15 Jun 1876
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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1876
Page
1
Poem reflecting longing for mother and heavenly reunion. Refrains of thinking of mother across dawn, day, and twilight. Ends with hope of gathering in the heavenly home, hand in hand with loved ones.
A Cleveland Herald correspondent in Hilo recounts a dramatic ascent into Kilauea. He details a vast circular crater three miles across, hot sulphur banks, and lava flows seething at the edge. The party witnesses molten lava, steam vents, and a glowing lake with a fresh lava waterfall at dawn.
Lucia Zarate, a 12 year old born in Vera Cruz and weighing about five pounds, arrived with her parents and stays at the St. Charles Hotel. The tiny Mexican girl, about twenty inches tall, speaks with her parents’ language, enjoys playing, and plans to visit the Centennial Exposition while holding receptions at the Academy of Music.
In Los Angeles on May 15 a wagon delivered Hulalia Perez Guillen, claimed to be 138, to the Court House amid a crowd. Guardianship actions, raised by daughter Mrs de White, seek to keep her in California. judge rules she may stay with a chosen child with a $500 bond.
The St. Louis Republican jokes about silver change causing hassles from chafed legs to coin counting. An elderly visitor from the East seeks a man named Smith in Austin, meets many Johns, and ends up in a blacksmith shop for a city directory.
Chinese miners near Gold Hill Nevada attending Christian meetings believed they entered hell when a shaft released sulphur gas that ignited. The burning gas, heat and glare prompted a frantic escape as they fled to safety.
Reports describe severe racing encounters in the Black Hills with many men not returning. The color of the Indians was noted as copper hues and the text suggests peril and danger in the expeditions into the Hills.
A quirky mix of rural notes and urban rumor touches rail acquisitions between lines, a fall from a second story, a farm apple tree measuring nine feet two inches at the base, and a joke about punctuating type. It mentions the Indianapolis Bloomington and Western railroad possibly passing to the Chicago and Alton, with local editor quips and farm portraits.
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