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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1885
Page
1
Diverse 19th Century Headlines Span War to Oddities
A survey of global and domestic notes including a looming Northwest Territory outbreak, a Paris to Florida railway idea, and luxury items, with updates on Texas will legality, Dutch and English interests, and a Balkan conflict unfolding with Servia and Bulgaria.
Miracle Escape At Wabash Shops In Indiana
In Decatur Indiana foreman A W Perry of the machinery department at Wabash shops was pulled toward a large wheel as his clothing caught. He clung to a beam and the fabric tore away, leaving him bleeding and lacerated from chest arms hips and legs. He survived and was taken home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Indu
A. W. Perry
Woman Robbed at Pistol's Point in Saint Inn
Friday night Maurice Marcote's wife awoke to two masked men at the door. They forced her to open the safe and escaped with over $900 in cash and township money plus other valuables. She is prostrated by the fright.
Pay of U S Marshals Sets Annual Stipends
Washington November 15 Judge Durham First Comptroller of the Treasury rules that each U S Marshal is entitled to 6000 a year if the office fees total that amount after paying deputies and all office expenses. Deputy Marshals receive three fourths of earnings after deducting necessary expenses.
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Washington
Durham
Comptroller of the Treasury
U.S
Skating Tragedy at Niagara Rink Bel Aire Ends in Death
In Wheeling Ohio Valley, Kate St John aged nineteen fell at the Niagara Skating Rink Bel laire Ohio. She died briefly then revived and showed signs of recovery though unconscious. Doctors cite syncope from tight lacing and overexertion.
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W. Va
Niagara
Bellaire
Kate St. John
President advances on annual message to Congress
Washington November 15 It is understood the President has made progress on his annual message to Congress Parts have been copied on a typewriter revised and will be ready for the printer in a week or ten days Major topics include foreign commercial relations steamship subsidy and new navy vessels with considerable space devoted to them.
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Constantinople
Servia
Bulgaria
Balkans
Satonica
St. Petersburg
Turkey
Belgrade
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Petrovitch
Jakovitch
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Wasshington
Congress
Tramp Burned In Coke-Oven Fall In Cincinnati
In Cincinnati on November 15 Sherlock a 21 year old homeless man was badly burned after slipping into a coke oven while in a fit. Patrol 4 removed him to hospital where doctors called his injuries serious. Sherlock and other vagrants used the coke yard as lodging and slept near the oven.
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Cincinnati
el Sherlock
Sol. P. Killeon
Patrol No. 4
Sherlock
Tragic Mill Accident Claims Twelve-Year-Old Pole
In Philadelphia on Pine Street, Lizzie D Pole, twelve, was killed at Smith's mill when her hair became tangled in the machinery. The mill shut and whirled her about, and despite stopping the machines, the child died from the injuries.
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Philadelphia
Lizzie D. Pole
Smith’s Mill
Pine Street
Thirteen Year Old Nettie Bergen Elopes With Lad
Nettie Bergen aged thirteen, a probationer from the District Court, eloped last night with a boy of about the same age named Colby in WalttH am Massachusetts. Police alerted, but the children remain missing as of now.
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Walttham
Mass
Nettie Bergen
Colby
Farm trader dies in wagon accident near Carrollton
Carrollton Illinois November 14 John Perrine a citizen of this county returned from his farm to do some trading. While starting home after his day he fell from his wagon when under the influence of liquor and was killed. He likely died from concussion of the brain not a broken neck.
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Carrollton
Ill
John Perrine
Galveston Fire Ravages City Amid Gale Winds
Early morning blaze in eastern Galveston spreads from a Strand Street foundry across seven blocks as wind driven flames destroy over four hundred wooden houses. By 1 PM the fire has reached the gulf, leaving thousands homeless and losses pegged around 1.5 million dollars.
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Sixteenth
Seventeenth Streets
Strand Street
Winnie Street
Tex
Avenue “N
Texas
Gulf
Galve EstTon
Missing 25 year old man after late sociable near Urbana
Frederickton Illinois November 12 Last Thursday Columbus Cronenberg aged twenty five son of a prominent wheel wright and farmer living near Urbana this county attended a sociable at a neighbor s house He left for home about 1 a m and was never seen alive again After two days absence his family organized a corps
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Frederickton
Columbus Cronenberg
Urbana
Mystery of a Man Found in Urbana Barn
Cronenberg sr reported a dream of his son's corpse and led neighbors to search barns. In Thomas Dixon’s barn near Urbana the missing man’s body was found with bruises. Coroner's jury adjourned awaiting post mortem results. Father and son were said to be on good terms.
