29 Oct 1891
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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1891
Page
1
A damaged ad promotes Figs as a universal remedy for bowel and stomach issues, claiming quick relief from colds and habitual ailments. It stresses natural ingredients, agreeable taste, and widespread availability through leading druggists.
A compilation of eclectic items: ocean depth, calendar facts, Smyth county onyx, fruit forecasts for Colorado, novel reading habits, royal tobacco ban rumor, New York state watermelons, Missouri debt cuts, Chinese language share, marriages in Pittsburgh, a 70 foot finback at Ocean City, a Kansas masonry center, and a South Dakota artesian well. Includes curios about ants and cheese, York county apples, and unrelated snippets on ships, stamps, and rail.
Eugene F. Garcia, paying teller at the Louisiana State Bank in New Orleans, is named a defaulter for 190000. Officials say the loss spans fifteen years as he counted sealed note packages by their tickets. The bank remains solvent and Garcia, a seventy year old Creole, has not been arrested. information likely forthcoming.
Five companies of United States infantry and cavalry march from Ft. Russell toward the Ute outbreak site in northern Colorado. Governor Rcutt is told that Indians encroach on white settlers rights. A small herd of ponies fled to the Flat Top mountains. no bloodshed reported. Settlers vow to stay on the reservation while natives seek to hunt.
Samuel Cadmus of Hollis New York wore a squirrel skin cap while chestnut gathering. Chas Kinkel and Harry Austin of Long Island City shot at a fur cap they mistook for a squirrel. Cadmus was struck by the hat and then beaten by the youths who faced him with a stick after protests.
An exhaustive article by Prof. Koch published Thursday explains origin preparation and use of tuber culine. He claims chemical purification removes inflammatory matter and that pure lymph and crude lymph differ mainly in dose.
Plunged into war across Sonora and the republic, Yaqui Indians along the Yaqui river have declared war and begun a campaign that promises to be bloody and troublesome. The Mexican government concentrates troops and mobilizes for a vigorous campaign.
Thursday Tom Green and Joe Gordon, famed Hancock county residents, clashed following a long feud over a mountain maid. A cold greeting escalated into a duel in which Gordon died instantly and Green was fatally wounded.
Two freight trains on the Illinois Central collided at Bardwell Hill Tennessee. A car of oil exploded igniting the wreck. Three merchandise cars burned, two engines demolished, tracks burned for five hundred feet each side and woods for a mile. Loss estimated at two hundred thousand dollars.
Reports from Sun birsk and Samara indicate local government cannot cope with distress and relief has not reached distant districts. Distribution is poorly organized with prosperous individuals receiving aid while the destitute die of hunger.
Information from Fergus Falls reports the Crookston Minnesota post office was broken into by two unknown men in dark clothes at 3 a m Thursday. Stamps registered letters and money orders totaling 3500 dollars plus 100 dollars in cash were stolen. Suspects are two medium sized men in dark clothes.
Herr Wermushh, the German commissioner to the Columbian exposition in Chicago, will begin a tour of German commercial centers to explain the exposition plans and urge a comprehensive display of German industrial products.
Diphtheria is becoming a serious epidemic in Danville Illinois with over two thirds of school children withdrawn by parents. In South Danville more than fifty houses have been quarantined due to the fatal disease.
Explorations in Shiloh cave in Lawrence county Indiana reveal scenery rivaling Mammoth cave. A wide hall, lime stone formations, a three jet fountain, and a brook through the cavern create striking beauty despite legends of spooks and eerie noises.
Chicago report says Anna Hoppman, a German girl from Burlington Iowa, is heir to 500000 from Ignatz Noethman a Prussian grandfather. Her dainty needle-work mailed to him a year ago impressed him and his will leaves the fortune to his granddaughter. Mother corroborates most of the tale though not yet aware of the bequest.
A letter from Chee Foo in China claims the current disorders are a brewing revolution against a rotten dynasty. It says officials squeeze the people, royal coffers are defrauded, fresh taxes are imposed, and money is extorted across the country.
