29 Mar 1894
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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1894
Page
1
Coxey and his Commonweal Army push ahead from Massillon to Alliance with 78 new volunteers added at Camp Bunker Bill. Cold winds, snow flurries, and curious crowds greet the column as tents rise and supplies arrive amid growing local sympathy in Alliance, Ohio.
After anarchists, Judge Domenech recommends a Barcelona security system like the Russian capital’s force. His plan classifies every house, watches residents and visitors, and reports movements to a central authority morning and night. He notes his prior success breaking the Andalusia black hand network.
Henry Collins and Hoke Napier, neighbors in Fleming Wayne County, quarreled when Napier sought passage through Collins place for timber. They drew revolvers and fired about a dozen shots. Collins was killed instantly by a heart wound. Napier was wounded in the bowels and died two hours later. Both men left families and were notable locals.
A cablegram from the British foreign office is anxiously awaited by the State department. It would confirm the British government’s assent to re establishing the old modus vivendi governing the Bering Sea. The department favors proceeding with arbitrators’ award but may seek an extension if parliamentary action delays.
The wrecking steamer Orien, from Boston, reached Havana after surveying Kearsarge at Ronedor Reef. She found the warship burned and broken beyond salvage, then proceeded to Havana.
Assistant Secretary Heynolds issued a decision in Harrison F. Loeb v. Company H, Mills Pennsylvania Infantry, admitting to the pension rolls a large group of minor children of deceased soldiers whose pensions had ceased at 16 before the June 7 1810 act. The ruling affects many families and outlines eligibility under the new interpretation. A separate note reports a Century Manufacturing bicycle factory fire in Indianapolis, with losses estimated between 850000 and 875000 and M FE Smither as principal owner.
Eyota Joe, famed opera singer, engaged to marry Francie L. Wellman of New York and is said to retire from the stage next season. The news appears in Eastern reports and hints at a forthcoming change in her career.
A sweeping mash of items reports J. Coxzy in charity, Col. John A. Cockerill taking over the New York Herald, and Chicago driven to curb dressed beef by Indiana cities. Sheriff Moore seeks papers to arrest Nicholas McCormack in a 14 year old Nora Howard abduction case. Fort Thomas and Bowie stage robbed south of Solonville with four passengers. mail sacks opened. Town Senate backs a liquor bill for Carpenter, while women gain school and municipal vote in a House vote. Chicago World’s lair injunction ends with a stipulation. Columbian Exposition claims dropped. Kalamazoo jury convicts Stonewall J. De France of 40 912,560 forged draft in a fifteen day trial, the era’s most notable case.
A young farmer William Ingraham marries near Evergreen Alabama and after a midnight serenade, hurls an ax into the crowd, striking a boy who dies. Across Mexico, Lopez poisons three at dinner after a broken engagement. Money Point Virginia endures a devastating fire destroying lumber plants and a schooner. A Mormon delegation plans colonization in Chihuahua with vast acreage. Counterfeits appear in U S currency and naval orders move amid fears of Hawaii annexation. A new Chinese treaty reshapes older accords.
A dispatch notes a pro prosecution driven conviction likely and describes Franco's alibi failure. It reports a Wyoming oil transport project by a St Louis backed company to pipe from Salt Creek via Orin Junction to Fort Laramie and ship by barge to St Louis for refining, amid rate disputes and field development delays.
The Geary act and a newly discussed treaty shape Chinese immigration policy for twenty years. It aims to admit Chinese under strict limits while protecting those already here, without repealing the Geary law. Pacific Coast senators oppose the plan as it unfolds trade ties and neutral relations, urging safeguards for ongoing commerce.
A Paris dispatch reports a conspiracy to kill the King of Ceres uncovered with ten thousand pounds of powder found, twenty seven conspirators arrested and to be beheaded, amid a church bomb blast at Gallica in Grenoble injuring up to twenty people during Easter services.
Multiple items report on Madeline Pollard offered a leading operatic role earning $500 weekly, 138 new money orders and thirteen post offices planned for April, and attachments against Empire Oil Co of Temple Texas for $32500. Ex queen Liliuokalani rumored to lecture in U S. Congressman Wilson returns to Los Angeles recovering. A boat sank six young women aboard eighteen near Mexico. A Boston appraiser case shows lax conduct and regulatory disregard in Treasury authorities.
Senator Calvin S Brice recalls an early job from his youth picking stems and stones from dried currants for 60 cents a day. The baker made him whistle Yankee Doodle as he worked, illustrating labor and humor from his upbringing.
A medical authority prescribes hot water as the most potent remedy for sleeplessness. When awake at night, drink a glass of water as hot as possible and sip it while very hot to fall asleep quickly and enjoy a peaceful, deep rest.
A reader recounts a drastic recovery from extreme female weakness and nervousness after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She states the product removed dizziness faintness backache and lassitude, enabling movement and social activity after two bottles and urges others to try it at about a dollar.
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