, died last week in childbirth in St Petersburg.
A passenger train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was wrecked east of Parkersburg West Virginia when a stone fell from a cut. The locomotive struck George W. James store, and the train and building were quickly burned, sparing only the sleeper. Engineer John Gigley and fireman John Brewer were killed.
A boiler blast at Wesler & Barnes saw mill and handle factory in Brope Wayne County Indiana killed five men and injured two. Victims named Geo W Wesler Robert Randall Lewis Mann Wm Yankee and Hed Clark. The boiler water had run low due to a broken pump and the restart drove cold water into the boiler triggering the explosion.
A mass meeting in San Francisco drew about 30,000 citizens to express views on Chinese immigration. All city judges attended and spoke, joined by leading business figures, as speakers on immigration policy urged limits on Chinese labor and residence.
Details from Trglaba are published as MacLean once confined in Wells Lunatic Asylum and released in 1874. Since that discharge he has remained at Weston super Mare Asylum. After his examination at the Town Hall, twenty men tried to overturn the carriage.
Roscoe Conkling’s nomination to the Supreme Court as Associate Justice, replacing Ward Hunt, was confirmed by the Senate in executive session on March 2. The vote was 89 to 12, then unanimous pro forma. Names of the eight Democrats and four Republicans cited for the negative votes include Hoar Dawes Merrill Hawley Bayard Hampton Jones Jackson and George. Many senators were pardéd.
The treacherous trio Dead Shot Dandy Jim and Skippy were hanged on March 8 at Fort Grant Arizona. They mounted the scaffold and said they were happy and would soon meet their friends. They died without a struggle.
San Francisco reports a sharp rise in Chinese arrivals at the port, averaging 1000 to 1500 daily. Pacific Coast Senators press hard to push a bill to halt Chinese immigration.
The steamer James D Parker sailing from Cincinnati to Memphis sank at the Falls in the Ohio while en route to Memphis. It carried many passengers and a valuable cargo of freight. Two cabin crew members were drowned and the vessel and cargo were total losses.
The Kentucky Senate last week passed the House bill punishing minors for misrepresenting their ages to obtain spirituous liquors. An added provision states that a bar-keeper who sells liquor to a minor over sixteen believed to be of lawful age shall not incur the penalty prescribed by law.
Wool hat makers say a ruling granting fifty percent per pound and thirty five percent ad valorem duties must prevail or all wool hat factories may close. Forty one U S hat factories operate with over three million dollars invested and eight million dollars in annual hat production.
Report says Hong Kong issued forty thousand tickets for immediate use by Chinese intending to immigrate to the United States after passage of the Anti-Chinese Bill. The influx is attributed not to railroad contractor imports but to the actions of the Chinese Six Companies.
The Nihilists named Lebedeva, Michaeloff, Kolodkewitch, Trigonia, Baraniakoff, Hanoff, Klyetotschnikoff, Isinoff, Emilianoff, and Merkuloff were condemned to death for complicity in the assassination of the Czar. The others received indefinite penal servitude, except Lustig with four years.
A freight train conductor at a station near Ashtabula surprised two burglars inside a box car. He locked the car, telegraphed for officers, and at Ashtabula they surrounded the car. A battle ensued with twenty pistol shots. One burglar was wounded in three places and both men were captured.
Mrs. Sarah Taylor a sixty year old resident of Warren County Ohio is identified in a string of robberies extending across the region. The report notes ongoing investigations and authorities seeking details about her activities and connections.
Miss Mary Ann Herman of Jeffersonville Indiana fasted for fifty days refusing all food in a bid to reach heaven. Authorities had confined her to an asylum for the insane after she harassed grocers begging to end her life. By March 2 her extremities lacked circulation and no pulse was perceptible.
A mother and her two older children were thrown into Bear Creek when a horse fell midstream. John Tugate and two others refused to help as the infant drowned while a nearby worker saved the mother and two children. The man’s motive was linked to a past murder and execution.
A Mississippi flood report describes massive levee breaks between Helena Arkansas and Arkansas City 300 miles away. Riverton suffered a catastrophic crevasse washing away homes and killing the landing keeper Ben Hanes and two Black children. Bolivar Washington and Issaquena counties face enormous losses with levee damage over 400000 dollars, extensive livestock, and long overflow risk to cotton counties.
Mrs Scoville protests the Senate confirmation of Roscoe Conkling, denouncing him as an imperious demagogue and vengeful partisan. She argues his elevation to the Supreme Bench risks political factionalism and injustice, citing personal loss and outrage at the nation’s upheaval.
Descriptions from Memphis dispatches report levee breaks from the Arkansas River to Pendleton's, inundating towns like Red Fork and Riverton. Up to 90 percent of Mississippi County lands are submerged, 8000 residents destitute or starving, with many colored laborers reliant on daily work amid widespread wreckage and displaced families observed on the levee.
A man named Roderick MacLean fired at the Queen as she entered a Windsor carriage. He was seized by police and the crowd, no one injured. MacLean, a 27 year old grocer's assistant from Southsea, claimed hunger as motive. doctors deem him sane. The revolver and cartridges were seized. cabinet expresses relief.
The census lists Lyons 332 894 Nantes 121 965 Rouen 104 721 Havre 103 063 Douai 73 900 Alger 64 714 Grenoble 50 967 Bordeaux 921 520 with no large increments since the last count Paris remains the leading attractor for population across France.
The XLVIIth Congress discusses a Chinese immigration bill to suspend new entrants for twenty years after sixty days, with exemptions for merchants and travelers. Debate covers the bill's terms, education, and broader immigration policy as leaders argue for and against allowing Chinese laborers into the United States.
A bill repealing discriminating duties on tea and Dutch coffee passed. A bill to establish a marine hospital at Cincinnati was introduced. Three election committee reports on Campbell vs Cannon were laid on the table. Militia organization and other measures moved forward in committee. Indian appropriation details debated with totals and staffing changes. The Mint reported silver costs and coinage levels from 1878 to 1881. The consular and diplomatic bill and Mississippi River works were discussed. The Chili Peru correspondence investigation was authorized. a deficiency bill conference report was agreed. Efforts to retire the trade dollar and consolidate missions were debated and then set aside.
A Dallas dweller E C Bovupixor, described by a admiring woman as highly educated, polished and affable, is portrayed in vivid detail. He wears black broadcloth with a spotless linen front and a sparkling emerald, with long black hair tinged with gray, clean shaved and open countenance reminiscent of Ben Franklin.
A powder explosion at Marquette Michigan kills four men. The item notes other late 19th century events including a banking failure in Boston and Beecher illness, plus Mississippi flood distress and a lynching near Franklin Kentucky.
Petitions press Senate Bill No 10 to curb extortion and discrimination by railroad companies while House measures aim to close saloons on Sundays. Debates note committee actions, readings, and passage of related local bills including a Children’s Home site in Drake County and cost reductions for judicial sale advertising.
An 1624 letter recounts safe jewel transport Madrid to London amid wolves and humor, paired with later campus prayers at Harvard and Ohio legislative notes. The piece blends travel lore with brief political, legal, and social items from the era and era-adjacent reflections.
A wide array of incidents fill the pages from Marion to Holmes County. Shippers in New Lexington fail. A Marion minister dies aboard a train. A Lanaster brewer perishes after a fall. A coal vein and mine plans emerge in Ross County. Lynchings, assaults, and legal actions thread through Knox, Hancock, and Holmes counties as cities shutter venues awaiting safer repairs.
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