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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1877
Page
2
A traveler recounts the Wyoming Utah route with snow sheds near Cheyenne, the Milepost at Percy, Fort Steele, and Hillord. He describes snow depths, mountain gulches, crude towns, a murder arrest based on warrants, and scenes at Ogden Echo and Salt Lake City including Salt Lake's famed lake and brine.
Dr G F Waters of Doxton tested a new burn remedy before the Massachusetts Dental Society. A sponge dipped in boiling water was placed on the wrist, then bicarbonate of soda applied and covered. The intense pain subsided, the scalding wound healed rapidly with minimal discoloration and no second application required.
An entire Spencer family Wil iam L Spencer and his four children were murdered in their home near Luray in Clark County. The motive appears to be theft with about $1200 believed to be in the house. The money is missing. Over a thousand men joined the hunt for the killers. Wille Jones, the brother in law, and a man named Drady are suspects under arrest.
A claim circulated that the United States government still owns one tenth of all food in the state of Alubains, prompting questions about ownership, control, and local impact.
A column of numerical curiosities reports counts of soldiers in France, survivors at Waterloo now 45 officers, bankrupts in Massachusetts with 14 farmers, 4000 Protestants among 245000 in Nome Italy, and 4470 US business failures with 99 million in assets. It notes rail accident casualties in Britain totaling 1134 with 269 deaths, a San Francisco newsboy amassing about 6000, Ohio heat crop value at 120 million and 20 million hay, plus several German universities with above thousand students and 17143 total students in twenty-one universities. It lists Protestant theologian students by university: Leipsig 338, Tubingen 260, Halle 100, Belingen 190, Rostock 245, Heidelberg 9.
A gentleman in a neat cottage chased a prowling tramp from his back yard after the intruder failed to explain his purpose. The tramp claimed ignorance of the front door and fled when a shotgun was fetched. A separate tale recalls a hog on a railroad, safely surviving a long ride in a passenger train.
The text presents a damaged, unclear segment referencing an Indian and a buck leberry business with stray phrases about science, the solar walk, and milky way. It reads as OCR garble with nonsensical wording and incomplete ideas lacking coherent events or quotes.
A well dressed stranger registered as George Kelley of Bloomington Illinois killed himself at the Merchant's Hotel in St. Louis Friday by taking laudanum. He had no letters, only seventy five cents and a railroad ticket from Bloomington to White Hall. The cause remained unknown. He was five feet five inches tall, light hair, wearing a dark suit and a black hat. the D and A road ticket was dated August 8, 1877.
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