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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1884
Page
1
The ad touts Glenn's Sulphur Soap as preserving all the advantages of a popular product at a low price. It mentions Hills Has latest 50c and newer items, and extols nature’s sweet restoration and tone. The copy references remedies for cold in the head and suggests Piso's Remedy for Cough as an effective alternative.
A sprawling miscellany notes diverse items from 19th century life. It cites heat on wild animals, crop yields, a weather prophet, telegraph operator pay, and a large North Sea fishing labor force. It reports a Norristown asylum band, drouth water pricing in mining districts, and political mentions including a Prohibition presidential nomination. It covers fashion from Paris, a Lumkin divorce case, a San Francisco breach of promise suit, and stray notes on mushrooms, cabbage prices, and a baby show in Paris. It also mentions Turkish armorers, Maine liquor law evasions with cocoanuts, legal quirks over twin defendants, hemlock bark amid fires, and a Brooklyn death linked to a toy whistle.
News items from Loxpon and Cairo report Gordon’s uncertain movements in Egypt, with medals struck to honor the Khartoum siege. British, Austrian papers praise Gordon’s defense, while remount depots form at Wady Haura and Wolseley plans remain at Wady Halfa as Nile expeditions incur rising costs.
Fire destroyed Christiansburg Royal Palace in Copenhagen, harming the national gallery and parliament buildings. Ten soldiers died attempting to save art and artifacts while Thorvaldsen’s museum and library archives were at risk. The king urged salvage efforts and remained on site until the blaze ended.
A Santa Fe passenger train from Kansas City struck an obstruction placed on the tracks near Emporia Junction, pushing the cross tie between rails. A following freight train derailed, killing fireman Scott and injuring the engineer. Authorities offer a $1,000 reward plus a $500 governor’s bounty for the offenders.
At Longchamps racecourse in Paris on October 5 a mob attacked English jockey Sharpe after a disputed ride. He was knocked off his horse and beaten, the horse injured by sticks and stones. Sharpe lay in a critical condition as soldiers guarded the weighing house and riot police intervened amid threats of lynching. A second English jockey was also maltreated.
New York October 4 Aboard the steamship America James Graves of Fox Brothers jewelers and his wife were passengers. A routine search by Custom-house inspectors uncovered diamonds valued at $20,000 in their baggage. Graves fainted during the inspection and both were retained for examination.
A Chattanooga report says the iron industry is reviving with Woodstock Alabama Iron Company securing a contract for thirteen thousand tons of car wheel iron at twenty dollars and fifty cents per ton. The order is the largest in the South since the depression began and furnaces report rising inquiries.
North Pacific freight train departing Duluth at 7 a.m. Tuesday left the track at Fon du Lac due to a washout, sending the locomotive tender six coal cars and two empties into the St Louis River. Engineer Harter Fireman Judkins and brakeman Olsen were drowned after leaping from the train into the river.
Washington October 5. General Hazen orders all Greely party names assigned to Arctic discoveries in Honor of Captain Howgate erased from charts due to embezzlements by that Signal officer.
News dispatches report two engagements in Tonquin marked by French success. French gunboats and troops faced Chinese regulars with casualties on both sides. Admiral Courbet reports gains at Kelung while Chinese forces are driven back around Tamsui, with substantial losses cited.
A worker named James Goodwin died after an explosion at Ehler J Johnson & Bass paper cap factory on Mt Adams. He was mixing explosive powder for toy pistol caps when the shed shattered, mangling his body. The dangerous compound requires moistening to prevent detonation, and Goodwin did not follow safety instructions.
From Rome reports distress in Spezia due to a cholera cordon forcing paupers into town relief. Naples logs 47 new cases and 28 deaths in 24 hours, Genoa 22 cases and 28 deaths. Marseille cites three deaths in the Eastern Pyrenees with none in Toulon and one death locally.
Governor Porter arrived to assess public sentiment on Charles W. Butler of Columbus Ohio a wife murderer sentenced to be hanged next Friday. He refused a respite and indicated Butler will die on the scaffold the same method used at Fort Wayne. The condemned man trembled throughout his interview.
The article reports two small-pox cases in Darwin ten miles south, with quarantine in affected families and efforts to prevent spread. The outbreak is said to have come from Prairieton Indiana via a young girl returning from nursing a brother who died of the disease.
In Troy New York on October 4 John Vallen euve son of St. Baptiste Canada’s mayor divided his father’s funds and fled to the United States with Emma Lemaire of Quebec. Detectives confronted the couple here and compelled them to surrender the remaining money.
A Pan Handle special train in Wheeling collided with a hand car at daylight. Twelve year old John Foutz and brakeman Thomas Waldron died. The Plumed Knights of Wheeling were aboard but unharmed. Heavy fog caused the wreck.
In Cincinnati on October 4, twelve year old Annie Frickhoff was struck and killed by a runaway horse. The incident occurred during the day, shocking the neighborhood and prompting authorities to investigate the animal’s owner and the circumstances leading to the accident.
