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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1892
Page
2
The Tele Gazette of Lanark Illinois surveys global and domestic notes, including Arctic depths and drafts on wealth, estimates of casualties, postal steamer values, labor strikes costs, and trivia on notable figures. It mentions Columbus Dickens works profits, German population statistics, maritime charges, and pending legal reforms like capital punishment debates.
Reports from MosnaAy and Trreway detail Senate resolutions mourning Senator Gibson of Louisiana and a holiday adjournment. House votes raise Mexican war pension from $83 to $12 monthly? and limit federal court jurisdiction. Other items note debates on anti option and election supervisor bills, plus a plan to fund a national army encampment at the Columbian Exposition. Adjournments and new bills span Oklahoma governance, immigration suspension, and other congressional activity.
The report notes President HarrKison will resign the White House to become a non resident professor of law at Stanford University in California. Immigration figures for the eleven months ending November show 520 768 arriving, up from 52 073 prior eleven months.
The Pittsburgh district master workman Hugh F Dempsey was arrested for administering poison to non union workers at Homestead. Grand jury returned true bills against Dempsey Beatty and Davidson. The list also notes a string of other 1891 crimes and incidents across the nation.
Four men died in Walton Kentucky after a razor fight among Black men over money. In Cincinnati Cuaries Ilazano fatally shot his wife and stepson Gabriel Benson during a drunken spree. In Wyoming’s Big Horn basin a clash between officers and cattle thieves left two officers and five thieves dead.
The seven days ended the 23d saw $1,512,261,207 in Exchange reporting by leading US clearing houses, up 24.5 percent from 1891. Michigan upper peninsula secession debate gains momentum. Susan Torter dies after 52 days of fasting in Burlington, Maine. Cholera rises in Lublin Polish province near Austrian border. Marvin Rienip loses $5,000 in a three card monte scam near Litchfield Illinois. A Santa Fe train wreck near La Junta, California injures 21 passengers, eight Pullman cars destroyed. Parliament member Micnhagh Daylrr of North Meath loses his seat over court ruling. Fergusson Building in Duluth burns, $250,000 loss. Union veteran G Frederick T. Dent dies in Denver at 72. Robert Warfraker dismissed from San Francisco mercantile library for embezzlement. Father McGlynn’s authority restored for priestly functions. Diana Douty dies at 103 in Charlton Massachusetts. George Averraw and son fatally struck by train near Bradenville Virginia. US business failures total 801 for the week, down from 804 previous week and 485 last year.
The May inauguration plan centers on Grover Cleveland delivering the sole address with a prelude of poetry and music. A grand reception follows from 4 to 6 pm in festival hall, 5,000 seats, with 1,000 tickets for officials and guests. 4,000 tickets sold at five dollars each.
Nevaya Latepa Mexico Dec 23 reports from across the northern republic show growing revolutionary strength after a battle near Guerrero. Gen Estrada reportedly deserted to lead 1,000 rebels. A 17th clash near Guerrero killed five Mexican soldiers. 400 revolutionaries advanced toward the interior. A second battle on the 19th at Coralvo left ten more dead and five soldiers burned.
Four motormen perished in a blaze that destroyed the West End Street Railway Company stables on Ferry street Everett Boston. The fire began in the engine room near 7 20 p m and spread to the oil room, engulfing the building within minutes. Bodies were recovered and identified, with losses reported at 125000 dollars.
Grand jury probes Homestead poisonings with 32 deaths confirmed and many more sick. Letters from non union workers nationwide report illness after exposure, while Carnegie Steel employed about 4000 workers during the strike and over 2000 fell ill or died.
New York December 22 The Evening Post prints a table showing the total vote for president this year from all states. Cleveland Harrison Weaver Bidwell appear with Cleveland holding a plurality of 60 seas. In Louisiana the fusion ticket with Harrison electors is credited for plurality.
In Portland Maine a U S district court jury found Patrick Finnegan a wealthy farmer guilty of potato smuggling linked to cross border sales from Maine to New Brunswick with a portion of his farm near the border. Verdict reported though sentence deferred.
Mgr Satolli, acting as papal legate, declares Dr McGlynn free from ecclesiastical censures and restored to the exercise of priestly functions. The decision permits him to serve in any parish, with a future return to St. Stephen's subject to Archbishop Corrigan, New York. The case followed his advocacy of Henry George and past suspension by Archbishop Corrigan.
The Chicago Santa Fe Express derailed two miles east of Halstead Cal after a high speed run. Cars plunged 50 feet down an embankment, catching fire. many injured. A relief train aided the wounded as rail spreading is blamed. Bert and Will Van Loon were reported to die. Also listed are several others from Denver Ada Needles Salt Lake and Salt Lake City. A cabinet shakeup is noted with Secretary Foster resigning to attend the Behring Sea arbitration in Paris.
Detroit December 24 press reports the upper peninsula begins a movement to become a separate state from Michigan. The plan would include northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, with the Escanaba Mirror noting the UP has little social or business ties to southern and eastern Michigan.
Duluth Minnesota December 24 1805 Secretary S A Thompson on behalf of the Duluth board of trade issues a circular calling a convention at the Arlington hotel Washington January 12 to discuss and promote the construction of a deep water ship canal connecting the Great Lakes and the Atlantic All commercial associations including industrial unions and farmers organizations are invited to send five delegates each
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