Robbery attempt near Corry ends with gunfire
In Corry Pennsylvania at three this morning E D Dalton awoke to a prowler at his bedroom window. He fired through the window striking the intruder, whose groan followed by silence. Dalton stood guard until six. A nitro glycerine can was found nearby and moved to safety by local authorities.
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Corry
E. D. Dalton
Dalton
Alderman Truesdell
Indian Mound Unearths 32 Remains Near Carrolton
In Carrolton Illinois on R M Osborn’s farm east of town, dug from an old Indian mound are the remains of thirty two mound builders buried in two rows, heads alternately oriented NW and SE. Thigh bones reach sixteen inches and skulls measure twenty four inches in circumference. No utensils or weapons found.
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Carrolton
Ill
R. M. Osborn
Suicide of Hiram Hoisington in Wooster Farm Family Home
In Wooster Ohio on November 14 Hiram Hoisington a 17 year old son of farmer Wynam Hoisington committed suicide at the family residence nine miles north of Wooster. He attached a rifle to a pump in the kitchen with a string looped to the trigger and pulled it, firing a shot to the center of his forehead and causing instant death. The death is attributed to self inflicted causes and remains a mystery to the family.
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Wooster
Hiram Hoisington
Wynam Hoisington
Turn of the tide in Montreal smallpox cases
Montreal reports a decline in smallpox with ten city deaths yesterday the lowest in weeks and thirteen in nearby municipalities totaling twenty three as isolation and enforcement of sanitary laws continue to curb the outbreak.
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Montreal
Goes to Work Like a Man
Ernest Schelling Huiskamp, who eloped with Victoria Morosini from Yonkers on September 9, 1884, applied for a car conductor job at the Sixth Avenue Surface Railroad. He was hired and began his first trip at 9 o clock this morning.
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Ernest Schelling Huiskamp
Victoria Morosini
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The
Morning Journal
Sixth Avenue Surface Railroad
Acadia Man Confirmed Heir to Million Dollar Estate
Hallifax Nova Scotia reports Herman Rogers of Acadia has been notified by an English law firm that a Court of Chancery decision has established his heirship to an estate valued at several million dollars in money.
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N.S
Herman Rogers
Acadia
Court of Chancery
Joan S. Brappock
Knox County
Thomas Odbert
Marcus HatMan
London
Thomas Makes
Tragic Rocktigh blast kills child in dynamite accident
Distressing report from Rocktigh shows a four-year-old girl handling a dynamite cartridge causes a massive explosion in a kitchen. The child died, while Mrs Dhein suffered serious injuries and others sustained multiple wounds. rescuers found body parts scattered and a dog injured. Authorities note the father Jacob Dhein was among the injured but survived.
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Rocktigh
Daugher
Jacob Dhein
Fat Aff
Mrs. Dhein
Murder confession and wrongful imprisonment case in Illinois
James Young, a convict from Carroll County, confessed to the murder of Hirart Allen in 1880, leading to a life sentence. The case caused a writ of habeas corpus and questions about the innocence of William Thomas, with a female detective’s testimony cited. The Sandwhich area and Joliet penitentiary are central to the narrative.
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Mang A 7 Allen
Saxwich
Ill
William Thomas
J One
James Young
Fatrell County
Sheff Wood
Thomas
Sycamore
Carroll County
W Ho
Hirart Allen
Sandwich
Young
Eile Bt
Aestamens
Acre
Will
Kellum
Allen
House Hall Receives New Red Brussels Carpet
Washington reports the House of Representatives refurnishing its chamber with red Brussels carpet featuring yellow and black circular motifs. Over 1,300 yards cover the hall, with nearly 2,000 yards including committee rooms, reflecting a yearly pattern of new carpeting for Congress.
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Washington
Brussels
Congress
Was Azari Really Dead A Rumor From CuicaGco
Rumors claim Azari, Italian murderer hanged last Saturday, showed signs of life when coffins were opened. Attendants reportedly screwed down lids fearing a revival. E G Neli, head of the Society for the Burial of Indigent Italians, said Azari’s body shifted but life was believed extinct.
