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Newspaper
The Harrison News
Location
Harrison, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1887
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR shows a claim about f coated pills and pellets marketed as vegetable and purgative. The text mentions Pierce's Pellets and imitation products, suggesting concerns over freshness reliability and hermetic sealing in glass vials. Names and specifics are incomplete due to damaged text.
An advertisement from the Dr Sage's Catarrh remedy touts its ability to cure chronic nasal catarrh described as a wasting, foul smelling condition with nasal obstruction headaches and coughing. It cites testimonials from patients including Buynan P.O. and a woman’s daughter, claiming relief after months of suffering and urging readers to buy the 50 cent remedy.
A wide array of items appears from Russia’s Nihilists reorganizing to Mexico wage pensions and American land deals. Notes on taxation, fairs, travel, and public figures mix with discoveries, court cases, and curiosities across continents, including iron bridges, spurious heritage claims, and notable political bids.
Alphabetta Georgia Sept 22 Calvin Antrey lies near death after a failed ghost act father Samuel Antrey Milton County wealth two brothers Calvin and Robert aged twenty one and eighteen vied for the same woman's hand. Calvin dressed as a ghost in a shed near Clear Spring Church graveyard scene led to Robert firing a rock wounding his brother. Calvin is dying tonight while Robert gains local hero status for confronting the apparitional threat.
London dispatch reports Henry M. Stanley received a letter dated June five hundred slave traders who refused allegiance to Tippoo Tib. The governor asked State troops to support Tippoo Tib’s authority. Stanley expresses confidence in Tippoo Tib’s ability to earn trust and notes he plans to depart for several months.
Policemen discovered a gas pipe bomb at the Cottage Grove avenue car barn on Thirty-ninth Street at 1 AM. The device measured ten inches long and two inches in diameter, housed in a starch box with clockwork for detonation. It was moved to Staton Avenue station, then kept in a nearby vacant lot. No clues yet on the bomber.
A collision on the P. Ft. W. & C. line at Elida destroyed three sacks of registered letters and many mail sacks. The front mail car was demolished and both engines wrecked. Engineers firemen and postal clerks leaped to safety, avoiding serious injuries.
Detroit officials report the Typographic Union of the city seeks a nine hour day after November 1 with no wage cut. The Employing Printers Association of the ten largest local job printing houses issued a circular refusing to comply. A strike is likely though newspapers and piece-work remain unaffected.
Tucson residents returning from San Pedro report that all crops on bottom lands between Mammoth and Benson have been wiped out by recent floods. Pine and corn fields lie covered by sand as a flood surge of unprecedented magnitude devastates the area. ranchers face years of recovery.
Washington reports to the Surgeon General that Key West yellow fever epidemic is practically over. No new cases in the week and only one death reported, signaling containment of the outbreak.
Michael Davitt departed from Queensstown for America after an interview during which he spoke freely on his views, remarks that could have landed him in jail had he not fled the country promptly.
Atlanta GA September Senate approves substitutes for the Glenn bill by 23 to 1. The measure withdraws state funds from schools with mixed races and bars graduates from teaching positions.
Curicaeo Sept. 22 Saint Bernard Commandery Knights Templar expelled Wm J McGargle Adam Ochs and W Ripper from the roll of Bis Knight at a conclave held last night.
In Lebanon Pennsylvania on September 23 Wm Showers age 59 confessed to murdering his two grandchildren Samuel and Willie Speeran to clear the path for marriage to Betsy Sergent a spinster younger by twenty years Sergent who attended the trial collapsed when the confession named her as an accessory Showers described strangling the boys and burning their clothes after they were killed with Betsy Sergent pledging to help evade suspicion as officials consider lynching threats and a heavy public stir follows the open court confession and signed document detailing the crime.
The steamship Alesia arrives with a virulent cholera outbreak from Naples. Nine days at sea yield the first cases Luiga Maria and Paul Antonio Baldageria, both steerage passengers who died. eight deaths total. Health officials order quarantine and hospital transfers for 561 steerage passengers to Hoffman's Island and Swinburne Island.
Duusuin on September 23 reports O'Brien's trial at Mitchelstown began with incompetent evidence. Harrington, counsel for the defendant, insulted the prosecutor and was warned by the judge. Harrington refused further participation as soldiers with fixed bayonets reconveyed O'Brien to jail amid a demonstrative crowd.
