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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1892
Page
2
A Philadelph ia zoo keeper claims an elephant fears a mouse. San Francisco builds an earthquake proof hotel of iron in nested hollow squares. A Dallas paper jokes on giving enemies advice. North China News links anti foreign outbreaks to government provocation and expulsion plans.
Arnyshcian in New York claims an instrument modeled on the stethoscope can determine the exact size and position of a living heart and even allow a pin to approach within a hair’s breadth without contact. A digest of diverse snippets follows including boundary shifts adding Spokane to Idaho, mill fire tallies, and cholera in Serinagar.
Summary of a week in the Fifty-Second Congress with senate discussion on railroad influence, a house focus on deficiency and appropriations, and bills including a Sherman statue pedestal and a railroad through the Menominee Indian reservation. Quorum issues halted business on several days.
Edwin J. Ryan of United States Express Company fled with three packages of bank notes totaling about 50 000. Weekly exchanges at leading clearing houses reached 1 104 523 458 while the prior week stood at 1 158 301 289. Census results show U S population 62 622 250 with 32 067 880 males and 30 554 578 females, native 53 872 708 foreign born 9 249 547. Incomes, firm failures rise. notable cases include Atey Bros. settlement at 100 cents on the dollar, John Mason’s $200 000 failure, and large flood damages in Vermont. Political notes cover Maine GOP nomination Henry B. Cleave, Vermont convention, and national Democratic and Republican conventions with Cleveland nomination and tariff reform platform. Incidents include warehoused losses in Atlantic City, a fatal train crash near Harrisburg, and Beecher anniversary in Brooklyn.
A convention at Little Rock nominated Israel P Carnahan of Washington county for governor. The Democratic National Convention nominated Adlai E Stevenson for vice president and declared him the unanimous choice after all states changed their votes. A deadly tornado struck Cuba City and Humeston suffered major fires and wind damage.
A boiler exploded aboard the French cruiser DuPuy de Lome at Brest. Many injured and fifteen killed. Crews faced heat and hardship as drought afflicted parts of southern Russia. Ringdove schooner sank off Orr Half Moon Cave, Honduras. nine of thirteen aboard drowned. Canada reports 75,768 industrial establishments, up 41% in ten years, capital $355 million, up 114%. No rain for four and a half years in Durango and Coahuila, Mexico, risking famine. A landslide at Monte Sasso, Italy buried homes and killed twenty four.
United States senate not in session on the 25th as Mr Watson Georgia notes no quorum and the House adjourns after a one minute and a half session. Reports of a wife shooting suicide, New Orleans iron works explosion with five dead, Mississippi River at Burlington widening, Gladstone hit by a missile, Yale’s 191st anniversary, county treasurer robbed in Paris Arkansas, a fight in St. Louis with a razor injury, Vega steamship missing after collision rumors, real estate dealer Nyxny Nomera shooting sweetheart then suicide, San Francisco feuding leads to two fatally injured, a Washington attorney arrested in Denver, poet Whittier to write Chicago world fair ode, National and Western league baseball percentages listed as of the 25th.
The first grand rally of Republicans drew about 5,000 to Carnegie Music Hall on June 1 under the New York Republican Club. Speakers included McKinley, Kurrows, and Dalzell, with remarks praising the party’s tariff policy, national platform, and victory prospects in November.
A collage of quips quotes jokes and snippets from multiple papers including a mock turtle joke about a race won by a real turtle and by a hare a baby photo tale a broken mirror superstition and a street corner banter about five dollars with the Chicago News Record Boston Transcript and New York Weekly cited in snatches
The latest Illinois weather service bulletin notes fair crop improvement but widespread rain delays and flood damage. Hay prospects look strong while corn is smaller in acreage and weedy to cultivate. Reports detail drownings, lightning deaths, storms, a bank organized in Chenoa, autopsy findings, pardons, frauds, and political club activity amid a broad sweep of county incidents and obituaries.
Jacob Whitelaw Reid, notified of his second place on the Republican ticket, delivers a formal, restrained acceptance at his home on June 3. He embraces party principles, praises the nation’s history, and expresses confidence in a victorious campaign while honoring a friend’s bereavement and the party leaders across the states.
An aged man in a shiny broadcloth suit and slouch hat visits a New York bridgehead soup counter daily at noon. He orders free lunch, drinks a beer, and eats at the same table without speaking while staff show him marked respect. He leaves quietly, declining to reveal his identity.
In 1591 four thousand two hundred seven ships passed Suez with only twenty six bearing the American flag. A Loxpon street preacher, recently arrested, drew a crowd as accomplices robbed bystanders. Denmark grants an eighty year free port concession at Copenhagen with a twenty five year to end reserve. A Vienna charity exhibit features a large scale model of Custozza battle. Osnabruck's Emperor’s goblet sold to Baron Rothschild for £10,000 to fund a new theater.
Severe rainfall drenched Illinois and neighboring states, flooding Galena and Ottawa areas as river levels rose dramatically. Bridges were destroyed, businesses inundated, and residents fled boats and walls of water, with hundreds of homes damaged and many streets turned into channels.
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