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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1891
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR item lists ailments and bold claims about universal cures by a tonic, mentioning ulcers danger rofusa alt rheum heumatism blood poisoning and every kindred disease with promising relief and best tonics. The text lacks verifiable details or attribution.
A survey of diverse items reports on tobacco land in Virginia, Argentina wheat values, Berlin population, Oregon hop crops, and copper output. It notes a full-blooded Indian marriage, major almanac curiosities, curious animals, and peculiar local tales from Midwest and Georgia, with brief notes on astronomy, cannibalism decline, and a moon crater.
A deadly explosion at Newark New Jersey during St Rocas Day celebrations killed three people and seriously injured twenty five others in a three story house at 28 Boyleden Street. Lanterns shrines and decorations framed the Italian quarter gathering when dynamite in a gas pipe detonated around 10 45 pm causing mass injuries and screams.
A brutal robbery and double murder in Raleigh County West Virginia left Mrs Mary Cozart and her son Jopling dead. The couple had lived alone fifteen miles from Raleigh Court House. The killer is unknown. the house was broken into and the bodies burned after death. Sheriff and coroner’s jury investigated. gold money likely stolen with little trace of valuables or Jopling’s watch.
Thursday afternoon blaze in elevator C of the C M and St P rail line at Minneapolis put the entire fire department on scene. Chief Range directed crews to roof lines and hose streams, a dangerous ascent to the tower. An explosion and rising flames forced several firemen to jump or fall to safety, one fatally. C W Mitchell, truckman, died. eighteen injured, many escaping near disaster.
Four immigrants aboard the Normandia are to be sent back after investigators found they were under contract to work in Thomas coal mines in West Virginia. An Italian immigrant aboard La Champrone claimed five years of residence and naturalization papers but could not explain his English lack and admitted never having been here before, having bought the papers in Havre. He was under contract to Chapin Kop Mining Co. in Iron Mountain, Michigan.
In Harmony Baptist Church in Jacksonville a revival paused at midnight when the lights failed and a panic broke out. A woman was killed, three others fatally injured, and about twenty others were seriously crushed as worshipers screamed Judgment and tried to flee.
A scorching midweek heat spell hit Minneapolis temperatures with 94 in shade and 12 in sun as thermometers climbed high. Weather readings captured a torrid, sweltering day across the city.
Commissioner Carter reports on general land office operations for the year ending June 30 1891 detailing patent totals by category for 1886 87 1890 91 and acres disposed including cash sales 2 143 000 and homesteads 5 040 393. He notes 579 964 683 vacant public lands and urges irrigation of arid regions.
Secretary Rusk notes women are better suited for preliminary meat inspection than men. Trials in Chicago with 16 men and 16 women showed the women performing the task more effectively. The work is light, clean, and needs care, skill, and deftness that women display.
Disappointed Boomers back over the Cherokee strip with people who failed to file claims in the Indian lands opened last Tuesday. Most will drift about living under canvass waiting for the strip to open. They feel everyone on the strip is an enemy and are said to be firing the grass in hundreds of places. They do not know when they are on the strip or on the Indian reservations, and the Santa Fe reservations have suffered greatly.
Five prospectors crossed the River Maranoa with one ill member returning. The remaining four, Californians, were killed by natives who mistook them for ecclesiastical emissaries and spies, according to Advices from Peru.
United States Marshal Hogan and Special Agent Day with police raided all Chinese laundries in Grand Fork North Carolina and captured three celestials smuggled from Manitoba in the last two or three days, recovering a substantial amount of opium.
The Rev Dr Samuel D Burchard died Friday afternoon in Saratoga New York. He rose to prominence in 1884 during the Cleveland Blaine campaign after declaring Ruin Romanism and Rebellion in a Blaine welcome address at the Fifth Avenue hotel New York.
A Little Rock dispatch reports J. R. Lamar committed death by own action Thursday night by overdosing on morphine. He was the son of the late L. M. Lamar a Georgia politician and a nephew of Associate Justice L. Q. C. Lamar.
The sealing schooner Ocean Belle has reached Victoria British Columbia from the north with about 1200 seal skins. She was warned out of Behring Sea in June and went to the Russian coast where her skins were obtained.
John Moran was acquitted in Nashville Tennessee after a two day trial over the death of Miss Mary Ann Dolan at Moran's home last June.
Six anarchists tried in Camera at Berlin were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six months to two years for circulating prohibited literature.
Governor Buchanan on Tuesday last commuted the sentence to life imprisonment of Andrew Jackson colored to be hanged at Memphis Tenn Friday The sentence change alters the planned execution date and preserves the prior capital punishment order for the inmate named Andrew Jackson in Tennessee.
The Wisconsin Methodist conference approved admitting women as lay delegates to the general conference by a 100 to 39 vote, marking a notable shift in church policy. The decision expands participation of women in higher church deliberations.
Snow blanketed Leadville Colorado Thursday night and continued through the night but is melting rapidly as warmer conditions take hold.
A citizens committee in Texas observed a rainmaking test using two mortars and a dozen 21 pound shells. Despite initial drought, a sharp shower followed each report and within forty minutes a heavy rain spread over the city, continuing about half an hour. Ellis says the test aimed to prove rain could be started under favorable conditions. Further trials planned along the Mexican National railroad and in San Diego next week.
Information reports several Burlington and Missouri River crew members split from the main group to run a line through the Big Horn region. The perilous trek, described as more deadly than the Grand Canyon, yielded few survivors and many torn apart, with no known returns from those who attempted the full passage.
