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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1893
Page
4
Estimates place the Illinois melon harvest this year at about 250000 dollars for farmers and around 100000 dollars for railroads. A fragmentary report notes the economic impact alongside other brief items about Scottish church defense unions and a scientist who cataloged insect species totaling 750000 distinct types.
Report notes a steady flow of European gold to the United States totaling over 20 million dollars in recent weeks. It also mentions a sharp drop in New York exchange prices reflected in Chicago and Cincinnati. A South Boston fire company prepares a bicycle outfitted with a two gallon chemical tank and a fire ax, weighing about sixty pounds with cushion tires.
A Colfax businessman proposes stocking the county with Chinese pheasants. He has built a large poultry house at his home and hatched forty young birds. More eggs are in the incubator and his hens have laid over 300 eggs since last fall, though none has sat yet.
The article notes the Corinth Canal finished in 1893 after centuries of debate and traces era defining projects from Nero to current engineering feats. It reports the Queensland Caledonia telegraph link to Canada, Greek statuettes seized for indecency, Circas sian women skin care, railcar prices, and a Congregational clergyman proposing individual communion cups.
The Pierre well yields 780 gallons per minute at 100 degrees and 25 000 feet of natural gas daily, equating to three tons of coal heat. Plans call for similar wells statewide. Federal figures show corn at 87 relative to last year’s 28.2, with spring wheat up to 1807 and strong results for oats and barley amid mixed readings for buckwheat. Potatoes dip slightly.
Douglass Curtis a switchtender at Sixteenth Street and the woman and child he lived with were killed in a Sunday morning shooting. Curtis killed his wife and daughter before turning the gun on himself, leaving the wife mortally wounded and Curtis dead. Neighbors noticed his drinking and gambling losses preceding the tragedy and the family’s hardship. The wife is hospitalized.
The notice outlines booths for entering Cherokee strip lands on opening day with declarations, certificates, and oaths required. It notes U S cavalry movements clearing the strip, preparations for a tribal celebration train, and committee chairmanship changes in Congress with named members and positions.
At Lake street crossing in Leroy New York on a Sunday five people were killed when an east bound Lehigh Valley flyer struck a carriage carrying L J Bores his wife and daughter Miss Nancy Weeks and Emma Bowden daughter of Rev Samuel Bowden The wreck left the occupants mangled and Mrs Bovee decapitated as the train backed to the scene then moved on.
Edward Brennan a New York resident, went on the Niagara River in a small boat near Grass Island to fasten to a passing steam yacht. His craft overturned, Brennan disappeared as rescuers followed toward the breakers. He was about 26 and staying at the Hotel Atlantique.
A witty critique mocks cheap charity and the mismatch of poverty and love. It argues a sot pinches where tightest, borrowing erodes friendships, and the dead care little for slander. It notes abundance of law but not justice, and insists finding a rich man responsible is often work.
A Lincoln statue honoring Scottish American Civil War soldiers was unveiled in Calton Hill cemetery, Edinburgh. The ceremony drew municipal officials, dignitaries, Americans, and a large town crowd. The bronze relief shows a freed slave with Lincoln and the emancipation proclamation, backed by battle flags. Sir William Arrol presided, with Wallace Bruce delivering the oration.
Joseph Ring 20 attacked Sanday in NaPiervilrx near Tyler Lemont crowd of fighting men. Ring struck Kling with a pitchfork and died at midnight. Tyler at large. All intoxicated. Also a player killed in Dall on Aug 22 as Peter Hyland was struck by a pitched ball and died. Ed J. Carter arrested.
The American Agriculturist summarizes the 1893 U S crop outlook noting drought impacts but overall favorable demand. Cotton will come from fewer acres. corn and wheat yields are projected lower with weather risks. Prices may rise as domestic and export demand shifts and cattle, sugar, tobacco, and hops markets face varied conditions.
The article chronicles the rise and fall of Donaldson, a Marion Kansas real estate man who created a web of banks and trusts in Kansas, Iowa, and beyond. He allegedly stole about 800000 from various banks, fled to Mexico, and left receivers to unwind massive failures in several towns and cities.
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