Berlin records Prince Bismarck marking a quarter century in office as Prussian Foreign Minister today and noting his October 8 rise to Prime Minister. Congratulatory messages arrive from European statesmen and several royal signatories.
Respited. Harrispure Pennsylvania September 23 Samuel Johnson colored murderer of farmer Sharpless in Delaware County today granted a respite until November 19.
CuicaGo reports on September 23 Mrs Lucy Parsons was arrested for distributing two copies of her husband’s Address to the Public. He is identified as a condemned anarchist. The brief note notes the arrest and linked charges in the local press.
Strangled, San Francisco, Sept 23. John Aernaghan was hanged today for the murder of his sister-in-law Martha Hood.
Paris reports the French Cabinet chose not to expel the Orleanist Princes. The move preserves political salvage for the Orleanist faction amid tensions within the government and royalist circles.
Crxcrsnall September 23 Henry Marsman found guilty of second degree murder for killing Ben J. Ricking in WilkesBarre Adam Volkervitz convicted of first degree murder for killing John Biosk in WilkesBarre on September 23.
Washington September 23 The Commissioner of Internal Revenue plans a test of all breweries beer products to determine if any exceed the permitted alcohol content under revenue laws.
Reports from Nancy and nearby towns say a French dragoon officer and a huntsman were shot near Raon la Plaine by Germans while hunting. French doctors say shots came from German army weapons. customs officials suspected poachers in civilian dress. Public opinion doubts the German explanation.
In Boston a jovial captain named Joseph T. Walsh climbed eight stories of a lightning rod at the Boston Sugar Refinery on Lewis Street after celebrating his fish shipment. He reached the eighth story, entered by a window, then descended with no explanation. A patrolman and searchers found him in the seventh floor, offered no resistance, and released him. He wondered why he climbed.
The cholera stricken ship Alesia sits at anchor off the lower quarantine and passengers remain held. Two patients died last evening and one this morning. Francesco Cesario, 33, moved from Hoffman Island Hospital to Swinburne Island today. he is very sick. Twenty three passengers are very ill. Cesario likely to die, others improving.
Convicts rebelled at Coal Creek mines near Knoxville forcing guards to fire. Three or four wounded, one mortally suspected. Dispute centers on keeping coal at mine mouth and air circulation.
In Indianapolis on September 25 a large quantity of books, many valuable, were found stolen from the old state building store-rooms and resold to junk dealers. One shipment was located at the Indiana Paper Company's rooms, indicating a prolonged period of theft and large-scale plunder over time.
William O'Brien was found guilty at Mitchelstown yesterday and sentenced to three months' imprisonment as a first class misdemeanant. A notice of appeal was given. Home Rulers reacted with sullen silence while Tory papers exulted.
Dover New Hampshire September 25 P A Crosby treasurer of the Lasters Union Fair fled with receipts totaling 5000 dollars. He is accompanied by Mrs Emma Sawyer Lord. Crosby leaves an aged mother a heart broken wife and two children to suffer the loss. He left them penniless.
In Wickspure Wisconsin on September 25 a monument marking the Grant Pemberton interview site was defaced and nearly battered to pieces by R B Jones, a drunken visitor.
Wasn Ton Sept 25. It is estimated that Cleveland's journey through the West and South will cover about 4500 miles, cost him around 10000 dollars, and require him to make fifty speeches.
Reading Pa Sept 25 William Hartung an elderly Reading railroad employee was fatally scalded yesterday after falling into a kettle of boiling catsup at an industrial plant. He died at the scene from the injuries. Local investigators began examining the accident site and interviewing workers.
Snow fell north of Farmington Maine this morning covering the tops of the Old Blue and other peaks. The brief fall marks early wintry weather in a region already preparing for seasonal changes.
Cincinnati Sept. 25 The Western National Bank of New York files suit against Briggs Swift and Ammi Baldwin both of Cincinnati former Fidelity National Bank executives to recover 195000 loaned to E L Harper secured by Fidelity stock as collateral.
