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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1896
Page
6
The Jefferson County Record reports on James J Corbett praised for leaving boxing without a knockout and notes Chicago judges deciding against wigs and gowns, with a side remark on a nationwide tack trust driving up carpet tack prices.
Edouard von Kilanyi who introduced living pictures in the country died last week in New York from bronchial consumption. He probably took cold while viewing some of his figures without clothes.
Washington reports medals for the World’s fair nearly ready for delivery. Managers abandon waiting for the next fair to issue awards. In Oregon a peddler sells horse medicine and includes a public domain agricultural book on horse diseases with each bottle.
Carl Browne and his former Miss Coxey star in a melodrama drawn from Coxey march events. The play promises a Coxey army in the east and recalls a roman town society that battled female extravagance, with women tearing up papers in a dramatic clubroom scene as a cautionary note.
The Corean Minister announces a proclamation to select a new royal consort. The decree bans marriages of girls aged 13 to 17 nationwide while 30 to 40 candidates are nominated. From them three are chosen, then one final selection is made for the king’s consort.
The Berlin industrial exhibition of 1896 enlarges its plans as many applications arrive after the deadline. The principal building grows from 40,000 to 53,000 square meters with more groups housed in a separate hall. Building and engineering occupy about 4,000, metal 7,600, and machinery and electricals 10,100 square meters. The German colonial exhibition also receives government funding and will cover a substantial area.
Francis Owings built a sixteen story Chicago building five years ago with a $10 capital. He could not pay the mortgage and the property passed out of his hands days ago. His ten dollars are gone, but he enjoyed the venture.
Frederick Moran, famed for a migratory heart, has been discharged from the Alameda county infirmary and returns to his former vacation as a chef. Doctors describe the case as one of medicine’s rarest, noting the heart’s shifting position from left to right and its ability to function on the opposite side.
A real live deer appeared near the water works on Marian avenue and crossed the Fitchburg tracks into Excelsior Spring woods. The 200 pound doe, seen by Charles J. Traver and firemen Jones Crandall and William Wilkins, remains in the woods under game law protection. If not for the law the animal would likely have perished. The Saratogian reports the sighting.
Germany reports 6,626 diphtheria cases treated with serum. Of 2,460 treated in hospitals, 6.5 percent recovered, 12.9 percent died, others under treatment. Hospital cures reached 80.5 percent while deaths were 19.5 percent. 4,871 remarks were favorable and 60 unfavorable.
The New York Herald notes theater property men stage elaborate pranks behind the curtain. A greenhand carpenter is tricked into lugging a heavy iron bag, then rewarded with drinks. Other gags include a trap door on a Hamlet recital and a green hand sent for a curtain key receiving a heavy iron bar.
Near Mead’s lumber station twelve miles from Ashland Kentucky Robert Jenkins accidentally fatally wounded Charley Gudgell while turkey hunting. The two had separated after locating a flock and each called decoys, mistaking each other’s cries for turkeys then Jenkins fired when he saw a bird. Gudgell died from six buckshot hits including lung penetration.
Dialogue-driven snippet shows Mr Binks and Mrs Binks discussing their daughter’s marriage prospects and their own hurried marriage plans sparked by Mrs Binks and her mother's warnings. The exchange hints at urgency and social pressure surrounding early marriages.
A Springfield Republican writer notes ten English cathedrals visited in small towns revealing life of locals beyond city tours. He praises Peterborough's restored cream white stone, laments smoky towns on some cathedrals, and highlights Salisbury Canterbury Ely and Lincoln for their beauty while acknowledging architectural flaws. The piece ends with a Springfield woman tearfully reacting to Westminster Abbey.
An English journalist recounts how Gladstone, while traveling by train to the north, concerned for reporters seeking his last remarks. The orator offered to jot down his concluding words and send them, a courteous gesture that endeared him to journalists.
Agricultural returns for London show 75 442 acres with a population of 4 232 118 of which 14 401 are cultivated and 267 used for grazing. Nearly one fifth of the area served farming purposes. Between 1893 and 1895 500 acres were lost to cultivation.
The drought left many Michigan lakes nearly dry allowing farmers to drive wagons into shallow waters and shovel fish into carts to sell in nearby towns. The practice reflects the drought's impact on local fisheries and rural commerce.
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