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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1894
Page
3
A collection of curious reports features a photo trick by F A Gilmore of Auburn R I showing a living head on a dining platter illusion. Other items discuss dreams predicting death bank panics circus lions with lambs and a professor’s crime study trip to Mexico.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch report recalls a trip in Mexico noting primitive single handed wooden plows used in agricultural schools. Mr Ross, a Scotch superintendent, admits steel plows fail with locals who remove handles, yet Mexicans cultivate two to three crops yearly where land is irrigated.
Henry Burkhart of the Windsor Review notes Windsor, Missouri, hosts many United States mail contractors, more than two or three towns combined. Contractors base here and win mail routes across Maine, California, Texas and Montana, spreading the town's name nationwide. Local population is about 1,500.
In Mount Olive Illinois strikers resist the Columbia agreement interference with coal trains prompts deputy marshals to clash with crowds. Governor Altgeld invokes the Seventh Regiment I N G while troops guard prisoners and deputies pursue more arrests amid non English speaking miners.
The passage describes spruce chewing gum as resin purified by straining through white cotton and turpentine still wastes like humps and impurities burned on constantly burning fires. It notes the gloom of the piney woods in the Southern United States and mentions whooping cough causing about 210 deaths per 10 000 in Europe.
Progress on harnessing the Mississippi at Des Moines Rapids moves forward as a signed contract begins canal and lock work to power Kep uk and adjacent regions. Engineer Captain James Anthony leads the effort to divert floodwater through a new canal and turbine wheels to generate electricity for surrounding counties. The walled canal spans the rapids from Larry's Creek to the Senora state quarries, with 0 4) foot walls and specified dimensions for the intake and outlet.
Revolt leads to overthrow of Salvadoran government and flight of President Gene Carlos Ezeta. Vice President Gen Antonio Ezeta, brother of the president, is dead after a secret period. Rebel leader Gen Rafael Gutierezexpected to take the presidency as Ezeta fled.
The El Salvador crisis ends as President Ezeta becomes a fugitive after army forces oust him. His brother Antonio Ezeta, named Vice President, had supported a reform drive that modernized infrastructure including roads, parks, telegraphs, and telephones, before the regime’s downfall.
Mr. William J. Garrity of New York City is described as violently insane as a result of vaccination three weeks prior. Following vaccination she showed unmistakable signs of insanity and is now at Bellevue Hospital.
In Dubuque Iowa a masked bandit rammed a street car and robbed the motorist in a wavering report securing the incident details with sparse local wording.
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