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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1892
Page
2
A compilation of figures and anecdotes: Harvard athletic entrants, U S food costs, Paris livestock meat, Entsey's Mars telephone quest, Estes drum major loss, Polk estate nullified, Capt Binger Niger travels, Salvation Army fundraising, Beecher sermon improv, New England race demographics, the General locomotive for Georgia's World Fair exhibit, a boxed wedding travel tale, and Longfellow on Bermuda longing.
Prof. H C Adams of the interstate commerce commission notes 1,459 deaths and 15,172 injuries among 158,255 trainmen last year. He adds 37.94 percent of deaths and 45.57 percent of injuries occurred during coupling and braking. He warns only 7,890 of 1,105,042 freight cars have automatic couplers and 100,900 have train brakes.
The Quaker societies form a World’s Fair religious congress committee of ten to assemble an advisory council from England Canada and the United States. The council will draft a concise non-sectarian history of the Society of Friends its origin growth and labors its faith and testimonies and the impact of its work.
A digest of congressional actions across May and June noting Sherman’s Senate speech against free coinage, post office appropriation discussions in the House, leaves of absence policy, new Virginia senator Eppa Tin-ton sworn in, limits on duty-free apparel, and an ocean mail service contract prohibition in the post office bill.
The issue lists U S grain stocks for Wheat 20448000 bushels Corn 3606000 Oats 5175000 Rye 611000 Barley 871000 and notes a day of general supplication for divine interposition in behalf of outraged Negroes. It records total public debt 609559058 cash in treasury 126005.85 debtless cash in treas ur. May revenue 20498798 with coinage totals and sugar bounty payments. It also covers stock exchanges, business failures, party conventions, a lynching in Port Jervis and a Reading tornado among other items.
Democratic renominates Josefa I Ourawatrr of the Ninth Ohio district for Congress. A man hanged Beck Willis (colored) at Campbellville Kentucky for attempted assault. Illinois and Wisconsin prohibitionists nominate tickets with planks to curb liquor and support compulsory education.
Des Moines delegates nominate a state ticket with Ss. H. Taft for secretary of state A. B. Whitmore for auditor Ro. M. Diehl for treasurer and adopt a platform backing prohibition woman suffrage labor protection and Sunday closing of the world’s fair. Minnesota Republicans set July 21 state convention in St Paul.
Reported disaster at Berkenhead silver mine in Bohemia results in two hundred miner fatalities. Additional blazes on Dundee docks and fires in Sloborka and Stralsund cause extensive damage and many homeless. Further advices cite over 400 deaths in a Birkenberg mine disaster at Przibram Bohemia.
No Senate session on the 4th. The House passed the post office appropriation bill granting 520,000 for a Columbia exposition branch. Fatal crashes, fires, floods, and a cyclone cue a broad record of destruction across Omaha Creede Col orado Oil City Titusville and Titusville oil losses reach about 2.5 million with wider damages. Resignations and rail incidents also punctuate the period with Bate resigning as secretary of state. Baseball league percentages and western league standings are listed for the week ending the 4th.
A vast disaster in western Pennsylvania floods Oil Creek damaging Titusville Oil City and surrounding towns. Estimates place deaths from 150 to 250 with millions in losses. Fire spread from ignited oil tanks as waterborne floodwaters surged through the valley following a burst mill dam.
A series of brief notes mentions Grant monument funds swelling by $200000 in a month, Adana returning a dinner invitation answer, and the death of John Lyle King at sixty seven. It also recalls New York detectives chief Byrnes’s long service since 1557, and Richard W. Howard living in Warwick Rhode Island after aiding John Brown at Harper's Ferry.
President Harrison accepts James G Blaine resignation as secretary of state effective immediately. The letters reveal Blaine sought not to quit abruptly while Harrison names William F Wharton acting secretary. Harrison supporters push on in the battle for the nation’s top office despite the setback.
A cyclone tore through McCook Nebraska on Saturday sweeping the Congregational church from its foundation during a children's day rehearsal. Among the injured are Rev W C Stevenson Ruth Creswell May Creswell Danny McAlpine Harry Campbell Maud McMillan and Mabel Berry. About sixty children were buried in the ruins but timbers formed an arch over some, preventing worse harm. seven children remain seriously injured. None have died.
An east bound train on the Omaha and Council Bluffs Bridge line derailed a trailer at the west end of the main span. The impact pitched Charles Cole and his wife of Omaha to their deaths. Several others injured. the motorer and conductor were arrested.
Pracur reports two weeks remain to recover all bodies from the Birkenberg silver mine with shafts unreconstructible for fifteen months. Thirteen survivors among the rescued. twenty seven rescue volunteers killed by collapsing timbers or suffocation. Damage estimated at 1,800,000 florins.
A collection of wry quotes and snippets from the New York Weekly and Gray & Co.'s Monthly. Notes touch on railroad watchmen, oyster recipes, and a volley of satirical maxims about virtue and worth with playful exchanges among fictional and real names.
A severe cyclone Thursday afternoon near Moore farm in Springfield township devastated fields and sugar camps. Trees, barns, and orchards were ripped up near John Yeazell and George Nicholson, with an enormous oak uprooted and hurled distances. no fatalities reported.
A powerful thunderstorm across Lackawanna County on June 4 left four youths dead or fatally injured. Polish brothers Joseph and Casmir Choni ezky were struck beneath a south Scranton oak. Casmir died after suffering severe burns. A Hyde Park child, 3, and a girl named Andrews in Elmhurst also perished when struck while seeking shelter.
Prague reports a catastrophic Birkenberg silver mine explosion with about 400 workers killed including five mining academy students. Gas buildup hampers body recovery as volunteers face flooded Maria shaft. Trench graves in local churchyards will hold up to 850 bodies, many unidentifiable, deepening regional mourning.
The steamer John Matthews loaded with corn bound for Pine Bluff struck the Ark ansas River bridge pier near Van Buren on Friday at 1 am and sank. Fourteen aboard were saved. drowned were George Hall Ed Campbell Wallace Atkins Tom Taylor and Captain Blakely. The boat was a total loss, owned by Merchants Transportation Company. The river ran high making steering impossible.
Chicago Journal reports Dr J G Spray of the Jefferson Dunning Institute discusses kidney disease as a root cause of mental and physical disorders. He endorses Warner's Safe Cure as effective against incipient Bright's disease and other kidney related troubles, claiming it can stop progression and aid recovery.
A three year old is half its eventual height. Atlas moth has a one foot wingspan and flies at night. Whale skin is thicker than other animals. Water defies the cooling weight rule. Prisoners aged 20 to 40 die of consumption faster, cause unclear.
The topic surveys U S travel commerce with 300000 travelers, English women in unions, Peru carpet centers, Mexican planters earning 100 to 250 percent profits, and Britain Ireland woodland acres totaling 2785000 with timber imports valued at 16000000 annually.
The piece surveys Gladstone as the era’s leading author and public speaker. It notes his pamphlet on The Vatican Decrees with 110 editions and his presence in the British Museum catalog. It mentions Westminster Abbey monuments proposal and compares Gladstone with Tennyson and Macaulay, citing The State in Its Relations with the Church.
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