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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1895
Page
2
A fast train on the West Pennsylvania line struck an electric street car at Sharpsburg Pa. Five people injured including Dan Nolan the motorman fatally. Others hurt were Dr J M Kelly Dan Cypers Mrs Noble and Frank Daugherty. About thirty passengers were aboard as the car lay dark after the trolley came off the tracks.
A Wapakoneta special reports lightning and storms wrecking the oil fields with Nichols and Levy’s Joss nearing $1,000 and logs in the Mene field left unestimated. A Rome dispatch notes ten drowned after an excursion boat on Lake Maggiore capsized in a squall.
Consul General Karal in St. Petersburg reports a Russian plan to raise revenue by increasing the tea consumption tax and enforcing stricter adulteration controls. Packages will bear revenue bands and half and pound measures cost about 0.8125 kopecks each. Despite rising domestic tea drinking, imports are said to decline as production increases and tea quality improves. Adulteration remains a target of new government measures.
The Illinois Steel Company announced to about 7,000 workers at its North Chicago South Chicago Joliet and Milwaukee plants that starting after July 1 this year there will be a 10 percent wage increase. The rise flows from renewed industrial activity and will benefit the majority of workers at the four plants while a portion on the sliding scale will share in higher wages tied to product prices.
Samuel Milch, an arson indicttee, turns State's evidence in a case tied to a powerful fire bug gang. Assistant District Attorney Vernon M. Davis, known for prosecuting East Side gangs, disclosed Milch's confession revealing agents within the force and grand jury.
Lynn Edwards and Carrie Sedberry eloped in Wetumpka Alabama fleeing Sheriff Sedberry who pursued them. The couple reached Speigner s penitentiary farm and, with a preacher, were secretly married inside the prison walls before the father could gain entry.
The court in Butte Nebraska heard testimony from Fannie Scott the murdered ex treasurer’s daughter about the capture at Walker post office and she described seeing a man at O Neill who matched the description from Parker. A physician testified on the post mortem noting a rope mark around the neck indicating strangulation. Five injured after a MO KS T flyer wreck near Houston with heavy rains and swollen bayou branches. France reports wheat crop will be at least ten million bushels below average with European crops generally short, possibly prompting American supply.
At New Bedford Massachusetts a Dartmouth and Westport trolley car on a steep grade broke a front wheel. The car derailed, crossed a road, struck a stone wall and toppled, injuring about thirty passengers with some possibly dying from their wounds.
An explosion occurred at the Buck Horn stone quarry in Kingswood West Virginia when a lightning strike hit the electric battery wire triggering a blast. Dolph McVickers was probably fatally wounded while Stephen Ring er was badly shocked but expected to recover. A large quantity of dynamite nearby exploded, destroying several buildings and stunning people for miles.
Lord Rosebery resigned to Queen Victoria on Saturday night and urged summoning Lord Salisbury, signaling a potential three week struggle to form a ministry. A dissolution and general election may follow as the Liberal Party relinquishes power. Included: jury policy push in Kentucky and a Philadelphia iron hall case collapse, plus a masked robbery in Chicago with a fatal shooting.
A Constantinople dispatch says a plot directed against the Sultan was uncovered at the Pachardi Military College in Turkey. Thirty students were arrested amid the investigation reaching Varna Bulgaria.
Kansas Supreme Court removes Warden Chase from the state penitentiary and confirms the recent appointment of Ling J. Bruce Lynch by Governor Morrill to the post. The decision ends the lengthy dispute over control of the prison.
The Hungarian crop report states cereals suffered from root issues. Wheat yield is forecast at 37 million metric centners, rye 9 million, barley 11 million, and oats 8 million.
In the Oklahoma town near Talihina a man identified as Jackson Meashintub shot William Meashintub as they rode in a wagon with his wife. After the shooting the killer drove off with the wife, leaving William dead at the scene.
Superintendent J C Macneil of Kansas City public schools and treasurer of the National Education Association is in Denver arranging the July 5 12 convention. Estimates of attendance range from 20000 to 30000 by Dr Nicholas Murray Butler president of the association. The NEA, founded in Philadelphia in 1857, is the world’s largest educational body and has advanced standardized courses across the United States and Canada. The convention program promises features addressing current educational needs.
The seventh annual congress of the Scotch-Irish Society of America opens at Washington and Lee University Lexington Virginia with Gov Charles T O Ferrall delivering welcome remarks. Delegates note the valley’s Scotch-Irish heritage and the society’s 1889 Columbia Tennessee origin. Notable members include Gov McKinley and Vice-President Stevenson.
Columbia College marked its hundredth year since founding in 1795 as a non denominational institution. From a modest start it grew into a leading U S educational center with many graduates distinguished in professions business and politics.
Joseph Wood, claiming to have walked from Leadville Colorado, asked Middleton Connecticut police to send him to an asylum. He appeared sane and was ordered out of the city. Also noted Emperor William laid the last stone of the Baltic and North Sea canal, witnessed by thousands, with brilliant weather.
Market notes list prices in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Buffalo Milwaukee and New York for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and potatoes. Prices show wide ranges by city with No 2 red wheat around 70 to 76 cents and corn around 40 to 52 cents, reflecting regional trading conditions.
Britain faces a crisis as Lord Rosebery consults the queen and resigns with Sir William Harcourt. Lord Salisbury is invited to form a government amid a looming dissolution and general election within weeks. The Irish leaders press for a parliamentary Tory program declaration as Liberal plans unfold.
Two men were killed and others injured when a steam pipe burst on the whaleback Christopher Columbus on a Milwaukee to Chicago excursion. About 350 aboard saw the disaster as engines and cylinders, recently rebuilt, failed at high speed, with officials denying race involvement.
Reports say rich gold fields have been found on Boggy Creek in Oklahoma signaling a potential strike. The item notes mineral wealth and prospecting activity in the region.
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