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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1892
Page
7
Northumberland County officials report hundreds of letters from prominent Republicans and Democrats praising the new ballot law. Shamokin and Mt. Carmel officials say foreigners voted smarter under the system, easing fears of coal region difficulties.
The World’s Fair directors, by a four to one margin, voted to open the exposition on Sunday with conditions similar to gallery hours. They also approved Sunday religious services on the grounds. Separately, a man died violently near Boise, Idaho during a confrontation with men he mistook for law officers. the incident ended with drownings after a canoe capsized on Big Creek.
Fragmentary verse asks for courage and a final sight of the pilot as the speaker crosses the bar. The lines evoke longing, departure, and farewell with maritime imagery.
A late night encounter near Lynchburg describes a hungry Union prisoner slipping into Confederate lines, sharing cornbread with his captor, and a humorous exchange that leads to an unlikely temporary trust. The story blends guerrilla danger with a human moment of mercy and a later reunion memory.
A life insurance chief cites hundreds of thousands of insured careers to gauge longevity. Commercial travelers and agents top the list for longevity, followed by dentists teachers professors and music teachers. Hatters clergy missionaries bankers capitalists lawyers jewelers merchants peddlers milkmen pawnbrokers gardeners laborers civil engineers and canvassers trailing in rank.
Chamber's Journal notes the Australian bower birds build long galleries decorated with shells feathers leaves and bones. Capt Stokes and Lumholtz describe gourds of shells in two entrances and green berries near the bower. In a mountain scene a thrush sized bower bird clears leaves lays fresh green leaves neatly and sings, suggesting a sense of beauty.
Richard G Mason related a nap dream predicting his mother's death and a later dream of his brother's fatal railway accident. He claimed other similar cases, noting how people fear being labeled superstitious while insisting on the reality of dreams and their omens. The anecdotes come from the St Louis Globe Democrat report.
A Brooklyn church tenor who often made droll faces in the choir attracted a critical note from a congregant. A collection basket slip read that the tenor should act more like a man and less like a monkey. Since then his expression has been grave during services.
Majorities tallied across counties and districts from legislative standpoints based on the vote for S M Taylor. The data indicate three Democrats in the senate and one in the house, reflecting party balance shifts across Ohio's counties.
The Pope is gravely ill and forbidden to work. Theodore Din, famed author and traveler, dies of cholera in Ispahan. Frasment Harrison works daily from nine, Vermont elects Redfield Proctor to Senate, and Yale professor Hubert A. Newton joins the Royal Philosophical Society of London.
A Hungarian named Zacrowski killed a countryman called Peter the Hun near Junction Crossing on the Clearwater River by pouring molten lead into his ear while asleep. The fatal attack caused almost instant death. Four killed in a wreck in Ontario. A construction train derailed at Stage Creek near Farrellton, Sam Wilson, Fireman R. Meagher, Brake Man William Blakeley, and a boy unnamed died instantly.
A Reuters report from Tarragona Spain says convicts seized control of the prison prompting garrison troops to restore order. Troops fired on the mutineers killing nine and wounding sixteen before the remaining prisoners retreated to their cells.
The Republican state ticket is elected with a narrow margin and 22 electors chosen. James Seward of Mansfield, first on the Australian ballot, is elected as Democratic elector with about 1,500 plurality. H. M. Taylor, Republican, leads for Secretary of State with a 1,045 plurality. Bank deposits and loans figures from 1891 are reported, totaling over 1.65 billion in deposits and 1.82 billion in loans and investments.
An old advertising jingle extols Castoria as a remedy through generations. It traces care from baby to adult to grandmother, claiming Castoria accompanies children at every life stage. The blurb emphasizes trust and continuity across family milestones.
John Hill, a Broadway street car conductor in New York, unexpectedly inherits five thousand dollars. He travels to New Orleans Thursday night, reportedly penitent and without funds.
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