Cholera returns in the past twenty four hours show Messina with 15 new cases and 49 deaths, Catania with new cases and deaths, and Palermo reporting 8 new cases and 8 deaths.
New York develops a chilling story as Mrs. Captain Black and other women warn of dire acts if August Spies and fellow defendants are hanged. They claim wives will kill their children and then commit suicide, asserting authorities risk grave retaliation and unrest if the condemned are spared.
Four Gobout children aged eight ten and twelve were playing near their St. Pierre home on Sept 26 when they pried open a fired bomb from a Thurs day artillery range then lit a burning match. The shell exploded tearing them apart three died instantly the fourth is dying. The father witnessed the tragedy from a canoe and was nearly driven to insanity.
John N Campbell aged ninety four died in Crixton today. He enlisted in the war of 1812 at eighteen and served to 1815. He also volunteered in the Black Hawk war and acted with distinction. Campbell witnessed the Black Hawk treaty and stood behind Governor Duncan during its reading and signing. He had lived in the city since 1858 and was widely known as an exemplary man.
New York on September 26, customs officers seized laces silks and dress goods valued at 10000 dollars brought from Europe aboard the steamship La Gascogne. Miss Kennedy, a Boston dressmaker, is said to own the goods and is charged with smuggling with an aiding man also under arrest. The best lace and silk were concealed inside inferior items.
Horsroon Sept 26 Sheriff Wm McIvernon and a 75 man posse engaged John Graham and Charles Blevins in Pleasant Valley after they refused to surrender. Both were killed. The Tonto Basin crackdown continues as remaining Tewksberry faction members surrender or are captured. only one Graham man survives, wounded.
Washington reports week ending September 21 standard silver dollars issued 1 359 565 with a year ago total of 872 998. Fractional silver coin shipments since September 1 amount to 35 817.
New York reports no fresh deaths or cases among Hoffman's Island patients by noon. Quarantine Commissioners said there were no changes in the situation as of today, September 26.
In Lincoln Nebraska on September 26 Henry Beers aged twenty eight killed Augusta Seifert aged seventeen with a pistol after she refused to marry him. Both Germans who came to the United States about fifteen months ago.
In Boston a U S Court sustained the Bell Telephone Company demurrer against government suit and the case was dismissed. The ruling ends the government action in this matter.
A French fishing boat was sunk in the British Channel after a collision. The vessel’s identity is unconfirmed and eighteen crew members are reported drowned.
In Reaning Pennsylvania on September 26, a brick wall thirty feet high collapsed at L iron ore Minés in Alburtes. Workmen Jacob Schrovely and Charles Metzler were instantly killed.
Daniel Lyons was found guilty of murder in the first degree for shooting Joe Quinn, the amateur athlete, on July 5 in New York. The verdict came today, September 25.
Paris report suggests President Grevy plans to resign his office shortly after September 26.
A New London Day item reports a mother on Main Street whipping her boy yesterday. As she laid on the rod she asked Will you behave and the boy replied I will if you will. The brief exchange captures a tense moment of parental discipline and child response.
A new Philadelphia treat features baked tomatoes filled with crab meat. A sandwich variant uses one ripe tomato slice layered with crab meat creole style, drawing appreciation from diners.
A young woman recounts the rude scrutiny faced when seeking a room in New York. She contrasts her treatment with men who can secure board freely, noting how a well dressed seeker is questioned about marriage or finances and denied a room. The piece calls for protection and humane options for poor girls arriving in the city.
Mr. Eric Bruce has completed a captive signaling balloon for the Belgian Government. It uses six Edison lamps inside a 15 foot diameter balloon, lit by a 25 cell accumulator, with external projectors for thick weather. A kite-stabilized captive balloon variant is also described.
Sarcasticus discovers his wife has taken his only necktie. She explains she has none of her own. He laments that it is the only tie between them, revealing a strained marriage moment.
On a ferry a resolute old woman asks a young man to discard his cigar as it makes her ill. The wavering youth half complies, voicing reluctance in a brief, tense moment reflective of social observation.
A collage of humorous clippings recounts petty theft headlines, domestic quips, and comic exchanges. It notes a Louisville store incident provoking a tongue in cheek “Burglars of Good Taste” report, plus sketches of absent-minded professors and bilingual requests about debts and weddings.
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