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Newspaper
Douglas Converse County Press
Location
Douglas, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1894
Page
3
The item surveys sensational freak exhibits once common in traveling shows, cites an Italian double boy and other hoaxes, and recounts coin histories from 1404 silver dollars to 1656 dollars. It also notes biblical dates, lotus myths, and a painterly biography of Charles Magnes, amid miscellaneous scientific curiosities and weather lore.
Rail wage talks and rate restoration efforts surface with Southern Pacific and Atchison guidance. Both sides inch toward compromise as engineers, trainmen, and telegraphers submit schedules, while California rates await March conference outcomes.
St Louis dispatch reports a massive plan uniting the Chesapeake and Ohio with the Big Four to connect New York to Galveston via Vanderbilt lines, giving the Vanderbilts a Galveston to New York route. Rockefeller and Vanderbilt representatives travel to finalize the arrangement amid claims of Standard Oil and Vanderbilt control.
Attorney Meary opens for the citizen petitioners in a quo warranto move against the gas trust. Attorney General Maloney will decide whether to institute proceedings after two days of affidavits and arguments. history of city gas companies cited with chartered purposes and law.
General Manager Doddridge of the Missouri Pacific completes terms with the Omaha Ridge and Terminal Company. The agreement grants a continuous terminal track from Connell Bluffs area to North and South End yards in Omaha and South Omaha stockyards, plus access to East Omaha. No joint freight depot planned yet, but interchange between South Omaha, Omaha, East Omaha, and Cornell Bluffs is streamlined with existing Missouri Pacific connections.
Denver dispatch reports First Regiment Colorado National Guard arrives home and stays under orders amid a lawsuit over city board seats. Gov Waite seeks to seat Mullins and Barnes unless the court rules Orr and Martin rightful. fire chief fears renewed hostilities and guards are posted.
The Senate Finance Committee revised the McKinley act tariff in printed form to be laid before the full committee. Changes include higher duties on collars and cuffs, reduced free hats, and adjustments to sugar tests and ad valorem rates. Reciproc ity sections are repeated and abrogated agreements noted. Administrative shift replaces highest duty with lowest duty, a point debated with Secretary Carlisle supporting the House bill provisions.
General Tareney received orders from Governor Waite to keep troops in place in Cripple Creek as deputy sheriffs threaten to march out ahead of militia. Tareney’s Altman visit reassures nothing until warrants are served, while residents demand militia stay until union leaders are arrested.
A controversy erupts over Rev. D. B. Phelan of the Western Watchman defying Archbishops and the pope. An attempted injunction failed, with Phelan threatening civil action and defiant statements about U S constitutional authority. Separately, Sioux Falls Brewing case seeks rehearing, and boycott at New Haven Methodist Church follows police raids on Chinese opium dens. Reports cover Georgia senator Colquitt’s health scare, gold nugget discoveries near river, a Perkins domestic shooting, and Cuban dispatches signaling possible trouble.
March dates in Renue and Washington show House and Senate activity on tariff bills and river projects. Voorhees signals intent to push tax questions while Republicans oppose income tax features. Amendments to pontoon bridges on the Missouri River gain concurrence and a sundry civil bill advances after routine proceedings.
Orant Allen presents a critic of modern marriage decline attributing it to overexcitement and societal pace. He cites railway telegraphy and constant busyness as eroding leisure and the impulse to marry, arguing the shift spans generations and social classes.
In Michigan on March 20 the supreme court delivered a decision in the case involving Governor Rich, State Treasurer Hamblitxer, and other state officials. The court denies the motions to remove the officials from office and sets forth the next steps in the governor’s challenge.
Reports say Malay forces attacked a Spanish garrison on Pontar Island in the Malay archipelago. The defense held, with many killed or wounded as the Malays suffered heavier losses and retreated. Other items note the Upper Michigan meeting at Turner with delegates from IIowa cities and plans for a Clinton gathering in June. A freight house fire in Iowa caused heavy insured losses.
Detectives pursue Patrick Cooney, believed linked to the Cronin murder, despite acquittals of others. Chicago figures and Irish networks report sightings in Ireland as researchers press for proof of his fate or death. The indictment remains active, with ongoing efforts spanning continents to bring him to trial.
The seigniorage bill would require coining 855 million dollars in silver bullion at Philadelphia San Francisco and New Orleans mints. Philadelphia could move about 1.4 to 1.6 million monthly, San Francisco about 400 thousand, New Orleans around 400 thousand. totals depend on bullion on hand. Once on hand is exhausted, Philadelphia would handle the remaining 40 million. Total time to complete coinage would be about two years and two months.
An English subject, Eli jah Harrison, working as a nonunion replacement at the East Liverpool pottery, asks the British government to protect him from strikers. He has written to the British ambassador in Washington and was instructed to file a formal protection request with local police. A March 10 report notes the embassy acknowledging the case. In Laieville, March 19, Mrs. Breckinridge may file divorce from her husband, a claim unknown to relatives. inquiry at Dr. Keott’s home revealed no knowledge of the intended suit against Dr. Voron.
A mixed March report cites oil sector troubles with a purge and factory shutdowns amid pressure for a 20 percent wage cut. Messages from Admatral Howham reach the navy department as headlines note Senate approval of a colonies military council and transport of a vessel La Bretagne. Bishop John P Y Newnan mourns losses tied to European outer patrols.
A March 90 reminiscence recalls Soapy Smith a Denver profiteer and gambler. The speaker praises Smith as a brilliant yet dangerous character with deep influence in Denver’s underworld and law enforcement challenges.
A severe spring storm drenches the region with heavy rainfall from Memphis to Texas and beyond. Memphis reports 5.51 inches by Monday, nearing the 1877 record, while Texas towns like Emery suffer near-total destruction. Widespread damage includes ruined homes, wrecked bridges, and downed wires with fatalities and many wounded feared.
The page lists cattle hogs and grain prices across markets in Sioux City Chicago South Omaha Kansas City and Cincinnati. It records quotable prices for beeves cows stockers and feeders hogs and various grains with dated references and mentions a March 20 session in Washington related to a Democratic state convention and a large philanthropic bequest.
A Auburn man recounts rescuing a boy from the East River in April years ago and credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for the People with curing his locomotor ataxia after a long illness. He details his decline, treatment, and a triumphant return to work aided by the pills, urging public use.
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