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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1893
Page
2
A Pennsylvania incident involves a circus train wreck in the capital area drawing attention to railway safety. Gladstone's assailant faces indictment as authorities pursue the case. A lumberman suffers an accident while a separate blaze is reported in Cleeve land.
Tyrone special reports Mains circus train wrecked at Wall Station nine people and several animals killed. Bodies and injured taken from the wreck as residents help. Names listed include William Henry and Frank Brain among the dead. Injured patients transported to hospital in Tyrone with multiple severe wounds. Fire outbreaks in Cleveland lead to multiple alarms and accusations of deliberate arson by youths. A Canonsburg farm house fire kills three children. New York governors to electrocute murderers Martello and Osmond in June.
A fire in the planing mill of G A Bock & Co in the Menominee valley endangered Milwaukee's lumber district. Bock & Co suffered about 75000 in losses with 50000 insured, Milwaukee Lumber Co lost around 10000 insured. Cause unknown. In Mansfield Ohio James Dickson about 70 was struck and killed by a westbound Pennsylvanian train at Orange street crossing. Dickson was Mansfield's wealthiest citizen with wealth estimated between 300000 and 1000000.
A London grand jury has returned a true bill against William Townsend, the man arrested on suspicion of intending to kill Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Gladstone calls Lord Randolph Churchill’s claim he will not contest Midlothian merely unfounded gossip.
Samuel Burke lumber desier suspended business due to tight money market, poor collections, and inability to move a huge lumber stock.
Reports from Canton Ohio detail the Eastern General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church opening its annual session. The long list of financial, legal, and civic items includes bank troubles at Elmira New York and a fire at South Salem Massachusetts with insured losses, plus court actions and corporate reorganizations across the country.
The article reports about seventy percent mortality in a number of cases, with bad ventilation and improper care blamed for the sickness as state authorities investigate. It also notes a log mill near Richmond, Virginia where a saw struck a cannon ball embedded in a felled tree from Drury's Bluff, shattering machinery.
Fifty farms buried by a landslide at Vaerdel Norway. More than a hundred people missing. Other global notes include miners council in Berlin backing an eight hour day, and varying European political and tax developments.
A Washington dispatch reports a landmark Interior decision reversing Order No 164 and restoring a disability test tied to inability to earn a living by manual labor rather than service origin. The ruling targets pensions under the 1890 act, potentially cutting annual outlays by millions as it adopts a stricter interpretation of disability.
A partial report on reform to the United Presbyterian Assembly at Monmouth NL features Kev W J Robinson of Alleghany arguing crime rises, Sabbath desecration spreads via government inaction as gates for the World's Fair open Sunday. He blames lack of Christian engagement and disunity among religious leaders. The federation of churches is discussed amid a New York conference plan with multiple denominations. Enormous Lowby Fire followed by sugar refinery fire news and Conkling’s tobacco cessation tip close the piece.
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