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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1894
Page
2
A long list of scattered reports includes a steamship lost near Savannah with all aboard, a fatal nitroglycerin explosion in Liemville, and multiple violent incidents in Denton Texas and Knoxville Tennessee. Additional items cover financial crimes, fires, railroad accidents, political shifts, and international conflicts with names of places and people.
The clipping lists varied events including robberies and murders at the national military home in Dayton Ohio, a fatal wreck on the Rock Island Road near Hanover, a murder in Scranton Pennsylvania, the laying of a cornerstone in Binghamton New York, a New York strike for a ten hour day, a fatal hatchet incident, and house collapses during a heavy wind in New York City. It also notes Chile paying war claims, miners blocked by flames in Shamokin Pennsylvania, a fire caused by a careless carpenter, ships wrecked after a Pensacola gale, anti-foreign party promises for New York governor Everett Wheeler, a wife killed in Charles City Iowa, and Russia’s illness claims affecting leaders. The report includes tax and production totals for metals and remarks on various corporate closures and a captain’s death in San Francisco.
Stated from St. Petersburg eye witness Prof Zacharin told the czar his malady incurable with limited life. Berlin reports Leyden notes kidney contraction and heart enlargement with uncertain prognosis. New York Dr Brady confirms incurability. regency discussion to be decided in Russia.
Chicago observes the twenty third anniversary of the great fire and the world fair with a military parade and banquets. The First regiment in cadet gray tours the city to its new armory. A Marquette club banquet featured speeches on arbitration by Carroll D Wright and others. The armory ball formally opens with the First regiment ceremony.
Forty veterans at the national military home in Dayton are reported robbed and murdered on pension day, with authorities urging detectives to uncover a crime wave rivaling the Bender case. Local police offer clues, while the Grand Army calls for action to protect elderly veterans.
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