20 Aug 1885
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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1885
Page
1
An advertisement from SMALL & GARDNER of Westville promotes a five two strand cable fence using annealed steel wire and pickets to deter all stock. It claims the fence is compact, strong, resistant to breakage, and impossible to pull out, marketing as the best and most versatile fence. Agents for LaPorte County offer machines for making and erecting the fence and provide prompt inquiry replies.
Fragmentary text discusses an East and Pacific Railway route with mentions of routes, rails, and coasts. Names and specifics are unreadable, but the item signals a railway proposal and related infrastructure.
A gas find near Clinton Illinois, storms across the east, and a cheese pool in Wisconsin mark a week of economic and natural events. Notable deaths include Helen Hunt Jackson and California gold discoverer James W Marshall, with incidents from New Philadelphia to Laredo and Bay City to Chicago.
Overseas dispatches report cholera surges in Spain with 5 500 new cases and 1 950 deaths on Friday, while Spain again shows 4 708 cases and 1 728 deaths over the weekend. Civil strife broadens in Khartoum and Atrocities in Tonkin. Lord Wolseley receives a new title as European crises intensify.
Spain reports 6164 new cholera cases and 2109 deaths as quarantines and hardships spread. Villages cordon, lazarettos ordered closed, governors struggle to enforce orders. Panic sweeps seaside resorts. Madrid records six cases in one home and Senor Silveta recovers after illness.
The 1884 report records nine anesthesia deaths in England and Scotland. Three occurred under chloroform ether mixtures during minor operations and six from ether alone. Patients were generally healthy before procedures.
A broad Washington briefing notes Vice-President Hendricks pleased with Indianapolis post office findings. Secretary Bayard schedules vacation reading of 40 000 pages of consular applications while a petition seeks clemency for Louis Riel. Harbor and land office actions, pension audits, and civil unrest incidents across states are outlined with cabinet travel plans and a sweeping push for a new special delivery system to begin October 1.
In Owen county a Vilas post office is named after the Postmaster General. A white crane was shot near Rockford. Indiana reports 21 new post offices and 10 abolitions this year, 200 of 5,000 Mexican war veterans remain. Goshen hosts a firemen band and bicycle tournament with prizes of 1200. Multiple local incidents, livestock struck by lightning, market notes, and public notices fill the page.
The New York Tribune reports Secretary Whitney will oversee finishing the Roach’s yard cruisers at Brooklyn. Assignees of John Roach & Son will supply labor and materials and receive contract price. bondsmen liable if costs exceed agreed sums. Whitney deemed yard completion impractical, price estimates cited.
A devastating gas explosion at the West End Coal Company mine in Macoqua near Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania killed ten miners instantly. The fresh air fan engine failed depriving workers of air and trapping several others still in the shaft. Four were brought out dead with four or five others unreachably trapped due to impure air. The event occurred just as the night shift began, despite knowledge of the impending danger.
Brown boasts of outsmarting railroad monopolies by buying a round trip ticket to Ypsilanti and walking back. He claims to possess the ticket as proof and swears the tale will not reach the company. The exchange ends with Mum's the word.
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