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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1895
Page
1
Philadelphia voters favored the Republican ticket by about 55 000 with a sweep of mayoral and tax office races. Charles F Warwick and William J Roney led for Mayor and Receiver of Taxes as Pattison and Bonnaffon opposed. Macmonnies cancels contract for Civil War monument design amid dispute.
A Great Akron fire caused by a defective flue in Dr. Eli Conn’s residence left three firemen severely injured as a large chimney collapsed trapping them. Water supply was slow due to frozen hydrants while the house and contents valued at $6000 were destroyed.
Samuel Brooks, 50, of Shantytown, collapsed and died during earnest revival at Phoenix Chapel on Earhart lane, south of Indianapolis. Witnesses formed a circle and prayed as the pastor declared Brooks died in the hands of the Lord.
A woman in Alton Newfoundland and Labrador aided by a six year old child foils a burglar by grabbing a revolver at home. In Colorado a masked robber forces Thomas Cook to open a safe and is shot by Cook as he flees, taking only a small amount of money.
A blast of two hundred pounds of smokeless powder shattered Griffith and Semple’s gun store at 482 West Main Street Louisville. The annex exploded and fire spread. damage estimated at $3,000 with uncertain cause.
Deputy U S Marshal G W Drake and two assistants captured seven moonshiners at Oaten Creek Knott County Kentucky after a hard battle. Among the captives was Isaac Sloan one of five men who murdered U S Marshal Erastus Wierman at the same place six years ago.
The Washburns escaped harm when their farmhouse near Muncie Indiana was destroyed by a natural gas explosion. Investigators began examining the wreckage for causes and effects.
A Chicago attorney Joseph A Nealey faces federal perjury charges with $10000 bond in Cook County jail. Bodies of two Caulfield boys found frozen in Pennsylvania, aged 10 and 12. Robbery attempt in Alma Arizona foiled by John Roach. Gloucester storm toll 19 deaths and two vessels. Santa Fe collision near Guthrie Oklahoma kills three aboard. engineer fatalities. Pembina North Dakota arrests in murder case of Adam Miller, wife also implicated. Racine Wisconsin boy fatally crushed by bobsled.
Lynn Massachusetts faced a deadly blaze with three firefighters killed and several injured. A wall collapse trapped crew, while two or three more remained missing amid debris. The fire caused about 100000 dollars in damage to two Monroe Street business houses.
Sir James Thompson Stewart Richard secretary of the Order of the Thistle dies at 55 in London. William Mees, veteran lake captain and rescuer of the Norway crew, dies in Muskegon. Capt. Richard Trevellick, Grenback founder and labor organizer, dies in Detroit. In New York, the Political Equality Club honors Miss Susan B Anthony on her 75th birthday with delegates from state clubs in attendance.
A dinner gathering drew many prominent guests. Judge John Hendley of the Forty-fifth Pennsylvania District dies in Scranton leaving a large estate. Veteran actor Charles Wheatleigh dies in New York after long service. Kentucky pauper Col Cody Bourne marries a 16 year old in Lawrenceburg, his seventh wife. Mrs Laura H Wickes, wife of the Pullman Company VP, granted a divorce for cruelty.
The House again rejects administration efforts to aid the treasury. The Carlisle currency reform bill fails while a plan to issue 85 million in gold bonds is defeated on a larger margin. Congress also moves to grant Mount Vernon barracks lands to Washington state and Senate panel backs repealing the one-tenth cent duty on sugar from bounty nations.
In the House of Commons Secretary Grey indicated England supports international control of the Nicaragua canal. Other items note Guatemala accepting Mexico's conditions, Moorish cavalry moves to Fez with rebel heads, Java plot to massacre Europeans and Chinese, and Spain's cities flooded by rising rivers. Ex Queen Liliuokalani stands trial for misprision of treason, and various global incidents, searches, and political moves are reported.
A bomb shattered the Buckeye Glass Works office in Martin's Ferry Ohio injuring manager Humphrey who survived a prior shooting ten days earlier. The plant had seen a strike and renewed operations with non onion workers, amid ongoing unrest.
The Knights of Labor General Executive Board plans to hire lawyers to verify the validity of the recent United States bond issue. Dun's weekly review notes gold exports and treasury withdrawals slowed by gold purchase contracts with Belmont and Morgan. The report cites cheap farm products and limited industrial activity as the main current obstacles, with farm prices showing little overall gain.
Market summaries across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Buffalo Milwaukee and New York show cattle hogs sheep and various grain prices. No. 2 yellow corn oats No. 2 white wheat prices and butter eggs and potatoes are listed with mixed ranges in multiple markets.
United States Minister Isaac Pusey Gray died at the City of Mexco at 7 05 p m after a pneumonia illness contracted on a Washington trip He was a former two term Indiana governor and long time Democratic leader He fell unconscious on a Pullman berth and died hours later with Consul General Crittenden present His son Pierre Gray reported the trip began in Chicago and continued via St Louis to Laredo Texas.
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