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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1893
Page
4
A brief notice advises careful transcription of names and dates in letters. It emphasizes writing only on one side of the page and avoiding publication of the writer's name while ensuring evidence of good faith.
In administration circles a new norm for addressing the Infanta is emerging. The proper form now advised is Your Royal Highness, the Princess A-oo-lal-e-a.
The text suggests a fall attempt to sink the foundation of a government lighthouse off Cape Hatteras during mild weather. It notes that shifting sands and variable winds render such an effort impossible in any other season.
The Persian shah returned home with a taste for modern comforts and sent an envoy to Paris to acquire numerous umbrellas walking sticks eye glasses bird cages mattresses and a garden hose.
In France the machine first appeared but faced prejudice and laughter. Now an army of juv000 proprietary wheelmen and many amateurs hire coachines thrive in the country, while England also turns out 180000 velocipedes annually.
A Buffalo ships carpenter Alexius Columbus, descendant of Columbus, tours the exposition. The fair features a 35 by 5 foot Nicaragua canal model with real water, a Russian linen embroidery gift to Mrs Grover Cleveland, and a London crafted gold and silver dinner service for Maharajah Gaekwar, over half a ton in weight.
Epison argues that a person can study economics chemistry or growth laws without believing in a supreme intelligence. He hopes to someday demonstrate such intelligence through these natural laws with mathematical certainty.
In New York the central dome of Horticultural Hall hosts a plant display with a garden before the state building designed to bloom all season and five greenhouses full of flowers. The dairy exhibit features three hundred butter varieties and one hundred fifty cheeses while the honey exhibit is praised as the best yet collected and live bees are shown.
Reports from Virginia Mountain Iron Biwabik Merritt and surrounding range describe dozens of buildings burned and about 3600 people homeless. The fire raged through forests, threatening Duluth and prompting a limited local relief effort as residents faced loss of homes, food, and clothing.
Milan Tenn June 20 mob mistook Lee Bennett for a lynching target and hanged Jim Harris an innocent man at Gleason. Bennett remains jailed in Dresden under heavy guard.
In Springfield the Senate approved raising the age of consent from fourteen to sixteen. A House bill to ban pooling and bookmaking was laid on the table. The Lincoln monument report recommended a 210,000 repair appropriation and 3,000 yearly maintenance with an old soldier as custodian. The adjournment sine die resolution was concurred.
James Cunningham alias Jaimes Gilbert arrives on City of Chester in New York on June 21. He is met by Mr Kennedy and friends and will be cared for by Irish sympathizers who plan to send him to a resort to regain health after prison confinement.
Brakeman John Jordan of Freeport Illinois was shot and seriously wounded on an Illinois Central train near East Dubuque by one of two men he was forcing off the train. The gunman escaped. the other suspect was captured. A second item notes two hogs found at Lone Jack Missouri after four weeks missing, one sow later giving birth to six piglets.
The United States circuit court of appeals unanimously ruled that the local exposition directory could keep the World’s Fair open on Sundays. Chief Justice Fuller presided with Justices Allen and Bunn concurring, reversing the lower judges’ order to close the fair on Sundays. The decision noted jurisdiction and equity questions and remanded for further proceedings. In a separate item, a panio during Grand Ramps Michigan high school commencement left several injured.
Frost fires rage across a 96 mile Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota span, destroying eight Minnesota mining towns and major centers like Ashland and Iron River. One corpse found in Brule, likely a Fargo visitor fleeing flames. river currents hinder recovery. Firefighters work as smoke blankets towns and mills..
A chaotic Chicago report details multiple fall incidents. Daniel Lord jr of New York, guest of a prominent family, fell from a Rush Street frame window during sleep and died. Anton Dipp, a West Jintas street bartender, died after a fall on Oakley Street. Mrs Minn Berg, suffering from somnambulism, walked from a second story Washington Boulevard window and was fatally injured.
Washington officials led by United States Attorney Patrick Winston face dismissal following a vast conspiracy involving customs officials, smugglers, and fraudulent certificates used to move opium. Wood and Lewis, two new agents, uncovered the scheme, signaling more removals and eventual court action. Also in Chicago Debs leads the American Railway Union meeting at Uhlich’s Hall to organize railway workers nationwide for collective protection against corporations.
Tourists along the Indian and Ba nana rivers in Florida watch mullets that weigh five to six pounds. The fish are famous jumpers leaping three to four feet, then farther, in a sequence of leaps. Occasionally a mullet leaps fifteen to twenty feet and can land in a passing boat.
The coroner jury found criminal negligence and manslaughter by Col Frederick Ainsworth Contractor Dant Engineer Sasse and Superintendent Covert in the Ford Theater disaster of June 9 1893. It cites lack of shoring during excavation and government failure to provide skilled supervision as key factors. Bail was allowed for the officials while warrants were deferred.
News wires report a wave of bank closures across Oregon Tennessee and North Carolina as depositors withdraw funds. Linn County Bank Lebanon. Bank of Oregon. Bank of Neve Hanover Winston Salem. Senek City Savings Bank and Plainville State Bank all shut doors or faced assignments due to severe liquidity pressure and deposit withdrawals.
Prrrancren June 10 The Oil Well Supply Company a major Pennsylvania firm with assets about 3.5 million and debt around 1.1 million has gone into receivership to prevent asset sacrifice. Pittsburgh offices iron and pipe mill and factories across multiple states funded by 1 500 clerks. President Eaton says the firm can recover with time and creditors may meet. Cupicno council extends World’s Fair hours to 11 pm nightly adding non Sunday openings.
Members of the Illinois Grain Merchants Protective association report serious losses from slow movement of cars and authorize the railroad commissioner to file damages suits.
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