28 Sep 1882
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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1882
Page
1
Reports span global politics and state tickets. Connecticut and Massachusetts Republicans nominate governors and aides. New York and Missouri conventions discuss liquors, juries and anti monopoly planks. Fires, cattle drops, railroad wrecks, and weather damage ink the tale with fatalities and financial losses.
The Wabash Valley frost on the 25th coincides with a surge in New York money markets. Rates peak at 12 percent, then drift to 25 percent for dividend stocks, amid large loan demand and fears of bank tightening. Notable borrowers include Hotchkiss Burnham and Dominick Dickerman. Vanderbilt-backed time loans tied to government bonds. Reports also note a bank cooperation rumor, a Foll ett broker failure prompting payments suspension, casualties at Governor's Island, and various international clerical appointments.
A mine explosion near Dortmund Germany kills twenty. Irish suspects in prison near discharge. The 1869 Anglo American cable restored. STANLEY arrives in Lisbon after penetrating 300 miles beyond Vivi and establishing fifteen trade stations. E Dwyer Gray urges Irish exhibitions in Ireland and the United States and tariff changes to favor Irish goods. Patrick Walsh hanged at Galway for murder with alleged perjury. Sydney Exhibition building destroyed causing £500 000 loss. The Sultan orders surrender of the Greek frontier to Greece under the International Commission. Panama earthquakes disrupt isthmus. Panama loss $250 000 and Aspinwall War costs reach $50,000,000. Abdellah surrenders to General Wood. Wolseley and Admiral Seymour to be made Lords for Egypt service. English churches hold thanksgiving on Egypt success. A bridge collapse near Eszek Austria sinks part of a mixed train. thirty soldiers drown.
The Columbus meeting of the Patriotic Order of America elected state officers for the coming year. Local item notes the drowning victim Isaac Robinson found petrified in Columbus, various tax and legal notices, a Mansfield editor Joan Giessner’s death, and diverse incidents across Ohio including a farmer near Piqua injuring himself, a man in Knox County Mnagers hearing, and a massive Cuban Queen watermelon raised by John Miller of Stone Mountain with details on his cultivation and sales practices.
A lively New York scene recounts a boy tying a dead rat to an old man’s coat tail, a girl’s quick descent, and a rebuke about kinship. Jeering turns to apology as the old man questions kindness and a grandpa’s status. Includes brief notes on Henry Villard, Ida Lewis, Blondin, Mme de Remusat, and gifts from J C Whitin with other brief notices.
A chorus of quirky notes from Michigan to Boston and beyond sketches oddities and tall tales. Topics range from lockjaw cases and milkman showers to a water telescope and tin can crafts, with jokes about phrenology, dogs in vivisection, wooden nutmegs, and hams grown from wood. Kansas reports say ninety three thousand acres of trees have been planted in three years.
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