Cannelton Gazette Saturday Sept 18 1886
Two or three years ago a boy named Joseph Grenier, about seven years of age, was run over by a train of cars on the Evansville and Terre Haute rail road and lost both legs. A suit for $25,000 damages followed, and had just been decided by jury finding damages in the sum of $12,500.
Cannelton Gazette Saturday Sept 18 1886
The river is very low, having almost reached the lowest water-mark; but the passages over the bars are improving slightly by the washing action of the water.
J.I. Staib has resigned as superintendent of the Louisville and Evansville mail-line packets.
The steamer Judelle is running between Rockport and Owensboro, and the Belgrade has taken the place of the Judelle between Cannelton and Rockport. This arrangement will continue till the river rises.
New Albany Ledger: The low stage of the lower Ohio has brought into the trade between this city and Evansville. Several small steamboats in opposition to the regular Louisville and Evansville packets and these are threats from all these boats of a deep cut in passage and freight rates. The river is falling steadily, and the sandbars are appearing at all points rendering navigation difficult even to the smallest boats. Most of the travel and freight along the river hence to Evansville, however, is now carried by the Air-Line Railroad, which runs a line of boats from Rockport to Cannelton.
The Courier-Journal says: The Henderson Packet Company will keep the Fashion running between here and Flint Island until further notice, and the J.R Drouillard, W. H. Cherry, and Sam Jones will make regular trips through Cannelton to Evansville in place of the Judelle.
Cannelton Gazette Saturday Sept 18 1886
There are 269 government pensioners in Perry County. The pay of these pensioners amounts to $2,183.50 per month.
Bird Man on Way
A telegram on Monday from Brabaker, at Mt. Kisko, N.Y. the man who is to make the airship flights here next week, announced that he would arrive here not later than Friday (to morrow.) His manager, Prof. Chas. E. Schwartz, of Humboldt, Tenn. Will arrive about the same time. Cannelton Gazette
DIVORCE
In Perry county, Indiana at the late term of the county court, there was no less than twenty two applications for divorce.
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