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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1892
Page
2
The Gazette notes the public remark on timid new silver coins and mentions a Nebraska convict awaiting a new trial after term completion. It cites a noose price of 2.50 dollars and headlines toll bridges in Maine excluding paupers Indians and clergymen. It also notes the World’s Fair music bureau inviting choral societies for a preface festival.
A Prescott Arizona man with six years of asthma slept only sitting up. He contracted the grip a few weeks ago, recovered, and his asthma vanished. Local advice urges avoiding strenuous effort as grips tend to seek sufferers.
Canada fears a congress bill by Mr Newsberry of Chicago that would stop pensions for non citizens. About 1 415 residents in Canada receive pensions for Civil War service.
A county physician in Omaha allegedly prescribed drastic cures for paupers including whisky and grooming tools. The piece surveys anecdotes on science limits, a European winter, gold in space, and a flamboyant lottery scheme in Greytown, plus pension totals, an old actor’s memory, and a Genoa vase relic.
The 1892 directory uses 1891 diocese returns to show a US Catholic population of 4 647 221. The rise over 1891 is 67 255, based on chancellors’ pastor figures. The 1920 census lists 6 250 045 Catholics nationally.
Senate approve bills to curb gun sales to Indians on reservations and fund two Great Lakes revenue cutters. House adjourns as Kendall memory honored. Tariff debates continue. Behring Sea, opium duty, postal service, land grants, and constitutional amendment topics noted. Fire, deaths, riots, and trials populate state and national items across many regions.
Washington reports J. O. Clements of Georgia named by the president to succeed the late Walter Bragg as interstate commerce commissioner. William Lindsay declines. The agriculture department notes crop yields with 171 million bushels of wheat and 60000000 bushels of corn. Wheat reserve records a high. Clearing house totals reach 1.260 billion. Business failures total 256 for the week. An American type founders trust forms with 15 million capital. Spain Cuba reciprocity treaty ratified.
Grain cargo of 5,500,000 pounds valued at 150,000 loaded for starving Russians aboard the Missouri. Three duck hunting youths found dead in ice near Erie. Roxbury mission church destroyed with 150,000 loss in vestments. Avondale mine gas explosion fatally injures John Rowe and Susan Jones. Duncan glass factory fire in Pittsburgh causes 150,000 loss. Waldo Adams of Adams Express dies in Boston at 56. Knowlton diamond dealer faces 200,000 in assets. New York weighs repeal of electric chair in favor of hanging. Vermont Democrats announce Montpelier convention May 5 for national delegates.
West and South: William B. Merrill at Denver sentenced to fourteen years hard labor for perjuring himself to secure a divorce. In Indiana, Mrs. Charles Scott hanged herself at Noblesville. Trains delayed and people feared losses in Minnesota and surrounding areas as four-year worst weather raged. Indiana Republicans in Indianapolis chose four delegates at large to back President Harrison.
A wounding incident near Kolaschin in Albania escalated as Montenegrins opened fire on an Albanian party, resulting in nineteen deaths and injuries as the clash intensified. In other news a 1 250 000 English signatures petition seeks arbitration with the United States.
The report cites multiple events: bills favored for New Mexico and Arizona statehood. violent deaths from lynching in Louisiana and Missouri. drownings on rivers in Texas and Mississippi. fires destroying property in Indiana and Oklahoma. mine and rail incidents in Belgium and Nebraska. numerous fatalities and wrecks across the nation. the list also mentions a prairie fire in Payne County and other calamities with broad human impacts.
A severe March blizzard across North Dakota Wisconsin New York and surrounding regions leaves multiple fatalities. Individuals including Asa Wilson near Mortis Duffy’s farm Eden Minnesota and Frank Braithwaite with family perish while others perish or go missing in North Dakota and Wisconsin.
A major mine disaster at Ander sens near Charleroi traps over 200 miners. Explosions collapse shaft and ventilation, hindering rescue as caving recurs. By late night twenty nine bodies recovered and death toll feared to reach at least 150 with a fire in the lower gallery.
King Oscar II of Sweden may attend the world’s fair in Chicago and preside over a literary or scientific congress if he visits the Columbian Exposition. In Cuba, reports show 4,191,010.71 dollars spent on construction and administration with 1,418,775.90 dollars in the bank and about 3 million dollars still due from the city.
Reports from Minnesota North Dakota Nebraska Iowa and Illinois describe a severe blizzard that halted outdoor work caused widespread damage and killed several people. Cases include Albert Lea Nelson Blackmer missing near a farm and Thomas Nugent found dead near Grand Forks. Numerous trains tied up and weather conditions reached freezing, driving snow at high wind speeds.
In New Orleans on March 11 lawyers for heirs of six Italians lynched at the parish prison in 1891 filed suits in the United States circuit court against the city. Each case seeks 380000 dollars for damages claiming a conspiracy caused death and that prisoners were not adequately protected.
In AsuiAnp Wisconsin on March 11 a fierce encounter between wild dogs and 16 year old Johnnie Dundas occurred. Dundas escaped on a fast horse as his clothing tore and his horse suffered lacerations. Lumber camp dogs have bred with wolves. the bold dogs lead packs of hunter wolves through the pines making them dangerous to travelers.
President Harrison submits the Behring Sea correspondence and the proposed arbitration treaty to the Senate. The pact provides a seven member panel, with two US, two British, and one each from France Italy and Norway. It sets a three month deadline for case delivery and a Paris meeting for decision. The Senate session debated renewal of a modus vivendi and ratification conditions as Britain’s stance looms.
The Helena Arkansas item reports thirty families moved from the area to Oklahoma as crops fail and hard times persist. Emigration reduces local Black population with more families expected as funds allow. Also noted are a London trial of Florence Ethel Osborne for larceny and perjury, a suit by Mrs. Jefferson Davis widow against Robert Belford, a Tremont Street Mission Church fire in Boston, and lumber raft plans from Wisconsin to Canada.
Albany Evening Journal backs a extraordinary cure described as surpassing the famous John Marshall case from Hamilton. The article claims high credibility and urges readers to study the details as a matter of public interest and duty.
An old-fashioned pill is criticized for wastefulness and cost. Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets promise mild natural cleansing to renovate the system. The ad touts the original Little Liver Pills as small, vegetable, harmless, and effective with a money back guarantee.
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