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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1895
Page
6
A collage of items cites political quips in Hartford and Missouri, claims about Portuguese discovery, butter export from Denmark, counterfeit rings in Mexico City, bankruptcy tweaks, Atlantic geography ponderings, New Zealand agricultural prosperity, horseflesh as food, ballistics behavior after bone contact, and westward horse markets.
A DC supreme court case opens a series against the income tax. Senate confrontation over legality in Washington. National grain stocks show wheat and corn totals, while fires in Burlington and bids in New York loom. Crimes from Miss Mitten to embezzlement and a severe blizzard with wrecks along the coast mark a turbulent period.
The state relief commission reports over 25,000 Nebraska families need aid due to crop failure. The item lists widespread misfortunes across states, including thefts, legal actions, and violent incidents from Mississippi to Colorado, reflecting a broad early 20th century notice of hardship and crime.
A sweeping roundup details winter storms, fires, explosions, murders, and political shifts across the United States and abroad. It notes a Richmond Virginia suburb explosion fatally burning five boys, a Santa Rosa bank burglary, and national bar association formation in Iowa, among many other incidents and perilous events from Nebraska to Japan.
Judge Woods grants a stay of proceedings in the Debs case allowing cumulative sentencing to test the Sherman act before the Supreme Court. Defense seeks to carve the Santa Fe sentence into a separate term, with government sentence taking precedence, risking a twice-serving outcome if the issue reaches the high court.
Reports from England France Belgium and the Netherlands describe devastating gales and floods. Dozens are killed or missing as ships wreck and towns flood with high tides and ruined infrastructure. In England casualties rise while Hamburg Lubeck and Colberg report heavy damage.
Advance sheets from Railway Age reveal nearly 2,000 miles of new track laid in 1894 across 34 of 48 states and territories. A total of 1,919 miles added to 153 lines, with 14 states reporting no new mileage. Steam railways total 179,672 miles, with 54,300 miles added in the past decade averaging 5,480 annually.
In St Paul Minnesota on December 25 a tragedy on the river ice left Mathew Uhl 10 and his two cousins Frank and Alphonso Lander 19 and 22 dead after they fell into an airhole. Alphonso died rescuing the others. all bodies were recovered.
Louis Street testifies at the Lexow committee that Anthony Comstock arranged to dismiss state indictments for a $1,000 donation to his private society. Beckthold and others are named in relation to paying for favors. The testimony suggests police protection for “green goods” men and prompts a strong indictment against Comstock if true.
The Detroit officers arriving Naples with Vatican relics from Chicago were greeted at the Vatican by Pope Leo XIII. Commander Newell Lieutenant Rogers and Marshall Ensigns Evans and Blakely attended. Mgr O Connell conveyed Cleveland's thanks as the Pope praised U S progress and liberty. The audience lasted about thirty minutes.
New York, Dec 28. Hetty Green, famed among America's richest women, seeks relief from executors and trustees of her father's estate amid claims of a conspiracy to kill her and her children. She says a deadly plot, poison in food, and objects hurled from windows threaten her life. Interwoven reports detail currency reform debate and a state investigation in Illinois.
A selection of sentimental poems praising cheerfulness and faith in brighter skies. Eben E. Rexford writes of facing life with a sunny faith, while two sorrowful verses reflect on loss and the innocence of childhood.
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