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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1893
Page
10
A long string of disasters dominates the report. Fires, floods, and wrecks kill and injure hundreds across several states. Tornadoes and cyclones devastate towns from Iowa to Indiana, with vast property losses. Bank failures, legal seizures, and political bustle color the day, including odd accidents, hangings, and a world’s fair toll. Names and places pepper the laydown, highlighting casualties and economic strain.
Widespread damage reports include Cursatows in Oroville California wiped out by fire. W F Thornton Son bank at Shelbyville Illinois assigns with liabilities around 500000 affecting hundreds of businessmen and farmers. A picnic fight near Nascoutah Illinois injures twenty five, one fatally. Weekly mint and treasury issue totals show 44589500 in silver dollars. Gold reserve stands at 827260101.
Samuel Blatchford associate justice of the United States Supreme Court died in Newport Alabama at age 7x. Appointed by President Arthur in March. Carr Geonse Waith Bestick civil war naval hero died in Newburyport Massachusetts aged 72. Tuomas ETER oldest physician in America died in Salem. Janes McMullen Kentucky’s oldest man died near Bardwell aged 117. Abraham Allison former Florida governor died in Jacksonville aged A' years.
Extreron Williams opened the German Reichstag in person. Chinese pirates captured and lost from the Taiping customs house and earned £20 000. Oven 60 000 soldiers were stationed in Paris to quell the student led revolt now seized by anarchists. Prince George of York and Princess May of Teck wed in London with 200 country gifts, Princess of Wales valued at £1,250,000. A colliery explosion at Barkshire England left 133 dead. Spanish steamer Juan gutted off Union Spain, 155 Chinese passengers drowned. The International Christian Endeavor convention gathered in Montreal with 1,577,040 members reported. Infanta Eulale arrived home in Madrid praising U S hospitality. Montreal Christan Endeavor resolutions condemned Sunday desecration and directory dishonesty. Drought across Europe hurts farmers as fodder fails. Twenty lives lost as a yacht capsizes near Skegness. Cholera rages in Mecca Egypt with bodies along the road to Mouns.
A sweep of incidents follows a national commission vote 54 to 6 in favor of closing exposition rates. The report notes Sunday gates opened in defiance of Congress and commission will, and of employee wishes.
A violent squall on Lake Michigan capsized the sailing yacht Chesapeake near the life saving station. Four people drowned, two boys about 16 feared lost, and others were rescued or revived after long struggles. Names include Themiste'les Thambolis, William B. Cornish, Ethel H. Chase, and Harvey Marlow among others.
Ten members of the Garza band of revolutionists were placed in Anamosa penitentiary in Iowa on July 12. Each jailed for terms from one to three years for violating neutrality laws between the United States and Mexico. Nine are Mexican and one American. they lived in Texas and conducted raids into Mexico. They and ten others were implicated in the massacre of eighty villagers.
Ironwood Michigan faces typhoid outbreak as hospital and armory fill with patients. Wells closed, pure water imported from Ashland and Milwaukee. Three thousand miners idle, widespread poverty. many rely on charity for food.
Harper's Young People recounts Peter the mint bird, an American eagle beloved in Philadelphia. The eagle roamed the mint and city, feeding daily at government expense, until a flywheel accident fractured a wing and led to his death. His mounted body now decorates the mint cabinet with a coin portrait matching the original.
In Berlin's zoological gardens Prof. Baal Meyerheim reports tobacco smoke affects several animals with amusing results. Bears rush to the bars sniffing smoke, a lion sneezes and yawns after a puff, goats, stags and llamas reportedly enjoy tobacco, highlighting odd animal reactions in Pearson's Weekly account.
Dr Shirley Palmer recounts a fish tale about tench that survived slaughter. The two fish reportedly gasped and wriggled after being placed in water, then after scaling and evisceration, and only then expired, told as a scientific fact rather than a joke.
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