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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1894
Page
4
During a church consecration in the village of Rokh near Ostroglansk in the Don province, a lamp fell. A panic caused a stampede, four people were trampled and killed, with two women and three children among the dead. About 27 others were seriously injured.
Dispatches detail indictments against a Police Captain for bribery in New York City and a spectrum of incidents across the United States. Sugar price agitation in Philadelphia Tennessee railroad collisions, mine disasters in Michigan and Nebraska prairie fires, fires destroying property in St Louis and New York, political campaigns in New York and Atlanta, and a smallpox driven school closures in Washington.
A Hamburg despatch reports Germany will ban import of American cattle and fresh beef citing Texas fever. The German ambassador informed Washington of the action as retaliation for tariffs on German beet sugar. Assistant Secretary Dabney protested, arguing infected meat posed no danger and pledging a vigorous reply.
Report states that the cruiser Arethuse suffered a boiler explosion during engine tests at Brest France. The blast killed several men and badly scorched twenty others. A publisher ad note follows unrelated to the incident.
The article reports Count Caprivi and Count von Eulenburg resigning from Prussia due to clashes over anti socialist measures. Emperor William accepted both resignations. Caprivi urged uniform government backing, while Eulenburg favored radical measures. The Emperor canceled a Brindenburg visit and sought new chancellorship arrangements.
The Fall River strike of about 20 000 operatives ended after four weeks of takeoffs and ten weeks of conflict. Workers return to jobs under reduced wages as manufacturers reject concessions. About 8 000 remained idle recently with heavy losses reported in wages and production.
The Pittsburg Conference of the Evangelical Church decides to withdraw and join the United Evangelical Church. About 100 churches in Western Pennsylvania Eastern Ohio and West Virginia transfer from the Evangelical Conference. Property valued around 29 million dollars may revert to the Evangelical Association after the split. Delegates plan talks on property.
Fragmentary report notes an embargo on American cattle and dressed beef reaching German ports. It mentions deaths in Montreal and rumors of the Czar’s near end. The Prince and Princess of Wales were summoned to Livadta. Paixor Ionexrony-LAxagNnunalina named Governor at Alxaco-Lorraine.
Reports describe various unions and trades councils abroad and in the United States. It notes wage arrangements for tailors in London, engineers and laborers in Germany and the United States, and rising foreign membership in US unions while highlighting strikes, licensing moves for bootblacks, and prosperity in Harelsburg steel mills.
At 3 service a.m. a dynamite blast exploded under a Hungarian boardinghouse near Pairview Pennsylvania killing three men outright and injuring eight others. Frank Novako aged twenty three died at the scene with both legs blown off. The building held sixty four laborers, mostly Hungarians, and collapsed after the blast. None of the surviving residents, including two men at the table with Novako, were seriously harmed. The motive appeared revenge or retribution but no plot was proven.
Rev Edward Beecher and wife marked sixty five years of marriage with a family dinner in which Henry Ward Beecher and Eugene Beecher attended. A birthday cake and a silver cup honoring the couple appeared on the table while Miss Isabella Porter Jones became Mrs Beecher of Wigginsport Maine. Edward Beecher continued in ministry until a spring accident.
Estimates from the Interior Department in Washington project a next fiscal year appropriation of 169 million plus 219 million in savings, with a 210 million decline in the cabinet allocations for 1890 and a 10 million overage in the current year. The Fort Scott report notes the 1994 sorghum season failing across Hanns, signaling industry collapse.
A swift New York City tenement fire at 216 West Thirty‑second Street killed seven residents. Families on two floors were trapped by smoke and heat as one man and his wife attempted escape from the second floor, while others perished in their beds or near windows.
Reports indicate potato crops short in Israel, debts measured in billions, large police forces, and new alliance moves. Distress includes honey crop failures in Cogilah, drought and famine in multiple regions, costly medical cures, and 1900s era shifts such as railway robberies, base ball leagues, and fees for diphtheria cures.
Frederick Mertz a 37 year old baker killed his wife Marlo at 1 New York City and then shot himself in a barroom kept by Georg Wisser. The couple had arrived from Germany in August 1881 and invested in a Fourteenth Street barroom. The murder occurred about 4 p m and the woman died in an ambulance bound for Ballou hospital. Authorities say jealousy appear to be motive in the fatal sequence.
The clip surveys curios from Martinique and New York noting bananas selling for a cent versus a dollar, a New Orleans oil street lighting attempt, a frog language claim, a famed stamp collection in San Francisco, and peculiar anecdotes about eight being unlucky in Norway, a Broadway house sale, and a fishing cat in California.
The piece surveys historic and premodern accounts of stones falling from space, citing Levitella the Arundel Marbles and Pliny, then notes modern records from the 19th century including the 1803 L Aigle shower and the 1860 New Concordia daylight fall, totaling hundreds of events by 1894 with varied sizes and meteorite compositions.
A grapevine near a russet apple tree in Anjon France bore twenty nine small apples on the stem among the grapes. Each fruit had a blossom end like apples and eleven underdeveloped apple seeds were found. Pomologists of Europe are excited and will discuss the discovery at upcoming meetings.
The article explains joints use cartilage to cover bone ends and ligaments to hold the joint in place. Cartilage has no nerves, so healthy joints glide without pain, while worn cartilage exposes bone and nerves, causing pain.
A sprawling, mixed set of biographical notes mentions Briuance and Queen Victron with counts of duels and grandchildren, Tre Mikado of Japan avoiding photos, the Emperor of Germany as a drummer, Dwipht L. Moody sent to Japan for evangelistic work, Mare. Buttx Carr touring Australia for 35000 dollars, and other eccentric details. It also covers Grwenax Boor of the Salvation Army, Dr. Bricer of Iona, Oxrven Wexpert Hours creator of the Hub nickname and stereoscope, Writs Coump shipbuilder, Sacuantor the czar’s physician worth 3 million, and Delaware senators Gray and Higgins with shared birth, schooling, and careers.
Chinese newspapers report desperate men near the Leno Valleys along General Yama gitn e route to Pekin attacking boats and land targets. Over three weeks tyranty forces killed and wounded hundreds as boats protect routes, with four craft attacked near Nowchwang leaving casualties and stolen valuables.
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