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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1896
Page
2
A miscellany of satirical quips and commentary spans war talk about Cuba and Transvaal, Alfred Austin’s pipes, Prince Henry, a Latin Speaking parrot, and progress reports on 1895 versus 1896 history. A tongue in cheek note on lemonade saving a judge’s life ends the item.
X Pene in charge of the Dahomey exhibit at the Atlanta exposition faced a near disaster last week as savages he hosted turned violent. He escaped with aid from the Belgian consul after Mainz claims he is bonded for 35000 dollars to repatriate the Dahomians, who lack food and funds.
Estimates vary monthly but consensus holds this year’s beet sugar crop will not exceed four million tons, down about 840 thousand from last year. Cane sugar in Cuba may fall due to the revolution and the West Indian crop is smaller, reducing European stocks in coming months. Sugar consumption rises as prices fall, German stats show beet consumption at 145,210,395 cwt in 1895 versus 106,443,515 cwt in 1894.
The house records pension appropriations for the next fiscal year at 141 325 820 dollars slightly below this year. The act of June 27, 1890 allows backdating of a pension to the filing date if a later claim proves disability existed at that time, despite any contrary department rulings.
William E Kagey a left handed pitcher from the Lynchburg Club in the Virginia League has been drafted by the New York Club of the National League and American Association He was born August 14 1873 in Auburn Indiana and learned baseball at Ligonier He played for Findlay Ohio in 1894 and later starred for Lynchburg with 15 wins in 32 starts In 1895 he had standout games including a 6 0 win at Lynchburg and a 25 0 loss at Norfolk He showed notable shutout and hit limiting performances through the season weighing about 170 pounds.
Chicago inventor W A Dryden Sr unveils a cutting edge bicycle contrivance. The drive wheel measures eighteen inches and uses rubber faced U sections and ball bearing spools to reduce noise. The outer rim is a self supporting compressed fiber Y section with a flat bearing surface.
The rim is placed at a point forward of the wheel center to move the rider’s weight forward. Allowing for friction and wind resistance, this configuration purportedly lowers required power to drive a bicycle by about 75 to 80 percent.
Frederick Gerlach of the Chicago Racing board defends the expulsion of Hiegele Riders in the Titus Cabanne Murphy case. He insists the evidence justifies the decision and warns that the sentence, though heavy, serves to keep cycle racing pure. He notes Cabanne could prove innocence with new evidence to the National Assembly.
H Jalmar Lundin known as the human derrick is among the world’s strongest men born September 22 1872 and aged 24. He and partner August W Johnson challenge top strongmen with bets from 500 to 5000 to win in events such as heaviest dumbbell lifts and swings from ground to head and other hand strength feats. Johnson set a 4679 pound weight-lifting record in 1895 at Tammany Hall New York. They name rivals Sandow Jefferson Irwin Attilla Louis St Cyr and Samson.
A 1750 letter presented to Paris's Bibliotheque Nationale offers a fanciful English origin for billiards. It claims pawnbroker Bill Kew invented the game in the mid 1500s using three balls and a yard measure as a cue, linking Bill yard to billiards, with Skeat questioned. The piece notes a French etymology angle and cites a London Telegraph remark. Also listed is the League of American Wheelmen’s current membership of 38,292.
Alfred Picard renowned engineer and grand officer of the Legion of Honor directs preparations for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900. An Alsatian by birth, he served in the Franco Prussian War and built major projects in eastern France. He later led Paris public works and authored multi volume histories on railways waterways and the 1839 Paris exposition.
Emily Vanderbilt Sloane, daughter of William Douglas Sloane and granddaughter of the late William H. Vanderbilt, enters society yet pursues literature. Her volume of extracts titled Ideals reflects a literary ambition shared by the Vanderbilt lineage, while sister Adele remains linked to society through marriage to James Abercrombie Burden Jr.
Frank A. Kolmel of Shelbyville Indiana found a bottle with a note after throwing one overboard in the Pacific on December 10 1894. The accompanying letter said Dr R A Packwood recovered the bottle on the Bermuda coast several weeks later.
The note promotes Maa Wus as a teething remedy for babies and touts Sooraine Synor for children teething. It warns that office seekers show affection, mentions bronchitis from sudden weather changes, and recommends Brown's Bronchial Troches for relief. It ends with a proverb about self governance.
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