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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1896
Page
2
In Frankfort Governor Bradley orders out three Kentucky State Guard regiments to protect the capitol as the legislature convenes. Militia rounds the statehouse while senators, representatives, and officers prepare for tense proceedings amid threats of impeachment and calls for protection from presiding officers.
Three companies of the state guard guarded the Kentucky State Capitol grounds as a political clash erupted over Governor Bradley's militia call. A Senate committee was formed to probe the action while a joint session maneuvered around a ballot for a U.S. senator, with adjournment pending further votes. Adjutant Collier said the militia would stay until the legislature adjourns. Meanwhile Postmaster Frank Mapes of Kansas City died by his own hand after an embezzlement probe began at the post office.
A five story Pope Manufacturing Co building on Columbus Avenue Boston burned down before 4 p.m. The blaze started in the boiler room and endangered the Youth's Companion building and Hoffman House. Four ladies and two gentlemen escaped on the fifth floor. RK Hinckley and janitor W P Preston fled via ladders. Thirty five to forty workers were in the boiler area but all escaped with one injury. Insurers fully cover the loss.
The Ohio Republican convention adjourned after nominating a full slate led by Governor Asa Bushnell and Senator-elect J B Foraker for delegates at large. Alternates include J E Lowes and Charles Fleischer, with state officers and judges also named. The gathering emphasized McKinley support, rare for harmony among Ohio Republicans since 1876.
Forty of Ohio counties attended a Hollenden conference to back a silver delegation to Chicago. The group split on initial at large delegates but voted to send enough silver delegates to secure a pro silver majority at the state convention. General Flealey chosen as chair with Keely's motor motion noted as possibly boosting 1906 name in contrast to the presidential election.
The Illinois Press association closed its four day session with officers elected. C. W. Tinney of Gazette was named president Wremin W. E. Bock of Times Olney as vice president J M Page of Democrat Journeville as secretary MFF Walsh of Herold Harvard as treasurer A special committee was appointed to study a first class tender journal for editors and a bulletin for proprietors. The Loud bill was endorsed and reports from officers were presented.
A Chicago page lists Janis MoVICKER a pioneer theatrical man. Charles Dog chief Justice NH Supreme Court. Dr Nichoas Rows editor American Field. Colonel Hopert B. CLARK veteran. Dr A V SMALL surgeon. Carl NECHEUSES journalist. Colonel Tomas H NELSON Terre Haute. Captain W H P Norris veteran. Judge Jams Yates Peoria.
National proceedings from Wasatsotos Wasentotos and Wastriotos describe Senate debates on Cuba belligerency, recognition, and anti intervention. Hoar favors postponement. Allen seeks investigation. House actions include Dupont case debates, forest reservation titles, and a contested election ruling in Alabama. Oklahoma homestead bill passes. immigration, silver, and coast guard issues discussed. Senate to discuss Bayard resolution. war department survey planned. bells signals in Menominee harbor.
Fifteen officers of the Fourteenth Ohio National Guard tendered resignations after a bill to reimburse Col Coit for expenses tied to his acquittal in a manslaughter charge stemming from a mob shooting in Washington Court House. Coit will return the resignations as the state needs guardsmen. Herbert Booth to Leave Canada June 1
Ballington Booth unveils the title Gods American Volunteers for the Salvation Army secession, to be led by Booths as joint presidents with a military structure. Posts will form the branches, a white flag with a blue star and white cross symbolizes purity and sacrifice. The banner bears forty five white stars and the motto The Lord My Banner. A Parisese keylock tale follows as a curious aside about opening a padlock.
The report covers March activity across commodity and financial markets. It notes money on call, bankers' bills, government bonds, and sterling exchange in New York, with Chicago Board of Trade quotes for wheat corn oats and other grains, plus live stock at Union Stock Yards and St Louis grain prices across cash and futures.
A long, mixed report covers arraignments in London on foreign enlistment and neutrality laws, crimes in Vermont and Cincinnati, a Newton, Massachusetts strike, and various political and social notes. It reports railroad, weather, and war news from the United States and abroad, including Cuba, Portugal, and Hawaii, with brief mentions of local incidents and notable figures.
The Nile expedition dominates London and Kingland discussions with political and military angles. Parliament debates adjournment as opposition cries foul. Arthur Balfour calls the move a diversion for Italy, while dangers to Tealy and Abyssinia are deemed negligible. In other news Pekin parties buy a distillery in Omaha and plan Monday reopening. Daniel Ackerman, a New Jersey wife killer, is sentenced to be hanged April 24.
Prince Ludwig of Bavaria created Professor Roentgen of Würzburg baron in recognition of dangerous toll and tireless work. The German savant’s discovery of photographing the invisible by X rays astonished the world and earned royal and scholarly praise. Born 1845 in Zurich, he studied there before teaching at Strasbourg and later professorships in Hohenheim Giessen and Würzburg.
The Lord Douglas-Lord Coker literary syndicate, a Californian venture of English nobles, plans a West Coast to Mexican tour. Led by Lord Sholto Douglas and with Lords Vaux-Coker Frederick Willoughby de Cliffe and Percy de Capel Burke, the group travels through Arizona and New Mexico to old Mexico to pursue sport and publication deals with San Francisco and New York papers and Harper's.
A Pittsburgh dispatch notes the Parsee Edison, famed for claiming psychic powers and spinal belief in astral light, has arrived in New York to demonstrate the X ray while warning it is a past manifestation. He wears a turban by day and a skullcap at night to protect vital magnetism, and may inspire fashion if his ideas gain traction. Separately, political chatter links Hanna to a treasury post if McKinley is president, stirring Cleveland opposition led by Myron Herrick. In Alpena, Michigan, eleven men are jailed after a Sunday school conflict on an Indian reservation building, a free fight among French residents following objections to using the school.
Unexplained rise in well water and stream volumes across Nebraska after a dry fall and winter. Weather bureau investigates with railroad assistance as streams that ran dry last year now fill with water from unknown sources.
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