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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1886
Page
2
After reviewing nearly 12 000 cases Dr Hermann Brehmer a skilled German physician rejects the view that pulmonary consumption is contagious He argues the disease stems from poor lung nutrition caused by multiple factors and not from transmission between people.
The presidents of Pennsylvania coal roads have raised prices by 25 cents per ton across all grades. On 33 500 000 tons this adds 8 875 000 to consumer costs, with a further similar rise potentially doubling the loss to the public as a vast monopoly gathers profits. Initial plans floated a $1 per ton increase, which would push total consumer losses to 33 500 000.
The growing volume of war writing educates a rising generation beyond that of contemporaries and even soldiers. The author argues that works on battles like Shiloh offer more lasting insight to diligent students than early reports and that accessible, unbiased sources reveal the truth.
Importations at the port of New York for the March period show a large gain over the previous year. The four weeks ended March 26 total $10,560,236, up $1,879,095 from March 1885 and nearing 1884 levels. The increase spans wool, cotton, silk, and flax goods. First quarter values rise $4,173,105 versus 1885, but fall $4,275,117 compared with 1884.
On the last day of May and the first of June next the gauge on southern railroads will be reduced from five feet to four feet nine and a half inches. The Pennsylvania railroad and northern lines will move toward four feet eight and a half inches. The change aims to enable direct transport without transshipment by exchanging cars and engines between regions. Over thirteen thousand miles will be adjusted, a monumental operation to complete in two days.
A bill in the United States Senate proposes a $10 000 appropriation to the Bureau of Labor Statistics to collect and report marriage and divorce statistics from several states territories and the District of Columbia. The goal is to present Congress with facts on divorce laws and their operation to consider a general uniform law, though centralization concerns make such a measure unlikely.
A large mob advancing from three to four hundred toward Louisville and Nashville yards in East St. Louis clashed with eight deputy sheriffs guarding a passing freight train. Shots fired, four men killed and one woman mortally wounded. Gov. Oglesby sent eight companies of soldiers to the scene.
The Logan army bill failed 19 to 31 after heated Senate debate with Republicans voting for and a broad Democratic bloc opposing. House debate on the silver bill resumed with Bland advocating free coinage and denouncing limited coinage as harmful to creditors. Senate approved a Kansas & Arkansas railroad site purchase and rival library bills, while Washington Territory statehood moves advanced. A House select committee on railroad-employe disputes was set, and nominations to the Senate were transmitted by the President.
A Civil War memoir recounts 500 men advancing to stem a massive Confederate charge. Only five reach the colors at the end, including the narrator, who recalls the moment they clung to the flag amid heavy fire. Four of the five survivors live on, modest about their deed, never boastful.
The Cleveland Leader recounts that the code duello is discarded in the south and Washington, with some old figures mourning its loss. It notes duels among public men in the past and suggests the era of dueling is fading like Indian fighting, leaving only memories.
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