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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1895
Page
8
An 1805 treasury review traces rising customs and internal revenue, a projected year end surplus, and a growing shift of foreign holdings back to Europe. It notes a daily revenue rise of about 100000 dollars, a 5 million dip in internal revenue, and a broader trend toward increased government receipts and a gradual return of securities from abroad.
A Toledo landmark fire at Wabash Roundhouse killed three men and injured several others as a roof collapse trapped workers inside. Firefighters battled vast flames after a small blaze started before 10 am, with six engines destroyed and total losses near $100,000.
Reports detail the disappearance of the cruiser Reina Regente with 420 officers and men after a collision or sinking near the Straits of Gibraltar. Divers searched the wreck site off Cadiz while Alfonso XII and other ships scoured the area for survivors or bodies. The Steina Regente, once part of the same squadron, was launched in 1887 and shared design with Alfonso XII and Lepanto. The disaster prompted large crowds at Cadiz as officials pursued recovery efforts.
Dispatch from Managua reports Britain has issued an ultimatum to Nicaragua demanding indemnity of £15,000 for the expulsion of British consul at Bluefields and damages to British subjects and property in the Mosquito reservation. Britain to appoint one commissioner, Nicaragua another, who will select a third non-US citizen. A British warship is en route to enforce seven week compliance.
Two hundred Georgian Black emigrants boarded the steamship Tlocsa at Savannah for Liberia. Crowds lingered as the vessel sailed five miles out, the passengers singing farewell. The Malgration Society coordinated the voyage after ensuring legal carriage of passengers. Early that morning, Black southerners gathered from across the region to join the journey.
Lillian McMullen a 15 year old from Sag Harbor L I is described as a heroine after she and a dog helped save two Gordon children from an icy lake. She warned others to keep back then vanished beneath the ice while the children cried out and the dog barked. The elder child clung to her, and the dog dragged the younger toward shore as McMullen attempted to reach them.
A heroic act unfolds as Lillian McMullen battles ice to save two girls from drowning. She drags the first child to safety after the dog Rover steadies a final grasp, but the heroine succumbs as the ice gives way and she vanishes beneath the water. The children reach home exhausted, while Rover mourns nearby.
The Internal Revenue report for the first eight months of the current fiscal year shows total receipts of 100,552,468 with a net increase of 5,150,022. Spirits and tobacco lead gains while fermented liquors fall, and margarine tax declines offset by other gains. cash balance stands at 184,000,305 with gold reserves of 10,445,932.
Key West dispatches claim the American schooner Trene was fired on and dismantled by the Spanish cruiser Infanti Isabel near Cuba. The vessel was said to be en route between this port and the mainland, with crew and owner reported in town. Authorities offered no confirmation, and no American flag was seen aboard.
A montage of character sketches and anecdotes contrasts a pompous literateur a boastful boxiness man and a blustering 24 year old with a serious young woman Belle Reynolds described as the only woman commissioned in the U S Army for meritorious service at Pittsburg Landing Her fiat commission by Governor Yates follows her wartime deeds in field care and battlefield aid Also recaps August Holmes as a pioneering artist and composer and counsels on worry and living in the present with emphasis on restraint and virtue.
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