The closure of all cotton factories in Petersburg and nearby areas leaves more than seven hundred workers, including women and children, without jobs and facing dire need as water scarcity cripples production.
In San Francisco on October 5 D M Burns who served as Secretary of State under Perkins administration was arrested and charged with embezzling state funds.
A Saturday night fire in the idle portion of the Hecla branch between Nos 3 and 4 shafts at Haxcock Michigan spreads through chips and shavings soaked in oil. Thomas Gibble suffocates. John Rapson and others become overcome while attempting a rescue as volunteers battle smoke and fire trapping workers. The blaze threatens the tramway and air supply as crews work to prevent spread.
State items recount Hawry Yorer of Sandusky run over by a train on Lake Shore Road. Mrs. Coartes E. Kerp of Zanesville loses $360 in a bank windup after a husband’s betrayal. A factory mill fire in Covington causes major losses. An aged soldier dies after a tram collision near Dayton. A farmer and a cider press worker die of accidents. Postmaster Adena named Auex M. Hopcens. A Canton mortgage foreclosure on L Theim & Co. A fish protection association forms in Hancock County. A body exhumation yields torn clothing. Democratic electors slate listed. Canton workers quit over pay. Fire-bug reward offered by the National Board of Underwriters. Various corporate and legal notes follow including a governor commutation and tragic mine accident. A Cincinnati fall fatality and a Massillon arm tragedy are noted among other incidents.
A partially garbled report describes a maritime distress incident near Southampton. A man fell overboard, was rescued after hours at sea, and admitted to a steerage hospital in critical condition. He later died after medical efforts failed.
Five masked men burst into John Sherry’s Edenburg home on a Saturday evening and forced the family to surrender. They gagged and bound Sherry, took $200 from the safe and $6 from other spots, then fled in a waiting carriage. At table were Michael Keiser, George Best, a servant girl, and a boy. no clues found.
In Pittsburg on October 6 forty laborers striking for twenty five cents per day clashed with workers who returned to old wages. Bricks and clubs were used in the ensuing melee, several injured but none seriously. Police quelled the riot and arrested the ringleaders.
Cairo reports a rumor that Colonel Stewart was killed at Berber with his entire party. Major Kitchener telegraphs that the whole party was murdered after being stranded on rocks near the cataract at Wady Garna. He had asked the Mudir of Dongola to send aid days earlier.
Inspector Owen testified before the Tenement House Commission about visits to 562 tenement houses in New York City. He reported 5,050 families and 20,017 people, finding that closets were foul in ninety percent of the cases.
October 6 report states French forces under Admiral Lespes captured Tamsui, occupying the town. He has dispatched three battalions to join Admiral Courbet’s forces for a confirmed juncture.
In Guilford, Knox County, yesterday the daughter of farmer Henry Hinton fell forward into a spring while drinking and suffocated in only a few inches of water. The incident occurred in Gaewa Illinois on October 6.
London reports a shipment of 175000 dollars in silver bullion to New York today, with expectations of further outflow if American exchange does not recover.
New York reports the customs examiner seized forty one large diamonds found in the mails aboard the steamer Brittanic. The value of the gems is placed at 10000 dollars. The incident highlights tightened mail inspections at the port.
QuueBeEe reports a cold night on October 6 with a light snowfall expected in the area. Weather conditions are described as chilly, with brisk winds and a probable drop in temperatures overnight. No significant storms are forecast. Local forecasts warn residents to dress warmly.
A Madagascar tradesman was found to have used short weights. He faces four fines of five oxen each and five dollars, or one year in prison with forced labor. The case highlights strict penalties for fraud and adulteration in trade.
The Chicago Herald notes Kentucky boasts of a cow that digs potatoes with her horns and eats them while winking with an off eye. It adds Dakota is the only territory paying revenue to the Post Office Department and only ten states do.
A lengthy expose argues Khartoum’s abandonment would shatter imperial gains against slave trade, trigger chaos across the Soudan, and invite Abyssinian expansion. It warns that British, Egyptian, and French actions could reshape Africa with Khartoum’s fate as a hinge. alleges danger from a rushed withdrawal and hints at colonial maneuvering in the region.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch correspondent describes Muir Glacier in Glacier Bay Alaska. The scene features a towering ice face five hundred feet thick and up to ten miles wide, with ice chunks calving into twenty two fathoms deep water while ships rock like toys. The narrative extols Alaska scenery far beyond Lake George or Yellowstone and notes the river of ice advancing at a slow pace.
A collage of light humorous snippets from newspapers recounts multilingual boasts a wife who speaks one language, school ambitions turning first, a widow meeting a former lover in Central Park, rent talk with a market elder, a Boston broker trip sparked by artesian wells, and Uncle Simon’s final quip about idiosyncrasies as a tale ends with a surviving plot twist.
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