J. T. Jones of Pocahontas West Virginia was opening a bottle of ginger ale when the cork failed to come out. He brought the bottle to his face to inspect it and the cork flew out striking his right eye and destroying his sight.
Hon. Calvin S. Brice, chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee, passed through Pittsburgh Friday night and told a Dispatch reporter his intention is to resign the chairmanship after the presidential nominees are selected.
The Water town New York Presbyterian Synod on Friday adopted a resolution urging Congress not to lend Chicago 5 million dollars for World’s fair purposes unless an agreement is made to close the fair on Sundays.
A large number of Chinese nationals are reportedly moving from Mexico into the United States daily. They cross near Brownville close to the Rio Grande mouth, prompting cautious commentary on border activity.
Gov. Northern of Georgia vetoes the school bill that would have appropriated 1.2 million dollars. The action blocks the proposed funding and requires new legislative steps to advance the measure.
From Keyport New Jersey comes a brief report that Jacob Brown a longtime resident was found dead on a stoop early Friday morning. He had frozen to death in the cold air leaving locals shaken and puzzled by the fatal chill.
Dr. J. E. Casey of Weston West Virginia rushed to attend a patient and chose a short cut across a railroad bridge. He plunged about 30 feet to the river bank and sustained fatal injuries, with death expected.
Levee caving at St Philip Dumaine and Ursuline streets worsened Sunday as land sinks three to eighteen feet across five acres. The Harrison J Line wharf is crooked and cracking, threatening collapse. Louisville and Nashville abandons Canal Street depot and shifts to Pontchartrain, as rails bend over subsiding ground. Railroad crews work as ground gives way, threatening lands up to the French Market.
Earle V Beales of Muskegon Michigan reports a two machine system to automate type setting. A compositor enters copy on a keyboard to perforate a strip which then feeds a second electricity driven machine. It forms matrices and molds lines for stereotyping. He claims output equals about twenty men at cases.
Orthodox residents held a holiday and roamed Starosch looting Hebrews shops and breaking synagogue windows. A rumor that a Israelite assaulted a Russian sparked a general mob attack aided by peasants from surrounding districts. Ten houses burned as firemen were blocked.
John Meinke of St Louis shot and fatally wounded his cousin Miss Sophie Broecker as they sat in her Springfield Illinois parlor. He had been pursuing her. she did not encourage him. He then shot himself in the head, a non fatal wound.
Saturday after five months and a half absence, Secretary Blaine returned to Washington and resumed his official duties as secretary of state. The interim period featured notable incidents in which the secretary’s policy was central, and the home coming is viewed as a matter of national significance.
The three children of farmer John Cummings near Pennetanguishene Ontario died in a Sunday house fire started by the absent parents’ children. The mother, who returned to save the fourth child, was fatally burned likely.
In famine districts of Russia the czar’s persistent absence from St. Petersburg draws resentment. Critics argue he should tour the stricken provinces rather than travel to the Crimea to spur local activity and alleviate the severe hardship.
Wm. Caswell, secretary of the Lenoir City Land Co, was thrown from his horse Sunday afternoon in Knoxville Tennessee and killed instantly. The tragedy removes a prominent local figure and business leader known for his work with Lenoir City properties and community affairs.
Sam Pearson, an inmate at Lancaster County infirmary in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, fell from a window at the facility and died from his injuries.
Advices from Damascus state that there were thirty cholera cases and fifteen deaths in the city on the 22nd inst. The report notes rapid spread and concerns for regional health. Health authorities monitor the outbreak and urge sanitation and quarantine measures.
Minister Egan delivered an informal U S government demand for reparation after an attack on Baltimore sailors in Valparaiso. The report cites Captain Schley and Egan, detailing murder of Charles Riggan, teen wounds to Turnbull, and 35 crewmen detained without cause. It notes bayonet wounds and police involvement, leaving Americans unarmed.
