18 Oct 1883
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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1883
Page
1
The text portrays eminent physicians praising Hop Bitters as a universal remedy for disease. It claims the preparation aids digestion, biliousness, malaria and other ailments, is safe for women, the frail, and children, and can restore health when doctors give up. It emphasizes its mysterious curative power and universal applicability across a wide range of illnesses and conditions.
Volume XIV item notes Edmonds plans to resign as President pro tempore of the Senate and Anthony to be elected in his stead. Also reports Civil Service reclassification for low earners, a fatal car accident involving a mother and child, John A. Ferguson found not guilty, and a Pa. woman presenting a $500 hailstone with a storied origin.
The October crop report to Washington shows corn at seventy five as of September, with a year total near 1.6 billion bushels and more soft corn in regions consuming their entire crop. Wheat may reach 420 million. oats yield near average at ninety. barley up one to two bushels per acre. potatoes better than any year since 1870. tobacco below average. Charges against St Louis Postmaster Hays prompt investigation notes and a right to defense before publication.
A memorial list notes Major General Crane of the United States Army died in Washington on the 10th. Dispatches say General Schofield will replace General Sheridan at Chicago and General Pope will lead the Department of the Pacific. The Interior Secretary accepts Edgar A. Marble’s resignation as Commissioner of Patents, with Benj Butterworth of Ohio offered the post. Others report President Arthur may pardon Sergeant Mason. Major W H Smythe named Postmaster at Atlanta, and Burdon Stone to investigate an epidemic in Brewton, Alabama with a Louisiana Health Board inspector to assist.
A large mob assaulted Adam Forepaughs circus during a Connerstown performance on the 10th after the door keeper refused free passage. Revolvers were used, several attackers were shot but not killed, others clubbed. Ten wagons were wrecked and horses injured.
A New York adjournment closes the American Woman Suffrage Association meeting after a two day session with seventy one delegates from ten states. Mary B. Clay of Kentucky elected president. Wisconsin Liquor Dealers Convention in Milwaukee outlines aims to support laws favorable to dealers and opposes candidates not pledged to those interests. They blame youth education for drunkenness. A passenger accident near Waukau involving Mr Trougert and family is noted with a damaged bushel and missing context.
Ellis Craft, convicted of complicity in the December 1881 Gibbons children murders at Ashland Kentucky, was hanged in Grayson on the 12th. About five thousand spectators witnessed the execution. He professed religion and was baptized at his own request. He offered no statement beyond repeating his innocence.
The Prohibitory State Committee of Massachusetts issues an address arguing no good can come from Robinsons election and that prosperity of the rum interest will not be affected by whether Republicans or Democrats prevail.
The warden of Massachusetts State Prison denies Robinson's charges that conditions are threatening and asserts that prior officials committed extreme cruelty. He states more than a hundred inmates were chained by their wrists from two and a half to eighty six hours.
Dr. Ford Health Officer Brewton telegraphs on the yellow fever situation noting four days with insufficient help to bury the dead. He states there have been no deaths from black vomit in Brewton and compares the sick to sherry wine versus ink, detailing bile gastric mucus trace of coagulated blood and charcon water.
Special Agent W R Marshall filed an affidavit by A R Lovejoy accusing H L Gordon a prominent Minneapolis lawyer and R C Mitchell editor of the Duluth Tribune of conspiring to defraud the United States of 4480 acres of pine lands. They allegedly hired men to pre empt and then sold to principals at nominal prices. The Grand Jury returned indictments against Gordon and Lovejoy on the 12th while Mitchell was exonerated.
C. J. Dewey, known as Dalbert, an Englishman who fled from Liverpool to Montreal and obtained 25000 dollars from Molson's Bank and large sums from Boston banks, was arrested in San Francisco on the 12th as the steamer Coptic began its voyage to Hong Kong.
The International Socialistic Workman's Association convened in Pittsburg on the 13th. Its declaration asserts capitalists control government church and schools, proclaims inevitable conflict, calls for revolutionary action to abolish the present class, limits individual wealth to 100000 dollars, advocates universal free commerce, and pledges to advance other socialist aims at any cost.
Awles, treasurer of the Order, and Charles Act of the Missouri Pacific Railway Conductors were robbed at gunpoint by four highwaymen on the Kansas River Bridge between Kansas City and Wyandotte. Lawles lost 200 dollars, a watch, and 700 dollars of the order funds. The four robbers escaped. The money had been raised for the National Convention of Railway Conductors entertainment.
A Chicago statement reports President Villard of the Northern Pacific Railroad has arranged for building several heavy tonnage steamers. They would operate from Superior City and Duluth to Buffalo, bypassing Chicago for grain shipments and reducing transportation costs to the East.
Edwin G. Walker, prominent colored lawyer and politician in Boston, files a libel suit against the Boston Post Publishing Company for defamation of character. Damages sought are $10,000. Papers served and a keeper placed in the establishment.
Advices from Fayetteville Arkansas report United States Deputy Marshals Perry and Weatherford quarreling over a card game while guarding Indian prisoners. They drew revolvers and killed each other, one firing three shots and the other seven. The incident ends with both men dead. Mrs Elulen Beckman, aged forty six, is noted as the wife of a prominent figure.
Citizens of Altamont West Virginia report a death by own action after taking blue vitriol, with mental derangement cited. In New Iberia Louisiana Sylvian Bazille killed his brother Pierre over a woman in a recent quarrel. In Virginia City Mississippi JorspH shot William Seal during a dispute. Walter Limberg of Wheeling West Virginia died by suicide, blamed on financial troubles.
Floods in Castellon de la Plana flood plains and destroy railways and bridges, submerging villages and costing lives. Across Asia and Europe reports note French protectorate talks in Cochin China, Spain’s anniversary celebrations in Madrid, and various European political and social upheavals as a turbulent era unfolds.
A Texas Siftings tale notes a fourteen year old Austin girl who is described as very pretty yet spoiled by constant admiration. A family friend jokes about a new baby and the girl growing into beauty, highlighting early social commentary on youth and perception.
A colored woman in Atlanta was knocked down by an engine but remained unhurt, rising to tell the engineer he possessed a great deal of politeness to treat two ladies that way. The report reflects the era’s blunt street reporting and social context.
In Oaklan depot last Wednesday a plausible young man greeted a weary farmer, Tom Saunders, claimingold friendship with James Guffy. The scene shows humor and memory as the farmer recognizes the visitor and plans to visit town together. A later tale has a thief asserting he was robbed while the con man laments being outplayed at his own game.
British Consul at Nantes notes that French sardine prosperity stems partly from Atlantic currents carrying 30 000 tons of cod fishery refuse annually to the French coast. Winds from the northwest shift Gulf Stream, delivering oil and spawn-enhancing substances to feed sardines. London News reports this curious marine connection and its nutritional impact on sardine stocks.
A collage of 19th century clippings and puns from various papers. Jests about flirtation and social classes, quotes about a Cottage Hill fishing party, and light wit from Detroit and New York papers. Vignettes include a boy and his sister's admirer, an elevator man, and a Bohemian street band anecdote.
In Kingston a man grew dangerously ill and his wife refused medical aid claiming a vision showed a vacant chair for her husband in heaven, thus deeming medicine useless per the Toronto Mail report.
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