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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1896
Page
2
The column presents a compact digest of global events with a light editorial voice. It highlights notable politics economy science culture and sports items from various regions, aiming to provide readers with a quick panoramic snapshot of the week.
A compact roundup of fires accidents crimes politics religion commerce and crops across the hemisphere with minor affairs. Highlights include notable incidents and events shaping daily life in various regions and sectors.
Official statement shows a net increase in the public debt for October as cash in Treasury falls by 7.58 million dollars. Interest bearing debt grows by 200 thousand while non interest bearing debt declines 86 thousand and gold coin and bar holdings drop 7.45 million. total debt stands around 1.221 billion. Surplus in national bank depositories sits at 16.11 million, down from 16.58 million.
Fire broke out in the Manilla Mail office and swept through ten business houses and residences. The blaze damaged two homes and destroyed the meat market, saloon and home of S S Green, Joseph Powers barbershop, John Schicman residence, Dr Pence drug store, Marshall Hyvaton barbershop, George Inlow home, John Green home, Frank English Masonic Hall and general store, Treece and Mulk dry goods, and Epic Treece brick residence. Loss about 15000 with 4090 insurance.
A huge nitroglycerine explosion near Geneva Indiana wrecks a magazine injuring no trace of a wagon or horses. Nearby Hercules magazine doors remained intact. A second incident reports the day express rear ending a freight train at Whitford Pennsylvania with one man killed and several injured.
A fuse fault on a Consoli Traction Company tram in Newark New Jersey caused smoke panic among Italian laborers. Lambuster Angelou died after a fall from the car while Guiseppi was badly injured and may not survive. Minor injuries to others reported.
A jumble of wartime era news items notes fatalities from a roadway accident in Kokome Indiana and a collision near Columbus Ohio. A gas explosion at Picker No 2 colliery Girardville Pennsylvania kills six workers. Regional election tallies show McKinley sweeping Maryland and parts of the Midwest with varying state outcomes across Nebraska Illinois and other states.
Early returns show McKinley with about 268 electoral votes and Bryan 158, with 36 in doubt. New England and New York bolster McKinley, while Nevada favors Bryan. Indiana may lean McKinley by about 40,000, and Ohio shows a Republican plurality above last year.
A juvenile pastime in Atlanta makes jack o lanterns resemble Noah s ark figures. At dusk hundreds of boys and girls wander the streets carrying lit boxes shaped like animals, birds and reptiles with colored tissue paper cutouts.
The article describes hundreds of boys marching with lighted pasteboard boxes turned into jack o lanterns showy designs, including sea serpent figures with colored tissue wings and fiery letters, creating a glowing, eerie procession as darkness falls.
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