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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1892
Page
2
The Gazette notes a wide array of topics including electoral college timing, military spending, a deficit in a senate budget, cholera commentary, a bicycle mail delivery plan for 1898, a San Francisco lawsuit over secret ballots, and odd inventions. It recounts deflating trivia from Berlin youths’ suicides to name-rich titles of the Earl of Dunraven, plus notes on wheat origins, university gifts, and authors Pugh-Wanp and Phelps-Ward.
The annual Interior Department report urges making the census office a permanent bureau. It cites the eleventh census cost of 204,608 dollars and notes various fiscal and demographic figures including pensioners, post office counts, and debt, with multiple political and local events recorded across states.
In New York the senate committee on immigration discussed suspending all non American immigration for a year from March 1 1895 and requiring entrants to read and write and show $100. The era also saw deaths of Alexander Wyant and Jay Gould, a Sing Sing discharge, a high weight wedding, a £25000 train heist, a deadly Erie crossing accident and multiple suicides, reflecting a chaotic late 19th century news cycle.
A dozen cars carrying cattle derailed near Green Castle Missouri killing the fireman Sloan and all the cattle. An express package delivered to Island City savings bank Galveston Texas contained a brown paper marked 210 000. Senator Graham W Pitch died at his Logansport home at age 2? years. Cant Bunestam killed his wife near Enterprise Kentucky by cutting her throat and then killed himself.
The firm M Hannan & Co of Montreal failed for 8115 000. Gen Oppermann, linked to planning the siege of Paris, died at Hanover. In Mexico Diaz began a fourth term as president. The Japanese cruiser Sheshinarukan was sunk by the Ravenna with 85 lost. Fire damaged Vienna’s St Michael church dating to 1221. Russia allocated 38 million dollars for famine relief across affected regions.
Our annual report to the president highlights the interior department's work under the present administration, noting significant achievements surpassing prior periods. The survey covers cholera riots in Saratoff, fires in Scranton and Cumberland Gap, immigration figures, and policy notes from the War and Treasury departments.
New York reports Jay Gould died at his Fifth Avenue home from pulmonary consumption. At his bedside were wife and six children, including Helen and Howard Gould. The death followed a long career shaping finance, railroads, and telegraph monopolies with vast holdings in Western Union, Manhattan Elevated, Missouri Pacific, and Union Pacific among others.
The annual war department report urges revival of lieutenant general rank to strengthen authority and balance governance. It calls for higher pay to attract skilled soldiers, consolidation of posts near central locations, and land donations to aid post construction. It notes West Point cadet appointments, militia funding needs, improved drill, health rates, and a $25,000 Hampton Roads naval display appropriation.
News items report a 14 year old divorce in Victoria B C a meteorite ownership ruling based on land location a Rhode Island court naming the father in parent disputes and an English cabinet decision to end private practice for the attorney general and solicitor general A Brienz murder trial featured Ulrich Amacher drawn from the jury pool and a Queen's Bench ruling allowing grocers to weigh paper with other goods without fraud A Liszt early concert program from 1520 unearthed in Oldenburg and attributed to his first performance at age nine.
Weather reports from extreme stations warn of an early cold wave as thousands prepare to flee southward. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois offers the fastest route, claiming a six hour advantage and superior equipment on the Chicago and Nashville Limited. The train leaves Dearborn Station daily at 4 p.m. and connects with through services from the West and Northwest.
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