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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1896
Page
2
The item mixes oddities from around the world including a talk of political flirtations and a satirical take on Wally of Colorado. It references Chauncey M. Depew, English horsemen, and a balloon wedding joke, then shifts to Manchester Ship Canal trade and U.S. cotton arrivals, bicycle industry impact, anti cigarette leagues, a Logan county scare, a Logansport divorce and a Milton Indiana moth plague.
A sprawling, garbled account mixes political intrigue, military figures, and infrastructure moves. It references Adana, Opelilia, and Santa Ana de Casine, with mentions of Mexican politics, rail subsidies, and the Mexican Northern line, alongside a heat wave report from Washington and a divorce suit in New York. The piece blends diverse names and places, culminating in a note on a Columbus timber firm's bankruptcy assets.
News from Little Rock dated August 6 reports a bloody brawl among school boys at Buckville Montgomery county. Robert Chew and Beauregerd Poole fought, friends joined, pocket knives were used, Poole died from breast wounds, Chew escaped. Forty miners were entombed in a pit in Sansom Wales in a separate note.
Fragmentary OCR text appears to reflect a weekly issue with scattered names and phrases. It mentions a newspaper cast and possible references to readers and poets, with unclear actions or dates. The readable parts hint at a serialized piece and a discussion of content in a periodical.
A violent incident is described with an assailant confessing to assaulting a woman and being attacked by a crowd. The narrative is fragmented and difficult to interpret, with many unreadable phrases and misplaced characters.
In Liverpool at Mars M Be election results list councillor vice counsellor treasurer and coochetor with names including Mrs Jesse Hurat and Mrs Judia Tipton Denison. Also report of Bob Thompson prize fighter case resumed in Justice court with bail set at 2500 and district court to hear club and referee charges.
Topeka dispatch reports an outbreak of diphtheria in Ituzeell Russell County Kansas with the health board ordering a strict quarantine. Secretary of the board counted about forty two cases under treatment by one local physician and ten deaths have occurred.
Jona Hazel, held by an officer for horse stealing in Missouri, leapt from an Illness Central passenger train traveling 40 mph near Tuscola last evening and was killed almost instantly. Details place him as a Poplar Bluff Missouri native with ties to Crete and Canaea. In Crete area fighting between Mohammedan insurgents and Turkish forces near Copsana ended with Cretans seizing arms, overpowering the Muslims, and forcing a retreat as Turkish troops observed.
Appointed appraisers were named Tuesday to value the assets of Emerson & Fisher Carriage Company, which along with Columbus Buggy Company collapsed recently. The firm’s attorney, ill at signing, will be relieved in Ohio, and the company will proceed under bankruptcy or receivership processes.
In Meveland Ohio and nearby towns strikers clashed with guards with militia sent to the Brown works. Gunfire resounded as two workers and a nonunion man were amid the confrontation. Fire was feared as sabotage rumors swirled and tension rose among residents and police.
Two thousand indent Mississippi? Not. Severe storm wrecked tents and outfits of homesteaders from Kansas City Pittsburgh and Galt railway venture. Wires crippled cut communications. Many families arrived to claim land. people hunted for belongings as collapse of a shack endangered lives. Despite wreckage boomers pressed on and homesteading rapidly continued as schooners arrived, ending a two month drought.
In Tromsoe Aug 5 Sir Martin Conway and nephew headline a five member Arctic party achieving the first east to west crossing of Spitwber gen. Members include Trevort Barre Dr J W Gregory RB J Garwood and Studley with two Norwegian ponies and three Nimbus sledges. The team plans split: interior exploration and coastal geology and protection of gear.
In New Orleans on August 5, Mrs Berthailbert, a white farmer’s wife, was overpowered and raped by Lam Weighman, a Black man. He shot her in the head and dragged the body 200 yards. Bloodhounds tracked him to capture. he confessed and was hanged with a rope set around a tree.
A. Mic. Kinley, prominent Evansville and Indianapolis roadmaster, was killed four miles south of Washington Indiana while supervising a track waterway project. A bank failed, pinning him to a post and inflicting fatal head injuries. He died instantly. the accident occurred Monday and involved a plunge into Terra Haute.
Treasury officials say a theft or misplacement led to a loss of 465 400 dollars in coin and 1 bilion bars reported days ago.
California prune orchards cover vast foothill and plain areas with irregular topography. About eight tons per acre yield is typical. care and curing in the harvest season command around 500 per acre, after costs leave a substantial per-acre return.
John Bly a 20 year old man died after a brain tumor grew from the base of the brain. The tumor blocked sight and caused blindness for years yet he retained memory speech and many senses. Autopsy showed the brain mostly hardened by the tumor and a shell of tissue surrounding a collapsed mass.
A Philadelphia Record correspondent describes a large cocoanut plantation in Creoanut Orchard by a New Englander. He planted 10,000 trees on 1,004 acres at four cents per acre, expecting yields after six years and a grove worth at least 1,000,000 dollars within ten years, with annual income around one percent. A ramie planting and a new silk erase plant are also noted as future textile factors.
P T Thorne of Lowdeville claims luck follows the number thirteen. He notes his birth on the thirteenth and reports favorable outcomes when thirteen appears in combinations. He lodges a superstition by requesting room No 18, noting few hotels assign it and that he is uniquely drawn to it all along the road. Washington tae
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