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Record of Busey World's happenings compiled for quick reader digest. Highlights include varied events, brief notices, and concise summaries suitable for busy patrons seeking the week’s notable items.
16 Feb 1893
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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 16, 1893
Page
1
Record of Busey World's happenings compiled for quick reader digest. Highlights include varied events, brief notices, and concise summaries suitable for busy patrons seeking the week’s notable items.
Two killed and seventeen injured in a railway wreck near Jersey City. Alton disaster deaths now two with twelve more expected to die. Fireman Sexac Scott and Brakeman Houk of Connellsville Pa died in a collision on the B road at Ellerslie Pa. Others hurt. A sleigh load from Pawtucket R I struck by a locomotive on the Providence Worcester line. eight killed and sixteen injured, ten fatally.
London reports Prince George of Wales may wed Princess May of Teck in April. Vienna hints at Czar claiming Emperor of Asia to counter Empress of India. Boston millionaire John Spaulding funds eight hotel maids with forty thousand dollars.
The report lists several deadly events: a farmer in Whitminster township ends his life by suicide. six East Liverpool residents fall ill from diseased mutton. a sailor in New York learns of his wife’s starvation in Germany and kills himself. blasts in Indiana and Utah kill and injure workers. an elderly St Vincent settler is fatally struck by a sleigh. Chicago scaffold collapse injures and kills workers. a Chicago clerk and former captain is killed by a wagon impact. a Waterloo Ontario girl fatally shoots her brother with a self cocking revolver. the weapon discharge ends the boy’s abdomen injury and life.
The protest against Mr. Bryson's election is dismissed as Parliament passes a 45 to 42 vote expressing no confidence. Illinois courts allow women to vote in school elections. France plans May Day demonstrations. New York reports nearly balanced debt with 3,448,058 in the treasury. Susan B. Anthony elected president and Anna Shaw vice president at the Washington suffrage convention. The German Reichstag trims naval spending by 1,140,000 marks. Britain says explanations with France over the Khedive dismissal. The pope hints at Gladstone's help to revive Home Rule talks.
Reports from New York note three typhas fever cases while Hungary sees sporadic cholera. Dr. Gatling claims a new device applying electricity to firearms as six more typhas cases appear. In Peterborough county several northern schools close due to a diphtheria epidemic.
A broad obituary notice lists numerous deaths including Baron Stratheden and Campbell aged 69, Lord Elphinstone in Musselburgh Scotland, Captain Nelson in Africa, Jahus Eichberg founder of the Boston conservatory of music, and Sir Walter Barttelot M P. Also noted are deaths of C E Male Oshawa, David Cummings London, Father Jones Loyola Spain, and Isaac Robinson Big Bar Point Ontario among others with ages or brief identifiers where available.
Reports from England, Guatemala, Canada and the United States recount a spate of fatal acts and legal cases. William Mulligan killed himself after an attempted assault on his sister near St Thomas. Arthur Black killed his wife and son at Hove. A British legation incident in Guatemala injuries to the minister's son. A Montreal lawyer is alleged to profit from cleaning old law stamps. A baby farm near Hamilton housed fifty children for eighteen years. In St John N B an insurance case sees Welton and Randall sentenced to five years. In Albany a drug smuggling indictment targets Dr John A Boarst. Fire suspects George Booth and others face March 4. In Athens Count Von Boerkmar kills Samuel Daniels. Daniel Coughlin seeks a new Joliet trial in the Cronin case.
A series of fires devastate buildings and goods across Ontario and nearby towns. Essex public school and furnishings valued at 11 000 plus a fatal burn of Miss Elizabeth Coats and severe injuries to her 5 year old son are noted. Eneglass works and a Pringle Clunes hardware shop in Guelph suffer fire damage. A 5 000 building loss at Alexandria elevator with 15 000 bushels grain and 5 500 insurance is reported. London stores and hotels including Mrs Weedliffe's and the Pacific Hotel incur losses. a Bellaire Michigan home loses three children to fire. Insurance levels vary.
The item notes 1500+ unemployed in Quebec City and Brus sels workers threaten disturbances. It cites Homestead riot costs at 434 519 dollars in Pennsylvania and mentions Ben Tillet facing trial for riot incitement in Bristol. Dempsey found guilty in poisoning cases. Kentucky coal miners at Echols Mc Hendry Taylor Williams mines strike for higher wages.
Rev M Decelles of Sorel faces Assembly appeal in the Briggs case. A US degree is declared ecclesiastical in character. Salvation Army Commandant Booth plans to convert Montreal waterfront Joe Beef canteen into a shelter. Rev Leroy Hooker moves to take charge at Fifth Presbyterian Chicago. Protestant Episcopal Church reports 532054 communicants and 8 066317 in church furnishings. Toronto and Clerical Anglican associations discuss church union with bold addresses by Provost Body Caven Langtry Grant.
The reconciliation of ex King Milan and Queen Natalie of Servia is officially confirmed. Oscar C Bass formerly tied to the press of Montreal married Miss Georgina Coleman sister in law to City Editor Gibbons of the Colonial at Victoria. Mr and Mrs J G Heck of Cole Harbor Nova Scotia celebrate their sixty first anniversary. Herbert Wiswell attended the wedding and was present 61 years later.
The London and Port Stanley railroad lease to Cleveland capitalists has been finally closed. The Blake transmitter patent tied to the Bell Telephone has expired. Europe remains in call. Ice crosses the Mississippi at St Louis. An ice field spans 40 by 200 miles from the Danube mouth to Crimea. St Thomas and Port Stanley residents push harbor dredging for 16 feet at the wharf.
In a Detroit Free Press styled anecdote a wife declares a home strike over a new dress and pantry access, insisting on arbitration only to impose a week long stand. The husband tests compromise then yields after a late night standoff revealing the peculiar power of a domestic strike. Also notes Brantford drill shed tender and a Lake Winns shipment of whitefish from Arden via Mr. Dickson.
A bustling Manitoba Winnipeg page surveys music plans by the Winnipeg Glee Club for concerts on the 23rd and 24th, a Free Traders league forming, Rossini's Stabat Mater rehearsals, and civic discussions on taxes and education funding. It notes hatchery upgrades, court introductions for Brandon and Portage la Prairie figures, and upcoming civic events plus local accidents and social events.
Mr W A Matheson visits town. Mrs W W Miller returns from Brandon as guest of Mr John W Fleming. Mrs Sheriff McLean hosts a dancing party for sister Miss Strevel of Winnipeg. Our hockey team beat Winnipeg extra 5 to 2. Masonic ball tonight draws social leaders from town and Winnipeg. J Macaulay learns of brother Angus's death in Northfields B C. Nellie McDonald hosted a fashionable party with Strevel Hunter Hulbert Gamne Fox Mawhinney and others. Jessie Howison gave a Knox church Burns lecture. Mrs George McIvor sang Scottish songs praised for simplicity and tone.
A shopping list of old time home remedies and cleaning tips from Home Queen includes keeping a canister closed tight and rubbing lamp chimneys with dry salt. Uses range from rat hole disinfectant to olive oil cloth washing, carpet beating, news paper covering, and herbal deodorizers.
A bashful girl Abby fears strangers and hides behind family. When a visitor arrives she asks guidance from her mother and nearly asks for the Reverend, overheard by the mother. The scene ends with a misheard inquiry and a light domestic misunderstanding.
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