In Baxley Bales and Co tie camp about eight miles below Waycross Harry Jackson was shot three times in a gambling den by Neil Talbert after an accusation of cheating. Talbert fled into the swamps pursued by a crowd of Negroes as Jackson lay dying.
Mrs. Jack West of Wheeling West Virginia died after taking laudanum on Sunday. Her husband, reportedly drunk, locked the house and slept. Neighbors gathered as a policeman forced entry and a doctor was summoned, but she died before arrival. Prosecutors consider charging the husband.
A farmer from Itasca County states wind storms have destroyed about 80 million feet of timber in northern Minnesota. Districts display extensive devastation as forests lie ruined and inaccessible.
Two distinct and severe earthquakes shook Columbus Indiana at 10 57 Saturday night. Residents on the west and south sides were shaken from bed and some fled in night clothes into the streets in panic.
Reports to the minister of agriculture indicate Italy will have a very large wheat crop this year. Following last year's record yield, expectations suggest this season may surpass it, signaling an abundant harvest ahead.
About 11 o'clock Saturday night an earthquake shock was felt perceptibly by Bardstown residents. It shook houses considerably but caused no damage. The tremor lasted only a few seconds.
Official figures show 2,160 buildings before the flood in Consuegra and 1,500 wrecked, leaving 600 standing as the disaster response continues.
The census bureau reports 596 seed farming operations in the United States during the census year, with 169 851 acres devoted to seed growing and 96 567 acres designated as producing seeds.
Two distinct earthquake shocks were felt around 11 o'clock Saturday night in Cincinnati with the strongest sensation in the bottoms. The tremors were reported across a wide area including parts of Ghie, Lv dune ni, iv ntucky.
In Hollandale Mississippi a quadroon woman Lou Stevenson lured white bartender Mr Davis from a saloon and a Black man Grant White shot him dead. White fled then was captured near Wayside and brought back. An enraged mob hanged both White and Stevenson from a railroad bridge early Monday amid strong town unrest.
In Gallatin Tennessee boys staging the Last Days of Pompeii had planned a volcano eruption. A premature explosion injured Adolph Tipman and Elmo Smith, burning their hair and causing other injuries to Adolph Tipman Elmo Smith and William Smith ages ten to fifteen.
Prospector Thomas Gates claims a rich silver and lead vein near Chattanooga Tennessee in White Oak Springs area, with a second eight inch wide surface vein. Samples analyzed by mining chemists show rich silver lead and gold, though exact location is kept secret.
A coach drawn by horses returning four women from church in Marietta Georgia ran away. Miss Katie Reynolds 17 died from a broken neck. Her aunt Miss Merritt died from internal injuries. Miss Anna Kohlheim is in critical condition. Mrs Reynolds escaped with bruises after leaping from the carriage.
San Francisco customs officials Monday collected 40000 dollars in excess duties from Liebres Bros. & Co. cigar manufacturers for a large consignment of tobacco entered as Sumatra fillers but appraised as Sumatra wrappers. It marks the largest single port collection from one firm.
The largest flywheel in the United States was spun Monday morning at the new power house in Boston after a touch by President Whitney of the West End street railway. The wheel measures 28 feet in diameter, 10 feet 7 inches in face, weighs 80 tons, and uses two belts 4 feet 6 inches wide running at 6,000 feet per minute.
Lick Observatory reports through AP that observations by Schaeberle and Campbell in August and September show Jupiter’s first satellite is ellipsoid with a long axis toward Jupiter’s center, while the other satellites appear spherical.
Mrs Henry Kessler a 30 year old Erie Pa woman died in a gasoline accident Monday afternoon. Her husband a leading businessman was badly burned and disfigured while attempting to rescue her. His aged mother also suffered serious burns in the same incident.
Economites shipped a nail keg of old U S silver coins to the Economic Savings Bank in Beaver Falls Pennsylvania. The coins, bright as mint, are mainly 1823 half dollars showing seventy years of hoarding in Economy.
The chief of the bureau of statistics reports that the total number of immigrants arrived at the ports of the United States from foreign countries, except Canada and Mexico, during the month ending August 31, 1891, was 45 172, against 37 381 in August of last year.
Exports of merchandise from the United States in August reached 72,750,783 dollars, up from 56,189,345 in August 1890. Imports for August totaled 68,894,754 dollars, compared with 61,200,440 in August 1890, indicating continued trade activity.
Lewis M. Hadden, formerly assistant county solicitor, and Cal Tucker were indicted by a Cincinnati special grand jury on charges of aiding burglar Anderson to escape from jail. Each faces a $2,000 bond as details show.
Ohio state items report incidents from Canton to Mansfield including a railroad death, fires, epidemics fears in Seneca county, a M E church vote on women delegates, and a long list of local curios such as a one hundred six birthday, a baby weighing a pound and a half, and a tale of muskrats blamed on a scammer.
A Georgia courthouse was sold for twenty five dollars in a late local auction. Nancy Kennedy of Hallowell Maine is reported as 118 years old and in good health. In Scotland a saying notes that rocking an empty cradle will bring occupants. A Connecticut firm offers a policy insuring tobacco planters against bail loss. Philadelphia police receive safety devices for patrol boats.
A collage of jokes and light exchanges from various newspapers. Awkward compliments, mistaken phrases, and humorous misunderstandings brim with country charm and urban quips. Readings include comments on stars, travel, youth, and seaside life with breezy, old fashioned wit.
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