Doings of the Day Hums Through City Rooms
The column surveys daily city events across fires accidents crimes policies religion commerce and crops. It blends major happenings with minor affairs to paint a broad urban panorama.
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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1896
Page
2
The column surveys daily city events across fires accidents crimes policies religion commerce and crops. It blends major happenings with minor affairs to paint a broad urban panorama.
Dorman Musgrove and Charles Dingmars were taken from the county jail by a mob of about 100 men early Monday. They were dragged to a nearby bridge, hanged, and killed after admitting guilt in the Sheriff Rogers murder. They claimed self defense, the new sheriff was overwhelmed and unable to resist.
In Allendale New Jersey Isaac Caryle of New York City visiting the Wanell family was shot by William Doling their longtime coachman. Doling then killed himself after attempting to murder Frank Wandell. No motive is known. Caryle and Doling were longtime friends.
A St. Petersburg report via Nova Vremya argues that Berlin Vienna Paris and St Petersburg back a common Powers response to curb Britain. The piece links Britain’s plans to events in Turkey and notes the British press crediting Prince Lobanov Rostovsky's death as reducing a key English foe.
The Kona of Veterans holds its fifteenth encampment at Music Hall Louisville Kentucky beginning Wednesday afternoon. Commander-in-chief Commander Russell presided over the first session with about 100 delegates attending. The Ladies Aid Society chaired by Margaret Harvey of Springfield Illinois conducted two sessions. The Secretary reports thirty one new societies organized during the year.
Northern Ohio grape growers face a heavy crop with prices as low as five cents per basket of ten pounds. Each basket costs 27 cents to harvest and pick, leaving little or no profit. No fresh grapes go to market. remaining fruit likely to wine makers. The harvest is described as the heaviest ever in the region.
In Washington a will of Kate Field who died in the Sandwich Islands is found in a box left by Migs Field with the Shoreham Motel manager. Executors named are J Sanford Beatty Calvin Brice's secretary and Ht J Kohlsaar with Beatty as chief beneficiary. The body is to be brought home and cremated.
Berlin dispatch reports Emperor William pledging peace at a military banquet for the Sixth Army Corps in Guerlitz. He said the Czar desires troops only to preserve peace and that their aims align with his own. The Emperor seeks to unite European peoples around shared interests.
A New York dispatch reports Lloyd Brice sold the North American Review, one of the oldest U S magazines. David A Monroe is named the new editor, president and treasurer, after years with Harper & Brothers where he later became Review general manager in May 1889.
Eastern reports Max J Becker, consulting engineer and real estate agent for Pennsylvania Lines, died at Mackinac Island after seeking recreation. Harrisburg shows pardon recommendation for ex Philadelphia City Treasurer John Bardsley, now jailed. Edgar Thomson works near Carnegie, Pittsburgh, shut down with 1500 laid off. North American Review sold to David Moore. Bodies found of Rev Thomas Reeser and John D Love in Hollidaysburg area after fishing trip.
Reports recount a series of violent and chaotic incidents from several locales. A skeleton found at the Jesse Dhones property in St Joseph follows a deadly fire at Yore's Opera House in Benton Harbor. Separate cases describe a double homicide in Neponset and a string of political and corporate shakeups including rail receiver actions, Diamond Match Company leadership changes, and Biscuit Company negotiations. Other items cover a Lycoming County crime, a Grand Army encampment nomination, a fatal lynching in Glencoe Minnesota, and international tensions with Spain and China alongside natural disasters in Japan. The summaries reflect turmoil, resignations, trials, and investigations shaping regional and national news.
A Vienna millionaire brewer, Mouthner von Markow, killed himself after a letter blamed anti Semitic press for spreading fraud allegations about octroi tax payments. The article notes his honest character and high social position, and mentions several unrelated foreign claims from consuls.
Five people die in a blaze at the Commercial Hotel in Van Kleek Hill Ontario on Wednesday night. Names listed include Mary Louise Vanrao Christie Villeneuve Josephine Deschamps Mrs T Finn and Miss K McLeod.
Market report lists prices for cattle hogs and sheep across cities including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York with grains and dairy noting No 2 grades, creamery butter and weights. Highlights include hogs 3.00 to 5.50, cattle 2.00 to 5.25, wheat No 2 red 50c to 64c, corn No 2 yellow 20c to 28c, butter 12c to 17c.
Fire at Yore's Opera House in St Joseph and Benton Harbor kills eleven firemen and injures several others. The blaze, possibly started by a gasoline stove or incendiary act, caused the rear wall to collapse trapping rescuers. Names, ages, and insurance details of fallen and injured are listed amid wreckage and extensive property losses estimated at $50,000.
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