11 Feb 1892
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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1892
Page
1
The store announces it remains in the field with a larger stock of watches clocks silverware and jewelry than ever before. It invites customers to inspect sewing machines including Wheeler Wilson and the Standard models both rotaries and the domestic king of machines noted as old reliable.
A digest of dated notes on poisonings in Jamaica by akees, Washington sawmills figures, and varied 19th century notes. It covers figures like 446 sawmills and 8 121000 feet daily, plus medical and political snippets about Cyrus W Field, Cardinal Gibbons, Tolstoi, and broader social unrest.
Friday February reports Henry A. Castle named postmaster at St Paul. Funeral services for Rev Spur geon held in Mentone France. Cardinal Manning’s will notes less than £100. A 13 year old boy in Bradleyville Tennessee fatally stabbed. Louisiana killings during arrest. West Virginia freight train plunge into Potomac River. Chicago futures quotes on wheat corn oats and livestock prices, plus live stock and produce market figures for hogs cattle sheep and dairy items.
In New Orleans on February 6 the Foster Farmers Alliance faction hailed crates of Winchesters and ammunition in New York bound for Colonel A. W. Crandell of the McEnery faction. The New Delta calls the shipments infamous as threats to voter safety. Crandell and allies pressed Governor Nicholls for a pledge of a free election. Nicholls retorted that he would perform his duty, suggesting the McEnery camp could counter fraud, a remark Crandell says led to arming for a fair vote.
Judge Foster sentenced Carlos Arena alias Gomez to 420 days in prison with 40 days for wounding Turnbull, who died, Jose Abumada to 320 days for injuring Turnbull, and Frederico Rodriguez to 120 days for wounding Riggins who died. The court held an unknown shooter caused the fatal wounds and ordered civil damages to Turnbull and Higgin families under Chilean law.
Eminent physician Sir Morrel Mackenzie died unexpectedly at W o'clock. Born July 7, 1837 in Essex, England, he followed his father into surgery and gained distinction in throat diseases. He was knighted in 1887.
The Iowa Senate approved a bill to protect stock from malicious injury with six months in prison if damage exceeds 75 dollars. A bill penalizing having on race tracks was also passed. Committees agreed on a bill to relieve the supreme court by creating an intermediate court of three elected judges with 3500 salaries and $1000 jurisdiction. Additional actions included agricultural college funding and school music teaching provisions. In Warsaw Indiana the fast freight collision killed Ed Thorp, with the beef train crashing into a freight train after the conductor slept in his caboose.
A playful catalog of well known figures including Tom the Piper's Son Jack Sprat King Cole and the Three Wise Men of Gotham who sailed in a bowl and others such as a witch on a broom and a boy in the corner eating his Christmas coat in a cobwebby sky setting.
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