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CuicaGco
Azari
E. G. Neli
Society For the Burial of
Insanely tragic Wakeman man commits self destruction
Bul Trumcvtt of Wakeman Huron County ends his life by firing a revolver into his head. He was a well known and wealthy figure, a Cincinnati Medical College graduate.
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Bul Trumcvtt
Wakeman
Huron County
Cincinnati Medical College
New Championshops
Springfield
Robert Bailey
Epward Sms
Dayton
Reform Farm
United States merchant vessels list shows slight net gain
Washington reports the seventeenth annual list of U S merchant vessels with 1885 totals showing 25 513 vessels down 1 117 from 1884. Sailing vessels fell 331 to 17 167, steam vessels down 406 to 5 705, unrigged vessels down 281 to 2 640. Real increase in U S owned vessels about 200 as older entries were not removed after loss or sale.
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Washington
The
United States
Commissioner of Navigation
Vow to stay in bed spans generations in Bell family
At Union Station a mother and daughter Bell rested on couches after traveling from Midway to Leetonia Ohio. Both suffer consumption. The mother, bedridden twelve years, once vowed to stay in bed until death after a quarrel with her husband in 1873. Three years ago he persuaded her daughter to take the same vow.
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Pirrs Buigh
Union Station
Midway
Mother
Daugher
Bell
Leetonia
Jail prisoner Ed Jones missing after alleged murder case
Salem Indiana November 12 Ed Jones a prisoner awaiting trial for murder is reported missing when the sheriff visited his cell He is thought to have been carried from the jail in a bundle of bed clothes by another inmate who removed it to air it in the jail yard
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Salem
Ed. Jones
Meyers Juror Dies Near Neosh Rapids
Emporia Kansas reports Michael Meyers a juror in the Walkup case collapsed and died in his chair at a farm near Neosh Rapids, yesterday, likely from heart disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emporia, Kas
Michael Meyers
Neosh Rapids
Actor John McAllough Buried Amid Mourners in Philadelphia
The body of John McAllough, the actor, was committed to the tomb in Philadelphia on November 13. Thousands of mourners mourned him as a friend and actor, with tears falling upon his coffin and flowers filling the ceremony with fragrance.
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Philadelhia
John McAllough
Ex‑Confederate soldiers misled by claim agents
Washington dispatch reports ex Confederate veterans drafted into service are convinced by claim agents they can obtain government relief or pardon, though the fairness and legality of these assurances are questioned.
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Washington Claim
Louis Riel Executed At Barracks Execution
Louis David Riel was executed for high treason at 8 43 mountain time on the scaffold at the mounted police barracks near Redina NWT. He spoke briefly as Pere Andre reminded him of a promise and died without a struggle after prayers ending with Merci Jesu. Witnesses were limited and the coroner took charge of the body.
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Redina
Louis David Riel
Great Britain
Pere Andre
Theebaw's War Ship Captured By British Boarding
In RanGoon on November 16 the British fire drove 200 Burmese crew overboard before boarding their war vessel and moving up the river. Reported 3,000 troops are stockaded at Fort Kaligon overlooking Minhila river.
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Belgrade
Raptcha
Silonitza
Zambrod
Bencky
Drina
Shamadkja
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Dragoman Pass
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Dragoman
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King Theebaw
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Ballot Theft Arrests Bond Linked to 18th Ward Case
Indianapolis officials report George W. Hill and Charles Smith arrested on charges of stealing and destroying ballots from the Second Precinct, Eighteenth Ward. Ballots could not be found when the recount commission opened the ballot box. Each man posted a $1,000 bond.
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Ind
George W. Hill
Charles Smith
Eighteenth Ward
Indianapolis Candies Spark Flying Prices Claim
A local confectioner in Indianapolis offers customers a chance to eat as much candy as they can carry for twenty five cents each, claiming he makes money on nine out of ten customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Journal
Pre-man finds mini statue linked to Mary and George Washington
A fragmentary report notes a man found a small statue he believes represents Mary, mother of George Washington. The piece mentions the relic was discovered on a farm near Appomattox, Virginia, by a former Confederate soldier.
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Ture
Ape
Mary
George Ashington
Appomattox
Philadelphia Press
Nonsense Jests and Witty Bits From Various Papers
A collection of humorous quotes and brief anecdotes from Chicago Sun Boston Courier Norristown Herald andPhiladelphia Call featuring wordplay on fashion rain and social fare. Includes playful exchanges about manners misheard sayings and a beggar’s request in City Hall Park.
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