In Atlanta on October 22 a granite monument to dead journalist and orator Grady was unveiled before about 20 000 spectators. Gov Hill of New York and civic leaders attended as a bronze statue of Grady in a speaking pose rose atop a terrace flanked by Memory and History statues.
Jupee Robinson at Youngstown sentences ex treasurer David Douglas to three years for embezzling 14000 with two additional indictments pending. North Baltimore to organize a fire department. Washington County rich in oil and gas. Youngstown to build a 30000 artificial ice plant. Marlatt found guilty of murder in the second degree. life imprisonment debated. Robbery near Wooster leaves contractor battered. West Point cadet appointment for Burnside of Newark. Gas companies cutting supplies to private consumers. Reunion of the 144th O V I at Upper Sandusky. Wyandot county battalion organized with officers. Patience Steinmetz, oldest inmate, dies in prison. Postmasters appointed at Carruthers and Selden. Infirmary directors form district association for inmate care. Huge sums spent on years of land. Totepo company eyes W&LE railway land near St. Marys. Tragic train incident at Alliance while on spree. Over 50,000 bushels of cucumbers moved to Cres ton. Mansfield barbers form protective union. Springfield board of trade eyes district exposition during National Grange. Forgery arrest at Oberlin. Suicide attempt near Findlay ends poorly for Hum by, who attacks Dewitt Coney. Giant 134-pound pumpkin at Zanesville. Apple and cherry trees blossom out of season near St. Marys. Funeral of Mrs. Thurman held in Columbus. Mrs. Nancy Johnson dies at 93 in Martin's Ferry. Putnam County farm lands valued at 6.052 million. Supreme Court sees prisoner defend himself via habeas corpus. Van Wert water works near completion. artesian wells supply. Costodoy receipts reach 26.
Cyrus R Teed heads the Koresheans sect already welcomed by the Celibate Society of Economites near Pittsburgh Pa whose estimated wealth reaches 150 million The board pledged to support Teed and church announcements followed He plans to establish stores and a central house in Chicago plus a cooperative system and aims to unite other celibate societies His grand schemes include a six track railroad across the continent and a fifty mile wide Rocky Mountain passage.
Reports from Doddridge County West Virginia describe the Moffat well on Rock Run becoming a tremendous gasser with pressure near 1000 pounds per square inch on Saturday. The Freeman well a mile away reached gas sand on Sunday and blew the tools from the well. Six large gas wells now lie within three miles and their output could supply a city of 1,000,000.
Government statistics show in 1890 France spent two million francs on foreign cigars, two million six hundred thousand on home cigars, ten million on cigarettes, twenty-nine million on snuff, and ninety-one million on pipe tobacco. There is an increase of seven hundred thousand francs in ladies cigarette expenditure and one anti tobacco society in France.
The New York Central Railway Co. began Monday to run the fastest train in the world the Empire State Express, leaving New York at 9 a.m. and arriving in Buffalo at 5 40 p.m. The 439 mile run covers about 52 miles per hour.
John Mattei and his wife with an infant asked Pittsburgh authorities for food after walking from Connellsville. Mattei, claiming to be a striking miner, said they had not eaten for forty eight hours and that the mother could not nurse. He recounted cutting his finger so the child could drink his blood to survive. the pair were emaciated and the child nearly died. They were given food and lodgings.
Two elderly sisters Margaret and Bridget Breen, aged 75 and 78, were found dead in a rear Prince Street tenement. Neighbors offered food, but they refused, dying of presumed starvation after years of poverty and pride. The incident ends with a late note on a coachman ad seeking German and French speaking talent.
A recent survey puts the total number of Alpine glaciers at 1,155 with 249 exceeding four percent of a mile in length. The report highlights the distribution of larger glaciers across the range.
The queen maintains three physicians dedicated to attending the ailments of the suffering poor. The report notes concern over neighbors' affairs and social issues mentioned in passing.
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